[387] -- Evidently the god GANESA. [388] -- "Bisnaga," the Portuguese rendering of VIJAYANAGAR, the "city of victory." The spellings adopted by different writers have been endless. We have Beejanugger and Beejnugger in the translations of Firishtah; Bisnagar, Bidjanagar, Bijanagher, amongst the Portuguese; Bicheneger In the writings of the Russian Nikitin; Bizenegalia in those of the Italian Nicolo dei Conti. [389] -- BUQUEYROIS. The word implies something dug out, as opposed so redoubts, which would be built up. [390] -- Dakhan. [391] -- This is Nagalapur, the modern Hospett (EPIG. IND., iv.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
Everett found a room over the shop of a Portuguese trader. It was caked with dirt, and smelled of unnamed diseases and chloride of lime. In it was a canvas cot, a roll of evil-looking bedding, a wash-basin filled with the stumps of cigarettes. In a corner was a tin chop-box, which Everett asked to have removed. It belonged, the landlord told him, to the man who, two nights before, had occupied the cot and who had died in it. Everett was anxious to learn of what he had died. Apparently surprised at the question, the Portuguese shrugged his shoulders.英文原著 · 《A Question of Latitude》
Take old Sark there. He's had so many blank cartridges fired into his ears that he's stone deaf. And Selim--he lost his heart with his teeth. A Portuguese fellow who was handling him for the Barnum and Bailey show did that for him. You've heard?"
"I've often wondered," the man shook his head. "It must have been a smash."
"It was. The Portuguese did it with an iron bar. Selim was sulky and took a swipe at him with his paw, and he whopped it to him full in the mouth just as he opened it to let out a roar.英文原著 · 《Michael, Brother of Jerry》
To-night as he sat and puffed in his armchair, he was full of stories about a fellow called Monomotapa. It seems he was a great black emperor whom the Portuguese discovered about the sixteenth century. He lived to the north in Mashonaland, and had a mountain full of gold. The Portuguese did not make much of him, but they got his son and turned him into a priest.英文原著 · 《Prester John》
For, through the shortness of the voyage, we should be able to sell all manner of merchandise brought from thence far better cheap than either the Portuguese or Spaniard doth or may do. And, further, share with the Portuguese in the east and the Spaniard in the west by trading to any part of America through Mare del Sur, where they can no manner of way offend us.英文原著 · 《Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage》
"Sea hangover." Am I the only person here who's loved a Portuguese woman?美剧 · 《Billions》
Oh, and plus, I'm one-sixteenth Portuguese.美剧 · 《Friends》
Ramoray. It's Portuguese. We need that information. I'm a doctor.美剧 · 《Friends》
You mean that Portuguese couple? Yeah, like you wouldn't have done it.美剧 · 《Friends》