"Ela olhou direto nos olhos do capitão."

Translation: She looked straight into the eyes of the captain.

[Oinophilos]

they should accept "She looked the captain straight in the eye."

[zvukosav]

I think you're right Oinophilos - both should be accepted "in the eye" as well as "in the eyes"!

[BobSK1]

"She looked straight into the captain's eyes." The current convoluted translation is bad English.

[BaconTastesGood]

What is the 'nos' doing in this sentence? I can't figure out its meaning.

[jonathan.j5]

"nos" in this case is "n" + "os" and translates as "into the" not "us"

[Paulenrique]

And n = em. Em + os (in the).

[BaconTastesGood]

thanks!

[pnehls]

easy way to tell the difference is nós= we, nos= in the

[anachron]

Except when nos = us :)

[saschambaer]

They should just make that nòs or so. I mean, portuguese already has so many diacritics, one more can't hurt.

[Paulenrique]

=)

[pnehls]

indeed, not sure when i wrote this, but the "nós nos + verb + nos (in the)" situation has probably caused a few heads to explode.

[SilentAnnie]

Thanks

[MarkosGoulet]

Good ol' homophones, eh? :P

[Oinophilos]

To be more precise, to look someone "straight in the eye" (an invariable idiom) is normally followed by "and said" or the like, to emphasize that the speaker wants to appear serious, courageous, and honest. Looking "straight into someone's eyes" or "directly into somenone's eyes" (plural is necessary here), could be for other reasons, such as to assess whether someone is telling the truth or because one is smitten by the gaze of the other (or wants the other to be smitten by his or her gaze).

[Lng52-._]

Can "diretamente" be substituted for "direto"?

[RuthJessop]

Again, not good English and should have been used as an example of the different sentence construction between the two languages. In English, we use 's to indicate possession.