English translation of "y los ojos brillando febrilmente" - "Feverish eyes, or your option "burning with fever" will do nicely too"

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74 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Spanish > English
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	y los ojos brillando febrilmente
Context:	No supo si habían pasado varios minutos o, quizás, horas, cuando se despertó por el ruido de una puerta al abrirse, intentó levantar la cabeza para ver quién era, pero no pudo, y escuchó el murmullo de una conversación y cómo volvía a cerrarse la puerta. Gale, porque, aunque no lo había visto, sabía que era él, se acercó a la cama y ella se dio la vuelta y lo miró, con las mejillas enrojecidas y los ojos brillando febrilmente. The woman in question is suffering from a fever. "And her eyes were burning with fever"?

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74 months ago

Clara Fernández wrote:

Feverish eyes, or your option "burning with fever" will do nicely too

My comment:

From the scene presented it has nothing to do with passion. It's more of a physical issue. She's sick, she's barely aware of her surroundings, and she has that glazed look in her eyes from the fever.

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74 months ago

Ffion Marianne Moyle wrote:

her eyes were passionately burning

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74 months ago

wrote:

Sorry, but the woman in question has run away from her lover, because she saw him kissing another woman. So her passion has gone underground, and to a very great degree at his point.

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