Translation for "oft gelesen" to english

Oft gelesen

• often read

Translation examples

often read

Ebenso erging es mir zuerst, als ich versuchte, die Gestirne zu bestimmen, deren Namen ich so oft gelesen hatte, obgleich ich nur bruchstückhaft ahnte, in welchem Himmelsteil sie zu finden wären.
So it was with me at first when I tried to pick out the constellations, whose names I had often read, though I had only the most imperfect idea of the part of the sky in which each might be found.

Samson hatte oft gelesen, dass sich jemand die Haare raufte, und bislang war das für ihn ein symbolischer Ausdruck dafür gewesen, dass jemand in Ärger, Ungewissheit oder Ratlosigkeit schier verrückt wurde.
Samson had often read about people tearing their hair out, and until now he had just thought that was a way of saying that someone was going mad with anger, confusion or helplessness. Now he realised that you could actually do it.