Short Cuts & Vagrants: The world is not beautiful -- therefore it is.

Saturday, 5 February 2011

The world is not beautiful -- therefore it is.

1 comment:

Ben said...: Shit - meant to leave a comment here to say I was thinking of you the other day (4th Feb), as I know it's a significant day for you. Hope you're doing okay.; 7 February 2012 at 07:14

Quer (German)

adv (= schräg) → crossways, crosswise, diagonally; (= rechtwinklig) → at right angles; quer gestreift → horizontally striped, cross-striped; sollen wir den Teppich lieber quer legen? → why don’t we lay the carpet crosswise or crossways or diagonally?; er legte sich quer aufs Bett → he lay down across the bed; die Spur verläuft quer zum Hang → the path runs across the slope; die Straße/Linie verläuft quer → the road/the line runs at right angles; der Wagen stand quer zur Fahrbahn → the car was at right angles to the road; der Lastzug lag quer über der Straße → the truck was lying (diagonally/at right angles) across the road; wenn Sie sich quer stellen, habe ich mit meinem Wagen auch noch Platz → if you park diagonally/at right angles I’ll have room to park my car too; quer durch etw gehen/laufen etc → to cross sth, to go through sth; quer über etw (acc) gehen/laufen → to cross sth, to go across sth; der Hund ist quer über den Rasen gelaufen → the dog ran straight or right across the lawn; die Kamera quer nehmen → to hold the camera lengthways or crossways; den Stoff quer nehmen → to use the cross-grain of the material ? kreuz

(from thefreedictionary.com)