оконца, глядящие в небо

English translation: windows...open ro rhe sky

02:08 Jun 23, 2005

Russian to English translations [PRO]
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Russian term or phrase: оконца, глядящие в небо

Эта злобная ведьма могла заставить болотную тину разрастаться и затягивать оконца чистой воды, глядящие в голубое небо.

Dear colleagues!
Проблема в том, как перевести эти самые "оконца" (на болоте), которые, к тому же еще и "глядят" (хотелось бы сохранить метафору, разумеется, если только это возможно).
Clear water holes opened to the blue sky?

Возможен ли буквальный перевод - windows? Я насчет этого не уверен...
Если мне память не изменяет, по-русски они еще называются "бочажками", эти самые оконца.

Andrew Vdovin KudoZ activity Questions: 3923 (2 open) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 3924
Local time: 14:04

English translation:windows...open ro rhe sky

Explanation:
"Windows of clear water, open to the sky" comes over quite well in English, I think.

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Note added at 4 days (2005-06-27 11:55:49 GMT)
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Typos: should read: \"windows...open to the sky\"

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Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:04

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Thank you for your help Jack! Thanks everybody!
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Summary of answers provided

4 +2

the mire's eyes of clear water opened to the (blue) skies

Vladimir Dubisskiy

4 +2

windows...open ro rhe sky

Jack Doughty

small water-holes facing the blue skies

koundelev

windows of clear water that gazed into the sky above

Deborah Hoffman

oval clear water gaps in the swamp, looking like eyes up into sky

Simon Gregory

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28 mins confidence:

оконца, глядящие в небо small water-holes facing the blue skies

Explanation:
water-hole означает "бочаг"

koundelev
Local time: 10:04
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in category: 66

24 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

оконца, глядящие в небо the mire's eyes of clear water opened to the (blue) skies

Explanation:
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Note added at 59 mins (2005-06-23 03:07:46 GMT)
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можно добавить ещё pristine - ... of pristine water...

Vladimir Dubisskiy
United States
Local time: 02:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian
PRO pts in category: 36

1 hr confidence:

оконца, глядящие в небо oval clear water gaps in the swamp, looking like eyes up into sky

Explanation:
...to obliterate... oval clear water gaps in the swamp, looking like eyes up into sky...
too wordy, but depicted without ambiguity for young readers

Simon Gregory
PRO pts in category: 3

3 days 12 hrs confidence:

оконца, глядящие в небо windows of clear water that gazed into the sky above

Explanation:
Thus preserving the metaphor. "Windows that gazed" collocates in English in some contexts, and usually requires an addition preposition such as "out" or "over" or "down," i.e.

http://www.star-traks.com/vexed/year3/caped.txt
And when she turned around, she could see out the huge, curving, slatted transparent aluminum windows that gazed out over the aft end of the ship

http://www.fehrdreams.net/The_Warrior_8.html
Each apartment was different from the next and hers boasted a small kitchen, living room, bedroom and make-shift office room with high ceilings and old painted windows that gazed down on the harbor below

http://www.aberglasney.org/garden03.html
Its windows gazed out over archery butts and croquet lawns in Victoria's reign, Nissen huts in World War II, a building site in the 1990s.

http://www.bartleby.com/101/817.html
Weeping strangled my voice. I call'd out, but none answer'd;
Blindly the windows gazed back at me, dumbly the door

Hope this helps!

Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 03:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 36

7 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

оконца, глядящие в небо

windows...open ro rhe sky

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 658

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Thank you for your help Jack! Thanks everybody!

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