Vokabeln Guardian

Question 1

upbringing (my upbringing was a very Anglo-Irish affair.)

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Erziehung, Heranwachsen

Question 2

outskirts (I grew up on the outskirts of London)

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Stadtrand, Außenbezirke

Question 3

peculiar (The only peculiar aspect to all this was)

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absonderlich, seltsam, eigenartig, merkwürdig, auffällig

Question 4

to uncover (I’m starting to uncover where I come from)

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etw. aufdecken, enthüllen, freilegen

Question 5

touch on the idea (we briefly touched on the idea)

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sich mit der Idee/dem Gedanken befassen

Question 6

to slot (I thought I slotted into the same cultural category as everyone else in my life)

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einschieben, zu etw. passen, hineinpassen

Question 7

intangible (And I saw that blackness was an intangible and wholly cultural concept)

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nicht greifbar, immateriell, unfassbar

Question 8

to consent (my father consented to giving me a DNA sample)

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zustimmen, einwilligen, erlauben, beipflichten

Question 9

grief (A year later, as my grief was still casting shadows over my every move like a black cloud)

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Trauer, Kummer

Question 10

casting shadows (A year later, as my grief was still casting shadows over my every move like a black cloud)

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Schatten werfen

Question 11

to muster the courage (I finally mustered the courage to get it processed in secret.)

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den Mut zusammennehmen, den Mut aufbringen

Question 12

get sth. processed (I finally mustered the courage to get it processed in secret.)

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etw. verarbeiten

Question 13

terminal diagnosis (he told me a few months after his terminal diagnosis)

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nichts richtiges gefunden, Vorschläge Enddiagnose, endgültige Diagnose,

Question 14

to press sb. (I found it impossible to press him further for the answers)

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jdn. dringend um etw. bitten (to press sb. for sth.) jdm. zusetzen, bedrängen (to press sb.) bei jdm. nachhaken, (to press sb. on) jdn. drängen, etw. zu tun (to press sb. to do sth.)

Question 15

inconclusive (When I received an email stating that the paternity test results were inconclusive)

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ergebnislos, uneindeutig, nicht beweiskräftig, nicht eindeutig

Question 16

utterly ( I was utterly miserable)

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absolut, gänzlich, völlig, zutiefst, ganz und gar

Question 17

miserable ( I was utterly miserable)

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elend, unglücklich

Question 18

limbo (I should wait in ethnicity-limbo for a few more weeks)

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Limbo (imaginärer Ort für verlorene Dinge) Limbus (Vorhölle) Schwebezustand, Schwebe

Question 19

course (Rage so strong it scared me coursed through my veins)

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fließen, strömen

Question 20

hurtle towards sth. (Rage so strong it scared me coursed through my veins and hurtled towards my mother)

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auf etw. zuschießen to hurtle - rasen

Question 21

hoarse (After I had grown hoarse from screaming)

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heiser

Question 22

probe (I probed my parents)

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to probe sb. - jdm. auf den Zahn fühlen to probe - nachforschen, erforschen, gründlich untersuchen/prüfen

Question 23

throwback (I was a “genetic throwback”)

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Rückblick, Atavismus (Rückschlag, Wiederauftreten von anatomischen Merkmalen bei einem Lebewesen, die bei entfernten Vorfahren ausgebildet waren)

Question 24

paki (after being labelled a “paki”)

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Pakistani

Question 25

acquaintance (It was the strangers and new acquaintances who deliberately popped my protective bubble of whiteness time and time again)

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Bekannte(r), Bekanntschaft,

Question 26

to pop sth. (It was the strangers and new acquaintances who deliberately popped my protective bubble of whiteness time and time again)

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platzen lassen, zum Platzen bringen

Question 27

time and time again (It was the strangers and new acquaintances who deliberately popped my protective bubble of whiteness time and time again)

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immer wieder, wieder und wieder, aber und abermals, ein ums andere Mal

Question 28

deliberately (but also deliberately isolated myself)

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absichtlich, bewusst, wissentlich, gewollt, vorsätzlich

Question 29

feature (who often saw my features in their own)

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Merkmal, Eigenschaft, Besonderheit

Question 30

to relate (I couldn’t relate)

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to relate to - nachempfinden to be able to relate to sth. - etw. nachvollziehen können to relate to/with. sth. - in Beziehung bringen mit etw.

Question 31

impenetrable (Whiteness is an exclusive, impenetrable concept to which I aspired because anything else was alien to me)

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undurchdringlich, unzugänglich, undurchschaubar

Question 32

to aspire (Whiteness is an exclusive, impenetrable concept to which I aspired because anything else was alien to me)

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to aspire to sth. - etw. anstreben, etw. erstreben to aspire to sth. - sich auf etw. Hoffnung machen to aspire after sth. etw. anstreben, nach etw. streben, nach etw. trachten

Question 33

to plague ( the feeling of “otherness” has plagued me all my life)

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plagen, quälen plagued - geplagt

Question 34

halcyon (My halcyon memories of holidays in Ireland are marred by occasional smudges)

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friedvoll, friedlich, ruhig halcyon days - glückliche Tage

Question 35

are marred (My halcyon memories of holidays in Ireland are marred by occasional smudges)

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beschädigt, ruiniert, getrübt

Question 36

smudge (My halcyon memories of holidays in Ireland are marred by occasional smudges)

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Schmutzfleck, Schmierfleck

Question 37

to lay claim (But I also remember feeling ashamed to lay claim to Irishness)

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auf etw. Anspruch erheben, etw. beanspruchen, einen Anspruch auf etw. geltend machen

Question 38

feigned (the feigned nonchalance I adopted)

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vorgetäuscht, geheuchelt, falsch, gespielt, vorgeblich

Question 39

to turn sb. down (after a boy turned me down for a kiss)

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einen Korb geben, eine Abfuhr erteilen, abweisen

Question 40

coherent (I had to laugh when a barely coherent man in a Limerick nightclub asked)

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verständlich

Question 41

Limerick (I had to laugh when a barely coherent man in a Limerick nightclub asked)

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Ortschaft in Irland

Question 42

to equate (many people still equate certain cultures with certain skin colours)

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gleichstellen, gleichen, gleichsetzen (mit)

Question 43

mitigate (my parents thought that raising me like them would mitigate my obvious difference)

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mildern, abschwächen, entschärfen, lindern

Question 44

strain (Although the relationship with my mother has sometimes been strained)

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belasten, anstrengen, strapazieren

Question 45

privately educated (He was a degree-holding, privately educated man and must have suspected my mum of infidelity)

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private Schullaufbahn, zuhause unterrichtet

Question 46

to catch sight (I caught sight of the box my dad ticked when asked to classify my race on a signup form for swimming lessons at our local leisure centre.)

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erblicken, erspähen

Question 47

out of the box (I caught sight of the box my dad ticked when asked to classify my race on a signup form for swimming lessons at our local leisure centre.)

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über den Tellerand

Question 48

leisure centre (I caught sight of the box my dad ticked when asked to classify my race on a signup form for swimming lessons at our local leisure centre.)

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Freizeithaus, Jugendfreizeitheim

Question 49

to graze (Although my head barely grazed the counter)

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leicht berühren, touchieren,

Question 50

flustered (looking a little flustered)

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durcheinander, nervös, aufgeregt

Übersetzung E-D & D-E (Fach) / Vokabeln Guardian (Lektion)