Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Page 6
she was up to her chin in salt water.
Sie stand bis zum Kinn im Salzwasser.
(Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.)
(Alice war einmal in ihrem Leben an der See gewesen und hatte zu dem allgemeinen Schluss gekommen, dass man, wo immer man an der englischen Küste hingeht, eine Anzahl von Badekarren im Meer findet, einige Kinder, die mit hölzernen Schaufeln im Sand graben, dann eine Reihe von Pensionen und dahinter einen Bahnhof.)
However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.
Jedoch erkannte sie bald, dass sie sich in dem Tränensee befand, den sie geweint hatte, als sie neun Fuß groß gewesen war.
"I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!
„Ich werde jetzt dafür bestraft werden, nehme ich an, indem ich in meinen eigenen Tränen ertrinke!
That _will_ be a queer thing, to be sure!
Das wird gewiss eine seltsame Sache sein!
Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
Gerade da hörte sie etwas, das ein Stück entfernt im Tümpel planschte, und sie schwamm näher heran, um herauszufinden, was es war: Zunächst dachte sie, es müsse ein Walross oder ein Nilpferd sein, aber dann erinnerte sie sich, wie klein sie jetzt war, und sie erkannte bald, dass es nur eine Maus war, die wie sie selbst hineingeglitten war.
Vocabulary
- Sie
- She; you (formal)
- stand
- stood (past tense of stehen)
- bis
- until; up to a certain point
- zum
- to the; contraction of zu + dem
- Kinn
- chin; lower front part of face
- im
- in the; contraction of in + dem
- Salzwasser
- saltwater; water containing salt
- war
- was (past tense of sein)
- einmal
- once; one time; ever
- in
- in; inside; within
- ihrem
- her; dative/accusative possessive pronoun
- Leben
- life; existence; period of living
- an
- at; on; by; at the edge of
- der
- the; definite article (feminine/dative)
- See
- sea; ocean; large body of saltwater
- gewesen
- been (past participle of sein)
- und
- and; conjunction joining words/phrases
- hatte
- had (past tense of haben)
- zu
- to; toward; at; for
- dem
- the; definite article (dative masculine)
- allgemeinen
- general; common; universal; widespread
- Schluss
- conclusion; end; final determination
- gekommen
- come (past participle of kommen)
- dass
- that; conjunction introducing subordinate clause
- man
- one; you; people in general
- wo
- where; at which place
- immer
- always; ever; whenever used with interrogatives
- englischen
- English; relating to England or its people
- Küste
- coast; shoreline; edge of land
- hingeht
- goes (present tense of hingehen)
- eine
- a; an; one (indefinite article feminine)
- Anzahl
- number; quantity; amount; collection
- von
- of; from; by; belonging to
- Meer
- sea; ocean; large saltwater body
- findet
- finds (present tense of finden)
- einige
- some; several; a few; certain ones
- Kinder
- children; young persons; plural of Kind
- die
- the; who; which (definite article)
- mit
- with; using; by means of
- hölzernen
- wooden; made of wood; timber-constructed
- Schaufeln
- shovels; digging tools; spades
- Sand
- sand; granular material on beaches
- graben
- dig; excavate; burrow; dig out
- dann
- then; afterward; at that time
- Reihe
- row; line; series; sequence
- Pensionen
- pensions; guesthouses; boarding establishments
- dahinter
- behind; in back of; behind that
- einen
- a; an; one (indefinite article masculine)
- Bahnhof
- train station; railway station; depot
- Jedoch
- however; yet; nevertheless; but
- erkannte
- recognized; acknowledged (past tense of erkennen)
- sie
- she; her; it; they (pronoun)
- bald
- soon; quickly; in a short time
- sich
- herself; oneself; himself; themselves; reflexive pronoun
- befand
- found; was located (past of befinden)
- den
- the; which; whom (definite article)
- geweint
- cried; wept (past participle of weinen)
- als
- as; when; than; while
- neun
- nine; number 9; the digit 9
- Fuß
- foot; unit of length; body part
- groß
- large; big; great; tall; grand
- Ich
- I; first person singular pronoun
- werde
- will; shall; become (future auxiliary)
- jetzt
- now; at this moment; at present
- dafür
- for it; for that; therefore; in return
- bestraft
- punished; penalized (past participle of bestrafen)
- werden
- become; be; get; turn into something
- nehme
- take (first person singular of nehmen)
- ich
- I; first person singular pronoun
- indem
- by; in that; while; whereby
- meinen
- my; mean; think; suppose; intend
- eigenen
- own; personal; belonging to oneself
- Tränen
- tears; drops from crying; weeping fluid
- ertrinke
- drown (first person singular of ertrinken)
- Das
- that; the; this (neuter demonstrative)
- wird
- will; shall (third person singular future)
- gewiss
- certain; sure; definitely; for sure
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