Crime and Punishment — Page 4
In the words of a Russian critic, who seeks to explain the feeling inspired by Dostoevsky: "He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more deeply than we have his insight impresses us as wisdom... that wisdom of the heart which we seek that we may learn from it how to live.
Mit den Worten eines russischen Kritikers, der versucht, das von Dostojewski hervorgerufene Gefühl zu erklären: „Er war einer von uns, ein Mann unseres Blutes und unserer Knochen, aber einer, der so viel mehr gelitten und so viel tiefer gesehen hat als wir – seine Einsicht beeindruckt uns als Weisheit... jene Weisheit des Herzens, die wir suchen, damit wir von ihr lernen können, wie man lebt.
All his other gifts came to him from nature, this he won for himself and through it he became great.
Alle seine anderen Gaben kamen ihm von der Natur, diese errang er für sich selbst, und durch sie wurde er groß.
Vocabulary
- Mit
- With; used to indicate accompaniment or means
- den
- The; definite article in dative/accusative plural
- Worten
- Words; plural of Wort in dative case
- eines
- Of a; indefinite article in genitive case
- russischen
- Russian; adjective describing nationality, declined form
- Kritikers
- Critic; person who evaluates art or literature
- der
- Who/that; relative pronoun referring to a person
- versucht
- Tries; attempts to do something
- das
- The; definite article or demonstrative pronoun
- von
- By/from; preposition indicating origin or authorship
- hervorgerufene
- Evoked/caused; adjective from hervorrufen, to evoke
- Gefühl
- Feeling; an emotional or sensory sensation
- zu
- To; infinitive particle or preposition
- erklären
- To explain; to make something clear or understandable
- Er
- He; third-person singular masculine pronoun
- war
- Was; past tense of sein, to be
- einer
- One of; indefinite pronoun indicating belonging to group
- uns
- Us; first-person plural object pronoun
- ein
- A/an; indefinite article for singular nouns
- Mann
- Man; an adult male person
- unseres
- Of our; possessive pronoun in genitive case
- Blutes
- Blood; genitive of Blut, here meaning shared lineage
- und
- And; coordinating conjunction connecting words or clauses
- unserer
- Of our; possessive pronoun in genitive feminine form
- Knochen
- Bones; hard skeletal structures, here meaning shared essence
- aber
- But; coordinating conjunction indicating contrast
- so
- So/such; adverb intensifying a following adjective
- viel
- Much; indicating a large amount or degree
- mehr
- More; comparative adverb indicating greater degree
- gelitten
- Suffered; past participle of leiden, to suffer
- tiefer
- More deeply; comparative of tief, deep
- gesehen
- Seen; past participle of sehen, to see
- hat
- Has; auxiliary verb forming present perfect tense
- als
- Than; conjunction used in comparisons
- wir
- We; first-person plural subject pronoun
- seine
- His; possessive pronoun referring to a male subject
- Einsicht
- Insight; deep understanding or perception of something
- beeindruckt
- Impresses; to make a strong positive impression
- Weisheit
- Wisdom; deep knowledge and good judgment
- jene
- That/those; demonstrative pronoun referring to something distant
- des
- Of the; definite article in genitive masculine/neuter
- Herzens
- Heart; genitive of Herz, here meaning emotional wisdom
- die
- Who/that; relative pronoun or definite article
- suchen
- Seek; to look for or desire something
- damit
- So that; conjunction expressing purpose or intention
- ihr
- You; second-person plural pronoun or possessive
- lernen
- Learn; to acquire knowledge or skills
- können
- Can; modal verb expressing ability or possibility
- wie
- How; interrogative or relative adverb of manner
- man
- One/you; impersonal pronoun for general statements
- lebt
- Lives; third-person singular of leben, to live
- Alle
- All; determiner indicating every member of a group
- anderen
- Other; adjective meaning remaining or different ones
- Gaben
- Gifts/talents; natural abilities bestowed upon someone
- kamen
- Came; past tense of kommen, to come
- ihm
- Him/to him; dative of er, third-person masculine
- Natur
- Nature; the natural world or innate character
- diese
- This/this one; demonstrative pronoun or adjective
- errang
- Achieved/won; past tense of erringen, to attain
- er
- He; third-person singular masculine subject pronoun
- für
- For; preposition indicating purpose or beneficiary
- sich
- Himself/itself; reflexive pronoun for third person
- selbst
- Himself/itself; emphatic reflexive pronoun
- durch
- Through/by; preposition indicating means or passage
- sie
- She/they/it; third-person pronoun, context-dependent
- wurde
- Became; past tense of werden, to become
- groß
- Great/tall; adjective meaning large or significant
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