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Wenn dein Vater mich jemals um etwas bitten würde, was mir zutiefst widerstrebte, würde ich es ablehnen.
If your rather ever asked me to do something I was adamantly opposed to, I would refuse.
Streichen widerstrebt Goethe, besser die beiden Elegien ganz weglassen, was dann auch geschieht.
Goethe was opposed to deletions and preferred to simply leave out the two offending elegies altogether, which they agreed to do.
Ich weiß nicht, ob es ihm widerstrebte, Fleisch zu garen – statt es roh zu essen –, oder ob er totes Rind nicht mochte, weil er lebendes bevorzugte. Ich fragte ihn nicht danach.
I wasn’t sure if he found the act of cooking meat revolting—as opposed to eating it raw—or if he just wasn’t much for dead cow because he preferred live … cow. Or live something. I didn’t ask.
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