Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World — Page 5
I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my several voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid readers to adjust it as they please.
Ich stelle ebenfalls fest, dass Ihr Drucker so nachlässig war, die Zeiten durcheinanderzubringen und die Daten meiner verschiedenen Reisen und Rückkehren zu verwechseln; weder das richtige Jahr noch den richtigen Monat noch den Tag des Monats angebend: und ich höre, dass das ursprüngliche Manuskript seit der Veröffentlichung meines Buches vollständig vernichtet worden ist; auch habe ich kein Exemplar mehr übrig: jedoch habe ich Ihnen einige Korrekturen geschickt, die Sie einfügen können, falls es je eine zweite Auflage geben sollte: und dennoch kann ich nicht dafür einstehen; sondern werde diese Angelegenheit meinen verständigen und wohlwollenden Lesern überlassen, sie nach ihrem Belieben zu bereinigen.
I hear some of our sea _Yahoos_ find fault with my sea-language, as not proper in many parts, nor now in use.
Ich höre, dass einige unserer See-_Yahoos_ an meiner Seemannssprache Anstoß nehmen, da sie in vielen Teilen nicht angemessen und auch nicht mehr gebräuchlich sei.
I cannot help it.
Ich kann nichts dafür.
In my first voyages, while I was young, I was instructed by the oldest mariners, and learned to speak as they did.
Auf meinen ersten Reisen, als ich noch jung war, wurde ich von den ältesten Seeleuten unterwiesen und lernte zu sprechen, wie sie es taten.
But I have since found that the sea _Yahoos_ are apt, like the land ones, to become new-fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remember upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.
Aber seitdem habe ich festgestellt, dass die See-_Yahoos_ dazu neigen, wie die Land-_Yahoos_, in ihren Worten neuerungssüchtig zu werden, welche Letzteren jedes Jahr ändern; sodass, soweit ich mich erinnere, bei jeder Rückkehr in mein eigenes Land ihr alter Dialekt so verändert war, dass ich den neuen kaum verstehen konnte.
And I observe, when any _Yahoo_ comes from London out of curiosity to visit me at my house, we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.
Und ich bemerke, wenn irgendein _Yahoo_ aus Neugier von London kommt, um mich in meinem Haus zu besuchen, ist keiner von uns in der Lage, seine Gedanken auf eine für den anderen verständliche Weise auszudrücken.
Vocabulary
- stelle
- To place, set, or establish something
- ebenfalls
- Likewise, also, in the same way
- fest
- Firm, solid; also used in 'feststellen' meaning to determine
- dass
- Conjunction meaning 'that', introduces subordinate clauses
- Ihr
- Formal possessive pronoun meaning 'your'
- Drucker
- Printer, a person or machine that prints
- nachlässig
- Negligent, careless, lacking proper attention
- war
- Past tense of 'sein', meaning 'was'
- Zeiten
- Times, periods, plural of 'Zeit'
- durcheinanderzubringen
- To mix up, confuse, or disorder things
- Daten
- Data, dates, plural factual information
- verschiedenen
- Various, different, diverse (inflected form)
- Reisen
- Travels, journeys; plural of 'Reise'
- Rückkehren
- Returns, acts of coming back
- verwechseln
- To mix up, confuse one thing with another
- weder
- Neither, used in 'weder...noch' constructions
- richtige
- Correct, right, proper (inflected adjective)
- Jahr
- Year, a twelve-month period
- noch
- Still, yet, nor; used in negative constructions
- richtigen
- Correct, right (inflected accusative form)
- Monat
- Month, one of twelve calendar divisions
- Tag
- Day, a 24-hour period
- Monats
- Of the month, genitive form of 'Monat'
- angebend
- Indicating, specifying, giving information
- höre
- I hear; first person present of 'hören'
- ursprüngliche
- Original, initial, primitive (inflected adjective)
- Manuskript
- Manuscript, handwritten or typed original document
- seit
- Since, for (used with time expressions)
- Veröffentlichung
- Publication, the act of publishing something
- Buches
- Of the book, genitive form of 'Buch'
- vollständig
- Completely, entirely, thoroughly
- vernichtet
- Destroyed, annihilated, obliterated
- worden
- Auxiliary past participle used in passive constructions
- auch
- Also, too, as well
- kein
- No, not a, none; negative indefinite article
- Exemplar
- Copy, specimen of a book or document
- mehr
- More, anymore; indicates greater quantity
- übrig
- Remaining, left over, spare
- jedoch
- However, nevertheless, yet
- Ihnen
- Formal dative pronoun meaning 'to you'
- einige
- Some, a few, several
- Korrekturen
- Corrections, fixes, plural of 'Korrektur'
- geschickt
- Sent; also means skilled or clever
- Sie
- Formal 'you' or third person plural 'they'
