Whale - der Wal
(Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a grammar school.)
Consumptive - schwindschtig
Usher - Platzanweiser Gerichtsdiener zuweisen, anweisen, fhre
grammar school - Mittelschule ;Gymnasium
The pale Usher"threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him
threadbare - fadenscheinig
now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer
lexicons - (lexicon) Lexikon, Wortschatz
grammars - (grammar) Grammatik, Sprachlehre, Grammatiktheorie
queer - seltsam unwohl schwul, lesbisch, queer, Queers , Homosexuelle
handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the
handkerchief - Taschentuch
mockingly - spttisch
embellished - (embellish) bereichern, schmcken, verschnern, ausschmcke
gay - vergngt, schwul, homosexuell, lustig, heiter
known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it
somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.
somehow - irgendwie
mildly - sanft, mild
mortality - Sterblichkeit, Mortalitt, Sterbeziffer, Mortalittsziffer
While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what
name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through
leaving out - auslassend
ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the
ignorance - Unwissenheit, Unwissen, Nichtwissen
maketh - macht
signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.
signification - Sinn, Bedeutung
"_Hackluyt._
WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. _hval_. This animal is named from
Sw - Software, Shareware, KW Kurzwelle
roundness or rolling; for in Dan. _hvalt_ is arched or vaulted.
roundness - Rundheit
arched - (arch) Bogen
vaulted - (vault) sich wlben, berwlben
"_Websters Dictionary._
WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. _Wallen_;
A.S. _Walw-ian_, to roll, to wallow. "_Richardsons Dictionary._
wallow - im Schmutz wlzen
-ו, _Hebrew_.
Hebrew - hebrisch Hebrer, Hebrerin, Hebrisch
ϰητος, _Greek_.
ϰητος - ?-???
Greek - griechisch Griechisch, griechische Sprache, Grieche, Griechin
CETUS, _Latin_.
Latin - lateinisch, Latein
WHL, _Anglo-Saxon_.
WH - WHA
HVALT, _Danish_.
WAL, _Dutch_.
Dutch - niederlndisch, hollndisch, Niederlndisch, Hollndisc
HWAL, _Swedish_.
Swedish - Schwedisch
WHALE, _Icelandic_.
Icelandic - Islndisch
WHALE, _English_.
BALLENA, _Spanish_.
Spanish - spanisch Spanisch Spanier
PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, _Fegee_.
PEHEE-NUEE-NUEE, _Erromangoan_.
EXTRACTS - (extract) Auszug Extrakt entnehmen, herausziehen, entziehen
Sub - Unter.
Librarian - Bibliothekar, Bibliothekarin, Archivar, Archivarin
It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of
mere - nur, schier, blo
painstaking - akribisch
burrower - Hhlenforscher
grub - Larve, Wurm, Fressalien, Futter
worm - Wurm elender Wurm
a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long
devil - Teufel, Satan, Teufelin, reizen, rgern
Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random
Vaticans - (Vatican) Vatikan vatikanisch
stalls - (stall) Strmungsabris
random - Rando zufllig Durchschnitts- random
allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever,
allusions - (allusion) Anspielung, Allusion
whales - Wale; (whale) Wale
whatsoever - berhaupt
sacred or profane. Therefore you must not, in every case at least,
sacred - heilig
profane - weltlich profan
take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in
authentic - authentisch, echt, wahr
these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As
veritable - wahrhaftig
gospel - Evangelium
cetology - Walkunde, Walforschung
touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here
appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as
solely - nur einzig und allein ausschlielich, exklusiv, alleinig
affording a glancing birds eye view of what has been promiscuously
glancing - blickend; (glance) blicken Blick, Streifblick, Glanz, Steinkohle
promiscuously - verworrene, verworren
said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and
Leviathan - Leviathan, Meerungeheuer
generations, including our own.
So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am.
fare - Tarifzone, Fahrpreiszone, Teilstrecke;Nahrung, Fahrprei
thee - dich, dir
commentator - Kommentator, Kommentatorin
Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this
Thou - du
belongest - gehren
hopeless - hoffnungslos
sallow - farblos, blsslich, fahl, Salweide, bleich
tribe - Stamm, Volksstamm, Sippe, Volk
world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too
Sherry - Sherry
rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel
rosy - rosig, rosenfarbig
poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them
devilish - teuflisch
convivial - gastlich, festlich
bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether
bluntly - grob, frei heraus, stumpf
altogether - ganz und gar, ohne Ausnahme, ausnahmslos, insgesamt
unpleasant sadness"Give it up, Sub-Subs! For by how much the more
sadness - Traurigkeit Schicksalsschlag, Pech
Subs - (sub) Unter.
pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for
ye - euch, ihr, dir, du
ever go thankless! Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the
thankless - undankbar
Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the
gulp - Schluck schlucken schlingen, verschlingen
hie - eilen
aloft - oben, droben
royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before
mast - Mast
are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of
clearing out - Entrmpelung
heavens - (Heaven) Himmel, Firmament, Paradies
refugees - (refugee) Flchtling, Flchtlingin
long-pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming.
pampered - (pamper) verwhnen, htscheln
Here ye strike but splintered hearts together"there, ye shall strike
strike - streichen schlagen prgen streiken scheinen die Fahne streichen Strike Streik Schlag
splintered - (splinter) Span, Splitter
unsplinterable glasses!
unsplinterable - unsplitterbar
And God created great whales. "_Genesis_.
Genesis - Genese, Genesis
Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep
to be hoary. "_Job_.
hoary - altersgrau, asbach, uralt, ergraut
Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.
Lord - Gebieter Herr herrschen
swallow - schlucken, verschlingen, anbeien, einstecken
"_Jonah_.
There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to
play therein. "_Psalms_.
therein - darin
Psalms - (Psalm) Psalm
In that day, the Lord with his sore, and great, and strong sword,
sore - weh, wund, schmerzend, schmerzhaft
sword - Schwert Schwertkmpfer, Schwertkmpferin
shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that
piercing - Piercing durchdringend, stechend, beien
serpent - Schlange, Serpent
crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
crooked - (to crook) sich krmme
slay - erschlagen
dragon - Drachen, Drache
"_Isaiah_.
And what thing soever besides cometh within the chaos of this
soever - auch immer
besides - (beside) neben
cometh - (come) Das kann doch nichts schaden
chaos - Chaos, Unordnung, Durcheinander . Wirrwar
monsters mouth, be it beast, boat, or stone, down it goes all
beast - Tier, Bestie, Unmensch, Biest
incontinently that foul great swallow of his, and perisheth in the
incontinently - unmig, unmige
foul - schmutzig
bottomless gulf of his paunch. "_Hollands Plutarchs Morals_.
bottomless - pofrei
gulf - Golf, Meerbusen
paunch - Pansen Wampe, Plauze, Wanst
Morals - (moral) moralisch, sittlich, Moral
The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are:
breedeth - brtet
among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as
Whirlpooles - Whirlpools
much in length as four acres or arpens of land. "_Hollands Pliny_.
acres - (acre) Morgen, Acker, Joch, Joch Landes
Pliny - Plinius
Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a
proceeded - (proceed) vorgehen
sunrise - Sonnenaufgang
great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the
monsters - (monster) Monster, Ungeheuer
former, one was of a most monstrous size.... This came towards us,
former - erstgenannt, ehem. ehemalig, frhere, frher
monstrous - ungeheuerlich, monstrs, grotesk, monsterhaft, monsterartig
open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea
before him into a foam. "_Tookes Lucian_. _The True History_.
foam - Schaum Schaumgummi schumen
He visited this country also with a view of catching horse-whales,
which had bones of very great value for their teeth, of which he
brought some to the king.... The best whales were catched in his own
catched - (catch) Schnappverschluss, Fang, Arretierung
country, of which some were forty-eight, some fifty yards long. He
said that he was one of six who had killed sixty in two days.
"_Other or Others verbal narrative taken down from his mouth by King
verbal - wrtlich, verbal, mndlich, zeitwrtlich
Alfred, A.D._ 890.
And whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that
whereas - wohingegen, wogegen, whrend, wobei
vessel - Schiff, Boot, Wasserfahrzeug, Gef, Behlter
enter into the dreadful gulf of this monsters (whales) mouth, are
dreadful - furchtbar, schrecklich
immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea-gudgeon retires into it in
swallowed up - verschluckte
gudgeon - Zapfen
great security, and there sleeps. "MONTAIGNE. "_Apology for Raimond
Apology - Entschuldigung Apologie
Sebond_.
Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan
Nick - Kerbe;einschneiden
described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.
noble - Adeliger, Adliger, Adelige, Adlige
prophet - Prophet, Prophetin
"_Rabelais_.
This whales liver was two cartloads. "_Stowes Annals_.
cartloads - (cartload) Fuhre, Ladung
The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like boiling
seethe - kochen, sieden, schumen, sprudeln
pan. "_Lord Bacons Version of the Psalms_.
Touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or ork we have received
bulk - Groteil
nothing certain. They grow exceeding fat, insomuch that an incredible
exceeding - (exceed) berschreiten, hinausgehen ber, bertreffe
insomuch - dass, dermaen
quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale. "_Ibid_.
extracted - (extract) Auszug Extrakt entnehmen, herausziehen, entziehen
_History of Life and Death_.
The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise.
sovereignest - am souvernsten
inward - innere innen
bruise - Prellung, Bluterguss, blauer Fleck, Druckstelle
"_King Henry_.
Very like a whale. "_Hamlet_.
Hamlet - Weiler, Dorf, Hamletbarsche
Which to secure, no skill of leachs art Mote him availle, but to
secure - sicher, geschtzt, beschtzt, zuverlssig
Mote - Stubchen
availle - verfgbar
returne againe To his wounds worker, that with lowly dart, Dinting
returne - zurckkehren
againe - wieder
lowly - niedrig, einfach, bescheiden, demtig
dart - Pfeil, Satz
Dinting - (dint) Beule, Einbeulung
his breast, had bred his restless paine, Like as the wounded whale to
breast - Brust -brust, Entenbrust
bred - (breed) Zucht, Art, Rasse, Sorte; (breed) aufziehen, erzeuge
restless - unruhig ruhelos, rastlos, checkunruhig
wounded - (wound) anschieen, verwunden
shore flies thro the maine. "_The Fairie Queen_.
shore - Ufer, Sttzbalken, Kste, Strebe
Fairie - Fee
Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful
motion - Bewegung
vast - betrchtlich, weit, ausgedehnt, enorm
calm trouble the ocean till it boil. "_Sir William Davenant. Preface
Preface - Vorwort, Vorrede
to Gondibert_.
What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned
justly - gerecht
Hosmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, _Nescio quid
plainly - klar
quid - Pfund (Sterling)
sit_. "_Sir T. Browne. Of Sperma Ceti and the Sperma Ceti Whale.
Vide his V. E._
Vide - Video
Like Spencers Talus with his modern flail He threatens ruin with
flail - Flegel, Dreschflegel, Streitflegel, Kriegsflege
threatens - (threaten) drohen, bedrohen, androhen
ruin - (ruing) bereuend; (rue)
his ponderous tail. ... Their fixed javlins in his side he wears,
ponderous - schwerfllig
And on his back a grove of pikes appears. "_Wallers Battle of the
grove - Hain, Gehlz, Wldchen
pikes - (pike) Spitze, Hecht
Summer Islands_.
By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or
Commonwealth - Staatenbund
State"(in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man. "_Opening
artificial - knstlich unnatrlich, affektiert
sentence of Hobbess Leviathan_.
Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a
swallowed - (swallow) schlucken, verschlingen, anbeien, einstecken
chewing - (chew) kauen
sprat in the mouth of a whale. "_Pilgrims Progress_.
sprat - Sprotte
That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest
that swim the ocean stream. "_Paradise Lost_.
stream - Bach Strom Datenstrom strmen streamen
Paradise - Paradies, Himmel
"There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched
creatures - (creature) Wesen, Lebewesen, Fabelwesen
Stretched - (stretch) strecken, dehnen, langziehen, dehnen
like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at
promontory - Landzunge
his gills Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea. "_Ibid_.
gills - (Gill) Rippe [techn.], Lamelle am Pilz, Kieme
spouts - (spout) Tlle, Ausguss, Schnabel, Auslauf
The mighty whales which swim in a sea of water, and have a sea of
mighty - gewaltig, mchtig
oil swimming in them. "_Fullers Profane and Holy State_.
Holy - heilig
So close behind some promontory lie The huge Leviathan to attend
their prey, And give no chance, but swallow in the fry, Which through
prey - Beute lauern, auflauern
their gaping jaws mistake the way. "_Drydens Annus Mirabilis_.
jaws - (jaw) Kiefer, Maul
While the whale is floating at the stern of the ship, they cut off
floating - schwimmend, flieend, gleiten, gleit...; (float) treibe
stern - ernst, Heck
his head, and tow it with a boat as near the shore as it will come;
tow - Werg;abschleppen, schleppen
but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen feet water. "_Thomas
aground - gestrandet
Edges Ten Voyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchas_.
Purchas - Einkufe
In their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean, and in
wantonness fuzzing up the water through their pipes and vents, which
wantonness - Ausgelassenheit, Unbeherrschtheit
fuzzing - (fuzz) Flaum, fusseln, Wuschelkopf
vents - (vent) entlften
nature has placed on their shoulders. "_Sir T. Herberts Voyages
into Asia and Africa. Harris Coll_.
Africa - Afrika
Here they saw such huge troops of whales, that they were forced to
troops - (troop) Truppe
proceed with a great deal of caution for fear they should run their
proceed - vorgehen
caution - Warnung, Vorsicht, Achtsamkeit, Behutsamkeit, Kaution, warnen
ship upon them. "_Schoutens Sixth Circumnavigation_.
Circumnavigation - Umfahrung, Umschiffung
We set sail from the Elbe, wind N.E. in the ship called The
Elbe - Elbe
wind - aufspulen, rollen, blasen, aufwickeln, abspulen
Jonas-in-the-Whale.... Some say the whale cant open his mouth, but
that is a fable.... They frequently climb up the masts to see whether
fable - Fabel fabulieren
masts - (Mast) Mast
they can see a whale, for the first discoverer has a ducat for his
discoverer - Entdecker
ducat - Dukat
pains.... I was told of a whale taken near Shetland, that had above a
barrel of herrings in his belly.... One of our harpooneers told me
barrel - Fass, Tonne, Gebinde, Barrel, Trommel, Hohlzylinder
herrings - Heringe
belly - Bauch, Magen
harpooneers - (harpooneer) Harpunier
that he caught once a whale in Spitzbergen that was white all over.
"_A Voyage to Greenland, A.D._ 1671. _Harris Coll_.
Several whales have come in upon this coast (Fife) Anno 1652, one
eighty feet in length of the whale-bone kind came in, which (as I was
informed), besides a vast quantity of oil, did afford 500 weight of
informed - (inform) benachrichtigen, mitteilen, informieren
baleen. The jaws of it stand for a gate in the garden of Pitferren.
baleen - Barte
"_Sibbalds Fife and Kinross_.
Myself have agreed to try whether I can master and kill this
master - Haupt..., Grund, Meister, fhrend, leitend;bewltigen, meistern
Sperma-ceti whale, for I could never hear of any of that sort that
was killed by any man, such is his fierceness and swiftness.
fierceness - Grimm, Wildheit
swiftness - Schnelligkeit
"_Richard Straffords Letter from the Bermudas. Phil. Trans. A.D._
Bermudas - (Bermuda) Bermuda
1668.
Whales in the sea Gods voice obey. "_N. E. Primer_.
obey - gehorchen befolgen
Primer - Primer (Geschtz), Einfhrung, Fibel; (prim) Primer (Geschtz
We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those
abundance - berfluss
southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the
northward of us. "_Captain Cowleys Voyage round the Globe, A.D._
northward - nordwrts
Globe - Erde, Erdkugel, Globus
1729.
... and the breath of the whale is frequently attended with such an
insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.
insupportable - unertrglich
disorder - Unordnung Unruhen Strung
"_Ulloas South America_.
To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the important
sylphs - (sylph) Sylphe, Luftgeist, Sylphide
trust - Vertrauen, Hoffnung, Trust, anschreiben
charge, the petticoat. Oft have we known that seven-fold fence to
petticoat - Petticoat Unterrock
fail, Tho stuffed with hoops and armed with ribs of whale. "_Rape
hoops - (hoop) Reifen
ribs - (rib) Rippe (Profil);Drehschiene, Spant, Rippe, Lamelle
Rape - schnden, vergewaltigen;Raub, Raps, Vergewaltigung
of the Lock_.
If we compare land animals in respect to magnitude, with those that
magnitude - Betrag
take up their abode in the deep, we shall find they will appear
abode - Aufenthalt, bleiben, Wohnsit
contemptible in the comparison. The whale is doubtless the largest
contemptible - verachtenswrdig, verachtenswert
doubtless - zweifelsfrei, zweifellos
animal in creation. "_Goldsmith, Nat. Hist_.
creation - Erfindung, Werk, Kreation, Schpfung
Goldsmith - Goldschmied, Goldschmiedin, Gold- und Silberschmie
Hist - pst
If you should write a fable for little fishes, you would make them
speak like great whales. "_Goldsmith to Johnson_.
In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it was
found to be a dead whale, which some Asiatics had killed, and were
Asiatics - (Asiatic) asiatisch
then towing ashore. They seemed to endeavor to conceal themselves
towing - treidelnd, schleppend; (tow) treidelnd, schleppend
ashore - zu Lande, am Land, an die Kste
endeavor - Bemhung, Bestreben, Unternehmen, Unterfangen, checkBestrebung
conceal - verbergen, verheimlichen, verschleiern, verschweigen
behind the whale, in order to avoid being seen by us. "_Cooks
Voyages_.
The larger whales, they seldom venture to attack. They stand in so
seldom - selten
venture - Wagnis
great dread of some of them, that when out at sea they are afraid to
dread - schaudern, grauen, gruseln, grause
mention even their names, and carry dung, lime-stone, juniper-wood,
dung - dngen;Dung
lime - Limette, Kalk, Linde, Lindenholz
juniper - Wacholder
and some other articles of the same nature in their boats, in order
to terrify and prevent their too near approach. "_Uno Von Troils
terrify - erschrecken
approach - sich nhern, nahekommen, hnlich sei
The Spermacetti Whale found by the Nantuckois, is an active, fierce
fierce - wild, heftig, bedrohlich
animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen.
boldness - Verwegenheit, Dreistigkeit, Mut
fishermen - (fisherman) Fischer, Fischerin, Angler, Anglerin, Fischereiboot
"_Thomas Jeffersons Whale Memorial to the French minister in_ 1778.
Memorial - Denkmal, Mahnmal, Gedenkgottesdienst, Gedenk-
minister - Gesandter, Pastor, Minister
And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? "_Edmund Burkes
reference in Parliament to the Nantucket Whale-Fishery_.
Parliament - Parlament Eulenschwarm
Fishery - Fischerei
Spain"a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe. "_Edmund
stranded - (strand) Strand, Ader, Faden, Strhne;auf den Strand setze
shores - (shore) Ufer, Sttzbalken, Kste, Strebe
Burke_. (_somewhere_.)
A tenth branch of the kings ordinary revenue, said to be grounded
tenth - zehnte
revenue - Einnahme
on the consideration of his guarding and protecting the seas from
consideration - Erwgung, berlegung, Rcksicht, Vergtung, Gegenleistun
pirates and robbers, is the right to _royal_ fish, which are whale
pirates - (pirate) Pirat, Seeruber, Korsar, Raubkopierer, raubkopieren
robbers - (robber) Ruber, Ruberin
and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the
sturgeon - Str
coast, are the property of the king. "_Blackstone_.
Soon to the sport of death the crews repair: Rodmond unerring oer
crews - (crew) Mannschaft, Crew
unerring - unfehlbar, untrglich
his head suspends The barbed steel, and every turn attends.
suspends - (suspend) suspendieren aufhngen aufheben, aussetze
barbed - (barb) Widerhaken
steel - versthlen;Stahl
"_Falconers Shipwreck_.
Shipwreck - Schiffswrack Schiffbruch
Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets blew self
domes - (dome) Kuppel,
spires - (spire) Turmspitze, Spitze (Turm-)
rockets - (rocket) Feuerwerksrakete; Rakete, Anpfiff
self - Selbst
driven, To hang their momentary fire Around the vault of heaven.
momentary - vorbergehend
vault - sich wlben, berwlben
heaven - Himmel, Firmament, Paradies
So fire with water to compare, The ocean serves on high, Up-spouted
spouted - (spout) Tlle, Ausguss, Schnabel, Auslauf
by a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy. "_Cowper, on the Queens
unwieldy - unhandlich, schwerfllig, sperrig, klobig
joy - Wonne (Freude, Vergngen);Freude (ber)
Visit to London_.
Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a
gallons - (gallon) Gallone
stroke, with immense velocity. "_John Hunters account of the
stroke - streicheln;Sto, Schlag, Streich, Hub
immense - immens
velocity - Geschwindigkeit Frequenz, Hufigkeit, Umlaufgeschwindigkeit
dissection of a whale_. (_A small sized one_.)
dissection - Prparation, Dissektion
The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the
aorta - Hauptschlagader, Aorta
water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage
roaring - Gebrll ; (roar) brllen Tosen Brllen Aufheulen
passage - Durchfahrt, Übergang, Gang
through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood
inferior - untergeordnet, nachgeordnet, unterlegen, tiefer, minderwertig
impetus - Antrieb, Schub, Ansto, Anschub
gushing from the whales heart. "_Paleys Theology_.
gushing - (gush) Schwall, Flut, strmen, herausquellen, schwrmen
Theology - Theologie
The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet. "_Baron
mammiferous - sugetierhaft
hind - (hind leg) Hinterbein
Baron - Baron, Freiherr
Cuvier_.
In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take any
till the first of May, the sea being then covered with them.
"_Colnetts Voyage for the Purpose of Extending the Spermaceti Whale
Extending - (extend) erweitern ausdehnen, ausweiten
Spermaceti - Walrat , Spermazet
Fishery_.
In the free element beneath me swam, Floundered and dived, in play,
beneath - unter
Floundered - (flounder) sich abqulen, taumeln, stolper
in chace, in battle, Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which
language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread
mariner - Schiffer; (marine) See
Leviathan To insect millions peopling every wave: Gatherd in shoals
shoals - (shoal) Schar, Untiefe
immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instincts through
mysterious - mysteris rtselhaft
instincts - (instinct) Instinkt
that waste And trackless region, though on every side Assaulted by
trackless - Gleislos
Assaulted - (assault) Anschlag, berfall, Angriff, berfallen, angreifen
voracious enemies, Whales, sharks, and monsters, armd in front or
voracious - gefrig, unersttlich, gierig
sharks - (shark) Haifisch, Hai
jaw, With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs.
jaw - Kiefer, Maul
swords - (sword) Schwert Schwertkmpfer, Schwertkmpferin
saws - Sgen
spiral - Spirale Helix
horns - (horn) Horn Waldhorn Jagdhorn Hupe, Trichter, Blec
hooked - (hook) Haken Hookline einhaken
fangs - (Fang) Fang, Fangzahn
"_Montgomerys World before the Flood_.
Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny peoples king. Not a mightier
Paean - Paian
finny - Fisch..., Flossen.
mightier - (mighty) gewaltig, mchtig
whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not a fatter fish than he,
Flounders round the Polar Sea. "_Charles Lambs Triumph of the
Flounders - (flounder) sich abqulen, taumeln, stolper
Polar - polar
Triumph - Sieg, Erfolg
Whale_.
In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the
observing - (observe) beobachten beachten, halten, bemerken
whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed:
spouting - herausspritzend; (spout) Tlle, Ausguss, Schnabel, Auslauf
observed - (observe) beobachten beachten, halten, bemerken
there"pointing to the sea"is a green pasture where our childrens
pasture - Weide weiden
grand-children will go for bread. "_Obed Macys History of
grand - groartig, prchtig, gro, bedeutend
Nantucket_.
I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway in the
gateway - Einfahrt, Tor, Zugang, Gateway, Protokollumsetzer
form of a Gothic Arch, by setting up a whales jaw bones.
Gothic - Gotisch Gothic
Arch - Bogen
"_Hawthornes Twice Told Tales_.
Tales - (tale) Geschichte, Erzhlung, Fabel
She came to bespeak a monument for her first love, who had been
bespeak - besprechen, diskutieren, mitteilen, vorbestellen, arrangieren
monument - Denkmal, Monument
killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years
Pacific - ruhig, still, friedlich
ago. "_Ibid_.
No, Sir, tis a Right Whale, answered Tom; I saw his sprout; he
sprout - sprieen;Schssling
threw up a pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christian would wish to
rainbows - (rainbow) Regenbogen bunt, vielfarbig
look at. Hes a raal oil-butt, that fellow! "_Coopers Pilot_.
butt - stoen;Kippe, Po, Zigarettenstummel;Kippe (sl. Zigarette)
The papers were brought in, and we saw in the Berlin Gazette that
Gazette - Gazette Amtsblatt, Anzeiger
whales had been introduced on the stage there. "_Eckermanns
Conversations with Goethe_.
My God! Mr. Chace, what is the matter? I answered, we have been
stove by a whale. "_Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Whale Ship
stove - einschlagen, Kchenherd, abwehre
Essex of Nantucket, which was attacked and finally destroyed by a
large Sperm Whale in the Pacific Ocean_. _By Owen Chace of
Sperm - Spermium, Samenzelle, Sperma
Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York_, 1821.
mate - schachmatt, Kamerad, Kameradin, verbinden;anpasse
A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was piping free;
shrouds - (shroud) Leichentuch, Totenhemd
Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale, And the phospher
dimmed - (dim) trb;dmmerig, dunkel
moonlight - Mondlicht, Mondschein, Mondenschein
phospher - Phospor
gleamed in the wake of the whale, As it floundered in the sea.
gleamed - (gleam) Schimmer;durchschimmern, glnzen
"_Elizabeth Oakes Smith_.
Smith - Schmidt, Schmied
The quantity of line withdrawn from the boats engaged in the capture
withdrawn - (withdraw) annullieren, entziehen, abziehen, ausscheiden
capture - Fang, Festnahme, Gefangennahme, Erfassung
of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six
English miles....
Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the air, which,
tremendous - betrchtlich, auerordentlich
cracking like a whip, resounds to the distance of three or four
cracking - Brennriss, knackend, Haarrisse, geknackt; (crack) Brennris
whip - Peitsche, Knute, Zagel , peitschen, auspeitschen
resounds - (resound) widerhallen
miles. "_Scoresby_.
Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the
agonies - (agony) Agonie, Qual, Pein, Todeskampf, Freudenausbruch
endures - (endure) ertragen, aushalten, dulden, von Bestand sein
infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears his enormous
infuriated - (infuriate) wtend machen, zur Weiglut bringen
rears - (rear) Hinter..., hinterster, Heck, Rck.
head, and with wide expanded jaws snaps at everything around him; he
snaps - (snap) Knacken, Knallen, Schnappen, Zuschnappen, Schnippe
rushes at the boats with his head; they are propelled before him with
rushes - (rush) strzen, drngen, hetzen, rasen;Eile, Andrang
propelled - (propel) antreiben
vast swiftness, and sometimes utterly destroyed.... It is a matter of
great astonishment that the consideration of the habits of so
astonishment - Staunen, Erstaunen, Verwunderung
interesting, and, in a commercial point of view, so important an
animal (as the Sperm Whale) should have been so entirely neglected,
entirely - ganz, total, entirely
neglected - (neglect) vernachlssigen, verabsumen, versumen, missachten
or should have excited so little curiosity among the numerous, and
curiosity - Neugier, Neugierde, Kuriositt, Kuriosum
numerous - zahlreich, vielzhlig
many of them competent observers, that of late years, must have
competent - kompetent zustndig
observers - (observer) Beobachter, Beobachterin
possessed the most abundant and the most convenient opportunities of
possessed - (posses) Schutzpolizeiaufgebote
abundant - reichlich, wohlhabend
most convenient - genehmste
witnessing their habitudes. "_Thomas Beales History of the Sperm
witnessing - (witness) Zeugnis Zeuge, Zeugin , bezeugen, erman: Zeuge sein
habitudes - (habitude) Veranlagung
Whale_, 1839.
The Cachalot (Sperm Whale) is not only better armed than the True
Whale (Greenland or Right Whale) in possessing a formidable weapon
possessing - (posses) Schutzpolizeiaufgebote
formidable - respekteinflend, furchteinflend, furchterregend, gewaltig
at either extremity of its body, but also more frequently displays a
extremity - Extremitt, uerstes Ende, uerste, Extremste
displays - (display) Vorfhrung, Vorstellung, Display, Monitor, Bildschirm
disposition to employ these weapons offensively and in manner at once
disposition - Neigung, Gesinnung, Hang, Veranlagung, Einteilung
offensively - angreifend, beleidigend
so artful, bold, and mischievous, as to lead to its being regarded as
artful - geschickt, trickreich
bold - krftig, khn, klar, keck, heftig, deutlich, fett
mischievous - boshaft, schdlich, unartig, ungehorsam, dreist
regarded - (regard) schtzen, betrachten, bercksichtige
the most dangerous to attack of all the known species of the whale
species - (specie) Hartgeld
tribe. "_Frederick Debell Bennetts Whaling Voyage Round the Globe_,
Whaling - Walfang ; (whale) Walfang
1840.
October 13. There she blows, was sung out from the mast-head.
Where away? demanded the captain. Three points off the lee bow,
demanded - (demand) Nachfrage, Bedarf, Anspruch, verlangen, bestehen
lee - Windschatten, Lee, Schutz
bow - Verneigung (vor), Verbeugung;Bogen, Bug (Schiff
sir. Raise up your wheel. Steady! Steady, sir. Mast-head
ahoy! Do you see that whale now? Ay ay, sir! A shoal of Sperm
ahoy - ahoi Ahoi
shoal - Schar, Untiefe
Whales! There she blows! There she breaches! Sing out! sing out
every time! Ay Ay, sir! There she blows! there"there"_thar_ she
thar - dort
blows"bowes"bo-o-os! How far off? Two miles and a half. Thunder
bowes - Verbeugungen
and lightning! so near! Call all hands. "_J. Ross Brownes Etchings
lightning - Blitz Entladung
Etchings - (etching) tzradierung
of a Whaling Cruize_. 1846.
Cruize - Kreuzen
The Whale-ship Globe, on board of which vessel occurred the horrid
horrid - entsetzlich, grsslich, grulich, grauenvoll
transactions we are about to relate, belonged to the island of
transactions - (transaction) Geschftsabwicklung, Geschftsdurchfhrun
Nantucket. "_Narrative of the Globe Mutiny_, _by Lay and Hussey
Mutiny - Meuterei
survivors. A.D._ 1828.
survivors - (survivor) berlebender, berlebende, berlebensknstler
Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the
pursued - (pursue) verfolgen, beschreiten, nachjagen, nachgehen
parried - (parry) parieren, abwehren
assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length
assault - Anschlag, berfall, Angriff, berfallen, angreifen
lance - Lanze Harpune Lanzer Harpune mit Sprenggeschoss
furious - wtend, erbost, furios
monster - Monster, Ungeheuer
rushed on the boat; himself and comrades only being preserved by
rushed - (rush) strzen, drngen, hetzen, rasen;Eile, Andrang
comrades - (Comrade) Kamerad Genosse, Genossin
preserved - (preserve) Konserve, Eingemachtes, Naturschutzgebie
leaping into the water when they saw the onset was inevitable.
leaping - (leap) hervorspringen, hpfen, berspringen
onset - Angriff, Ansturm, checkAnschlag, Anzeichen , Silbenansat
inevitable - unvermeidlich, unabwendbar, zwangslufig
"_Missionary Journal of Tyerman and Bennett_.
Missionary - Missionar, Missionarin, missionarisch
Nantucket itself, said Mr. Webster, is a very striking and
striking - auffllig; (strike) streichen schlagen prgen streiken scheinen die Fahne streichen Strike Streik Schlag
peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of
peculiar - merkwrdig, seltsam
portion - Teil
eight or nine thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely
largely - gro, weitgehend, groe
every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering
wealth - Reichtum, Vermgen, Flle
boldest - (bold) krftig, khn, klar, keck, heftig, deutlich, fett
persevering - (persevere) ausdauern, ausharren, beharren, durchhalten
industry. "_Report of Daniel Websters Speech in the U. S. Senate,
Senate - Senat
on the application for the Erection of a Breakwater at Nantucket_.
Erection - Errichtung Erektion
Breakwater - Mole, Wellenbrecher, Buhne, Wellenbrecher
1828.
The whale fell directly over him, and probably killed him in a
moment. "_The Whale and his Captors, or The Whalemans Adventures
Captors - (captor) Entfhrer Fnger
and the Whales Biography, gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the
Biography - Biografie,
Homeward - (homeward journey) Heimfahrt, heimwrts
Cruise - Seereise, Kreuzfahrt;eine Seereise mache
Commodore Preble_. _By Rev. Henry T. Cheever_.
Commodore - Kommodore, Flottillenadmiral, Flottekapitn
Rev - auf Touren bringen/kommen
If you make the least damn bit of noise, replied Samuel, I will
damn - Verdammt!;tadeln, verurteilen, verdammen, verfluchen
send you to hell. "_Life of Samuel Comstock_ (_the mutineer_), _by
hell - Hlle
mutineer - Meuterer, Meuterin
his brother, William Comstock. Another Version of the whale-ship
Globe narrative_.
The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in
order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though
they failed of their main object, laid-open the haunts of the whale.
laid open - (laid-open) freigelegt
haunts - (haunt) spuken verfolgen Treffpunkt
"_McCullochs Commercial Dictionary_.
These things are reciprocal; the ball rebounds, only to bound
reciprocal - gegenseitig, reziprok, entgegengesetzt, umgekehrt, Kehrwert
rebounds - (rebound) zurckprallen;Abprall, Rckprall
forward again; for now in laying open the haunts of the whale, the
laying open - freilegend
whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same
whalemen - (whaleman) Walfnger
indirectly - indirekt
hit upon - auf etwas stoen
clews - (clew) Knuel
mystic North-West Passage. "_From_ _Something_ _unpublished_.
mystic - mystisch Mystiker, Mystikerin
unpublished - unediert, unverffentlicht
It is impossible to meet a whale-ship on the ocean without being
struck by her near appearance. The vessel under short sail, with
struck - (strike) streichen schlagen prgen streiken scheinen die Fahne streichen Strike Streik Schlag
look-outs at the mast-heads, eagerly scanning the wide expanse around
eagerly - eifrig
expanse - Flche, Ausdehnung, Weite
them, has a totally different air from those engaged in regular
voyage. "_Currents and Whaling. U.S. Ex. Ex_.
Ex - ab
Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect
vicinity - Nhe Nachbarschaft, Umgebung
elsewhere - sonstwo, anderswo
recollect - sich erinnern an
having seen large curved bones set upright in the earth, either to
curved - (curve) Kurve Linie Kurven biegen, verbiegen
upright - aufrecht hochkant
form arches over gateways, or entrances to alcoves, and they may
arches - (arch) Bogen
gateways - (gateway) Einfahrt, Tor, Zugang, Gateway, Protokollumsetzer
alcoves - (alcove) Alkoven; Alkov
perhaps have been told that these were the ribs of whales. "_Tales
of a Whale Voyager to the Arctic Ocean_.
Voyager - Reisender
It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales,
not till - nicht vor, erst wenn, erst als
pursuit - Verfolgung
that the whites saw their ship in bloody possession of the savages
bloody - blutig, blutbefleckt
savages - (savage) wild, wst, unbebaut, unbndig, rasend
enrolled among the crew. "_Newspaper Account of the Taking and
enrolled - (enrol) sich eintragen
crew - Mannschaft, Crew
Retaking of the Whale-Ship Hobomack_.
Retaking - Wiederholung; (retake) wieder nehmen, von Neuem nehme
It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels
vessels - (vessel) Schiff, Boot, Wasserfahrzeug, Gef, Behlter
(American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they
departed. "_Cruise in a Whale Boat_.
departed - (depart) verlassen, aufbrechen, abweichen
Suddenly a mighty mass emerged from the water, and shot up
mass - Messe (kirchlich), Gottesdienst, Menge
emerged - (emerge) erscheinen, auftauchen, herauskommen, davonkomme
perpendicularly into the air. It was the whale. "_Miriam Coffin or
perpendicularly - Senkrecht
the Whale Fisherman_.
Fisherman - Fischer, Fischerin, Angler, Anglerin, Fischereiboot
The Whale is harpooned to be sure; but bethink you, how you would
harpooned - (harpoon) Harpune
bethink - besinnen
manage a powerful unbroken colt, with the mere appliance of a rope
unbroken - lckenlos, ungebrochen
colt - Hengstfohlen, mnnlich nnliches Fohle
appliance - Gert, Apparat
tied to the root of his tail. "_A Chapter on Whaling in Ribs and
root - wurzeln;Haupt, Wurzel, Nullstelle [math.]
Trucks_.
