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maluca Coopysnoopy
Kedd, 23/08/2016 - 08:39
Stimmt, das tönt mehr wie Englisch.
;)
magicmulder
Szerda, 28/12/2016 - 13:53
"Bordering on the ring road,
On the verge of our city walls"
=>
"By the ring road
Just inside our city walls"
I've never heard "on the verge" being used to describe a physical location.
"Nobody has ever seen anything like it" => "Like you've never seen" or "The likes of which you've never seen"
"But then I dropped" => "But then I fell off" conveys the image better IMO.
SilentRebel83
Szerda, 28/12/2016 - 14:03
@magicmulder & Coopysnoopy: Regarding "verge"... the way Coopysnoopy utilizes it is correct, albeit cleverly poetic hehe [including "bordering"]. But to use it as such is rarely seen in everyday English.
Might I also add a suggestion for "ring road" --> roundabout.
SilentRebel83
Szerda, 28/12/2016 - 21:08
can you explain to me the difference?
Like I've seen an Ungehungstrasse in Germany before and have always assume it a roundabout. We have the same thing here in the States. I just assumed that both terms (ring road and roundabout) were just different ways to term the same thing. :glasses:
Freigeist
Csütörtök, 29/12/2016 - 03:01
Negative, Josh.
A "Umgehungsstraße" is a road built around a town or city center to keep the through going motor traffic out.
As a "roundabout" we would regard a circle traffic in order to avoid a traffic light or a priority-to-the-right rule crossing.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreisverkehr#/media/File:LUMC-rotonde.JPG
SilentRebel83
Csütörtök, 29/12/2016 - 05:54
Splendid :)
Thank you, Hans.
magicmulder
Csütörtök, 29/12/2016 - 08:05
I usually call it a bypass.
magicmulder
Csütörtök, 29/12/2016 - 08:06
You may be right, though the German is ambiguous. The bypass may very well be inside the city (as it could route around a specific part of the city, not the city itself).
magicmulder
Csütörtök, 29/12/2016 - 08:31
Yup. The point is, he is not driving himself, he is being taken there.
Coopysnoopy
Csütörtök, 29/12/2016 - 08:45
Thanks to everybody!
But what about this:
http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/ring+road.html
magicmulder
Csütörtök, 29/12/2016 - 09:11
My vote is still for "bypass". First, it's not specifically B.E., second, it doesn't assume it's a route around a city (it may be just a route around a part of the city in the original German).
sandring
Csütörtök, 29/12/2016 - 09:31
But Magicmulder, you like reading between the lines. Don't you see the basic idea? Anybody who breaks down, doesn't abide by the rules or is looked on as a misfit or public nuisance is driven out of the circle of the society. So be it a ring road or beltway it should firmly link without letting in or out. I'd translate it like this
On the beltway
Bordering the city walls
And I don't like "I dropped" I'd say "I fell down/off" One usually falls off the ladder, don't they?
magicmulder
Csütörtök, 29/12/2016 - 13:55
> So be it a ring road or beltway it should firmly link without letting in or out.
If there's supposed to be a metaphor in the location of the institution, I think it's more of the "removed from the city" kind than of the "being encircled" kind. Again, "Umgehungsstraße" does not refer to a road forming a (closed) ring around the city, see Hansi's comment.
German "Umgehungsstraßen" usually at most form a semi circle.
Besides, my dictionary marks "beltway" as A.E. and I prefer translations that use generic words instead of specifically A.E./B.E. ones.
Coopysnoopy
Péntek, 30/12/2016 - 08:54
Keep calm and read: I took bypass.
John Rogan
Kedd, 12/03/2019 - 01:52
Bypasses the normal conventions...a heroin addict perhaps...I fell off the ladder...yes I fell off!
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