The Yellow Wallpaper — Page 9
I must not let her find me writing.
Ich darf nicht zulassen, dass sie mich beim Schreiben erwischt.
She is a perfect, and enthusiastic housekeeper, and hopes for no better profession.
Sie ist eine tadellose und begeisterte Hausfrau und hofft auf keinen besseren Beruf.
I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick!
Ich glaube tatsächlich, dass sie meint, das Schreiben habe mich krank gemacht!
But I can write when she is out, and see her a long way off from these windows.
Aber ich kann schreiben, wenn sie außer Haus ist, und sie von diesen Fenstern aus schon von weitem sehen.
There is one that commands the road, a lovely, shaded, winding road, and one that just looks off over the country.
Eines davon bietet Blick auf die Straße, eine reizvolle, schattige, gewundene Straße, und eines schaut einfach über das Land hinaus.
A lovely country, too, full of great elms and velvet meadows.
Eine reizvolle Landschaft auch, voller großer Ulmen und samtiger Wiesen.
This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.
Diese Tapete hat eine Art Untermuster in einem anderen Farbton, ein besonders irritierendes, denn man kann es nur bei bestimmtem Licht sehen, und auch dann nicht deutlich.
But in the places where it isn't faded, and where the sun is just so, I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to sulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design.
Aber an den Stellen, wo sie nicht verblasst ist und die Sonne genau so scheint, kann ich eine seltsame, herausfordernde, gestaltlose Art von Figur erkennen, die hinter diesem albernen und auffälligen Vordermuster zu schmollen scheint.
There's sister on the stairs!
Da ist Schwester auf der Treppe!
Well, the Fourth of July is over!
Nun, der Vierte Juli ist vorbei!
The people are gone and I am tired out.
Die Leute sind weg und ich bin völlig erschöpft.
John thought it might do me good to see a little company, so we just had mother and Nellie and the children down for a week.
John dachte, es könnte mir gut tun, etwas Gesellschaft zu haben, also hatten wir Mutter und Nellie und die Kinder für eine Woche bei uns.
Of course I didn't do a thing.
Natürlich habe ich nichts getan.
Jennie sees to everything now.
Jennie kümmert sich jetzt um alles.
But it tired me all the same.
Aber es hat mich dennoch ermüdet.
John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall.
John sagt, wenn ich mich nicht schneller erhole, wird er mich im Herbst zu Weir Mitchell schicken.
But I don't want to go there at all.
Aber ich will überhaupt nicht dorthin gehen.
Vocabulary
- darf
- May or am allowed to; modal verb form
- zulassen
- To allow, permit, or let something happen
- beim
- Contraction of 'bei dem,' meaning 'while doing'
- Schreiben
- Writing; the act of putting words on paper
- erwischt
- Caught in the act; past participle of erwischen
- tadellose
- Impeccable, flawless, without any fault or blemish
- begeisterte
- Enthusiastic, passionate, or excited about something
- Hausfrau
- Housewife; a woman managing a household
- hofft
- Hopes; third person singular of hoffen
- Beruf
- Profession, occupation, or career
- glaube
- I believe or think; first person of glauben
- tatsächlich
- Actually, truly, in fact, really
- meint
- Means or thinks; third person singular of meinen
- krank
- Sick, ill, or unwell
- schreiben
- To write; infinitive of the verb schreiben
- außer
- Except for, outside of, or besides
- Haus
- House, home, or building
- Fenstern
- Windows; dative plural of Fenster
- schon
- Already, even, as early as
- weitem
- From afar; dative form of weit (far, wide)
- davon
- Of them, from it; pronominal adverb
- bietet
- Offers or provides; third person singular of bieten
- Blick
- View, glance, or look
- Straße
- Street or road
- reizvolle
- Charming, attractive, or appealing; adjective inflected form
- schattige
- Shady, shadowy, or shaded; adjective inflected form
- gewundene
- Winding, twisting, or meandering; adjective form
- schaut
- Looks or gazes; third person singular of schauen
- einfach
- Simply, just, or straightforward
- Land
- Land, country, or countryside
- hinaus
- Out, beyond, outward; separable prefix or adverb
- Landschaft
- Landscape, scenery, or countryside view
- voller
- Full of; comparative or attributive adjective form
- Ulmen
- Elm trees; plural of Ulme
- samtiger
- Velvety, soft as velvet; inflected adjective form
- Wiesen
- Meadows or pastures; plural of Wiese
- Tapete
- Wallpaper covering interior walls of a room
- Art
- Kind, type, sort, or manner
- Untermuster
- Sub-pattern or underlying pattern beneath the main design
- Farbton
- Shade, hue, or tone of a color
- besonders
- Especially, particularly, or in a special way
- irritierendes
- Irritating or annoying; adjective in inflected form
- denn
- Because, for; coordinating conjunction giving reason
- man
- One, you, people; impersonal pronoun in German
- nur
- Only, just, merely
- bestimmtem
- Certain, specific, particular; dative adjective form
- Licht
- Light; illumination or a source of brightness
- deutlich
- Clearly, distinctly, obviously
- Stellen
- Places, spots, or positions; plural of Stelle
- verblasst
- Faded or bleached; where color has become pale
- Sonne
- Sun; the star at the center of the solar system
- genau
- Exactly, precisely, just right
- scheint
- Shines or seems; third person singular of scheinen
- seltsame
- Strange, odd, or peculiar; inflected adjective form
- herausfordernde
- Challenging or provocative; inflected adjective form
- gestaltlose
- Shapeless, formless, lacking a definite form
- Figur
- Figure, shape, or form of something
- erkennen
- To recognize, identify, or perceive something
- hinter
- Behind, in back of something
- albernen
- Silly, foolish, or absurd; inflected adjective form
- auffälligen
- Conspicuous, striking, or eye-catching; inflected form
- Vordermuster
- Foreground pattern; the main visible design on wallpaper
- schmollen
- To sulk or pout; showing displeasure by sulking
- Da
- There, then, since; adverb indicating place or time
- Schwester
- Sister; a female sibling
- Treppe
- Staircase or stairs
- Nun
- Now, well; adverb marking a new point in time
- Vierte
- Fourth; ordinal number in inflected form
- Juli
- July; the seventh month of the year
- vorbei
- Over, past, gone by; something has passed
- Leute
- People, folks; a common plural noun
- weg
- Away, gone; indicating departure or absence
- völlig
- Completely, totally, utterly
- erschöpft
- Exhausted, worn out, drained of energy
- dachte
- Thought; simple past tense of denken
- könnte
- Could; subjunctive II form of können
- etwas
- Something, somewhat, a little
- Gesellschaft
- Company, society, or social group
- also
- So, therefore, thus; drawing a conclusion
- Mutter
- Mother; a female parent
- Kinder
- Children; plural of Kind
- Woche
- Week; a period of seven days
- Natürlich
- Naturally, of course, obviously
- nichts
- Nothing; negation pronoun
- kümmert
- Cares for, looks after; third person of kümmern
- jetzt
- Now, at this moment
- alles
- Everything, all of it
- dennoch
- Nevertheless, still, yet; expressing contrast
- ermüdet
- Tired, fatigued; past participle or adjective of ermüden
- schneller
- Faster; comparative form of schnell
- erhole
- Recover; first person singular of erholen (reflexive)
- Herbst
- Autumn, fall; the season between summer and winter
- schicken
- To send someone or something somewhere
- überhaupt
- At all, in general, altogether
- dorthin
- To there, in that direction; directional adverb
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