Jane Eyre: An Autobiography — Page 3
Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive.
Von diesen todesweißen Reichen bildete ich mir eine eigene Vorstellung: schattenhaft, wie alle halb verstandenen Begriffe, die trüb durch Kinderköpfe schweben, aber seltsam eindrucksvoll.
The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking.
Die Worte in diesen einleitenden Seiten verknüpften sich mit den nachfolgenden Vignetten und verliehen dem Felsen, der allein in einem Meer aus Wogen und Gischt aufragte, Bedeutung; dem zerbrochenen Boot, das an einer trostlosen Küste gestrandet war; dem kalten und gespenstischen Mond, der durch Wolkenbänder auf ein gerade sinkendes Wrack blickte.
I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newly-risen crescent, attesting the hour of eventide.
Ich kann nicht sagen, welche Stimmung den ganz einsamen Kirchhof heimsuchte, mit seinem beschrifteten Grabstein; seinem Tor, seinen zwei Bäumen, seinem niedrigen Horizont, umgürtet von einer verfallenen Mauer, und seiner neu aufgegangenen Mondsichel, die die Stunde der Abenddämmerung bezeugte.
Vocabulary
- Von
- Preposition meaning 'from' or 'of'.
- diesen
- Demonstrative pronoun meaning 'these' (dative).
- Reichen
- Noun meaning 'realms' or 'kingdoms' (plural).
- bildete
- Past tense of 'bilden,' meaning 'formed' or 'imagined'.
- ich
- First-person singular pronoun meaning 'I'.
- mir
- Dative form of 'ich,' meaning 'me' or 'myself'.
- eine
- Indefinite article meaning 'a' or 'an' (feminine).
- eigene
- Adjective meaning 'own' or 'personal'.
- Vorstellung
- Noun meaning 'idea,' 'notion,' or 'imagination'.
- schattenhaft
- Adjective meaning 'shadowy' or 'ghost-like'.
- wie
- Conjunction or adverb meaning 'as,' 'like,' or 'how'.
- alle
- Pronoun or adjective meaning 'all' or 'every'.
- halb
- Adjective or adverb meaning 'half' or 'partially'.
- verstandenen
- Past participle of 'verstehen,' meaning 'understood'.
- Begriffe
- Noun meaning 'concepts' or 'notions' (plural).
- die
- Definite article or relative pronoun meaning 'the' or 'that'.
- trüb
- Adjective meaning 'dim,' 'murky,' or 'gloomy'.
- durch
- Preposition meaning 'through' or 'across'.
- schweben
- Verb meaning 'to float' or 'to hover'.
- aber
- Conjunction meaning 'but' or 'however'.
- seltsam
- Adjective meaning 'strange,' 'odd,' or 'peculiar'.
- eindrucksvoll
- Adjective meaning 'impressive' or 'striking'.
- Die
- Definite article meaning 'the' (feminine or plural).
- Worte
- Noun meaning 'words' in a contextual or expressive sense.
- in
- Preposition meaning 'in,' 'into,' or 'within'.
- einleitenden
- Adjective meaning 'introductory' or 'opening'.
- Seiten
- Noun meaning 'pages' or 'sides' (plural).
- verknüpften
- Past tense of 'verknüpfen,' meaning 'linked' or 'connected'.
- sich
- Reflexive pronoun meaning 'themselves' or 'itself'.
- mit
- Preposition meaning 'with' or 'together with'.
- den
- Definite article in dative or accusative plural meaning 'the'.
- nachfolgenden
- Adjective meaning 'following' or 'subsequent'.
- und
- Conjunction meaning 'and'.
- verliehen
- Past tense of 'verleihen,' meaning 'lent' or 'gave'.
- dem
- Dative definite article meaning 'the'.
- Felsen
- Noun meaning 'rock' or 'cliff'.
- der
- Definite article or relative pronoun meaning 'the' or 'who'.
- allein
- Adjective or adverb meaning 'alone' or 'solitary'.
- einem
- Dative indefinite article meaning 'a' or 'an'.
- Meer
- Noun meaning 'sea' or 'ocean'.
