The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Page 9
"I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.
„Ich habe sehr starke Vorbehalte dagegen, Fragen zu stellen; es hat zu sehr den Anstrich des Jüngsten Gerichts.
You start a question, and it's like starting a stone.
Man stellt eine Frage, und es ist wie das Loslösen eines Steins.
You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name.
Man sitzt still oben auf einem Hügel; und fort rollt der Stein, bringt andere ins Rollen; und bald wird irgendein harmloser alter Vogel (der Letzte, an den man gedacht hätte) in seinem eigenen Hintergarten am Kopf getroffen, und die Familie muss ihren Namen ändern.
"It seems scarcely a house.
„Es scheint kaum ein Haus zu sein.
There is no other door, and nobody goes in or out of that one but, once in a great while, the gentleman of my adventure.
Es gibt keine andere Tür, und niemand geht durch jene hinein oder heraus, außer gelegentlich, in großen Abständen, dem Herrn aus meinem Erlebnis.
Vocabulary
- sehr
- Adverb meaning 'very' or 'greatly'.
- starke
- Adjective meaning 'strong' or 'intense', inflected form.
- Vorbehalte
- Plural noun meaning 'reservations' or 'misgivings'.
- dagegen
- Adverb or pronoun meaning 'against it' or 'opposed to it'.
- Fragen
- Plural noun meaning 'questions'; also infinitive 'to ask'.
- stellen
- Verb meaning 'to place' or 'to pose' (a question).
- Anstrich
- Noun meaning 'appearance', 'coat of paint', or 'tinge'.
- Jüngsten Gerichts
- Phrase meaning 'Last Judgment', the final divine judgment.
- Man
- Indefinite pronoun meaning 'one' or 'people' generally.
- Frage
- Noun meaning 'question' or 'inquiry'.
- Loslösen
- Verbal noun meaning 'the loosening' or 'detaching' of something.
- Steins
- Genitive form of 'Stein', meaning 'of a stone' or 'rock'.
- sitzt
- Third person singular present of 'sitzen', meaning 'sits'.
- still
- Adjective or adverb meaning 'still', 'quiet', or 'motionless'.
- oben
- Adverb meaning 'above', 'up', or 'at the top'.
- Hügel
- Noun meaning 'hill' or 'mound'.
- fort
- Adverb meaning 'away', 'gone', or 'continuously onward'.
- rollt
- Third person singular present of 'rollen', meaning 'rolls'.
- Stein
- Noun meaning 'stone' or 'rock'.
- andere
- Adjective or pronoun meaning 'other' or 'others'.
- Rollen
- Verbal noun meaning 'rolling'; also plural of 'Rolle' (role).
- bald
- Adverb meaning 'soon' or 'shortly'.
- irgendein
- Indefinite pronoun meaning 'some' or 'some random/particular'.
- harmloser
- Adjective meaning 'harmless' or 'innocent', inflected form.
- alter
- Adjective meaning 'old', inflected form.
- Vogel
- Noun meaning 'bird'.
- Letzte
- Adjective meaning 'last' or 'the last one', inflected form.
- gedacht
- Past participle of 'denken', meaning 'thought' or 'considered'.
- hätte
- Subjunctive II form of 'haben', meaning 'would have'.
- eigenen
- Adjective meaning 'own', inflected form.
- Hintergarten
- Noun meaning 'back garden' or 'backyard'.
- Kopf
- Noun meaning 'head'.
- getroffen
- Past participle of 'treffen', meaning 'hit' or 'struck'.
- Familie
- Noun meaning 'family'.
- muss
- Third person singular of 'müssen', meaning 'must' or 'has to'.
- Namen
- Noun meaning 'name', accusative/dative/genitive form.
- ändern
- Verb meaning 'to change' or 'to alter'.
- scheint
- Third person singular of 'scheinen', meaning 'seems' or 'shines'.
- kaum
- Adverb meaning 'hardly', 'barely', or 'scarcely'.
- Haus
- Noun meaning 'house' or 'building'.
- gibt
- Third person singular of 'geben', meaning 'gives' or 'there is/are'.
- keine
- Negative article meaning 'no', 'not a', or 'none'.
- Tür
- Noun meaning 'door'.
- niemand
- Indefinite pronoun meaning 'nobody' or 'no one'.
- geht
- Third person singular of 'gehen', meaning 'goes' or 'walks'.
- durch
- Preposition meaning 'through' or 'by means of'.
- jene
- Demonstrative pronoun meaning 'that' or 'those' (more distant).
- hinein
- Adverb meaning 'into' or 'inward', indicating direction inside.
- heraus
- Adverb meaning 'out' or 'outward', indicating direction outside.
- außer
- Preposition meaning 'except', 'besides', or 'other than'.
- gelegentlich
- Adverb or adjective meaning 'occasionally' or 'from time to time'.
- großen
- Adjective meaning 'large' or 'great', inflected form.
- Abständen
- Plural dative of 'Abstand', meaning 'intervals' or 'distances'.
- Herrn
- Dative/accusative form of 'Herr', meaning 'gentleman' or 'Mr.'
- aus
- Preposition meaning 'from', 'out of', or 'made of'.
- Erlebnis
- Noun meaning 'experience' or 'personal encounter with something.
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