Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Page 5
" cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, "I do wish they _would_ put their heads down! I am so _very_ tired of being all alone here!"
" rief Alice, in einen plötzlichen Tränenstrom ausbrechend, „ich wollte doch, sie würden ihre Köpfe herunterstecken! Ich bin es so _sehr_ müde, hier ganz allein zu sein!"
As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was talking.
Als sie dies sagte, blickte sie auf ihre Hände hinunter und war überrascht zu sehen, dass sie während des Redens einen der kleinen weißen Glacéhandschuhe des Kaninchens angezogen hatte.
"How _can_ I have done that?" she thought.
„Wie _kann_ ich das getan haben?" dachte sie.
"I must be growing small again."
„Ich muss wieder kleiner werden."
She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
Sie stand auf und ging zum Tisch, um sich daran zu messen, und stellte fest, dass sie, so gut sie schätzen konnte, jetzt etwa zwei Fuß groß war und weiterhin rasch schrumpfte: Sie fand bald heraus, dass die Ursache dafür der Fächer war, den sie hielt, und sie ließ ihn hastig fallen, gerade noch rechtzeitig, um nicht ganz und gar wegzuschrumpfen.
"That _was_ a narrow escape!" said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; "and now for the garden!"
„Das _war_ knapp!" sagte Alice, ziemlich erschrocken über die plötzliche Veränderung, aber sehr froh, sich noch am Leben zu finden; „und jetzt ab in den Garten!"
and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but, alas! the little door was shut again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as before, "and things are worse than ever," thought the poor child, "for I never was so small as this before, never! And I declare it's too bad, that it is!"
und sie lief mit aller Geschwindigkeit zurück zur kleinen Tür: aber, ach! die kleine Tür war wieder geschlossen, und der kleine goldene Schlüssel lag wie zuvor auf dem Glastisch, „und die Dinge stehen schlimmer als je zuvor," dachte das arme Kind, „denn ich war noch nie so klein wie jetzt, niemals! Und ich muss sagen, es ist zu schlimm, wirklich!"
As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash!
Als sie diese Worte sagte, glitt ihr Fuß aus, und im nächsten Augenblick, platsch!
Vocabulary
- rief
- called out, exclaimed (past tense of rufen)
- einen
- a, an (masculine accusative indefinite article)
- plötzlichen
- sudden, abrupt (adjective, accusative form)
- Tränenstrom
- flood of tears, stream of crying
- ausbrechend
- breaking out, erupting (present participle)
- wollte
- wanted, wished (past tense of wollen)
- doch
- yet, after all, but, indeed (modal particle)
- würden
- would (subjunctive form of werden)
- Köpfe
- heads (plural of Kopf)
- herunterstecken
- to stick or put down below something
- müde
- tired, weary, exhausted (adjective)
- ganz
- completely, entirely, quite (adverb/adjective)
- allein
- alone, by oneself (adjective/adverb)
- Als
- when, as (subordinating conjunction for past events)
- sagte
- said, stated (past tense of sagen)
- blickte
- looked, glanced (past tense of blicken)
- hinunter
- down, downward (directional adverb)
- überrascht
- surprised, astonished (past participle/adjective)
- während
- while, during (conjunction/preposition)
- Redens
- speaking, talking (genitive of Reden)
- Glacéhandschuhe
- kid-leather gloves (plural, elegant gloves)
- Kaninchens
- of the rabbit (genitive of Kaninchen)
- angezogen
- put on, dressed (past participle of anziehen)
- dachte
- thought (past tense of denken)
- muss
- must, have to (modal verb, present)
- wieder
- again, once more (adverb)
- kleiner
- smaller (comparative of klein)
- werden
- to become, to get (auxiliary/main verb)
- stand
- stood (past tense of stehen)
- ging
- went (past tense of gehen)
- Tisch
- table, desk (masculine noun)
- daran
- on it, at it, thereto (pronominal adverb)
- messen
- to measure, to gauge (infinitive)
- stellte
- placed, set; established (past tense of stellen)
- fest
- firm; established; festgestellt = noticed
- schätzen
- to estimate, to value, to appreciate
- konnte
- could (past tense of können)
- etwa
- approximately, about, roughly (adverb)
- Fuß
- foot (unit of measurement or body part)
- weiterhin
- furthermore, still, continuously (adverb)
- rasch
- quickly, swiftly, rapidly (adverb/adjective)
- schrumpfte
- shrank, shriveled (past tense of schrumpfen)
- fand
- found (past tense of finden)
- bald
- soon, shortly (temporal adverb)
- heraus
- out, outward (directional adverb)
- Ursache
- cause, reason, origin (feminine noun)
- dafür
- for it, for that (pronominal adverb)
- Fächer
- fan (handheld); fans (plural of Fächer)
- hielt
- held (past tense of halten)
- ließ
- let, allowed, released (past tense of lassen)
- hastig
- hastily, hurriedly, in a rush (adverb/adjective)
- fallen
- to fall, to drop (infinitive)
- gerade
- just, straight, right now (adverb)
- noch
- still, yet, even (adverb/particle)
- rechtzeitig
- in time, timely, on schedule (adverb)
- gar
- at all, completely (intensifying adverb)
- wegzuschrumpfen
- to shrink away completely, disappear by shrinking
- knapp
- barely, narrowly, just enough (adverb/adjective)
- ziemlich
- quite, rather, fairly (adverb of degree)
- erschrocken
- frightened, startled (past participle of erschrecken)
- plötzliche
- sudden, abrupt (adjective, inflected form)
- Veränderung
- change, alteration, transformation (feminine noun)
- froh
- glad, happy, pleased (adjective)
- Leben
- life, living (neuter noun)
- finden
- to find, to consider (infinitive)
- ab
- off, away, from (separable prefix/preposition)
- Garten
- garden, yard (masculine noun)
- lief
- ran (past tense of laufen)
- aller
- of all, with all (genitive/adjective form)
- Geschwindigkeit
- speed, velocity, swiftness (feminine noun)
- zurück
- back, backwards (directional adverb)
- Tür
- door (feminine noun)
- ach
- oh, alas (exclamation of sadness/surprise)
- geschlossen
- closed, shut (past participle of schließen)
- goldene
- golden, made of gold (adjective, inflected)
- Schlüssel
- key (masculine noun)
- lag
- lay, was lying (past tense of liegen)
- zuvor
- before, previously, earlier (adverb)
- Glastisch
- glass table (compound noun, masculine)
- Dinge
- things, objects (plural of Ding)
- stehen
- to stand, to be situated (infinitive)
- schlimmer
- worse (comparative of schlimm)
- je
- ever, each (adverb/pronoun)
- arme
- poor, unfortunate (adjective, inflected form)
- denn
- because, for, then (conjunction/particle)
- nie
- never (temporal adverb of negation)
- niemals
- never, at no time (emphatic negation adverb)
- schlimm
- bad, serious, grave (adjective)
- wirklich
- really, truly, indeed (adverb)
- Worte
- words (plural of Wort, in context)
- glitt
- slid, glided (past tense of gleiten)
- nächsten
- next, nearest (superlative adjective, inflected)
- Augenblick
- moment, instant (masculine noun, lit. eye-glance)
- platsch
- splash (onomatopoeia for hitting water)
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