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21:44 May 7, 2004 |
German to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Anthropology | ||||
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| Selected response from: Kim Metzger Mexico Local time: 17:03 | |||
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5 +3 | take appearances for reality |
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5 +1 | blinded (from the true value) by outward appearances |
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4 | to take rhinestones for diamonds |
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4 | to mistake glitter for the real thing |
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4 | to judge a book by its cover |
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den Schein für die Sache nehmen blinded (from the true value) by outward appearances Explanation: "blinded by outward appearances" würde schon reichen denke ich |
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den Schein für die Sache nehmen to take rhinestones for diamonds Explanation: Not everything that shines is gold. So, one might take rhinestones for diamonds. A suggestion. |
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den Schein für die Sache nehmen take appearances for reality Explanation: Called one of the "richest, most imageful and full blown modern comedies," The Playboy of the Western World is a celebration of the comic and the tender, the earthy and the grand. When young Christy Mahon, on the way to finding his true love - and his manhood - bashes his bully of a father, he becomes the idol of a small Irish village, thus setting off the famed playwright's sardonic attack on the Irish tendency to take appearances for reality. http://web.archive.org/web/20030727111949/http://www.steppen... |
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