Sentence examples of "be a no-no" in English
The boy tried to be a man and not cry.
Der Junge hat versucht, ein Mann zu sein und nicht zu weinen.
When the farmer drops dead off the tractor, then at the edge of the forest, there must be a reactor.
Fällt der Bauer tot vom Traktor, steht am Waldrand ein Reaktor.
Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."
Als Plato einen Menschen als zweibeiniges Tier ohne Federn definiert hatte, rupfte Diogenes einen Hahn, brachte ihn in die Akademie und sagte „Das ist Platos Mensch,“, weswegen dieser Zusatz zur Definition hinzugefügt wurde: „Mit breiten, flachen Nägeln.“
Electing this mayor proved to be a drastic mistake.
Die Wahl dieses Bürgermeisters stellte sich als riesiger Fehler heraus.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Es wäre gut Bücher kaufen, wenn man die Zeit, sie zu lesen, mitkaufen könnte, aber man verwechselt meistens den Ankauf der Bücher mit dem Aneignen ihres Inhalts.
Manny wants to be a unicorn so girls will ride him.
Manny will ein Einhorn sein, damit ihn die Mädchen reiten.
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