nur so um sie herum
English translation: all over
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|  Selected response from: Kathinka van de Griendt Local time: 01:45 | ||||||
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| 5 +1 | sweat... |
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| 4 +2 | The (pearls of) sweat are/is (just) flying (all around). |
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4 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1sweat... Explanation: "They flee helter-skelter, while sweat sprays all over.." or "Sweat flies as they flee helter-skelter". Bit of a weird text and the grammar isn't perfect either. Should read: "Sie fliehen Hals über Kopf. Dabei spritzen die Schweißperlen nur so um sie herum". |
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14 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2| spritzen sich die Schweißperlen nur so um sie herum The (pearls of) sweat are/is (just) flying (all around). Explanation: This is one of those cases where I think you can do some major omission. I'd drop "Schweißperlen". I also wouldn't do anything with "dabei" because the connection with the previous sentence is already apparant. I translated "nur" as "just" in this context, but I think you could also do without it. I'd even leave off (all around). Where else can sweat fly? Either way, I wouldn't use "spray"... In America we probably wouldn't say "the sweat flies", unless it does that generally, hence "the sweat is flying". :-) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 mins (2004-08-12 08:45:56 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The German sentences are a mess... \"Die Beiden Armen\" = \"Die beiden Armen (Geschöpfe)\" = \"those poor things\", not \"both arms\"... ;-) |
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