bessere, humanere, allen unedlen Motiven fernere Menschen - No one I know is better, more humane or further removed from base/ignoble motives than these people ( translation glossary) 历史,社会科学

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German德语词条或短语：	bessere, humanere, allen unedlen Motiven fernere Menschen
English英语翻译：	No one I know is better, more humane or further removed from base/ignoble motives than these people
输入者：	Yvonne Becker

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19:49 Jan 3, 2006

German德语至English英语翻译 [专业]
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German德语词条或短语： bessere, humanere, allen unedlen Motiven fernere Menschen

So schrieb er Anfang 1884 an seine Verlobte Martha Bernays über einen Besuch bei der Familie seines alten Lehrers
Samuel Hammerschlag:

"Ich bat ihn dann um die Erlaubnis, Rosa hinaufzubringen .... Ich kenne keine **besseren, humaneren, allen unedlen Motiven ferneren Menschen**, als die sind. Rosa wird, hoffe ich, Umgang an Anna Hammerschlag, einem vortrefflichen Mädchen finden ..." (Freud 1960, S. 94)

I'm having trouble phrasing this sequence of adjectives. No better, more human... persons / people? TIA

Yvonne Becker

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Solution avoiding string of adjectives used attributively

说明：
Ich kenne keine besseren, humaneren, allen unedlen Motiven ferneren Menschen, als die sind.
I know of no other people who are better, more humane and further removed from any base motives.
In my acquaintance there are none who are better, more humane and further removed from any base motives.

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Andrew Swift
英国

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Thanks a lot and special thanks to Richard for his improvement suggestion.
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所提供的全部ENGLISH英语翻译如下：

3 +4

See explanation

JSolis

4 +2

Siehe unten [NFG]

Richard Benham

3 +2

Solution avoiding string of adjectives used attributively

Andrew Swift

4 +1

I know of no other better and more humane people devoid of any ulterior motives

Girija Chatrath

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3分钟信心度：

同仁同意（净值）： +4

besseren, humaneren, allen unedlen Motiven ferneren Menschen See explanation

说明：
"better, more humane people lacking in all ignoble motives"

Ignoble is a bit old-fashioned but appropriate for this time period.

JSolis
美国
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母语： English英语
此类别中专业问题的积分： 4

38分钟信心度：

同仁同意（净值）： +2

besseren, humaneren, allen unedlen Motiven ferneren Menschen

Solution avoiding string of adjectives used attributively

Andrew Swift
英国
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母语： English英语
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Thanks a lot and special thanks to Richard for his improvement suggestion.

1小时信心度：

同仁同意（净值）： +1

besseren, humaneren, allen unedlen Motiven ferneren Menschen I know of no other better and more humane people devoid of any ulterior motives

说明：
When talking about motives---it is normally a "hidden" or better phrased as "ulterior motive"
This looks like a text that should not be LITERALLY translated

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Note added at 1 hr 46 mins (2006-01-03 21:36:01 GMT)
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know of no other better and more compassionate people devoid of any ulterior motives

Girija Chatrath
印度
母语： English英语

12小时信心度：

同仁同意（净值）： +2

besseren, humaneren, allen unedlen Motiven ferneren Menschen Siehe unten [NFG]

说明：
I don't really see the need to preserve the plural here. So how about "No one I know is better, more humane or further removed from base/ignoble motives than these people"?

It might be argued that "further removed" is a bit old-fashioned and no longer idiomatic, but the German has a slightly old-world quality to it too.

As my answer is pretty close to Andrew's I am not making a bid for points here, just suggesting a minor improvement.

Note that there is no conjunction "und" or "oder" in the German. "Or" makes more sense in English than "and" though, as well as bestowing stronger praise.

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Note added at 16 hrs 19 mins (2006-01-04 12:09:20 GMT)
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Sorry, that should really be "any base/ignoble motives".

Richard Benham
法国
母语： English英语

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German德语: bessere, humanere, allen unedlen Motiven fernere Menschen

English英语 translation: No one I know is better, more humane or further removed from base/ignoble motives than these people