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English translation: river eyes
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| 16:36 Jan 19, 2007 |
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|  Selected response from: Henry Schroeder United States Local time: 10:53 | ||||||
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| 3 +2 | river eyes |
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| 3 | riverine eyes |
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| 2 +1 | limpid eyes |
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| 2 | with eyes like a river/like a stream |
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| 1 | river-weary |
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with eyes like a river/like a stream Explanation: To get the ball rolling - I am sure there are more poetic solutions. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 mins (2007-01-19 16:46:50 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- By the way: a bit more context would help: What are the two talking about? Where do they meet? Who is imagining all this? |
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river-weary Explanation: ...maybe...since Ms. Woolf drowned herself in a river... |
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riverine eyes Explanation: A direct translation |
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30 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2river eyes Explanation: Why not just a literal translation. There are hundreds of examples from English books: http://books.google.de/books?q="river eyes"&as_brr=0 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 41 mins (2007-01-19 17:18:19 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Excuse me, hundreds would be wildly exaggerating the number, but there are some good ones and I don't see reason not to use "river" as an adjective. Here are some of the book examples: Garth when he came home from a day on the river. Faith, the eyes of both were river eyes, green, flitting over golden shallows, flowing over bottomless ... Through his river eyes flowed warm currents of gratitude. Clasping his precious manuscript in slender hands, he smiled and bowed, bowed and smiled his Both from: The Listening Man by Lucy Embury http://books.google.de/books?vid=ISBN1419140647&id=1HKiJKIMf... ... with silver and her lower lip was bleeding her river eyes were flooded with tears. ... I had to look twice because she was dressed in dirty sacking, sparkling with frost, and all I could see were her large, river eyes and one fair curl. ... From the well-known "Seeing Stone" http://books.google.de/books?vid=ISBN0439263271&id=UjcB2mbsr... |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
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