On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male
and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a
stones throw of the shore (Terra Del Fuego), over which the beech
Terra - Land
beech - Buche
tree extended its branches. "_Darwins Voyage of a Naturalist_.
extended - (extend) erweitern ausdehnen, ausweiten
Naturalist - Naturforscher, Naturforscherin, Naturalist, Naturalistin
Stern all! exclaimed the mate, as upon turning his head, he saw
exclaimed - (exclaim) ausrufen
the distended jaws of a large Sperm Whale close to the head of the
distended - (distend) ausweiten, dehnen, ausdehnen
boat, threatening it with instant destruction;"Stern all, for your
threatening - drohend; (threaten) drohen, bedrohen, androhen
instant - augenblicklich, tafelfertig, Moment
destruction - Zerstrung, Vernichtung
lives! "_Wharton the Whale Killer_.
Killer - Tter, Tterin, Totschlger, Totschlgerin
So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold
cheery - heiter, froh
lads - (lad) Junge, Knabe, Bube, Bursche, junger Mann, Stallbursche
harpooneer is striking the whale! "_Nantucket Song_.
harpooneer - Harpunier
Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be
mid - mittler
gale - Sturm
A giant in might, where might is right, And King of the boundless
boundless - grenzenlos, unbegrenzt
sea. "_Whale Song_.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago"never mind how long precisely"having
precisely - przise
little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me
purse - Geldbrse, Geldbeutel
on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part
on shore - an Land, an der Kste
watery - wssrig
of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and
spleen - Milz Groll, Trbsinn
regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about
regulating - (regulate) regeln, regulieren
circulation - Kreislauf, Zirkulation, Umlauf, Umlaufen, Zirkuliere
grim - makaber, grimmig
the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever
damp - feucht Feuchtigkeit ersticken, dmpfen
drizzly - nieselnde
soul - Inbrunst, Seele, Gefhl, Herz
I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and
involuntarily - unfreiwillige, unfreiwillig
pausing - pausierend; (pause) pausieren, innehalten, Pause
warehouses - (warehouse) Lager, Lagerhaus, Speicherhaus, Packhaus, lagern
bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever
rear - Hinter..., hinterster, Heck, Rck.
funeral - Bestattung, Beerdigung, Begrbnis
my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral
hypos - (hypo) unter
moral - moralisch, sittlich, Moral
principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and
principle - Grundsatz, Prinzip, Naturgesetz
deliberately - mit Absicht, absichtlich, vorstzlich, vorsichtig
methodically knocking peoples hats off"then, I account it high time to
methodically - methodisch, methodische
get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball.
substitute - ersetzen auswechseln Ersatz Ersatzspieler, Austauschspiele
pistol - Pistole, Faustfeuerwaffe, Zndpistole
With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I
philosophical - philosophisch
flourish - gedeihen, blhen, spriessen, grnen
quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they
but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other,
cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
cherish - hegen wertschtzen
feelings - Gefhl, Eindruck
There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by
insular - Insel
wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs"commerce surrounds it with her
wharves - (wharf) Kai, Wharf
isles - (isle) Eiland
coral - Koralle
reefs - (reef) Segel reffen;Riff
commerce - Handel, Kommerz
surrounds - (surround) umgeben, umringen, umzingeln
surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme
surf - Brandung wellenreiten, surfen
waterward - wasserwrts
downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and
downtown - Innenstadt Stadtmitte, Stadtzentrum
mole - Spion;Leberfleck, Maulwurf, Mol
cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of
breezes - (breeze) Brise, Hauch
land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.
gazers - (gazer) Gaffer
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears
Circumambulate - umschiffen
dreamy - vertrumt, traumhaft, zum Trumen
Sabbath - Sabbat, Schabbat, Schabbes, Sonntag, Hexensabbat, Hexentanz
Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What
Hook - Haken Hookline einhaken
Slip - Versprecher;Rutschen (geradeaus);Lapsus, Setzling, Pann
thence - daher
do you see?"Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand
sentinels - (sentinel) Wache, Wachposten, Wchter, Wchterin, Markierung
thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some
mortal - sterblich tdlich Sterblicher, Sterbliche
reveries - (reverie) Trumerei
leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some
leaning - (to lean) sich an etwas lehne
pier - Seebrcke, Anlegestelle, Kai, Brckenpfeiler
looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the
bulwarks - (bulwark) Bollwerk Schanzkleid
rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these
rigging - Takelage; (rig) Takelage
striving - bestrebend, strebsam, strebend; (strive) bestrebend, strebsa
seaward - seewrts
peep - (peep hole) Schauloch; (to peep through) durchgucke
are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster"tied to
landsmen - (landsman) Landbewohner
pent - gefesselt
lath - Latte, Leiste
plaster - Salbe, Creme, Putz, Verputz, Stuck
counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are
counters - (counter) Zhler, Ladentisch;kontern
benches - (Bench) Bank, Sitzbank, Richter
clinched - (clinch) Clinch
the green fields gone? What do they here?
But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and
seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the
seemingly - anscheinende
bound - Sprung; (bind) binden verbinden, konnektieren
dive - tauchen
content - (to be content with) sich mit etwas begngen
extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder
loitering - trdelnd; (loiter) rumlungern, rumhngen, herumhngen, abhngen
shady - schattig schattenspendend, Schatten, zwielichtig
yonder - dort drben
warehouses will not suffice. No. They must get just as nigh the water
suffice - ausreichen, gengen, genug sein, zufriedenstellen
nigh - nahe, nah bei, beinahe, nahezu
as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand"miles of
them"leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets
leagues - (league) Liga, Spielklasse, Bund
Inlanders - (inlander) Inselbewohner
lanes - (lane) Gasse Spur, Route
alleys - (alley) Allee, Bahn, Weg, Gasse, Pfad
and avenues"north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell
avenues - (avenue) Allee
unite - vereinen
me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all
magnetic - magnetisch anziehend,
virtue - Tugend Keuschheit
compasses - (compass) Kompass
those ships attract them thither?
thither - dorthin, dahin
Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take
almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a
dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in
it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest
absent - (absent-minded) abwesend, geistesabwesend, unaufmerksam
plunged - (plunge) eintauchen, tauchen
reveries"stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will
infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region.
infallibly - fehlerfrei
Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this
athirst - durstig
experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical
caravan - Karawane Wohnwagen, Caravan
metaphysical - metaphysisch
professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for
meditation - Meditation
wedded - (wed) trauen, verheiraten, vermhlen, zur Frau nehmen
ever.
But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest,
desires - (desire) begehren Begehren, Wunsch
dreamiest - (dreamy) vertrumt, traumhaft, zum Trumen
shadiest - (shady) schattig schattenspendend, Schatten, zwielichtig
quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley
enchanting - (enchant) verzaubern
landscape - Landschaft Querformat
of the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand his
chief - Huptling, Oberhaupt, Chef,
trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were
hollow - hohl, dumpf
trunk - Stamm, Baumstamm, Koffer, Truhe, Schrankkoffer
hermit - Einsiedler, Eremit, Klausner
crucifix - Kruzifix
within; and here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up
meadow - Wiese, Weide, Aue
cattle - Khe, Rinder, Rindvieh
from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands
sleepy - schlfrig verschlafen
distant - abgelegen, abstehend, distanziert, entfernt
woodlands - (woodland) Wald
winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in
winds - (wind) aufspulen, rollen, blasen, aufwickeln, abspulen
mazy - wirr, labyrinthisch
overlapping - (overlap) berlappen, berlagern, berdecken, hinausragen be
spurs - (spur) anspornen, ankurbeln (Wirtsch.), beflgeln;Anspor
their hill-side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and
thus - auf diese Weise, so, demnach, folglich, dieses
tranced - (trance) Trance
though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this
pine - pineapple = Ananasa
sighs - (sigh) Seufzen, Seufzer, Suseln (Wind);suseln (Wind)
shepherds head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherds eye were
vain - eitel unntzlich
fixed upon the magic stream before him. Go visit the Prairies in June,
Prairies - (prairie) Prrie
when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among
wade - waten
Tiger-lilies"what is the one charm wanting?"Water"there is not a drop
Tiger - Tiger
lilies - (lily) Lilie
charm - Talisman;Charme, Zauberformel, Lieblichkeit;bezaubern
of water there! Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel
cataract - Katarakt, Grauer Star
your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon
suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy
handfuls - (handful) Handvoll Handbreite
deliberate - absichtlich, bewusst, vorstzlich, wohlerwogen, wohlberlegt
him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian
pedestrian - Fugnger-, Fu-
trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a
robust - robust
robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?
Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a
mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out
mystical - mystisch
vibration - Vibration, Schwingung
of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did
Persians - (Persian) persisch;Perser
the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely
Greeks - (Greek) griechisch Griechisch, griechische Sprache, Griech
deity - Gott, Gottheit
all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that
story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild
Narcissus - Narzisse
grasp - greifen, erfassen, begreifen, verstehen, Griff, Verstndnis
tormenting - schikanierend, peinigend; (torment) Qual qulen, peinigen
image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that
fountain - Springbrunnen Fontne
drowned - (drown) ertrinken ertrnken berwltigen
same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image
of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
ungraspable - unfassbar
phantom - Phantom
Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin
to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my
hazy - dunstig, diesig, trb, getrbt
conscious - bei Bewusstsein, wach, aufmerksam
lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a
lungs - (lung) Lunge
inferred - (infer) schlussfolgern, schlieen, Schlsse ziehe
passenger. For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a
purse is but a rag unless you have something in it. Besides, passengers
rag - Fummel, Lumpen, Putzlappen, Unfug
get sea-sick"grow quarrelsome"dont sleep of nights"do not enjoy
quarrelsome - streitschtig, znkisch, unvertrglich, zankschtig
themselves much, as a general thing;"no, I never go as a passenger;
nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a
Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook. I abandon the glory and distinction
abandon - im Stich lassen, preisgeben, verlassen, abbrechen
glory - Pracht, Herrlichkeit, Prunk, Geprnge, Ruhm
distinction - Unterschied Auszeichnung
of such offices to those who like them. For my part, I abominate all
abominate - verabscheuen
honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind
honorable - ehrbar
respectable - angesehen, geachtet
toils - (toil) Mhe schuften, sich plagen, sich qulen, roboten
trials - (trial) Erprobung, Prozess, Versuch, Probe
tribulations - (tribulation) Trbsal, Drangsal
whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do to take care of myself,
without taking care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not.
barques - (barque) Barke
schooners - (schooner) Schoner
And as for going as cook,"though I confess there is considerable glory
confess - gestehen, bekennen, verraten, beichten
considerable - erheblich, betrchtlich, beachtlich
in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board"yet, somehow, I
never fancied broiling fowls;"though once broiled, judiciously
broiling - (broil) grillen
fowls - (fowl) Geflgel
broiled - (broil) grillen
judiciously - umsichtig, vernnftig, verstndig
buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who
buttered - (butter) mit Butter bestreichen;Butter;aufpuffern (aufschweien)
judgmatically - verurteilend
will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled
respectfully - respektvoll
reverentially - ehrerbietige, ehrerbietig
fowl than I will. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old
fowl - Geflgel
idolatrous - gtzendienerisch
dotings - (doting) vernarrt
Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the
ibis - Ibis
roasted - (roast) braten rsten Braten gebraten
mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
mummies - (mummy) Mumie, Mutti;Mama, Mami, Mutti
pyramids - (pyramid) Pyramide
No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast,
plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.
plumb - lotrecht;loten
forecastle - Vorschiff, Bugkastell
True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to
spar - Sparring;Holm (Tragflche);Holm (Rotorblatt);boxen
spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow. And at first, this sort of
grasshopper - Heuschrecke, Grashpfer
thing is unpleasant enough. It touches ones sense of honor,
honor - Ehre ehren
established - (establish) feststellen, etablieren, erffnen, grnde
Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes. And more than all, if
just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been
tar - teeren;Teer
lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in
lording - Herrschaft; (lord) Gebieter Herr herrschen
schoolmaster - Schulmeister
awe of you. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a
awe - Ehrfurcht Staunen einschchtern
transition - bergang
assure - sichern versichern
schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and
decoction - Abkochung, Dekokt
the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off
Stoics - (Stoic) Stoiker stoisch
enable - berechtigen, befhigen, ermglichen, anordnen, aktiviere
grin - (to grin) grinsen, strahlen
in time.
What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom
hunks - Brocken; (hunk) Brocken
broom - Auskehrer, Besen
and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed,
sweep - fegen, kehren, rauschen, auf den Kopf stellen, fahren
decks - (deck) Verdeck;jdm. eine knallen
indignity - Entwrdigung
I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel
scales - (scale) Skala, Kesselsteine, Schuppe;ersteigen, erkletter
Testament - Testament, Letzter Wille
archangel - Erzengel
Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and
promptly - bereit
respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance? Who aint
instance - Beispiel, Fall, Instanz
a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may
slave - Sklave, Sklavin, Sexsklave
order me about"however they may thump and punch me about, I have the
thump - dumpfer Schlag
punch - Stanze, Faustschlag, Schlagkraft;Punsch;Lochkartenstanzer;loche
satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is
satisfaction - Befriedigung Zufriedenheit Satisfaktion, Genugtuung
one way or other served in much the same way"either in a physical or
metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is
universal - allgemein, Allgemein-, universell, weltweit, Welt-
passed round, and all hands should rub each others shoulder-blades,
rub - reiben, abreiben, sich abreiben, sich abscheuern, sich ablaufe
shoulder blades - (shoulder-blades) Schulterbltter
and be content.
Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of
paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single
penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must
contrary - entgegengesetzt, gegenlufig, entgegenstehend, ungnstig
pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and
being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable
most uncomfortable - unbequemste
infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But _being
infliction - Zufgung
orchard - Obstgarten, Obstwiese, Obstbaum
entailed - (entail) nach sich ziehen
paid_,"what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man
urbane - weltgewandt, weltmnnisch
receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly
marvellous - wunderbar, wundersam
earnestly - ernsthaft
believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no
earthly - weltlich
account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign
monied - Geld
cheerfully - frhlich, vergngt, heiter
consign - bergeben, verladen
ourselves to perdition!
perdition - ewige Hlle
Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome
wholesome - gesund, heilsam, gesundheitsfrdernd, gesundheitsfrderlich
exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck. For as in this world,
pure - blo, rein
fore - vorn
deck - Verdeck ;jdm. eine knallen
head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if
prevalent - vorherrschend,
astern - achtern achterlich
you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the
violate - verletzen, brechen, berschreiten, miachten
Pythagorean - Pythagoreer, Pythagoreerin,
maxim - Grundsatz, Sprichwort, Lebensweisheit
Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from
deck - Verdeck;jdm. eine knallen
second hand - Sekundenzeiger , gebraucht, getragen
the sailors on the forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not
so. In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many
commonalty - Allgemeinheit
other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it. But
suspect - vermuten misstrauen verdchtigen einen Verdacht haben Verdchtige
wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a
wherefore - warum, weswegen, wofr
repeatedly - wiederholt
merchant sailor, I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling
merchant - Kaufmann, Kauffrau
voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the
invisible - unsichtbar versteckt
Fates - (Fate) Schicksal, Los, Geschick
constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in
constant - bestndig, konstant, regelmig, stetig
surveillance - berwachung
secretly - heimlich, insgeheim
some unaccountable way"he can better answer than any one else. And,
unaccountable - unverantwortlich, unerklrlich
doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand
programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in
as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive
brief - kurz prgnant kurze Zusammenfassung briefen, instruiere
interlude - Zwischenspiel
solo - Solo einzeln ein Solo spielen allein machen
extensive - umfangreich
performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run
something like this:
_Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States._
Contested - (contest) Auseinandersetzung, Debatte, Wettkampf, Wettbewer
Presidency - Prsidentschaft
WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN.
Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the
Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when
shabby - schbig
others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short
magnificent - prchtig ausgezeichnet
tragedies - (tragedy) Tragdie
and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces"though I
genteel - hflich
jolly - vergngt, lustig
farces - (farce) Posse
cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the
recall - zurckrufen erinnern
circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives
circumstances - (circumstance) Umstand
motives - (motive) Motiv, Beweggrund
which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced
cunningly - schlau
disguises - (disguise) Verkleidung Tarnung verstellen
induced - (induce) dazu bringen, anstacheln, bewirken, verursache
me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the
cajoling - (cajole) beschwatzen
delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill
delusion - Tuschung, Irrefhrung, Wahn, Wahnvorstellung
unbiased - (unbias) unvoreingenommen
freewill - freier Wille
and discriminating judgment.
discriminating - (discriminate) diskriminieren
judgment - Urteil Urteilsvermgen Beurteilung Richtspruch, Richterspruc
Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale
overwhelming - (overwhelm) berwltigen, bermannen, berrumpel
himself. Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my
portentous - unheildrohend, bedeutungsschwer, hochtrabend, wichtigtuerisch
roused - (rouse) wachrufen, wecken
curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island
bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all
undeliverable - nicht lieferbar
nameless - namenlos
perils - (peril) Gefahr, Risiko
the attending marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds,
marvels - (marvel) wundern
Patagonian - Patagonisch
helped to sway me to my wish. With other men, perhaps, such things
sway - Schwingen, Schwenken, Hin- und Herschwingen, Mitschwinge
would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an
inducements - (inducement) Veranlassung
tormented - (torment) Qual qulen, peinigen
everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and
everlasting - ewig endlos
itch - jucken, Juckreiz
forbidden - (forbid) verbieten, untersagen, verweigern, vorenthalten
land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to
barbarous - barbarisch, grausam
perceive a horror, and could still be social with it"would they let
perceive - wahrnehmen
me"since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of
inmates - (inmate) Insasse Bewohner
the place one lodges in.
lodges - (lodge) Lodge Loge Biberburg feststecken, festklemme
By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the
great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild
swung - (swing) schwingen, schaukeln, schwanken, baumeln, Schauke
conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into
conceits - (conceit) Eingebung Einbildung Konzept
swayed - (sway) Schwingen, Schwenken, Hin- und Herschwingen, Mitschwinge
floated - (float) treiben, schwimmen, schweben, gleiten
my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them
inmost - innerst
endless - endlos, unbegrenzt, unbeschrnkt, unendlich
processions - (procession) Prozession, Umzug
all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
hooded - (hood) Motorhaube;Khlerhaube;Kapuze, Haube
I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my
tucked - (tuck) zurckstreifen, einklemmen;Bundfalte
arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. Quitting the good city
Cape - Umhang, Kap
Horn - Horn Waldhorn Jagdhorn Hupe, Trichter, Blech, Musche
of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford. It was a Saturday night
duly - gebhrend, ordnungsgem, pnktlich
in December. Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little
packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching
packet - paketieren;Datenpaket, Paket
that place would offer, till the following Monday.
As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at
penalties - (penalty) Strafe
this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well
embark - einschiffen, an Bord gehen, beginnen, antreten
be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing. For my mind was
made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a
craft - Handwerk Schlauheit, Durchtriebenheit, Gerissenheit, Gild
fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous
boisterous - ungestm, ausgelassen, lebendig, lebhaft
old island, which amazingly pleased me. Besides though New Bedford has
amazingly - erstaunlich, erstaunlicherweise
of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though
gradually - nach und nach, allmhlich, stufenweise, schrittweise
monopolising - (monopolise) monopolisieren
in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket
was her great original"the Tyre of this Carthage;"the place where the
Carthage - Karthago
first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket
did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes
aboriginal - eingeboren, einheimisch
sally - aufbrechen
canoes - (canoe) Kanu, Kanadier, paddeln
to give chase to the Leviathan? And where but from Nantucket, too, did
chase - verfolgtes Wild, Verfolgung;jagen;Jagd (nach)
that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with
adventurous - abenteuerlustig, abenteuerdurstig, abenteuerhungri
sloop - Slup, Schaluppe
forth - heraus, hervor
partly - teilweise, zum Teil
laden - beladen, belastet, schwer; (lade) beladen, belastet, schwer
imported cobblestones"so goes the story"to throw at the whales, in
cobblestones - (cobblestone) Katzenkopf, Katzenkopfpflasterstein
order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the
harpoon - Harpune
bowsprit?
bowsprit - Bugspriet
Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me
in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became a
ere - bevor, ehe
destined - (destine) bestimmen, vorbestimmen
matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile. It was a
concernment - Betroffenheit
very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold
dubious - dubios, fragwrdig, omins, zwielichtig, unsicher
dismal - unzureichend, unzulnglich, jmmerlich, klglich
bitingly - bissig
and cheerless. I knew no one in the place. With anxious grapnels I had
cheerless - freudlos, trostlos
anxious - ngstlich, besorgt
sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver,"So,
wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of
wherever - wo auch immer, wo immer
a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towards the
dreary - de, trostlos, trb, freudlos
gloom - Dsternis, Dunkelheit, Trbnis, Schwermut, Melancholi
north with the darkness towards the south"wherever in your wisdom you
darkness - Dunkelheit, Finsternis
wisdom - Weisheit
may conclude to lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to
lodge - Lodge Loge Biberburg feststecken, festklemmen, beherbergen,
inquire the price, and dont be too particular.
inquire - erkundigen
With halting steps I paced the streets, and passed the sign of The
halting - anhaltend, zgerlich; (halt) anhaltend, zgerlich
Crossed Harpoons"but it looked too expensive and jolly there. Further
on, from the bright red windows of the Sword-Fish Inn, there came
Inn - Herberge
such fervent rays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and
fervent - inbrnstig glhend glhend (1 2) checkinbrnstig (1
rays - (ray) Schimmer, Strahl;ausstrahlen
melted - (melt) Schmelze Schmelzwasser schmelzen, zum Schmelzen bringen
packed snow - festgefahrener Schnee
ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay
congealed - (congeal) erstarren gerinnen, koagulieren
frost - Reif Frost glasieren
ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,"rather weary for me,
inches - (inch) Zoll (2,54 cm), Zoll (Lngenma)
asphaltic - asphaltierte
pavement - Asphalt, Pflaster
weary - mde
when I struck my foot against the flinty projections, because from
flinty - feuersteinartig, feuersteinhaltig, Feuerstein-, Kiesel
projections - (projection) Vorsprung Projizieren, Projektion, Prognos
hard, remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most
remorseless - unbarmherzig, hartherzig
soles - (sol) Mist, kein Glck mehr
miserable plight. Too expensive and jolly, again thought I, pausing one
miserable - elend, erbrmlich, jmmerlich, miserabel
plight - sich verloben;Misere, schlimmer Zustand, Verlobung
moment to watch the broad glare in the street, and hear the sounds of
broad - breit, deutliche, grorumig
glare - Blendung entrstetes Starren missbilligend anstarren
the tinkling glasses within. But go on, Ishmael, said I at last; dont
tinkling - (tinkle) klingeln, klimpern, bimmeln; (tinkle) klingel
you hear? get away from before the door; your patched boots are
patched - (patch) notdrftig reparieren, reparieren, einsetzen;Flicke
stopping the way. So on I went. I now by instinct followed the streets
instinct - Instinkt
that took me waterward, for there, doubtless, were the cheapest, if not
the cheeriest inns.
cheeriest - (cheery) heiter, froh
inns - (inn) Herberge
Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand,
blackness - Schwrze
and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. At
candle - Kerze
tomb - Grabmal, Gruft
this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of
the town proved all but deserted. But presently I came to a smoky light
presently - sogleich
smoky - verraucht, qualmend, rauchig
proceeding from a low, wide building, the door of which stood
proceeding - fortsetzend, verfahrend; (proceed) vorgehen
invitingly open. It had a careless look, as if it were meant for the
invitingly - verlockend
uses of the public; so, entering, the first thing I did was to stumble
stumble - Stolpern, Fehltritt, Fehler, Schnitzer, Ausrutscher
over an ash-box in the porch. Ha! thought I, ha, as the flying
ash - Esche, Asche
porch - Vorbau, Vordach, Veranda
Ha - Das war jetzt aber ernst!
particles almost choked me, are these ashes from that destroyed city,
particles - (particle) Teilchen, Partikel , Partikel , Redeteilchen
choked - (choke) erwrgen, erdrosseln, ersticken, berwltigen
ashes - (ash) Esche, Asche
Gomorrah? But The Crossed Harpoons, and The Sword-Fish?"this, then
Gomorrah - Gomorrha, Gomorra, Gomorrhah
Harpoons - (harpoon) Harpune
must needs be the sign of The Trap. However, I picked myself up and
Trap - Fallgrube, Falle, Fahrt (im Bergwerk);einfange
hearing a loud voice within, pushed on and opened a second, interior
interior - inner Interieur, Inneres, Innenraum, offener Kern
door.
It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting in Tophet. A hundred black
faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of
rows - (row) Reihe, Zeile
peer - seinesgleichen, Beaufsichtigende;schielen, starren
beyond - jenseits
Angel - Engel
Doom was beating a book in a pulpit. It was a negro church; and the
Doom - Bann Urteil, Verbannung, Strafe, Untergang, Tod, Schicksal
pulpit - Kanzel; i ot or just slightly raised
negro - schwarz Neger
preachers text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping
and wailing and teeth-gnashing there. Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing
wailing - (to wail) jammern, wehklagen, klagen; (wail) (to wail) jammer
gnashing - (gnash) knirschen
muttered - (mutter) murmeln
out, Wretched entertainment at the sign of The Trap!
Wretched - sehr schlecht, miserabel, wertlos
Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the
dim - trb;dmmerig, dunkel
docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a
docks - (dock) Hafenbecken;docken, andocken;Dock, Anklagebank
forlorn - verlassen aussichtslos, hoffnungslos
creaking - (creak) Knarren, Quietschen
swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly
swinging - schaukelnd; (swing) schwingen, schaukeln, schwanken, baumel
sign over - berschreiben
faintly - kaum, schwach, entfernt, leicht
representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words
jet - Dsenflugzeug, Strahl, Dse;ausstoen
misty - neblig, nebelhaft
spray - Sprhwasser, Gischt;bestuben (bestubt), sprhen, spritzen
underneath"The Spouter Inn:"Peter Coffin.
underneath - unten unterhalb
Spouter - Ölquelle
Peter - Peter Petrus (Der 1./2. Brief des) Petrus, checkPetr
Coffin?"Spouter?"Rather ominous in that particular connexion, thought
ominous - omins, ahnungsvoll, schicksalschwer, unheilschwange
connexion - Verbindung;Anbindung, Verbindung
I. But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this
Peter here is an emigrant from there. As the light looked so dim, and
emigrant - Auswanderer, Auswanderin, Emigrant, Emigrantin
the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated
dilapidated - (dilapidate) ruinieren
little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here
carted - (cart) Pferdewagen, Wagen, Karren
from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a
ruins - (ruin) Ruine Ruin ruinieren, auf die Knie zwingen, vernichte
district - Bezirk, Kreis, Landkreis, Stadtteil
poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very
stricken - ergriffen, heimgesucht, betroffe
creak - Knarren, Quietschen
spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.
lodgings - (lodging) Unterkunft
pea - Erbse
It was a queer sort of place"a gable-ended old house, one side palsied
gable - Giebel, Gabel
palsied - (palsy) Ohnmacht, Lhmung
as it were, and leaning over sadly. It stood on a sharp bleak corner,
bleak - kahl, de, Laube (Fischart)
where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than
tempestuous - strmisch
howling - brllen, heulen, niederschreien; (howl) Heulen, jaulen
ever it did about poor Pauls tossed craft. Euroclydon, nevertheless,
tossed - (toss) Wurf Mnzwurf werfen verwerfen, wegwerfen, vermische
nevertheless - nichtsdestoweniger, trotzdem, lauch wenn, dennoch
is a mighty pleasant zephyr to any one in-doors, with his feet on the
zephyr - Zephir
hob quietly toasting for bed. In judging of that tempestuous wind
hob - Frser (Wlzfrsen), Wlzfrser
called Euroclydon, says an old writer"of whose works I possess the
possess - besitzen
only copy extant"it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou
extant - existent, bestehend, vorhanden, berlebend
lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the
lookest - (look) Blick, siehe
outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where
observest - beobachten
sashless - saseless
the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only
glazier. True enough, thought I, as this passage occurred to my
glazier - Glaser; (glazy) Glaser
mind"old black-letter, thou reasonest well. Yes, these eyes are
reasonest - am vernnftigsten
windows, and this body of mine is the house. What a pity they didnt
pity - Mitleid schade bemitleiden, Mitleid haben mit
stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint
stop up - zustopfen
chinks - (Chink) Spalte, Ritze, Spalt;klimpern, klirren
crannies - (cranny) Spalt, Versteck
thrust - Sto, Stich, Vorsto, Schub, Schubkraft
lint - Papierstau, Fussel, Mull
here and there. But its too late to make any improvements now. The
universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted
universe - Universum, Weltall
copestone - Kopierstein
off a million years ago. Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth
chattering - plappernd, schnatternd; (chatter) plappernd, schnatternd
against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with
curbstone - Randstein, Bordstein
pillow - Kopfkissen, Kissen; Ruhekissen
shaking off - abschttelnd
tatters - (tatter) zerfetzen, zerfleddern, zerfledern;Lumpen, Fetzen
his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a
shiverings - (shivering) schlotternde, schlotternd, schaudernd
plug - Stecker Stpsel, Stopfen, Pfropfen, Pfropf
rags - (rag) Fummel, Lumpen, Putzlappen, Unfug
corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the
corn - Mais;Korn, Getreide, Hhnerauge
cob - mnnlicher Schwan
tempestuous Euroclydon. Euroclydon! says old Dives, in his red silken
Dives - (dive) tauchen
silken - seiden
wrapper"(he had a redder one afterwards) pooh, pooh! What a fine frosty
wrapper - Verpackung, Umschlag, Wrapper-Klasse ; (wrap) Verpackun
frosty - frostig
night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their
glitters - (glitter) Glitter glitzern
northern lights - Nordlicht , Polarlicht
oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the
oriental - orientalisch, Orientale, stlich
climes - (clime) Gegend
conservatories - (conservatory) Konservatorium, Gewchshaus
privilege of making my own summer with my own coals.
privilege - Privileg, Vergnstigung, privilegieren
But what thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up
to the grand northern lights? Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra
than here? Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the
lengthwise - der Lnge nach, lngsgerichtet, lngs
line of the equator; yea, ye gods! go down to the fiery pit itself, in
equator - quator, Linie
fiery - feurig, Feuer
pit - Fallgrube, Schachtgrube, Box (Sport)
order to keep out this frost?
Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the
door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be
more wonderful - wunderbarere
iceberg - Eisberg
moored to one of the Moluccas. Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a
moored - (moor) verankern;Moor
Moluccas - (Molucca) Molukken
Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a
Czar - Zar
temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
temperance - Migung, Enthaltsamkeit, Migkeit im Alkoholgenuss, Temperenz
tepid - lauwarm
orphans - (orphan) Waise,
But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there
blubbering - (blubber) Speck, Blubber, Walspeck
is plenty of that yet to come. Let us scrape the ice from our frosted
scrape - abkratzen, schaben, scharren
frosted - mattiert;bereift; (frost) Reif Frost glasieren
feet, and see what sort of a place this Spouter may be.
Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide,
low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of
straggling - umherstreifend; (straggle) abweichen, abschweifen, umherwander
wainscots - (wainscot) verkleiden
the bulwarks of some condemned old craft. On one side hung a very large
condemned - (condemn) verurteilen verdammen, fr abrissreif erklre
oilpainting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the
oilpainting - lgemlde
thoroughly - grndlich, vollkommen, total, durch und durch
besmoked - (besmoke) rauchen
defaced - (deface) verunstalten, entstellen
unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent
unequal - ungleich
crosslights - (crosslight) Flutlicht
diligent - fleiig, arbeitsam, eifrig, sorgfltig
study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of
systematic - systematisch System
inquiry - Anfrage, Erkundigung, Abfrage, Untersuchung, Erforschung
the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its
purpose. Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first
shades - (shad) Maifisch
shadows - (shadow) Schatten beschatten
you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New
England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched. But by dint
hags - (hag) altes Weib, Hexe
endeavored - (endeavor) Bemhung, Bestreben, Unternehmen, Unterfange
delineate - umreien skizzieren schildern abgrenzen
bewitched - (bewitch) verhexen
dint - Beule, Einbeulung
of much and earnest contemplation, and oft repeated ponderings, and
contemplation - Betrachtung Meditation Erwarten
ponderings - Grbeleien
especially by throwing open the little window towards the back of the
entry, you at last come to the conclusion that such an idea, however
wild, might not be altogether unwarranted.
unwarranted - unberechtigt, unbefugt, ungerechtfertigt, unbegrndet
But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber,
puzzled - (puzzle) Rtsel Puzzle, Geduldspiel, Geduldsspie
confounded - (confound) verwirren verschlimmern, verschlechtern, besiege
limber - locker, biegsam
portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the
hovering - (hover) rtteln verweilen zgern bewegen
picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a
perpendicular - rechtwinklig; lotrecht, senkrecht, perpendikular, perpendikul
nameless yeast. A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive
yeast - Hefe, Hefepilz, orthern Germany, Gischt
boggy - sumpfig
soggy - durchnsst, feucht, durchweicht, pampig
squitchy - Zickig
truly - wirklich, wahrhaft, ehrlich, echt
a nervous man distracted. Yet was there a sort of indefinite,
distracted - (distract) ablenken
indefinite - unbestimmt
half-attained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to
attained - (attain) erreichen, erlangen
unimaginable - unvorstellbar
sublimity - Erhabenheit
it, till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what
oath - Eid, Schwur, Fluch, erman:
that marvellous painting meant. Ever and anon a bright, but, alas,
alas - leider [Gottes]; (ala) leider [Gottes]
deceptive idea would dart you through."Its the Black Sea in a midnight
deceptive - betrgerisch, irrefhrend
gale."Its the unnatural combat of the four primal elements."Its a
unnatural - unnatrlich, widernatrlich
combat - Kampf, Schlacht, Gefecht, kmpfen (gegen, mit), bekmpfen
primal - hauptschlich
blasted heath."Its a Hyperborean winter scene."Its the breaking-up of
blasted - (blast) schlagen, vernichten, sprengen;mit Wucht schieen;B
Hyperborean - Hyperboreisch
the icebound stream of Time. But at last all these fancies yielded to
icebound - eingefroren, zugefroren
yielded - (yield) hervorbringen, er/sie hat/hatte ergeben, weichen
that one portentous something in the pictures midst. _That_ once found
midst - Mitten, Mitte, inmitten
out, and all the rest were plain. But stop; does it not bear a faint
plain - unscheinbar, einfach, vollstndige, ehrlich
faint - leise, schwach, undeutlich, ohnmchtig werden
resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself?
resemblance - hnlichkeit
gigantic - gigantisch, kolossal
In fact, the artists design seemed this: a final theory of my own,
aggregated - (aggregate) Anhufung, Ansammlung, Aggregation
whom I conversed upon the subject. The picture represents a Cape-Horner
conversed - (converse) Umkehrung, umgekehrt, Gegenteil
in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its
foundered - (founder) Grnder, Gieer, Begrnder
weltering - (welter) rollen
three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale,
dismantled - (dismantle) entmanteln abwracken, ausschlachten, demontiere
visible - sichtbar
exasperated - (exasperate) verrgern, aufbringen, auf die Palme bringen
purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of
impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
impaling - (impale) pfhlen, erstechen, aufspieen
The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish
heathenish - heidnische
array of monstrous clubs and spears. Some were thickly set with
array - Bekleidung, Tracht, Arrangement; Feld; bersicht, Anzahl, Flle
spears - (spear) Speer, Lanze (Wurflanze);aufspieen, spiee
thickly - dick
glittering teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots
glittering - glitzernd, funkelnd; (glitter) Glitter glitzern
resembling - (resemble) hneln, gleichen
ivory - Elfenbein, Elfenbeinfarbe, elfenbeinern, Elfenbein
tufted - (tuft) Bschel, Tuff
knots - (knot) Knoten, Knuel
of human hair; and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping
sickle - Sichel
handle - Henkel, Hantel, Griff, Trklinke;abarbeiten, behandel
sweeping - erman: Fegen, Kehren; (sweep) fegen, kehren, rausche
round like the segment made in the new-mown grass by a long-armed
segment - Segment segmentieren
mown - mht, gemht, mhen; (mow) mht, gemht, mhen
mower. You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal
mower - Mhmaschine Mher
shuddered - (shudder) Schauder (wohliger) Schauder schaudern zittern
gazed - (gaze) anstarren
cannibal - Kannibale, emale
and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking,
savage - wild, wst, unbebaut, unbndig, rasend
harvesting - (harvest) Ernte Frucht,
hacking - hackend; (hack) hackend
horrifying implement. Mixed with these were rusty old whaling lances
horrifying - (horrify) entsetzen, erschrecken, schockieren
implement - Werkzeug, Gert, Arbeitsgert, vollziehen, durchfhren
rusty - rostig, verrostet
lances - (lance) Lanze Harpune Lanzer Harpune mit Sprenggeschoss
and harpoons all broken and deformed. Some were storied weapons. With
deformed - (deform) verformen, entstellen
this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan
wildly - wild
elbowed - (elbow) Ellbogen Rohrbogen Ellbogensto ellbgeln
Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that
sunset - Sonnenuntergang Lebensabend
harpoon"so like a corkscrew now"was flung in Javan seas, and run away
corkscrew - Korkenzieher
flung - (fling) Affre (Liebesaffre)
with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco. The
slain - (slay) erschlagen
original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle
sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last
sojourning - aufhaltend; (sojourn) Aufenthalt Unterkunft, Obdac
was found imbedded in the hump.
imbedded - (imbed) einschlieen, einbetten
hump - Hgel Buckel Hcker bumsen
Crossing this dusky entry, and on through yon low-arched way"cut
dusky - dster
through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with
chimney - Kamin, Esse, Schlot, Schornstein, Spalte
fireplaces all round"you enter the public room. A still duskier place
fireplaces - (fireplace) Kamin, Feuerstelle, Herd
duskier - (dusky) dster
is this, with such low ponderous beams above, and such old wrinkled
beams - (beam) Balken Breite Pflugbaum, Grindel, Strahl, strahle
wrinkled - (wrinkle) sich runzeln, runzlig (runzelig) werden, knittern
planks beneath, that you would almost fancy you trod some old crafts
planks - (plank) Planke Schwerpunkt
trod - schritt, zertrat, trat; (tread) schritt, zertrat, trat
cockpits, especially of such a howling night, when this corner-anchored
cockpits - (cockpit) Cockpit, Pilotenkanzel
anchored - (anchor) Anker
old ark rocked so furiously. On one side stood a long, low, shelf-like
ark - Arche
furiously - wtend, heftig
table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities
cracked - (crack) Riss, Knall, Aufbruch, Bresche;aufbrechen, knalle
dusty - staubig
rarities - (rarity) Seltenheit, Raritt
gathered from this wide worlds remotest nooks. Projecting from the
nooks - (nook) Nische, Alkoven, stiller Winkel, Rckzugsort
further angle of the room stands a dark-looking den"the bar"a rude
angle - Angel
den - Hhle
attempt at a right whales head. Be that how it may, there stands the
attempt - versuchen Versuch, Bestreben, Bestrebung, Anschlag, Attentat
vast arched bone of the whales jaw, so wide, a coach might almost
drive beneath it. Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old
decanters, bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction,
decanters - (decanter) Dekanter
flasks - (flask) Flasche Flachmann, Taschenflasche, Kolben, Flakon
swift - schnell Segler Garnwinde
like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him),
cursed - verflucht, verfluchte; (curs) verflucht, verfluchte
bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells
bustles - (bustle) Hektik hasten
withered - (wither) welken, verblhen, verdorren
the sailors deliriums and death.
deliriums - (delirium) Delirium, Fieberphantasie, Taumel
Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison. Though true
Abominable - verabscheuungswrdig, verhasst, abscheulich, riesig, monstrs
tumblers - (tumbler) Trinkglas, Tumbler, Glasbecher, Tmmler
cylinders without"within, the villanous green goggling glasses
cylinders - (cylinder) Zylinder, Brennkammer, Rolle
villanous - schurkisch
goggling - (goggle) glotzen
deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom. Parallel meridians
deceitfully - betrgerisch, betrgerische
tapered - (taper) abdrehen (konisch), zuspitzen, spitz zulaufen
downwards - (downward) abwrts, nach unten, runter, nach unten gehen
Parallel - parallel parallel zu Parallele Breitengrad, Breitenkreis
meridians - (meridian) Meridian
rudely pecked into the glass, surround these footpads goblets. Fill to
rudely - grob, unanstndig
surround - umgeben, umringen, umzingeln
goblets - (goblet) Kelch
_this_ mark, and your charge is but a penny; to _this_ a penny more;
and so on to the full glass"the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulp
down for a shilling.
shilling - Schillin
Upon entering the place I found a number of young seamen gathered about
seamen - (seaman) Matrose
a table, examining by a dim light divers specimens of _skrimshander_. I
divers - (diver) Taucher, Taucherin
specimens - (specimen) Exemplar, Muster, Spezimen, Probe
sought the landlord, and telling him I desired to be accommodated with
sought - (seek) suchen
landlord - Vermieter, Hauswirt
desired - (desire) begehren Begehren, Wunsch
accommodated - (accommodate) machen, endigen, in bereinstimmung bringe
a room, received for answer that his house was full"not a bed
unoccupied. But avast, he added, tapping his forehead, you haint no
unoccupied - leerstehend frei unbeschftigt unbesetzt
tapping - anzapfend, klopfend, steppend; (tap) anzapfend, klopfen
forehead - Stirn
objections to sharing a harpooneers blanket, have ye? I spose you are
objections - (objection) Beanstandung Einwand, Widerspruch, Einspruch
blanket - Decke, Wolldecke, Bettdecke, Schicht, Lage, allgemein
goin a-whalin, so youd better get used to that sort of thing.
