Was heißt »wes­we­gen« auf Englisch?

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Als Plato einen Menschen als zweibeiniges Tier ohne Federn definiert hatte, rupfte Diogenes einen Hahn, brachte ihn in die Akademie und sagte „Das ist Platos Mensch,“, weswegen dieser Zusatz zur Definition hinzugefügt wurde: „Mit breiten, flachen Nägeln.“

Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,–"With broad flat nails."

Tom hatte Schmerzen in der Brust, weswegen er sich ins Krankenhaus begab.

Tom had a pain in his chest, so he went to the hospital.

Mein Zimmer ist nach Süden ausgerichtet, weswegen es sonnig und sehr gemütlich ist.

My room faces south, which makes it sunny and very comfortable.

Tom kann sich nicht alle seine Passwörter merken, weswegen er sie, als Telefonnummern getarnt, auf eine Liste schreibt.

Tom can't remember all his passwords, so he keeps them in a list disguised as phone numbers.

Tom mochte das Aussehen seiner Nase nicht, weswegen er sie richten ließ.

Tom didn't like the look of his nose, so he had a nose job.

Man kann hundert Jahre alt werden, wenn man all das aufgibt, weswegen man gerne hundert Jahre alt würde.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Viele Straßen sind überschwemmt, weswegen es zu langen Verzögerungen kommt.

Many roads are flooded. As a result there are long delays.

Keine Sorge, Tom! Das ist nichts, weswegen man sich beunruhigen müsste.

Don't worry, Tom. It's nothing to be alarmed about.

Es widerstrebte Maria, Tom zu heiraten, weswegen sie ihn nicht zu nahe an sich herankommen ließ.

Mary was reluctant to marry Tom, which is why she wouldn't let him get too close to her.

Das Licht der nächtlichen Ausbrüche des Stromboli ist über weite Strecken hin sichtbar, weswegen der Berg auch den Titel „Leuchtturm des Mittelmeeres“ trägt.

Light from the Stromboli's nighttime eruptions is visible for long distances, earning it the title, "Lighthouse of the Mediterranean.”

Das ist der Hauptgrund, weswegen ich mir kein neuen Auto zulegen will.

That's the main reason why I won't buy a new car.

Synonyme

wa­r­um:

wherefore

was:

what

Englische Beispielsätze

• Otmar, why are you doing this to us? Haven't we already suffered enough?

• "Tell me, why do you always have to be different?" "I've never done what everyone else does."

• Can you tell us why you're here?

• I don't understand why those people are so obnoxious to each other.

• I myself don't know why I like Tom so much.

• "Mary asked me in all seriousness why I thought I was worth more than a cactus," complained Tom.

• We simply don't know why.

• His job is the reason why he has to travel so often.

• "If you think Tom's so great, why don't you marry him?" "He's already got Mary, hasn't he?"

• And why should I do that?

• "No one's seen his wife yet, have they?" "No, and we won't be seeing her, either. He wants to protect her, which is why she won't be going on camera."

• The scientists are investigating why the experiment failed.

• Tom wondered why no one liked him. He'd done nothing wrong. Was it perhaps because he was different from the others?

• I don't love you any more. That's why I'm sad.

• "Mum, why has the bishop in chess got a slit in the top?" "The chess piece as we know it today was designed in 19th-century England, where it was thought to look like a bishop. The slit comes from the mitre's cleft."

• "I don't understand why I have to learn English, that language of colonizers." "That's just how it is." "Why is that how it is?"

• He's gone, and I don't know why or whether he's coming back.

• I wonder why Tom's skint.

• The food's always good here; that's why we come for lunch almost every day.

• I can't understand why that's so hard for you.