Anna Karenina — Page 3
" And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco.
Und als er einen Lichtschimmer bemerkte, der neben einem der Serge-Vorhänge hereindrang, ließ er munter seine Füße über den Rand des Sofas gleiten und tastete mit ihnen nach seinen Pantoffeln, einem Geschenk zu seinem letzten Geburtstag, die ihm seine Frau auf goldfarbenem Maroquin gestickt hatte.
And, as he had done every day for the last nine years, he stretched out his hand, without getting up, towards the place where his dressing-gown always hung in his bedroom.
Und wie er es in den letzten neun Jahren jeden Tag getan hatte, streckte er, ohne aufzustehen, die Hand nach der Stelle aus, wo sein Morgenrock in seinem Schlafzimmer immer hing.
And thereupon he suddenly remembered that he was not sleeping in his wife's room, but in his study, and why: the smile vanished from his face, he knitted his brows.
Und dabei fiel ihm plötzlich ein, dass er nicht im Zimmer seiner Frau schlief, sondern in seinem Arbeitszimmer, und warum: das Lächeln verschwand aus seinem Gesicht, er runzelte die Stirn.
And again every detail of his quarrel with his wife was present to his imagination, all the hopelessness of his position, and worst of all, his own fault.
Und wieder stand ihm jede Einzelheit seines Streits mit seiner Frau vor Augen, die ganze Hoffnungslosigkeit seiner Lage und, am schlimmsten von allem, seine eigene Schuld.
Vocabulary
- als
- When; used for single past events in time
- Lichtschimmer
- A faint glimmer or shimmer of light
- bemerkte
- Noticed or observed something; past tense of bemerken
- neben
- Preposition meaning beside or next to something
- Serge-Vorhänge
- Curtains made of serge, a type of woven fabric
- hereindrang
- Pushed or filtered inward; past tense of hereindringen
- ließ
- Let or allowed; past tense of lassen
- munter
- Cheerfully, briskly, or in a lively manner
- Füße
- Plural of Fuß; feet, the lower extremities of legs
- über
- Preposition meaning over, above, or across something
- Rand
- Edge, rim, or border of an object or surface
- Sofas
- Genitive of Sofa; a cushioned seat for multiple people
- gleiten
- To glide or slide smoothly across a surface
- tastete
- Felt around or groped; past tense of tasten
- nach
- Preposition meaning after, toward, or in search of
- Pantoffeln
- Slippers; soft indoor shoes worn at home
- Geschenk
- A gift or present given to someone
- letzten
- Adjective meaning last or most recent, inflected form
- Geburtstag
- Birthday; the anniversary of one's birth
- Frau
- Woman or wife; also a formal title Mrs.
- auf
- Preposition meaning on, onto, or upon something
- goldfarbenem
- Gold-colored; having the appearance or hue of gold
- Maroquin
- Morocco leather; fine-grained decorative goatskin leather
- gestickt
- Embroidered; decorated with needlework or stitched patterns
- wie
- As or how; used in comparisons or manner clauses
- neun
- The number nine
- Jahren
- Dative plural of Jahr; years, units of time
- jeden
- Every or each; accusative masculine form of jeder
- Tag
- Day; a 24-hour period or daytime hours
- getan
- Done; past participle of tun meaning to do
- streckte
- Stretched or extended outward; past tense of strecken
- ohne
- Preposition meaning without, lacking something entirely
- aufzustehen
- To get up or stand up from a lying position
- Hand
- Hand; the end part of the arm below the wrist
- Stelle
- Place, spot, or position where something is located
- aus
- Preposition meaning out of, from, or made of
- wo
- Where; interrogative or relative adverb of place
- Morgenrock
- Dressing gown or bathrobe worn in the morning
- Schlafzimmer
- Bedroom; the room where one sleeps at night
- immer
- Always or ever; indicating continuous or repeated occurrence
- hing
- Hung; past tense of hängen, to hang somewhere
- dabei
- In doing so, at that moment, or in the process
- fiel
- Fell; past tense of fallen, also to come to mind
- plötzlich
- Suddenly; happening unexpectedly without warning
- dass
- Subordinating conjunction meaning that in a clause
- Zimmer
- Room; an enclosed space within a building
- schlief
- Slept; past tense of schlafen meaning to sleep
- sondern
- But rather; corrective conjunction after a negation
- Arbeitszimmer
- Study or home office; a room used for work
- warum
- Why; asking for a reason or cause of something
- Lächeln
- A smile; the facial expression of happiness or pleasure
- verschwand
- Disappeared or vanished; past tense of verschwinden
- Gesicht
- Face; the front part of the human head
- runzelte
- Wrinkled or furrowed; past tense of runzeln
- Stirn
- Forehead; the part of the face above the eyes
- wieder
- Again or once more; indicating repetition of an action
- stand
- Stood or appeared; past tense of stehen
- jede
- Every or each, feminine nominative form of jeder
- Einzelheit
- Detail or particular; a single specific aspect of something
- Streits
- Genitive of Streit; of an argument or quarrel
- vor
- Preposition meaning before, in front of, or ago
- Augen
- Eyes; plural of Auge, the organs of sight
- ganze
- Entire or whole; the complete extent of something
- Hoffnungslosigkeit
- Hopelessness; the state of having no hope
- Lage
- Situation, position, or state of circumstances
- schlimmsten
- Worst; superlative form of schlimm meaning bad
- von
- Preposition meaning of, from, or by someone
- allem
- Everything or all; dative form of alles
- eigene
- Own; belonging to oneself, one's own responsibility
- Schuld
- Guilt, fault, or blame for something that happened
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