I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should
ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and that
if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the
harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander
decidedly - entschieden, deutlich, bestimmt
objectionable - unangenehm, unzulssig, strend, anstig
wander - umherstreifen, umherstreichen, herumziehen, stromern
further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with
bitter - herb, rau, bitter
the half of any decent mans blanket.
decent - anstndig, sittsam, (ganz) anstndig
I thought so. All right; take a seat. Supper?"you want supper?
Supper - Abendessen
Supperll be ready directly.
I sat down on an old wooden settle, carved all over like a bench on the
settle - abklren
carved - (carve) schneiden tranchieren, zerlegen, schnitzen
bench - Bank, Sitzbank, Richter
Battery. At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with
ruminating - (ruminate) wiederkuen grbeln
adorning - (adorn) schmcken, zieren, verzieren
his jack-knife, stooping over and diligently working away at the space
jack - Hans, Hanns, Hannes, Hnsel
stooping - (stoop) Buckel, sich beugen
diligently - fleiig
between his legs. He was trying his hand at a ship under full sail, but
he didnt make much headway, I thought.
headway - lichte Hhe Vorwrtsfahrt Takt, Fahrzeugabstand, Fortschritt
At last some four or five of us were summoned to our meal in an
summoned - (summon) auffordern, vorladen
adjoining room. It was cold as Iceland"no fire at all"the landlord said
adjoining room - Nebenzimmer
he couldnt afford it. Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each in a
tallow candles - Talglichter
winding sheet. We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold
winding - (wind) aufspulen, rollen, blasen, aufwickel
fain - gern
button up - zuknpfen
to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers. But the
scalding - verbrhend; (scald) verbrhend
fare was of the most substantial kind"not only meat and potatoes, but
most substantial - gehaltreichste
dumplings; Good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a
dumplings - Kle, Kndel
Good heavens - Um Himmels willen!
fellow - Stipendiat, Typ, Kerl, Bursche;Gefhrte, Kerl
green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful
direful - grsslich
manner.
My boy, said the landlord, youll have the nightmare to a dead
nightmare - Albtraum, Alptraum,
sartainty.
sartainty - Gewissheit
Landlord, I whispered, that aint the harpooneer is it?
whispered - (whisper) Geflster, Flstern, Wispern
aint - nicht
Oh, no, said he, looking a sort of diabolically funny, the
diabolically - diabolisch
harpooneer is a dark complexioned chap. He never eats dumplings, he
complexioned - (complexion) Teint, Gesichtsfarbe
chap - Bursche, Riss (in der Haut)
dont"he eats nothing but steaks, and he likes em rare.
steaks - (steak) Steak, Beefsteak, Lendenschnitte
The devil he does, says I. Where is that harpooneer? Is he here?
Hell be here afore long, was the answer.
afore - frher, vorher, bevor, zuvor
I could not help it, but I began to feel suspicious of this dark
suspicious - verdchtig misstrauisch, argwhnisch
complexioned harpooneer. At any rate, I made up my mind that if it so
turned out that we should sleep together, he must undress and get into
undress - erman: sich ausziehen
bed before I did.
Supper over, the company went back to the bar-room, when, knowing not
what else to do with myself, I resolved to spend the rest of the
resolved - (resolve) auflsen, beschlieen
evening as a looker on.
looker - (look) Blick, siehe
Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord
rioting - randalierend; (riot) Aufruhr, Tumult, Krawall, Randale
cried, Thats the Grampuss crew. I seed her reported in the offing
this morning; a three years voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now
well have the latest news from the Feegees.
A tramping of sea boots was heard in the entry; the door was flung
tramping - (to tramp) trampeln, wandern, maschieren; (tramp) Vagabun
open, and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough. Enveloped in their
mariners - (mariner) Schiffer
Enveloped - (envelop) einhllen, umhllen
shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters,
shaggy - zottelig, zottig, zottelhaarig, struppig
muffled - (muffle) umhllen, einhllen
woollen - Wolle
comforters - (comforter) Trster Bettdecke, Plumeau, Plmo
all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they
bedarned - bedarnt
ragged - zottig, dilettantisch, struppig, zerlumpt; (rag) zotti
beards - (beard) Bart Alibifreundin
stiff - steif, starr, Steifer, Zechpreller, prellen, abspeisen
icicles - (icicle) Eiszapfen
seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador. They had just landed from
eruption - Eruption, Ausbruch, Vulkanausbruch
their boat, and this was the first house they entered. No wonder, then,
that they made a straight wake for the whales mouth"the bar"when the
wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out
officiating - (officiate) amtieren
brimmers all round. One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon
which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he
pitch - werfen, festsetzen, errichten;Tonhhe, Tonlage, Pec
potion - Trank, Zaubertrank
gin - Gin, Wacholderbranntwein
molasses - Sirup, Melasse, Melassesirup; (molas) Sirup, Melass
swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never
swore - (swear) schwren
sovereign - souvern
cure - ruchern (Fleisch), heilen, abbinden (Leim);Kur, Heilun
catarrhs - (catarrh) Katarrh
mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador,
or on the weather side of an ice-island.
The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even
liquor - Spirituose
mounted - (mount) Reittier, Berg, Lafette (Waffe);einbauen, aufsteige
with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began
arrantest - (arrant) vllig
topers - (toper) Zecher
newly - neu
capering about most obstreperously.
capering - (caper) Streich (bermtiger), Kaper, Kapriole
obstreperously - ungebrdige
I observed, however, that one of them held somewhat aloof, and though
somewhat - etwas, einigermaen
aloof - (ein Stck) entfernt, auf (etwas) Abstand, distanzier
he seemed desirous not to spoil the hilarity of his shipmates by his
desirous - begierig, begehrlich
spoil - plndern ruinieren, verderben, kaputtmachen, verwhne
hilarity - Frhlichkeit, Ausgelassenheit, Heiterkeit, Komik, Witz
shipmates - (shipmate) Schiffskollege
own sober face, yet upon the whole he refrained from making as much
sober - nchtern, besonnen, ernst, gedeckt, ernchtern, ausnchtern
refrained - (refrain) zurckhalten;Refrain, Kehrreim
noise as the rest. This man interested me at once; and since the
sea-gods had ordained that he should soon become my shipmate (though
ordained - (ordain) festlegen weihen
shipmate - Schiffskollege
but a sleeping-partner one, so far as this narrative is concerned), I
sleeping partner - (sleeping-partner) stiller Gesellschafter
concerned - (concern) Sorge, Anliegen, Betroffenheit, Besorgnis, Konzer
will here venture upon a little description of him. He stood full six
feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam. I
coffer - Kassette, Geldkassette, Tresor, Schatztruhe
dam - stauen;Staudamm, Muttertier, Damm
have seldom seen such brawn in a man. His face was deeply brown and
brawn - Muskelkraft Slze
deeply - tief zutiefst
burnt, making his white teeth dazzling by the contrast; while in the
dazzling - blendend, grell, umwerfend, betren
deep shadows of his eyes floated some reminiscences that did not seem
reminiscences - (reminiscence) Erinnern Erinnerung an, Erinnerungen
to give him much joy. His voice at once announced that he was a
Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of
stature - Krpergre, Statur
those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia. When
mountaineers - (mountaineer) Bergbewohner, Bergbewohnerin, Bergsteige
Alleghanian - Alleghaner
Ridge - Grat First Bergrcken, Kamm, (3) checkBergrcken, checkRcken
the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, this man
revelry - Festlichkeit, Lustbarkeit, Prasserei
companions - (Companion) Begleiter, Freund, Liebhaber, Kamerad
slipped away unobserved, and I saw no more of him till he became my
slipped - (slip) Versprecher;Rutschen (geradeaus);Lapsus, Setzling, Pann
unobserved - unbeobachtet
comrade on the sea. In a few minutes, however, he was missed by his
comrade - Kamerad Genosse, Genossin
shipmates, and being, it seems, for some reason a huge favourite with
them, they raised a cry of Bulkington! Bulkington! wheres
Bulkington? and darted out of the house in pursuit of him.
darted - (dart) Pfeil, Satz
It was now about nine oclock, and the room seeming almost
supernaturally quiet after these orgies, I began to congratulate myself
supernaturally - bernatrliche, bernatrlich
orgies - (orgy) Orgie
congratulate - gratulieren, beglckwnschen
upon a little plan that had occurred to me just previous to the
entrance of the seamen.
No man prefers to sleep two in a bed. In fact, you would a good deal
rather not sleep with your own brother. I dont know how it is, but
people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to
sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town,
unknown - unbekannt Unbekannte Unbekannter
and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely
indefinitely - auf unbestimmte Zeit, auf unbestimmte Zeit
multiply. Nor was there any earthly reason why I as a sailor should
multiply - multiplizieren
sleep two in a bed, more than anybody else; for sailors no more sleep
two in a bed at sea, than bachelor Kings do ashore. To be sure they all
bachelor - Junggeselle Bachelor
sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and
hammock - Hngematte Bauminsel
cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin.
The more I pondered over this harpooneer, the more I abominated the
pondered - (ponder) grbeln berlegen, nachdenken
abominated - (abominate) verabscheuen
thought of sleeping with him. It was fair to presume that being a
presume - annehmen, mutmaen, vermuten
harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of
linen - Leinen Heimtextilien
the tidiest, certainly none of the finest. I began to twitch all over.
twitch - zupfen
Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home
and going bedwards. Suppose now, he should tumble in upon me at
bedwards - (bedward) bettlgerig
tumble - Sturz, Fall, berschlag, Absturz
midnight"how could I tell from what vile hole he had been coming?
vile - abscheulich, gemein, schnde
Landlord! Ive changed my mind about that harpooneer."I shant sleep
with him. Ill try the bench here.
Just as you please; Im sorry I cant spare ye a tablecloth for a
spare - berflssig, frei, sparsam, Ersatz;sparsam umgehen, brig habe
tablecloth - Tischdecke, Tischtuch
mattress, and its a plaguy rough board here"feeling of the knots and
mattress - Matratze
notches. But wait a bit, Skrimshander; Ive got a carpenters plane
notches - (notch) Kerbe, Nut, Furche, Einrckung, Einkerbung
there in the bar"wait, I say, and Ill make ye snug enough. So saying
snug - wohlig enganliegend Hinterraum; gemtlicher Hinterraum; gemtliche Ecke; Separee
he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting
procured - (procure) beschaffen, erwerben, besorgen, aufbringen
silk - Seide
the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning
vigorously - krftig, ordentlich, heftig, tchtig
grinning - (grin) (to grin) grinsen, strahlen
like an ape. The shavings flew right and left; till at last the
ape - nachffen, Affe
shavings - (shaving) Span
plane-iron came bump against an indestructible knot. The landlord was
bump - Schlag, Sto, Bums,
indestructible - unzerstrbar, unvernichtbar
knot - Knoten, Knuel
near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heavens sake to quit"the
spraining - (sprain) verstauchen Verstauchung
wrist - Handgelenk
sake - (for your sake) deinetwegen, euretwegen, Ihretwegen, dir zuliebe
bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing
in the world could make eider down of a pine plank. So gathering up the
eider - Eiderente
plank - Planke Schwerpunkt
shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in
the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a
brown study.
I now took the measure of the bench, and found that it was a foot too
short; but that could be mended with a chair. But it was a foot too
mended - (mend) reparieren, flicken
narrow, and the other bench in the room was about four inches higher
than the planed one"so there was no yoking them. I then placed the
yoking - zusammen; (yok) zusammen
first bench lengthwise along the only clear space against the wall,
leaving a little interval between, for my back to settle down in. But I
interval - Abstand, Zwischenraum, Intervall
soon found that there came such a draught of cold air over me from
draught - Spielstein
under the sill of the window, that this plan would never do at all,
sill - Trschwelle, Schwelle
especially as another current from the rickety door met the one from
rickety - wackelig, wacklig, klapprig, gebrechlich, rachitisch
the window, and both together formed a series of small whirlwinds in
whirlwinds - (whirlwind) Wirbelwind, Wirbelsturm
the immediate vicinity of the spot where I had thought to spend the
night.
The devil fetch that harpooneer, thought I, but stop, couldnt I steal
fetch - holen, einfangen, abrufen, apportieren
a march on him"bolt his door inside, and jump into his bed, not to be
bolt - Riegel, Ballen, Blitz, Bolzen;durchgehen (Pferd), sausen
wakened by the most violent knockings? It seemed no bad idea; but upon
wakened - (waken) wecken
most violent - gewaltsamste
knockings - (knocking) Nageln (Dieselmotor), Klopfen (Motor)
second thoughts I dismissed it. For who could tell but what the next
thoughts - (thought) Gedanke
dismissed - (dismiss) entlassen abweisen, einstellen, zurckweise
morning, so soon as I popped out of the room, the harpooneer might be
standing in the entry, all ready to knock me down!
Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of
spending a sufferable night unless in some other persons bed, I began
sufferable - ertrglich
to think that after all I might be cherishing unwarrantable prejudices
cherishing - (cherish) hegen wertschtzen
unwarrantable - unverantwortlich
prejudices - (prejudice) Vorurteil, Voreingenommenheit, vorgefasste Meinun
against this unknown harpooneer. Thinks I, Ill wait awhile; he must be
awhile - eine Weile
dropping in before long. Ill have a good look at him then, and perhaps
dropping in - (drop in) Strsignal
we may become jolly good bedfellows after all"theres no telling.
bedfellows - (bedfellow) Bettgenosse, Bettgenossin
But though the other boarders kept coming in by ones, twos, and threes,
boarders - (boarder) Internatsschler, Internatsschlerin, Kostgnge
and going to bed, yet no sign of my harpooneer.
Landlord! said I, what sort of a chap is he"does he always keep such
late hours? It was now hard upon twelve oclock.
The landlord chuckled again with his lean chuckle, and seemed to be
chuckled - (chuckle) leises Lachen, Glucksen, glucken (Henne);gluckse
lean - knapp, schlank, hager, mager
mightily tickled at something beyond my comprehension. No, he
mightily - mchtig
tickled - (tickle) Kitzeln
comprehension - Verstndnis, Verstehen
answered, generally hes an early bird"airley to bed and airley to
early bird - Frhaufsteher
rise"yes, hes the bird what catches the worm. But to-night he went out
a peddling, you see, and I dont see what on airth keeps him so late,
peddling - (peddle) verbreiten
unless, may be, he cant sell his head.
Cant sell his head?"What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are
bamboozingly - bambusartig
telling me? getting into a towering rage. Do you pretend to say,
rage - Wut, Zorn, Raserei, Rage, wten
landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this blessed
blessed - gesegnet selig; (bless) gesegnet selig
Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around
this town?
Thats precisely it, said the landlord, and I told him he couldnt
sell it here, the markets overstocked.
overstocked - (overstock) den Markt berschwemmen
With what? shouted I.
With heads to be sure; aint there too many heads in the world?
I tell you what it is, landlord, said I quite calmly, youd better
calmly - ruhig
stop spinning that yarn to me"Im not green.
spinning - (spinning-wheel) Spinnrad; (spin) (spinning-wheel) Spinnrad
yarn - Garn Tau
May be not, taking out a stick and whittling a toothpick, but I
whittling - Schnitzerei; (whittle) Schnitzerei
toothpick - Zahnstocher
rayther guess youll be done _brown_ if that ere harpooneer hears you a
rayther - (rather) eher, ungefhr, eigentlich
slanderin his head.
Ill break it for him, said I, now flying into a passion again at
this unaccountable farrago of the landlords.
farrago - Mischmasch, Allerlei
Its broke aready, said he.
Broke, said I"_broke_, do you mean?
Sartain, and thats the very reason he cant sell it, I guess.
Landlord, said I, going up to him as cool as Mt. Hecla in a
Mt - US-Bundesstaat;Berg
snow-storm"landlord, stop whittling. You and I must understand one
snow-storm - (snow storm) Schneesturm
another, and that too without delay. I come to your house and want a
delay - Versptung, Verzgerung, Verzug
bed; you tell me you can only give me half a one; that the other half
belongs to a certain harpooneer. And about this harpooneer, whom I have
not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and
persist - beharren
mystifying - (mystify) verblffen, irritieren
exasperating stories tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling
exasperating - (exasperate) verrgern, aufbringen, auf die Palme bringen
beget - erzeugen, fortpflanzen
uncomfortable feeling - Missbehagen
towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow"a sort of connexion,
bedfellow - Bettgenosse, Bettgenossin
landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest
intimate - vertraut, innig, intim, vorsichtig andeuten
confidential - vertraulich
degree. I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this
demand - Nachfrage, Bedarf, Anspruch, verlangen, bestehen
harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe to spend the
night with him. And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay
unsay - widerrufen
that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good
evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad, and Ive no idea of
stark - krass, schlicht, schier, rein, nackt, vllig
sleeping with a madman; and you, sir, _you_ I mean, landlord, _you_,
madman - Irrer, Wahnsinniger, Verrckter
sir, by trying to induce me to do so knowingly, would thereby render
induce - dazu bringen, anstacheln, bewirken, verursachen, hervorrufen
knowingly - wissentlich, bewusst
thereby - dadurch, damit, deswegen, darum
render - leisten, wiedergeben
yourself liable to a criminal prosecution.
liable - fehlbar;
prosecution - Verfolgung verfolgende Behrde, Strafverfolgungsbehrde
Wall, said the landlord, fetching a long breath, thats a purty long
fetching - (fetch) holen, einfangen, abrufen, apportieren
purty - hbsch
sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then. But be easy, be
rips - (rip) Riss;reien, der Lnge nach auftrennen
easy, this here harpooneer I have been tellin you of has just arrived
from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of balmed New Zealand
bought up - aufgekauft
heads (great curios, you know), and hes sold all on em but one, and
curios - (curio) Kuriositt
that one hes trying to sell to-night, cause to-morrows Sunday, and it
would not do to be sellin human heads about the streets when folks is
goin to churches. He wanted to, last Sunday, but I stopped him just as
he was goin out of the door with four heads strung on a string, for
all the airth like a string of inions.
This account cleared up the otherwise unaccountable mystery, and showed
cleared up - aufgeklrt
that the landlord, after all, had had no idea of fooling me"but at the
fooling - tuschend; (fool) dumme Gans, Dummkopf, Narr, Nrrin
same time what could I think of a harpooneer who stayed out of a
Saturday night clean into the holy Sabbath, engaged in such a cannibal
business as selling the heads of dead idolators?
idolators - (idolator) Gtzendiener
Depend upon it, landlord, that harpooneer is a dangerous man.
He pays reglar, was the rejoinder. But come, its getting dreadful
rejoinder - Gegenerwiderung, Duplik, schlagfertige Erwiderun
late, you had better be turning flukes"its a nice bed; Sal and me
flukes - (fluke) der Dusel
slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced. Theres plenty of room
spliced - (splice) Verbindung spleien
for two to kick about in that bed; its an almighty big bed that. Why,
almighty - allmchtig
afore we give it up, Sal used to put our Sam and little Johnny in the
foot of it. But I got a dreaming and sprawling about one night, and
sprawling - (sprawl) ausspreizen, grtschen, sich ausbreiten, Wucher
somehow, Sam got pitched on the floor, and came near breaking his arm.
pitched - (pitch) werfen, festsetzen, errichten;Tonhhe, Tonlage, Pec
Arter that, Sal said it wouldnt do. Come along here, Ill give ye a
Arter - (after) Hinter..., hinter, hinterher (rtlich), n. nach
glim in a jiffy; and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards
jiffy - Moment, Augenblick
me, offering to lead the way. But I stood irresolute; when looking at a
offering - Angebot, Anerbieten, Opfer, Opfergabe ; (offer) Angebo
irresolute - unentschlossen
clock in the corner, he exclaimed I vum its Sunday"you wont see that
harpooneer to-night; hes come to anchor somewhere"come along then;
anchor - Anker
_do_ come; _wont_ ye come?
I considered the matter a moment, and then up stairs we went, and I was
ushered into a small room, cold as a clam, and furnished, sure enough,
ushered - (usher) Platzanweiser Gerichtsdiener zuweisen, anweise
clam - zugeknpfter Mensch;hemmen;essbare Muschel, Venusmuschel
furnished - (furnish) mblieren, einrichten, ausrsten
with a prodigious bed, almost big enough indeed for any four
prodigious - ungeheuer, gewaltig, verwunderlich
harpooneers to sleep abreast.
abreast - beieinander, nebeneinander, auf dem Laufenden, Schritt
There, said the landlord, placing the candle on a crazy old sea chest
that did double duty as a wash-stand and centre table; there, make
yourself comfortable now, and good night to ye. I turned round from
eyeing the bed, but he had disappeared.
Folding back the counterpane, I stooped over the bed. Though none of
counterpane - die Tagesdecke
stooped - (stoop) Buckel, sich beugen
the most elegant, it yet stood the scrutiny tolerably well. I then
most elegant - eleganteste
scrutiny - genaue Untersuchung, genaue Beobachtung, genaue Untersuchung
tolerably - ertrgliche, ertrglich
glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table,
glanced - (glance) blicken Blick, Streifblick, Glanz, Steinkohle
bedstead - Bettgestell, Bettrahmen
could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf,
the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a
fireboard - Feuertafel
whale. Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a
hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; also a
lashed - (lash) Peitsche, Wimper;anbinden
large seamans bag, containing the harpooneers wardrobe, no doubt in
wardrobe - Garderobe, Kleiderschrank
lieu of a land trunk. Likewise, there was a parcel of outlandish bone
lieu - anstatt
Likewise - ebenfalls, gleichfalls, ebenso, hnlich
parcel - Paket Parzelle
outlandish - seltsam, sonderbar, haarstrubend, fremdartig, auslndisch
fish hooks on the shelf over the fire-place, and a tall harpoon
hooks - (hook) Haken Hookline einhaken
standing at the head of the bed.
But what is this on the chest? I took it up, and held it close to the
light, and felt it, and smelt it, and tried every way possible to
arrive at some satisfactory conclusion concerning it. I can compare it
satisfactory - befriedigend, zufriedenstellend
concerning - (concern) Sorge, Anliegen, Betroffenheit, Besorgnis, Konzer
to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little
mat - Matte
ornamented - (ornament) Verzierung musikalische Verzierung
tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an
tags - (tag) markieren, kennzeichnen;Anhnger, Kennzeichen, Marke
stained - (stain) Fleck Schandfleck beflecken beizen
porcupine - Stachelschwein, Baumstachler, Baumstachelschwein, Urson
quills - (quill) Kiel Schreibfeder, Federkiel, Stift, Stachel
Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as
moccasin - der Mokassin
slit - Nut, Schlitz, Spalt, Schamritze
you see the same in South American ponchos. But could it be possible
ponchos - (poncho) Poncho Regenponcho
that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the
parade - stolzieren;Exerzierplatz, Korso, Aufzug
streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise? I put it on, to
guise - Gewand (fig.), Erscheinung, Gestalt
try it, and it weighed me down like a hamper, being uncommonly shaggy
hamper - stren, behindern, hemmen, hindern;Geschenkkorb
uncommonly - ungewhnlich, uerst
and thick, and I thought a little damp, as though this mysterious
harpooneer had been wearing it of a rainy day. I went up in it to a bit
rainy - regnerisch
of glass stuck against the wall, and I never saw such a sight in my
life. I tore myself out of it in such a hurry that I gave myself a kink
tore - (to tear) zerreien, reien
kink - Knoten, Knick, Macke, Schleife
in the neck.
I sat down on the side of the bed, and commenced thinking about this
commenced - (commence) anfangen, beginnen
head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat. After thinking some time on
the bed-side, I got up and took off my monkey jacket, and then stood in
the middle of the room thinking. I then took off my coat, and thought a
little more in my shirt sleeves. But beginning to feel very cold now,
sleeves - (sleeve) rmel Hlse, Schutzhlle, Tlle, Kcher
half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about
undressed - (undress) erman: sich ausziehen
the harpooneers not coming home at all that night, it being so very
late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots,
ado - Getue Getse, checkLrm, checkMhe
pantaloons - (Pantaloon) Hose
and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself
blowing out - ausblasend
tumbled - (tumble) Sturz, Fall, berschlag, Absturz
commended - (commend) belobigen, beglckwnschen, loben, anvertraue
to the care of heaven.
Whether that mattress was stuffed with corn-cobs or broken crockery,
cobs - (cob) mnnlicher Schwan
crockery - Geschirr Essgeschirr
there is no telling, but I rolled about a good deal, and could not
sleep for a long time. At last I slid off into a light doze, and had
slid - glitt a
doze - Halbschlaf
pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard
Nod - nicken einnicken Kopfnicken
a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into
footfall - Schritt
glimmer - Schimmer glimmern
the room from under the door.
Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal
infernal - hllisch, infernalisch, t-checkHllen-, checkinfernalisch
head-peddler. But I lay perfectly still, and resolved not to say a word
peddler - Hausierer Schwtzer, Fabulant
till spoken to. Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New
identical - identisch eineiig
Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without
looking towards the bed, placed his candle a good way off from me on
the floor in one corner, and then began working away at the knotted
knotted - (knot) Knoten, Knuel
cords of the large bag I before spoke of as being in the room. I was
cords - (cord) Schnur, Kordel, Strick, Kabel, Litze
all eagerness to see his face, but he kept it averted for some time
eagerness - Eifer
averted - (avert) abwenden, verhindern
while employed in unlacing the bags mouth. This accomplished, however,
unlacing - (unlace) aufschnren
accomplished - (accomplish) vollenden
he turned round"when, good heavens! what a sight! Such a face! It was
of a dark, purplish, yellow colour, here and there stuck over with
purplish - brombeerfarben
large blackish looking squares. Yes, its just as I thought, hes a
blackish - schwrzlich
terrible bedfellow; hes been in a fight, got dreadfully cut, and here
dreadfully - furchtbar
he is, just from the surgeon. But at that moment he chanced to turn his
surgeon - Chirurg, Chirurgin, Wundarzt
face so towards the light, that I plainly saw they could not be
sticking-plasters at all, those black squares on his cheeks. They were
plasters - (plaster) Salbe, Creme, Putz, Verputz, Stuck
cheeks - (cheek) Backe, ormal, Stirn, Mick , Pumpenmick
stains of some sort or other. At first I knew not what to make of this;
stains - (stain) Fleck Schandfleck beflecken beizen
but soon an inkling of the truth occurred to me. I remembered a story
inkling - Andeutung
of a white man"a whaleman too"who, falling among the cannibals, had
whaleman - Walfnger
cannibals - (cannibal) Kannibale, emale
been tattooed by them. I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course
tattooed - (tattoo) ttowieren
of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure. And
what is it, thought I, after all! Its only his outside; a man can be
honest in any sort of skin. But then, what to make of his unearthly
unearthly - unheimlich
complexion, that part of it, I mean, lying round about, and completely
complexion - Teint, Gesichtsfarbe
round about - rundherum
independent of the squares of tattooing. To be sure, it might be
tattooing - (tattoo) ttowieren
nothing but a good coat of tropical tanning; but I never heard of a hot
tropical - tropisch
tanning - Brunung; (tan) Brunung
suns tanning a white man into a purplish yellow one. However, I had
never been in the South Seas; and perhaps the sun there produced these
extraordinary effects upon the skin. Now, while all these ideas were
extraordinary - auerordentlich, auergewhnlich
passing through me like lightning, this harpooneer never noticed me at
all. But, after some difficulty having opened his bag, he commenced
fumbling in it, and presently pulled out a sort of tomahawk, and a
fumbling - (fumble) umhertasten, tasten
tomahawk - Tomahawk
seal-skin wallet with the hair on. Placing these on the old chest in
seal - versiegeln;Siegel, Stempel, Seehun
wallet - Portemonnaie, Portmonee; Brieftasche; Geldbeutel; Geldbrse
the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head"a ghastly
ghastly - geisterhaft grsslich, gespenstisch, haarstrubend, schauderhaf
thing enough"and crammed it down into the bag. He now took off his
crammed - (cram) stopfen, vollpacken, msten, vollstopfen, bffeln, pauken
hat"a new beaver hat"when I came nigh singing out with fresh surprise.
beaver - Biber
There was no hair on his head"none to speak of at least"nothing but a
small scalp-knot twisted up on his forehead. His bald purplish head now
scalp - Oberkopf Kopfhaut Skalp
twisted - (twist) Zwirn Biegung Wendung Twist verziehen, drehe
bald - kahl, glatzkpfig; q
looked for all the world like a mildewed skull. Had not the stranger
mildewed - (mildew) Mehltau, Schimmel, schimmeln, verschimmeln
skull - Totenschdel, Totenkopf, Schdel
stood between me and the door, I would have bolted out of it quicker
bolted - (bolt) Riegel, Ballen, Blitz, Bolzen;durchgehen (Pferd), sausen
than ever I bolted a dinner.
Even as it was, I thought something of slipping out of the window, but
slipping - (slip) Versprecher;Rutschen (geradeaus);Lapsus, Setzling, Pann
it was the second floor back. I am no coward, but what to make of this
coward - Feigling,
head-peddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension.
rascal - Gauner, Strolch, Bsewicht, Schurke, Bengel
Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and
nonplussed - (nonplus) verwirren, verdutzen, verblffen
confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of
him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at
the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game
enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer
concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.
inexplicable - unerklrlich
Meanwhile, he continued the business of undressing, and at last showed
undressing - entkleidende, auskleiden
his chest and arms. As I live, these covered parts of him were
checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all
checkered - (checker) Schachbrettmuster;karieren;Aufseher, Prfer
over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years
War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt. Still
more, his very legs were marked, as if a parcel of dark green frogs
were running up the trunks of young palms. It was now quite plain that
trunks - (trunk) Stamm, Baumstamm, Koffer, Truhe, Schrankkoffer
palms - (palm) Palme, Schaufel (am Geweih)
he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman
aboard - an Bord
in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country. I quaked to
quaked - (quake) Beben
think of it. A peddler of heads too"perhaps the heads of his own
brothers. He might take a fancy to mine"heavens! look at that tomahawk!
But there was no time for shuddering, for now the savage went about
shuddering - schaudernd; (shudder) Schauder (wohliger) Schauder schaudern zittern
something that completely fascinated my attention, and convinced me
fascinated - (fascinate) faszinieren, bezaubern
that he must indeed be a heathen. Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall,
heathen - heidnisch barbarisch, unzivilisiert, Heide, Heidin, Barba
or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in
dreadnaught - Dreadnought
fumbled - (fumble) umhertasten, tasten
the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image
curious - neugierig, sonderbar, merkwrdig
with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days old
hunch - Hgel, Protuberanz, Buckel, gekrmmte Haltung, krummer Rcke
Congo baby. Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought
embalmed - (embalm) einbalsamieren
that this black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar
manikin - Mnnchen
manner. But seeing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened
glistened - (glisten) glitzern, glnzen, gleien
a good deal like polished ebony, I concluded that it must be nothing
polished - (polish) polnisch Polnisch
ebony - Ebenholz Ebenholz
but a wooden idol, which indeed it proved to be. For now the savage
idol - Idol, Gtze
goes up to the empty fire-place, and removing the papered fire-board,
sets up this little hunch-backed image, like a tenpin, between the
tenpin - Kegel
andirons. The chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty,
andirons - (andiron) Feuerbock, Kaminbock, Brandbock, Feuerhund
jambs - (jamb) Trpfosten
bricks - (brick) Backstein, Ziegel, externes Netzteil, bricken
sooty - ruig ruen
so that I thought this fire-place made a very appropriate little shrine
appropriate - angebracht, angemessen, passend, zugewiesen, anpassen, aneigne
shrine - Heiligtum; q
or chapel for his Congo idol.
chapel - Kapelle
I now screwed my eyes hard towards the half hidden image, feeling but
screwed - (screw) Schraube, Schiffsschraube, Wchter, Aufpasser, Wrter
ill at ease meantime"to see what was next to follow. First he takes
ease - Leichtigkeit, Mhelosigkeit, Behaglichkeit, Bequemlichkei
meantime - unterdessen
about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places
handful - Handvoll Handbreite
them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on
top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into
flame - Flamme, poetic, anmachen
kindled - (kindle) anznden
a sacrificial blaze. Presently, after many hasty snatches into the
sacrificial - opfernd
blaze - Lohe, Brand, Grobrand, brenne, Glut
hasty - hastig, eilig
snatches - (snatch) klauen, stehlen, Reien
fire, and still hastier withdrawals of his fingers (whereby he seemed
hastier - (hasty) hastig, eilig
withdrawals - (withdrawal) Entnahme, Abhebung, Entzug, Rckzug, Zurcknahme
whereby - wodurch
to be scorching them badly), he at last succeeded in drawing out the
scorching - (scorch) verbrennen rasen
biscuit; then blowing off the heat and ashes a little, he made a polite
blowing off - wegblasend
offer of it to the little negro. But the little devil did not seem to
fancy such dry sort of fare at all; he never moved his lips. All these
strange antics were accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from
antics - (antic) Possen
accompanied - (accompany) begleiten, geleiten, beiliegen
guttural - guttural, kehlig
the devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing
devotee - Bewunderer, Enthusiast, Fan, Anhnger
some pagan psalmody or other, during which his face twitched about in
pagan - heidnisch Heide, Heidin, Unglubiger, Unglubige
psalmody - Psalmodie
twitched - (twitch) zupfen
the most unnatural manner. At last extinguishing the fire, he took the
most unnatural - unnatrlichste
extinguishing - (extinguish) lschen auslschen, abschalten
idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket
unceremoniously - ungezwungene
as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.
carelessly - leichtsinnigerweise, sorglos
sportsman - Sportler, Athlet
woodcock - Waldschnepfe
All these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness, and seeing
proceedings - (proceeding) fortsetzend, verfahrend
uncomfortableness - Unbehaglichkeit, Ungemtlichkeit
him now exhibiting strong symptoms of concluding his business
exhibiting - (exhibit) zeigen, zur Schau stellen, ausstellen, vorzeigen
operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time,
now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which
I had so long been bound.
