Translation for "hinabtreiben" to english
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Nicht nach der Vorstellung von Nichts; er machte keine Exerzitien, ließ auch keine Gedanken, die seine Meditation störten, den Fluss hinabtreiben.
Not the idea of nothingness, not the exercise of it, thoughts sent drifting down the river as they intruded on his meditation.
Einmal, vom Postelwitzer Ufer aus, sahen sie tote Fische die Elbe hinabtreiben, so viele, als hätte jemand den Fluß mit Metallbarren gepflastert.
Once, from the Postelwitz bank, they saw dead fish floating down the river, so many it looked as if the Elbe had been paved with metal bars.
Er habe kleine Arme und Beine den Fluss hinabtreiben sehen. Es sei meine Schuld, ich hätte es getan, weil ich ihn verlassen hätte.«292
“He said that he had cut her into little pieces and dropped the pieces in a river and that he had seen little arms and legs floating down the river and it was my fault, I’d done it because I’d left him,”
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