Treasure Island — Page 7
People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was a fine excitement in a quiet country life, and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
Die Leute hatten sich damals gefürchtet, aber im Rückblick gefiel es ihnen recht gut; es war eine willkommene Aufregung in einem stillen Landleben, und es gab sogar eine Gruppe jüngerer Männer, die so taten, als ob sie ihn bewunderten, ihn einen „echten Seebären" und einen „alten Salzwasser-Wolf" und ähnliche Namen nannten und sagten, das sei die Art von Mann, die England auf See so gefürchtet machte.
In one way, indeed, he bade fair to ruin us, for he kept on staying week after week, and at last month after month, so that all the money had been long exhausted, and still my father never plucked up the heart to insist on having more.
In gewisser Hinsicht drohte er uns tatsächlich zu ruinieren, denn er blieb Woche für Woche, und schließlich Monat für Monat, sodass das ganze Geld längst aufgebraucht war, und doch brachte mein Vater nie den Mut auf, darauf zu bestehen, mehr zu bekommen.
If ever he mentioned it, the captain blew through his nose so loudly that you might say he roared, and stared my poor father out of the room.
Wenn er es je erwähnte, schnaufte der Kapitän so laut durch die Nase, dass man hätte sagen können, er brüllte, und starrte meinen armen Vater aus dem Zimmer.
I have seen him wringing his hands after such a rebuff, and I am sure the annoyance and the terror he lived in must have greatly hastened his early and unhappy death.
Ich habe ihn nach solch einer Zurückweisung die Hände ringen sehen, und ich bin sicher, dass der Verdruss und die Angst, in der er lebte, seinen frühen und unglücklichen Tod sehr beschleunigt haben müssen.
All the time he lived with us the captain made no change whatever in his dress but to buy some stockings from a hawker.
Die ganze Zeit, die er bei uns lebte, änderte der Kapitän nichts an seiner Kleidung, außer dass er einem Hausierer einige Strümpfe abkaufte.
One of the cocks of his hat having fallen down, he let it hang from that day forth, though it was a great annoyance when it blew.
Einer der Hutränder war heruntergefallen, und er ließ ihn von jenem Tag an herabhängen, obwohl es sehr lästig war, wenn es blies.
I remember the appearance of his coat, which he patched himself upstairs in his room, and which, before the end, was nothing but patches.
Ich erinnere mich an das Aussehen seines Rocks, den er selbst oben in seinem Zimmer flickte, und der am Ende nichts als Flicken war.
Vocabulary
- Leute
- People, folks, persons in a group
- hatten
- Past tense of haben: had
- sich
- Reflexive pronoun: themselves, oneself
- damals
- At that time, back then
- gefürchtet
- Past participle of fürchten: feared, dreaded
- aber
- Conjunction: but, however
- Rückblick
- Looking back, retrospect, review of the past
- gefiel
- Past tense of gefallen: pleased, was liked
- ihnen
- Dative pronoun: to them, for them
- recht
- Rather, quite, fairly; also: right, correct
- gut
- Good, well, fine
- war
- Past tense of sein: was
- willkommene
- Welcome, agreeable, appreciated (adjective inflected)
- Aufregung
- Excitement, agitation, stir, commotion
- stillen
- Quiet, still, calm (adjective inflected)
- Landleben
- Rural life, life in the countryside
- gab
- Past tense of geben: gave, there was
- sogar
- Even, in fact, as much as
- Gruppe
- Group, cluster of people or things
- jüngerer
- Younger (comparative adjective, genitive inflection)
- Männer
- Men, male persons (plural of Mann)
- taten
- Past tense of tun: did, acted
- als
- As, when, than (conjunction/preposition)
- ob
- Whether, if (subordinating conjunction)
- bewunderten
- Past tense of bewundern: admired, looked up to
- echten
- Real, genuine, true (adjective inflected)
- Seebären
- Sea bears; colloquial term for grizzled sailors
- alten
- Old (adjective, dative/genitive inflection)
- Salzwasser-Wolf
- Salt-water wolf; nickname for a seasoned sailor
- ähnliche
- Similar, like, comparable (adjective inflected)
- Namen
- Names (plural of Name)
- nannten
- Past tense of nennen: called, named, referred to
- sagten
- Past tense of sagen: said, told, stated
- sei
- Subjunctive of sein: be, is (reported speech)
- Art
- Type, kind, sort, manner
- Mann
- Man, husband, male person
- See
- Sea, ocean; also lake (feminine = sea)