But the interval I spent in deliberating what to say, was a fatal one.
deliberating - (deliberate) absichtlich, bewusst, vorstzlich, wohlerwoge
fatal - verhngnisvoll, fatal, tdlich
Taking up his tomahawk from the table, he examined the head of it for
an instant, and then holding it to the light, with his mouth at the
handle, he puffed out great clouds of tobacco smoke. The next moment
puffed - (puff) pusten;Hauch
tobacco smoke - Tabakqualm
the light was extinguished, and this wild cannibal, tomahawk between
extinguished - (extinguish) lschen auslschen, abschalten
his teeth, sprang into bed with me. I sang out, I could not help it
now; and giving a sudden grunt of astonishment he began feeling me.
grunt - Grunzer, Sthnen, Grunzen, Hucker, Handlanger, Hilfsarbeiter
Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him
Stammering - Gestotter ; (stammer) stammeln, stottern, Stottern
against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might
conjured - (conjure) zaubern herbeirufen hervorrufen, heraufbeschwre
whoever - wer immer, wer auch immer
be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again. But his
guttural responses satisfied me at once that he but ill comprehended my
satisfied - (satisfy) befriedigen, zufriedenstellen
comprehended - (comprehend) umfassen verstehen, begreifen, erfassen, einsehen
meaning.
Who-e debel you?"he at last said"you no speak-e, dam-me, I kill-e.
And so saying the lighted tomahawk began flourishing about me in the
flourishing - (flourish) gedeihen, blhen, spriessen, grnen
dark.
Landlord, for Gods sake, Peter Coffin! shouted I. Landlord! Watch!
Coffin! Angels! save me!
Angels - (Angel) Engel
Speak-e! tell-ee me who-ee be, or dam-me, I kill-e! again growled the
growled - (growl) Knurren Magenknurren
cannibal, while his horrid flourishings of the tomahawk scattered the
flourishings - Aufschwnge
scattered - (scatter) zerstreuen, verstreuen, ausstreuen
hot tobacco ashes about me till I thought my linen would get on fire.
tobacco - Tabak, Tabakpflanze
But thank heaven, at that moment the landlord came into the room light
in hand, and leaping from the bed I ran up to him.
Dont be afraid now, said he, grinning again, Queequeg here wouldnt
harm a hair of your head.
harm - Schaden
Stop your grinning, shouted I, and why didnt you tell me that that
infernal harpooneer was a cannibal?
I thought ye knowd it;"didnt I tell ye, he was a peddlin heads
around town?"but turn flukes again and go to sleep. Queequeg, look
here"you sabbee me, I sabbee"you this man sleepe you"you sabbee?
sabbee - Sabbiner
sleepe - schlafen
Me sabbee plenty"grunted Queequeg, puffing away at his pipe and
grunted - (grunt) Grunzer, Sthnen, Grunzen, Hucker, Handlange
puffing away - paffend
sitting up in bed.
You gettee in, he added, motioning to me with his tomahawk, and
motioning - (motion) Bewegung
throwing the clothes to one side. He really did this in not only a
civil but a really kind and charitable way. I stood looking at him a
civil - zivil, brgerlich, zivilisiert
charitable - wohlttig, grozgig
moment. For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely
tattooings - Ttowierungen
comely - hbsch, ansehnlich
looking cannibal. Whats all this fuss I have been making about,
fuss - Lrm, Wirbel, Aufstand, Gehabe
thought I to myself"the mans a human being just as I am: he has just
as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep
with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
drunken - betrunken, trunken
Landlord, said I, tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or
stash - verstecken
whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will
turn in with him. But I dont fancy having a man smoking in bed with
me. Its dangerous. Besides, I aint insured.
insured - versicherte; (insure) versichern
This being told to Queequeg, he at once complied, and again politely
complied - (comply) einwilligen, sich fgen
politely - hflich
motioned me to get into bed"rolling over to one side as much as to
motioned - (motion) Bewegung
say"I wont touch a leg of ye.
Good night, landlord, said I, you may go.
I turned in, and never slept better in my life.
Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequegs arm thrown
daylight - Tageslicht Tag
over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost
most loving - liebevollste
affectionate - liebevoll, gtig, zugeneigt, herzlich, zugetan
thought I had been his wife. The counterpane was of patchwork, full of
patchwork - Flickarbeit, Flickwerk
odd little parti-coloured squares and triangles; and this arm of his
triangles - (triangle) Dreieck Triangel
tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no
interminable - endlos, grenzenlos
Cretan - kretisch Kreter, Kreterin
labyrinth - Labyrinth
two parts of which were of one precise shade"owing I suppose to his
precise - przise, genau, exakt, przisieren
shade - Schatten Vorhang Farbton schattieren
owing - (owe) schulden, schuldig sein
keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt
unmethodically - unmethodisch
sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times"this same arm of his, I
irregularly - unregelmige
say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork
strip - Zeichenkette
quilt. Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm did when I first awoke, I
quilt - Steppdecke only for decorative examples: Quilt
awoke - (awake) munter, wach;erwachen, aufwachen
could hardly tell it from the quilt, they so blended their hues
blended - (blend) Mischung mischen, mixen, vermischen
hues - (hue) Farbe, Tnung, Geschrei, Farbton
together; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I
could tell that Queequeg was hugging me.
hugging - (hug) Umarmung umarmen
My sensations were strange. Let me try to explain them. When I was a
sensations - (sensation) Gefhl, Empfindung, Sensation
child, I well remember a somewhat similar circumstance that befell me;
circumstance - Umstand
befell - (befall) befallen, zustoen, hereinbrechen, widerfahren
whether it was a reality or a dream, I never could entirely settle. The
circumstance was this. I had been cutting up some caper or other"I
cutting up - zerschneidend
caper - Streich (bermtiger), Kaper, Kapriole
think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little
crawl - kriechen
sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other,
stepmother - Stiefmutter,
was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless,"my
whipping - (whip) auspeitschen, flitzen, peitschen; (whip) Peitsche, Knut
supperless - ohne Abendbrot
mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to
dragged - (drag) Planierschleppe;nachschleppen, schleppen, ziehen
bed, though it was only two oclock in the afternoon of the 21st June,
the longest day in the year in our hemisphere. I felt dreadfully. But
hemisphere - Hemisphre, Halbkugel (rare, e.g
there was no help for it, so up stairs I went to my little room in the
third floor, undressed myself as slowly as possible so as to kill time,
kill time - die Zeit vertreiben, die Zeit totschlagen
and with a bitter sigh got between the sheets.
sigh - Seufzen, Seufzer, Suseln (Wind);suseln (Wind)
I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse
dismally - trostlos, dstere
calculating - (calculate) kalkulieren, berechnen, ausrechne
entire - ganz, gesamt
elapse - vergehen, verrinnen
before I could hope for a resurrection. Sixteen hours in bed! the small
resurrection - Wiederauferstehung
of my back ached to think of it. And it was so light too; the sun
ached - (ache) Schmerz
shining in at the window, and a great rattling of coaches in the
rattling - klappernd, ratternd, klirrend, rasselnd; (rattle) klappern
streets, and the sound of gay voices all over the house. I felt worse
and worse"at last I got up, dressed, and softly going down in my
softly - sachte leise
stockinged feet, sought out my stepmother, and suddenly threw myself at
stockinged - auf Strmpfen
her feet, beseeching her as a particular favour to give me a good
beseeching - (to beseech) ersuchen, anflehe
slippering for my misbehaviour; anything indeed but condemning me to
slippering - (slipper) Hausschuh, Latschen, Pantoffel, Patschen
misbehaviour - Ungezogenheit
condemning - (condemn) verurteilen verdammen, fr abrissreif erklre
lie abed such an unendurable length of time. But she was the best and
abed - zu Bett, im Bett
unendurable - unertrglich
most conscientious of stepmothers, and back I had to go to my room. For
most conscientious - gewissenhafteste
stepmothers - (stepmother) Stiefmutter,
several hours I lay there broad awake, feeling a great deal worse than
awake - munter, wach;erwachen, aufwachen
I have ever done since, even from the greatest subsequent misfortunes.
subsequent - anschlieend, spter, darauffolgend
misfortunes - (misfortune) Pech, Ungemach, Unglck, Unfall, Unheil
At last I must have fallen into a troubled nightmare of a doze; and
slowly waking from it"half steeped in dreams"I opened my eyes, and the
steeped - (steep) einweichen, abschssig
before sun-lit room was now wrapped in outer darkness. Instantly I felt
wrapped - (wrap) einhllen, einwickeln, wickeln, einpacken, hllen
Instantly - unmittelbar
a shock running through all my frame; nothing was to be seen, and
shock - Schock, Betroffenheit, Emprung, Schlag, Sto
nothing was to be heard; but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine.
supernatural - bernatrlich
My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable,
silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely
closely - dicht, eng, nah, nahe
seated by my bed-side. For what seemed ages piled on ages, I lay there,
piled - (pile) Haufen, Pfahl, Pulk
frozen with the most awful fears, not daring to drag away my hand; yet
daring - mutig Wagemut, Khnheit ; (dare) mutig Wagemut, Khnheit
drag - Planierschleppe;nachschleppen, schleppen, ziehen
ever thinking that if I could but stir it one single inch, the horrid
stir - erschttern, bewegen, sich rhren, verrhren;Aufregung, Bewegung
inch - Zoll (2,54 cm), Zoll (Lngenma)
spell would be broken. I knew not how this consciousness at last glided
consciousness - Bewusstsein, Gewahrsein, Erkenntnis, Bewusstheit
glided - (glide) gleiten gleiten lassen
away from me; but waking in the morning, I shudderingly remembered it
shudderingly - schaudernd
all, and for days and weeks and months afterwards I lost myself in
confounding attempts to explain the mystery. Nay, to this very hour, I
confounding - (confound) verwirren verschlimmern, verschlechtern, besiege
attempts - (attempt) versuchen Versuch, Bestreben, Bestrebung, Anschla
often puzzle myself with it.
puzzle - Rtsel Puzzle, Geduldspiel, Geduldsspiel, durcheinander bringe
Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the
supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their strangeness, to
strangeness - Fremdartigkeit, Fremdheit
those which I experienced on waking up and seeing Queequegs pagan arm
thrown round me. But at length all the past nights events soberly
soberly - nchtern
recurred, one by one, in fixed reality, and then I lay only alive to
recurred - (recur) wiederkehren
the comical predicament. For though I tried to move his arm"unlock his
comical - komdisch, komdial, komisch, lustig
predicament - Kategorie Lage (''missliche ~; unglckliche ~'') Zwangslag
unlock - aufschlieen, entriegeln, entsperren (screen, Device, P
bridegroom clasp"yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly,
bridegroom - Brutigam
clasp - Spange, Klammer, Schnalle, Griff, greifen
hugged - (hug) Umarmung umarmen
tightly - eng
as though naught but death should part us twain. I now strove to rouse
naught - nichts Nichts
twain - zwei
strove - (strive) erstreben, bestreben
rouse - wachrufen, wecken
him"Queequeg!"but his only answer was a snore. I then rolled over, my
snore - schnarchen Schnarchen
neck feeling as if it were in a horse-collar; and suddenly felt a
collar - Kragen Halskette Halsband Ring
slight scratch. Throwing aside the counterpane, there lay the tomahawk
slight - geringfgig, leicht, unbedeutend
scratch - kratzen zerkratzen, verkratzen, Kratzer
aside - beiseite, zur Seite
sleeping by the savages side, as if it were a hatchet-faced baby. A
hatchet - Beil
pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange house in the
pickle - Essiggurke, Metallbeize;beizen
broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk! Queequeg!"in the name of
goodness, Queequeg, wake! At length, by dint of much wriggling, and
goodness - Gte, Gtigkeit,
wriggling - sich winden, sich befreien, schlngeln; (wriggle) sich winde
loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his
incessant - stndig, unablssig, unaufhrlich
unbecomingness - Unschicklichkeit
hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in
matrimonial - ehelich
extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm, shook himself
extracting - (extract) Auszug Extrakt entnehmen, herausziehen, entziehen
all over like a Newfoundland dog just from the water, and sat up in
bed, stiff as a pike-staff, looking at me, and rubbing his eyes as if
pike - Spitze, Hecht
rubbing - Reiben, Polieren; (rub) reiben, abreiben, sich abreibe
he did not altogether remember how I came to be there, though a dim
consciousness of knowing something about me seemed slowly dawning over
dawning - dmmernd; (dawn) dmmern Morgendmmerung, Morgengrauen
him. Meanwhile, I lay quietly eyeing him, having no serious misgivings
misgivings - (misgiving) Zweifel
now, and bent upon narrowly observing so curious a creature. When, at
narrowly - eng
creature - Wesen, Lebewesen, Fabelwesen
last, his mind seemed made up touching the character of his bedfellow,
and he became, as it were, reconciled to the fact; he jumped out upon
reconciled - (reconcile) vershnen
the floor, and by certain signs and sounds gave me to understand that,
if it pleased me, he would dress first and then leave me to dress
afterwards, leaving the whole apartment to myself. Thinks I, Queequeg,
under the circumstances, this is a very civilized overture; but, the
civilized - (civilize) zivilisieren
overture - Angebot, Annherungsversuch, Offerte, Ouvertre
truth is, these savages have an innate sense of delicacy, say what you
innate - angeboren, checkeigen, checkimmanent
delicacy - Feinheit, Zartheit, Delikatesse, Leckerbissen, Kstlichkeit
will; it is marvellous how essentially polite they are. I pay this
essentially - im Wesentlichen, im Grunde, im Kern, im Grunde genommen
compliment - Kompliment, Lob, Anerkennung, Achtungsbezeugung
civility and consideration, while I was guilty of great rudeness;
civility - Anstand, Hflichkeit, Verbindlichkeit
rudeness - Grobheit, Unhflichkeit, grobe Bemerkung, grobes Benehme
staring at him from the bed, and watching all his toilette motions; for
motions - (motion) Bewegung
the time my curiosity getting the better of my breeding. Nevertheless,
breeding - Aufzucht, Vermehrung (biol.), zchtend; (breed) aufziehe
a man like Queequeg you dont see every day, he and his ways were well
worth unusual regarding.
regarding - (regard) schtzen, betrachten, bercksichtige
He commenced dressing at top by donning his beaver hat, a very tall
one, by the by, and then"still minus his trowsers"he hunted up his
minus - weniger, minus, Minus
boots. What under the heavens he did it for, I cannot tell, but his
next movement was to crush himself"boots in hand, and hat on"under the
crush - Schwarm zerdrcken
bed; when, from sundry violent gaspings and strainings, I inferred he
sundry - verschiedene, allerlei
gaspings - (gasping) keuchend
strainings - (straining) anspannend, anstrengend
was hard at work booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I
propriety - Angemessenheit, Richtigkeit, Korrektheit, Ordnungsmigkeit
ever heard of, is any man required to be private when putting on his
boots. But Queequeg, do you see, was a creature in the transition
stage"neither caterpillar nor butterfly. He was just enough civilized
caterpillar - Raupe, Raupenfahrzeug
butterfly - Schmetterling
to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manners. His
outlandishness - Absonderlichkeit
education was not yet completed. He was an undergraduate. If he had not
undergraduate - Student
been a small degree civilized, he very probably would not have troubled
himself with boots at all; but then, if he had not been still a savage,
he never would have dreamt of getting under the bed to put them on. At
last, he emerged with his hat very much dented and crushed down over
dented - (dent) Delle, Kerbe, Vertiefung, Beule
crushed - (crush) Schwarm zerdrcken
his eyes, and began creaking and limping about the room, as if, not
limping - lahmend, hinkend; (limp) lahmend, hinkend
being much accustomed to boots, his pair of damp, wrinkled cowhide
accustomed - (accustom) gewhnen gewhnen
cowhide - Lederpeitsche
ones"probably not made to order either"rather pinched and tormented him
pinched - (pinch) kneifen, zwicken, schnappen, erwischen, Messerspitz
at the first go off of a bitter cold morning.
at the first go - gleich beim ersten Mal, auf Anhieb
Seeing, now, that there were no curtains to the window, and that the
street being very narrow, the house opposite commanded a plain view
commanded - (command) Befehl, Kommando, befehlen, kommandieren, gebiete
into the room, and observing more and more the indecorous figure that
indecorous - unpassend, unschicklich
Queequeg made, staving about with little else but his hat and boots on;
staving - (stave) Daube Sprosse Strophe, Vers, Notenlinien, Notensystem
I begged him as well as I could, to accelerate his toilet somewhat, and
begged - (beg) Mnnchen machen;etwas erbitten (von jemandem);bitten (um
accelerate - beschleunigen eilen, beeilen
complied, and then proceeded to wash himself. At that time in the
morning any Christian would have washed his face; but Queequeg, to my
amazement, contented himself with restricting his ablutions to his
amazement - Staunen, Verwunderung
contented - (content) (to be content with) sich mit etwas begngen
restricting - (restrict) beschrnken, begrenzen
ablutions - (ablution) Waschung, Abwaschung, Ablution
chest, arms, and hands. He then donned his waistcoat, and taking up a
waistcoat - Weste,
piece of hard soap on the wash-stand centre table, dipped it into water
dipped - (dip) einfallen, sich senken, sich neigen, frben;Dip, Tunk
and commenced lathering his face. I was watching to see where he kept
lathering - (lather) Schaum, Seifenschaum
his razor, when lo and behold, he takes the harpoon from the bed
razor - Rasiermesser, Rasierapparat, Rasierer
behold - betrachten, sehen, schauen, anschauen
corner, slips out the long wooden stock, unsheathes the head, whets it
slips - (slip) Versprecher;Rutschen (geradeaus);Lapsus, Setzling, Pann
stock - in Bausch und Bogen, Aktien, Inventar
unsheathes - (unsheathe) Ernst machen
whets - (whet) wetzen
a little on his boot, and striding up to the bit of mirror against the
wall, begins a vigorous scraping, or rather harpooning of his cheeks.
vigorous - krftig, stark, energisch, lebhaft
scraping - schabend, kratzend; (scrap) schabend, kratzend
harpooning - (harpoon) Harpune
Thinks I, Queequeg, this is using Rogerss best cutlery with a
cutlery - Essbesteck
vengeance. Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came
vengeance - Rache, Vergeltung
to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how
exceedingly sharp the long straight edges are always kept.
exceedingly - beraus, uerst, auerordentlich, ungemein
The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of
proudly - stolze, stolz
the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his
harpoon like a marshals baton.
baton - Kommandostab, Zeremonienstab, Offizierstckchen, Zepter
I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the
descending - (descend) absteigen, niedergehen, herunterkommen, herabsteigen
accosted - (accost) ansprechen
grinning landlord very pleasantly. I cherished no malice towards him,
pleasantly - angenehme, angenehm
cherished - (cherish) hegen wertschtzen
malice - Boshaftigkeit, Bse, Bosheit, Bsartigkeit
though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my
skylarking - (skylark) Feldlerche
bedfellow.
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a
scarce - sprlich
good thing; the mores the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper
person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be
backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in
backward - zurck, nach hinten, rckwrts, zgerlich, gehemmt, rckstndig
that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about
bountifully - freigebig, freigiebige
laughable - lcherlich, lachhaft, zum Lachen
him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
The bar-room was now full of the boarders who had been dropping in the
night previous, and whom I had not as yet had a good look at. They were
nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates,
mates - (mate) schachmatt, Kamerad, Kameradin, verbinden;anpasse
and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and
carpenters - (carpenter) Zimmermann, Zimmerfrau
coopers - (cooper) Bttcher, Schffler (hist.), Kfer
blacksmiths - (blacksmith) Eisenschmied, Eisenschmiedin, Grobschmie
harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky
keepers - (keeper) Hter Wchter, Hter, Torwart, Tormann
brawny - muskuls, muskelbepackt
bosky - waldig
beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning
unshorn - ungeschoren
gowns.
You could pretty plainly tell how long each one had been ashore. This
young fellows healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted pear in hue, and
cheek - Backe, ormal, Stirn, Mick , Pumpenmick
pear - Birne Birnbaum, Birnenholz, Birnbaumholz, Birnholz
hue - Farbe, Tnung, Geschrei, Farbton
would seem to smell almost as musky; he cannot have been three days
musky - moschusartig
landed from his Indian voyage. That man next him looks a few shades
lighter; you might say a touch of satin wood is in him. In the
satin - (sate) bersttigen, sttigen
complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly
lingers - (linger) herumlungern, verzgern, Zeit brauchen, verweilen
tropic - Wendekreis tropisch
bleached withal; _he_ doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore. But who
bleached - (bleach) ausbleichen, bleichen
withal - mit
tarried - (tarry) zgern;teerig
could show a cheek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints,
tints - (tint) frben, tnen;Farbe, Farbton
seemed like the Andes western slope, to show forth in one array,
slope - Steigung, Hang, Abhang, Ableitung
contrasting climates, zone by zone.
zone - Bereich, Distrikt, Eingabefeld
Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we
flinging - (fling) Affre (Liebesaffre)
went to breakfast.
They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease
in manner, quite self-possessed in company. Not always, though:
Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch
Scotch - Scotch
one; of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor. But
assurance - Zusicherung, Versicherung, Zusage, Beteuerung
parlor - Wohnzimmer, Salon, Empfangszimmer, Sprechzimmer
perhaps the mere crossing of Siberia in a sledge drawn by dogs as
Siberia - Sibirien
sledge - Vorschlaghammer, Schlitten, Hammer
Ledyard did, or the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in
solitary - einsam, einzeln
the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungos
sum - Betrag, Summe, Geldbetrag
performances"this kind of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode
mode - Betriebsart, Betrieb, Modus, Art
of attaining a high social polish. Still, for the most part, that sort
attaining - (attain) erreichen, erlangen
polish - polnisch Polnisch
of thing is to be had anywhere.
These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstance that
reflections - (reflection) Reflexion, Abbild, Reflektion, Abwgung
after we were all seated at the table, and I was preparing to hear some
good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise, nearly every man
maintained a profound silence. And not only that, but they looked
maintained - (maintain) unterhalten, warten, beibehalten, aufrechterhalten
profound - tiefgehend, profund
silence - Stille, Schweigen , zum Schweigen bringen, Ruhe
embarrassed. Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the
slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas"entire
slightest - (slight) geringfgig, leicht, unbedeutend
bashfulness - Scham
strangers to them"and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here
strangers - (stranger) Fremde, Fremdling, Unbekannte
duelled - (duel) Duell, Zweikampf, duellieren
winking - (wink) (mit einem) Augenzwinkern; (wink) (wink) (mit einem) Augenzwinkern
they sat at a social breakfast table"all of the same calling, all of
kindred tastes"looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they
kindred - Stammesbrder, Stammesgeschwister, Artgenossen, verwand
sheepishly - schchterne
had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green
sheepfold - Schafstall, Schafhrde
Mountains. A curious sight; these bashful bears, these timid warrior
bashful - schchtern, verlegen, scheu
timid - furchtsam, zaghaft, zgerlich, schchtern
warrior - Krieger, Kriegerin
whalemen!
But as for Queequeg"why, Queequeg sat there among them"at the head of
the table, too, it so chanced; as cool as an icicle. To be sure I
icicle - Eiszapfen
cannot say much for his breeding. His greatest admirer could not have
admirer - Bewunderer, Bewundrerin, Bewunderin
cordially justified his bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him,
cordially - herzlich
justified - (justify) rechtfertigen ausrichten, justieren
and using it there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it,
to the imminent jeopardy of many heads, and grappling the beefsteaks
imminent - bevorstehend
jeopardy - Gefahr, Risiko
grappling - herumschlagend, packend; (grapple) herumschlagend, packend
beefsteaks - (beefsteak) Beefsteak
towards him. But _that_ was certainly very coolly done by him, and
coolly - gelassen
every one knows that in most peoples estimation, to do anything coolly
estimation - Abschtzung, Wertschtzung, Meinung
is to do it genteelly.
genteelly - vornehme
We will not speak of all Queequegs peculiarities here; how he eschewed
peculiarities - (peculiarity) Singularitt, Einzigartigkeit, Besonderheit
eschewed - (eschew) meiden, scheuen
coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to
undivided - ungeteilt
beefsteaks, done rare. Enough, that when breakfast was over he withdrew
withdrew - (withdraw) annullieren, entziehen, abziehen, ausscheiden
like the rest into the public room, lighted his tomahawk-pipe, and was
sitting there quietly digesting and smoking with his inseparable hat
digesting - (digest) digerieren, verdauen;Übersicht
inseparable - untrennbar, unteilbar, unzertrennlich
on, when I sallied out for a stroll.
sallied - (sally) aufbrechen
stroll - Spaziergang, Bummel, spazieren gehen, bummeln, schlendern
If I had been astonished at first catching a glimpse of so outlandish
astonished - (astonish) erstaunen
glimpse - Blick Aufblitzen, Aufleuchten, Schimmer, entdecken, erhaschen
an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a
circulating - (circulate) umlaufen, kreisen, zirkulieren, kursieren
civilized town, that astonishment soon departed upon taking my first
daylight stroll through the streets of New Bedford.
In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will
thoroughfares - (thoroughfare) Durchfahrt, Durchgangsstrae, Hauptverkehrsstra
seaport - Seehafen, Hafenstadt,
frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign
queerest - (queer) seltsam unwohl schwul, lesbisch, queer, Queers
nondescripts - (nondescript) unbestimmbar, unauffllig, unbestimmt, unscheinbar
Chestnut - Kastanie, Esskastanie, Kastanienbraun, Fuchs
Mediterranean - mediterran
will sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent Street is not
jostle - drngeln Drngelei, Gedrngel, Gedrnge, Rempelei
affrighted - (affright) erschrecken
Regent - Regent, Regentin
unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live
Malays - (Malay) malaiisch Malaiie, Malaiin, Malaiisch
Yankees have often scared the natives. But New Bedford beats all Water
Yankees - (Yankee) Ypsilon Ami, Yankee
Street and Wapping. In these last-mentioned haunts you see only
sailors; but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street
actual - tatschlich, konkret, gegenwrtig, aktuell
corners; savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy
outright - gnzlich, ganz und gar, vollstndig, komplett
unholy - unheilig
flesh. It makes a stranger stare.
flesh - Fleisch Haut, Leib, Fruchtfleisch, Fleischfarbe, zunehme
stare - starren, anstarren
But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians,
Pannangians - Pannangianer
and Brighggians, and, besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft
which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still
unheeded - unbeachtet
reel - Spule Haspel Demoband aufrollen drehen, kreisen, taumeln
more curious, certainly more comical. There weekly arrive in this town
more curious - neugierigere
weekly - wchentlich Wochenzeitschrift, Wochenblatt, Wochenzeitung
scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain
gain - Gewinn, Zunahme, Verstrkung;erwerben, gewinnen, erlangen
and glory in the fishery. They are mostly young, of stalwart frames;
stalwart - krftig, robust, handfest, unerschtterlich, tapfer
fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and
fellows - (fellow) Stipendiat, Typ, Kerl, Bursche;Gefhrte, Kerl
felled - (fell) jdn. hinstrecken;fiel, gefallen
seek - suchen
axe - Axt, Beil
snatch the whale-lance. Many are as green as the Green Mountains whence
snatch - klauen, stehlen, Reien
whence - woher von daher
they came. In some things you would think them but a few hours old.
look there! that chap strutting round the corner. He wears a beaver hat
look there - hinsehen
strutting - stolzierend, Verstrebung, verstrebend; (strut) stolzieren
and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife.
girdled - (girdle) Grtel, Hfthalter
sheath - Futteral
Here comes another with a sou-wester and a bombazine cloak.
bombazine - Bombazin
cloak - Umhang, Pelerine, Deckmantel, verhllen
No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one"I mean a
dandy - Dandy, Pinkel, prima, schn, gut
downright bumpkin dandy"a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his
downright - geradezu
bumpkin - Hinterwldler, Bauerntlpel
mow - die Mhmaschine
two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands. Now when a
buckskin - Hirschleder
country dandy like this takes it into his head to make a distinguished
distinguished - (distinguish) unterscheiden erkennen auszeichnen
reputation, and joins the great whale-fishery, you should see the
reputation - Ansehen, Ruf, Klang, Bekanntheit
comical things he does upon reaching the seaport. In bespeaking his
bespeaking - (bespeak) besprechen, diskutieren, mitteilen, vorbestelle
sea-outfit, he orders bell-buttons to his waistcoats; straps to his
outfit - Outfit
waistcoats - (waistcoat) Weste,
straps - (strap) Riemen Streichriemen Achselklappe, Schulterklappe
canvas trowsers. Ah, poor Hay-Seed! how bitterly will burst those
canvas - Leinwand, Segeltuch
Hay - Heu
bitterly - bitterlich
burst - platzen, zerplatzen, bersten, sprengen, Bersten, Zerbrechen
straps in the first howling gale, when thou art driven, straps,
buttons, and all, down the throat of the tempest.
tempest - Sturm ; (temp) Sturm
But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals,
and bumpkins to show her visitors. Not at all. Still New Bedford is a
bumpkins - (bumpkin) Hinterwldler, Bauerntlpel
queer place. Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would
tract - Gebiet, Teil
this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of
Labrador. As it is, parts of her back country are enough to frighten
one, they look so bony. The town itself is perhaps the dearest place to
bony - knchern grtig knochig
live in, in all New England. It is a land of oil, true enough: but not
like Canaan; a land, also, of corn and wine. The streets do not run
with milk; nor in the spring-time do they pave them with fresh eggs.
pave - mit Platten auslegen pflastern, bepflastern
Yet, in spite of this, nowhere in all America will you find more
spite - trotz
patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New
patrician - Patrizier
opulent - opulent, pomps, pomphaft
Bedford. Whence came they? how planted upon this once scraggy scoria of
scraggy - drr
scoria - Schlacke
a country?
Go and gaze upon the iron emblematical harpoons round yonder lofty
gaze - anstarren
emblematical - symbolischer
lofty - hoch,
mansion, and your question will be answered. Yes; all these brave
mansion - Herrenhaus, Villa, Anwesen
houses and flowery gardens came from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian
flowery - Blumen-, blumig, blumengeschmckt
oceans. One and all, they were harpooned and dragged up hither from the
hither - her, hierher, hierhin
bottom of the sea. Can Herr Alexander perform a feat like that?
feat - Kunststck
In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their
dowers - (dower) Leibzucht, Leibgedinge, Wittum
daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
nieces - (niece) Nichte
porpoises - (porpoise) Tmmler, Schweinswal
You must go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding; for, they say,
they have reservoirs of oil in every house, and every night recklessly
reservoirs - (reservoir) Reservoir Stausee
recklessly - leichtsinnig rcksichtslos
burn their lengths in spermaceti candles.
candles - (candle) Kerze
In summer time, the town is sweet to see; full of fine maples"long
maples - (maple) Ahorn
avenues of green and gold. And in August, high in air, the beautiful
and bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer the passer-by
bountiful - freigebig, freigiebig
chestnuts - (chestnut) Kastanie, Esskastanie, Kastanienbraun, Fuchs
candelabra - Kandelaber; (candelabrum) Kandelaber
wise - klug, vernnftig
proffer - anbieten
their tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms. So omnipotent is
tapering - Zuspitzung, zuspitzend, Verjngung; (taper) Zuspitzun
cones - (cone) Kegel, Kegelmantel, Zapfen
congregated - (congregate) ansammeln, versammeln, zusammenkommen
blossoms - (blossom) Blte Bltezeit blhen, erblhen, aufblhen
omnipotent - allmchtig, omnipotent
art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright
superinduced - (superinduce) einfhren
terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at
terraces - (terrace) Dachterrasse Huserreihe; Huserflucht Stehtribne; Stehpltze
barren - steril, unfruchtbar, drr, karg, ausgetrocknet
refuse - Mll;abweisen, verweigern, abschlagen, ablehnen
creations final day.
And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But
bloom - Blte, Bltenpracht, Duft
roses - (rose) Rosa
roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks
carnation - Gartennelke, Nelke
is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens. Elsewhere match that
perennial - ganzjhrig dauerhaft wiederkehrend mehrjhrig
sunlight - Sonnenlicht
bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young
girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off
musk - Moschus, Bisam
sweethearts - (sweetheart) Schatz, herzensguter Mensch, Seele von Mensc
shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of
odorous - riechend
the Puritanic sands.
Puritanic - Puritanisch
In this same New Bedford there stands a Whalemans Chapel, and few are
the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or Pacific, who
moody - launisch mrrisch schwermtig
shortly - bald
fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot. I am sure that I did not.
Returning from my first morning stroll, I again sallied out upon this
special errand. The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving
errand - Besorgung, Auftrag
sunny - sonnig, heiter
sleet and mist. Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called
sleet - Eiskorn Schneeregen Eisregen
mist - Nebel
Wrapping - einpacken, einwickeln, einhllen; (wrap) einpacken, einwickel
bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm. Entering, I found
bearskin - Brenfell
stubborn - stur, dickkpfig
a small scattered congregation of sailors, and sailors wives and
congregation - Versammeln, Zusammenfhren, Gemeindeversammlung, Gemeindetreffe
widows. A muffled silence reigned, only broken at times by the shrieks
widows - (widow) Witwe Hurenkind
reigned - (reign) Herrschaft, Regentschaft, herrschen, regieren
shrieks - (shriek) Kreischen
of the storm. Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart
worshipper - Anbeter, Anbeterin
purposely - absichtlich
from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and
grief - Kummer, Gram, Leid
incommunicable. The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these
incommunicable - nicht auszudrcken, nicht mitteilsam
chaplain - Kaplan, Kaplanin, Seelsorger, Seelsorgerin
silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble
steadfastly - unbeweglich
marble - Marmor Murmel marmorieren
tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the
masoned - (mason) Maurer
pulpit. Three of them ran something like the following, but I do not
pretend to quote:"
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN TALBOT, Who, at the age of eighteen, was
lost overboard, Near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia, _November_
overboard - ber Bord
Isle - Eiland
Desolation - Verwsten, Verwstung, Verwstetsein, Verlassenheit
Patagonia - Patagonien
1_st_, 1836. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS SISTER.
erected - (erect) stramm (Haltung), steif;errichten
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT LONG, WILLIS ELLERY, NATHAN COLEMAN,
WALTER CANNY, SETH MACY, AND SAMUEL GLEIG, Forming one of the boats
CANNY - umsichtig
crews OF THE SHIP ELIZA Who were towed out of sight by a Whale, On the
towed - (tow) Werg;abschleppen, schleppen
Off-shore Ground in the PACIFIC, _December_ 31_st_, 1839. THIS MARBLE
Is here placed by their surviving SHIPMATES.
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY, Who in the bows
HARDY - abgehrtet, widerstandsfhig
bows - Bcklinge, Bgen; (bow) Bcklinge, Bgen
of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, _August_
3_d_, 1833. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW.
WIDOW - Witwe Hurenkind
Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated
glazed - (glaze) Glasur Reif glasieren
myself near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see
sideways - (sideway) Seitenweg
Queequeg near me. Affected by the solemnity of the scene, there was a
solemnity - Hochfest
wondering gaze of incredulous curiosity in his countenance. This savage
incredulous - unglubig, skeptisch
countenance - Antlitz, Gesichtsausdruck, Miene, Untersttzung, Fassun
was the only person present who seemed to notice my entrance; because
he was the only one who could not read, and, therefore, was not reading
those frigid inscriptions on the wall. Whether any of the relatives of
frigid - kalt
inscriptions - (inscription) Inschrift Aufschrift, Mnzaufschrift, Widmung
the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation,
I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery,
unrecorded - nicht verzeichnet
and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not
the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here
trappings - (trapping) in die Falle lockend, einfangend
unceasing - unaufhrlich
before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of
assembled - (assemble) zusammensetzen, versammeln, versammeln
unhealing - unheilbar
those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed
sympathetically - sympathische
wounds - (wound) anschieen, verwunden
bleed - bluten ausbluten entlften Blutung Beschnitt
afresh.
afresh - neu, wieder
Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing
among flowers can say"here, _here_ lies my beloved; ye know not the
beloved - beliebt, geliebt, Liebe, Liebchen, Liebling; (belove) belieb
desolation that broods in bosoms like these. What bitter blanks in
broods - (brood) Brut brten, grbeln
bosoms - (bosom) Busen, Brust, der Busenfreund (bosom buddy)
those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes! What despair in
marbles - (marble) Marmor Murmel marmorieren
despair - verzweifeln Verzweiflung
those immovable inscriptions! What deadly voids and unbidden
immovable - unbeweglich
deadly - tdlich
voids - (void) nichtig
unbidden - ungebeten, unberufen
infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse
infidelities - (infidelity) Untreue
gnaw - nagen, kauen, knabbern, verfolgen
Faith - Glaube Vertrauen
resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a
resurrections - (Resurrection) Wiederauferstehung
beings - (being) Wesen, Geschpf, Sein, Dasein
placelessly - ortlos
perished - (perish) verderben, schlecht werden, umkommen, ums Leben komme
grave. As well might those tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as
grave - feierlich, Gruft, massiv, wrdig, ernst
cave - nachgeben, aufgeben;Hhle
here.
