WS 2011/2012                                 exam translation (advanced)                          text #6: word list

1) to contend with  (BUT: to be content(ed) = zufrieden)
2) vicissitudes 
3) to decline/declining 
4) Atlantic-centered 
5) to displace    cf: DP: displaced person = Vertriebener 
6) gravitational centre 
7) imperceptible    cf: to perceive 
8) with confidence 
9) the axis of power turns on (here: = depends on)
10) essential >> essentially (adj.) 

11) “special relationship”*)  
12) (to be) desperate 
13) to invoke/noun: invocation   cf: to revoke, to provoke 
14) to be positioned 
15) hegemonic 
16) yet 
17) to pertain (to)
18) no longer (verb) with anything like the […] 

19) force 
20) the eastern seaboard 
21) matrix **)  
22) (more) proximate to ….
(than) to 
23) significantly (adv.) 
24) to suggest: (here: “to indirectly state”) 
25) nation-state 
26) to prove an exponent of 
27) locations 
28) to demarcate 
29) to keep in place 
30) nation-builders 
31) the degree to which 
32) a model inherited from the past 
33) to aver: 
34) authentic: 
35) reinvent/rethink: 
36) scenario: 

*) “special relationship”  between Britain and the USA: 
    
a)
www.nato.int/docu/speech/1946/s460305a_e.htm
     b)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/5/newsid_3304000/3304505.stm

**) "The best of Matrix" (youtube): 
      www.youtube.com/watch?v=qglvaToq4SM&feature=related 
  

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