The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments — Page 12
[2] To the pieces of poetry which are interspersed throughout the work he has paid especial attention; not only correcting the errors which he found in them, but also always adding the vowel-points, and generally, commentaries or explanations.
[2] Den Gedichtstücken, die im gesamten Werk verstreut sind, hat er besondere Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet; nicht nur, indem er die darin gefundenen Fehler korrigierte, sondern auch, indem er stets die Vokalzeichen sowie im Allgemeinen Kommentare oder Erläuterungen hinzufügte.
Thus I have shewn that I am very greatly indebted to him for his learned labours.
So habe ich gezeigt, dass ich ihm für seine gelehrten Arbeiten in sehr hohem Maße zu Dank verpflichtet bin.
I should, however, add, that I have ventured to differ from him in interpreting a few words; having found more appropriate meanings assigned to them by Arabs in parts not visited by him, or such meanings given in printed dictionaries with which he is unacquainted; and I have also corrected a few errors which have escaped his notice.[3]
Ich sollte jedoch hinzufügen, dass ich es gewagt habe, von ihm bei der Deutung einiger Wörter abzuweichen; da ich ihnen von Arabern in Gegenden, die er nicht besucht hat, passendere Bedeutungen zugewiesen fand, oder solche Bedeutungen in gedruckten Wörterbüchern vorfand, die ihm unbekannt sind; und ich habe auch einige Fehler korrigiert, die seiner Aufmerksamkeit entgangen sind.[3]
Without the valuable aid which he has afforded me, I would not have attempted the translation; nor with it would I have done so were it not for the advantage that I derive from my having lived among Arabs.
Ohne die wertvolle Unterstützung, die er mir gewährt hat, hätte ich die Übersetzung nicht in Angriff genommen; und selbst mit ihr hätte ich dies nicht getan, wäre es nicht für den Vorteil, den ich daraus ziehe, unter Arabern gelebt zu haben.
No translator can always be certain that, from twenty or more significations which are borne by one Arabic word, he has selected that which his author intended to convey; but, circumstanced as I am, I have the satisfaction of feeling confident that I have never given, to a word or phrase in this work, a meaning which is inconsistent with its presenting faithful pictures of Arab life and manners.
Kein Übersetzer kann stets sicher sein, dass er aus zwanzig oder mehr Bedeutungen, die ein arabisches Wort trägt, jene ausgewählt hat, die sein Autor vermitteln wollte; aber in meiner Lage habe ich die Genugtuung, zuversichtlich zu sein, dass ich einem Wort oder einer Wendung in diesem Werk niemals eine Bedeutung gegeben habe, die damit unvereinbar wäre, treue Bilder des arabischen Lebens und der arabischen Sitten zu vermitteln.
"I have thought it right to omit such tales, anecdotes, &c., as are comparatively uninteresting or on any account objectionable.
„Ich habe es für richtig gehalten, solche Geschichten, Anekdoten usw. wegzulassen, die vergleichsweise uninteressant oder aus irgendeinem Grund anstößig sind.
Vocabulary
- Gedichtstücken
- Poetic passages or fragments within a larger work
- gesamten
- Entire, whole, complete
- Werk
- Work, literary or artistic creation
- verstreut
- Scattered, spread throughout
- besondere
- Special, particular, extraordinary
- Aufmerksamkeit
- Attention, care, attentiveness given to something
- gewidmet
- Devoted, dedicated attention or effort to something
- indem
- By doing, in that, while
- darin
- In it, therein, within that
- gefundenen
- Found, discovered (adjective form)
- Fehler
- Errors, mistakes, faults
- korrigierte
- Corrected, fixed errors in something
- sondern
- But rather, used after negation to contrast
- stets
- Always, constantly, at all times
- Vokalzeichen
- Vowel markings, diacritical signs indicating vowels
- sowie
- As well as, and also, together with
- Allgemeinen
- General, in general, overall
- Kommentare
- Comments, annotations, explanatory remarks
- Erläuterungen
- Explanations, clarifications, elucidations
- hinzufügte
- Added, appended additional content to something
- gezeigt
- Shown, demonstrated, indicated
- gelehrten
- Scholarly, learned, erudite
- Arbeiten
- Works, scholarly efforts, pieces of work
