{"id":23973,"date":"2014-02-23T18:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T22:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=23973"},"modified":"2014-02-23T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T23:45:10","slug":"sonderling-sunday-stolz-und-vorurteil-kapitel-drei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=23973","title":{"rendered":"Sonderling Sunday – Stolz und Vorurteil, Kapitel Drei"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time for Sonderling Sunday! That time of the week when I play with language by looking at the German translation of children’s books, or, in this case, of an English classic, Pride and Prejudice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Last time I looked at Stolz und Vorurteil<\/em><\/a>, we covered Chapter Two, so this time we are on Kapitel Drei<\/em>. This begins on page 8 in my English edition, Seite 12 auf Deutsch.<\/p>\n

“assistance of her five daughters” = Unterst\u00fctzung ihrer f\u00fcnf T\u00f6chter<\/em><\/p>\n

“satisfactory description” = befriedigende Beschreibung<\/em><\/p>\n

“barefaced questions” = unverbl\u00fcmten Fragen<\/em> (“unveiled questions”)<\/p>\n

“ingenious suppositions” = raffinierten Spekulationen<\/em> (“refined speculations”)<\/p>\n

“distant surmises” = unbestimmten Vermutungen<\/em> (“vague conjectures”)<\/p>\n

“wonderfully handsome” = erstaunlich gutaussehend<\/em><\/p>\n

“extremely agreeable” = au\u00dferordentlich sympathisch<\/em><\/p>\n

“easy, unaffected manners” = ungezwungenes, nat\u00fcrliches Wesen<\/em> (“informal, natural ways”)<\/p>\n

“with an air of decided fashion” = mit einem Auftreten von unzweifelhafter Lebensart<\/em>
\n(“with an occurrence of undoubtful life-art”)<\/p>\n

“noble mien” = vornehme Haltung<\/em><\/p>\n

“a fine figure of a man” = einen stattlichen Mann<\/em> (“a stately man”)<\/p>\n

“admiration” = Bewunderung<\/em><\/p>\n

“his manners gave a disgust” = sein Benehmen einen Abscheu hervorrief<\/em><\/p>\n

“which turned the tide of his popularity” = der das Blatt seiner Beliebtheit wendete<\/em>
\n(“which the page of his belovedness turned”)<\/p>\n

“forbidding, disagreeable countenance” = absto\u00dfendes, \u00fcbellauniges Gesicht<\/em>
\n(“repulsive, ill-tempered face”)<\/p>\n

“unreserved” = freim\u00fctig<\/em> (“free-speaking”)<\/p>\n

“scarcity of gentlemen” = Mangel an Herren<\/em><\/p>\n

“standing about by yourself in this stupid manner”
\n= so stumpfsinnig allein herumstehen<\/em>
\n(“so stupidly alone around-stand”)<\/p>\n

“fastidious” = anspruchsvoll<\/em> (“demanding-full”)<\/p>\n

“tolerable” = passabel<\/em><\/p>\n

“wasting” = verschwendest<\/em><\/p>\n

“lively, playful disposition” = lebhaftes, spielerisches Naturell<\/em><\/p>\n

“anything ridiculous” = allen Absurden<\/em><\/p>\n

“which had raised such splendid expectations”
\n= das so gl\u00e4nzende Erwartungen geweckt hatte<\/em>
\n(“that so shiny expectations waked had”)<\/p>\n

“sprained his ankle” = einen Kn\u00f6chel verstaucht<\/em><\/p>\n

“any description of finery” = jegliche Beschreibung von Putz<\/em><\/p>\n

“shocking rudeness” = emp\u00f6renden Unversch\u00e4mtheit<\/em> (“outrageous insolence”)<\/p>\n

“so high and so conceited” = so \u00fcberheblich und eingebildet<\/em><\/p>\n

And that’s the end of Chapter 3.<\/p>\n

There were lots of fun, descriptive words in this section. The next time you see einen stattlichen Mann<\/em>, who is erstaunlich gutaussehend<\/em> and au\u00dferordentlich sympathisch<\/em>, for whom you have much Bewunderung<\/em>, you’ll know how to give a befriedigende Beschreibung<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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