- machte
- Past tense of machen: made, did
- gewisser
- Certain, a certain, particular (adjective inflected)
- Hinsicht
- Respect, regard, aspect, point of view
- drohte
- Past tense of drohen: threatened, loomed
- tatsächlich
- Actually, indeed, in fact, truly
- ruinieren
- To ruin, destroy financially or otherwise
- denn
- Because, for; also: then (conjunction/particle)
- blieb
- Past tense of bleiben: stayed, remained
- Woche
- Week, a period of seven days
- schließlich
- Finally, eventually, after all, in the end
- Monat
- Month, one of twelve calendar periods
- sodass
- So that, with the result that
- ganze
- Whole, entire, complete (adjective inflected)
- Geld
- Money, currency, funds
- längst
- Long since, long ago, for a long time
- aufgebraucht
- Past participle of aufbrauchen: used up, exhausted
- doch
- Yet, still, however, after all (particle)
- brachte
- Past tense of bringen: brought, produced
- Vater
- Father, male parent
- nie
- Never, not ever
- Mut
- Courage, bravery, boldness
- darauf
- On it, upon it, thereupon, about it
- bestehen
- To insist on; to pass; to consist of
- mehr
- More, additional, further
- bekommen
- To receive, get, obtain
- Wenn
- When, if, whenever (subordinating conjunction)
- je
- Ever, at any time; each (adverb/particle)
- erwähnte
- Past tense of erwähnen: mentioned, referred to
- schnaufte
- Past tense of schnaufen: snorted, huffed, puffed
- Kapitän
- Captain, commander of a ship
- laut
- Loud, loudly, noisy
- durch
- Preposition: through, across, by means of
- Nase
- Nose, the facial organ of smell
- dass
- That (subordinating conjunction)
- man
- One, you, they (impersonal pronoun)
- hätte
- Conditional/subjunctive of haben: would have
- sagen
- To say, tell, speak
- können
- Modal verb: can, to be able to
- brüllte
- Past tense of brüllen: roared, bellowed, yelled
- starrte
- Past tense of starren: stared, gazed fixedly
- meinen
- My (accusative masculine); also infinitive: to mean
- armen
- Poor, unfortunate, pitiable (adjective inflected)
- Zimmer
- Room, chamber in a building
- nach
- Preposition: after, to, toward, according to
- solch
- Such, of that kind (demonstrative adjective)
- Zurückweisung
- Rejection, rebuff, refusal
- Hände
- Hands (plural of Hand)
- ringen
- To wring, struggle, wrestle; wring one's hands
- sehen
- To see, observe, watch
- sicher
- Sure, certain, safe, secure
- Verdruss
- Vexation, annoyance, frustration, displeasure
- Angst
- Fear, anxiety, dread, worry
- lebte
- Past tense of leben: lived, was alive
- frühen
- Early (adjective, dative/accusative inflection)
- unglücklichen
- Unhappy, unfortunate, unlucky (adjective inflected)
- Tod
- Death, the end of life
- sehr
- Very, highly, greatly, extremely
- beschleunigt
- Accelerated, hastened, sped up (past participle)
- haben
- To have; auxiliary verb in perfect tenses
- müssen
- Modal verb: must, to have to, need to
- Zeit
- Time, period, era
- bei
- Preposition: by, near, with, at
- änderte
- Past tense of ändern: changed, altered
- nichts
- Nothing, not anything
- Kleidung
- Clothing, attire, garments
- außer
- Except, besides, apart from, outside of
- Hausierer
- Peddler, door-to-door salesman, hawker
- einige
- Some, a few, several
- Strümpfe
- Stockings, socks (plural of Strumpf)
- abkaufte
- Past tense of abkaufen: bought from, purchased from
- Hutränder
- Hat brims (plural of Hutrand)
- heruntergefallen
- Past participle of herunterfallen: fallen down, drooped
- ließ
- Past tense of lassen: let, allowed, had something done
- jenem
- That, that particular (dative demonstrative)
- Tag
- Day, daytime
- herabhängen
- To hang down, droop, dangle
- obwohl
- Although, even though, despite the fact that
- lästig
- Annoying, bothersome, troublesome, cumbersome
- wenn
- When, if, whenever (subordinating conjunction)
- blies
- Past tense of blasen: blew (wind blew)
- erinnere
- First person present of erinnern: remember, recall
- Aussehen
- Appearance, look, outward aspect
- Rocks
- Genitive of Rock: coat, jacket, skirt
- selbst
- Even; self, myself, himself (emphatic particle)
- oben
- Above, on top, upstairs, up there
- flickte
- Past tense of flicken: patched, mended, repaired
- Ende
- End, conclusion, final part
- Flicken
- Patches (plural); also infinitive: to patch
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