- hohem
- High, great, considerable (dative form)
- Maße
- Degree, measure, extent
- Dank
- Thanks, gratitude, acknowledgment
- verpflichtet
- Obligated, indebted, duty-bound to someone
- sollte
- Should, ought to, past subjunctive of 'sollen'
- jedoch
- However, nevertheless, yet
- hinzufügen
- To add, to append, to include additionally
- gewagt
- Dared, ventured, risked doing something
- Deutung
- Interpretation, meaning, explanation of something
- einiger
- Some, a few, of some (genitive form)
- Wörter
- Words, individual lexical items
- abzuweichen
- To deviate, to differ from an established view
- Arabern
- Arabs, Arabic-speaking people (dative plural)
- Gegenden
- Regions, areas, localities, districts
- besucht
- Visited, frequented, attended a place
- passendere
- More fitting, more appropriate, better suited
- Bedeutungen
- Meanings, definitions, senses of words
- zugewiesen
- Assigned, attributed, allocated to something
- fand
- Found, encountered, discovered (simple past)
- solche
- Such, of that kind, similar ones
- gedruckten
- Printed, published (adjective form)
- Wörterbüchern
- Dictionaries, reference books for word meanings
- vorfand
- Found upon arrival, encountered already existing
- unbekannt
- Unknown, unfamiliar, not recognized
- einige
- Some, a few, several
- korrigiert
- Corrected, amended, fixed (past participle)
- entgangen
- Escaped notice, gone unnoticed, been overlooked
- Ohne
- Without, lacking, in the absence of
- wertvolle
- Valuable, precious, highly useful
- Unterstützung
- Support, assistance, help provided by someone
- gewährt
- Granted, provided, given as support
- hätte
- Would have, past subjunctive of 'haben'
- Übersetzung
- Translation, rendering into another language
- Angriff
- Attack; here: undertaking, tackling a task
- genommen
- Taken, undertaken (past participle of 'nehmen')
- selbst
- Myself, himself, even, oneself
- getan
- Done, performed, accomplished (past participle)
- wäre
- Would be, past subjunctive of 'sein'
- Vorteil
- Advantage, benefit, favorable position
- daraus
- From it, out of it, therefrom
- ziehe
- Draw, derive, extract (first person singular)
- gelebt
- Lived, resided, existed (past participle)
- Kein
- No, not a single, none
- Übersetzer
- Translator, one who renders texts into another language
- sicher
- Sure, certain, safe, confident
- zwanzig
- Twenty, the number 20
- arabisches
- Arabic, of or relating to Arabic language
- Wort
- Word, single unit of language
- trägt
- Carries, bears, conveys (third person singular)
- jene
- That, those, the one (demonstrative pronoun)
- ausgewählt
- Selected, chosen, picked out carefully
- Autor
- Author, writer of a text or book
- vermitteln
- To convey, to communicate, to mediate meaning
- wollte
- Wanted to, intended to (simple past of 'wollen')
- Lage
- Situation, position, circumstance one is in
- Genugtuung
- Satisfaction, gratification, sense of fulfillment
- zuversichtlich
- Confident, optimistic, assured about something
- Wendung
- Turn of phrase, expression, idiomatic formulation
- niemals
- Never, at no time, not ever
- Bedeutung
- Meaning, significance, sense of a word
- gegeben
- Given, assigned, attributed (past participle of 'geben')
- damit
- So that, with it, in order to
- unvereinbar
- Incompatible, inconsistent, irreconcilable with something
- treue
- Faithful, loyal, accurate, true to the original
- Bilder
- Images, pictures, portrayals, depictions
- arabischen
- Arabic, of Arab culture or language (adjective)
- Lebens
- Life, of life (genitive singular)
- Sitten
- Customs, manners, traditions, social norms
- richtig
- Correct, right, proper, accurate
- gehalten
- Held, considered, regarded as appropriate
- Geschichten
- Stories, tales, narratives
- Anekdoten
- Anecdotes, short amusing or illustrative stories
- usw
- Abbreviation for 'und so weiter', meaning 'etc.'
- wegzulassen
- To omit, to leave out, to exclude something
- vergleichsweise
- Comparatively, relatively, by comparison
- uninteressant
- Uninteresting, boring, not engaging
- irgendeinem
- Some, any particular (dative indefinite pronoun)
- Grund
- Reason, cause, ground, basis for something
- anstößig
- Offensive, objectionable, indecent, causing offense
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