Portuguese term
Fazer o que?
Temos que nos conformar com tal coisa... Fazer o que?
Non-PRO (2): Cristina Santos, Lumen (X)
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Proposed translations
What else can we do?
United States
Marlene Curtis
Native in: Portuguese 
, English
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
What can you do about it?
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Beta Cummins
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Thanks!
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ramjet
2 hrs
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Cristina Santos
13 hrs
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Carolina Orloff (X)
: Yes, or simply, 'What can you do?'
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there's nothing to be done about it/ there's nothing we can do
Therefore I disagree with them, because of the ambiguity. Maybe with the rest of the text this ambiguity is less of a problem, but without more context, the interpretation is very open.
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Maria Karra
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Thank you.
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Marlene Curtis
: The original is certainly an indirect question we already know the answer to, but the intonation used in a conversation ( remember, this is colloquial English) is that of a question, both in American and British English.
16 hrs
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I think for a question - the best is what was suggested in the comments - what can you do? it's the most passive of all 3 questions suggested
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What choice do we have?
Excellent Rates and Excellent Service
Native in: English , Portuguese
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
What to do?
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But what to do?
Brazil
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, English to Spanish, Portuguese to English, and 3 more.
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