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Übersetzung E-D & D-E (Subject) / Vokabeln Guardian (Lesson)
‘My mum always told me I was white, like her. Now I know the truth’
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- to confide (And whenever I confided in him about a racist remark or dig) to confide - anvertrauen to confide sth. - etw. mitteilen, beichten, bekennen
- remark (And whenever I confided in him about a racist remark or dig) Anmerkung, Bemerkung, Äußerung
- dig (And whenever I confided in him about a racist remark or dig) Stichelei
- in turn (which in turn led to all of us living in a state of denial over my own appearance) wiederum
- cooing (Years of cooing over the supposed similarities between myself and my dad were a guise to convince us all that there wasn’t a problem in our family) to coo - gurren, kosen, girren sanft und leise sprechen, murmeln
- guise (Years of cooing over the supposed similarities between myself and my dad were a guise to convince us all that there wasn’t a problem in our family) Anschein, Gestalt, Deckmantel
- nonsenical (Growing up with an identity that never matched people’s expectations of me has been strange, isolating and nonsensical) unsinnig, widersinning, sinnwidrig
- insidious (subtle, insidious forms of racism) heimtückisch, hinterhältig, hinterlistig
- issue (my race also wasn’t an issue to them) Thema, Angelegenheit, Problem
- threshold (I suppose I will always feel stuck on the threshold between two racial identities.) Schwelle
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- to blend in (it’s sometimes fun to play with the ambiguity and blend in after a lifetime of standing out) sich einfügen, sich integrieren, sich vermischen
- diaspora (some country within the African diaspora) Verstreuung, Diaspora
- pursuit (I know that the man who raised me, and who I will always call Dad, would support me in the pursuit of my identity) Streben, Verfolgung, Verfogen
- to wrap up (a quick-explanation to wrap up an awkward conversation) etw. unter Dach und Fach bringen, etw. zum Abschluss bringen zusammenfassen
- inetgral (I’m hoping that pretty soon I can accept it as an integral part of who I am) wesentlich, ganzheitlich, vollständig
- to alter (a crime occurs that so shocks the public, that it radically alters debates) ändern, verändern, modifizieren
- demonstration (his first demonstration turned out to be his last) Demonstration, Vorführung, Beweis, Kundgebung, Präsentation
- unprovked (a policeman shot him in the head in an unprovoked attack) grundlos, unprovoziert
- stand-in (Karl-Heinz Kurras was a veteran of Hitler's army, a stand-in for all the things young West Germans loathed about their parents, and his crime outraged a generation.) Vertretung, Springer, Vertreter, Ersatzmann, den Platz übernehmen
- to loathe (Karl-Heinz Kurras was a veteran of Hitler's army, a stand-in for all the things young West Germans loathed about their parents, and his crime outraged a generation.) verabscheuen, nicht ausstehen können, hassen
- to outrage (Karl-Heinz Kurras was a veteran of Hitler's army, a stand-in for all the things young West Germans loathed about their parents, and his crime outraged a generation.) empören, entrüsten, aufregen, entsetzen
- ardently (What made this case truly interesting is that it emerged more than four decades later that Kurras, instead of being the fascist he so ardently seemed to be, was in reality a highly prized spy-a mole- for the East German secret police.) inbrünstig, leidenschaftlich, begeistert, sehnlich,
- mole (What made this case truly interesting is that it emerged more than four decades later that Kurras, instead of being the fascist he so ardently seemed to be, was in reality a highly prized spy-a mole- for the East German secret police.) Maulwurf, Spion
- momentous (Another momentous murder has now come to pass in Germany) folgenschwer, bedeutsam, folgenreich, wichtig, gewichtig, denkwürdig, bedeutungsvoll, bedeutungsschwer
- to upend (one that seems likely to upend German politics jstu as the Ohnesorg killing did - albeit in a different direction) hochkant stellen, umdrehen, umstülpen
- albeit ((one that seems likely to upend German politics jstu as the Ohnesorg killing did - albeit in a different direction) wenn auch, obgleich, obschon
- distraught (although her distraught mother filed a missing person's report the following day) verzweifelt, aufgelöst, verstört, bestürzt
- to file (although her distraught mother filed a missing person's report the following day) einreichen, ablegen, einlegen, abheften,
- to commence (the police did not commence any serious search) beginnen, aufnehmen, anfangen, starten, einleiten
- runaway (believing they had just another teenage runaway on their hands) Ausreißer
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- on their hands (believing they had just another teenage runaway on their hands) vorliegen
- tip off (tipped off by a 13-year-old migrant boy) informieren, einen Hinweis geben, einen Tipp geben, warnen
- dot (an asylum shelter of the kind that dot Germany these days) übersäen, punktieren, sprenkeln
- wooded area (near a wooded area) Waldgebiet, Waldfläche
- sinister (whose story reads like a sinister parody unheimlich, unheilvoll, böse, übel, Unheil verkündend, finster, düster
- crest (Bashar arrived in Germany in October 2015, as the migrant wave into Central Europe was cresting) erklimmen
- virtually (Like virtually all asylum seekers, the Bashars claimed to be refugees) praktisch, nahezu, geradezu, gewissermaßen, quasi, weitgehend
- to fall through the cracks (Bashar requested an appeal to buy time, so his case fell through the cracks.) aus dem Raster fallen, durch das Netz fallen
- to buy time (Bashar requested an appeal to buy time) Zeit gewinnen
- request (Bashar requested an appeal to buy time) verlangen, beantragen, bitten, anfordern, erbitten
- to amount (His three years in Germany amounted to a one-man crime wave, including assaults on police officers, robbery with a knife, and possession of illegal weapons.) betragen, ausmachen, sich auf etw. belaufen, auf etw. hinauslaufen
- assault (His three years in Germany amounted to a one-man crime wave, including assaults on police officers, robbery with a knife, and possession of illegal weapons.) Angriff, Überfall, Tätlichkeit, Übergriff, Körperverletzung
- to head for (he headed for this native Iraq) etwas ansteuern, anfliegen, Kurs auf etw. nehmen, auf etw. zufahren, auf etw. zugehen
- apprehend (he should have been apprehended at the airport, since his name had been added to police watchlists, but in a bureaucratic srew-up, airport police failed to check that name on Bashar's air ticket matched his identity papers.) erfassen, begreifen, festnehmen, fassen
- police watchlist (he should have been apprehended at the airport, since his name had been added to police watchlists, but in a bureaucratic srew-up, airport police failed to check that name on Bashar's air ticket matched his identity papers.) -nichts gefunden- Überwachungsliste der Polizei
- screw-up (he should have been apprehended at the airport, since his name had been added to police watchlists, but in a bureaucratic srew-up, airport police failed to check that name on Bashar's air ticket matched his identity papers.) Schlamassel
- uproar (Once the uproar over the Feldmann killing went viral, German police upped their game and quickly ascertained their suspect's location) Aufruhr, Aufstand, Aufschrei, Erregung
- up the game (the German police upped their game and quickly ascertained their suspect's location) eine Schippe drauflegen, sich steigern, noch etwas mehr geben,
- to ascertain (they quickly ascertained their suspect's location) feststellen, ermitteln, herausfinden, bestimmen,
- high-security facility (Bashar is presently in a high-security facility in Wiesbaden awaiting determination of what charges he will be tried for, and whether he will face them as an adult or juvenile.) Hochsicherheitseinrichtung