Middlemarch — Page 4
He had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part of the county to have contracted a too rambling habit of mind.
Er hatte in jüngeren Jahren gereist und galt in diesem Teil der Grafschaft als jemand, der sich eine allzu weitschweifige Denkungsart angewöhnt hatte.
Mr. Brooke's conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions, and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out.
Mr. Brookes Schlussfolgerungen waren ebenso schwer vorherzusagen wie das Wetter: Man konnte nur mit Sicherheit sagen, dass er mit wohlwollenden Absichten handeln und dabei so wenig Geld wie möglich ausgeben würde.
For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests except the retention of his snuff-box, concerning which he was watchful, suspicious, and greedy of clutch.
Denn selbst die zähflüssig unbestimmtesten Geister umschließen einige harte Körner der Gewohnheit; und man hat Männer gesehen, die in allen eigenen Angelegenheiten nachlässig waren, außer wenn es um die Bewahrung ihrer Schnupftabakdose ging, in Bezug auf welche sie wachsam, misstrauisch und gierig im Festhalten waren.
She was regarded as an heiress; for not only had the sisters seven hundred a-year each from their parents, but if Dorothea married and had a son, that son would inherit Mr. Brooke's estate, presumably worth about three thousand a-year—a rental which seemed wealth to provincial families, still discussing Mr. Peel's late conduct on the Catholic question, innocent of future gold-fields, and of that gorgeous plutocracy which has so nobly exalted the necessities of genteel life.
Sie galt als Erbin; denn die Schwestern bezogen nicht nur je siebenhundert Pfund im Jahr von ihren Eltern, sondern wenn Dorothea heiratete und einen Sohn bekäme, würde dieser Sohn Mr. Brookes Gut erben, das vermutlich etwa dreitausend Pfund im Jahr wert war — eine Pacht, die provinziellen Familien als Reichtum erschien, die noch immer Mr. Peels jüngste Haltung in der katholischen Frage erörterten, unwissend von künftigen Goldfeldern und jener prächtigen Plutokratie, die die Notwendigkeiten des vornehmen Lebens so edelmütig in die Höhe getrieben hat.
Vocabulary
- hatte
- Past tense of haben: had
- jüngeren
- Comparative adjective: younger, earlier
- Jahren
- Plural of Jahr: years
- gereist
- Past participle of reisen: traveled
- galt
- Past tense of gelten: was considered, was regarded as
- Teil
- Noun: part, portion, section
- Grafschaft
- Noun: county, earldom, shire
- jemand
- Indefinite pronoun: someone, somebody
- allzu
- Adverb: all too, far too, excessively
- weitschweifige
- Adjective: long-winded, rambling, verbose
- Denkungsart
- Noun: way of thinking, mentality, mindset
- angewöhnt
- Past participle of angewöhnen: accustomed oneself to, adopted as habit
- Schlussfolgerungen
- Plural noun: conclusions, inferences, deductions
- ebenso
- Adverb: just as, equally, likewise
- schwer
- Adjective or adverb: difficult, hard, heavy
- vorherzusagen
- Infinitive: to predict, to forecast, to foretell
- Wetter
- Noun: weather, atmospheric conditions
- Man
- Indefinite pronoun: one, you, people in general
- konnte
- Past tense of können: could, was able to
- Sicherheit
- Noun: certainty, safety, security
- sagen
- Verb infinitive: to say, to tell
- wohlwollenden
- Adjective (dative/genitive inflected): benevolent, well-meaning, kindly
- Absichten
- Plural noun: intentions, purposes, aims
- handeln
- Verb: to act, to trade, to deal
- dabei
- Adverb: in doing so, at the same time, thereby
- wenig
- Adjective or adverb: little, few, not much
- Geld
- Noun: money, currency
- möglich
