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Du kannst das ganze Zeug/den ganzen Kram um 30 Euro haben.

You can have the whole shebang for 30 euros.

Energiegetränke? Das Zeug rühr ich nicht an.

Energy drinks? I never touch the stuff.

Es ist unglaublich, was für Zeug die Leute so anschleppen.

It is amazing what stuff people bring in.

Dummes Zeug!; So ein Quatsch!; So ein Schmarren!

That's a load of balderdash! What a load of hogwash!

Es regnet/gießt in Strömen.; Es schüttet.; Es schauert. [Nordwestdt.]; Es hudelt. [Schw.]; Es gießt/schüttet wie aus Eimern [Dt.]/aus Kübeln [Dt.] [Schw.]/aus Schaffeln [Bayr.] [Ös.]; Es regnet Bindfäden. [Dt.] [Schw.]; Es regnet Schusterjungen. [Berlin]; Es regnet Schusterbuben. [Bayr.] [Ös.]; Es pladdert wie wenn eine Kuh das Wasser lässt. [Norddt.]; Es plästert, was das Zeug hält. [Mittelwestdt.]

It's raining cats and dogs.; It's pouring (with rain [Br.]).; It's bucketing down (with rain [Br.]).; It's bucketing it down. [Br.]; It's chucking it down (with rain). [Br.]; It's tipping down (with rain). [Br.]; It's tipping it down. [Br.]; It's pelting down with rain. [Br.]; It's raining stair rods. [Br.]; The rain is coming down in sheets / in stair rods. [Br.]; It's pissing down with rain [Br.] [vulg.]; It's pouring rain. [Am.]; It's raining buckets. [Am.]; It's hosing down. [NZ] [coll.]

Er schrieb lauter wirres Zeug.

His writings were turbid.

Er hat nicht das Zeug dazu.

He hasn't got it in him.

Sie haben das Zeug dazu.

They've got what it takes.

Als Kinder der europäischen Avantgarde lieben es beide, profanes Zeug, das aus den sakralen Hallen der Kultur bisher ausgeschlossen war, den "Schmutz" anderer Welten in die heiligen Räume der Dichtung zu tragen. [G]

As children of the European avant garde, both Benn and Brecht loved dragging in profane things which had been excluded from the sacred halls of culture, the "dirt" of other worlds, into the hollowed precincts of poetry.

Dass früher alles besser war, ist natürlich meistens dummes Zeug. [G]

Of course, saying that everything was better in the good old days tends to be just so much rubbish.

Die Achter-Auswahl, die bei den 30. Mülheimer Theatertagen um den renommierten deutschsprachigen Dramatikerpreis (15.000 Euro) konkurrierte, endete mit der Kür von Der Bus (das Zeug einer Heiligen) des Schweizers Lukas Bärfuss. [G]

Of the eight finalists that vied at the 30th Mülheim Theatre Festival for the prestigious German-language dramatist prize (15,000 Euro), it was the Swiss playwright Lukas Bärfuss who won for his Der Bus (das Zeug einer Heiligen) (i.e., The Bus. [The stuff of which saints are made]).

Bei der Prüfung des nach den Anweisungen des Herstellers am Fahr- zeug befestigten Gepäck- oder Skiträgers dürfen die Prüflasten nicht nur an einem Punkt aufgebracht werden. [EU]

For the test of the luggage rack or ski rack fixed to the vehicle according to the manufacturer's instructions, the test loads shall not be applied at one point only.

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.