Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World — Page 3
I do, in the next place, complain of my own great want of judgment, in being prevailed upon by the entreaties and false reasoning of you and some others, very much against my own opinion, to suffer my travels to be published.
Ich beklage mich des Weiteren über meinen eigenen großen Mangel an Urteilsvermögen, da ich durch die Bitten und falschen Überlegungen von Ihnen und einigen anderen, sehr gegen meine eigene Meinung, dazu gebracht wurde, die Veröffentlichung meiner Reisen zu gestatten.
Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consider, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the _Yahoos_ were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved;
Rufen Sie sich bitte ins Gedächtnis, wie oft ich Sie bat, zu bedenken, als Sie auf dem Motiv des Gemeinwohls beharrten, dass die _Yahoos_ eine Tiergattung seien, die durch Vorschrift oder Beispiel schlechterdings nicht zu bessern sei: und so hat es sich erwiesen;
for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corruptions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my intentions.
denn anstatt zu sehen, dass allen Missbräuchen und Korruptionen, zumindest auf dieser kleinen Insel, ein vollständiger Riegel vorgeschoben wurde, wie ich Grund hatte zu erwarten; siehe da, nach mehr als sechs Monaten Warnung kann ich nicht erfahren, dass mein Buch auch nur eine einzige Wirkung entsprechend meinen Absichten hervorgebracht hat.
I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female _Yahoos_ abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
Ich bat Sie, mir durch einen Brief mitzuteilen, wenn Partei und Faktion erloschen seien; Richter gelehrt und aufrecht; Anwälte ehrlich und bescheiden, mit einem Anflug von gesundem Menschenverstand, und Smithfield lodere in Pyramiden von Gesetzbüchern; die Erziehung des jungen Adels vollständig verändert; die Ärzte verbannt; die weiblichen _Yahoos_ reich an Tugend, Ehre, Wahrheit und Besonnenheit; Höfe und Empfänge großer Minister gründlich gesäubert und gefegt; Geist, Verdienst und Gelehrsamkeit belohnt; alle Schänder der Presse in Prosa und Versen dazu verurteilt, nichts als ihre eigene Baumwolle zu essen und ihren Durst mit ihrer eigenen Tinte zu löschen.
Vocabulary
- beklage
- To complain or lament about something
- Weiteren
- Furthermore, additionally, in addition to that
- eigenen
- Own, one's own, belonging to oneself
- Mangel
- Lack, deficiency, or shortage of something
- Urteilsvermögen
- Capacity for judgment or discernment in decisions
- Bitten
- Requests or pleas made to someone
- falschen
- False, wrong, or incorrect in inflected form
- Überlegungen
- Considerations, reflections, or deliberate thoughts
- einigen
- Some, a few, several in inflected form
- eigene
- Own, personal, belonging to oneself
- Meinung
- Opinion, view, or personal belief about something
- dazu
- To that, in addition to it, for that purpose
- Veröffentlichung
- Publication, the act of making something public
- Reisen
- Travels or journeys to various places
- gestatten
- To permit, allow, or grant permission for something
- Rufen
- To call or recall something to mind
- Gedächtnis
- Memory, the ability to remember or recollect
- bat
- Past tense of bitten, meaning 'asked' or 'requested'
- bedenken
- To consider, reflect upon, or take into account
- Motiv
- Motive, reason, or driving purpose behind an action
- Gemeinwohls
- Common good, welfare of the general public
- beharrten
- Persisted, insisted, or stubbornly maintained a position
- Tiergattung
- Animal genus or species category in taxonomy
- Vorschrift
- Rule, regulation, or written instruction to follow
- Beispiel
- Example or instance used to illustrate a point
- schlechterdings
- Absolutely, utterly, under no circumstances whatsoever
- bessern
- To improve or make better, reform behavior
- erwiesen
- Past participle meaning 'proven' or 'demonstrated'
- anstatt
- Instead of, in place of something else
- Missbräuchen
- Abuses, misuses, or corrupt practices of power
- Korruptionen
- Cases of corruption or moral decay in institutions
- zumindest
- At least, at a minimum, in the least
- Insel
- Island, a landmass surrounded by water
- vollständiger
- Complete, total, entire in comparative inflected form
- Riegel
- Bolt or bar, metaphorically a complete barrier
- vorgeschoben
- Pushed forward, used as barrier or pretext
- Grund
- Reason, ground, or basis for something
- erwarten
- To expect or anticipate something to happen
- Warnung
- Warning, a cautionary notice or alert
- erfahren
- To experience or learn about something firsthand
- einzige
- Single, only, sole, one and only
- Wirkung
- Effect, impact, or result produced by something
- entsprechend
- Corresponding, appropriate, in accordance with something
- Absichten
- Intentions, purposes, or planned aims
- hervorgebracht
- Past participle meaning 'produced' or 'brought forth'
- Brief
- Letter, a written message sent to someone
- mitzuteilen
- To inform or communicate something to someone
- Partei
- Political party or faction, a group of allies
- Faktion
- Faction, a dissenting or partisan political group
- erloschen
- Extinguished, extinct, died out or faded away
- Richter
- Judge, a person who presides over legal cases
- gelehrt
- Learned, scholarly, highly educated and knowledgeable
- aufrecht
- Upright, honest, righteous in conduct and character
- Anwälte
- Lawyers or attorneys who represent clients legally
- ehrlich
- Honest, truthful, sincere in character and behavior
- bescheiden
- Modest, humble, unassuming in manner or attitude
- Anflug
- Touch or trace of something, slight hint
- gesundem
- Healthy, sound, sensible in inflected dative form
- Menschenverstand
- Common sense, ordinary human reason and judgment
- lodere
- To blaze or flame, subjunctive form of lodern
- Gesetzbüchern
- Law books or legal codes in dative plural form
- Erziehung
- Education, upbringing, or the raising of children
- Adels
- Nobility, the aristocratic class in genitive form
- vollständig
- Completely, entirely, thoroughly without exception
- verändert
- Changed, altered, transformed in character or form
- Ärzte
- Doctors or physicians who practice medicine
- verbannt
- Banished, exiled, expelled from a place or group
- weiblichen
- Female, feminine in inflected adjective form
- reich
- Rich, wealthy, abundant in resources or quality
- Tugend
- Virtue, moral excellence and righteous conduct
- Ehre
- Honor, dignity, high moral respect and esteem
- Wahrheit
- Truth, the quality of being true or accurate
- Besonnenheit
- Prudence, composure, levelheaded rational thinking
- Höfe
- Courts or royal courts, plural of Hof
- Empfänge
- Receptions or formal social gatherings for guests
- Minister
- Minister, a high-ranking government official
- gründlich
- Thoroughly, completely, meticulously done or cleaned
- gesäubert
- Cleaned, purged, purified of corruption or filth
- gefegt
- Swept clean, cleared out thoroughly
- Geist
- Spirit, mind, intellect, or genius
- Verdienst
- Merit, achievement, deserved recognition or reward
- Gelehrsamkeit
- Scholarship, erudition, extensive academic knowledge
- belohnt
- Rewarded, given recognition for merit or service
- Schänder
- Defilers, desecrators, those who dishonor or disgrace
- Presse
- Press, the media or printing and publishing industry
- Prosa
- Prose, written language not in verse or poetry
- Versen
- Verses, lines of poetry in dative plural form
- verurteilt
- Condemned, sentenced, judged guilty of an offense
- Baumwolle
- Cotton, a soft natural fiber used in textiles
- Durst
- Thirst, the desire or need to drink
- Tinte
- Ink, the liquid used for writing or printing
- löschen
- To extinguish, quench, or delete something completely
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