- aus
- Preposition meaning 'out of,' 'from,' or 'made of'.
- Wogen
- Noun meaning 'waves' or 'billows' (plural).
- Gischt
- Noun meaning 'sea spray' or 'foam'.
- aufragte
- Past tense of 'aufragen,' meaning 'rose up' or 'towered'.
- Bedeutung
- Noun meaning 'meaning,' 'significance,' or 'importance'.
- zerbrochenen
- Past participle of 'zerbrechen,' meaning 'broken' or 'shattered'.
- Boot
- Noun meaning 'boat' or 'small vessel'.
- das
- Definite article or relative pronoun meaning 'the' or 'that'.
- an
- Preposition meaning 'at,' 'on,' or 'to'.
- einer
- Dative or genitive indefinite article meaning 'a' or 'an'.
- trostlosen
- Adjective meaning 'desolate,' 'bleak,' or 'comfortless'.
- Küste
- Noun meaning 'coast' or 'shore'.
- gestrandet
- Past participle meaning 'stranded' or 'run aground'.
- war
- Past tense of 'sein,' meaning 'was'.
- kalten
- Inflected adjective meaning 'cold' (dative or accusative).
- gespenstischen
- Adjective meaning 'ghostly,' 'eerie,' or 'spectral'.
- Mond
- Noun meaning 'moon'.
- auf
- Preposition meaning 'on,' 'onto,' or 'upon'.
- ein
- Indefinite article meaning 'a' or 'an' (neuter or masculine).
- gerade
- Adverb meaning 'just,' 'straight,' or 'exactly'.
- sinkendes
- Present participle of 'sinken,' meaning 'sinking'.
- Wrack
- Noun meaning 'wreck,' especially a sunken or ruined ship.
- blickte
- Past tense of 'blicken,' meaning 'looked' or 'gazed'.
- Ich
- First-person singular pronoun meaning 'I'.
- kann
- Modal verb meaning 'can' or 'am able to'.
- nicht
- Negation adverb meaning 'not'.
- sagen
- Verb meaning 'to say' or 'to tell'.
- welche
- Interrogative or relative pronoun meaning 'which' or 'what'.
- Stimmung
- Noun meaning 'mood,' 'atmosphere,' or 'feeling'.
- ganz
- Adjective or adverb meaning 'whole,' 'entire,' or 'quite'.
- einsamen
- Inflected adjective meaning 'lonely' or 'solitary'.
- Kirchhof
- Noun meaning 'churchyard' or 'graveyard'.
- heimsuchte
- Past tense of 'heimsuchen,' meaning 'haunted' or 'afflicted'.
- seinem
- Possessive pronoun meaning 'his,' 'its' (dative masculine).
- beschrifteten
- Past participle of 'beschriften,' meaning 'inscribed' or 'labeled'.
- Grabstein
- Noun meaning 'gravestone' or 'tombstone'.
- Tor
- Noun meaning 'gate' or 'gateway'.
- seinen
- Possessive pronoun meaning 'his' or 'its' (accusative masculine).
- zwei
- Numeral meaning 'two'.
- Bäumen
- Noun meaning 'trees' (dative plural).
- niedrigen
- Inflected adjective meaning 'low' or 'flat'.
- Horizont
- Noun meaning 'horizon' or 'skyline'.
- von
- Preposition meaning 'from,' 'of,' or 'by'.
- verfallenen
- Adjective meaning 'dilapidated,' 'ruined,' or 'decayed'.
- Mauer
- Noun meaning 'wall,' typically a stone or brick wall.
- seiner
- Possessive pronoun meaning 'his' or 'its' (genitive or dative).
- neu
- Adjective meaning 'new' or 'fresh'.
- aufgegangenen
- Past participle of 'aufgehen,' meaning 'risen' (e.g., moon).
- Mondsichel
- Noun meaning 'crescent moon'.
- Stunde
- Noun meaning 'hour' or 'time'.
- Abenddämmerung
- Noun meaning 'twilight,' 'dusk,' or 'evening glow'.
- bezeugte
- Past tense of 'bezeugen,' meaning 'witnessed' or 'attested'.
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