Sentence examples of "Once" in English with translation "als"

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I met him once when I was a student. Ich habe ihn einmal als Student getroffen.
Christopher Columbus once fought Cerberus, the three-headed guardian of the underworld, with nothing but his hat. Christoph Columbus bekämpfte einst Kerberos, den dreiköpfigen Wächter der Unterwelt, mit nichts als seinem Hut.
Mahatma Gandhi once told me: "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Einmal sagte Mahatma Gandhi zu mir: "Leben Sie als müssten Sie morgen sterben. Lernen Sie als würden sie ewig leben."
A renowned tactician, Christopher Columbus once downed an entire pirate fleet by stealing all of their fruits and vegetables, thus giving them scurvy. Als altbekannter Taktiker bezwang Christoph Columbus einst eine ganze Piratenflotte, indem er all ihre Obst- und Gemüsevorräte stahl und ihnen damit Skorbut verpasste.
The mythical Kraken, thick as a ship and three times as wide, once made an attack on Christopher Columbus's fleet... giving Columbus no choice but to eat him. Der mystische Krake, der so dick wie ein Schiff und dreimal so breit war, griff einmal die Flotte von Christoph Kolumbus an... und hat Kolumbus keine andere Wahl gelassen, als ihn zu essen.
I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane. Ich bin mehr als einmal trunken gewesen, meine Leidenschaften waren nie weit vom Wahnsinn, und beides reut mich nicht: denn ich habe in meinem Maße begreifen lernen, wie man alle außerordentlichen Menschen, die etwas Großes, etwas Unmöglichscheinendes wirkten, von jeher für Trunkene und Wahnsinnige ausschreien musste.
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