Murphy`s Law - Mittelschulvorbereitung Englisch

Murphy’s Law
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Murphy wasn’t an optimist.
He said: If anything can go wrong, it will.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Everything takes longer than you think.
Things get worse under pressure.
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
You can always find what you're not looking for.
Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can
blame it on.
No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who knew it would.
Anything that begins well, ends badly. Anything that begins badly ends worse.
The one time in the day that you lean back and relax is the one time the boss walks into the
office.
Machines that have broken down will work perfectly as the repairman arrives.
solution
Lösung
fall apart auseinander fallen
shortcut
Abkürzung
item
Ding
on sale
im (Aus)verkauf
collect
sammeln
blame
tadeln
enemy
Feind
accumulate anhäufen
drill
Bohrmaschine
tool chest Werkzeugkiste
snore
schnarchen
When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.
Everything put together falls apart sooner or later.
The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish.
The drill bit you need will be the one missing from the tool chest.
Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong answers.
The one who snores will fall asleep first.
Translate:
1. Es schaut sehr einfach aus. .............................................................................................................
2. Die Sache wird schlimmer.................................................................................................................
3. Was suchst du? ...............................................................................................................................
4. Wer fängt den größten Fisch? .........................................................................................................
5. Früher oder später wird er die Antwort finden...................................................................................
6. Lehne dich nicht zurück! ..................................................................................................................
7. Die Bohrmaschine fehlt. ....................................................................................................................
8. John war derjenige, der schnarchte. ................................................................................................