Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

se vêem levadas

English translation:

...are impelled to...

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Nov 27, 2010 19:58
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Portuguese term

se vêem levadas (difficult sentence)

Portuguese to English Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
This is a very difficult sentence about the theory of action research and I'm not sure that I understand the meaning of "se vêem levadas" here. Part of the problem is that it is a very short quotation, out of context, from a longer work. Here it is:

"(...) a orientação de um projecto de investigação-acção implica entrosar metodologias de investigação com praxologias da acção, sem esquecer a viabilidade da execução do projecto no seu conjunto, tendo em conta as contingências e constrangimentos inerentes a qualquer intervenção. Implica o recurso a sensibilidades que, não sendo as mesmas, **se vêem levadas**, de forma inequívoca, a serem comunicantes, não de forma incidental, mas de modo estrutural/estruturante."

If anybody wants to go so far as to try to unravel the whole of the sentence beginning "Implica...", so much better.

Proposed translations

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Selected

...are being impelled to...

...sensibilities that are being impelled to become unequivocally communicative...etc.
Peer comment(s):

agree Claudio Mazotti : very nice suggestion, Katarina!
5 mins
Thank you Claudio!
agree Carlos Quandt : the source text is quite convoluted, but that's the general meaning
1 hr
Thank you quandt.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I'm most grateful to you Katarina for unlocking this puzzling sentence for me. I now almost understand what the author is trying to say!"
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end up needing to be OR: need to be

Wow! Here's my interpretation:

'This involves sensitive feelings which, since they are not all the same, end up needing to be communicated unequivocally, and not in just an incidental way but systematically, within an overall structure.

Peer comment(s):

agree Marian Vieyra
17 hrs
Thanks, Marian!
agree Gilmar Fernandes
1 day 15 hrs
Thanks, Gilmar!
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3 hrs

they find themselves taken

se vêem levadas (por...)
sería
"they find themselves taken by..."
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