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Пролистнуть

English translation: To miss or leaf past

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Russian term or phrase:Пролистнуть
English translation:To miss or leaf past
Entered by: Jack Doughty

17:37 May 17, 2003
Russian to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary
Russian term or phrase: Пролистнуть
Второпях пролистывает нужную страницу, но читает стих наизусть.

Misses the page she needs? Pages past the page she needed?
Oyra
Russian Federation
Local time: 23:41
Yes, misses it or leafs past it
Explanation:
You "leaf through" a book when you are trying to find a certain page.
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Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:41
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4Yes, misses it or leafs past it
Jack Doughty
4 +2to thumb past
JoeYeckley (X)
4 +1glance over
Adam H
5to leaf/ flick/ glance through
Сергей Лузан
4skipped over the page
GaryG
4Hurriedly, misses the needed page...
Oleg Pashuk (X)


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
skipped over the page


Explanation:
I think that's what you need

GaryG
Local time: 16:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 3430
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Yes, misses it or leafs past it


Explanation:
You "leaf through" a book when you are trying to find a certain page.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:41
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 14525
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Emil Tubinshlak: Yes, leafs past
1 hr
  -> Thank you.
agree  Natalia Koltsova
3 hrs
agree  Oleg Pashuk (X)
4 hrs
agree  Dash
2 days 20 hrs
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
to thumb past


Explanation:
or to flip past

Thumbing or flipping through a book implies a quick scan. Easy to miss things that way.

JoeYeckley (X)
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 971

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yelena.
6 mins
agree  Kirill Semenov: "палец" дает отличную зрительную картинку
15 mins
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
glance over


Explanation:
"She glances hurriedly over the requisite page, but reads the verse from memory."


    Reference: http://www.lingvo.ru
Adam H
Local time: 21:41
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 8

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agree  Dash
2 days 20 hrs
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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
to leaf/ flick/ glance through


Explanation:
BUT GaryG's version to skip was used by Josef Brodsky. Good luck & best wishes, Oyra!
5. Russian-English Dictionary over 160 000 words & expressions, 1997,
ISBN 5-200-02419
6. Russian-English Dictionary, 34 000 words approx., Soviet Encyclopedia Publ. House, Moscow, 1970
18. New English-Russian Dictionary (3 vol.) 250,000 words ISBN 5-200-01849-8



Сергей Лузан
Russian Federation
Local time: 23:41
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Hurriedly, misses the needed page...


Explanation:
-Your version is fine

Oleg Pashuk (X)
PRO pts in pair: 619
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