Little Women — Page 5
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And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.
Und Jo schüttelte den blauen Militärstrumpf, bis die Nadeln wie Kastagnetten rasselten und ihr Knäuel durch das Zimmer rollte.
As young readers like to know 'how people look', we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight, while the December snow fell quietly without, and the fire crackled cheerfully within.
Da junge Leser gerne wissen, wie die Menschen aussehen, wollen wir diesen Moment nutzen, um ihnen eine kleine Beschreibung der vier Schwestern zu geben, die in der Abenddämmerung strickend dasaßen, während der Dezemberschnee draußen still fiel und das Feuer drinnen fröhlich knisterte.
Vocabulary
- schüttelte
- Shook or vibrated something back and forth
- blauen
- Inflected form of 'blau', meaning blue in color
- Militärstrumpf
- A military stocking or sock worn by soldiers
- bis
- Until or up to a certain point in time
- Nadeln
- Needles, such as knitting needles or sewing needles
- Kastagnetten
- Castanets, small percussion instruments clicked together rhythmically
- rasselten
- Rattled or clattered with a noisy sound
- Knäuel
- A ball or skein of yarn or thread
- durch
- Through, indicating movement across a space
- Zimmer
- A room inside a building or house
- rollte
- Rolled or moved in a circular, rotating motion
- Da
- Since, there, or because, contextual connective word
- junge
- Young, referring to people of a youthful age
- Leser
- Readers, people who read books or texts
- gerne
- Gladly or with pleasure, expressing willingness
- wissen
- To know facts or information about something
- Menschen
- People or human beings in general
- aussehen
- To look or appear a certain way visually
- wollen
- To want or wish to do something
- Moment
- A moment or brief point in time
- nutzen
- To use or make use of something beneficially
- kleine
- Small or little, adjective describing size
- Beschreibung
- A description or portrayal of something or someone
- vier
- Four, the number between three and five
- Schwestern
- Sisters, female siblings sharing the same parents
- geben
- To give something to someone
- Abenddämmerung
- Evening twilight or dusk, the time after sunset
- strickend
- Knitting, present participle of stricken, making textile
- dasaßen
- Sat there, past tense of dasitzen, to sit
- während
- While or during a period of time
- Dezemberschnee
- December snow, snowfall occurring in the month December
- draußen
- Outside, beyond the walls of an enclosed space
- still
- Quietly or silently, without making noise
- fiel
- Fell, past tense of fallen, to drop down
- Feuer
- Fire, flames produced by burning material
- drinnen
- Inside, within an enclosed space or building
- fröhlich
- Cheerfully or happily, in a joyful manner
- knisterte
- Crackled, made a sharp snapping sound like fire
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