Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World — Page 1
The world has made such comet-like advance
Die Welt hat solch einen kometenartigen Fortschritt gemacht
Lately on science, we may almost hope,
Neuerdings in der Wissenschaft, dass wir fast hoffen dürfen,
Before we die of sheer decay, to learn
Bevor wir an bloßem Verfall sterben, zu erfahren
Something about our infancy; when lived
Etwas über unsere Kindheit; als lebte
That great, original, broad-eyed, sunken race,
Jenes große, ursprüngliche, weitäugige, versunkene Volk,
Whose knowledge, like the sea-sustaining rocks,
Dessen Wissen, gleich den meerestragenden Felsen,
Hath formed the base of this world's fluctuous lore
Die Grundlage des wechselhaften Wissens dieser Welt gebildet hat
FESTUS.
FESTUS.
Frontpiece: The Profile of Atlantis
Frontispiz: Das Profil von Atlantis
CONTENTS.
INHALT.
Vocabulary
- Welt
- The world; the entire inhabited earth
- hat
- Has; third-person singular of haben
- solch
- Such; of that kind or degree
- Fortschritt
- Progress; advancement or forward development
- gemacht
- Made; past participle of machen
- Neuerdings
- Recently; lately; in recent times
- Wissenschaft
- Science; systematic study of knowledge
- dass
- That; subordinating conjunction introducing a clause
- fast
- Almost; nearly but not quite
- hoffen
- To hope; to wish or expect something
- dürfen
- To be allowed; modal verb expressing permission
- Bevor
- Before; prior to a particular event or time
- bloßem
- Mere; simple or pure without addition
- Verfall
- Decay; deterioration or decline of something
- sterben
- To die; to cease living
- erfahren
- To experience or learn; to find out something
- Etwas
- Something; an unspecified thing or amount
- über
- About/over; preposition indicating topic or position
- Kindheit
- Childhood; the early period of human life
- als
- As/when; conjunction used in comparisons or time
- lebte
- Lived; past tense of leben, to live
- Jenes
- That; demonstrative pronoun referring to something distant
- große
- Great/large; of considerable size or importance
- ursprüngliche
- Original; existing from the very beginning
- versunkene
- Sunken; submerged or lost beneath the surface
- Volk
- People/nation; a group sharing culture or origin
- Dessen
- Whose; genitive relative pronoun (masculine/neuter)
- Wissen
- Knowledge; information or understanding one possesses
- gleich
- Like/equal; similar to or the same as
- Felsen
- Rocks/cliffs; large masses of stone
- Grundlage
- Foundation; the base or basis of something
- wechselhaften
- Changeable; variable or inconsistent in nature
- gebildet
- Educated/formed; cultured or shaped over time
- Profil
- Profile; a side view or outline of something
- INHALT
- Contents; a list of topics in a book
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