Similar context phrases
Translation examples
So kam es, dass Bahram noch in seinen Zwanzigern fast unmerklich in eine wunderbare Affäre mit Chi-mei, einer Bootsfrau, hineingezogen wurde, die ihm einen Sohn schenkte – ein Kind, das er umso herzlicher liebte, als er sich in Bombay niemals zu ihm hätte bekennen können.
a place where the female presence was strictly forbidden, but where women would enter your life in ways that were utterly unexpected: it was thus that Bahram, while still in his twenties, found himself gloriously and accidentally entangled with Chi-mei, a boat-woman who gave him a son – a child who was all the more dear to him because his existence could never be acknowledged in Bombay.
How many English words do you know?
Test your English vocabulary size, and measure how many words you know.
Online Test