English-German translations for phoenix

  • PhönixderWie ein Phönix aus der Asche ist er wiederauferstanden, und das Parlament muß der Kommission zum Teil zu dem Vorschlag gratulieren. It has risen like a phoenix from the ashes and Parliament must congratulate the Commission, in part, on the proposal. Wie ein Phönix aus der Asche entsteht neue Hoffnung, und dennoch scheinen die Hauptakteure in Wirklichkeit kaum voller Begeisterung zu sein. Hope, like the phoenix, has risen from the ashes, and yet the truth is that the main characters involved are hardly enthusiastic. Ich hoffe, dass dies eine vorübergehende Unterbrechung ist und die Gespräche nicht völlig zerschlagen werden, sondern dass sich ein Phönix aus der Asche erheben kann – wie der Kommissar sagte. I hope that this suspension is provisional and that the talks are not reduced to ashes, but rather that a phoenix can rise from them – as the Commissioner has said.
  • PhoenixDas durch Management-Buyout entstandene Folgeunternehmen Phoenix baute mehr als 500 Stellen ab. The subsequent Phoenix company which arose from the wreckage through a management buy-out shed over 500 jobs.

Definition of phoenix

  • A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes
  • Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile
  • A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies

Examples

  • Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead stars disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.

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