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seagull

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bird at the beach/sea

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visiously

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not good, brutality,

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vacuum cleaner

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clean the ground with electric

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advantages OUTWEIGH disadvantages

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good is more than bad

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to whorl e.g. eggs

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Whorl

Quirl

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age limit

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Altersbeschränkung

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drawer

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Schublade

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election

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to elect a party or someone

Wahl

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pre-owned car

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Car, which isn’t new anymore

Gebrauchtwagen

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procrastinate

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not to be sure

zögern

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bend

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on road (turn), not straight

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pail

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small bucket (children on a beach)

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grocery

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food store

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chaperone

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someone who takes care about children, and other people

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Parantheses / Paranthesis

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( ) around words, sentences

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Questionmark

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?

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exclamation mark

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!

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sunshade

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Sonnenschirm

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Raccoon

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Waschbär

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a stem

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a stem from a plant

Stängel

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a will

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a document to give away your money and things, when you die

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Haarreif

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Hair circlet, hair band

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Nieselregen

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Drizzle

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Hackfleisch

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hash

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mohn

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poppy(seeds)

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Kichererbsen

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chickpeas

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spießig

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stuffy, narrow-minded

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Sternzeichen

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zodiac sign

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Schleimer

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crawler

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not to be close

Abstand halten

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stand off, stand clear, hold one’s distance

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ehemalig

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one-time

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Naht

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seam

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vernäht

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sewed

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nähen

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to sew

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Thing on a car where the smoke can emit

Auspuff

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Exhaust (pipe)

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to make something over a longer time

verlängern

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prolong

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to feel bad about sth. done

schlechtes Gewissen

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bad or guilty conscience

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Hautblase

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blister

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bleib locker, relax

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keep your shirt on

take it easy :)

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Profil (Reifen)

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tread

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Sonnenschirm

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Sunshade, sun umbrella

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list where you can list up, what you need to buy

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shopping list

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quark

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quark, curd (cheese)

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Zapfsäule

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filling station

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petersilie

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parsley

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Brückenpfeiler

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bridge pillar

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krieg führen

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to conduct war

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dem Krieg nahe

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on the verge of war

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nach dem Krieg

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postwar

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Kompromiss

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compromise, tradeoff

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kompromiss schließen

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to compound

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vernünftig

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reasonable

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Querstreifen

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cross stripes

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Streifen

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streak, stripe

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Zufälle

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coincidences

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Vergesslichkeit

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obliviousness

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vergesslich

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oblivious

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versuchskaninchen

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guinea pig

// to act as a guinea pig

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versuchsobjekt

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test object

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Kauderwelsch

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gibberish, gobbeldygook

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selbstzufriedenheit

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self-satisfaction

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Unglaublich, aber wahr

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unbelievable, but true!

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sicher sein

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to be sure of sth.

to feel or to be certain

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Dessen kannst du dir sicher sein

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On that you can be sure

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hervorstehende Augen

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goggle eyes, bulging eyes

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Was hast du vor?

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What are you up to?

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Das lasse ich mir nicht einreden!

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I won’t be talked into it !

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to speak a loooot

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to go on and on to sb.

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someone who steals

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thief

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was du heute kannst besorgen, verschiebe nicht auf morgen

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procrastination is the thief of time

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to fade away

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to crumble

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Gummiboot

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rubber boat

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dick auftragen

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to lay it on thick

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etw ist dick mit staub bedeckt

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something thick with dust

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anpflaumen

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to flame

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very red like fire

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flame red

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brandmelder

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flame detector

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Zirkel

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coterie

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bruderschaft

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brotherhood

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etw. geheim halten

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to keep sth dark

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geheimgesellschaft

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secret society

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ttyl

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talk to you later

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Unschuld

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innocence

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Scheinheiligkeit

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feigned innocence

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kindlich

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childlike

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Unterstellung

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presumption

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mit unschdsvoller Miene

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with an air of innocence

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Anspitzer

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pencil sharpener

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holiday

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one or two days special days

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vacation

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scheduled time off from work or scho

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wire

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thin piece of metal

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to pull sth off

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make it a success

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take the high road

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to do the right thing, not the easy thing

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bunch

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a great plenty of sth.

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Ausnahme

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exception

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to pit

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to place, to put

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dignity

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respect for people, regard for

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obese

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very fat (20% over normal weight)

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real estate

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land, property, buildings

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girth

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circumference

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to institute

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to start, begin a policy, law

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adjoining, adjacent

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next to

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Precaution

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something that is done to prevent possible harm or trouble from happening in the future

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in advance

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before a deadline, a scheduled event

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advance (adjective)

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early, before sth.

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hohes Selbstbewusstsein

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to have high self-esteem

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zweifeln

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to doubt ABOUT/OF

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zweifelhaft etw. gegenüber stehen

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to be dubious about sth.

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Vermeidung

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avoidance

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Daran ließ sich nichts zweifeln

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You couldn’t doubt it

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aufgeregt sein

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wired (up), nervous, uptight

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angespannt

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anxious

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wie schlimm

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how awful

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vergewaltigen

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to rape, to violate

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zweifelhaft

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doubtful

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Vorfreude

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(pleasant) anticipation

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Hier lässt es sich aushalten

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I could get to like this place

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es vor spannung kaum aushalten können

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to keep on the edge of seat

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Nicht aushalten

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i can’t bear it

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Haarspitzen

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hair-end

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gespaltene Haarspitzen

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split (hair-)ends

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Bis in die haarspitzen errötten

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to blush to the roots of one’s hair

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nicht still sitzen können

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can’t keep still, sit still

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still sitzen

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keep still, sit still

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Magengegend

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stomach region

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kribbeliges Gefühl

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funny feeling

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unsicheres Gefühl

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doubtful feeling

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melancholisch sein

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to have the blues

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to encroach

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coming in your territory/space

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to play out

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see how it will go

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kraulen

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to do the crawl

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