The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher — Page 3
Jeremy shoved the boat out again a little way, and dropped in the bait.
Jeremy duwde de boot nog een stukje naar buiten en gooide het aas in het water.
There was a bite almost directly; the float gave a tremendous bobbit!
Er was bijna meteen een beet; de dobber maakte een geweldige beweging!
"A minnow! a minnow! I have him by the nose!" cried Mr. Jeremy Fisher, jerking up his rod.
"Een stekelbaarsje! een stekelbaarsje! Ik heb hem bij zijn neus!" riep meneer Jeremy Fisher, terwijl hij zijn hengel omhoogtrok.
But what a horrible surprise! Instead of a smooth fat minnow, Mr. Jeremy landed little Jack Sharp the stickleback, covered with spines!
Maar wat een verschrikkelijke verrassing! In plaats van een gladde, vette meun haalde meneer Jeremy de kleine Jack Sharp de stekelbaars op, bedekt met stekels!
The stickleback floundered about the boat, pricking and snapping until he was quite out of breath.
De stekelbaars spartelde door de boot, prikte en beet totdat hij helemaal buiten adem was.
Then he jumped back into the water.
Toen sprong hij terug in het water.
And a shoal of other little fishes put their heads out, and laughed at Mr. Jeremy Fisher.
En een school andere kleine visjes staken hun hoofden uit het water en lachten meneer Jeremy Fisher uit.
And while Mr. Jeremy sat disconsolately on the edge of his boat--sucking his sore fingers and peering down into the water--a much worse thing happened; a really frightful thing it would have been, if Mr. Jeremy had not been wearing a macintosh!
En terwijl meneer Jeremy troosteloos op de rand van zijn boot zat - zijn pijnlijke vingers zogend en in het water tuurend - gebeurde er iets veel ergers; iets wat werkelijk verschrikkelijk zou zijn geweest, als meneer Jeremy geen regenjas had gedragen!
A great big enormous trout came up--ker-pflop-p-p-p! with a splash--and it seized Mr. Jeremy with a snap, "Ow! Ow! Ow!"--and then it turned and dived down to the bottom of the pond!
Een grote, enorme forel kwam omhoog - plons-plons-plons! met een plons - en hij greep meneer Jeremy met een hap, "Au! Au! Au!" - en toen draaide hij zich om en dook naar de bodem van de vijver!
But the trout was so displeased with the taste of the macintosh, that in less than half a minute it spat him out again; and the only thing it swallowed was Mr. Jeremy's goloshes.
Maar de forel was zo ontevreden over de smaak van de regenjas, dat hij hem binnen minder dan een halve minuut weer uitspuugde; en het enige wat hij doorslikte waren de overschoenen van meneer Jeremy.
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Vocabulary
- duwde
- Pushed something or someone with force
- boot
- A boat or small watercraft
- nog
- Still, yet, or another bit more
- stukje
- A small piece or little bit
- naar
- To, toward a place or direction
- buiten
- Outside, beyond a boundary or limit
- gooide
- Threw or tossed something through the air
- aas
- Bait used to attract fish or animals
- Er
- There, used as an expletive subject pronoun
- bijna
- Almost, nearly reaching a certain point
- meteen
- Immediately, right away without delay
- beet
- A bite, when a fish takes the bait
- dobber
- A fishing float or bobber on a line
- maakte
- Made or performed an action or movement
- geweldige
- Tremendous, enormous or very impressive in scale
- beweging
- A movement or motion of something
- stekelbaarsje
- A small stickleback fish with spiny fins
- bij
- By, near, or at a location
- neus
- Nose, the facial organ for smelling
- riep
- Called out or shouted to someone
- meneer
- Mister or sir, a polite male title
- terwijl
- While, during the same time as something
- hengel
- A fishing rod used to catch fish
- omhoogtrok
- Pulled upward with effort or force
- Maar
- But, introducing a contrast or exception
- verschrikkelijke
- Terrible, dreadful or horrifying in nature
- verrassing
- A surprise, something unexpected that happens
- plaats
- Place or instead of in a context
- gladde
- Smooth or slippery in texture or surface
- vette
- Fat or greasy, describing a plump creature
- meun
- A tench, a type of freshwater fish
- haalde
- Fetched, pulled or brought something out
- kleine
- Small or little in size or extent
- stekelbaars
- A stickleback, a small spiny freshwater fish
- bedekt
- Covered, having a layer over the surface
- stekels
- Spines or prickles on an animal or plant
- spartelde
- Struggled or floundered about frantically
- door
- Through, or continuing an action further
- prikte
- Pricked or stung with a sharp point
- totdat
- Until a certain moment or condition is met
- helemaal
- Completely or entirely, without any exception
- adem
- Breath, the air inhaled and exhaled
- Toen
- Then, at that moment in the past
- sprong
- Jumped or leaped from a position
- terug
- Back, returning to a previous position
- school
- A school of fish swimming together
- andere
- Other, different from the one mentioned
- visjes
- Small fish, diminutive plural of vis
- staken
- Stuck out or extended something outward
- hoofden
- Heads, plural of hoofd meaning head
- uit
- Out of, outside or from within
- lachten
- Laughed, past tense plural of lachen
- troosteloos
- Desolately or sitting in a disconsolate way
- rand
- Edge or rim of a surface or object
- zat
- Sat, past tense of zitten meaning sit
- pijnlijke
- Painful, causing physical or emotional pain
- vingers
- Fingers, the digits on a human hand
- zogend
- Sucking on something for comfort or relief
- tuurend
- Gazing or staring intently at something
- gebeurde
- Happened, past tense of gebeuren to occur
- er
- There, a pronoun referring to a place
- iets
- Something, an unspecified thing or matter
- veel
- Much or many, a large quantity
- ergers
- Worse, more terrible comparative of erg
- werkelijk
- Truly or really, genuinely and without doubt
- verschrikkelijk
- Terrible or dreadful, extremely unpleasant
- zou
- Would, conditional form of zullen
- geweest
- Been, past participle of zijn to be
- als
- If or as, used in conditional sentences
- geen
- No, not any, negating a noun
- regenjas
- A raincoat worn for protection from rain
- gedragen
- Worn or carried, past participle of dragen
- grote
- Large or big in size or extent
- enorme
- Enormous or huge, exceptionally large in size
- forel
- A trout, a common freshwater game fish
- kwam
- Came, past tense of komen to come
- omhoog
- Upward, directed toward a higher position
- plons
- A splash or plop sound in water
- greep
- Grabbed or seized something with the hand
- hap
- A bite or mouthful taken from something
- Au
- Ouch, exclamation expressing sudden pain
- toen
- Then, at that moment in the past
- draaide
- Turned or rotated in a direction
- zich
- Himself or herself, reflexive pronoun
- om
- Around or over, indicating rotation or direction
- dook
- Dived or plunged downward into water
- bodem
- Bottom or floor of a body of water
- vijver
- A pond, a small body of still water
- zo
- So or such, indicating degree or manner
- ontevreden
- Dissatisfied or displeased with something
- over
- Over or about, indicating subject or position
- smaak
- Taste or flavor perceived when eating
- binnen
- Within, inside or less than a limit
- minder
- Less, a smaller amount or degree
- dan
- Than, used in comparisons between things
- halve
- Half, one of two equal portions
- minuut
- A minute, sixty seconds of time
- weer
- Again, returning to a previous state
- uitspuugde
- Spat out something from the mouth
- enige
- The only one, sole among all others
- doorslikte
- Swallowed completely, gulped something all the way down
- overschoenen
- Galoshes or rubber overshoes worn over regular shoes
- Meneer
- Mister or sir, a polite male title
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