Translation for "zusammengestoppelt" to english
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Das Mittagessen war etwas zusammengestoppelt und bestand aus Sachen aus der Tiefkühltruhe und der Speisekammer.
Lunch turned out to be a scrappy affair of things dug out of the freezer and larder.
Die Fremden, die sich für seine Augen alle gleich ausnahmen in ihrer zusammengestoppelten schwarzen Kleidung, standen immer noch zaudernd am Eingang.
The aliens, all of them identical to his gaze in their scrappy dark garments, were poised near the doorway which led out of the dome.
Der Nachmittag ging in den frühen Abend über, und um das aus grau gestrichenen Brettern zusammengestoppelte Gebäude standen alte Bäume und dichte Büsche, die das Tageslicht fast gänzlich aussperrten.
Around the scrappy building's grey-painted boards mature trees and heavy brush loomed and cut off most of the bright daylight as afternoon shifted into early evening.
Der weise Planer hatte alles bedacht: Daß die Garde in der Hauptstadt Petersburg stand, während Moskau, die zweite Metropole, nur über eine zusammengestoppelte Reservetruppe verfügte; daß Moskau das Verkehrszentrum des Landes war und daß in der Stadt zweihunderttausend hungernde, verbitterte Arbeiter lebten.
The wise author of the plan had taken everything into account: the fact that the Guards were in St Petersburg, while the old capital had only a scrappy ragbag garrison made up of second-class reservists, and that Moscow was the transport heart of the country, and that the city had 200,000 hungry workers embittered by privation. Ten thousand reckless madcaps could surely be found among them, if only there were weapons.
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