A Foundation Course in Reading German, 2017a

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Suggested Translations
1. Leave me alone (in peace) now!
2. Don’t ask me anything about it, Mr. Schmidt!
3. This door doesn’t open (isn’t opening). Give me my keys!
4. Above all, it would be important to develop a responsible environmental policy
now, before it gets too late.
5. What remains is to discover is this new poet from Lower Saxony. Now an
anthology of his works has appeared which – at the author’s behest – begins
with his most recent creations and ends with works from the beginning of his
career.
6. According to ordering records, an important indicator of the future employment
situation, the recession could get even worse.
7. The (works of) this novelist succeeded in a triumphant march into the German
bookstore displays in the fall of last year.
8. The waterworks located along the Rhein were the ones which first sounded the
alarm because they could no longer purify the water to drinkable / potable
quality.
9. The listeners heard the singer invited by the government sing without once
interrupting him with applause.
10. The politicians thought that much caution is necessary in order to create the
trust without which a global environmental policy cannot succeed.
11. With an eye to the vote, the candidate said that failing is not so bad. Bad is
only to have tried nothing.
12. From (utilizing) this eleven-digit code, the cubic capacity or horsepower of the
vehicle involved in the accident could be deciphered (ascertained) after the
fact.
13. As the Forest Society, comprised of 7000 scientists, forest economists,
woodlands owners and other supporters announced, the beech has meanwhile
been damaged more than any other type of tree, for example oak and pine.
14. Utilizing an impressive photo and text documentation, which was exhibited in
Cologne (Title: “The Slow Death of the Forest”) and for which Forester Möhring
regularly photographed the tops of dying trees with his half-meter-long
telephoto lens, both activists are attempting to prove that erroneous
methodology is leading government damage overseers to false interpretations
and with that to unrealistically optimistic assessments.
15. According to the author of the article, admirers have always praised the city. In
the 19th century, Alexander von Humboldt lauded Salzburg as “the most
beautiful city on Earth,” Franz Schubert swooned about a “heavenly valley,”
and Hugo von Hofmannsthal said that the city’s beauty was sacrosanct. Today,
however, one candidate maintains, the city is destroying itself. The old section
of the city is threatened by speculation.