In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included;
census - Zensus, Volkszhlung, Befragung, Bevlkerungszhlung
mankind - Menschheit, Menschengeschlecht, Mann
why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no
proverb - Sprichwort, Denkspruch, Redensart; Proverb
tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is
that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix
prefix - Prfix, Vorsilbe, prfigieren
so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if
significant - signifikant, bedeutend
infidel - Unglubiger, Unglubige
entitle - betiteln, benennen, den Titel verleihen, die Wrde verleihe
he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the
embarks - (embark) einschiffen, an Bord gehen, beginnen, antreten
Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what
Insurance - Versicherung
forfeitures - (forfeiture) (selbstverschuldeter) Verlust
immortals - (Immortal) unsterblich unvergesslich
eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies
eternal - ewig
unstirring - aufrttelnd
paralysis - Paralyse, Lhmung
trance - Trance
antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we
antique - antik Antiquitt
still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are
comforted - (comfort) Behaglichkeit, Bequemlichkeit, Komfort, Tros
maintain - unterhalten, warten, beibehalten, aufrechterhalten
dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all
dwelling - Wohnung, Behausung; (dwell) leben, verbleiben, wohnen, verweilen
unspeakable - unsglich
bliss - Glckseligkeit, Glck
strive - erstreben, bestreben
hush - verstummen, still werden, zum Schweigen bringen, Stille, Ruhe
the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify
rumor - Gercht Gercht
a whole city. All these things are not without their meanings.
meanings - (meaning) Bedeutung, Sinn
But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these
jackal - Schakal, Schakalin
tombs - (tomb) Grabmal, Gruft
dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
most vital - lebenswichtigste
It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a
scarcely - knapp, kaum, wohl nicht, gerade erst
eve - Vorabend
Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky
murky - dster, trb
light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who
darkened - (darken) verdunkeln
doleful - traurig, trbsinnig
fate - Schicksal, Los, Geschick
had gone before me. Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine. But
thine - dein deiner, der deine
somehow I grew merry again. Delightful inducements to embark, fine
merry - frhlich, heiter
Delightful - reizvoll, entzckend, angenehm
chance for promotion, it seems"aye, a stove boat will make me an
promotion - Befrderung, Aufstieg , Hherversetzung , Werbung
aye - gewiss, Ja-Stimme
immortal by brevet. Yes, there is death in this business of whaling"a
immortal - unsterblich unvergesslich
speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what
speechlessly - sprachlos
chaotic - chaotisch
bundling - zusammenbindend
Eternity - Ewigkeit
then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death.
Methinks - mich dnken
hugely - enorme, ungeheuer
Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true
shadow - Schatten beschatten
substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too
spiritual - geistig
much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking
oysters - (oyster) Auster Pfaffenschnittchen, Pfaffenstckchen
that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees
lees - (Lee) Windschatten, Lee, Schutz
of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is
not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat
cheers - prost, zum Wohl, tschss, danke; (cheer) prost, zum Woh
and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.
stave - Daube Sprosse Strophe, Vers, Notenlinien, Notensystem
I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable
venerable - ehrwrdig, geschtzt, respektabel, verehrenswer
robustness entered; immediately as the storm-pelted door flew back upon
robustness - Robustheit
pelted - (pelt) Fell (ungegerbt);bombardieren (ugs. bewerfen)
admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation,
regardful - achtsam
sufficiently attested that this fine old man was the chaplain. Yes, it
sufficiently - hinreichend, gengend, zureichende
attested - (attest) attestieren, beglaubigen
was the famous Father Mapple, so called by the whalemen, among whom he
was a very great favourite. He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in
his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the
dedicated - (dedicate) widmen sich widmen
ministry. At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy
ministry - Ministerium
winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging
merging - mischend, verschmelzend, Zusammenmischen; (merge) zusammenlege
into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his
fissures - (fissure) Riss, Spalte, rissig werden
wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing
wrinkles - (wrinkle) sich runzeln, runzlig (runzelig) werden, knittern
gleams - (gleam) Schimmer;durchschimmern, glnzen
bloom"the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath Februarys snow. No
verdure - Grn, Wuchs, Pflanzenwuchs, Kraft
peeping - (peep) (peep hole) Schauloch; (to peep through) durchgucke
one having previously heard his history, could for the first time
behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there were
utmost - uerst, hchst, uerstes, Mglichstes
certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that
engrafted - (engraft) transplantieren
clerical - klerikal, geistlich, priesterlich
imputable - zuzuschreiben
adventurous maritime life he had led. When he entered I observed that
maritime - See
he carried no umbrella, and certainly had not come in his carriage, for
carriage - Kutsche Gang, Haltung, Wagen, Frachtgeld, Fracht, Fuhrlohn
his tarpaulin hat ran down with melting sleet, and his great pilot
tarpaulin - (tarpauling) Planen
melting - Schmelzen ; (melt) Schmelze Schmelzwasser schmelze
cloth jacket seemed almost to drag him to the floor with the weight of
the water it had absorbed. However, hat and coat and overshoes were one
absorbed - (absorb) absorbieren, aufnehen
overshoes - (overshoe) berschuh
by one removed, and hung up in a little space in an adjacent corner;
adjacent - daneben, anliegend, benachbart, adjazent, umliegend
when, arrayed in a decent suit, he quietly approached the pulpit.
arrayed - (array) Bekleidung, Tracht, Arrangement; Feld; bersicht, Anzah
approached - (approach) sich nhern, nahekommen, hnlich sei
Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a
pulpits - (pulpit) Kanzel; i ot or just slightly raised
regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the
floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the
contract - Vertrag, Kontrakt;ich/er/sie zog zusammen, Vertrag abschlieen
architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and
hint - Hinweis, Tipp, Wink, Fingerzeig
finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side
substituting - (substitute) ersetzen auswechseln Ersatz Ersatzspiele
ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea. The wife
ladder - Leiter Laufmasche
mounting - ersteigend, Halterung, Schftung; (mount) ersteigend, Halterun
of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of
handsome - hbsch, stattlich, gutaussehend, ansehnlich, schmuck
red worsted man-ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely
worsted - (worst) (bad) schlimm, verdorben, arg, ungezoge
nicely - gut
headed, and stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance,
mahogany - Mahagoni Mahagonibaum
contrivance - Vorrichtung, Maschinerie, Apparat, Behelf
considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad
taste. Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both
hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, Father Mapple
grasping - (grasp) greifen, erfassen, begreifen, verstehen, Grif
ornamental - Zier-, dekorativ, Zierpflanze
knobs - (knob) Knopf, Knauf
cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor-like but still
cast - werfen wegwerfen, hinwerfen, gieen, Cast, Besetzung, Ensembl
upwards - (upward) ansteigend, aufwrts
reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps as if
reverential - ehrfrchtig, ehrerbietig, ehrerbietigen
dexterity - Fingerfertigkeit, Geschicklichkeit, Gewandtheit
ascending the main-top of his vessel.
ascending - (ascend) steigen, aufsteigen
The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case
with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of
wood, so that at every step there was a joint. At my first glimpse of
joint - gemeinschaftlich, gemeinsam, gemeinsame, gemeinsamer
the pulpit, it had not escaped me that however convenient for a ship,
these joints in the present instance seemed unnecessary. For I was not
joints - (joint) gemeinschaftlich, gemeinsam, gemeinsame, gemeinsamer
prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height, slowly turn
gaining - gewinnend, erringend; (gain) gewinnend, erringend
round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag up the ladder
step by step, till the whole was deposited within, leaving him
deposited - (deposit) Ablagerung, Vorkommen, Depot, Einzahlung, Anzahlun
impregnable in his little Quebec.
impregnable - unangreifbar, unbezwinglich, unberwindlich
Quebec - Qubec Quebec
I pondered some time without fully comprehending the reason for this.
fully - vllig
comprehending - (comprehend) umfassen verstehen, begreifen, erfassen, einsehen
Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and
sincerity - Aufrichtigkeit, Ehrlichkeit
sanctity, that I could not suspect him of courting notoriety by any
sanctity - Heiligkeit
notoriety - Notoritt, schlechter Ruf, Allbekanntheit, traurige Berhmtheit
mere tricks of the stage. No, thought I, there must be some sober
reason for this thing; furthermore, it must symbolize something unseen.
furthermore - weiterhin, darber hinaus, auerdem, des Weiteren
symbolize - symbolisieren
unseen - unbesehen, unsichtbar
Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies
isolation - Isolierung, Isolation
signifies - (signify) bedeuten
his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties
withdrawal - Entnahme, Abhebung, Entzug, Rckzug, Zurcknahme
outward - uerlich, auswrts
and connexions? Yes, for replenished with the meat and wine of the
connexions - (connexion) Verbindung;Anbindung, Verbindung
replenished - (replenish) wieder auffllen, wieder aufstocken
word, to the faithful man of God, this pulpit, I see, is a
faithful - treu
self-containing stronghold"a lofty Ehrenbreitstein, with a perennial
stronghold - Festung Hochburg
well of water within the walls.
But the side ladder was not the only strange feature of the place,
borrowed from the chaplains former sea-farings. Between the marble
cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its back
cenotaphs - (cenotaph) Ehrenmal, Kenotaph, Scheingrab
was adorned with a large painting representing a gallant ship beating
adorned - (adorn) schmcken, zieren, verzieren
gallant - Galan (galanter Mann), galant, Verehrer
against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy
snowy - Schnee
breakers. But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there
breakers - (breaker) Zwischenbau (Diagonal);Öffnerkontakt am Relai
scud - fliehen, eilen, jagen, lenzen (Naut.);B, Windsto
floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angels
beamed - (beam) Balken Breite Pflugbaum, Grindel, Strahl, strahle
face; and this bright face shed a distinct spot of radiance upon the
shed - (to shed) vergieen, abstoen, lsowerden
distinct - deutlich
radiance - Glanz
ships tossed deck, something like that silver plate now inserted into
silver plate - Silbergeschirr
inserted - (insert) einsetzen, einfgen, einwerfen, Beilage
the Victorys plank where Nelson fell. Ah, noble ship, the angel
seemed to say, beat on, beat on, thou noble ship, and bear a hardy
helm; for lo! the sun is breaking through; the clouds are rolling
helm - Pinne, Ruder, Steuer, Steuerruder
breaking through - durchbrechend
off"serenest azure is at hand.
serenest - (serene) heiter
Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that
trace - Zeichen, Spur
had achieved the ladder and the picture. Its panelled front was in the
panelled - (panel) Verkleidung, Platte, Tafel, Paneel
likeness of a ships bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a
likeness - Gestalt Abbild
bluff - tuschen;Bluff
Bible - Bibel
projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ships fiddle-headed
scroll - Schriftrolle, Buchrolle, Volute, Schnrkel
fiddle - Schiffsgelnder fummeln
beak.
beak - Schnabel, Zinken
What could be more full of meaning?"for the pulpit is ever this earths
foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the
foremost - vorderster
world. From thence it is the storm of Gods quick wrath is first
wrath - Zorn, Wut, rger, Ingrimm , Vergeltung
descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is
descried - (descry) wahrnehmen, erkennen, entdecken, herauslesen
brunt - Hauptlast, Wucht, Hauptsache, aushalten, ertragen
the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favourable winds.
invoked - (invoke) anrufen sich berhmen aufrufen
favourable - gnstig
Yes, the worlds a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete;
and the pulpit is its prow.
prow - Bug
Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered
unassuming - bescheiden, anspruchslos, unaufdringlich, unprtentis
the scattered people to condense. Starboard gangway, there! side away
condense - kondensieren, verkleinern
gangway - Gang, Gangway, Landungsbrcke, Durchgang, Mach Platz!
to larboard"larboard gangway to starboard! Midships! midships!
larboard - Backbord, backbord
starboard - Steuerbord
Midships - (midship) Mittschiffs
There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a
rumbling - Donnern; (rumble) Poltern, Rumpeln, hunder, Schlgere
still slighter shuffling of womens shoes, and all was quiet again, and
slighter - schmchtiger; (slight) geringfgig, leicht, unbedeutend
shuffling - schlurfend, schiebend; (shuffle) Mischen, Mischeln , Schlurfen
every eye on the preacher.
preacher - Prediger
He paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpits bows, folded his
paused - (pause) pausieren, innehalten, Pause
kneeling - kniend, hinkniend; (kneel) knien
large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and
uplifted - (uplift) hochheben, erheben
offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying
offered - (offer) offerieren, anbieten, bieten, zeigen;Antrag, Offert
devout - tiefglubig, andchtig, strengglubig
at the bottom of the sea.
This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a
prolonged - (prolong) ausdehnen verlngern hinauszgern
solemn - feierlich ernst
tones - (tone) Farbton, Klang, Umgangston, Ton
continual - dauernd, stetig, stets, fortwhrend
tolling - (toll) Zoll, Gebhr
bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog"in such tones he
foundering - (founder) Grnder, Gieer, Begrnder
fog - umnebeln, verschleiern;(dicker) Nebel, Nebel
commenced reading the following hymn; but changing his manner towards
hymn - Hymne (''now rare in this sense'') Hymnus, Kirchenlie
the concluding stanzas, burst forth with a pealing exultation and joy"
stanzas - (stanza) Strophe
pealing - erschallend, lutend; (peal) erschallend, lutend
exultation - Jubel
The ribs and terrors in the whale, Arched over me a dismal gloom,
terrors - (terror) Schrecken, Grauen, schreckliche Furcht, Terror
While all Gods sun-lit waves rolled by, And lift me deepening down
deepening - (deepen) aushlen, vertiefen, zunehmen, vergrern
to doom.
I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there;
maw - Labmagen
sorrows - (sorrow) Kummer, Traurigkeit, Trauer, Sorge
Which none but they that feel can tell" Oh, I was plunging to
plunging - tauchend; (plunge) tauchend
despair.
In black distress, I called my God, When I could scarce believe him
distress - Kummer, Bedrngnis, Drangsal, Bekmmerung, Not
mine, He bowed his ear to my complaints" No more the whale did me
bowed - (bow) Verneigung (vor), Verbeugung;Bogen, Bug (Schiff
confine.
confine - beschrnken Begrenzung
With speed he flew to my relief, As on a radiant dolphin borne;
relief - Erleichterung, Befreiung, Linderung, Untersttzung
radiant - Radiant
dolphin - Delphin
Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone The face of my Deliverer God.
Deliverer - Befreier
My song for ever shall record That terrible, that joyful hour; I
joyful - freudig, erfreulich, erfreut
give the glory to my God, His all the mercy and the power.
mercy - Barmherzigkeit, Erbarmen, Gnade, Mitleid
Nearly all joined in singing this hymn, which swelled high above the
swelled - (swell) Schwellen
howling of the storm. A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned
pause - pausieren, innehalten, Pause
ensued - (ensue) folgen, ansetzen, erfolgen, nachfolgen
over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon
the proper page, said: Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the
clinch - Clinch
verse - Strophe
first chapter of Jonah"And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up
Jonah.
Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapters"four yarns"is one
yarns - (yarn) Garn Tau
of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures. Yet what
strands - (Strand) Strand, Ader, Faden, Strhne;auf den Strand setze
cable - Seil, Tau, Kabel, Leitung, Kette
Scriptures - (Scripture) Heilige Schrift
depths of the soul does Jonahs deep sealine sound! what a pregnant
depths - (depth) Tiefe
pregnant - bedeutungsvoll
lesson to us is this prophet! What a noble thing is that canticle in
canticle - Canticum, Cantica, Kirchenlied
the fishs belly! How billow-like and boisterously grand! We feel the
billow - Woge wabern, wogen, bauschen
boisterously - heftige, ungestm, heftig
floods surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the
surging - wogend; (surge) Aufwallung, Schwall, Welle, Woge, berspannung
waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us! But _what_
weed - aussondern, ausscheiden; (wee) aussondern, ausscheiden
slime - Schleim
is this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches? Shipmates, it is a
two-stranded lesson; a lesson to us all as sinful men, and a lesson to
sinful - sndig, sndhaft, frevelhaft
me as a pilot of the living God. As sinful men, it is a lesson to us
all, because it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly
sin - (sing) singen
awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally
awakened - (awaken) aufwecken, aufwachen, erwachen, wach werden
repentance - Reue
the deliverance and joy of Jonah. As with all sinners among men, the
deliverance - Auslieferung, Abgabe, Erlsung, Befreiung
sinners - (sinner) Snder, Snderin
sin of this son of Amittai was in his wilful disobedience of the
wilful - vorstzlich, absichtlich, willentlich, eigenwillig, eigensinnig
disobedience - Ungehorsam
command of God"never mind now what that command was, or how
command - Befehl, Kommando, befehlen, kommandieren, gebieten, beherrschen
conveyed"which he found a hard command. But all the things that God
conveyed - (convey) befrdern, transportieren, verfrachten, bermittel
would have us do are hard for us to do"remember that"and hence, he
hence - von hier, fort, von dannen, daher, deshalb
oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we
commands - (command) Befehl, Kommando, befehlen, kommandieren, gebiete
endeavors - (endeavor) Bemhung, Bestreben, Unternehmen, Unterfange
must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein
disobeying - (disobey) missachten nicht gehorchen
wherein - worin
the hardness of obeying God consists.
hardness - Hrte
obeying - (obey) gehorchen befolgen
With this sin of disobedience in him, Jonah still further flouts at
flouts - (flout) sich hinwegsetzen ber, missachten, pfeifen au
God, by seeking to flee from Him. He thinks that a ship made by men
seeking - (seek) suchen
flee - fliehen, flchten, entfliehen
will carry him into countries where God does not reign, but only the
reign - Herrschaft, Regentschaft, herrschen, regieren
Captains of this earth. He skulks about the wharves of Joppa, and seeks
skulks - (skulk) sich verstecken
seeks - (seek) suchen
a ship thats bound for Tarshish. There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto
lurks - (lurk) lauern
hitherto - bis zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt, bis jetzt, bis zu diesem Zeitpunk
unheeded meaning here. By all accounts Tarshish could have been no
other city than the modern Cadiz. Thats the opinion of learned men.
And where is Cadiz, shipmates? Cadiz is in Spain; as far by water, from
Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when
the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, the modern
Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean,
Jaffa - Jaffa
easterly - stlich
the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the
Syrian - syrisch Syrer, Syrerin, Syrier, Syrierin
westward from that, just outside the Straits of Gibraltar. See ye not
westward - westwrts
Straits - (strait) Meerenge, Strae
then, shipmates, that Jonah sought to flee world-wide from God?
Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with
most contemptible - verchtlichste
worthy - wrdig
scorn - verachten verschmhen verspotten Verachtung
slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the
slouched - (slouch) herumlungern, herumhngen, Durchhnger, Schlafmtz
skulking - herumschleichend, schleichend; (skulk) sich verstecken
prowling - herumtreibend; (prowl) durchstreifen, herumstreifen
shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas. So
burglar - Einbrecher, Einbrecherin, Dieb, Diebin
hastening to - zueilend
disordered, self-condemning is his look, that had there been policemen
disordered - (disorder) Unordnung Unruhen Strung
in those days, Jonah, on the mere suspicion of something wrong, had
suspicion - Verdacht, Argwohn, Verdchtigung
been arrested ere he touched a deck. How plainly hes a fugitive! no
fugitive - Flchtling flchtig, vorbergehend, kurzlebig
baggage, not a hat-box, valise, or carpet-bag,"no friends accompany him
baggage - Gepck, Reisegepck
valise - kleiner Handkoffer
accompany - begleiten, geleiten, beiliegen
to the wharf with their adieux. At last, after much dodging search, he
wharf - Kai, Wharf
dodging - (dodge) ausweichen, beiseite springen, umgehen
finds the Tarshish ship receiving the last items of her cargo; and as
cargo - Fracht, Ladung, Cargo
he steps on board to see its Captain in the cabin, all the sailors for
cabin - Htte, Blockhtte, Kabine, Kajte
the moment desist from hoisting in the goods, to mark the strangers
desist - aufhren
hoisting - (hoist) hochziehen, hissen, Hebezeug
evil eye. Jonah sees this; but in vain he tries to look all ease and
evil - Snde, bel, blen, Übel
confidence; in vain essays his wretched smile. Strong intuitions of the
confidence - Selbstgewissheit Zuversicht Vertrauen, Zutraue
intuitions - (intuition) Ahnung, Anschauung, Eingebung, Einfhlungsvermgen
man assure the mariners he can be no innocent. In their gamesome but
gamesome - spielerisch
still serious way, one whispers to the other"Jack, hes robbed a
whispers - (whisper) Geflster, Flstern, Wispern
robbed - (rob) rauben, berauben, Raubbau treiben, ausrauben
widow; or, Joe, do you mark him; hes a bigamist; or, Harry lad, I
bigamist - Bigamist
lad - Junge, Knabe, Bube, Bursche, junger Mann, Stallbursche
guess hes the adulterer that broke jail in old Gomorrah, or belike,
adulterer - Ehebrecher, Ehebrecherin
jail - Gefngnis
belike - (arch) Gewlbe, Bogen, Furcken
one of the missing murderers from Sodom. Another runs to read the bill
murderers - (murderer) Mrder, Mrderin
Sodom - Sodom
thats stuck against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is
moored, offering five hundred gold coins for the apprehension of a
gold coins - Goldmnzen
apprehension - Greifen, Ergreifen, Fassen, Anfassen
parricide, and containing a description of his person. He reads, and
parricide - Verwandtenmrder, Verwandtenmrderin, Elternmrder , Parrizi
looks from Jonah to the bill; while all his sympathetic shipmates now
sympathetic - mitfhlend
crowd round Jonah, prepared to lay their hands upon him. Frighted Jonah
crowd round - sich scharen um
Frighted - (fright) Angst, Schreck, Schrecken
trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so
trembles - (tremble) zittern Zittern
summoning - (summon) auffordern, vorladen
much the more a coward. He will not confess himself suspected; but that
suspected - (suspect) vermuten misstrauen verdchtigen einen Verdacht haben Verdchtige
itself is strong suspicion. So he makes the best of it; and when the
sailors find him not to be the man that is advertised, they let him
pass, and he descends into the cabin.
descends - (descend) absteigen, niedergehen, herunterkommen, herabsteigen
Whos there? cries the Captain at his busy desk, hurriedly making
hurriedly - eilig, hastig, schleuning
out his papers for the Customs"Whos there? Oh! how that harmless
harmless - harmlos, unschdlich, ungefhrlich
question mangles Jonah! For the instant he almost turns to flee again.
mangles - (mangle) zerfleischen, verstmmeln
But he rallies. I seek a passage in this ship to Tarshish; how soon
rallies - (rally) Zusammenkunft, Rallye;um sich scharen;Sternfahrt;sammeln
sail ye, sir? Thus far the busy Captain had not looked up to Jonah,
though the man now stands before him; but no sooner does he hear that
hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinizing glance. We sail with the
darts - (dart) Pfeil, Satz
scrutinizing - (scrutinize) grndlich prfen, hinterfrage
glance - blicken Blick, Streifblick, Glanz, Steinkohle
next coming tide, at last he slowly answered, still intently eyeing
tide - Gezeiten, Ebbe
intently - angespannt, aufmerksam, konzentriert
him. No sooner, sir?"Soon enough for any honest man that goes a
passenger. Ha! Jonah, thats another stab. But he swiftly calls away
stab - Stich (Messer-);erstechen
swiftly - schnell, flink, behnde
the Captain from that scent. Ill sail with ye,"he says,"the passage
scent - Geruch, Duft, Parfm, Parfum, Fhrte, Geruch (1, 3
money how much is that?"Ill pay now. For it is particularly written,
shipmates, as if it were a thing not to be overlooked in this history,
overlooked - (overlook) bersicht, berblick, bemerken
that he paid the fare thereof ere the craft did sail. And taken with
the context, this is full of meaning.
Now Jonahs Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects
discernment - Diskriminierung, Urteilsvermgen, Einsicht
detects - (detect) finden, ermitteln, aufspren, entdecken, erkennen
crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. In
cupidity - Habgier
penniless - mittellos, ohne Geld, ohne einen Pfennig
this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and
freely - frei
without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all
pauper - Bettelknabe, Armer, Untersttzungsempfnger
frontiers. So Jonahs Captain prepares to test the length of Jonahs
frontiers - (frontier) Grenze, Landesgrenze, Staatsgrenze
purse, ere he judge him openly. He charges him thrice the usual sum;
openly - offen, ffentlich
thrice - dreimal
and its assented to. Then the Captain knows that Jonah is a fugitive;
assented - (assent) zustimmen, behaupten
but at the same time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with
resolves - (resolve) auflsen, beschlieen
paves - (pave) mit Platten auslegen pflastern, bepflastern
gold. Yet when Jonah fairly takes out his purse, prudent suspicions
prudent - umsichtig, vorsichtig
suspicions - (suspicion) Verdacht, Argwohn, Verdchtigung
still molest the Captain. He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
molest - belstigen
rings - (ring) Ring, Kreis
counterfeit - geflscht, nachgemacht, unecht, Falsch-, Flschung, flschen
Not a forger, any way, he mutters; and Jonah is put down for his
forger - Flscher, Flscherin, Schmied, Schmiedin
mutters - (mutter) murmeln
passage. Point out my state-room, Sir, says Jonah now, Im
travel-weary; I need sleep. Thou lookest like it, says the Captain,
theres thy room. Jonah enters, and would lock the door, but the lock
thy - dein
contains no key. Hearing him foolishly fumbling there, the Captain
foolishly - dummerweise (aus Dummheit), albernes
laughs lowly to himself, and mutters something about the doors of
convicts cells being never allowed to be locked within. All dressed
cells - (cell) Zelle, Speicherzelle
and dusty as he is, Jonah throws himself into his berth, and finds the
berth - Koje, Schlafplatz, Landungsplatz, Ladeplatz, Liegeplatz
little state-room ceiling almost resting on his forehead. The air is
close, and Jonah gasps. Then, in that contracted hole, sunk, too,
gasps - (gasp) keuchen japsen, prusten, Atemzug, Luftholen
contracted - (contract) Vertrag, Kontrakt;ich/er/sie zog zusamme
beneath the ships water-line, Jonah feels the heralding presentiment
heralding - (herald) Herold, Bote, Vorbote
presentiment - Vorahnung
of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of
stifling - erstickend; (stifle) erstickend
his bowels wards.
wards - (ward) abwehren, abhalten
Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly
axis - Achse
oscillates in Jonahs room; and the ship, heeling over towards the
oscillates - (oscillate) schwingen, pendeln, oszilieren, vibrieren
heeling - (heel) Hinterende des Hobels, Fers
wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and
all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity
maintains - (maintain) unterhalten, warten, beibehalten, aufrechterhalten
permanent - permanent, stndig, bestndig, unbefristet
obliquity - Unregelmigkeit, Schiefheit, Schiefe
with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight
itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it
hung. The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his
tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful
fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance. But that
refuge - Zuflucht Herberge
contradiction in the lamp more and more appals him. The floor, the
contradiction - Widerspruch Gegensatz
appals - (appal) erschrecken, entsetzen
ceiling, and the side, are all awry. Oh! so my conscience hangs in
awry - schief, fehlerhaft, falsch, verkehrt
conscience - Gewissen
me! he groans, straight upwards, so it burns; but the chambers of my
groans - (groan) Sthnen Seufzen, chzen, Knarren
chambers - (chamber) Raum, Schlafzimmer, Kammer
soul are all in crookedness!
Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still
hies - (hie) eilen
reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the
reeling - Taumel ; (reel) Spule Haspel Demoband aufrollen drehe
pricking - stechenden; (prick) stechenden
plungings - (plunging) tauchend
Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him;
race horse - (race-horse) Rennpferd
as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy
turns in - (turn in) einreichen
giddy - schwindelig schwindelerregend aufgedreht, ausgelasse
anguish, praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed; and at
anguish - Pein, Angst, Qual
annihilation - Vernichtung, Zerstrung, Annihilation
last amid the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him, as
amid - mitten unter
whirl - wirbeln, lschnell, Wirbeln, Wirbel, Trubel, Durcheinande
woe - Weh, Jammer, Kummer, Leid
stupor - Sopor, Topor
over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and
bleeds - (bleed) bluten ausbluten entlften Blutung Beschnitt
wound - anschieen, verwunden
theres naught to staunch it; so, after sore wrestlings in his berth,
staunch - loyal, vertrauensvoll, treu, beharrlich, ausdauernd, stillen
wrestlings - Wrestling
Jonahs prodigy of ponderous misery drags him drowning down to sleep.
prodigy - Orakel Wunder Wunderkind
misery - Misere, Elend
drags - (drag) Planierschleppe;nachschleppen, schleppen, ziehen
drowning - Ertrinken ; (drown) ertrinken ertrnken berwltigen
And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and
casts - (cast) werfen wegwerfen, hinwerfen, gieen, Cast, Besetzun
cables - (cable) Seil, Tau, Kabel, Leitung, Kette
from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening,
uncheered - ungebgelt
careening - (careen) kielholen krngen schlingern
glides to sea. That ship, my friends, was the first of recorded
glides - (glide) gleiten gleiten lassen
smugglers! the contraband was Jonah. But the sea rebels; he will not
smugglers - (smuggler) Schmuggler, Schmugglerin
contraband - Schmuggelware, Kontrebande
rebels - (Rebel) Rebell;auflehnen, aufbumen
bear the wicked burden. A dreadful storm comes on, the ship is like to
wicked - bse; (wick) bse
burden - Refrain, Last, Mller (Httenwesen);belasten
break. But now when the boatswain calls all hands to lighten her; when
boatswain - Bootsmann
lighten - erleuchten, erhellen
boxes, bales, and jars are clattering overboard; when the wind is
jars - (jar) Topf, Krug, Glasgef
clattering - (clatter) klappern, poltern, Geklapper, Gepolter, Klappern
shrieking, and the men are yelling, and every plank thunders with
shrieking - kreischend; (shriek) Kreischen
yelling - (yell) kreischen, schreien; (yell) (yell) kreischen, schreien
thunders - (thunder) Donner Donnern
trampling feet right over Jonahs head; in all this raging tumult,
trampling - zerstampfend, Getrampel, trampelnd; (trample) trampel
raging - (rag) Fummel, Lumpen, Putzlappen, Unfug
tumult - Tumult, Krach, Lrm, lautes Stimmengewirr
Jonah sleeps his hideous sleep. He sees no black sky and raging sea,
hideous - scheulich abscheulich
feels not the reeling timbers, and little hears he or heeds he the far
timbers - (timber) Nutzholz, Balken, Bauholz
heeds - (heed) beherzigen, beachten
rush of the mighty whale, which even now with open mouth is cleaving
rush - strzen, drngen, hetzen, rasen;Eile, Andrang
cleaving - klebend; (cleave) klebend
the seas after him. Aye, shipmates, Jonah was gone down into the sides
of the ship"a berth in the cabin as I have taken it, and was fast
asleep. But the frightened master comes to him, and shrieks in his dead
ear, What meanest thou, O, sleeper! arise! Startled from his lethargy
sleeper - Schwelle (Gleis), Schlfer
Startled - (startle) aufschrecken, scheuen, erschrecken
lethargy - Trgheit, Lethargie, Teilnahmslosigkeit, Interesselosigkeit
by that direful cry, Jonah staggers to his feet, and stumbling to the
staggers - (stagger) Staffelung;abstufen, staffeln, wanken
stumbling - (stumble) Stolpern, Fehltritt, Fehler, Schnitzer, Ausrutscher
deck, grasps a shroud, to look out upon the sea. But at that moment he
grasps - (grasp) greifen, erfassen, begreifen, verstehen, Grif
shroud - Leichentuch, Totenhemd
is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks. Wave
panther - Panther, Panter
after wave thus leaps into the ship, and finding no speedy vent runs
leaps - (leap) hervorspringen, hpfen, berspringen
speedy - schnell
vent - entlften
roaring fore and aft, till the mariners come nigh to drowning while yet
aft - hinten
afloat. And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the
afloat - schuldenfrei, ber Wasser
steep gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah sees the rearing
steep - einweichen, abschssig
gullies - (gully) Abzugskanal, Rinne, Senkloch
overhead - von oben, darber, berkopf-
aghast - bestrzt, zutiefst erschrocken, fassungslos
rearing - (rear) Hinter..., hinterster, Heck, Rck.
bowsprit pointing high upward, but soon beat downward again towards the
upward - ansteigend, aufwrts
downward - abwrts, nach unten, runter, nach unten gehend, absteigend
tormented deep.
Terrors upon terrors run shouting through his soul. In all his
cringing attitudes, the God-fugitive is now too plainly known. The
cringing - kriechend, hndisch; (cringe) erschaudern, krieche
sailors mark him; more and more certain grow their suspicions of him,
and at last, fully to test the truth, by referring the whole matter to
high Heaven, they fall to casting lots, to see for whose cause this
casting - Gieerei, Abguss, Rollenbesetzung; (cast) werfen wegwerfe
great tempest was upon them. The lot is Jonahs; that discovered, then
how furiously they mob him with their questions. What is thine
mob - Meute, Pbel
occupation? Whence comest thou? Thy country? What people? But mark now,
occupation - Beschftigung, Beruf, Besatzung; Besetzung; q
comest - (arch) Gewlbe, Bogen, Furcken
my shipmates, the behavior of poor Jonah. The eager mariners but ask
behavior - Verhalten, Benehmen, Betragen, Verhaltensweise
eager - eifrig, erwartungsvoll, begierig
him who he is, and where from; whereas, they not only receive an answer
to those questions, but likewise another answer to a question not put
by them, but the unsolicited answer is forced from Jonah by the hard
unsolicited - unaufgefordert, unerbeten, unverlangt
hand of God that is upon him.
I am a Hebrew, he cries"and then"I fear the Lord the God of Heaven
who hath made the sea and the dry land! Fear him, O Jonah? Aye, well
hath - hat (veraltet)
mightest thou fear the Lord God _then!_ Straightway, he now goes on to
mightest - (might) kann, knnte, mag, Macht
Straightway - schnurstracks
make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more
confession - Bekenntnis, Eingestndnis, Beichte
whereupon - worauf
appalled, but still are pitiful. For when Jonah, not yet supplicating
appalled - (appal) erschrecken, entsetzen
pitiful - erbrmlich, klglich, jmmerlich, mitleiderregend
God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his
deserts,"when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him
forth into the sea, for he knew that for _his_ sake this great tempest
was upon them; they mercifully turn from him, and seek by other means
mercifully - barmherzige, mitleidig
to save the ship. But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder;
indignant - emprt
howls - (howl) Heulen, jaulen
then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not
invokingly - auffordernd
unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.
unreluctantly - widerstrebend
And now behold Jonah taken up as an anchor and dropped into the sea;
when instantly an oily calmness floats out from the east, and the sea
oily - lig lhaltig
calmness - Ruhe, Gelassenheit, Gemtsruhe
floats - (float) treiben, schwimmen, schweben, gleiten
is still, as Jonah carries down the gale with him, leaving smooth water
behind. He goes down in the whirling heart of such a masterless
whirling - (whirl) strudeln, wirbeln; (whirl) wirbeln, lschnell, Wirbel
masterless - herrenlos
commotion that he scarce heeds the moment when he drops seething into
commotion - Aufregung Spektakel , Theater, Zirkus, Aufstand
seething - wtend; (seethe) kochen, sieden, schumen, sprudeln
the yawning jaws awaiting him; and the whale shoots-to all his ivory
yawning - (yawn) ghnen; (yawn) ghnen Ghnen
awaiting - (await) erwarten, harren, warten
teeth, like so many white bolts, upon his prison. Then Jonah prayed
bolts - (bolt) Riegel, Ballen, Blitz, Bolzen;durchgehen (Pferd), sausen
unto the Lord out of the fishs belly. But observe his prayer, and
unto - zu, bis zu
observe - beobachten beachten, halten, bemerken
learn a weighty lesson. For sinful as he is, Jonah does not weep and
weighty - wichtig schwergewichtig
weep - weinen
wail for direct deliverance. He feels that his dreadful punishment is
wail - jammern, wehklagen, klagen
just. He leaves all his deliverance to God, contenting himself with
contenting - (content) (to be content with) sich mit etwas begngen
this, that spite of all his pains and pangs, he will still look towards
pangs - (pang) Stechen, Schmerz
His holy temple. And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance;
temple - Tempel, Schlfe, Bethaus, Synagoge
not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. And how pleasing
clamorous - zeternd
to God was this conduct in Jonah, is shown in the eventual deliverance
conduct - Leitung, Fhrung, leiten, fhren, sich verhalten, sich benehme
eventual - schlielich, letzten Endes, mgliche
of him from the sea and the whale. Shipmates, I do not place Jonah
before you to be copied for his sin but I do place him before you as a
model for repentance. Sin not; but if you do, take heed to repent of it
repent - bereuen
heed - beherzigen, beachten
like Jonah.
While he was speaking these words, the howling of the shrieking,
slanting storm without seemed to add new power to the preacher, who,
slanting - (slant) Schrge, Hang, Abhang, schiefe Ebene
when describing Jonahs sea-storm, seemed tossed by a storm himself.
