fein gefügt

English translation: finely meshed

12:36 Jan 18, 2004

German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary / story set in Germany during WWII

German term or phrase: fein gefügt

The Russians are coming and soon the count will lose everything he owns. He decides to commit suicide.

Die Tatsache, daß sein geliebtes Gut nun doch in russische Hände fallen würde, daß er nicht mehr der Herr der Dinge sein würde, daß die Familie, die Ernte, Gebäude, das Land für immer verloren waren, ließ ihn innerlich sterben. Alles was über Generationen so fein gefügt war, so vortrefflich funktionierte, ja sein Herz, sein ganzes Sein so völlig ausfüllte sollte nun in die Hände der Feinde fallen. Der Lärm der Flakgeschütze war so nah wie noch nie.

Carried on so splendidly?

Gunilla Zedigh KudoZ activity Questions: 296 (4 open) (7 without valid answers) Answers: 108 Germany
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English translation:finely meshed

Explanation:
Think of the joints in a brick wall, or a dovetail joint. They work perfectly with one another, they fit perfectly. Meshed, integrated, dovetailed are all possible IMO.

Everything that had been so finely meshed over generations....

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Michele Johnson
Germany
Local time: 12:24

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thanks everyone ... gz
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carefully assembled

Kim Metzger

pre-determined

Gareth McMillan

prudently established

Johanna Timm, PhD

which had been meticulously arranged

Ellen Zittinger

finely meshed

Michele Johnson

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fein gefügt

finely meshed

Michele Johnson
Germany
Local time: 12:24
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 581

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thanks everyone ... gz

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

fein gefügt carefully assembled

Explanation:
Fügen - join, put together, assemble, piece together

Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 04:24
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 22192

7 hrs confidence:

fein gefügt prudently established

Explanation:
or "judiciously created/ crafted."
"Established" would point to the social position the German nobility commanded during that time.
"Prudently/judiciously" alludes to the their education.

Johanna Timm, PhD
Canada
Local time: 03:24
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in pair: 7773

10 hrs confidence:

which had been meticulously arranged

Explanation:
which had carefully been set up/organzied

Ellen Zittinger
Local time: 03:24
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in pair: 287

10 hrs confidence:

fein gefügt pre-determined

Explanation:
This is a story- you can't simply translate the words or phrases- you have to re-write it to catch the sense- otherwise it's just a translation.

If I may make a suggestion:

The reality, that everything he stood for would now fall into Russian hands, that he would no longer be "lord of the manor" that the family, inheritance, property, land, would be lost for ever, was destroying him body and soul. That everything which for generations had been so pre-determined, so predictable, which had so swelled his heart and his whole being should now fall to the enemy...
The sound of gunfire had never been closer.

Gareth McMillan
Local time: 12:24
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 793

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