Was heißt »rück­lings« auf Englisch?

Das Adverb »rück­lings« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • backwards

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Dann ließ sie sich rücklings treiben.

Then she was floating on her back.

Die Schauspielerin fiel rücklings von der Bühne.

The actress fell backwards from the stage.

Englische Beispielsätze

  • You have your T-shirt on backwards.

  • Your helmet is on backwards.

  • "Have you learnt the poem off by heart?" "Yep, I can recite it forwards and backwards."

  • Tom slapped his forehead so hard that he was knocked backwards.

  • She bent over backwards to please him.

  • Tom bent over backwards to please Mary.

  • You have your hat on backwards.

  • The word "bitch" literally means a female dog. Its use in casual conversation to apply to a woman is demeaning, crude and insulting, and marks the person who uses this descriptor to be backwards and, potentially, a sexual harasser.

  • I know all that backwards!

  • Muhammad Ali ran four to eight miles a day backwards.

  • He knows New York backwards and forwards.

  • Forwards always, backwards never.

  • Alyssa can pronounce any word backwards.

  • Tom pushed Mary backwards.

  • Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

  • Tom has his sweater on backwards.

  • Your T-shirt's on backwards.

  • Tom had his T-shirt on backwards.

  • I can say the alphabet backwards in less than five seconds.

  • I can't tell whether it landed upside down, inside out, or backwards.

Rücklings übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: rücklings. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 2300981, 8059470, 8555792, 9054943, 9435453, 7367791, 7264760, 7264758, 6951866, 10219082, 10268632, 6622140, 10682218, 6137888, 5767563, 5745168, 4357397, 3826400, 2643412, 2642122, 2419149 & 2344097. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR