Jennifer (jen_ferocious) wrote in linguaphiles,
Jennifer
jen_ferocious
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"Säure-Schiffe"

I was doing a German translation on Greenpeace today in class and came across the phrase: "Säure-Schiffe" .

I don't have the sheet with me at the moment so I can't give you the exact sentence, but it was something to do with the Greenpeace tactics being non-violent but risky, like doing dives in order to hinder "Säure-Schiffe" in the North Sea.

The literal and only translation I could find for this was "Acid Ships" which I could not for the life of me make sense of in English, and neither my teacher or I could find anything better after spending the majority of the hour trying to come up with something.

So, if anyone could give me a proper translation for this phrase I would be very grateful! (And I apologise if my possibly poor translation of the surrounding text does not help at all!)

Thank you in advance!
Tags: english, german, translation request
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