- Engels Nederlands
- admire = bewonderen
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Fans are people who admire a famous person very much.
bewonderen
- approved school = opvoedingsgesticht / tuchtschool
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An approved school is a kind of youth prison.
opvoedingsgesticht / tuchtschool
- band = band
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He started performing with bands so that his poems could be heard by people who liked music.
band
- classical = klassiek
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Beethoven is one of the most important classical music composers of all time.
klassiek
- concerto = concert
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He produced concertos, symphonies and operas.
concert
- confession = bekentenis
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A confession is a statement you make about yourself to admit that you have done something wrong.
bekentenis
- Crumble = kruimeltaart
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Crumble is fruit covered with a mixture of flour, sugar and butter and baked in the oven.
kruimeltaart
- drag = slepen
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My sister was dragged to school by my Mum.
slepen
- educate = scholen / ontwikkelen
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He was able to educate himself while in prison.
scholen / ontwikkelen
- entrance = toelatingsexamen
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Einstein failed the entrance examination to the Swiss Institute of Technology.
toelatingsexamen
- equation = vergelijking
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The most famous equation in physics is E
vergelijking
- explore = op onderzoek uitgaan / onderzoeken
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He explored all over the school, looking in every room.
op onderzoek uitgaan / onderzoeken
- fairly = redelijk
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Although he did fairly well as a student, he was unable to get a job at a Swiss university.
redelijk
- fan = fan
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One of Benjamin's most famous fans is Nelson Mandela.
fan
- instant = direct / kant-en-klaar / onmiddellijk
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When the first Harry Potter book was published it was an instant best-seller.
direct / kant-en-klaar / onmiddellijk
- Institute = instituut
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Einstein failed the entrance examination to the Swiss Institute of Technology.
instituut
- lazy = lui
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Einstein was thought to be extremely lazy.
lui
- mentally = mentaal / geestelijk
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One of Einstein's teachers called him “mentally slow”.
mentaal / geestelijk
- opera = opera
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He produced concertos, symphonies and operas.
opera
- Physics = fysica
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Physics is the science that deals with heat, light and other forms of energy.
fysica
- poetry = poëzie
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Sarah used to read a lot of books and poetry when she was younger.
poëzie
- prize-winner = prijswinnaar
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Nobel prize-winner Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was four years old.
prijswinnaar
- quantity = hoeveelheid
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Beethoven produced an extraordinary quantity of work.
hoeveelheid
- tape = bureaucratie
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Red tape is documents, rules or processes that cause delays or make things complicated.
bureaucratie
- Relativity = relativiteit
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In 1905 Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity.
relativiteit
- symphonies = symfonie
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He produced concertos, symphonies and operas.
symfonie
- totally = geheel en al
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He finally became totally deaf.
geheel en al
- twin = tweeling
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A twin is a brother or sister who is born at exactly the same time as you.
tweeling
- youth = jeugd-
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An approved school is a kind of youth prison.
jeugd-