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German to English Poetry & Literature Translation Glossary

German term English translation
Rüsttag preparation day / day of preparation
Redewendung / Glückwunschspruch mit Thema Baum Wishing you a tree-mendously happy birthday
Entered by: Stephanie Wloch
Reflexivität Reflexivity
regelmäßig as a rule/generally
Reuter Knight
Rezeption popularity, prestige, desirability
Risiko taking a risk
routiniert hackneyed
Ruhesitz retirement home (Goethe)/ deckchair (Kafka)
s. d. q.v.
Saisonprogramm Literary season/literary program(me)
Schächtelchen little box
schöngeistige Literatur book of fiction/ belles lettres
Schlangenfraß snake fodder
Schlägertruppe group/gang of thugs
Schmöker pageturner, long novel, big (entertaining) book
Schmollis let us drink to fraternal affection
Schmuckrahmen (decorative/ornate/embellished) border
Schnabelhiebe blows of/from a beak
schon damals even then / even in those days
schrundiges Gewächs scraggly weed
Schutzwehr bulwark
Schwarzpeter passes the buck
Schwäne und Enten *ziehen beschaulich ihre Runden* swans and ducks *leisurely paddle their way* around ...
Entered by: dkfmmuc
Schwerblütigkeit sober level-headedness or down-to-earth nature
schwerlötig bloated/sluggish/thick/dense/slow-witted/blockheaded
Entered by: Edwin Miles
seinen Herrscherstag halten to wield his sceptre
Selbstbilder perceptions of self
Selbstzeugnis personal account
sentimentale Schübe bouts of sentimentality
sich auf seine Instinkte und eigene Körperlichkeit einlassen to rely on his own instincts and corporeality (also: physicality)
sich versenken in to lose oneself in contemplation of
Entered by: Stephen Old
Sind der Bauleute zu viele, so wird das Haus schief He who builds to every man's advice, will have a crooked house
Sittenspiegel treatise / tract on manners / morality
So schön die Kindheit hier auch war Though childhood here was sweet
so Shakespeare according to Shakespeare
Sozialkitsch liberal crap/nonsense
Entered by: Erik Macki
Spangenschuhe strap shoe(s)
Spigille Spigille
Sprachsetzung phrasing
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