XPost: alt.usage.english, soc.culture.german   
   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   wugi  wrote or quoted:   
   >>Es ist ein Schutz, wie eine Haut, bei Birken, Linden, Eichen.   
   >>Doch wenn man was bestimmtes isst, mag man's daran nicht leiden.   
   >"It is a protection, like a skin, in birch, lime and oak trees.   
   >But if you eat something in particular, you don't like it."   
      
     "Daran", here, is "being attached to it".   
      
     So,   
      
   |It's a protective, like a skin, on birches, lindens, and oaks,   
   |but if one eats a particular thing, one does not like it   
   |when it's attached to it.   
      
     . My translation sonds a bit stilted, because I tried to   
     stay close to the orignal. Maybe some else can change it   
     into more natural idiomatic English keeping its meaning.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)