- Adjective: possible, feasible
- ausgeben
- Separable verb: to spend (money), to distribute
- würde
- Conditional form of werden: would
- Denn
- Conjunction or adverb: for, because, after all
- selbst
- Adverb or pronoun: even, self, oneself
- zähflüssig
- Adjective: viscous, sluggish, slow-moving
- unbestimmtesten
- Superlative adjective (inflected): most indefinite, most vague
- Geister
- Plural noun: minds, spirits, ghosts
- umschließen
- Verb: to enclose, to encompass, to contain
- einige
- Indefinite pronoun or adjective: some, a few
- harte
- Inflected adjective: hard, tough, firm
- Körner
- Plural noun: grains, kernels, seeds
- Gewohnheit
- Noun: habit, custom, routine
- Männer
- Plural noun: men, males
- gesehen
- Past participle of sehen: seen
- eigenen
- Inflected adjective: own, personal
- Angelegenheiten
- Plural noun: affairs, matters, concerns
- nachlässig
- Adjective: negligent, careless, slovenly
- außer
- Preposition or conjunction: except, apart from, besides
- Bewahrung
- Noun: preservation, safeguarding, protection
- Schnupftabakdose
- Noun: snuffbox, container for powdered tobacco
- Bezug
- Noun: reference, relation, subscription, cover
- wachsam
- Adjective: watchful, vigilant, alert
- misstrauisch
- Adjective: suspicious, distrustful, mistrustful
- gierig
- Adjective: greedy, eager, covetous
- Festhalten
- Noun or verb: holding fast, clinging to, retaining
- Erbin
- Noun: heiress, female heir
- denn
- Conjunction: because, for, as; also intensifying particle
- Schwestern
- Plural noun: sisters
- bezogen
- Past participle of beziehen: received, obtained, referred to
- je
- Adverb: ever, each, per
- siebenhundert
- Number: seven hundred
- Pfund
- Noun: pound (currency or weight)
- Jahr
- Noun: year
- Eltern
- Plural noun: parents
- sondern
- Conjunction: but rather, on the contrary
- heiratete
- Past tense of heiraten: married
- Sohn
- Noun: son
- bekäme
- Subjunctive II of bekommen: would receive, might get
- Gut
- Noun: estate, property, good; adjective: good
- erben
- Verb: to inherit
- vermutlich
- Adverb: presumably, probably, supposedly
- etwa
- Adverb: approximately, about, perhaps
- dreitausend
- Number: three thousand
- wert
- Adjective: worth, valued at
- Pacht
- Noun: lease, rent, tenancy of land
- provinziellen
- Inflected adjective: provincial, regional, from the provinces
- Familien
- Plural noun: families
- Reichtum
- Noun: wealth, riches, affluence
- erschien
- Past tense of erscheinen: appeared, seemed
- noch
- Adverb: still, yet, even, more
- immer
- Adverb: always, still, ever
- jüngste
- Superlative adjective: youngest, most recent, latest
- Haltung
- Noun: stance, posture, attitude, position
- katholischen
- Inflected adjective: Catholic
- Frage
- Noun: question, issue, matter
- erörterten
- Past tense of erörtern: discussed, debated, analyzed
- unwissend
- Adjective: ignorant, unknowing, unaware
- künftigen
- Inflected adjective: future, upcoming, coming
- Goldfeldern
- Plural noun (dative): gold fields, areas rich in gold
- jener
- Demonstrative pronoun/adjective: that, those (of that)
- prächtigen
- Inflected adjective: magnificent, splendid, grand
- Plutokratie
- Noun: plutocracy, rule or dominance of the wealthy
- Notwendigkeiten
- Plural noun: necessities, requirements, needs
- vornehmen
- Inflected adjective: refined, distinguished, upper-class
- Lebens
- Genitive of Leben: of life
- edelmütig
- Adjective: magnanimous, noble-minded, generous
- Höhe
- Noun: height, level, altitude, peak
- getrieben
- Past participle of treiben: driven, impelled, propelled
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