Preparing Submission phase ![](https://cfcdn.proz.com/images/pfe2/question_mark.gif) Jun 3 – Jun 17 Hybrid phase ![](https://cfcdn.proz.com/images/pfe2/question_mark.gif) Jun 18 – Jul 8 Finals phase ![](https://cfcdn.proz.com/images/pfe2/question_mark.gif) Jul 8 – Jul 22 left Finished This contest is currently in the "Finals phase". In all pairs which have received at least three submissions, it is possible to vote for the "best" translation among a group of finalists. It is no longer possible to submit entries. The finals phase is scheduled to end Jul 22, 2024 03:00 GMT, after which winners in each pair will be announced. Note: ProZ.com membership is required to enter the competition in certain language pairs. DetailsOnly ProZ.com members may submit entries in pairs in which the member population is large enough to support competition. Those pairs are: English to Arabic, English to Bulgarian, English to Chinese, English to Czech, English to Danish, English to Dutch, English to French, English to German, English to Greek, English to Hungarian, English to Indonesian, English to Italian, English to Japanese, English to Norwegian, English to Polish, English to Portuguese (BR), English to Portuguese (EU), English to Romanian, English to Russian, English to Spanish, English to Swedish, English to Turkish, Italian to English, Italian to German, Portuguese (EU) to English, Spanish to English, Spanish to French, Spanish to German, Spanish to Italian In pairs other than these, any registered user of ProZ.com can submit an entry. Note that although non-members cannot submit entries in the above pairs, they are able to rate and vote on entries submitted by others. The following are the source texts for this edition of the ProZ.com translation contests. Contest participants are given the opportunity to submit translations of these texts into the languages of their choice. If three or more translators translate a text into a given language, the contest is "on" in that language pair. To learn more about the source texts, see the "About the source texts" section below. English ![](https://cfcdn.proz.com/images/external.png) | [...] “I have a proposal.” It leaned forward like my friend April does when she wants to tell a secret, even though none of her secrets are any good. Or even really secrets. “If you don’t tell anyone I am here, I can fix your eyes.”
“Get out of town!”
It blinked a couple of times. “That is what I am attempting to do.”
“What I mean is you can’t do that!”
“Why not?”
“Well, no one else has been able to fix my eyes, besides with glasses.”
“I have certain abilities. You will see, provided…”
“…I don’t tell anyone about you?”
“That is the heart of it, that is the nub.”
“How do I know you won’t blind me? You could be like one of those telemarketers making promises but totally lying.”
It started waxing on, waxing off again. “I would not do such a thing to a creature who has done me no harm.”
“Meaning if I harmed you, you could make me go blind?”
“That’s on a need-to-know basis.”
“And if you fix my eyes, and I don’t tell anyone about you, you’ll leave our fields?”
“That’s the heart of it!” [...] | | Italian ![](https://cfcdn.proz.com/images/external.png) | [...] Il drago fu felice di rivederlo [il bambino] e per l’occasione fece un sibilo che spaventò a tal punto i tanti che lo attorniavano che scapparono via tutti a gambe levate.
Naturalmente il bambino non era fuggito. E allora il drago, divenuto triste, gli confessò la sua confusione.
“Non sono più io: non so più chi sono”, gli disse. E una grossa lacrima gli stava scendendo dagli occhi, non più lucenti, ma divenuti opachi e acquosi. “Tu mi hai fatto riflettere sui miei comportamenti. E’ vero, io non sono cattivo. E non voglio esserlo. Ma comportandomi da cattivo, prima, ero riconosciuto. La gente aveva paura di me, della mia forza, del mio fuoco, dei miei sibili. Non mi si avvicinava. E mi rispettava. Ora, invece …”
Il bambino sentì il dolore del drago.
“Ora invece…?”
“Mi vergogno a dirlo. Ma l’altro giorno, addirittura… un ragazzo mi si è avvicinato. E poiché io continuavo ad apparire buono e tranquillo, mi ha tirato la coda. E un altro cercava di infilarmi le dita nelle narici, da dove un tempo emettevo fuoco. E poi c’è chi giocherella con le ali, provando ad aprirmele quando io le ho chiuse per riposare. Insomma, ormai tutti mi prendono in giro, dicono che non faccio paura a nessuno…”. [...]
![](https://cfcdn.proz.com/images/pftv6/dark_arr_down.gif) | | Portuguese (EU) ![](https://cfcdn.proz.com/images/external.png) | [...] Oriana espreitou e viu que na sala não estava pessoa nenhuma. Só lá estavam as coisas. Mas reinava uma atmosfera de grande má disposição.
Os sofás e as cadeiras davam cotoveladas uns nos outros, as cômodasdavam coices nas paredes, as jarras diziam às caixas e aos cinzeiros que não as apertassem, e as flores diziam:
- “Não posso mais, não posso mais, falta-me o ar!”
A sala estava cheia como um ovo.
Oriana entrou e as coisas puseram-se todas a falar ao mesmo tempo.
- “Oriana, Oriana, tira-nos daqui” - gritavam as flores.
- “Oriana, diz à jarra que não me empurre” - pediu a caixa.
- “Oriana, diz à mesa que não me pise com tanta força” - pediu o
tapete.
- “Oriana, diz ao sofá que não me dê cotoveladas” - pediu a cadeira.
- “Oriana, diz ao biombo que se chegue para lá” - pediu a parede.
- “Oriana” - pediu o espelho -, “tira-me daqui. Eu estou sempre a ver,
vejo tudo. Esta sala cheia de coisas, esta sala sem espaço, sem vazio, semlargueza, cansa e magoa os meus olhos de vidro.” [...]
| | Spanish ![](https://cfcdn.proz.com/images/external.png) | [...] El príncipe Catapulto voló como un aguilucho desplumado en dirección a la ventana del torreón. Y la atravesó, rompiendo el cristal en mil pedazos.[...] Catapulto había logrado así entrar en distintas fortalezas, pero ¡ay!, el problema llegaba a la hora de salir de ellas. Catapulto siempre era descubierto y tenía que huir por el mismo sitio por el que había entrado… ¡lanzándose por la ventana! ¡Es por eso que tenía la cabeza llena de chichones!
[...]Pero el día que acudió al rescate de la princesa de Pantalonia todo cambió. Catapulto, como siempre, asaltó el castillo impulsado por la catapulta y atravesando otra vidriera más.
-"¡OTGA vez! ¡Qué DOLOG tan TEGGIBLE!"
-"¿Quién eres? ¡Qué haces aquí!" -preguntó la princesa de Pantalonia.
-"No te asustes PGINCESA. TGANQUILA. He venido a GESCATAGTE."
-"¿Rescatarme?"
-"Sí, me envía el GEY."
-"¿Quién?"
-"El EMPEGADOG…”
-"Lo siento, no entiendo nada de lo que di…"
-"¡El MONAGCA!"
-”Ahhh, el rey. Vale, bueno… ¿Y quién te ha dicho a ti que yo necesito que me rescaten?”
-”Ah, ¿no? Vaya, qué CONTGATIEMPO… Se supone que los PGÍNCIPES GESTATAN a las PGINCESAS.”
-”Se supone, sí. Pero, ¿sabes qué? Que yo me sé rescatar solita.”[...]
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