Dracula — Page 4
All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind.
Den ganzen Tag schienen wir durch ein Land zu schlendern, das voller Schönheit jeder Art war.
Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floods.
Manchmal sahen wir kleine Städte oder Burgen auf der Spitze steiler Hügel, wie wir sie in alten Missalen sehen; manchmal fuhren wir an Flüssen und Bächen entlang, die von dem breiten steinigen Uferrand auf jeder Seite her großen Überschwemmungen ausgesetzt zu sein schienen.
It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear.
Es bedarf einer großen Wassermenge, die stark strömt, um den Außenrand eines Flusses freizuspülen.
At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in all sorts of attire.
An jeder Station gab es Gruppen von Menschen, manchmal Menschenmengen, in allen möglichen Kleidungen.
Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats and home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque.
Einige von ihnen sahen genauso aus wie die Bauern daheim oder jene, die ich auf der Durchreise durch Frankreich und Deutschland gesehen hatte, mit kurzen Jacken, runden Hüten und selbstgemachten Hosen; aber andere waren sehr malerisch.
The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsy about the waist.
Die Frauen sahen hübsch aus, außer wenn man näher an sie herantrat, aber sie waren sehr unförmig um die Taille.
They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course there were petticoats under them.
Sie alle hatten weite weiße Ärmel irgendeiner Art, und die meisten von ihnen trugen große Gürtel, von denen viele Streifen von irgendetwas flatterten wie die Kostüme in einem Ballett, aber natürlich trugen sie darunter Unterröcke.
The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails.
Die seltsamsten Gestalten, die wir sahen, waren die Slowaken, die barbarischer wirkten als die übrigen, mit ihren großen Cowboyhüten, weiten schmutzigweißen Hosen, weißen Leinenhemden und enormen schweren Ledergürteln, die fast eine Fußbreite maßen und über und über mit Messingnägeln besetzt waren.
Vocabulary
- ganzen
- Entire, whole; adjective inflected form.
- Tag
- Day; a basic unit of time.
- schienen
- Seemed, appeared; past tense of scheinen.
- durch
- Through; preposition indicating movement across.
- Land
- Land, country; a geographic or national territory.
- schlendern
- To stroll, wander leisurely without hurry.
- voller
- Full of; adjective indicating abundance of something.
- Schönheit
- Beauty; the quality of being aesthetically pleasing.
- jeder
- Every, each; indefinite pronoun or adjective.
- Art
- Kind, type, sort; a category or variety.
- Manchmal
- Sometimes; occurring on some but not all occasions.
- sahen
- Saw; past tense plural of sehen (to see).
- Städte
- Cities, towns; plural of Stadt.
- Burgen
- Castles, fortresses; plural of Burg.
- Spitze
- Top, peak, tip; the highest point of something.
- steiler
- Steep; adjective describing a sharp incline.
- Hügel
- Hill; a raised landform smaller than a mountain.
- alten
- Old, ancient; adjective in inflected form.
- sehen
- To see; infinitive of the verb of sight.
- fuhren
- Drove, traveled; past tense plural of fahren.
- Flüssen
- Rivers; plural dative form of Fluss.
- Bächen
- Streams, brooks; plural dative form of Bach.
- entlang
- Along; preposition indicating movement beside something.
- breiten
- Broad, wide; adjective in inflected form.
- steinigen
- Stony, rocky; adjective describing a surface with stones.
- Uferrand
- Riverbank edge; the border strip along a riverbank.
- Seite
- Side, page; a surface or lateral aspect.
- her
- From, hither; directional particle indicating origin.
- Überschwemmungen
- Floods, inundations; plural of Überschwemmung.
- ausgesetzt
- Exposed, subjected to; past participle of aussetzen.
- bedarf
- Requires, needs; third-person singular of bedürfen.
- Wassermenge
- Volume of water; quantity or amount of water.
- stark
- Strong, powerful; adjective describing intensity.
- strömt
- Flows, streams; third-person singular of strömen.
- Außenrand
- Outer edge, exterior rim of something.
- Flusses
- Of a river; genitive form of Fluss.
- freizuspülen
- To wash clear, rinse free; separable verb infinitive.
- Station
- Station; a stopping place for trains or travel.
- gab
- Gave, there was; past tense of geben.
- Gruppen
- Groups; plural of Gruppe, a cluster of people.
- Menschen
- People, humans; plural of Mensch.
- Menschenmengen
- Crowds; large gatherings of people.
- allen
- All, every; dative plural of alle.
- möglichen
- Possible, all kinds of; adjective in inflected form.
- Kleidungen
- Clothing styles, garments; plural of Kleidung.
- Einige
- Some, a few; indefinite pronoun indicating a small number.
- genauso
- Just as, exactly the same; adverb of equal comparison.
- Bauern
- Farmers, peasants; plural of Bauer.
- daheim
- At home; adverb indicating one's own home place.
- jene
- Those; demonstrative pronoun referring to distant things.
- Durchreise
- Transit, passing through; travel across a region.
- Frankreich
- France; the Western European country.
- Deutschland
- Germany; the Central European country.
- gesehen
- Seen; past participle of sehen (to see).
- kurzen
- Short; adjective in inflected form.
- Jacken
- Jackets; plural of Jacke, a short coat.
- runden
- Round; adjective in inflected form.
- Hüten
- Hats; plural dative form of Hut.
- selbstgemachten
- Homemade, self-made; adjective in inflected form.
- Hosen
- Trousers, pants; plural of Hose.
- andere
- Others, other; pronoun or adjective referring to different ones.
- malerisch
- Picturesque, scenic; visually attractive like a painting.
- Frauen
- Women; plural of Frau.
- hübsch
- Pretty, attractive; adjective describing pleasant appearance.
- außer
- Except, apart from; preposition indicating exclusion.
- wenn
- When, if; subordinating conjunction of condition or time.
- man
- One, you; impersonal pronoun for general statements.
- näher
- Closer, nearer; comparative form of nah (near).
- herantrat
- Stepped closer, approached; past tense of herantreten.
- unförmig
- Shapeless, misshapen; lacking a defined or pleasing form.
- Taille
- Waist; the narrow part of the human torso.
- alle
- All, everyone; pronoun or adjective of totality.
- weite
- Wide, flowing; adjective describing broad dimensions.
- weiße
- White; adjective in inflected form.
- Ärmel
- Sleeves; the arm coverings of a garment.
- irgendeiner
- Some kind of, some; indefinite pronoun indicating vagueness.
- meisten
- Most; superlative of viel in inflected form.
- trugen
- Wore, carried; past tense plural of tragen.
- Gürtel
- Belt; a strap worn around the waist.
- denen
- From which, to whom; dative relative pronoun plural.
- viele
- Many; adjective or pronoun indicating a large number.
- Streifen
- Strips, stripes; narrow bands of material or color.
- irgendetwas
- Something or other; vague indefinite pronoun.
- flatterten
- Fluttered, flapped; past tense of flattern.
- Kostüme
- Costumes; plural of Kostüm, decorative or theatrical outfits.
- Ballett
- Ballet; classical dance performance art form.
- natürlich
- Naturally, of course; adverb expressing something obvious.
- darunter
- Beneath, among them; adverb indicating what is below.
- Unterröcke
- Petticoats, underskirts; plural of Unterrock.
- seltsamsten
- Strangest, most peculiar; superlative of seltsam.
- Gestalten
- Figures, forms; plural of Gestalt, a person's form.
- barbarischer
- More barbaric, more savage; comparative of barbarisch.
- wirkten
- Appeared, seemed; past tense plural of wirken.
- übrigen
- Remaining, rest of; adjective referring to others left.
- weiten
- Wide, baggy; adjective in inflected form.
- schmutzigweißen
- Dirty-white, off-white; compound adjective in inflected form.
- Leinenhemden
- Linen shirts; plural dative of Leinenhemd.
- enormen
- Enormous, huge; adjective in inflected form.
- schweren
- Heavy; adjective in inflected form.
- Ledergürteln
- Leather belts; plural dative of Ledergürtel.
- fast
- Almost, nearly; adverb of approximation.
- Fußbreite
- A foot's width; measure of one foot wide.
- maßen
- Measured; past tense plural of messen.
- Messingnägeln
- Brass studs or nails; plural dative of Messingnagel.
- besetzt
- Studded, adorned, occupied; past participle of besetzen.
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