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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | German term or phrase: Andererseits wusste die Sonne nicht, wie schön sie ist... | Andererseits wusste die Sonne nicht, wie schön sie ist, bevor sie nicht die Seite eines Gebäudes getroffen hatte.
My grammar's playing me up here. Can someone tell me how to phrase this in good English? Many thanks ;o) |
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1 min confidence:   peer agreement (net): +4 On the other hand,the sun didn't know how beautiful it is..
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...until it shone on the side of a building. (and was presumably reflected back on itself by the glass in the windows?)
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