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darktown strutter

Portuguese translation: baile no bairro afro-americano...

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English term or phrase:darktown strutter
Portuguese translation:baile no bairro afro-americano...
Entered by: airmailrpl

12:05 Nov 6, 2011
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music / letra de The Darktown Strutter's Ball
English term or phrase: darktown strutter
I'll be down to get you in a taxi honey
You'd better be ready around half past eight
Ah baby don't be late I want to be there when the band starts honey

Well just remember when we get there honey
Two steps gonna handle them all
Dance with both my shoes when they play the jelly roll blues
Tomorrow night at the darktown strutter's ball
Lilian Magalhães
Brazil
Local time: 20:05
baile no bairro afro-americano
Explanation:
darktown strutter's ball => baile no bairro afro-americano

Darktown
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Darktown was an African-American neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. It stretched from Peachtree Street and Collins Street (now Courtland Street), past Butler Ave. (now Jesse Hill Jr. Ave.) to Jackson Street[1]. It referred to the blocks above Auburn Avenue in what is now Downtown Atlanta and the Sweet Auburn neighborhood. Darktown was characterized in the 1930's as a "hell-hole of squalor, degradation, sickness, crime and misery".[2]

The term "darktown" was also used generically in Atlanta and the rest of the South to refer to African-American districts. It is used as such in the title of the famous song Darktown Strutters' Ball.[3]
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darktown

strut (strt)
v. strut·ted, strut·ting, struts
v.intr.
To walk with pompous bearing; swagger.
v.tr.
1. To display in order to impress others.
n.
1. A pompous, self-important gait.
Idiom:
strut (one's) stuff Slang
To behave or perform in an ostentatious manner; show off.
strut [strʌt]
vb struts, strutting, strutted
1. (intr) to walk in a pompous manner; swagger
strut one's stuff Informal to behave or perform in a proud and confident manner; show off
Noun 1. strutstrut - a proud stiff pompous gait
prance, swagger
gait - a person's manner of walking
Verb 1. strut - to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
prance, swagger, tittup, sashay, cock, ruffle
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airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 20:05
Grading comment
na minha situação se encixa melhor..grata
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4baile no bairro afro-americano
airmailrpl
4 -1clube noturno Strtter's Ball
Francisco Hamard
4 -1no Darktown Strutters' (Ball)/no baile Darktown Strutters' (Ball)
Valmir Martins da Silva Junior


  

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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
clube noturno Strtter's Ball


Explanation:
O 'Strutter's Ball' é um clube de dança noturno no Canadá.


    Reference: http://www.struttersball.com/
Francisco Hamard
Local time: 00:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in FrenchFrench
Notes to answerer
Asker: vi na internet q pode se refifr a negros...viu isso??


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  airmailrpl: Darktown was an African-American neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia
11 hrs
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no Darktown Strutters' (Ball)/no baile Darktown Strutters' (Ball)


Explanation:
A letra é de uma famosa canção de jazz mesmo e se refere ao título. Se trata de um baile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darktown_Strutters_Ball

Portanto, não há tradução. As quatro opções são:
Amanhã à noite no Darktown Strutters'
Amanhã à noite no Darktown Strutters'Ball'
Amanhã à noite no baile Darktown Strutters'
Amanhã à noite no baile Darktown Strutters' Ball

Apesar de ter que resistir à tentação de traduzir o termo, uma aproximação seria: O Baile dos Pavões do Centro Velho.
- Ball = baile.
- Strutter = arrogante, pavoneador, pessoa que se gaba demais de si mesma, um "pavão".
- Darktown = parte escura da cidade, jogo de palavras com downtown, um centro escuro, o Centro Velho da cidade.

Mas o melhor é deixar "as is".

Valmir Martins da Silva Junior
Brazil
Local time: 20:05
Works in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  airmailrpl: Darktown was an African-American neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia...not to prove my point - you both were just so far off the mark..but with very high confidence levels
9 hrs
  -> Yes, you're right and I agree. But maybe you could have just put your answer below instead of a "disagree" to both of your fellows just to prove your point. Just a hint.
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
darktown strutter's ball
baile no bairro afro-americano


Explanation:
darktown strutter's ball => baile no bairro afro-americano

Darktown
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Darktown was an African-American neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. It stretched from Peachtree Street and Collins Street (now Courtland Street), past Butler Ave. (now Jesse Hill Jr. Ave.) to Jackson Street[1]. It referred to the blocks above Auburn Avenue in what is now Downtown Atlanta and the Sweet Auburn neighborhood. Darktown was characterized in the 1930's as a "hell-hole of squalor, degradation, sickness, crime and misery".[2]

The term "darktown" was also used generically in Atlanta and the rest of the South to refer to African-American districts. It is used as such in the title of the famous song Darktown Strutters' Ball.[3]
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darktown

strut (strt)
v. strut·ted, strut·ting, struts
v.intr.
To walk with pompous bearing; swagger.
v.tr.
1. To display in order to impress others.
n.
1. A pompous, self-important gait.
Idiom:
strut (one's) stuff Slang
To behave or perform in an ostentatious manner; show off.
strut [strʌt]
vb struts, strutting, strutted
1. (intr) to walk in a pompous manner; swagger
strut one's stuff Informal to behave or perform in a proud and confident manner; show off
Noun 1. strutstrut - a proud stiff pompous gait
prance, swagger
gait - a person's manner of walking
Verb 1. strut - to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
prance, swagger, tittup, sashay, cock, ruffle

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 20:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 32
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na minha situação se encixa melhor..grata
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