Como dizer "Pinga-pinga/ Expresso (ônibus) " em inglês

I would say "the regular one/the normal/usual/standard bus". You could also say " non-express", but if you want to be
ironical, how about "snail bus"? .

If it was the express, (almost) non-stop bus here in Brazil you could say "the executive". But in this route, there are predetermined stops, the difference is that they will say you will have some more comfort.

One common expression is "the milk run." It's not common anymore, but until about the 1960s North American houses had milk delivered daily, pretty much house to house. But the expression has survived, and is used for air, rail and road transportation where stops are frequent.

"Milk run" is also used to mean a simple, safe, non-combat flight.

During the war, he flew milk runs from London to Edinburgh carrying mail and supplies. The only action he saw was in a pub (bar) in Scotland."

Good imagery, I like it!
Related to bus there are the hopper journeys/trips, but then it´s a trip where one hops on and then hops off, from bus to bus. Hence in different buses.

And the "hop-on hop-off buses", but then seems like a tourist thing. Say, a travel where the bus stops on some tourist attraction/landmarks and everyone get-off, take photos, do some sighseeing, and then hop on.


And there are the hopper flights as well.

Só a título de adendo encontrei no The Free Dictionary: 2. shuttle - public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points
public transport - conveyance for passengers or mail or freight
shuttle bus - shuttle consisting of a bus that travels between two points

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message_id=99263http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shuttle
Shutle is shuttle - a public conveyance, as a train, airplane, or bus, that travels back and forth at regular intervals over a particular route, especially a short route or one connecting two transportation systems.



It doesn´t suggest interstate transport, but intercity. Or point-to-point, as the ones wich routes serves airport passengers, etc.

Thomas escreveu:"Milk run" is also used to mean a simple, safe, non-combat flight.

During the war, he flew milk runs from London to Edinburgh carrying mail and supplies. The only action he saw was in a pub (bar) in Scotland."

Oh, so that's what milk run means! I'm reading Catch-22 (a comedy about an American military base in WWII) and there is something about a milk run. I thought it was more literal (as in a mission to deliver milk ), since they were talking about using the milk run to also get some eggs for the base.

My suggestion:


A non skip-stop bus.


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Breckenfeld, your translation refers to "ônibus expresso", doesn't it?

Simon.

A non-skip-stop bus means it stops at every stop.

My suggestion:

All-stop bus

Examples:

"Yet one of the beauties of the Chicago region's mass-transit grid system is that alternative service would still exist for riders who are able to walk a little farther to catch a bus (or two or three buses to replace the normal one-seat ride), hop on a local all-stop bus instead of an express bus or switch to train service."
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007 ... -cta-plans

"The MMDA chief added that a certain percent of each bus fleet will be labeled as "all-stop" buses, which will load and unload at every bus stop to accommodate short-distance travels."
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