WS 2010/2011                     exam translation (advanced)                  text #9: word list

1) to bow: [au] 
2) man/men (here!!!): 
3) pejorative(ly): 
4) sth is substituted for sth else: 
5) to underwrite: 
6) unity    unification: 
7) brutish: 
8) faculties (here): 
9) the desires of nature: 
10) the imperatives (here): 
11) particularly
  partly: 
12) the bourgeois (here): 
13) selfish/selfishness: 
14) to contract: 
15) to get the better of sb: 
16) faithfulness to    faith in: 
17) obedience to: 
18) (the) expectation of gain: 
19) Honesty is the best policy.:
 www.dict.cc/?s=honesty+is+the+best+policy
      
www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/common+English+proverbs.html     www.phrasen.com/
      
www.phrasen.com/uebersetze,Honesty-is-the-best-policy,3729,e.html
      
www.gho-englisch.de/Resources/proverbs.htm#English%20Proverbs
20) to corrupt: 
21) (morality), the essence of which is to exist for its own sake: 
22) to satisfy: 
23) neither extreme: 
24) the moral demand: 
25) mere (adjective)/merely(adverb): 
26) abstract (adjective)
    the abstract (noun): 
27) to be preferable to sham morality: 
28) two different current uses: 
29) while [they are] distinct …: 
30) to be identical to/with: 
31) as in: 
 
32) uplifting and edifying: 
33) as opposed to: 
34) to constitute: 
35) to will (verb, formal): 
36) sublime:     famous quotation: http://www.answers.com/topic/from-the-sublime-to-the-ridiculous         
37) collectivity: 
38) for that matter: 
39) aggregate (noun):        interesting sports term: “on aggregate”: www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/3-2+on+aggregate.html
40) dumping ground: 
41) refuse (noun): 

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