Bedeutung von Verhältnis | Babel Free

Beispiele

“angemessenes Verhältnis”

appropriate ratio

“Es leben etwa 300 000 Bürger des ehemaligen Jugoslawien in der Schweiz, kaum ein Staat hat damals im Verhältnis zu seiner Einwohnerzahl so viele Flüchtlinge aufgenommen.”

There are about 300,000 citizens of former Yugoslavia living in Switzerland — hardly any other country took in as many refugees in proportion to its population at that time.

“ein Verhältnis aufbauen”

to build a relationship

“1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 13–14”

We also know from the individual’s secret history, which analysis uncovers, that the relationship with this father was perhaps ambivalent from the very beginning, or at least soon became so — that is, it encompassed two opposing emotional impulses: not just an affectionate, submissive one, but also a hostile, defiant one.