Sep 16, 2004 13:37
19 yrs ago
German term

Zug

German to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Seit der Romantik dringt ein unheimlicher Zug in das Motiv. Neben biologische Verwandtschaft oder zufällige Ähnlichkeit treten die Abspaltung vom Ich, der Dualismus menschlicher Seelenkräfte, eine Tag- und Nachtseite, die dunkel einfärbt – Mr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +4 characterisic / trait

Discussion

Dipl.-Ing. Robert Bach (X) Sep 16, 2004:
Perhaps you know this word from Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language". :-)

Proposed translations

+4
3 mins
Selected

characterisic / trait

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Note added at 6 mins (2004-09-16 13:43:03 GMT)
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or: ... this motif has taken on a sense of the uncanny.

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Note added at 1 hr 28 mins (2004-09-16 15:05:25 GMT)
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correction: characteristic
Peer comment(s):

agree Terence Ajbro
11 mins
agree Thomas Bollmann
5 hrs
agree Mario Marcolin : trait
20 hrs
agree Heidi Stone-Schaller
3 days 21 hrs
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