Was heißt »kind­lich« auf Englisch?

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Wenn eine normaler Mensch eine Flaschenpost verschickt, so nur aus einer kindlichen Träumerei heraus. Wenn Christoph Kolumbus eine verschickt, so steht das Schicksal eines ganzen Landes auf dem Spiel.

When an average person sends a message in a bottle, it's just a childish fantasy. When Christopher Columbus sends a message in a bottle, the fate of an entire country is at stake.

Alles was soeben geschehen war, die ganze Art und Weise, in der das Gespräch geführt worden war, verletzte und quälte noch immer meine kindliche Seele.

Everything that had just happened, the whole manner in which the conversation had been conducted, still hurt and tormented my childish soul.

Die beim kindlichen Spielen gehörten Sätze können über Generationen hinweg weitergegeben werden, auch wenn ihre Bedeutung in Vergessenheit geraten ist.

Phrases heard in children's games can be handed down for generations after their meaning has been forgotten.

Vieles weiß ich wider Willen: ich wäre lieber in kindlich unbekümmerter Unwissenheit geblieben.

There are a lot of things I know against my will. I'd rather have stayed in my blissfully ignorant childhood.

Elsa war begierig zu lernen, was sie nur konnte; Kisika hingegen zog allem anderen kindliche Spiele vor.

Elsa was anxious to learn all she could, but Kisika much preferred childish games to anything else.

„Was für ein schöner Monat dieser November doch bis jetzt gewesen ist!“ sagte Anne, die ihre kindliche Angewohnheit, mit sich selbst zu sprechen, nie ganz losgeworden war.

"What a nice month this November has been!" said Anne, who had never quite got over her childish habit of talking to herself.

Ein Naturfreund ist, dessen innere und äußere Sinne noch aufeinander abgestimmt, der sich selbst im Erwachsenenalter noch ein kindlich Gemüt bewahrt. Mit dem Himmel und der Erde zu verkehren wird Teil seines täglich Brot.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food.

Synonyme

jun­gen­haft:

boyish

kna­ben­haft:

boyish

gamine

mäd­chen­haft:

girlish

min­der­jäh­rig:

underage

pu­e­ril:

silly

un­reif:

unripe

Antonyme

er­wach­sen:

adult

grown

grown-up

Englische Beispielsätze

• The guy was so childish that he couldn't resist temptation.

• It is a childish act.

• It's naive of you to believe that.

• It was childish of him to behave like that.

• Get rid of those kinds of naive ideas.

• Such a childish plan is bound to fail.

• Peter was fed up with childish girls and wanted to meet a really mature woman.

• It is time you left off your childish ways.

• His way of thinking is very childish.

• He was so childish that he couldn't resist temptation.

• They regarded his behavior as childish.

• They were too naive to understand the necessity of studying.

• She talked childishly.

• Age does not make us childish, as they say. It only finds us true children still.

• When she first saw the size of it, my naive girlfriend was blown away.

• Left-wing communism is an infantile disorder.

• Stop slagging off my brilliant idea, it's not naive at all!

• In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.

• Marie is a naive student.

• Tom can't be that naive.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

jung:

young

Untergeordnete Begriffe

früh­kind­lich:

early childhood