Sentence examples of "elefanten" in German
Wenige Elefanten würden freiwillig nach Europa wandern.
Few elephants would volunteer to move to Europe.
Elefanten sind die größten derzeitig lebenden Landtiere.
Elephants are the largest land animals alive today.
Die Größe des Elefanten erstaunte den kleinen Jungen.
The size of the elephant astonished the little boy.
Bitte denken Sie jetzt nicht an einen rosa Elefanten.
Please do not think of a pink elephant right now.
Stimmt es, dass du einen Elefanten anvisiertest und ihn verfehltest?
Is it true that you aimed at an elephant and you missed it?
Die Welt ruht auf einem Elefanten, und der Elefant ruht auf einer Schildkröte.
The world rests upon an elephant and the elephant rests upon a tortoise.
Paragraph 214b, meiner Meinung nach eine der seltsameren Vorschriften des Allgemeinen Verwaltungsgesetzes des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, scheint zu besagen, dass jemand, der einen rosa Elefanten sieht, ihm eine Quittung ausstellen muss.
Section 214b, in my opinion one of the stranger provisions of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein's General Administrative Code, seems to imply that somebody who sees a pink elephant must give it a receipt.
Kommentatoren haben das Geräusch der Vuvuzelas abwechselnd als "nervtötend" und "satanisch" beschrieben und es mit "einer Stampede von wütenden Elefanten", "einem ohrenbetäubenden Schwarm von Heuschrecken" , "einer Ziege auf dem Weg zur Schlachtbank", " einem gigantischen Stock voll sehr wütender Bienen" und "einer Ente auf Drogen" verglichen.
Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".
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