Gist : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

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	Ich habe den Beginn der Vorlesung verpasst. Was war denn das Wesentliche, was sie gesagt hat?	I missed the beginning of the lecture. Can you give me the gist of what she said?
	"Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders, Gott helfe mir. Amen" - so das historisch freilich nicht eindeutig belegte Bekenntnis Luthers auf dem Wormser Reichstag 1521, als er den Widerruf seiner Lehren verweigerte, obwohl ihm der Tod des Ketzers auf dem Scheiterhaufen drohte. [G]	"Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen." Though its historical authenticity remains unproven, this is the gist of Luther's famous conclusion to his speech before the Imperial Diet of Worms in 1521 when he refused to recant despite the threat of being burned at the stake as a heretic.
	Oft hilft nur die sinngemäße Übersetzung. [G]	Often the only way of doing this is to translate the gist of the text.
The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute. Sentences marked by [EU] derived from DGT Multilingual Translation Memory. The European Commission retains ownership of the copyright in the original data.