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brave, droll look

Spanish translation: mirada desafiante y burlona

21:33 Feb 17, 2015
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / short story
English term or phrase: brave, droll look
A boy named Eddie came in to talk with them. He sat backwards on his stool, turning himself jerkily around in semicircles and then
stopping and turning back again, and after a while he asked Connie if she would like something to eat. She said she would and so
she tapped her friend's arm on her way out—her friend pulled her face up into a brave, droll look—and Connie said she would meet
her at eleven, across the way. "I just hate to leave her like that," Connie said earnestly, but the boy said that she wouldn't be alone
for long. So they went out to his car, and on the way Connie couldn't help but let her eyes wander over the windshields and faces all
around her, her face gleaming with a joy that had nothing to do with Eddie or even this place; it might have been the music. She
drew her shoulders up and sucked in her breath with the pure pleasure of being alive, and just at that moment she happened to
glance at a face just a few feet from hers. It was a boy with shaggy black hair, in a convertible jalopy painted gold.
Es un fragmento de "where are you going? where have you been?" de Joyce Carol Oates. Muchas gracias.
YamiTissandie
Argentina
Spanish translation:mirada desafiante y burlona
Explanation:
Una mirada valiente [envalentonada] y socarrona / sarcástica

Una mirada entre desafiante y sarcástica...

Saludos.

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You're welcome!! :-)
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JohnMcDove
United States
Local time: 15:51
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1le hizo una mueca entre resignada/tolerante y divertida/socarrona/burlona.
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
4(le puso una cara) valiente y chistosa
Richard Vranch
4atrevida y rara mirada / desafiante y rara mirada
Jose Francisco Ugalde
3(mirada) valiente y tragicómica
Eileen Banks
3mirada desafiante y burlona
JohnMcDove


  

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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
(le puso una cara) valiente y chistosa


Explanation:
My reading...

Richard Vranch
Local time: 23:51
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
atrevida y rara mirada / desafiante y rara mirada


Explanation:
Dentro del contexto me parece que cualquiera podría funcionar

Jose Francisco Ugalde
Costa Rica
Local time: 16:51
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
le hizo una mueca entre resignada/tolerante y divertida/socarrona/burlona.


Explanation:
Entiendo que "pull a face" es hacer una mueca.

En este caso no interpreto "brave" como valiente ni desafiante sino en el sentido de poner a mal tiempo buena cara, porque su amiga la estaba dejando plantada (Connie lo reconoce cuando dice "I just hate to leave her like that,").

Creo que "resignada" o "tolerante" recoge bien la idea.

Esta sería la acepción de "brave":
put a brave face on it v expr informal (endure [sth]) (semblante) poner buena cara expr poner a mal tiempo, buena cara expr
Let's put on a brave face and get on with it.
Pongamos buena cara y sigamos con esto.
http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=bra...


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Note added at 2 hrs (2015-02-17 23:55:19 GMT)
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Posibles combinaciones:
- "le hizo una mueca entre tolerante y socarrona"
- "le hizo una mueca entre resignada y divertida"
- "le hizo una mueca entre resignada y burlona"

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Spain
Local time: 00:51
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 1556

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agree  bcsantos
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  -> Muchas gracias - Bea
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(mirada) valiente y tragicómica


Explanation:
'farcical' one of the several synonyms for droll.
farcical can be translated as 'absurdo, ridiculo, tragicómico'

Eileen Banks
Argentina
Local time: 19:51
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PRO pts in category: 80
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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
mirada desafiante y burlona


Explanation:
Una mirada valiente [envalentonada] y socarrona / sarcástica

Una mirada entre desafiante y sarcástica...

Saludos.

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Note added at 8 days (2015-02-26 18:03:10 GMT) Post-grading
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You're welcome!! :-)

JohnMcDove
United States
Local time: 15:51
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 241
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