облысевшая голова

English translation: bald head / hairless skull

18:28 Aug 27, 2007

Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature

Russian term or phrase: облысевшая голова

...сидя в кресле, уставившись в оконное стекло, в котором отражались его облысевшая голова, напоминающая хорошее страусиное яйцо...

Nina Chulak KudoZ activity Questions: 129 (none open) (3 closed without grading) Answers: 34
Local time: 22:25

English translation:bald head / hairless skull

Explanation:
Few other ideas.

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There was some serious lag, my answer took 5 minutes to get logged.

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Then you could add:

"freshly balded head" or "recently balded head."

Also could substitute "head" for "scalp."

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There were plenty of freshly balded heads to be seen Sunday. "Some guys are getting smart, though, and shaving their own heads before (the upperclassmen) ...

http://www.rivals.com/content.asp?cid=37371

laughmaster wrote 6 months ago : In honor of the freshly-bald Britney Spears, here are some of my favorite Britney moments: In her younger days: The … more ...

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How about this:

...window glass, reflecting his head -- recently balded and resembling an ostrich egg.

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IF you are comfortable taking a bit of creative liberty with this so as to make it clearer and more vivid, the following is also an option:

... window glass, reflecting the toll taken on his bald (or recently balded) head, which now resembled a fine ostrich egg.

Selected response from:

Mark Berelekhis
United States
Local time: 22:25

Grading comment

I don't think "balded" is a word. I like this alternative, though. Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +6

bold scull

koundelev

5 +1

bold head

Jahongir Sidikov

4 +2

bald head / hairless skull

Mark Berelekhis

4 +1

reflecting his head that's gone bald, resembling now a good ostrich egg

Roman Bardachev

4 +1

His now-bald pate

Jim Tucker (X)

bald forehead

Vladimir Chumak

Discussion entries: 11

Answers

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

bold head

Explanation:
bold head

Jahongir Sidikov
Local time: 07:25
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Uzbek,

Tajik

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

bald head / hairless skull

Mark Berelekhis
United States
Local time: 22:25
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Russian,

English
PRO pts in category: 666

Grading comment

I don't think "balded" is a word. I like this alternative, though. Thanks!

39 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

reflecting his head that's gone bald, resembling now a good ostrich egg

Explanation:
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or

... reflected his NOW BALD head resembling a good ostrich egg

Roman Bardachev
Canada
Local time: 20:25
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 20

11 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

His now-bald pate

Explanation:
This is an elegant way to express the loss, the pathos in the change that has taken place. "Now" is an ominous word in constructions such as this.

Jim Tucker (X)
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 43

12 hrs confidence:

bald forehead

Explanation:
prematurely bald forehead

Эта дискуссия о лысых черепах напомнила мне занятие по переводу в университете. Всей группой мы решали как перевести словосочетание "bald forehead" (кстати, из оригинальной английской литературы). А раз герой сидит уставившись в окно, то и отражаться в стекле должен именно его forehead.
Google сказал:
bald skull: 2,390
bald forehead: 18,900

Vladimir Chumak
Australia
Local time: 12:25
Native speaker of:

Ukrainian,

Russian
PRO pts in category: 63

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

bold scull

Explanation:
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Sure, it should be BALD SKULL

as a variant: balded skull - just because you insist that his loss of hair was ubrupt and happened quite recently...

koundelev
Local time: 05:25
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in category: 66

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Alexander Litvinov: С яйцом хорошо сравнивать именно череп.

5 mins

-> Спасибо, именно в таком контексте оно мне и встречалось...

neutral

Sergey Levchin: bAld

16 mins

-> Thanx! Sure it is.

agree

Andrew Sabak: "bAld" + "sKull" ! very picturesque

16 mins

-> Thank you!

agree

Alexander Demyanov: bald skull

24 mins

-> Sure! I'm an early-riser, and at 23:00 Moscow time I'm just sleepy...

agree

James McVay

2 hrs

-> Thank you!

agree

Sergei Tumanov

3 hrs

-> Thank you!

agree

Сергей Лузан: "freshly / recently/ lately balded head/ skull" употребил бы я с учётом дополнительно поступившего контекста. http://www.google.com/search?hl=ru&q="balded head&btnG=Поиск... proz.com/kudoz/2107418

13 hrs

-> Спасибо!

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