Englisch, Vokabular
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Language | English |
Category | English |
Level | Other |
Created / Updated | 13.08.2017 / 13.08.2017 |
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relish
to relish something
with relish
die Würze, das Relish
etwas geniessen, etwas mit Behagen essen
genussvoll
Not just for Thanksgiving, cranberry relish tastes sublime over oatmeal, on toast, and in sandwiches.
sublime
erhaben, grossartig
Not just for Thanksgiving, cranberry relish tastes sublime over oatmeal, on toast, and in sandwiches.
liability
die Belastung, die Verpflichtung, die Bürde
He’s increasingly isolated in the White House, but for Donald Trump, being alone is not a liability. It’s where he’s most comfortable.
husk
die Schale, die Hülse
Psyllium husk (Flohsamenschalen)
stark
stark fact
kahl, öde, sachlich, starr, steif
nakte Tatsachen
The numbers are stark.
The new reality is captured by a single, stark fact: Across the world, more people are now obese than underweight.
remission
der Straferlass, die Gebührenbefreiung, der Nachlass
It is early days, but in a small subset of patients this mechanism has produced long-term remissions that are tantamount to cures.
tantamount
gleichbedeutend, gleichwertig
It is early days, but in a small subset of patients this mechanism has produced long-term remissions that are tantamount to cures.
a mere...
nur ein..., läppische...
The five-year survival rate for a set of three common cancers in America and Canada is above 70%; Germany achieves 64%, whereas Britain manages a mere 52%.
disparity
die Ungleichheit, das Missverhältnis, der Unterschied
Disparities exist within countries, too.
to squeal
kreischen, quietschen
FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children’s squeals rang through the muggy morning air as a woman pushed a gleaming white cart along pitted, trash-strewn streets.
muggy
feuchwarm, schwül, muffig, stickig
FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children’s squeals rang through the muggy morning air as a woman pushed a gleaming white cart along pitted, trash-strewn streets.
gleaming
schimmernd, glänzend
FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children’s squeals rang through the muggy morning air as a woman pushed a gleaming white cart along pitted, trash-strewn streets.
strewn
übersät, bestreut
FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children’s squeals rang through the muggy morning air as a woman pushed a gleaming white cart along pitted, trash-strewn streets.
far-flung
entlegen, weit verstreut
Celene da Silva, 29, is one of thousands of door-to-door vendors for Nestlé, helping the world’s largest packaged food conglomerate expand its reach into a quarter-million households in Brazil’s farthest-flung corners.
juggernaut
der Moloch, der Lastzug
unleashing a marketing juggernaut that is upending traditional diets from Brazil to Ghana to India.
soaring
das Emporschnellen, ansteigend, rapide zunehmend
The shift, many public health experts say, is contributing to a new epidemic of diabetes and heart disease, chronic illnesses that are fed by soaring rates of obesity in places that struggled with hunger and malnutrition just a generation ago.
sedentary
sässhaft, sitzend
Even critics of processed food acknowledge that there are multiple factors in the rise of obesity, including genetics, urbanization, growing incomes and more sedentary lives.
to concede something
to concede
etwas einräumen
eingestehen, gewähren
But Sean Westcott, head of food research and development at Nestlé, conceded obesity has been an unexpected side effect of making inexpensive processed food more widely available.
to spur
anregen, beleben
The story is as much about economics as it is nutrition. As multinational companies push deeper into the developing world, they are transforming local agriculture, spurring farmers to abandon subsistence crops in favor of cash commodities like sugar cane, corn and soybeans — the building blocks for many industrial food products.
mom-and-pop
der Tante-Emma-Laden
It is this economic ecosystem that pulls in mom-and-pop stores, big box retailers, food manufacturers and distributors, and small vendors like Mrs. da Silva.
clout
der Schlag, die Kopfnuss, der Einfluss, die Macht
In places as distant as China, South Africa and Colombia, the rising clout of big food companies also translates into political influence, stymieing public health officials seeking soda taxes or legislation aimed at curbing the health impacts of processed food.
to stymie
hindern, matt setzen
In places as distant as China, South Africa and Colombia, the rising clout of big food companies also translates into political influence, stymieing public health officials seeking soda taxes or legislation aimed at curbing the health impacts of processed food.
curbing
die Drosselung, die Züglung
In places as distant as China, South Africa and Colombia, the rising clout of big food companies also translates into political influence, stymieing public health officials seeking soda taxes or legislation aimed at curbing the health impacts of processed food.
inextricably
untrennbar, unauflösbar
For a growing number of nutritionists, the obesity epidemic is inextricably linked to the sales of packaged foods, which grew 25 percent worldwide from 2011 to 2016, compared with 10 percent in the United States, according to Euromonitor, a market research firm.
subdued
gedrückt, gedämpft, kleinlaut
“At a time when some of the growth is more subdued in established economies, I think that strong emerging-market posture is going to be a winning position,” Mark Schneider, chief executive of Nestlé, recently told investors.
posture
die Haltung
“At a time when some of the growth is more subdued in established economies, I think that strong emerging-market posture is going to be a winning position,” Mark Schneider, chief executive of Nestlé, recently told investors.
prowess
der Heldenmut, die Tapferkeit, das Können
Brazil also highlights the food industry’s political prowess.
raft of something
die Menge
In 2010, a coalition of Brazilian food and beverage companies torpedoed a raft of measures that sought to limit junk food ads aimed at children.
deduced
abgeleitet, erschlossen, gefolgert
When substituting the deduced type for the template parameter fails, the specialization is discarded from the overload set instead of causing a compile error.
despair
Verzweiflung, Hoffnungslosigkeit
to stave off something
etwas vermeiden, etwas verhindern, etwas abwehren, etwas abfangen
Resistance exercise may help stave off heart, diabetes risks | Reuters (from an article title)
cash in on something
aus etwas Kapital schlagen
Britain and Europe are cashing in on the global appetite for live farm animals.
ephemeral
kurzlebig, vergänglich, flüchtig
When that container was created, the -P flag was used to automatically map any network port inside it to a random high port within an ephemeral port range on your Docker host.
conduit
das Leitungsrohr, die Leitung, der Kanal
When you set up a link, you create a conduit between a source container and a recipient container.
either of them
either
einer von beiden
beide
implication
die Verwirklichung, die Folge, die Folgerung, die Auswirkung
justice
die Gerechtigkeit, die Justiz
justice for...
intestinal
den Darm betreffend
What we now know is that artificial sweeteners enhance intestinal sugar absorption by affecting gut hormones.
absorption
die Aufnahme, die Integration
What we now know is that artificial sweeteners enhance intestinal sugar absorption by affecting gut hormones.
attenuate
to attenuate something
dämpfen, schwächer werden
etwas abschwächen
Artificial sweeteners attenuate GLP-1 levels significantly, leading to dramatic increases in circulating blood sugar levels after meals.