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Bei ihm ist Hopfen und Malz verloren. [übtr.]

He's a dead loss.; He is a hopeless case.; He is unimprovable.

In der Überlebenskraft und im Geschick immer wieder einen Ausweg aus ausweglos scheinender Lage zu finden, hat das Gefühl ein "Davongekommener" zu sein, seinen Grund. [G]

Looking back at his capacity for survival and the good fortune he enjoyed, repeatedly finding his way out of apparently hopeless situations, he regards himself as someone who "escaped".

Paradox fast, dass dennoch Spannung entsteht: Zur Spannungssteigerung ist die Gefahr für Sinclair und seine Freunde möglichst groß, ihre Lage fast aussichtslos. [G]

It's almost paradoxical, then, that the stories are actually exciting. To heighten the tension, the danger that Sinclair and his friends are subjected to is driven to the max and their situation is rendered virtually hopeless.

Der Sachverständige der Kommission verwies insbesondere auf eine Studie von Mercer Management Consulting: "Mercer on Travel and Transport", Band X, Nr. 1, Herbst 2003/Winter 2004, aus der hervorgeht, dass die Wettbewerbssituation des Schienengüterverkehrs schlecht, aber nicht hoffnungslos ist. [EU]

The Commission's expert has referred in particular to a study compiled by Mercer Management Consulting: Mercer on Travel and Transport, Volume X, Number 1, Fall 2003/Winter 2004, which notes that the current competitive positioning of freight railways is frustrating but by no means hopeless.

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.