Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Page 3
First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs.
Zuerst versuchte sie hinunterzuschauen und herauszufinden, wohin sie geriet, aber es war zu dunkel, um irgendetwas zu sehen; dann schaute sie auf die Wände des Brunnens und bemerkte, dass sie mit Schränken und Bücherregalen gefüllt waren; hier und da sah sie Landkarten und Bilder, die an Haken hingen.
How brave they'll all think me at home!
Wie mutig werden sie mich alle zu Hause finden!
Down, down, down.
Hinunter, hinunter, hinunter.
Would the fall _never_ come to an end?
Würde der Sturz _niemals_ ein Ende nehmen?
"I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.
„Ich muss irgendwo in der Nähe des Erdmittelpunkts ankommen.
Vocabulary
- Zuerst
- First; at the beginning of a sequence
- versuchte
- Tried; past tense of versuchen
- sie
- She, they, or formal you pronoun
- hinunterzuschauen
- To look downward into something below
- herauszufinden
- To find out or discover something unknown
- wohin
- To where; indicating direction of movement
- geriet
- Ended up; past tense of geraten
- aber
- But; however; coordinating conjunction
- war
- Was; past tense of sein
- dunkel
- Dark; lacking light
- um
- In order to; around; preposition or conjunction
- irgendetwas
- Anything; something unspecified
- sehen
- To see; to perceive visually
- dann
- Then; afterward in time sequence
- schaute
- Looked; past tense of schauen
- auf
- On; onto; upon; preposition
- Wände
- Walls; vertical surfaces of a room
- Brunnens
- Of the well; genitive form of Brunnen
- bemerkte
- Noticed; past tense of bemerken
- dass
- That; subordinating conjunction
- mit
- With; preposition indicating accompaniment
- Schränken
- Cupboards; cabinets for storing items
- Bücherregalen
- Bookshelves; shelves used for holding books
- gefüllt
- Filled; containing something inside
- waren
- Were; past tense plural of sein
- hier
- Here; in this place
- da
- There; in that place; also since
- sah
- Saw; past tense of sehen
- Landkarten
- Maps; printed geographical representations
- Bilder
- Pictures; images or paintings on walls
- an
- On; at; attached to a surface
- Haken
- Hooks; fasteners used to hang objects
- hingen
- Hung; past tense plural of hängen
- Wie
- How; in what manner
- mutig
- Brave; courageous; showing boldness
- werden
- Will; to become; auxiliary future verb
- mich
- Me; accusative form of ich
- alle
- Everyone; all people
- Hause
- Home; dative form used in nach Hause
- finden
- To find; to locate something or someone
- Hinunter
- Down; downward direction adverb
- hinunter
- Down; repeated for emphasis of falling
- Würde
- Would; conditional form of werden
- Sturz
- Fall; a sudden drop downward
- _niemals_
- Never; at no time whatsoever
- Ende
- End; conclusion or termination of something
- nehmen
- To take; to reach or accept something
- muss
- Must; have to; modal verb of necessity
- irgendwo
- Somewhere; in some unspecified place
- Nähe
- Vicinity; nearness; proximity to something
- Erdmittelpunkts
- Of Earth's center; genitive of Erdmittelpunkt
- ankommen
- To arrive; to reach a destination
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