There is an ambiguity in the second sentence of the text, resolved by the mentioning of a politician’s name.
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Questão 141 do CACD 2026, Língua Inglesa. Certo ou Errado · 5 itens. Resolva aqui: a correção vem na hora, com gabarito e comentário.
In 1977, during his first official visit abroad as President of the United States, Jimmy Carter was betrayed by the language barrier and the choices of his translator. In the course of meeting his Polish counterpart, Edward Gierek, the translator was on hand to provide a translation of his president’s words into Polish. Unfortunately, his translations could, perhaps, have not been farther from the truth of what Carter said.
Announcing that he was extremely glad to be in Poland for his first trip abroad, the translator somehow managed to mistranslate the friendly statement into the announcement of seeming defection by the American President, turning "I left the United States this morning" into "I left the United States, never to return". Furthermore, Carter’s warm statement of his visit to the nation was bizarrely mistranslated into the comment that President Carter "was happy to grasp at Poland’s private parts". Following up this colossal mistake, the interpreter then successively translated Carter’s expression of a hope to learn more about the Polish people’s "desires for the future" into "I desire the Poles carnally". Adding insult to injury, during Carter’s toast at a state banquet later during the same trip, a different interpreter providing a translation could not understand the American President’s Georgia accent and consequently chose to simply not translate his words at all rather than offer an inaccurate depiction. In hindsight, the latter interpreter opted for the better path in the face of confusion.
17 Mishandled International Events Throughout History. Internet: <historycollection.com> (adapted).
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The author indicates in his text that he finds it difficult to understand how the first translator could make the mistakes he made.
The meaning of the fourth sentence of the second paragraph would remain the same if "could not" were replaced with failed to as long as "chose" were also replaced with to choose.
With the expression "Adding insult to injury" (fourth sentence of the second paragraph), the author suggests that Carter took the first translator’s mistakes as a case of injury.
It would be acceptable to infer from the text that the first translator it mentioned was an American rather than a Polish citizen.
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