Translation for "eine scheide" to english
- a scabbard
- a distinction
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Translation examples
Und, am beunruhigendsten, an seinem Gürtel hing eine Scheide, und in dieser Scheide steckte ein Schwert.
Most alarmingly, he had a scabbard affixed to his belt, and the scabbard had a sword in it.
Vielmehr verlangt die Idee der Reinheit, die Sphären säuberlich zu scheiden: Hier die Wirklichkeit, dort die Poesie, und dann noch die Besonnenheit, die beiden Bereiche nicht miteinander zu verwechseln und den Ansprüchen der jeweiligen Sachgebiete und Lebensfeldern gerecht werden.
Instead, the idea of purity demands that one make a clear distinction between the two spheres—reality here, poetry there—and have the prudence not to confuse the two realms but rather do justice to the claims of each as separate areas of life. For example, there is one kind of tenacity in governing and quite a different kind in poetry.
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