Translation examples
When it was freezing the soil, in the minute it took him to get from the recreation room to the bucket wheel, became as hard as a tree trunk, and then Christian could only hack and split and cut the dark brown mass off in shavings and splinters, working as hard as he could, driven on by the fear of being caught by the wheel as it suddenly started to turn.
Wenn es fror, wurde das Erdreich in der Minute, die er vom Aufenthaltsraum bis zum Schaufelrad brauchte, hart wie ein Baumstamm, dann hieb und spaltete und scherte Christian die schwarzbraune Masse nur span- und splitterweise ab, unter Leibeskräften, gejagt von der Angst, vom plötzlich andrehenden Rad erfaßt zu werden.
The bucket wheel stopped at the highest point and Christian, as nimble as an orang-utan once he had become accustomed to the work, would clamber up the struts, gratings and railed walkways to the front of the boom at the end of which, about fifteen metres from the body of the excavator, his work began: knocking off the clumps of soil stuck to the wheel.
Am Scheitelpunkt der Fahrt stoppte das Schaufelrad, und Christian turnte, nach der Eingewöhnung behend wie ein Orang-Utan, über die Streben, Roste und geländerten Stege nach oben und vorn auf den Auslegerkran, an dessen Ende, ungefähr fünfzehn Meter vom Baggerrumpf entfernt, Christians Arbeit begann: die am Rad festgebackenen Erdmassen abzuschlagen.
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