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English translation: look with bleary eyes

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17:05 Jul 14, 2009

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

Finnish term or phrase: tihrustella

"...yritän tihrustella...printtejä..."

Owen Witesman KudoZ activity Questions: 22 (none open) Answers: 119
Local time: 10:37

English translation:look with bleary eyes

Explanation:
tihruinen, bleary
Bleary-eyed, I looked at the print

Selected response from:

Desmond O'Rourke
United States
Local time: 12:37

Grading comment

Thanks. I think the ultimate solution is going to alter the original sentence quite thoroughly, but "bleary" is the suggestion here most likely to make it in.
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Summary of answers provided

4 +2

look with bleary eyes

Desmond O'Rourke

squint

Alfa Trans

(here) seek through with squinting eyes

Timo Lehtilä

Answers

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

look with bleary eyes

Explanation:
tihruinen, bleary
Bleary-eyed, I looked at the print

Desmond O'Rourke
United States
Local time: 12:37
Meets criteria
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 23

Grading comment

Thanks. I think the ultimate solution is going to alter the original sentence quite thoroughly, but "bleary" is the suggestion here most likely to make it in.

31 mins confidence:

squint

Explanation:
Tihrustella means the same as "siristellä silmiään" or "katsella silmät sirrillään".

Alfa Trans
Local time: 19:37
Meets criteria
Native speaker of:

Finnish
PRO pts in category: 3

3 hrs confidence:

(here) seek through with squinting eyes

Explanation:
The basic meaning of 'tihrustaa' is 'to squint', but the verb can have several connotations, one being "to try to discern sth. almost illegible".

It should also be noticed that frequentative form 'tihrustella' is used here that obviously means 'to try to discern sth. in several places'.

I could imagine that "tihrustella...printtejä" might refer to trying to find a bug in 100 pages of program source code.

Timo Lehtilä
Local time: 19:37
Meets criteria
Native speaker of:

Finnish
PRO pts in category: 8

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