English-Portuguese translations for dune

  • dunaNão posso imaginar nada pior do que permanecer 25 anos no meio de dunas de areia, ser enganado ano após ano com promessas de um referendo e, depois de tudo isso, morrer de fome. I cannot think of anything worse than languishing for 25 years among the sand dunes and being taken in by referenda year upon year, only then to starve to death. Entre 1960 e 1990, calcula­se que, por dia, um quilómetro de litoral intacto tenha sido urbanizado e que 30 hectares de habitat dunar tenham desaparecido. From 1960 to 1990 it has been estimated that one kilometre of unspoilt coastline has been developed every day and 30 hectares of dune habitat have disappeared every day. Mas, ao mesmo tempo que constatamos esta realidade, vemos entre as dunas do deserto uma espécie de miragem: a miragem do referendo, um referendo que parece nunca chegar. However, while we are aware of this reality, a mirage is appearing in the sand dunes of the desert: the mirage of the referendum, a referendum that is seemingly never going to be held.
  • duna de areia

Definition of dune

  • A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind

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