Middlemarch — Page 3
She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery.
Sie konnte die Ängste eines geistlichen Lebens, das ewige Konsequenzen in sich barg, nicht mit einem lebhaften Interesse an Borte und künstlichen Auswölbungen von Draperien in Einklang bringen.
Her mind was theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of conduct there;
Ihr Geist war theoretisch veranlagt und sehnte sich von Natur aus nach einer erhabenen Weltanschauung, die den Kirchenbezirk von Tipton und ihre eigene Verhaltensregel dort offen einschließen könnte;
she was enamoured of intensity and greatness, and rash in embracing whatever seemed to her to have those aspects;
sie war von Intensität und Größe begeistert und neigte dazu, vorschnell alles zu umarmen, was ihr jene Eigenschaften zu besitzen schien;
likely to seek martyrdom, to make retractations, and then to incur martyrdom after all in a quarter where she had not sought it.
sie war geneigt, das Martyrium zu suchen, Widerrufe zu leisten, und dann dennoch in einem Bereich in das Martyrium zu geraten, wo sie es nicht gesucht hatte.
Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from being decided according to custom, by good looks, vanity, and merely canine affection.
Gewiss neigten solche Züge im Charakter eines heiratsfähigen Mädchens dazu, ihr Los zu beeinträchtigen und zu verhindern, dass es nach dem üblichen Brauch durch gutes Aussehen, Eitelkeit und bloß hundsartige Zuneigung entschieden wurde.
With all this, she, the elder of the sisters, was not yet twenty, and they had both been educated, since they were about twelve years old and had lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
Trotz alledem war sie, die ältere der Schwestern, noch keine zwanzig Jahre alt, und beide waren, seit sie etwa zwölf Jahre alt waren und ihre Eltern verloren hatten, nach einem zugleich engen und wahllosen Plan erzogen worden, zunächst in einer englischen Familie und danach in einer Schweizer Familie in Lausanne, wobei ihr unverheirateter Onkel und Vormund auf diese Weise versuchte, die Nachteile ihrer verwaisten Lage zu beheben.
It was hardly a year since they had come to live at Tipton Grange with their uncle, a man nearly sixty, of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote.
Es war kaum ein Jahr her, seit sie zu ihrem Onkel auf Tipton Grange gezogen waren, einem Mann von fast sechzig Jahren, mit gefügigem Temperament, vielfältigen Meinungen und unbeständiger Stimme.
Vocabulary
- Sie
- She; formal you (German pronoun)
- konnte
- Could; was able to (past tense of können)
- die
- The; she (feminine article and pronoun)
- Ängste
- Fears; anxieties (plural of Angst)
- eines
- Of a; one (genitive singular)
- geistlichen
- Spiritual; clerical; relating to spirit
- Lebens
- Life; of life (genitive singular)
- das
- The; that (neuter article)
- ewige
- Eternal; everlasting (adjective)
- Konsequenzen
- Consequences; results (plural noun)
- in
- In; into (preposition)
- sich
- Oneself; herself; himself (reflexive pronoun)
- nicht
- Not (negation adverb)
- mit
- With (preposition)
- einem
- A; one (dative singular article)
- lebhaften
- Lively; vivid; animated (adjective)
- Interesse
- Interest; concern (noun)
- an
- At; on; in (preposition)
- und
- And (conjunction)
- künstlichen
- Artificial; synthetic (adjective)
- von
- Of; from (preposition)
- bringen
- Bring; carry; take (infinitive verb)
- Ihr
- Her; hers (possessive pronoun feminine)
- Geist
- Spirit; mind; intellect (noun)
- war
- Was (past tense of sein)
- theoretisch
- Theoretical; relating to theory (adjective)
- sehnte
- Longed; yearned (past tense of sehnen)
- Natur
- Nature; character; disposition (noun)
- aus
- Out; off (preposition/adverb)
- nach
- After; toward; for (preposition)
- einer
- A; one (dative feminine article)
- erhabenen
- Sublime; exalted; elevated (adjective)
- Weltanschauung
- Worldview; philosophy of life (noun)
- den
- The; that (accusative masculine article)
- ihre
- Her; hers (possessive pronoun)
- eigene
- Own; one's own (adjective)
- dort
- There; in that place (adverb)
- offen
- Open; openly; candidly (adjective)
- einschließen
- Include; enclose; shut in (infinitive verb)
- könnte
- Could; would be able (subjunctive)
- sie
- She; they (pronoun)
- Intensität
- Intensity; strength; magnitude (noun)
- Größe
- Size; greatness; magnitude (noun)
- begeistert
- Enthusiastic; excited; passionate (adjective)
- neigte
- Inclined; tended; was prone (past tense)
- dazu
- To it; thereto; for that (adverb)
- alles
- Everything; all (pronoun)
- zu
- To; too; shut (preposition/adverb)
- umarmen
- Embrace; hug; enfold (infinitive verb)
- was
- What; which (interrogative/relative pronoun)
- ihr
- Her; its (dative pronoun)
- jene
- That; those (demonstrative pronoun)
- Eigenschaften
- Properties; characteristics; qualities (noun)
- besitzen
- Possess; own; have (infinitive verb)
- schien
- Seemed; appeared (past tense of scheinen)
- suchen
- Seek; look for; search (infinitive verb)
- leisten
- Perform; accomplish; render (infinitive verb)
- dann
- Then; at that time (adverb)
- dennoch
- Nevertheless; still; yet (conjunction)
- Bereich
- Area; sphere; range; realm (noun)
- geraten
- Get into; fall into (past participle)
- wo
- Where (relative/interrogative adverb)
- es
- It; that (neuter pronoun)
- gesucht
- Sought; searched (past participle)
- hatte
- Had (past tense of haben)
- Gewiss
- Certainly; indeed; assuredly (adverb)
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