Was heißt »gleich­sam« auf Englisch?

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Sie ist gleichsam ein wandelnder Lautsprecher.

She is, as it were, a walking speaker.

Auf Reisen ist das Abteil gleichsam sein Büro.

When he travels, the train compartment becomes his office.

Es handelt sich gleichsam um eine Frage von Leben und Tod.

It is, as it were, a life and death problem.

Lies zu Anfang jedes einzelne Kapitel schnell durch, um von ihm einen ersten Eindruck gleichsam aus der Vogelperspektive zu bekommen.

To begin with, read through each chapter quickly to get an overview of it.

Tom lebte in einer Traumwelt. Oft weilte gleichsam nur sein Körper unter uns, während sein Geist ganz woanders war.

Tom lived in a dream world. Often, as it were, only his body was among us, while his mind was quite somewhere else.

Schach ist ein Angriffs- und Verteidungsspiele, gleichsam eine Allegorie des Krieges.

As an allegory of war, chess is a game of attack and defense.

Synonyme

fast:

all but

almost

nearly

ge­wis­ser­ma­ßen:

as it were

in a way

to a certain extent

prak­tisch:

handy

qua­si:

sort of

virtually

so­zu­sa­gen:

as it were

sort of

to all intents and purposes

wei­test­ge­hend:

mostly

wide

widely

Englische Beispielsätze

• The camel is, so to speak, the ship of the desert.

• The Brits were the Americans of the 19th century, so to speak.

• That company has a monopoly in the field, so to speak.

• He's a member of the family, so to speak.

• And that's a welcoming sentence, so to speak.

• My father is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.

• She is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.

• He is, so to speak, a walking encyclopedia.

• He is, so to speak, a learned fool.

• He is, so to speak, her servant.

• He is, so to speak, a fish out of water.

• He is, so to speak, a bookworm.

• He is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.

• I was an outsider, so to speak.

• This dog is, so to speak, a member of our family.

• This cat is, so to speak, a member of our family.

• That old man is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.

• A camel is, so to speak, a ship on the desert.

• You are, so to speak, a fish out of water.