His deep chest heaved as with a ground-swell; his tossed arms seemed
heaved - (heave) heben, hieven, werfen, wuchten, schleudern
swell - Schwellen
the warring elements at work; and the thunders that rolled away from
off his swarthy brow, and the light leaping from his eye, made all his
swarthy - dunkeln
brow - Braue, Augenbraue
simple hearers look on him with a quick fear that was strange to them.
hearers - (hearer) Hrer, Zuhrer
There now came a lull in his look, as he silently turned over the
lull - Windstille
silently - schweigend, still
leaves of the Book once more; and, at last, standing motionless, with
motionless - unbeweglich, reglos, bewegungslos
closed eyes, for the moment, seemed communing with God and himself.
communing - kommunizierend; (commune) kommunizierend
But again he leaned over towards the people, and bowing his head lowly,
leaned - (lean) knapp, schlank, hager, mager
bowing - (bow) sich vorbeugen; (bow) (bow) sich vorbeugen
with an aspect of the deepest yet manliest humility, he spake these
aspect - Aspekt, Aktionsart
manliest - (manly) mnnlich
humility - Bescheidenheit, Demut
words:
Shipmates, God has laid but one hand upon you; both his hands press
upon me. I have read ye by what murky light may be mine the lesson that
Jonah teaches to all sinners; and therefore to ye, and still more to
me, for I am a greater sinner than ye. And now how gladly would I come
sinner - Snder, Snderin
gladly - gern
down from this mast-head and sit on the hatches there where you sit,
hatches - (hatch) brten, schraffieren, ausbrten, anzetteln;Brut, Fallt
and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads _me_ that other
and more awful lesson which Jonah teaches to _me_, as a pilot of the
living God. How being an anointed pilot-prophet, or speaker of true
anointed - (anoint) len, schmieren, einreiben, salben
things, and bidden by the Lord to sound those unwelcome truths in the
bidden - (bid) Angebot, reizen, Gebot, Bieten, bieten
unwelcome - unwillkommen
ears of a wicked Nineveh, Jonah, appalled at the hostility he should
hostility - Feindseligkeit, Feindschaft
raise, fled from his mission, and sought to escape his duty and his God
fled - (flee) fliehen, flchten, entfliehen
mission - Auftrag Mission
by taking ship at Joppa. But God is everywhere; Tarshish he never
reached. As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed
him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him
gulfs - (gulf) Golf, Meerbusen
slantings - Schrglagen
along into the midst of the seas, where the eddying depths sucked him
eddying - (eddy) Strudel
sucked - (suck) saugen lutschen mies sein, zum Kotzen sein, Scheie sein
ten thousand fathoms down, and the weeds were wrapped about his head,
fathoms - (fathom) ergrnden, Faden, Klafter (Lngenma)
weeds - (weed) aussondern, ausscheiden; (weed) (weed) aussonder
and all the watery world of woe bowled over him. Yet even then beyond
the reach of any plummet"out of the belly of hell"when the whale
plummet - Lot, Blei, Senker, Senklot
grounded upon the oceans utmost bones, even then, God heard the
engulphed, repenting prophet when he cried. Then God spake unto the
engulphed - verschlungen
repenting - (repent) bereuen
fish; and from the shuddering cold and blackness of the sea, the whale
came breeching up towards the warm and pleasant sun, and all the
breeching - verletzen; (breech) Schwanzschraube
delights of air and earth; and vomited out Jonah upon the dry land;
delights - (delight) Freude, Entzckung, Wohlgefallen, Lust
when the word of the Lord came a second time; and Jonah, bruised and
bruised - (bruise) Prellung, Bluterguss, blauer Fleck, Druckstelle
beaten"his ears, like two sea-shells, still multitudinously murmuring
multitudinously - zahlreiche
murmuring - murmelnd, raunend; (murmur) Rauschen, Murmeln , Gemurmel, Raune
of the ocean"Jonah did the Almightys bidding. And what was that,
bidding - (to bid) befehlen, bieten, bitten; (bid) (to bid) befehle
shipmates? To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood! That was it!
preach - predigen, verkndigen
Falsehood - Unwahrheit, Falschheit, Lge, unwahre Behauptung, Falschsein
This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of
the living God who slights it. Woe to him whom this world charms from
slights - (slight) geringfgig, leicht, unbedeutend
charms - (charm) Talisman;Charme, Zauberformel, Lieblichkeit;bezaubern
Gospel duty! Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God
has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than
brewed - (brew) Gebru;brauen, aufbrhen, im Anzug sein (Gewitter), gren
to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe
appal - erschrecken, entsetzen
to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would
dishonor - entehren;Ehrlosigkeit
not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him
salvation - Erlsung, Rettung
who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is
preaching - predigend; (preach) predigen, verkndigen
himself a castaway!
He dropped and fell away from himself for a moment; then lifting his
face to them again, showed a deep joy in his eyes, as he cried out with
a heavenly enthusiasm,"But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of
heavenly - himmlisch
enthusiasm - Begeisterung, Enthusiasmus, Schwrmerei
every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight,
delight - Freude, Entzckung, Wohlgefallen, Lust
than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than
the kelson is low? Delight is to him"a far, far upward, and inward
delight"who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever
commodores - (commodore) Kommodore, Flottillenadmiral, Flottekapitn
stands forth his own inexorable self. Delight is to him whose strong
inexorable - unvermeidlich, unvermeidbar, unerbittlich, erbarmungslo
arms yet support him, when the ship of this base treacherous world has
treacherous - verrterisch, hinterlistig, doppelzngig, tckisch
gone down beneath him. Delight is to him, who gives no quarter in the
truth, and kills, burns, and destroys all sin though he pluck it out
pluck - pflcken, abrupfen, zupfen, schlagen, ausrupfen
from under the robes of Senators and Judges. Delight,"top-gallant
robes - (robe) Robe
Senators - (senator) Senator, Senatorin
delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his
acknowledges - (acknowledge) zur Kenntnis nehmen, erkennen, bekenne
God, and is only a patriot to heaven. Delight is to him, whom all the
patriot - Patriot, Patriotin, Vaterlandsfreund, Vaterlandsfreundin
waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake
billows - (billow) Woge wabern, wogen, bauschen
from this sure Keel of the Ages. And eternal delight and deliciousness
Keel - Kiel
deliciousness - appetitlich, kystlich
will be his, who coming to lay him down, can say with his final
breath"O Father!"chiefly known to me by Thy rod"mortal or immortal,
chiefly - hauptschlich
rod - Stange, Stock, Stab, Latte
here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this worlds,
striven - (strive) erstreben, bestreben
or mine own. Yet this is nothing: I leave eternity to Thee; for what is
man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?
lifetime - Leben, Lebensdauer, Lebenszeit, Ewigkeit
He said no more, but slowly waving a benediction, covered his face with
benediction - Segnung
his hands, and so remained kneeling, till all the people had departed,
and he was left alone in the place.
Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found Queequeg there
quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some
time. He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the
stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that
hearth - Feuerstelle, Herdboden, Grund, Kaminboden
little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a
peering - (peer) seinesgleichen, Beaufsichtigende;schielen, starren
jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to
gently - sanft
humming - (to hum) summen, murmeln; (hum) Summen
himself in his heathenish way.
But being now interrupted, he put up the image; and pretty soon, going
interrupted - (interrupt) unterbrechen
to the table, took up a large book there, and placing it on his lap
lap - Scho
began counting the pages with deliberate regularity; at every fiftieth
regularity - Regelmigkeit
page"as I fancied"stopping a moment, looking vacantly around him, and
vacantly - unbesetzt
giving utterance to a long-drawn gurgling whistle of astonishment. He
utterance - uerung
gurgling - gurgelnd; (gurgle) gurgeln Gurgeln
whistle - Pfeife, Trillerpfeife, Flte, Pfeifen, Pfiff
would then begin again at the next fifty; seeming to commence at number
commence - anfangen, beginnen
one each time, as though he could not count more than fifty, and it was
only by such a large number of fifties being found together, that his
astonishment at the multitude of pages was excited.
multitude - Vielzahl, Menge, Menschenmenge, Volk
With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and
hideously marred about the face"at least to my taste"his countenance
hideously - scheulich, abscheuliche
marred - (mar) beschdigen, verunstalten
yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You
disagreeable - unangenehm, unsympathisch
cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I
saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes,
traces - (trace) Zeichen, Spur
fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a
tokens - (token) Zeichen, Symbol, Andenken, Souvenir, Erinnerung, Jeton
dare - sich getrauen, wagen, jemanden herausfordern
thousand devils. And besides all this, there was a certain lofty
devils - (Devil) Teufel, Satan, Teufelin, reizen, rgern
bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not
uncouthness - Grobheit
altogether maim. He looked like a man who had never cringed and never
maim - verstmmeln, verschandeln
cringed - (cringe) erschaudern, kriechen, sich ducken, zurckschrecken
had had a creditor. Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved,
creditor - Glubiger, Kreditor
his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked
more expansive than it otherwise would, this I will not venture to
expansive - umfangreich, umfassend, gesprchig, gesellig, herzlic
decide; but certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent
phrenologically - phrenologisch
one. It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of General Washingtons
head, as seen in the popular busts of him. It had the same long
busts - (bust) Pleite gehen, kaputt gehen;Busen, Bste
regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were
retreating - (retreat) Rckzug
brows - Brauen; (brow) Brauen
likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on
promontories - (promontory) Landzunge
top. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.
cannibalistically - kannibalisch
Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be
Whilst - Error
looking out at the storm from the casement, he never heeded my
casement - Fensterflgel, Drehflgel
heeded - (heed) beherzigen, beachten
presence, never troubled himself with so much as a single glance; but
presence - Anwesenheit
appeared wholly occupied with counting the pages of the marvellous
wholly - ganz
occupied with - befasst mit
previous, and especially considering the affectionate arm I had found
thrown over me upon waking in the morning, I thought this indifference
thrown over - bergeworfen
indifference - Gleichgltigkeit
of his very strange. But savages are strange beings; at times you do
not know exactly how to take them. At first they are overawing; their
overawing - (overawe) einschchtern
calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Socratic wisdom. I had
collectedness - Fassung
simplicity - Einfachheit
Socratic - sokratisch Sokratiker
noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little,
consorted - (consort) Gemahl, Gemahlin
with the other seamen in the inn. He made no advances whatever;
advances - (advance) erhhen, erheben, befrdern, vorrcken, Fortschrit
appeared to have no desire to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances.
desire - begehren Begehren, Wunsch
enlarge - vergrern
acquaintances - (acquaintance) Bekanntschaft, Umgang, Bekannter, Bekannte
All this struck me as mighty singular; yet, upon second thoughts, there
singular - einzeln einzigartig ungewhnlich singularisch singulr Einzah
was something almost sublime in it. Here was a man some twenty thousand
sublime - sublimierens, erhaben
miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is"which was the only
way he could get there"thrown among people as strange to him as though
he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease;
preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship;
preserving - (preserve) Konserve, Eingemachtes, Naturschutzgebie
serenity - Gelassenheit, Gleichmut, Klarheit, Heiterkeit, Abgeklrtheit
companionship - Kameradschaft
always equal to himself. Surely this was a touch of fine philosophy;
philosophy - Philosophie
though no doubt he had never heard there was such a thing as that. But,
perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of
philosophers - (philosopher) Philosoph, Philosophin
mortals - (mortal) sterblich tdlich Sterblicher, Sterbliche
so living or so striving. So soon as I hear that such or such a man
gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the
philosopher - Philosoph, Philosophin
dyspeptic old woman, he must have broken his digester.
dyspeptic - dyspeptisch, magenkrank, missgestimmt, verdrielich
digester - Fermenter
As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that
mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then
intensity - Intensitt
only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering
glows - (glow) glhen abstrahlen leuchten Glhen
phantoms - (phantom) Phantom
round the casements, and peering in upon us silent, solitary twain; the
casements - (casement) Fensterflgel, Drehflgel
storm booming without in solemn swells; I began to be sensible of
booming - drhnend, einen Aufschwung nehmend; (boom) drhnen
swells - (swell) Schwellen
be sensible of - sich einer Sache bewusst sein, etwas empfinden
strange feelings. I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart
and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing
maddened - (madden) rasend machen
wolfish - wlfisch
soothing - erleichternd, lindernd, beruhigend; (sooth) Wahrheit
savage had redeemed it. There he sat, his very indifference speaking a
redeemed - (redeem) zurckkaufen loslsen, freikaufen, befreien, einlse
nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland
lurked - (lurk) lauern
hypocrisies - (hypocrisy) Heuchelei, Scheinheiligkeit, Hypokrisie
bland - sanft, langweilig, hflich
deceits. Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to
deceits - (deceit) Betrgerei, Betrug, Tuschung, Falschheit
feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him. And those same things that
mysteriously - geheimnisvoll, geheimnisvolle
would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus
repelled - (repel) zurckweisen, abweisen, abwehren, zurckdrnge
magnets - (magnet) Magnet
drew me. Ill try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness
kindness - Liebenswrdigkeit
has proved but hollow courtesy. I drew my bench near him, and made some
courtesy - Hflichkeit
friendly signs and hints, doing my best to talk with him meanwhile. At
hints - (hint) Hinweis, Tipp, Wink, Fingerzeig
first he little noticed these advances; but presently, upon my
referring to his last nights hospitalities, he made out to ask me
hospitalities - (hospitality) Gastfreundlichkeit, Gastfreundschaft, Gastlichkei
whether we were again to be bedfellows. I told him yes; whereat I
whereat - Wozu
thought he looked pleased, perhaps a little complimented.
complimented - (compliment) Kompliment, Lob, Anerkennung, Achtungsbezeugung
We then turned over the book together, and I endeavored to explain to
him the purpose of the printing, and the meaning of the few pictures
that were in it. Thus I soon engaged his interest; and from that we
went to jabbering the best we could about the various outer sights to
jabbering - plappernd, Gelaber, Gelabere; (jabber) plappernd, Gelabe
be seen in this famous town. Soon I proposed a social smoke; and,
proposed - (propose) vorschlagen einen Heiratsantrag machen beabsichtigen
producing his pouch and tomahawk, he quietly offered me a puff. And
pouch - Beutel
puff - pusten;Hauch
then we sat exchanging puffs from that wild pipe of his, and keeping it
puffs - (puff) pusten;Hauch
regularly passing between us.
If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagans
breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and
genial - groartig
thawed - (thaw) tauen, schmelzen, auftauen, entspannen, Schmelz
left us cronies. He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and
cronies - (crony) Kumpan
unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his
unbiddenly - unaufgefordert
forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that
clasped - (clasp) Spange, Klammer, Schnalle, Griff, greifen
waist - Taille Rumpf
henceforth we were married; meaning, in his countrys phrase, that we
henceforth - knftig, frderhin, hinfort, fortan
were bosom friends; he would gladly die for me, if need should be. In a
bosom friends - (bosom friend) Busenfreund
countryman, this sudden flame of friendship would have seemed far too
countryman - Landsmann, Landsmnnin, Landsfrau
premature, a thing to be much distrusted; but in this simple savage
premature - frhreif vorzeitig, verfrht
distrusted - (distrust) Misstrauen, Argwohn
those old rules would not apply.
After supper, and another social chat and smoke, we went to our room
together. He made me a present of his embalmed head; took out his
enormous tobacco wallet, and groping under the tobacco, drew out some
groping - (grope) tasten tappen, herumtasten, begrapschen
thirty dollars in silver; then spreading them on the table, and
mechanically dividing them into two equal portions, pushed one of them
mechanically - mechanisch
portions - (portion) Teil
towards me, and said it was mine. I was going to remonstrate; but he
remonstrate - protestieren, missbilligen, einwenden, remonstrieren
silenced me by pouring them into my trowsers pockets. I let them stay.
silenced - (silence) Stille, Schweigen , zum Schweigen bringen, Ruhe
He then went about his evening prayers, took out his idol, and removed
the paper fireboard. By certain signs and symptoms, I thought he seemed
anxious for me to join him; but well knowing what was to follow, I
deliberated a moment whether, in case he invited me, I would comply or
deliberated - (deliberate) absichtlich, bewusst, vorstzlich, wohlerwoge
comply - einwilligen, sich fgen
otherwise.
I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible
bosom - Busen, Brust, der Busenfreund (bosom buddy)
infallible - unfehlbar
Presbyterian Church. How then could I unite with this wild idolator in
Presbyterian - presbyterianisch
idolator - Gtzendiener
worshipping his piece of wood? But what is worship? thought I. Do you
worshipping - (worship) Verehrung, Anbetung, Gottesdienst
suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and
magnanimous - gromtig, edelmtig, grozgig, groherzig
earth"pagans and all included"can possibly be jealous of an
pagans - (pagan) heidnisch Heide, Heidin, Unglubiger, Unglubige
jealous - eiferschtig eifrig, eifernd, neidisch
insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?"to do
insignificant - bedeutungslos, unbedeutend
worship - Verehrung, Anbetung, Gottesdienst
the will of God"_that_ is worship. And what is the will of God?"to do
to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me"_that_ is
the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. And what do I wish
that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular
Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him
Consequently - infolgedessen, konsequent, somit, folglich
in his; ergo, I must turn idolator. So I kindled the shavings; helped
prop up the innocent little idol; offered him burnt biscuit with
prop - Sttze
Queequeg; salamed before him twice or thrice; kissed his nose; and that
salamed - gesalzen
done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences
consciences - (conscience) Gewissen
and all the world. But we did not go to sleep without some little chat.
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential
disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the
disclosures - (disclosure) Offenlegung , Enthllung , Bekanntmachun
very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often
souls - (soul) Inbrunst, Seele, Gefhl, Herz
lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our
hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg"a cosy, loving pair.
honeymoon - Flitterwochen Hochzeitsreise, flittern
cosy - gemtlich, behaglich, wohlig
We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and
napping - (nap) Nickerchen, Schlfchen
intervals - (interval) Abstand, Zwischenraum, Intervall
Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs
affectionately - liebevoll, zrtlich
over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free
sociable - gesellig
and easy were we; when, at last, by reason of our confabulations, what
confabulations - (confabulation) Konfabulation
little nappishness remained in us altogether departed, and we felt like
nappishness - Windeligkeit
getting up again, though day-break was yet some way down the future.
Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position
wakeful - wach, schlaflos, wachsam, aufmerksam
recumbent - ruhend Liegerad
began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves
wearisome - ermdend, langweilig, lstig
sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the
head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two
noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans. We felt
very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors;
chilly - frostig, kalt, khl
indeed out of bed-clothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the
room. The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some
bodily - krperlich, Krper
small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world
be cold - frieren
that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If
merely - blo, lediglich, nur, schier
you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been
so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. But
if, like Queequeg and me in the bed, the tip of your nose or the crown
crown - Zenit;krnen;Bombage (ballige Flche), Zahnkrone;Baumkrone
of your head be slightly chilled, why then, indeed, in the general
chilled - (chill) Mutlosigkeit, Frostgefh
consciousness you feel most delightfully and unmistakably warm. For
delightfully - entzckende, reizend
unmistakably - unverkennbar, unmissverstndlich
this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire,
which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height
luxurious - luxuris
discomforts - (discomfort) Unbehagen
of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket
between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there
snugness - Gemtlichkeit, Behaglichkeit
outer air - Auenluft
you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.
spark - Funke;aufkeimen lassen, entfachen
crystal - Kristall Kristallglas, Kristall (neuter, not masculine)
We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at
crouching - (crouch) sich ducken (vor), kriechen;kauern, hocke
once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether
by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always
keeping my eyes shut, in order the more to concentrate the snugness of
being in bed. Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright
aright - richtig
except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper
element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey
essences - (essence) Wesen Essenz, Extrakt, Parfm
congenial - gleichgesinnt, wesensgleich, wesensverwandt, geistesverwandt
clayey - lehmig, tonig
self-created darkness into the imposed and coarse outer gloom of the
imposed - (impose) auferlegen, aufzwingen
coarse - grob, grobkrnig, derb, primitiv
unilluminated twelve-oclock-at-night, I experienced a disagreeable
unilluminated - unerleuchtet
revulsion. Nor did I at all object to the hint from Queequeg that
revulsion - Abscheu , Widerwille, Ekel, Ekelgefhl, Ableitung, Revulsio
perhaps it were best to strike a light, seeing that we were so wide
awake; and besides he felt a strong desire to have a few quiet puffs
from his Tomahawk. Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong
repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how
repugnance - Abneigung, Widerwille
elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.
elastic - dehnbar, elastisch, Gummiband
For now I liked nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by me,
even in bed, because he seemed to be full of such serene household joy
serene - heiter
household - Haushalt
then. I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlords policy of
unduly - ber Gebhr, bermig
insurance. I was only alive to the condensed confidential
condensed - (condense) kondensieren, verkleinern
comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.
comfortableness - Gemtlichkeit, Behaglichkeit
With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the
Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue
hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.
illuminated - (illuminate) beleuchten, erhellen, illuminieren
Whether it was that this undulating tester rolled the savage away to
undulating - (undulate) wogen, schwingen, wellenfrmig bewegen, ondulieren
far distant scenes, I know not, but he now spoke of his native island;
and, eager to hear his history, I begged him to go on and tell it. He
gladly complied. Though at the time I but ill comprehended not a few of
his words, yet subsequent disclosures, when I had become more familiar
with his broken phraseology, now enable me to present the whole story
phraseology - Phraseologie Phraseologismus
such as it may prove in the mere skeleton I give.
skeleton - Not-, Gerippe, provisorisch, Knochengerst
Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and
South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a
hatched - (hatch) brten, schraffieren, ausbrten, anzetteln;Brut, Fallt
grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green
clout - Schlagkraft, Einfluss, Schlag
nibbling - knabbern, anbeien; (nibble) knabbern, anbeien
goats - (goat) Ziege, Gei, Bock
sapling; even then, in Queequegs ambitious soul, lurked a strong
sapling - junger Baum, Setzling, Steckling, Schssling
desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or
Christendom - Christenheit, Christentum, Christenwelt
specimen - Exemplar, Muster, Spezimen, Probe
whaler - Walfnger, Walfngerin
two. His father was a High Chief, a King; his uncle a High Priest; and
on the maternal side he boasted aunts who were the wives of
maternal - mtterlich
boasted - (boast) stolz sein auf etw
unconquerable warriors. There was excellent blood in his veins"royal
unconquerable - unbezwingbar, unbesiegbar, unberwindlich
warriors - (warrior) Krieger, Kriegerin
veins - (vein) Vene, Ader, Geder , Goldader
stuff; though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity he
vitiated - (vitiate) beschdigen verderben
propensity - Neigung, Tendenz
nourished in his untutored youth.
nourished - (nourish) ernhren, aufziehen, erziehen, groziehen
untutored - ungebildet
A Sag Harbor ship visited his fathers bay, and Queequeg sought a
Sag - Senkung;absinken (Kurve), sacken
Harbor - Zufluchtsort, Hafen
bay - Erker, Bucht, Gestell, Bellen
passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having her full complement of
complement - ergnzen, komplementieren
seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his fathers influence
spurned - (spurn) verschmhen, abweisen, verachten, trete
could prevail. But Queequeg vowed a vow. Alone in his canoe, he paddled
prevail - erman: die Vorherrschaft erringen (''over'' ber) sich durchsetzen (''against'' gegen) vorherrschen berzeugen knnen
vowed - (vow) Gelbde, Schwur, Eid, Gelbnis, schwren
canoe - Kanu, Kanadier, paddeln
paddled - (paddle) verhauen;planschen, watscheln, rudern, paddeln;Padde
off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when
strait - Meerenge, Strae
she quitted the island. On one side was a coral reef; on the other a
coral reef - Korallenbank
low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into
mangrove - Mangrovenbaum Mangrove
thickets - (thicket) Dickicht, Gebsch, Gestrpp, Buschwerk
the water. Hiding his canoe, still afloat, among these thickets, with
its prow seaward, he sat down in the stern, paddle low in hand; and
paddle - verhauen;planschen, watscheln, rudern, paddeln;Padde
when the ship was gliding by, like a flash he darted out; gained her
gliding - Segelflug, gleitend; (glide) gleiten gleiten lassen
flash - aufleuchten, blitzen, aufflammen
gained - (gain) Gewinn, Zunahme, Verstrkung;erwerben, gewinnen, erlangen
side; with one backward dash of his foot capsized and sank his canoe;
dash - Bindestrich, Gedankenstrich, Querstrich, Spurt, Sprint
capsized - (capsize) kentern zum Kentern bringen
climbed up the chains; and throwing himself at full length upon the
full length - in Lebensgre
deck, grappled a ring-bolt there, and swore not to let it go, though
grappled - (grapple) packen, erbeuten, anpacken;Handgemenge
ring - Ring, Kreis
hacked in pieces.
hacked - (hack) hacken;Hacke, Hieb, Hack
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a
threatened - (threaten) drohen, bedrohen, androhen
suspended - (suspend) suspendieren aufhngen aufheben, aussetze
cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and
cutlass - Entermesser
naked - nackt, kahl, blo
wrists - (wrist) Handgelenk
Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his
budged - (budge) bewegen, rhren
desperate - verzweifelt bemht, sehnsuchtsvoll verlangend, aussichtslo
dauntlessness - Furchtlosigkeit, Unerschrockenheit, Verwegenheit, Beherztheit
wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and
relented - (relent) nachgeben
told him he might make himself at home. But this fine young savage"this
sea Prince of Wales, never saw the Captains cabin. They put him down
among the sailors, and made a whaleman of him. But like Czar Peter
content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained
toil - Mhe schuften, sich plagen, sich qulen, roboten
shipyards - (shipyard) Werft
disdained - (disdain) Verachtung, Geringschtzung (disrespect
no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of
ignominy - Schmach, Schande, Schndlichkeit, Unaussprechlichkeit
enlightening his untutored countrymen. For at bottom"so he told me"he
enlightening - (enlighten) aufklren
countrymen - (countryman) Landsmann, Landsmnnin, Landsfrau
was actuated by a profound desire to learn among the Christians, the
actuated - (actuate) in Gang setzen, aktivieren, antreiben, anstachel
Christians - (Christian) Christ, Christin, Christian, christlich
arts whereby to make his people still happier than they were; and more
than that, still better than they were. But, alas! the practices of
whalemen soon convinced him that even Christians could be both
miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his fathers
infinitely - ungeheuer, unendlich
heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the
heathens - (heathen) heidnisch barbarisch, unzivilisiert, Heide, Heidi
sailors did there; and then going on to Nantucket, and seeing how they
spent their wages in _that_ place also, poor Queequeg gave it up for
wages - (wage) fhren
lost. Thought he, its a wicked world in all meridians; Ill die a
pagan.
And thus an old idolator at heart, he yet lived among these Christians,
wore their clothes, and tried to talk their gibberish. Hence the queer
gibberish - Kauderwelsch, Kokolores, Gequassel, Geschwafel, Fachchinesisch
ways about him, though now some time from home.
By hints, I asked him whether he did not propose going back, and having
propose - vorschlagen einen Heiratsantrag machen beabsichtigen
a coronation; since he might now consider his father dead and gone, he
coronation - Krnung
being very old and feeble at the last accounts. He answered no, not
feeble - kraftlos, schwach, drftig
yet; and added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians,
fearful - furchtbar furchtsam, ngstlich, verngstigt
Christianity - Christentum
had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty
unfitted - (unfit) untauglich schlapp
undefiled - rein
throne - Thron
pagan Kings before him. But by and by, he said, he would return,"as
soon as he felt himself baptized again. For the nonce, however, he
baptized - (baptize) taufen
nonce - einstweilen
proposed to sail about, and sow his wild oats in all four oceans. They
sow - Sau;aussen
oats - (oat) Hafer, Haber
had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a
sceptre now.
sceptre - Zepter
I asked him what might be his immediate purpose, touching his future
movements. He answered, to go to sea again, in his old vocation. Upon
vocation - Berufung Beruf
this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my
intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most promising port
for an adventurous whaleman to embark from. He at once resolved to
accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the
same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my
every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of
hap - Zufall
boldly - khn, tapfer
dip into - zurckgreifen auf, sich flchtig befassen mit
both worlds. To all this I joyously assented; for besides the affection
joyously - freudig
affection - Zuneigung Rhrung
I now felt for Queequeg, he was an experienced harpooneer, and as such,
could not fail to be of great usefulness to one, who, like me, was
usefulness - Ntzlichkeit
wholly ignorant of the mysteries of whaling, though well acquainted
ignorant - ignorant
acquainted - (acquaint) vertraut machen in Kenntnis setzen
with the sea, as known to merchant seamen.
His story being ended with his pipes last dying puff, Queequeg
dying - (to die) sterben, umkommen; (dye) (to die) sterben, umkommen
embraced me, pressed his forehead against mine, and blowing out the
embraced - (embrace) umarmen annehmen, Umarmung
light, we rolled over from each other, this way and that, and very soon
were sleeping.
Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber,
disposing - anordnend, verfgend; (dispose) beseitigen, entsorgen, ordnen
barber - Barbier, Bartschneider, Bartscherer, frisieren, Haare schneiden
for a block, I settled my own and comrades bill; using, however, my
settled - (settle) abklren
comrades money. The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders, seemed
amazingly tickled at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between
me and Queequeg"especially as Peter Coffins cock and bull stories
cock - Vogelmnnchen;Gockel, Hahn;erigierter Penis (vulg.), Pimme
bull - Bulle, Stier
about him had previously so much alarmed me concerning the very person
whom I now companied with.
We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking our things, including my own
embarking - (embark) einschiffen, an Bord gehen, beginnen, antreten
poor carpet-bag, and Queequegs canvas sack and hammock, away we went
sack - Sack;plndern, entlassen
down to the Moss, the little Nantucket packet schooner moored at the
Moss - Moos bemoosen
schooner - Schoner
wharf. As we were going along the people stared; not at Queequeg so
much"for they were used to seeing cannibals like him in their
streets,"but at seeing him and me upon such confidential terms. But we
heeded them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg
barrow - Hgel, Karre, Grabhgel, Tumulus
now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon barbs. I
adjust - anpassen, abstimmen, ausrichten, justieren
barbs - (barb) Widerhaken
asked him why he carried such a troublesome thing with him ashore, and
troublesome - lstig, leidig, problembeladen, problematisch
whether all whaling ships did not find their own harpoons. To this, in
substance, he replied, that though what I hinted was true enough, yet
hinted - (hint) Hinweis, Tipp, Wink, Fingerzeig
he had a particular affection for his own harpoon, because it was of
assured stuff, well tried in many a mortal combat, and deeply intimate
assured - beteuerte, versicherte, versicher
mortal combat - Todeskampf
with the hearts of whales. In short, like many inland reapers and
inland - binnenlndisch, binnen
reapers - (reaper) Schnitter, Mher, Mhder
mowers, who go into the farmers meadows armed with their own
mowers - (mower) Mhmaschine Mher
meadows - (meadow) Wiese, Weide, Aue
scythes"though in no wise obliged to furnish them"even so, Queequeg,
scythes - (scythe) Sense Sichel sensen, mhen
obliged - (oblige) verpflichten einen Gefallen tun
furnish - mblieren, einrichten, ausrsten
for his own private reasons, preferred his own harpoon.
Shifting the barrow from my hand to his, he told me a funny story about
the first wheelbarrow he had ever seen. It was in Sag Harbor. The
owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his
owners - (owner) Inhaber, Besitzer, Besitzerin
heavy chest to his boarding house. Not to seem ignorant about the
boarding house - Schlerheim ;Fremdenheim
thing"though in truth he was entirely so, concerning the precise way in
which to manage the barrow"Queequeg puts his chest upon it; lashes it
lashes - (lash) Peitsche, Wimper;anbinden
fast; and then shoulders the barrow and marches up the wharf. Why,
said I, Queequeg, you might have known better than that, one would
think. Didnt the people laugh?
Upon this, he told me another story. The people of his island of
Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water
feasts - (feast) Fest, Festgelage;feiern
fragrant - duftend, wohlriechend
of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and
cocoanuts - (cocoanut) Kokosnuss
calabash - Flaschenkrbis
punchbowl - Bowle, Bowlenschssel, Punschbowle
this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided
ornament - Verzierung musikalische Verzierung
braided - (braid) Litze;flechten;Flechte, Paspel, Zopf
mat where the feast is held. Now a certain grand merchant ship once
feast - Fest, Festgelage;feiern
merchant ship - Handelsschiff
touched at Rokovoko, and its commander"from all accounts, a very
commander - Befehlshaber, Kommandant, Kommandeur, Kommandr
stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain"this
stately - stattlich
punctilious - pedantisch, minutis, korrekt, frmlich
commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequegs sister, a
pretty young princess just turned of ten. Well; when all the wedding
guests were assembled at the brides bamboo cottage, this Captain
bamboo - Bambus, Bambusrohr
marches in, and being assigned the post of honor, placed himself over
assigned - (assign) zuweisen zuteilen
against the punchbowl, and between the High Priest and his majesty the
majesty - Majestt
King, Queequegs father. Grace being said,"for those people have their
Grace - Tischgebet Anmut, Grazie, Aufschub, Fristverlngerun
grace as well as we"though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such
times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying
platters - (platter) Platte (einer Festplatte);flache Schal
the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts"Grace, I
ducks - (duck) untertauchen (in);Schiertuch, Ente, Segeltuch;kneife
Giver - Geber, Geberin, Gebender, Gebende
say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial
banquet - Festmahl, Bankett, Gastmahl, Festessen
immemorial - uralt
ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and
dipping - (dip) einfallen, sich senken, sich neigen, frben;Dip, Tunk
consecrated - (consecrate) weihen
consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage
consecrating - (consecrate) weihen
beverage - Getrnk
circulates. Seeing himself placed next the Priest, and noting the
circulates - (circulate) umlaufen, kreisen, zirkulieren, kursieren
ceremony, and thinking himself"being Captain of a ship"as having plain
precedence over a mere island King, especially in the Kings own
precedence - Vorrang
house"the Captain coolly proceeds to wash his hands in the
proceeds - (proceed) vorgehen
punchbowl;"taking it I suppose for a huge finger-glass. Now, said
Queequeg, what you tink now?"Didnt our people laugh?
tink - (Tinker) flicken, basteln
At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the
luggage - Gepck, Gepckstck, Reisegepck, etaphorical
schooner. Hoisting sail, it glided down the Acushnet river. On one
side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-covered trees
all glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge hills and mountains of
casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the
casks - (cask) Fass, Tonne
world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while
wandering - (wander) irren, wandern, umherschweifen; (wander) umherstreife
safely - sicher
from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises
of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises
forges - (forge) sich Bahn brechen, formen, erfinden, flschen;Schmiede
melt - Schmelze Schmelzwasser schmelzen, zum Schmelzen bringen
cruises - (cruise) Seereise, Kreuzfahrt;eine Seereise mache
were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only
most perilous - gefahrvollste
begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on,
for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness
endlessness - Unendlichkeit
intolerableness - Unausstehlichkeit
of all earthly effort.
Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little
bracing - erfrischend, anregend; (brace) Klafter , Armspanne, Klamme
breeze - Brise, Hauch
waxed - (wax) das Wachs
Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his
snortings. How I snuffed that Tartar air!"how I spurned that turnpike
snortings - (snorting) schnauben, prusten
snuffed - (snuff) schnffeln, schnuppern;Butzen, schnupfen, Schnupftabak
Tartar - Weinstein
turnpike - Drehschranke Mautstrae
earth!"that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish
highway - Hauptstrae, Chaussee
slavish - sklavisch
heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea
heels - (heel) Hinterende des Hobels, Ferse, Absatz;flitzen;Brotkanten
hoofs - (hoof) Huf
magnanimity - Gromut, Grozgigkeit, Seelengre, Gromtigkeit
which will permit no records.
permit - zulassen, erlauben;Erlaubnis, Erlaubnisschein
At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with me.
His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed
nostrils - (nostril) Nasenloch,
teeth. On, on we flew; and our offing gained, the Moss did homage to
homage - Vasalleneid, Gefolgschaftsschwur, Vasallentreueschwu
the blast; ducked and dived her bows as a slave before the Sultan.
blast - schlagen, vernichten, sprengen;mit Wucht schieen;B, Explosio
ducked - (duck) untertauchen (in);Schiertuch, Ente, Segeltuch;kneife
Sultan - Sultan
Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a
tingling - prickelnd, klingend; (tingle) kribbeln, prickeln, Prickeln
wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
wire - Draht, Ader, Wanze, Geld
buckling - Stauchung, Knick, Knickung; (buckle) Stauchung, Knick, Knickung
canes - (cane) Rohr Rohrstock Blindenstock, weisser Langstock
tornadoes - (tornado) Tornado, Windhose
So full of this reeling scene were we, as we stood by the plunging
bowsprit, that for some time we did not notice the jeering glances of
jeering - (jeer) Spott; (jeer) (jeer) Spott
glances - (glance) blicken Blick, Streifblick, Glanz, Steinkohle
the passengers, a lubber-like assembly, who marvelled that two fellow
lubber - Schmiermittel
assembly - Baugruppe Versammlung
marvelled - (marvel) wundern
beings should be so companionable; as though a white man were anything
companionable - kameradschaftlich
more dignified than a whitewashed negro. But there were some boobies
more dignified - gediegenere
whitewashed - (whitewash) Tnche Zu-null-Sieg reinwaschen, schnfrbe
boobies - (boobie) Titten
and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come
intense - intensiv hochgradig
greenness - Naivitt
from the heart and centre of all verdure. Queequeg caught one of these
young saplings mimicking him behind his back. I thought the bumpkins
saplings - Grnschnbel
mimicking - (mimic) nachahmen, nachffen
hour of doom was come. Dropping his harpoon, the brawny savage caught
him in his arms, and by an almost miraculous dexterity and strength,
miraculous - wunderttig, mirakuls, Wunder
sent him high up bodily into the air; then slightly tapping his stern
in mid-somerset, the fellow landed with bursting lungs upon his feet,
bursting - (burst) platzen, zerplatzen, bersten, sprengen, Berste
while Queequeg, turning his back upon him, lighted his tomahawk pipe
and passed it to me for a puff.
