Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience — Page 15
The necessaries of life for man in this climate may, accurately enough, be distributed under the several heads of Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Fuel; for not till we have secured these are we prepared to entertain the true problems of life with freedom and a prospect of success.
Die Lebensnotwendigkeiten des Menschen in diesem Klima lassen sich, genau genug, unter den verschiedenen Rubriken Nahrung, Unterkunft, Kleidung und Brennstoff einteilen; denn erst wenn wir diese gesichert haben, sind wir bereit, die wahren Probleme des Lebens mit Freiheit und einer Aussicht auf Erfolg anzugehen.
Man has invented, not only houses, but clothes and cooked food; and possibly from the accidental discovery of the warmth of fire, and the consequent use of it, at first a luxury, arose the present necessity to sit by it.
Der Mensch hat nicht nur Häuser erfunden, sondern auch Kleidung und gekochte Speisen; und möglicherweise entstand aus der zufälligen Entdeckung der Wärme des Feuers und dem daraus folgenden Gebrauch desselben, zunächst ein Luxus, die heutige Notwendigkeit, dabei zu sitzen.
We observe cats and dogs acquiring the same second nature.
Wir beobachten, dass Katzen und Hunde dieselbe zweite Natur annehmen.
By proper Shelter and Clothing we legitimately retain our own internal heat; but with an excess of these, or of Fuel, that is, with an external heat greater than our own internal, may not cookery properly be said to begin?
Durch angemessene Unterkunft und Kleidung bewahren wir rechtmäßig unsere eigene innere Wärme; aber bei einem Übermaß davon oder an Brennstoff, das heißt bei einer äußeren Wärme, die größer ist als unsere eigene innere, kann man da nicht zu Recht sagen, dass das Kochen beginnt?
Darwin, the naturalist, says of the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, that while his own party, who were well clothed and sitting close to a fire, were far from too warm, these naked savages, who were farther off, were observed, to his great surprise, "to be streaming with perspiration at undergoing such a roasting."
Darwin, der Naturforscher, berichtet von den Bewohnern Feuerlands, dass, während seine eigene Gruppe, die gut gekleidet war und nahe am Feuer saß, alles andere als zu warm war, diese nackten Wilden, die weiter entfernt waren, zu seiner großen Überraschung beobachtet wurden, "vor Schweiß zu triefen, weil sie einem solchen Rösten ausgesetzt waren."
So, we are told, the New Hollander goes naked with impunity, while the European shivers in his clothes.
So, wird uns berichtet, geht der Neuholländer ungestraft nackt, während der Europäer in seinen Kleidern friert.
Is it impossible to combine the hardiness of these savages with the intellectualness of the civilized man?
Ist es unmöglich, die Robustheit dieser Wilden mit der Geistigkeit des zivilisierten Menschen zu verbinden?
According to Liebig, man's body is a stove, and food the fuel which keeps up the internal combustion in the lungs.
Nach Liebig ist der menschliche Körper ein Ofen, und die Nahrung ist der Brennstoff, der die innere Verbrennung in den Lungen aufrechterhält.
Vocabulary
- Lebensnotwendigkeiten
- Necessities of life; essential things humans need
- Menschen
- Of humans; human beings, people
- Klima
- Climate; prevailing weather conditions of a region
- lassen
- To let, allow, or have something done
- genau
- Exactly, precisely, accurately
- genug
- Enough, sufficient, adequately
- verschiedenen
- Various, different, diverse (inflected form)
- Rubriken
- Categories, headings, sections, rubrics
- Nahrung
- Food, nourishment, sustenance for living beings
- Unterkunft
- Shelter, accommodation, lodging for people
- Kleidung
- Clothing, garments, attire worn by people
- Brennstoff
- Fuel, combustible material used for generating heat
- einteilen
- To divide, classify, or organize into categories
- denn
- Conjunction: because, for, since
- erst
- Only, first, not until a certain point
- gesichert
- Secured, ensured, made safe or certain
- bereit
- Ready, prepared, willing to do something
- wahren
- True, genuine, real (inflected adjective form)
- Probleme
- Problems, issues, challenges to be solved
- Freiheit
- Freedom, liberty, independence from constraint
- Aussicht
