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bürgerliche Sattheit

English translation: bourgeois complacency

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German term or phrase:bürgerliche Sattheit
English translation:bourgeois complacency
Entered by: Asaphina

15:08 Mar 7, 2005
German to English translations [PRO]
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German term or phrase: bürgerliche Sattheit
"Gemüt" kann nicht übersetzt werden und "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht" ist in aller Welt bekannt als ein deutsches Lied.

Pass aber aus, dass diese Gemütllichkeit nicht zur bürgerlichen Sattheit verkommt.

(10) Zum Sicherheitsbedürfnis und Angst vor Risiken und nötigen Reformen.
(11) Freu dich an deiner Fähigkeit und Liebe zur Pünktlichkeit. Ein Großteil deiner Erfolge in der Welt beruht darauf, dass man sich auf dich verlassen kann. Die Zuverlässigkeit und Unbestechlichkeit deiner Administration in Staat und Wirtschaft ist weltweit einzig.
Asaphina
bourgeois complacency
Explanation:
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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 04:10
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vielen Dank, das klingt vernünftig
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4 +2bourgeois complacency
Kim Metzger


  

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bürgerliche sattheit
bourgeois complacency


Explanation:
One possibility.


    Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 04:10
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 127
Grading comment
vielen Dank, das klingt vernünftig

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nick Somers (X): Very nice, although I bet most English-speakers don't know that Silent Night, Holy Night is German. ;-)
1 hr
  -> A lot of English-speakers don't know much of anything anymore.
agree  Steffen Walter
1 hr
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