- einfügen
- To insert, to add into a text
- können
- Can, to be able to (modal verb)
- falls
- In case, if, should (conditional conjunction)
- je
- Ever, each, at any time
- zweite
- Second, the ordinal number two
- Auflage
- Edition, print run of a published work
- geben
- To give; used in 'es gibt' meaning 'there is'
- sollte
- Should, ought to (subjunctive of 'sollen')
- dennoch
- Nevertheless, yet, still, despite that
- kann
- Can, is able to (third person singular modal)
- nicht
- Not, negation particle
- dafür
- For it, in favor of it, therefore
- einstehen
- To vouch for, stand behind, take responsibility
- sondern
- But rather, on the contrary (after negation)
- werde
- Will (first person future auxiliary verb)
- diese
- This, these (demonstrative pronoun/adjective)
- Angelegenheit
- Matter, affair, concern, issue
- meinen
- My (accusative plural); also 'to mean/think'
- verständigen
- Sensible, knowledgeable; to notify or communicate
- wohlwollenden
- Benevolent, well-meaning, kindly disposed
- Lesern
- Readers, plural dative of 'Leser'
- überlassen
- To leave to someone, entrust, hand over
- nach
- After, to, according to (preposition)
- Belieben
- Pleasure, discretion, as one sees fit
- bereinigen
- To settle, clear up, resolve a matter
- See
- Sea or lake; body of water
- an
- At, on, to; common German preposition
- Seemannssprache
- Sailors' language, nautical terminology and jargon
- Anstoß
- Offense, impetus; 'Anstoß nehmen' means to take offense
- nehmen
- To take, to accept something
- da
- There, since, as, because
- vielen
- Many, a lot of (dative plural form)
- Teilen
- Parts, portions; also to divide or share
- angemessen
- Appropriate, suitable, fitting
- gebräuchlich
- Common, customary, in general use
- sei
- Be (subjunctive form of 'sein')
- nichts
- Nothing, not anything
- ersten
- First (inflected ordinal adjective)
- als
- As, when, than (conjunction or preposition)
- jung
- Young, youthful in age
- wurde
- Was, became; past tense auxiliary of 'werden'
- von
- From, by, of; common German preposition
- ältesten
- Oldest, eldest (superlative inflected form)
- Seeleuten
- Sailors, seamen (dative plural)
- unterwiesen
- Instructed, taught, trained by someone
- lernte
- Learned, past tense of 'lernen'
- sprechen
- To speak, to talk
- wie
- How, as, like (conjunction/adverb)
- taten
- Did, past tense plural of 'tun'
- Aber
- But, however, yet (coordinating conjunction)
- seitdem
- Since then, ever since that time
- festgestellt
- Determined, noticed, established as fact
- dazu
- In addition, for that purpose, thereto
- neigen
- To tend to, incline towards something
- Land
- Land, country, rural area
- Worten
- Words, dative plural of 'Wort'
- neuerungssüchtig
- Addicted to novelty, obsessed with innovation
- werden
- To become; future auxiliary verb
- welche
- Which, who (relative/interrogative pronoun)
- Letzteren
- The latter (ones), referring to last mentioned
- jedes
- Every, each (genitive/nominative neuter form)
- ändern
- To change, alter, modify something
- sodass
- So that, with the result that
- soweit
- As far as, insofar as, to the extent
- erinnere
- Remember, recall; first person of 'erinnern'
- bei
- At, near, with, during (preposition)
- jeder
- Every, each (nominative masculine/genitive feminine)
- Rückkehr
- Return, coming back to a place
- eigenes
- Own, one's own (neuter adjective form)
- ihr
- Her, their, your (pronoun/possessive)
- alter
- Old; also 'Alter' meaning age or old man
- Dialekt
- Dialect, regional variety of a language
- verändert
- Changed, altered, transformed
- neuen
- New (dative/accusative inflected adjective)
- kaum
- Hardly, barely, scarcely
- verstehen
- To understand, to comprehend
- konnte
- Could, was able to (past of 'können')
- bemerke
- Notice, observe; first person of 'bemerken'
- wenn
- When, if, whenever (conditional conjunction)
- irgendein
- Some, any, some kind of (indefinite pronoun)
- aus
- From, out of, made of (preposition)
- Neugier
- Curiosity, inquisitiveness, eagerness to know
- kommt
- Comes, arrives; third person of 'kommen'
- um
- Around, at, in order to (preposition/conjunction)
- Haus
- House, home, building
- besuchen
- To visit, to call on someone
- keiner
- None, no one (genitive or nominative form)
- Lage
- Position, situation, location, ability
- Gedanken
- Thoughts, ideas, plural of 'Gedanke'
- für
- For, in favor of (accusative preposition)
- anderen
- Other, others (inflected form of 'andere')
- verständliche
- Understandable, comprehensible (inflected adjective)
- Weise
- Way, manner, fashion, method
- auszudrücken
- To express, to articulate, to convey meaning
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