English-Danish translations for trench

• grøft
• skyttegrav
  Vi behøver ikke at grave os ned i skyttegrave. We do not need to dig ourselves into trenches.
  Indtil da tror jeg, der er lande, for hvilke betingelserne i Traktaten om Den Europæiske Union vil være en skyttegrav, hvorfra man forsvarer sig mod harmoniseringen. Until that happens, I think that there are countries for which the terms of the Treaty on European Union are a trench where they hide and prevent harmonization taking place.
  Byen har bibeholdt en interkulturel karakter, som den hæger om, uanset at de politiske omgivelser forskanser sig mere og mere i etniske skyttegrave. The city has retained an intercultural character, to which it tends - even as the political surroundings harden more and more into ethnic trenches.

Related words

• entrench
• retrenchment
• entrenching
• entrenched
• trencher
• trenching
• entrenchment
• trenchant
• trencherman