Was heißt »schwen­ken« auf Englisch?

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Tom schwenkte die Fahne.

Tom waved the flag.

Ich sehe jemanden eine weiße Fahne schwenken.

I see someone waving a white flag.

Sie stand drohend auf ihn herabblickend da, wobei sie ihn wegen Trägheit, Pietätslosigkeit, Gotteslästerung und Unwissenheit beschimpfte während sie ihren Schirm schwenkte.

She stood looming down at him, attacking him for indolence and irreverence, blasphemy and ignorance, while waving her umbrella.

Alle begannen ihre Fahnen zu schwenken.

Everyone started waving their flags.

Synonyme

fah­ren:

cart

go

ride

fuch­teln:

wave about

ges­ti­ku­lie­ren:

gesticulate

he­r­um­fuch­teln:

gesticulate

kip­peln:

wobble

kip­pen:

cant

tilt

rol­len:

roll

schau­keln:

rock

swing

schun­keln:

swing

schwan­ken:

alternate

fluctuate

hesitate

pitch

stagger

sway

totter

vacillate

stamp­fen:

mash

stomp

Englische Beispielsätze

• Light behaves either as a wave, or as a beam of particles.

• Hundreds of thousands of people joined teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg for a march in Montreal Friday, part of a second wave of global protests demanding action on climate change.

• Mary didn't wave back.

• Tom didn't wave back.

• I felt a wave of dizziness, and when I looked up, Tom was gone.

• The largest documented wave ever surfed was at Nazare, a 24.38-meter wave in 2017.

• The ship was hit by a big wave.

• ?The initial wave of superheroes of the 1930s and ’40s was predominantly male and always exclusively white,” Saunders said.

• Tom surfed the large wave.

• Wiping away her tears, Mary fought back a fresh wave.

• Mary wiped away her tears, and fought back a fresh wave.

• The relocation of the business overseas set off a wave of protest throughout the region.

• Tom and Mary exchanged a wave across the street as they passed each other.

• Tom asked Mary to wave to him from the balcony.

• Tom let it be known with a dismissive wave of his hand that he wasn't enthusiastic about the idea.

• The next wave of economic dislocations won't come from overseas. It will come from the relentless pace of automation that makes a lot of good, middle-class jobs obsolete.

• J. J. Thomson and his son George Thomson were both awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics: the former in 1906 for demonstrating that the electron is a particle, and the latter in 1937 for showing that the electron is a wave.

• Is light a wave or a particle?

• A wave of influenza is coming on in Germany.

• The policeman asked if Maria had greeted me with a wave, a hug or a kiss.