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English to German translations [PRO]
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | English term or phrase: to bat 1,000 | "I know as well as anyone can how slippery these standards aret to hold to. Although I have given it my best try, I can't claim to have batted 1,000. Yet, as I look back at three decades of writing cookbooks, and at the hundreds of recipes I produced hoping to illustrate the Italian way to cook, as I understand it, I am relieved to see how many of those dishes approach the mark."
Seems to be a baseball-related translation, but I just don't quite grasp the exact meaning. |
| | | eine Koryphäe auf dem Gebiet sein. | Explanation:
kann ich nicht von mir behaupten, eine Koryphäe auf dem Gebiet zu sein.
Wenn es nicht unbedingt ein sportlicher Begriff sein muss. |
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anisco
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Local time: 14:16
| Grading comment Danke, das passt von allen Vorschlägen am besten zum Stil.
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15 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 aus dem Cricket
Explanation:
Der Ausdruck kommt mit Sicherheit aus dem Bereich des Cricket/Spiels, wo eine Erzielung von "1000 runs" innerhalb eines Kalenderjahres zum Eintrag in die Klasse der Besten erlaubt. Siehe die zweite der folgenden Sites. Eine Entsprechung im Deutschen vielleicht: "Höchstpunkte", "Höchstpunktzahl", "Höchstleistung" oder umschrieben mit "den Himmel erstürmen" oder so was.
http://www.franklyncards.com/one/crick005.htm
http://www.howstat.com.au/cricket/Statistics/Batting/Batting...
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Note added at 37 mins (2005-09-21 09:22:21 GMT)
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Im übertragenen Sinn: "den Olymp erklimmen"
|  Ivo Lang
Local time: 13:16
Works in field
Native speaker of:  German
PRO pts in category: 8
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