- Prospect, outlook, view, expectation of success
- Erfolg
- Success, achievement, favorable outcome
- anzugehen
- To tackle, approach, or address a problem
- Mensch
- Human being, person, mankind
- Häuser
- Houses, homes, residential buildings (plural)
- erfunden
- Invented, devised, created something new (past participle)
- sondern
- But rather, on the contrary (corrective conjunction)
- gekochte
- Cooked, boiled (inflected adjective from kochen)
- Speisen
- Dishes, foods, prepared meals
- möglicherweise
- Possibly, perhaps, conceivably
- entstand
- Originated, arose, came into being (past tense)
- zufälligen
- Accidental, chance, coincidental (inflected adjective)
- Entdeckung
- Discovery, finding something previously unknown
- Wärme
- Warmth, heat, thermal energy
- Feuers
- Genitive of Feuer: of fire
- daraus
- From it, out of that, resulting from it
- folgenden
- Following, resulting, subsequent (inflected adjective)
- Gebrauch
- Use, usage, application of something
- zunächst
- At first, initially, for the time being
- Luxus
- Luxury, extravagance, non-essential comfort
- heutige
- Today's, modern, current (inflected adjective)
- Notwendigkeit
- Necessity, requirement, something indispensable
- dabei
- In doing so, at the same time, thereby
- sitzen
- To sit, to be seated
- beobachten
- To observe, watch, notice something carefully
- Katzen
- Cats (plural of Katze)
- Hunde
- Dogs (plural of Hund)
- dieselbe
- The same (feminine demonstrative pronoun)
- Natur
- Nature; innate character or natural world
- annehmen
- To adopt, accept, assume something
- angemessene
- Appropriate, adequate, suitable (inflected adjective)
- bewahren
- To preserve, protect, maintain, keep safe
- rechtmäßig
- Legitimate, lawful, rightful, in accordance with law
- eigene
- Own, one's own (inflected adjective)
- innere
- Inner, internal, inward (inflected adjective)
- Übermaß
- Excess, surplus, overabundance of something
- davon
- Of it, thereof, from it
- heißt
- Means, is called; third-person singular of heißen
- äußeren
- Outer, external, exterior (inflected adjective)
- größer
- Bigger, larger, greater (comparative of groß)
- Recht
- Right, law, justice; correctly
- Kochen
- Cooking, boiling; the act of preparing food
- beginnt
- Begins, starts (third-person singular of beginnen)
- Naturforscher
- Naturalist, natural scientist, nature researcher
- berichtet
- Reports, recounts (third-person singular of berichten)
- Bewohnern
- Inhabitants, residents, dwellers (dative plural)
- während
- While, during, whereas (conjunction/preposition)
- Gruppe
- Group, party, team of people
- gekleidet
- Dressed, clothed (past participle of kleiden)
- nahe
- Near, close, nearby
- Feuer
- Fire, flame, blaze
- saß
- Sat; past tense of sitzen (to sit)
- alles
- Everything, all (indefinite pronoun)
- warm
- Warm, heated
- nackten
- Naked, bare, unclothed (inflected adjective)
- weiter
- Further, farther, more distant
- entfernt
- Distant, removed, located far away
- Überraschung
- Surprise, astonishment, unexpected event
- beobachtet
- Observed, watched, noticed (past participle)
- Schweiß
- Sweat, perspiration from the body
- triefen
- To drip, to be dripping with (liquid)
- solchen
- Such, of such a kind (inflected demonstrative)
- Rösten
- Roasting, toasting; exposure to intense heat
- ausgesetzt
- Exposed, subjected to something (past participle)
- ungestraft
- Without punishment, with impunity
- nackt
- Naked, bare, without clothing
- Europäer
- European (person from Europe)
- Kleidern
- Clothes, garments (dative plural of Kleid)
- friert
- Freezes, is cold (third-person singular of frieren)
- unmöglich
- Impossible, not feasible, unable to occur
- Robustheit
- Robustness, hardiness, physical toughness
- Geistigkeit
- Intellectuality, spirituality, mental refinement
- zivilisierten
- Civilized, cultured (inflected past participle/adjective)
- verbinden
- To combine, connect, link, unite things together
- menschliche
- Human (inflected adjective from menschlich)
- Körper
- Body, physical frame of a human or animal
- Ofen
- Oven, furnace, stove for heating or cooking
- Verbrennung
- Combustion, burning, oxidation process
- Lungen
- Lungs (plural of Lunge), respiratory organs
- aufrechterhält
- Maintains, sustains, keeps upright (third-person singular)
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