утлы

English translation: to soften the corners

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Russian term or phrase:	смягчить углы
English translation:	to soften the corners
Entered by:	koundelev

02:40 Mar 26, 2009

Russian to English translations [PRO]
Linguistics

Russian term or phrase: утлы

Here is the full sentence: Напротив, он пытается сгладить острые утлы идейного расхождения.

I can't make this make sense-- I believe I've run into a typographical error. I understand that утлый means fragile, but here in the original sentence, it seems to be serving as the subject, so I'm puzzled.

The division that the author is writing about is the ideological division between two famous Russian literary and philosophical figures.

(Overall, the text is about Dostoevsky, but I don't want to talk about Dostoevsky at all. here's a link to the full text: http://www.oldgazette.ru/kshizn/20121947/text3.html)

Ethan Bien KudoZ activity Questions: 120 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (9 closed without grading) Answers: 21 United States
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corners

Explanation:
wrong OCR - углы

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Note added at 3 mins (2009-03-26 02:44:12 GMT)
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angle of divergence -?

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koundelev
Local time: 06:28

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corners

koundelev

"angles"- points

Alexandra Taggart

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peer agreement (net): +8

corners

koundelev
Local time: 06:28
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Thanks very much!

17 hrs confidence:

"angles"- points

Explanation:
He tries to soften the points at which idealogical disagreements diverge.

Alexandra Taggart
Russian Federation
Local time: 06:28
Native speaker of:

English,

Russian

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