Translation of "perdíamos" to English language:
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| Tivemos uma televisão durante uns anos, mas, é claro, perdíamos muito tempo e o trabalho não rendia, então a televisão foi embora. | We had a television for a few years, but of course we wasted so much time and the work wasn't getting done, so out went the television. |
| Nós só pegamos um simples barco à vela e tentamos puxar algo longo e pesado, mas enquanto ziguezagueávamos, perdíamos duas coisas o poder de tração e a direção. | We just took a simple sailing boat and we tried to pull something long and heavy, but as we tacked back and forth, what we lost was two things we were losing pulling power and direction. |
| Mas uma das coisas que descobrimos quando fizemos uma comparação lado a lado com carvão feito de madeira, não queimava durante tanto tempo. E as pastilhas se esfarelavam um pouco, e perdíamos energia quando elas se desmanchavam enquanto cozinhávamos. | But one of the things that we found was when we did side by side comparisons with wood charcoal, it didn't burn as long. And the briquettes crumbled a little bit, and we lost energy as they fell apart as they were cooking. |
