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	German	English
	Sie nahm keine Notiz vom Geschehen um sie herum.	She was oblivious to what was happening around her.
	Ohne dass er den Blick des Betrachters pariert, kann man die Gemälde an den Wänden studieren, Dürrenmatts Kleidung, seinen Arbeitstisch. [G]	He seems oblivious to the eye of the beholder, allowing the latter to study the paintings on the walls, Dürrenmatt's clothing, his desk.
	Viele der hier Forschenden werden nachempfinden können, was Giacomo Casanova über seinen Studienaufenthalt in Wolfenbüttel im Jahre 1764 festhielt: "Ich kann diese acht Tage zu den glücklichsten meines Lebens zählen; ich dachte weder an die Vergangenheit noch an die Zukunft, und mein Geist, der sich vollständig in die Arbeit versenkt hatte, konnte die Gegenwart nicht bemerken. Ich habe seitdem zuweilen gedacht, dass vielleicht das Leben der Seligen etwas Ähnliches sein könnte." [G]	Many of the researchers who come here will be able to understand what Giacomo Casanova said about his study visit to Wolfenbüttel in 1764: "I can count these eight days as being among the happiest of my life [...]; I thought neither about the past nor about the future, and my mind, which had become completely absorbed in work, was oblivious of the present. I have sometimes thought since that perhaps the life of the saints could be something like this."
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.