aut på engelsk

Eksempler på aut

• O fortuna velut luna statu variabilis semper crescis aut decrescis.
• Oh luck! Like the moon, you steadily change, you always grow and then wither again.

• Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.
• Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

• Nunc aut nunquam.
• It's now or never.

• Gallus Latine duas res significat: aut "avis" aut "homo e Gallia oriundus".
• In Latin, "gallus" means both "cock" and "Frenchman".

• Quid fit aut factum est?
• What happened or is happening?

• Sint ut sunt aut non sint.
• Leave them as they are or not at all.

• Si et hominum loquar et angelorum linguis, neque caritate sim praeditus, sum aes resonans, aut cymbalum tinniens.
• Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not mercy, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not mercy, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

• Militem aut monachum facit desperatio.
• Desperation makes the soldier or the monk.