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Originally Posted by masa
"Uwamezukai" is "looking at someone from under one's brows", and not "rolling one's eyes". Sometimes it means "coquettish glance" as oji-i-san said. But I think it doesn't so in this case. She is listening to the man's talking. She is fed up with it and she doesn't feel like looking at his face. So she is glancing him up occasionally.
Regarding "How do you do", I agree with oji-i-san. But I think "Say to us" is better than "Say to me", if some more words are necessary to clear the meaning.
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I agree that "uwamezukai" is "looking at someone from under one's brows".
The question is how to interpret it and how to say it in English.
According to your interpretation, she is fed up with men's talks and
so (i.e.
as a result) she sometimes does "glancing up". Do I understand you correctly? In that case, I'm afraid your translation "I'm tired
from glancing up" is not saying what you think, unfortunatelly.
"男達の話に fed up した結果として uwamezukai をしている" ということと "uwamezukai をすることに疲れた" とでは論理が異なっていると思います。 （話に fed up して、相手の顔をちゃんと見ないようになって、それさえも長く続けているうちに疲れてしまった、と長めに説 明すれば論理は通りますが。 あと、次に出てくる相槌を打ってあげている行為を考えてみても、その前の上目 遣いは同様の行為と感じるのが普通だと思います。）
I think "uwamezukai mo tukareta shi" is "I'm tired from doing uwamezukai", and it means she has been trying to do "uwamezukai" while she's listening to men's talks.
I believe Ayu is saying here that women do "uwamezukai" as a kind of service when they listen to men's talks.
(and I guess the listeners of this album can feel the similar idea when they hear Sexy little things because there are expressions such as "urunda hitomi", "kakko tsukerareru kankyou teikyou shiteru no", and "anata wa kono te no ue".)