Capting! Capting! yelled the bumpkin, running towards that officer;
yelled - (yell) kreischen, schreien
Capting, Capting, heres the devil.
Capting - Verschlieen
Hallo, _you_ sir, cried the Captain, a gaunt rib of the sea, stalking
gaunt - knochig, dnn, hager, mager, abgemagert
rib - Rippe (Profil);Drehschiene, Spant, Rippe, Lamelle
stalking - stelzend; (stalk) stelzend
up to Queequeg, what in thunder do you mean by that? Dont you know
thunder - Donner Donnern
you might have killed that chap?
What him say? said Queequeg, as he mildly turned to me.
He say, said I, that you came near kill-e that man there, pointing
to the still shivering greenhorn.
shivering - schlotternde, schlotternd, schaudernd; (shiver) schlotternd
greenhorn - Grnschnabel
Kill-e, cried Queequeg, twisting his tattooed face into an unearthly
twisting - (to twist) drehe
expression of disdain, ah! him bevy small-e fish-e; Queequeg no kill-e
disdain - Verachtung, Geringschtzung (disrespect
bevy - Schwarm, Schar
so small-e fish-e; Queequeg kill-e big whale!
Look you, roared the Captain, Ill kill-e _you_, you cannibal, if
roared - (roar) brllen Tosen Brllen Aufheulen
you try any more of your tricks aboard here; so mind your eye.
But it so happened just then, that it was high time for the Captain to
mind his own eye. The prodigious strain upon the main-sail had parted
strain - Spannung, starke Inanspruchnahme, Zug;anstrengen, abseihe
the weather-sheet, and the tremendous boom was now flying from side to
boom - Konjunktur, Ausleger (Kran), Baum;drhnen, boome
side, completely sweeping the entire after part of the deck. The poor
fellow whom Queequeg had handled so roughly, was swept overboard; all
handled - (handle) Henkel, Hantel, Griff, Trklinke;abarbeiten, behandel
roughly - grob uneben
swept - (sweep) fegen, kehren, rauschen, auf den Kopf stellen, fahren
hands were in a panic; and to attempt snatching at the boom to stay it,
panic - Panik, panisch
snatching - (snatch) klauen, stehlen, Reien
seemed madness. It flew from right to left, and back again, almost in
madness - Wahnsinn, Verrcktheit, Tollheit
one ticking of a watch, and every instant seemed on the point of
ticking - Inlett, Inlettstoff, Drell, tickend; (tic) Tic, Zucke
snapping into splinters. Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable
snapping - schnappend, knipsend, Ermittlung; (snap) Knacken, Knalle
splinters - (splinter) Span, Splitter
capable - fhig
of being done; those on deck rushed towards the bows, and stood eyeing
the boom as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale. In the
lower jaw - Unterkiefer
midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and
consternation - Bestrzung, Fassungslosigkeit
deftly - gewandt, flink
crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured
crawling - (crawl) krabbeln, kriechen; (crawl) (crawl) krabbeln, kriechen
whipped - (whip) Peitsche, Knute, Zagel , peitschen, auspeitschen
secured - (secure) sicher, geschtzt, beschtzt, zuverlssig
one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso,
lasso - Lasso
caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next
jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe. The schooner was
jerk - Zuckung, Satz, Reflex, ruckweise;Wichser;erschtter
trapped - (trap) Fallgrube, Falle, Fahrt (im Bergwerk);einfange
run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern
clearing away - wegrumend, das Abrumen
boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long
stripped - (strip) Zeichenkette
living arc of a leap. For three minutes or more he was seen swimming
arc - Bogen, Arkus, Kreisbogen, Kurve, Lichtbogen
leap - hervorspringen, hpfen, berspringen
like a dog, throwing his long arms straight out before him, and by
turns revealing his brawny shoulders through the freezing foam. I
revealing - gewagt, freizgig; (reveal) enthllen offenbaren
looked at the grand and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved.
glorious - ruhmvoll, glorreich, herrlich, prachtvoll
The greenhorn had gone down. Shooting himself perpendicularly from the
water, Queequeg, now took an instants glance around him, and seeming
to see just how matters were, dived down and disappeared. A few minutes
more, and he rose again, one arm still striking out, and with the other
dragging a lifeless form. The boat soon picked them up. The poor
dragging - (drag) Planierschleppe;nachschleppen, schleppen, ziehen
lifeless - leblos
bumpkin was restored. All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the
restored - (restore) wiederherstellen, restaurieren
trump - Trumpf
captain begged his pardon. From that hour I clove to Queequeg like a
clove - Ngelchen (Gewrznelke), Nelke (Gewrz)
barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive.
barnacle - Ringelgans
Was there ever such unconsciousness? He did not seem to think that he
unconsciousness - Bewusstlosigkeit Unwissenheit
at all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies. He
deserved - (deserve) verdienen
medal - Medaille
Humane - human, menschlich
only asked for water"fresh water"something to wipe the brine off; that
wipe - lschen, abstreifen, abwischen, aufreiben, wischen
brine - Sole, Salzbrhe, Lake, Meerwasser, Salzwasser, pkeln
done, he put on dry clothes, lighted his pipe, and leaning against the
bulwarks, and mildly eyeing those around him, seemed to be saying to
himself"Its a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We
mutual - wechselseitig, gegenseitig, beiderseitig, gemeinsam
joint stock - (joint-stock) Gesellschaftskapital , Grundkapital
cannibals must help these Christians.
Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning; so, after a
fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket.
Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of
the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely
occupies - (occupy) in Anspruch nehmen, belegen, bewohnen, besetze
than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it"a mere hillock, and elbow of
lighthouse - Leuchtturm
hillock - kleiner Hgel, tzhgel, Hgelchen
elbow - Ellbogen Rohrbogen Ellbogensto ellbgeln
sand; all beach, without a background. There is more sand there than
you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper. Some
blotting paper - Fliepapier
gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they
wights - (wight) Wicht old
dont grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have
thistles - (thistle) Distel
to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that
leak - undicht
cask - Fass, Tonne
pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true
cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses,
toadstools - (toadstool) Giftpilz
to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an
blade - Klinge Turbinenschaufel Grashalm Blatt
oasis, three blades in a days walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand
oasis - Oase
prairie - Prrie
quicksand - Treibsand
shoes, something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up,
Laplander - Lapplnder
belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island
inclosed - (inclose) einschlieen, enthalten
surrounded - (surround) umgeben, umringen, umzingeln
utter - uerst
of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will
clams - (clam) zugeknpfter Mensch;hemmen;essbare Muschel, Venusmuschel
sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles. But these
adhering - (adhere) kleben halten halten
turtles - (turtle) Schildkrte
extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois.
extravaganzas - (extravaganza) Zauberposse, fantastische Dichtung, Spektake
Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this island was
wondrous - wunderbar, wundersam, erstaunlich, verwunderlich, bemerkenswert
settled by the red-men. Thus goes the legend. In olden times an eagle
legend - Legende Kartenlegende
olden - altern
eagle - Adler, Eagle
swooped down upon the New England coast, and carried off an infant
swooped - (swoop) herabschieen, herabstrzen, Sturzflug
carried off - weggerafft
infant - Sugling, Wickelkind, Kleinkind
Indian in his talons. With loud lament the parents saw their child
talons - (talon) Klaue
lament - wehklagen;Klage ;beklagen, jammern
borne out of sight over the wide waters. They resolved to follow in the
same direction. Setting out in their canoes, after a perilous passage
perilous - gefhrlich, gefahrvoll
they discovered the island, and there they found an empty ivory
casket,"the poor little Indians skeleton.
casket - Schatulle, Kstchen, Urne
What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should
take to the sea for a livelihood! They first caught crabs and quohogs
livelihood - Lebensunterhalt, Lebensgrundlage, Auskommen, Existenzgrundlage
crabs - (crab) Krebs, Krabbe, Winde, Nrgler
in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more
bolder - (bold) krftig, khn, klar, keck, heftig, deutlich, fett
mackerel - Makrele
experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last,
pushed off - abgeschoben
captured - (capture) Fang, Festnahme, Gefangennahme, Erfassung
cod - Kabeljau, Dorsch
launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world;
launching - (launch) Markteinfhrung;anstoen, starten (Rakete), abschiee
navy - Marine, Flotte, Seestreitkrfte, Marineamt, Marineblau
put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at
circumnavigations - (circumnavigation) Umfahrung, Umschiffung
peeped - (peep) (peep hole) Schauloch; (to peep through) durchgucke
Behrings Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared
declared - (declare) bekanntmachen, bekanntgeben, deklarieren, ausrufe
everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the
mightiest - (mighty) gewaltig, mchtig
animated - (animate) lebendig, beseelt, bewegt, lebhaft, belebt, belebe
flood; most monstrous and most mountainous! That Himmalehan, salt-sea
mountainous - bergig, gebirgig
Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that
Mastodon - Mastodon
portentousness - Ungeheuerlichkeit
unconscious - bewusstlos spontan, unbewusst, unterbewusst, Unbewusste
his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and
panics - (panic) Panik, panisch
dreaded - (dread) schaudern, grauen, gruseln, grause
most fearless - furchtloseste
malicious assaults!
malicious - bse, boshaft, malizis, bswillig
assaults - (assault) Anschlag, berfall, Angriff, berfallen, angreifen
And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from
hermits - (hermit) Einsiedler, Eremit, Klausner
their ant-hill in the sea, overrun and conquered the watery world like
ant - Ameise
overrun - befallen, berschwemmen, berhufen, berziehen, berschreite
conquered - (conquer) erobern
so many Alexanders; parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific,
Alexanders - (Alexander) Alexander
parcelling - Parzellierung; (parcel) Paket Parzelle
and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America
pirate - Pirat, Seeruber, Korsar, Raubkopierer, raubkopieren
add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English
pile - Haufen, Pfahl, Pulk
overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun;
overswarm - berschwrmen
blazing - (blaze) Lohe, Brand, Grobrand, brenne, Glut
banner - Banner, Fahne, Spruchbanner
two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketers. For the sea
is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a
Emperors - (emperor) Kaiser, Imperator
empires - (Empire) Reich, Imperium, Kaiserreich, Kaisertum, Weltreich
right of way through it. Merchant ships are but extension bridges;
extension - Ausdehnung, Erweiterung, Bedeutungserweiterung, Verlngerun
armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though
forts - (fort) Festung, Fort, Sttzpunkt
privateers - (privateer) Kaperschiff Freibeuter
following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships,
highwaymen - (highwayman) Wegelagerer, Straenruber
plunder - ausplndern, ausbeuten, Plnderung, Beute, Raubgut
other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw
fragments - (fragment) Fragment, Bruchstck, Satzfragment, fragmentieren
their living from the bottomless deep itself. The Nantucketer, he alone
resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to
resides - (resid) Rckstand
riots - (riot) Aufruhr, Tumult, Krawall, Randale
it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation.
ploughing - pflgend; (plough) Pflug pflgen ficken
plantation - Plantage
_There_ is his home; _there_ lies his business, which a Noahs flood
would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China.
interrupt - unterbrechen
overwhelmed - (overwhelm) berwltigen, bermannen, berrumpel
He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among
cocks - (cock) Vogelmnnchen;Gockel, Hahn;erigierter Penis (vulg.
the waves, he climbs them as chamois hunters climb the Alps. For years
chamois - Gmse, Gams, Smischleder
hunters - (hunter) Jger Jagdhund, Verfolger
Alps - Alpen ; (alp) Alm
he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells
like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman.
strangely - seltsame, merkwrdige
Earthsman - Erdmnnchen
With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to
landless - ohne Grundbesitz
gull - Mwe
sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight
at nightfall - bei Anbruch der Nacht
of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his
furls - (furl) aufrollen, bergen, einrollen
very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.
herds - (herd) Herde
walruses - (walrus) Walross
It was quite late in the evening when the little Moss came snugly to
snugly - behaglich, gemtlich, mollig
anchor, and Queequeg and I went ashore; so we could attend to no
business that day, at least none but a supper and a bed. The landlord
of the Spouter-Inn had recommended us to his cousin Hosea Hussey of the
Try Pots, whom he asserted to be the proprietor of one of the best kept
asserted - (assert) versichern, zusichern, beteuern
proprietor - Inhaber, Inhaberin, Besitzer, Besitzerin
hotels in all Nantucket, and moreover he had assured us that Cousin
moreover - auerdem, berdies, des Weiteren, obendrein
Hosea, as he called him, was famous for his chowders. In short, he
chowders - (chowder) dicke Suppe aus Meeresfrchten Fischsuppe
plainly hinted that we could not possibly do better than try pot-luck
at the Try Pots. But the directions he had given us about keeping a
yellow warehouse on our starboard hand till we opened a white church to
warehouse - Lager, Lagerhaus, Speicherhaus, Packhaus, lagern
the larboard, and then keeping that on the larboard hand till we made a
corner three points to the starboard, and that done, then ask the first
man we met where the place was: these crooked directions of his very
much puzzled us at first, especially as, at the outset, Queequeg
outset - negative Einpresstiefe, Anfang
insisted that the yellow warehouse"our first point of departure"must be
insisted - (insist) auf ... bestehen
left on the larboard hand, whereas I had understood Peter Coffin to say
it was on the starboard. However, by dint of beating about a little in
the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to
knocking up - (knock up) durch Klopfen wecken, grob skizzieren
peaceable - friedliebend
inhabitant - Einwohner, Einwohnerin, Bewohner, Bewohnerin
inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no
mistaking.
Two enormous wooden pots painted black, and suspended by asses ears,
swung from the cross-trees of an old top-mast, planted in front of an
old doorway. The horns of the cross-trees were sawed off on the other
doorway - Trffnung
sawed off - abgesgt
side, so that this old top-mast looked not a little like a gallows.
gallows - Galgen; (gallow) Galgen
Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I
sensitive - empfindlich, sensibel
could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving. A sort
vague - nebelhaft, schwach, unklar, undeutlich
misgiving - Zweifel; (misgive) Zweifel
of crick was in my neck as I gazed up to the two remaining horns; yes,
crick - verrenken
_two_ of them, one for Queequeg, and one for me. Its ominous, thinks
I. A Coffin my Innkeeper upon landing in my first whaling port;
Innkeeper - Gastwirt, Gastwirtin
tombstones staring at me in the whalemens chapel; and here a gallows!
tombstones - (tombstone) Grabstein, Grabmal, Leichenstein
and a pair of prodigious black pots too! Are these last throwing out
oblique hints touching Tophet?
oblique - schrg, schief, oblique
I was called from these reflections by the sight of a freckled woman
freckled - (freckle) Sommersprosse Fleckchen
with yellow hair and a yellow gown, standing in the porch of the inn,
under a dull red lamp swinging there, that looked much like an injured
dull - stumpf fad, langweilig, matt, bld, blde
eye, and carrying on a brisk scolding with a man in a purple woollen
brisk - lebhaft, rege, vital, anregend
scolding - ausschimpfend, zankend, scheltend; (scold) Beizange, Xanthipp
shirt.
Get along with ye, said she to the man, or Ill be combing ye!
combing - kmmend; (comb) kmmend
Come on, Queequeg, said I, all right. Theres Mrs. Hussey.
And so it turned out; Mr. Hosea Hussey being from home, but leaving
Mrs. Hussey entirely competent to attend to all his affairs. Upon
affairs - (affair) Angelegenheit Scharmtzel Ding Beziehung, Affr
making known our desires for a supper and a bed, Mrs. Hussey,
making known - bekannt machend, bekanntmachend [alt]
postponing further scolding for the present, ushered us into a little
postponing - (postpone) verschieben, aufschieben, zurckstellen
room, and seating us at a table spread with the relics of a recently
relics - (relic) Relikt Reliquie
concluded repast, turned round to us and said"Clam or Cod?
repast - Mahl, Mahlzeit
Whats that about Cods, maam? said I, with much politeness.
Cods - (cod) Kabeljau, Dorsch
politeness - Hflichkeit
Clam or Cod? she repeated.
A clam for supper? a cold clam; is _that_ what you mean, Mrs. Hussey?
says I, but thats a rather cold and clammy reception in the winter
clammy - klamm
time, aint it, Mrs. Hussey?
But being in a great hurry to resume scolding the man in the purple
resume - weiter;Lebenslauf;fortsetzen, wiedererlangen, wiederaufnehmen
Shirt, who was waiting for it in the entry, and seeming to hear nothing
but the word clam, Mrs. Hussey hurried towards an open door leading
to the kitchen, and bawling out clam for two, disappeared.
bawling - grlend; (bawl) schreien, brllen, heulen
Queequeg, said I, do you think that we can make out a supper for us
both on one clam?
However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the
savory - schmackhaft;Bohnenkraut
steam - etwas dnsten;Dampf
belie - lgen;etw. falsch darstellen, ber etw. hinwegtuschen
apparently cheerless prospect before us. But when that smoking chowder
apparently - offensichtlich, offenbar, scheinbar, anscheinen
prospect - Sicht, Perspektive, Aussicht, Erwartung, Chance, schrfen
came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh, sweet friends!
hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than
hearken - horchen, hren, lauschen
juicy - saftig
hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuit, and salted pork cut up
hazel - Haselstrauch grn-braun
pork - Schweinefleisch, Schwein
into little flakes; the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully
flakes - (flake) Spinner;sich abschlen, abblttern;Fetzen, Flock
enriched - (enrich) bereichern anreichern
plentifully - in Überfluss vorhanden, reichlich
seasoned with pepper and salt. Our appetites being sharpened by the
appetites - (appetite) Appetit Begierde, Lust
sharpened - (sharpen) schrfen
frosty voyage, and in particular, Queequeg seeing his favourite fishing
food before him, and the chowder being surpassingly excellent, we
surpassingly - hervorragend
despatched it with great expedition: when leaning back a moment and
despatched - (despatch) Ttung
bethinking me of Mrs. Husseys clam and cod announcement, I thought I
bethinking - (bethink) besinnen
would try a little experiment. Stepping to the kitchen door, I uttered
uttered - (utter) uerst
the word cod with great emphasis, and resumed my seat. In a few
emphasis - Nachdruck, Eindringlichkeit, Emphase, Schwerpunk
resumed - (resume) weiter;Lebenslauf;fortsetzen, wiedererlange
moments the savoury steam came forth again, but with a different
savoury - schmackhaft
steam - Wasserdampf, Kraft, Energie, dmpfen, dnsten
flavor, and in good time a fine cod-chowder was placed before us.
flavor - Geschmack Geschmacksstoff, Geschmacksverstrker, wrzen
We resumed business; and while plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I
to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head? Whats
that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people? But look,
stultifying - (stultify) blamieren, veralbern, lcherlich machen
Queequeg, aint that a live eel in your bowl? Wheres your harpoon?
eel - Aal, Aalartige
Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved its
Fishiest - (fishy) Fischlein, Fischchen, fischig, Fisch-, anrchi
fishy - Fischlein, Fischchen, fischig, Fisch-, anrchig, verdchtig
name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders. Chowder for
breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you
began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes. The area
before the house was paved with clam-shells. Mrs. Hussey wore a
paved - (pave) mit Platten auslegen pflastern, bepflastern
polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had his account
necklace - Halskette, Collier, Halsband
codfish - Dorsch, Kabeljau
vertebra - Wirbel, Wirbelknochen
superior - berlegen, hher, hherstehend, bergeordnet, Vorgesetzter
shark - Haifisch, Hai
milk, too, which I could not at all account for, till one morning
happening to take a stroll along the beach among some fishermens
boats, I saw Hoseas brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and
brindled - gestromt
remnants - (remnant) Rest, berbleibsel, Relikt, berrest, Restposten
marching along the sand with each foot in a cods decapitated head,
decapitated - (decapitate) kpfen
looking very slip-shod, I assure ye.
Supper concluded, we received a lamp, and directions from Mrs. Hussey
concerning the nearest way to bed; but, as Queequeg was about to
precede me up the stairs, the lady reached forth her arm, and demanded
precede - vorangehen, vorausgehen
his harpoon; she allowed no harpoon in her chambers. Why not? said I;
every true whaleman sleeps with his harpoon"but why not? Because
its dangerous, says she. Ever since young Stiggs coming from that
unfortnt vyge of his, when he was gone four years and a half, with
only three barrels of _ile_, was found dead in my first floor back,
barrels - (barrel) Fass, Tonne, Gebinde, Barrel, Trommel, Hohlzylinder
with his harpoon in his side; ever since then I allow no boarders to
take sich dangerous weepons in their rooms at night. So, Mr. Queequeg
(for she had learned his name), I will just take this here iron, and
keep it for you till morning. But the chowder; clam or cod to-morrow
morrow - morgen Morgen
for breakfast, men?
Both, says I; and lets have a couple of smoked herring by way of
herring - Hering
variety.
In bed we concocted our plans for the morrow. But to my surprise and no
concocted - (concoct) zusammenbrauen, zusammenmischen, zusammenrhre
small concern, Queequeg now gave me to understand, that he had been
concern - Sorge, Anliegen, Betroffenheit, Besorgnis, Konzern, angehen
diligently consulting Yojo"the name of his black little god"and Yojo
consulting - (consult) Rat halten beraten, beratschlagen, um Rat frage
had told him two or three times over, and strongly insisted upon it
everyway, that instead of our going together among the whaling-fleet in
everyway - in jeder Hinsicht
going together - zusammengehend [alt], zusammen gehend
fleet - Flotte;Fahrzeugpark
harbor, and in concert selecting our craft; instead of this, I say,
selecting - (select) auswhlen
Yojo earnestly enjoined that the selection of the ship should rest
enjoined - (enjoin) auferlegen, vorschreiben, anordnen, ermahnen
selection - Anwahl, Auswahl,
wholly with me, inasmuch as Yojo purposed befriending us; and, in order
inasmuch - als, insofern als, insofern
befriending - (befriend) behilflich sein, freundlich sein
to do so, had already pitched upon a vessel, which, if left to myself,
I, Ishmael, should infallibly light upon, for all the world as though
it had turned out by chance; and in that vessel I must immediately ship
myself, for the present irrespective of Queequeg.
irrespective - ungeachtet, ohne Bercksichtigung, unabhngig
I have forgotten to mention that, in many things, Queequeg placed great
confidence in the excellence of Yojos judgment and surprising forecast
excellence - Vortrefflichkeit
forecast - vorhersagen, prognostizieren, Schtzung, Vorhersage, Prognos
of things; and cherished Yojo with considerable esteem, as a rather
esteem - Achtung, Ansehen, Wertschtzung, schtzen
good sort of god, who perhaps meant well enough upon the whole, but in
all cases did not succeed in his benevolent designs.
benevolent - wohlwollend altruistisch
Now, this plan of Queequegs, or rather Yojos, touching the selection
of our craft; I did not like that plan at all. I had not a little
relied upon Queequegs sagacity to point out the whaler best fitted to
relied - (rely) sich verlassen (auf)
sagacity - Weisheit
carry us and our fortunes securely. But as all my remonstrances
fortunes - (fortune) Schicksal, Glck, Vermgen
securely - sicher
remonstrances - (remonstrance) Protest, Einspruch, Beschwerde
produced no effect upon Queequeg, I was obliged to acquiesce; and
acquiesce - hinnehmen, einwilligen, dulden
accordingly prepared to set about this business with a determined
accordingly - dementsprechend logischerweise
rushing sort of energy and vigor, that should quickly settle that
rushing - hetzend, sausend; (rush) hetzend, sausend
trifling little affair. Next morning early, leaving Queequeg shut up
trifling - unbedeutend Leichtfertigkei
affair - Angelegenheit Scharmtzel Ding Beziehung, Affr
with Yojo in our little bedroom"for it seemed that it was some sort of
Lent or Ramadan, or day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer with
humiliation - Demtigung, Erniedrigung
Queequeg and Yojo that day; _how_ it was I never could find out, for,
though I applied myself to it several times, I never could master his
liturgies and XXXIX Articles"leaving Queequeg, then, fasting on his
liturgies - (Liturgy) Liturgie
tomahawk pipe, and Yojo warming himself at his sacrificial fire of
shavings, I sallied out among the shipping. After much prolonged
sauntering and many random inquiries, I learnt that there were three
sauntering - schlendernd; (saunter) erman: mig umherschlendern bummeln (to saunter about) erman: Umherschlendern gemchliche Wanderung; Schlendergang
inquiries - (inquiry) Anfrage, Erkundigung, Abfrage, Untersuchun
ships up for three-years voyages"The Devil-dam, the Tit-bit, and the
Tit - Zitze, Meise
Pequod. _Devil-Dam_, I do not know the origin of; _Tit-bit_ is obvious;
origin - Ursprung, Anfang, Entstehung, Quelle, Herkunft
_Pequod_, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated
tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I
Indians - (Indian) indisch indianisch Inder, Inderin, Indianer, Indianerin
extinct - erloschen aussterben
Medes - (Mede) Meder, Mederin
peered and pryed about the Devil-dam; from her, hopped over to the
peered - (peer) seinesgleichen, Beaufsichtigende;schielen, starren
pryed - geschnffelt
hopped - (hop) tanzen (hpfen);schwoofen (ugs. tanzen
Tit-bit; and finally, going on board the Pequod, looked around her for
a moment, and then decided that this was the very ship for us.
You may have seen many a quaint craft in your day, for aught I
quaint - wunderlich, originell, anheimelnd
aught - etwas
know;"square-toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter-box
Japanese - japanisch Japaner (Japanerin; Japanese ) Japanisch
junks - (junk) Klamotte, Kluft (Kleider), Klamotten
galliots, and what not; but take my word for it, you never saw such a
rare old craft as this same rare old Pequod. She was a ship of the old
school, rather small if anything; with an old-fashioned claw-footed
claw - zerkratzen;Kralle, Fang (Vogelkralle), Klaue
look about her. Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and
typhoons - (typhoon) Taifun
calms of all four oceans, her old hulls complexion was darkened like a
French grenadiers, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her
alike - gleich gleichermaen
venerable bows looked bearded. Her masts"cut somewhere on the coast of
bearded - (beard) Bart Alibifreundin
Japan, where her original ones were lost overboard in a gale"her masts
stood stiffly up like the spines of the three old kings of Cologne. Her
stiffly - steif, krftig
spines - (spine) Rckgrat, Wirbelsule, Rcken, Stachel, Dorn
Cologne - Kln
ancient decks were worn and wrinkled, like the pilgrim-worshipped
pilgrim - Pilger, Wallfahrer
worshipped - (worship) Verehrung, Anbetung, Gottesdienst
flag-stone in Canterbury Cathedral where Becket bled. But to all these
Cathedral - Kirche, Mnster, Kathedrale, Dom
bled - (bleed) bluten ausbluten entlften Blutung Beschnitt
her old antiquities, were added new and marvellous features, pertaining
antiquities - (antiquity) Antike, Altertum
pertaining - (pertain) gehren, verbunden, betreffen, sich beziehen auf
to the wild business that for more than half a century she had
followed. Old Captain Peleg, many years her chief-mate, before he
commanded another vessel of his own, and now a retired seaman, and one
seaman - Matrose
of the principal owners of the Pequod,"this old Peleg, during the term
principal - hauptschlich, Haupt-, wesentlich, Rektor, Rektorin
of his chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and
mateship - Kameradschaft
grotesqueness - Groteske
inlaid it, all over, with a quaintness both of material and device,
inlaid - (inlay) Plombe
quaintness - Seltsamkeit
unmatched by anything except it be Thorkill-Hakes carved buckler or
unmatched - unerreicht, unvergleichliche
buckler - Faustschild, Tartsche
bedstead. She was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his
apparelled - (apparel) Kleidung
barbaric - barbarisch
Ethiopian - thiopier, thiopierin, thiopisch
emperor - Kaiser, Imperator
neck heavy with pendants of polished ivory. She was a thing of
pendants - (pendant) Anhnger
trophies. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased
chased - (chas) Chas
bones of her enemies. All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were
garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the
garnished - (garnish) verzieren, garnieren, Garnierung
sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews
hempen - hanfen
and tendons to. Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood,
tendons - (tendon) Sehne
but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory. Scorning a turnstile
sheaves - (sheaf) Garbe Bndel
Scorning - verachtend; (scorn) verachten verschmhen verspotten Verachtung
turnstile - Drehkreuz
wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller
reverend - Hochwrden,
tiller - Bodenfrse;Ackerfrse
was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her
curiously - neugierige
hereditary foe. The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest,
foe - Feind
helmsman - Steuermann, Rudergnger
steered - (steer) steuern, fhren, lenken;junger Ochse, Rind
felt like the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching
holds back - (hold back) sich zgerlich geben, zurckhalten
steed - erman: Ross (see also Stute )
clutching - (clutch) Vogelgelege;Kupplung (Auto), Gelege
its jaw. A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things
melancholy - Melancholie, Schwermut, Wehmut
are touched with that.
Now when I looked about the quarter-deck, for some one having
authority, in order to propose myself as a candidate for the voyage, at
first I saw nobody; but I could not well overlook a strange sort of
overlook - bersicht, berblick, bemerken
tent, or rather wigwam, pitched a little behind the main-mast. It
wigwam - Wigwam
seemed only a temporary erection used in port. It was of a conical
temporary - zeitweilig, temporr, vorbergehend, Zeitarbeitskraft
conical - konisch
shape, some ten feet high; consisting of the long, huge slabs of limber
slabs - (slab) Schalbrett, Roheisenblock, Tafel;Betonstrae;abschwarte
black bone taken from the middle and highest part of the jaws of the
right-whale. Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of
these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at
laced - (lac) Gummilack
mutually - gegenseitig
sloped - (slop) Schmutzwasser
the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved
apex - Gipfel Spitze
loose - verlassen, lose, locker
hairy - behaart, haarig, pelzartig
fibres - (fibre) Faser
to and fro like the top-knot on some old Pottowottamie Sachems head. A
triangular opening faced towards the bows of the ship, so that the
triangular - dreieckig Dreieck
insider commanded a complete view forward.
And half concealed in this queer tenement, I at length found one who by
concealed - (conceal) verbergen, verheimlichen, verschleiern, verschweigen
tenement - Mietskaserne, Wohnungsblock; q
his aspect seemed to have authority; and who, it being noon, and the
noon - Mittag
ships work suspended, was now enjoying respite from the burden of
respite - Aufschub, Frist, Atempause, Bedenkzei
command. He was seated on an old-fashioned oaken chair, wriggling all
oaken - eichen
over with curious carving; and the bottom of which was formed of a
carving - Schnitzerei ; (carve) schneiden tranchieren, zerlegen, schnitzen
stout interlacing of the same elastic stuff of which the wigwam was
stout - beleibt
interlacing - (interlace) Flechtband Zeilensprung verflechten, verschrnke
constructed.
constructed - (construct) bauen, konstruieren
There was nothing so very particular, perhaps, about the appearance of
the elderly man I saw; he was brown and brawny, like most old seamen,
elderly - lter, bejahrt, betagt
and heavily rolled up in blue pilot-cloth, cut in the Quaker style;
Quaker - Quker
only there was a fine and almost microscopic net-work of the minutest
microscopic - mikroskopisch
wrinkles interlacing round his eyes, which must have arisen from his
arisen from - entsprungen
continual sailings in many hard gales, and always looking to
sailings - Fahrten
gales - (gal) Wach auf!;Mdel
windward;"for this causes the muscles about the eyes to become pursed
windward - luvwrts gelegen, windwrts gelegen, im Wind gelege
pursed - (purs) Geldbeutel
together. Such eye-wrinkles are very effectual in a scowl.
effectual - krftig, wirksam
scowl - mrrischer Gesichtsausdruck;finster blicken
Is this the Captain of the Pequod? said I, advancing to the door of
advancing - (advance) erhhen, erheben, befrdern, vorrcken, Fortschrit
the tent.
Supposing it be the captain of the Pequod, what dost thou want of
him? he demanded.
I was thinking of shipping.
Thou wast, wast thou? I see thou art no Nantucketer"ever been in a
stove boat?
No, Sir, I never have.
Dost know nothing at all about whaling, I dare say"eh?
Nothing, Sir; but I have no doubt I shall soon learn. Ive been
several voyages in the merchant service, and I think that"
Merchant service be damned. Talk not that lingo to me. Dost see that
damned - verdammt, verflucht; (damn) verdammen, verfluchen, chte
lingo - Jargon
leg?"Ill take that leg away from thy stern, if ever thou talkest of
talkest - redet
the marchant service to me again. Marchant service indeed! I suppose
now ye feel considerable proud of having served in those marchant
ships. But flukes! man, what makes thee want to go a whaling, eh?"it
looks a little suspicious, dont it, eh?"Hast not been a pirate, hast
thou?"Didst not rob thy last Captain, didst thou?"Dost not think of
rob - rauben, berauben, Raubbau treiben, ausrauben
murdering the officers when thou gettest to sea?
I protested my innocence of these things. I saw that under the mask of
innocence - Unschuld Harmlosigkeit
mask - Maske;abkleben (zum Schutz);abdecken, maskieren
these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated
innuendoes - Anspielungen
insulated - (insulate) isolieren
Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather
Quakerish - Qukerisch
distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the
distrustful - misstrauisch
aliens - (alien) Fremdling, Fremder, Fremde, Auslnder
hailed - (hail) jdm. zujubeln;(Hail to thee!) Wohl dir!, Sei gegrt!
Vineyard.
Vineyard - Weinberg, Weingarten
But what takes thee a-whaling? I want to know that before I think of
shipping ye.
Well, sir, I want to see what whaling is. I want to see the world.
Want to see what whaling is, eh? Have ye clapped eye on Captain Ahab?
clapped - (clap) Tripper, Beifall;klatschen
Who is Captain Ahab, sir?
Ahab - Ahab
Aye, aye, I thought so. Captain Ahab is the Captain of this ship.
I am mistaken then. I thought I was speaking to the Captain himself.
Thou art speaking to Captain Peleg"thats who ye are speaking to,
young man. It belongs to me and Captain Bildad to see the Pequod fitted
out for the voyage, and supplied with all her needs, including crew. We
are part owners and agents. But as I was going to say, if thou wantest
wantest - wollen
to know what whaling is, as thou tellest ye do, I can put ye in a way
of finding it out before ye bind yourself to it, past backing out. Clap
bind - binden verbinden, konnektieren
Clap - Tripper, Beifall;klatschen
eye on Captain Ahab, young man, and thou wilt find that he has only one
wilt - welken
leg.
What do you mean, sir? Was the other one lost by a whale?
Lost by a whale! Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed
devoured - (devour) verschlingen, fressen, herunterschlingen, zerstren
chewed - (chew) kauen
up, crunched by the monstrousest parmacetty that ever chipped a
crunched - (crunch) zermalen knirschen, knuspern, kalkulieren, durchrechne
monstrousest - (monstrous) ungeheuerlich, monstrs, grotesk, monsterhaf
boat!"ah, ah!
I was a little alarmed by his energy, perhaps also a little touched at
the hearty grief in his concluding exclamation, but said as calmly as I
hearty - herzlich, herzhaft, deftig
exclamation - Ausruf Exklamation
could, What you say is no doubt true enough, sir; but how could I know
there was any peculiar ferocity in that particular whale, though indeed
ferocity - Grausamkeit, Wildheit
I might have inferred as much from the simple fact of the accident.
Look ye now, young man, thy lungs are a sort of soft, dye see; thou
dost not talk shark a bit. _Sure_, yeve been to sea before now; sure
of that?
Sir, said I, I thought I told you that I had been four voyages in
the merchant"
Hard down out of that! Mind what I said about the marchant
service"dont aggravate me"I wont have it. But let us understand each
aggravate - verschlimmern, erschweren, rgern, verbittern
other. I have given thee a hint about what whaling is; do ye yet feel
inclined for it?
inclined - (incline) neigen Neigung, Anstieg, Geflle
I do, sir.
Very good. Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live
whales throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick!
I am, sir, if it should be positively indispensable to do so; not to
positively - definitiv, bestimmt, entschieden, eindeutig
indispensable - unverzichtbar ausnahmlos, grundstzlich, unabdingba
be got rid of, that is; which I dont take to be the fact.
rid - loswerden;befreien
Good again. now then, thou not only wantest to go a-whaling, to find
now then - nun also
out by experience what whaling is, but ye also want to go in order to
by experience - aus Erfahrung
see the world? Was not that what ye said? I thought so. Well then, just
step forward there, and take a peep over the weather-bow, and then back
to me and tell me what ye see there.
For a moment I stood a little puzzled by this curious request, not
knowing exactly how to take it, whether humorously or in earnest. But
humorously - humoristische, humorvoll
concentrating all his crows feet into one scowl, Captain Peleg started
me on the errand.
Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the
perceived - (perceive) wahrnehmen
ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely
obliquely - schrg
pointing towards the open ocean. The prospect was unlimited, but
unlimited - unbeschrnkt, unbegrenzt
exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the slightest variety that I
monotonous - monoton, eintnig, abwechslungslos
forbidding - abstoend, widerwrtig, furchteinflen
could see.
Well, whats the report? said Peleg when I came back; what did ye
see?
Not much, I replied"nothing but water; considerable horizon though,
horizon - Horizont
and theres a squall coming up, I think.
squall - Be, Sturmbe
Well, what does thou think then of seeing the world? Do ye wish to go
round Cape Horn to see any more of it, eh? Cant ye see the world where
you stand?
I was a little staggered, but go a-whaling I must, and I would; and the
staggered - (stagger) Staffelung;abstufen, staffeln, wanken
Pequod was as good a ship as any"I thought the best"and all this I now
repeated to Peleg. Seeing me so determined, he expressed his
willingness to ship me.
willingness - Willigkeit, Bereitschaft
And thou mayest as well sign the papers right off, he added"come
mayest - (may) Mai
along with ye. And so saying, he led the way below deck into the
cabin.
Seated on the transom was what seemed to me a most uncommon and
transom - Sturz, Holm, Kmpfer, waagerechte Leiste, Heckbalken, Spiege
uncommon - ungebruchlich ungewhnlich
surprising figure. It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with
Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other
shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd
of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children, and chancery wards;
annuitants - (annuitant) Rentenempfnger
fatherless - vaterlos
chancery - Kanzleigericht, Registergericht
each owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a
timber - Nutzholz, Balken, Bauholz
nail or two in the ship. People in Nantucket invest their money in
whaling vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state
approved - (approve) billigen, genehmigen, zusagen
stocks bringing in good interest.
stocks - (stock) in Bausch und Bogen, Aktien, Inventar
Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketers, was a
Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to
sect - Sekte
this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the
inhabitants - (inhabitant) Einwohner, Einwohnerin, Bewohner, Bewohnerin
retain - behalten festhalten
peculiarities of the Quaker, only variously and anomalously modified by
variously - vielfltig
anomalously - anormal, anomal
modified - (modify) ndern, abndern, modifizieren
things altogether alien and heterogeneous. For some of these same
alien - Fremdling, Fremder, Fremde, Auslnder
heterogeneous - heterogen
Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters. They
Quakers - (Quaker) Quker
sanguinary - blutbefleckt, t-checkblutdrstig, checkmrderisch
are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.
So that there are instances among them of men, who, named with
instances - (instance) Beispiel, Fall, Instanz
Scripture names"a singularly common fashion on the island"and in
Scripture - Heilige Schrift
singularly - singularisch
childhood naturally imbibing the stately dramatic thee and thou of the
imbibing - (imbibe) trinken vereinnahmen
dramatic - dramatisch
Quaker idiom; still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless
idiom - Idiom, Dialekt, Mundart, Redeweise
audacious - khn, unverfroren, waghalsig
adventure of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these
blend - Mischung mischen, mixen, vermischen
unoutgrown peculiarities, a thousand bold dashes of character, not
unoutgrown - Unerwachsen
dashes - (dash) Bindestrich, Gedankenstrich, Querstrich, Spurt, Sprint
unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman. And when
unworthy - unwrdig
Scandinavian - Skandinavier, Skandinavierin, skandinavisch
poetical - poetisch
these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a
greatly - auerordentlich, groartig
globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and
globular - kugelfrmig
stillness - Stille
seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and
seclusion - Abgeschiedenheit, Abschottung, Absonderung
beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think
constellations - (constellation) Sternbild, Asterismus, Konstellatio
untraditionally and independently; receiving all natures sweet or
untraditionally - untraditionell
independently - unabhngig, selbststndig
savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding
virgin - Jungfrau jungfrulich nativ
voluntary - freiwillig ohne Bezahlung
confiding - (confide) vertrauen einweihen, ins Vertrauen ziehen
breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental
accidental - versehentlich, zufllig, Zufall, Versehen
advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language"that man makes
one in a whole nations census"a mighty pageant creature, formed for
pageant - Festzug, Aufzug, Umzug, Festumzug
noble tragedies. Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically
detract - entziehen
dramatically - dramatisch, dramatische
regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems
by birth - von Geburt
a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature. For
overruling - (overrule) berstimmen, verwerfen
morbidness - Krankhaftigkeiten
all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be
tragically - tragisch, tragische
sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
greatness - Gre
But, as yet we have not to do with such an one, but with quite another;
and still a man, who, if indeed peculiar, it only results again from
another phase of the Quaker, modified by individual circumstances.
phase - Phase
Like Captain Peleg, Captain Bildad was a well-to-do, retired whaleman.
But unlike Captain Peleg"who cared not a rush for what are called
serious things, and indeed deemed those self-same serious things the
deemed - (deem) halten, erachten, ansehen
veriest of all trifles"Captain Bildad had not only been originally
trifles - (trifle) Trifle Kleinigkeit, ein bisschen, ein weni
educated according to the strictest sect of Nantucket Quakerism, but
strictest - (strict) streng
Quakerism - Qukertum
all his subsequent ocean life, and the sight of many unclad, lovely
unclad - unerzogen; (unclothe) unerzogen
island creatures, round the Horn"all that had not moved this native
born Quaker one single jot, had not so much as altered one angle of his
jot - schnell hinschreiben
altered - (alter) verndern, ndern, wandeln, modifizieren, abndern
vest. Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of common
immutableness - Unvernderlichkeit
consistency about worthy Captain Bildad. Though refusing, from
consistency - Bestndigkeit, Regelmigkeit, Zuverlssigkeit, Verlsslichkei
refusing - (refuse) Mll;abweisen, verweigern, abschlagen, ablehnen
conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself
conscientious - gewissenhaft Gewissens-, dem Gewissen verpflichte
scruples - (scruple) Skrupel
invaders - (invader) Eindringling, Eroberer, Erobererin
had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn
illimitably - unermessliche
invaded - (invade) eindringen, verletzen, berfallen, einmarschiere
sworn - (swear) schwren
foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled
bloodshed - Blutvergieen, Blutbad
spilled - (spill) verschtten, erman: sich ergieen
tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore. How now in the contemplative evening
tuns - (tun) Tonne (altes Hohlma);Fass
gore - Keil, Blut
contemplative - nachdenklich, kontemplativ
of his days, the pious Bildad reconciled these things in the
pious - fromm, piettvoll, scheinheilig
reminiscence, I do not know; but it did not seem to concern him much,
reminiscence - Erinnern Erinnerung an, Erinnerungen , Rckerinnerun
and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible
sage - weise, klug, Weise
conclusion that a mans religion is one thing, and this practical world
quite another. This world pays dividends. Rising from a little
dividends - (dividend) Dividend Dividende
cabin-boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a
drabbest - (drab) trist (Farbe), eintnig, dster
broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header,
shad - Maifisch
bellied - (belly) Bauch, Magen
chief-mate, and captain, and finally a ship owner; Bildad, as I hinted
before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from
goodly - schn
dedicating - (dedicate) widmen sich widmen
days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income.
income - Einkommen
Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an
incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard
incorrigible - unverbesserbar unverbesserlich
task-master. They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seems a
curious story, that when he sailed the old Categut whaleman, his crew,
upon arriving home, were mostly all carried ashore to the hospital,
sore exhausted and worn out. For a pious man, especially for a Quaker,
exhausted - (exhaust) erschpfen, dezimieren, Auspuff, Abgas, Abluft
he was certainly rather hard-hearted, to say the least. He never used
to swear, though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an
swear - schwren
inordinate quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them. When
inordinate - auerproportional
unmitigated - richtig, ganz, absolut, durch und durch
Bildad was a chief-mate, to have his drab-coloured eye intently looking
drab - trist (Farbe), eintnig, dster
at you, made you feel completely nervous, till you could clutch
clutch - Vogelgelege;Kupplung (Auto), Gelege
something"a hammer or a marling-spike, and go to work like mad, at
hammer - Hammer Schlagstck, Hahn, Schlaghebel, tMalleu
spike - Nagel, Spitze, Stachel, hre, Getreidehre, hre
something or other, never mind what. Indolence and idleness perished
Indolence - Indolenz
idleness - Unttigkeit, Stillstand, Miggang, Trgheit
before him. His own person was the exact embodiment of his utilitarian
embodiment - Verkrperung, Inbegriff, Inkarnation
utilitarian - ntzlich, zweckmig, utilitaristisch, Utilitarist
character. On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no
superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like
superfluous - berflssig
beard - Bart Alibifreundin
chin - Kinn
economical - sparsam, wirtschaftlich, konomisch
nap - Nickerchen, Schlfchen
the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.
brimmed - (brim) bersprudeln;Rand
Such, then, was the person that I saw seated on the transom when I
followed Captain Peleg down into the cabin. The space between the decks
was small; and there, bolt-upright, sat old Bildad, who always sat so,
bolt upright - (bolt-upright) kerzengerade
and never leaned, and this to save his coat tails. His broad-brim was
brim - bersprudeln;Rand
placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was
beside - neben
vesture - Gewandung
buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in
buttoned up - (button up) zuknpfen
spectacles - (spectacle) Spektakel, Schauspiel
reading from a ponderous volume.
volume - Volumen Lautstrke Jahrgang Band Volume
Bildad, cried Captain Peleg, at it again, Bildad, eh? Ye have been
studying those Scriptures, now, for the last thirty years, to my
certain knowledge. How far ye got, Bildad?
As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old shipmate,
habituated - (habituate) gewhnen an
Bildad, without noticing his present irreverence, quietly looked up,
irreverence - Respektlosigkeit, Unerheblichkeit
and seeing me, glanced again inquiringly towards Peleg.
inquiringly - forschend
He says hes our man, Bildad, said Peleg, he wants to ship.
Dost thee? said Bildad, in a hollow tone, and turning round to me.
tone - Farbton, Klang, Umgangston, Ton
turning round - umlenkend
I _dost_, said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker.
unconsciously - unbewusst
What do ye think of him, Bildad? said Peleg.
Hell do, said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at
his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
mumbling - Genuschel, murmelnd; (mumble) murmeln, nuscheln, mmmel
audible - hrbar
I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg,
his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer. But I said
blusterer - Schwadroneur, Schimpfer
nothing, only looking round me sharply. Peleg now threw open a chest,
sharply - scharf, scharfzngig, spitzzngig
and drawing forth the ships articles, placed pen and ink before him,
ink - Tinte
and seated himself at a little table. I began to think it was high time
to settle with myself at what terms I would be willing to engage for
engage - beschftigen anstellen angreifen, anlegen, einraste
the voyage. I was already aware that in the whaling business they paid
no wages; but all hands, including the captain, received certain shares
of the profits called _lays_, and that these lays were proportioned to
proportioned - (proportion) Teil, Proportion, Anteil
the degree of importance pertaining to the respective duties of the
respective - jeweilig
ships company. I was also aware that being a green hand at whaling, my
own lay would not be very large; but considering that I was used to the
sea, could steer a ship, splice a rope, and all that, I made no doubt
steer - steuern, fhren, lenken;junger Ochse, Rind
splice - Verbindung spleien
that from all I had heard I should be offered at least the 275th
lay"that is, the 275th part of the clear net proceeds of the voyage,
whatever that might eventually amount to. And though the 275th lay was
what they call a rather _long lay_, yet it was better than nothing; and
if we had a lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I
would wear out on it, not to speak of my three years beef and board,
wear out - ausglhen, verschleien, abnutzen
for which I would not have to pay one stiver.
It might be thought that this was a poor way to accumulate a princely
accumulate - aufstauen sich vermehren
princely - frstlich
fortune"and so it was, a very poor way indeed. But I am one of those
fortune - Schicksal, Glck, Vermgen
that never take on about princely fortunes, and am quite content if the
world is ready to board and lodge me, while I am putting up at this
board and lodge - Kost und Logis
grim sign of the Thunder Cloud. Upon the whole, I thought that the
275th lay would be about the fair thing, but would not have been
surprised had I been offered the 200th, considering I was of a
broad-shouldered make.
But one thing, nevertheless, that made me a little distrustful about
receiving a generous share of the profits was this: Ashore, I had heard
something of both Captain Peleg and his unaccountable old crony Bildad;
crony - Kumpan
how that they being the principal proprietors of the Pequod, therefore
proprietors - (proprietor) Inhaber, Inhaberin, Besitzer, Besitzerin
the other and more inconsiderable and scattered owners, left nearly the
inconsiderable - unscheinbar, unbetrchtlich, unbedeutend
whole management of the ships affairs to these two. And I did not know
but what the stingy old Bildad might have a mighty deal to say about
stingy - geizig
shipping hands, especially as I now found him on board the Pequod,
quite at home there in the cabin, and reading his Bible as if at his
own fireside. Now while Peleg was vainly trying to mend a pen with his
fireside - Kaminecke
vainly - vergeblich
mend - reparieren, flicken
jack-knife, old Bildad, to my no small surprise, considering that he
was such an interested party in these proceedings; Bildad never heeded
interested party - Interessent
us, but went on mumbling to himself out of his book, _Lay_ not up for
yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth"
treasures - (treasure) Schatz schtzen
moth - Falter (Nachtfalter), Nachtfalter
Well, Captain Bildad, interrupted Peleg, what dye say, what lay
shall we give this young man?
Thou knowest best, was the sepulchral reply, the seven hundred and
knowest - (know) kennen
sepulchral - Tod
seventy-seventh wouldnt be too much, would it?"where moth and rust do
rust - rosten, verrosten, einrosten;Rost (Eisen)
corrupt, but _lay_"
corrupt - korrupt verderben, korrumpieren
_Lay_, indeed, thought I, and such a lay! the seven hundred and
seventy-seventh! Well, old Bildad, you are determined that I, for one,
shall not _lay_ up many _lays_ here below, where moth and rust do
corrupt. It was an exceedingly _long lay_ that, indeed; and though from
the magnitude of the figure it might at first deceive a landsman, yet
deceive - betrgen, tuschen
landsman - Landbewohner
the slightest consideration will show that though seven hundred and
seventy-seven is a pretty large number, yet, when you come to make a
_teenth_ of it, you will then see, I say, that the seven hundred and
teenth - zehnte
seventy-seventh part of a farthing is a good deal less than seven
farthing - Groschen, Heller, Pfifferling, Pfennig
hundred and seventy-seven gold doubloons; and so I thought at the time.
doubloons - (doubloon) Dublone, Duplone
Why, blast your eyes, Bildad, cried Peleg, thou dost not want to
swindle this young man! he must have more than that.
swindle - betrgen schwindeln Schwindel
Seven hundred and seventy-seventh, again said Bildad, without lifting
his eyes; and then went on mumbling"for where your treasure is, there
treasure - Schatz schtzen
will your heart be also.
I am going to put him down for the three hundredth, said Peleg, do
hundredth - hundertste, einhundertste, Hundertster, Hundertste, Hundertste
ye hear that, Bildad! The three hundredth lay, I say.
Bildad laid down his book, and turning solemnly towards him said,
solemnly - feierlich, festlich, ernst
Captain Peleg, thou hast a generous heart; but thou must consider the
duty thou owest to the other owners of this ship"widows and orphans,
owest - (owe) schulden, verdanken, schuldig sein
many of them"and that if we too abundantly reward the labors of this
abundantly - reichlich
reward - Belohnung, Lohn
labors - (Labor) Arbeit
young man, we may be taking the bread from those widows and those
orphans. The seven hundred and seventy-seventh lay, Captain Peleg.
Thou Bildad! roared Peleg, starting up and clattering about the
cabin. Blast ye, Captain Bildad, if I had followed thy advice in these
matters, I would afore now had a conscience to lug about that would be
lug - zerren, schleppen;Anschlussklemme, Vorsprung, Öse
heavy enough to founder the largest ship that ever sailed round Cape
founder - Grnder, Gieer, Begrnder
sailed round - umschiffte
Horn.
Captain Peleg, said Bildad steadily, thy conscience may be drawing
steadily - stetige, stet, zuverlssig
ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I cant tell; but as thou art
still an impenitent man, Captain Peleg, I greatly fear lest thy
impenitent - unbufertig, reuelos
conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering
leaky - leck
down to the fiery pit, Captain Peleg.
Fiery pit! fiery pit! ye insult me, man; past all natural bearing, ye
insult - beleidigen Beleidigung, Krnkung, Verletzung
insult me. Its an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that
outrage - Untat, Grueltat, (emprendes) Verbrechen, Beleidigung, Frevel
hes bound to hell. Flukes and flames! Bildad, say that again to me,
flames - (flame) Flamme, poetic, anmachen
and start my soul-bolts, but Ill"Ill"yes, Ill swallow a live goat
goat - Ziege, Gei, Bock
with all his hair and horns on. Out of the cabin, ye canting,
canting - scheinheilig, heuchelnd, kippend; (cant) scheinheilig, heucheln
drab-coloured son of a wooden gun"a straight wake with ye!
As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a
thundered - (thunder) Donner Donnern
marvellous oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
sliding - schiebend, abgleitend; (slid) schiebend, abgleitend
celerity - Geschwindigkeit
eluded - (elude) entziehen
Alarmed at this terrible outburst between the two principal and
outburst - hervorbrechen;Ausbruch
responsible owners of the ship, and feeling half a mind to give up all
idea of sailing in a vessel so questionably owned and temporarily
questionably - fragwrdig
temporarily - vorbergehend temporr, zeitweise
commanded, I stepped aside from the door to give egress to Bildad, who,
egress - Ausgang
I made no doubt, was all eagerness to vanish from before the awakened
vanish - verschwinden, vergehen, sich verflchtigen
wrath of Peleg. But to my astonishment, he sat down again on the
transom very quietly, and seemed to have not the slightest intention of
withdrawing. He seemed quite used to impenitent Peleg and his ways. As
withdrawing - (withdraw) annullieren, entziehen, abziehen, ausscheiden
for Peleg, after letting off his rage as he had, there seemed no more
letting off - ablassend
left in him, and he, too, sat down like a lamb, though he twitched a
lamb - Lamm, Lammfleisch
little as if still nervously agitated. Whew! he whistled at last"the
nervously - nervs, erregbar, gereizt, hektisch
agitated - (agitate) aufwhlen, aufrhren, schtteln
whistled - (whistle) Pfeife, Trillerpfeife, Flte, Pfeifen, Pfiff
squalls gone off to leeward, I think. Bildad, thou used to be good at
leeward - leewrts gelegen, windabwrts gelegen, windabgewandt gelege
sharpening a lance, mend that pen, will ye. My jack-knife here needs
sharpening - (sharpen) schrfen
the grindstone. Thats he; thank ye, Bildad. Now then, my young man,
grindstone - Schleifstein
Ishmaels thy name, didnt ye say? Well then, down ye go here, Ishmael,
for the three hundredth lay.
Captain Peleg, said I, I have a friend with me who wants to ship
too"shall I bring him down to-morrow?
To be sure, said Peleg. Fetch him along, and well look at him.
What lay does he want? groaned Bildad, glancing up from the book in
groaned - (groan) Sthnen Seufzen, chzen, Knarren
which he had again been burying himself.
Oh! never thee mind about that, Bildad, said Peleg. Has he ever
whaled it any? turning to me.
whaled - (whale) der Wal
Killed more whales than I can count, Captain Peleg.
Well, bring him along then.
And, after signing the papers, off I went; nothing doubting but that I
had done a good mornings work, and that the Pequod was the identical
ship that Yojo had provided to carry Queequeg and me round the Cape.
But I had not proceeded far, when I began to bethink me that the
Captain with whom I was to sail yet remained unseen by me; though,
indeed, in many cases, a whale-ship will be completely fitted out, and
fitted out - ausstaffiert
receive all her crew on board, ere the captain makes himself visible by
arriving to take command; for sometimes these voyages are so prolonged,
and the shore intervals at home so exceedingly brief, that if the
captain have a family, or any absorbing concernment of that sort, he
absorbing - (absorb) absorbieren, aufnehen
does not trouble himself much about his ship in port, but leaves her to
the owners till all is ready for sea. However, it is always as well to
ready for sea - seeklar
have a look at him before irrevocably committing yourself into his
irrevocably - unumstlich, unwiderruflich
hands. Turning back I accosted Captain Peleg, inquiring where Captain
inquiring - (inquire) erkundigen
Ahab was to be found.
And what dost thou want of Captain Ahab? Its all right enough; thou
art shipped.
Yes, but I should like to see him.
But I dont think thou wilt be able to at present. I dont know
exactly whats the matter with him; but he keeps close inside the
house; a sort of sick, and yet he dont look so. In fact, he aint
sick; but no, he isnt well either. Any how, young man, he wont always
see me, so I dont suppose he will thee. Hes a queer man, Captain
Ahab"so some think"but a good one. Oh, thoult like him well enough; no
fear, no fear. Hes a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab;
ungodly - gottlos, scheulich
doesnt speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen.
Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahabs above the common; Ahabs been in
forewarned - (forewarn) vorwarnen
colleges, as well as mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders
than the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than
foes - (foe) Feind
whales. His lance! aye, the keenest and the surest that out of all our
isle! Oh! he aint Captain Bildad; no, and he aint Captain Peleg;
_hes Ahab_, boy; and Ahab of old, thou knowest, was a crowned king!
crowned - (crown) Zenit;krnen;Bombage (ballige Flche
And a very vile one. When that wicked king was slain, the dogs, did
they not lick his blood?
lick - schlecken, lecken;flitzen
Come hither to me"hither, hither, said Peleg, with a significance in
significance - Bedeutung, Signifikanz (1)
his eye that almost startled me. Look ye, lad; never say that on board
the Pequod. Never say it anywhere. Captain Ahab did not name himself.
Twas a foolish, ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mother, who died
foolish - dumm, nrrisch, tricht
widowed - (widow) Witwe Hurenkind
when he was only a twelvemonth old. And yet the old squaw Tistig, at
twelvemonth - Zwlfmonat
squaw - Indianerin
Gayhead, said that the name would somehow prove prophetic. And,
Gayhead - Schwulenkopf
prophetic - prophetisch
perhaps, other fools like her may tell thee the same. I wish to warn
fools - (fool) dumme Gans, Dummkopf, Narr, Nrrin
thee. Its a lie. I know Captain Ahab well; Ive sailed with him as
mate years ago; I know what he is"a good man"not a pious, good man,
like Bildad, but a swearing good man"something like me"only theres a
swearing - schwrend, Fluchen; (swear) schwrend, Fluchen
good deal more of him. Aye, aye, I know that he was never very jolly;
and I know that on the passage home, he was a little out of his mind
for a spell; but it was the sharp shooting pains in his bleeding stump
bleeding - Blutung ; (bleed) bluten ausbluten entlften Blutung Beschnitt
stump - Stumpf Estompe ratlos sein, verblfft sei
that brought that about, as any one might see. I know, too, that ever
since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, hes been a
accursed - (accurse) akkurat
kind of moody"desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all
pass off. And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young
pass off - vergehen
man, its better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad
one. So good-bye to thee"and wrong not Captain Ahab, because he happens
Good bye - (Good-bye) Auf Wiedersehen!;adieu, leb wohl, ade, lebewohl, ciao
to have a wicked name. Besides, my boy, he has a wife"not three voyages
wedded"a sweet, resigned girl. Think of that; by that sweet girl that
resigned - (resign) aufgeben, resignieren, abdanken, verzichten (auf)
sweet girl - ses Mdchen
old man has a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm
in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his
humanities!
As I walked away, I was full of thoughtfulness; what had been
thoughtfulness - Nachdenklichkeit
incidentally revealed to me of Captain Ahab, filled me with a certain
incidentally - nebenbei zufllig, zuflligerweise, apropos, brigen
revealed - (reveal) enthllen offenbaren
wild vagueness of painfulness concerning him. And somehow, at the time,
vagueness - Unklarheit, Vagheit, Verschwommenheit
painfulness - Peinlichkeit
I felt a sympathy and a sorrow for him, but for I dont know what,
sympathy - Mitleid, Mitgefhl, Empathie, Einfhlungsvermgen, Sympathie
sorrow - Kummer, Traurigkeit, Trauer, Sorge
unless it was the cruel loss of his leg. And yet I also felt a strange
awe of him; but that sort of awe, which I cannot at all describe, was
not exactly awe; I do not know what it was. But I felt it; and it did
not disincline me towards him; though I felt impatience at what seemed
disincline - abgeneigt machen
impatience - Ungeduld
like mystery in him, so imperfectly as he was known to me then.
imperfectly - unvollstndige, unvollkommen
However, my thoughts were at length carried in other directions, so
that for the present dark Ahab slipped my mind.
As Queequegs Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue all
day, I did not choose to disturb him till towards night-fall; for I
disturb - stren
cherish the greatest respect towards everybodys religious obligations,
obligations - (obligation) Verpflichtung, Pflicht
never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue
undervalue - unterbewerten, unterschtzen
even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool; or those other
ants - (ant) Ameise
toad - Krte
stool - Stuhl, Kot, Hocker
creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of
footmanism quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before the
footmanism - Lakaientum
unprecedented - beispiellos; nie da gewesen
torso of a deceased landed proprietor merely on account of the
torso - Torso, Rumpf, Oberkrper, Leib
deceased - (decease) Ableben, Exitus, Hinschied, hinscheiden
inordinate possessions yet owned and rented in his name.
I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these
things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals,
vastly - erheblich, ungeheuer
pagans and what not, because of their half-crazy conceits on these
subjects. There was Queequeg, now, certainly entertaining the most
absurd notions about Yojo and his Ramadan;"but what of that? Queequeg
absurd - absurd
notions - (notion) Ahnung, Ansicht, Auffassung, Begriff
thought he knew what he was about, I suppose; he seemed to be content;
and there let him rest. All our arguing with him would not avail; let
avail - ausnutzen helfen, ntzen, Erfolg
him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all"Presbyterians and Pagans
Presbyterians - (Presbyterian) presbyterianisch
alike"for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and
sadly need mending.
mending - instandsetzend, reparierend, verbessernd; (mend) repariere
towards evening, when I felt assured that all his performances and
towards evening - gegen Abend
rituals must be over, I went up to his room and knocked at the door;
rituals - (ritual) rituell Ritual
knocked at - angeklopft
but no answer. I tried to open it, but it was fastened inside.
Queequeg, said I softly through the key-hole:"all silent. I say,
Queequeg! why dont you speak? Its I"Ishmael. But all remained still
as before. I began to grow alarmed. I had allowed him such abundant
time; I thought he might have had an apoplectic fit. I looked through
apoplectic - apoplektisch
the key-hole; but the door opening into an odd corner of the room, the
key-hole prospect was but a crooked and sinister one. I could only see
sinister - sinister bse, links, linksseitig, linker
more. I was surprised to behold resting against the wall the wooden
shaft of Queequegs harpoon, which the landlady the evening previous
shaft - Schaft Strahl Schacht hereinlegen, bervorteilen, bemogel
landlady - Vermieterin, Hauswirtin
had taken from him, before our mounting to the chamber. Thats strange,
chamber - Raum, Schlafzimmer, Kammer
thought I; but at any rate, since the harpoon stands yonder, and he
seldom or never goes abroad without it, therefore he must be inside
here, and no possible mistake.
Queequeg!"Queequeg!"all still. Something must have happened.
Apoplexy! I tried to burst open the door; but it stubbornly resisted.
Apoplexy - Apoplexia, Apoplexie, Schlaganfall, Apoplex
burst open - gesprengt
stubbornly - hartnckige
resisted - (resist) widerstreben widerstehen widerstreiten zuwider sein Deckmittel
Running down stairs, I quickly stated my suspicions to the first person
I met"the chamber-maid. La! la! she cried, I thought something must
maid - Mdchen Stubenmdchen
be the matter. I went to make the bed after breakfast, and the door was
locked; and not a mouse to be heard; and its been just so silent ever
since. But I thought, may be, you had both gone off and locked your
baggage in for safe keeping. La! la, maam!"Mistress! murder! Mrs.
La - US-Bundesstaat
Mistress - Frau, Meisterin, Herrscherin, Mtresse, Liebhaberin, Domina
Hussey! apoplexy!"and with these cries, she ran towards the kitchen, I
following.
Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a
mustard pot - (mustard-pot) Senftopf
vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away from the occupation
vinegar - Essig
cruet - Messknnchen
broken away - (break away) abbrechen
of attending to the castors, and scolding her little black boy
castors - (Castor) positiver Nachlauf, Radnachlauf, Nachlauf;Fahrroll
meantime.
Wood-house! cried I, which way to it? Run for Gods sake, and fetch
something to pry open the door"the axe!"the axe! hes had a stroke;
pry - neugierig sein
depend upon it!"and so saying I was unmethodically rushing up stairs
again empty-handed, when Mrs. Hussey interposed the mustard-pot and
interposed - (interpose) zwischenschalten, dazwischenstellen
mustard - Senf senffarben
vinegar-cruet, and the entire castor of her countenance.
castor - positiver Nachlauf, Radnachlauf, Nachlauf;Fahrrolle, Mbelroll
Whats the matter with you, young man?
Get the axe! For Gods sake, run for the doctor, some one, while I pry
it open!
Look here, said the landlady, quickly putting down the vinegar-cruet,
so as to have one hand free; look here; are you talking about prying
prying - neugierig schauend, neugierig; (pry) neugierig schauen
open any of my doors?"and with that she seized my arm. Whats the
seized - (seize) ergreifen, fassen, packen, beschlagnahmen, erfassen
matter with you? Whats the matter with you, shipmate?
In as calm, but rapid a manner as possible, I gave her to understand
rapid - schnell Stromschnelle
the whole case. Unconsciously clapping the vinegar-cruet to one side of
clapping - Klatschen ; (clap) Klatschen
her nose, she ruminated for an instant; then exclaimed"No! I havent
ruminated - (ruminate) wiederkuen grbeln
seen it since I put it there. Running to a little closet under the
closet - Schrank, Wandschrank, Kammer, Abstellkammer, Ankleide
landing of the stairs, she glanced in, and returning, told me that
Queequegs harpoon was missing. Hes killed himself, she cried. Its
unfortnate Stiggs done over again"there goes another counterpane"God
pity his poor mother!"it will be the ruin of my house. Has the poor lad
a sister? Wheres that girl?"there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter,
and tell him to paint me a sign, with"no suicides permitted here, and
suicides - (suicide) Suizid , Freitod , Selbstmrder, Selbstmrderi
permitted - (permit) zulassen, erlauben;Erlaubnis, Erlaubnisschein
no smoking in the parlor;"might as well kill both birds at once. Kill?
no smoking - Rauchen verboten
The Lord be merciful to his ghost! Whats that noise there? You, young
merciful - gndig, barmherzig
man, avast there!
And running up after me, she caught me as I was again trying to force
open the door.
I dont allow it; I wont have my premises spoiled. Go for the
premises - (premise) Prmisse, Voraussetzung, Lokal, Rumlichkeit
spoiled - (spoil) plndern ruinieren, verderben, kaputtmachen, verwhne
locksmith, theres one about a mile from here. But avast! putting her
locksmith - Schlosser
hand in her side-pocket, heres a key thatll fit, I guess; lets
side pocket - (side-pocket) Seitentasche
see. And with that, she turned it in the lock; but, alas! Queequegs
supplemental bolt remained unwithdrawn within.
supplemental - ergnzend
unwithdrawn - nicht eingezogen
Have to burst it open, said I, and was running down the entry a
little, for a good start, when the landlady caught at me, again vowing
vowing - (vow) Gelbde, Schwur, Eid, Gelbnis, schwren
I should not break down her premises; but I tore from her, and with a
sudden bodily rush dashed myself full against the mark.
dashed - (dash) Bindestrich, Gedankenstrich, Querstrich, Spurt, Sprint
With a prodigious noise the door flew open, and the knob slamming
knob - Knopf, Knauf
slamming - zuknallend, zuschlagend; (slam) zuknallend, zuschlagend
against the wall, sent the plaster to the ceiling; and there, good
heavens! there sat Queequeg, altogether cool and self-collected; right
in the middle of the room; squatting on his hams, and holding Yojo on
squatting - (squat) hocken, kauern;Achsdruckentlastung
hams - (ham) Schinken
top of his head. He looked neither one way nor the other way, but sat
like a carved image with scarce a sign of active life.
Queequeg, said I, going up to him, Queequeg, whats the matter with
you?
He haint been a sittin so all day, has he? said the landlady.
But all we said, not a word could we drag out of him; I almost felt
like pushing him over, so as to change his position, for it was almost
intolerable, it seemed so painfully and unnaturally constrained;
intolerable - unertrglich
painfully - schmerzhaft
unnaturally - unnatrliche, unnatrlich
constrained - (constrain) behindern, einschrnken, limitieren
especially, as in all probability he had been sitting so for upwards of
probability - Wahrscheinlichkeit
eight or ten hours, going too without his regular meals.
Mrs. Hussey, said I, hes _alive_ at all events; so leave us, if you
please, and I will see to this strange affair myself.
Closing the door upon the landlady, I endeavored to prevail upon
Queequeg to take a chair; but in vain. There he sat; and all he could
do"for all my polite arts and blandishments"he would not move a peg,
blandishments - (blandishment) Schmeichelei
peg - Holzdbel, Pflock, Stift, Haltestift
nor say a single word, nor even look at me, nor notice my presence in
the slightest way.
I wonder, thought I, if this can possibly be a part of his Ramadan; do
they fast on their hams that way in his native island. It must be so;
yes, its part of his creed, I suppose; well, then, let him rest; hell
creed - Credo, Kredo, Glaubensbekenntnis ; (cree) Credo, Kred
get up sooner or later, no doubt. It cant last for ever, thank God,
and his Ramadan only comes once a year; and I dont believe its very
punctual then.
punctual - pnktlich
I went down to supper. After sitting a long time listening to the long
stories of some sailors who had just come from a plum-pudding voyage,
plum - Pflaumenbaum;Pflaume, Zwetschke (sterr.)
pudding - Blutwurst Pudding Pudding (1 2 4) checkAuflau
as they called it (that is, a short whaling-voyage in a schooner or
brig, confined to the north of the line, in the Atlantic Ocean only);
confined - (confine) beschrnken Begrenzung
after listening to these plum-puddingers till nearly eleven oclock, I
puddingers - Puddingspieler
went up stairs to go to bed, feeling quite sure by this time Queequeg
must certainly have brought his Ramadan to a termination. But no; there
termination - Abbruch, Kndigung, Endung
he was just where I had left him; he had not stirred an inch. I began
stirred - (stir) erschttern, bewegen, sich rhren, verrhren;Aufregun
to grow vexed with him; it seemed so downright senseless and insane to
vexed - (vex) rgern, verrgern, reizen, irritieren, beunruhigen
senseless - empfindungslos, ohne Gefhl, ohnmchtig, bewusstlo
insane - wahnsinnig, verrckt, geisteskrank
be sitting there all day and half the night on his hams in a cold room,
holding a piece of wood on his head.
For heavens sake, Queequeg, get up and shake yourself; get up and
have some supper. Youll starve; youll kill yourself, Queequeg. But
starve - verhungern, Hungers sterben, verhungern lassen, aushungern
not a word did he reply.
Despairing of him, therefore, I determined to go to bed and to sleep;
Despairing - (despair) verzweifeln Verzweiflung
and no doubt, before a great while, he would follow me. But previous to
turning in, I took my heavy bearskin jacket, and threw it over him, as
it promised to be a very cold night; and he had nothing but his
ordinary round jacket on. For some time, do all I would, I could not
get into the faintest doze. I had blown out the candle; and the mere
faintest - (faint) leise, schwach, undeutlich, ohnmchtig werden
thought of Queequeg"not four feet off"sitting there in that uneasy
uneasy - besorgt, unangenehm, unsicher
position, stark alone in the cold and dark; this made me really
wretched. Think of it; sleeping all night in the same room with a wide
awake pagan on his hams in this dreary, unaccountable Ramadan!
But somehow I dropped off at last, and knew nothing more till break of
day; when, looking over the bedside, there squatted Queequeg, as if he
bedside - Krankenbett
squatted - (squat) hocken, kauern;Achsdruckentlastung
had been screwed down to the floor. But as soon as the first glimpse of
screwed down - zugeschraubt
sun entered the window, up he got, with stiff and grating joints, but
grating - Gitter ; (grate) Gitter
with a cheerful look; limped towards me where I lay; pressed his
limped - (limp) schlapp;hinken, lahmen
forehead again against mine; and said his Ramadan was over.
Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any persons religion,
objection - Beanstandung Einwand, Widerspruch, Einspruch
be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any
other person, because that other person dont believe it also. But when
a mans religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment
frantic - auer sich, rasend
torment - Qual qulen, peinigen
to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to
lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and
argue the point with him.
And just so I now did with Queequeg. Queequeg, said I, get into bed
now, and lie and listen to me. I then went on, beginning with the rise
and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various
primitive - Wortstamm & Stamm, Stammwort, Urwort, ursprngliches Wort
religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show
labored - (labor) Arbeit
Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings
Lents - (Lent) verliehen;lieh, geliehen;Fastenzeit;Fasten;ausgeliehen
Ramadans - (Ramadan) Ramadan
ham - Schinken
squattings - Hausbesetzungen
in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; bad for the health;
nonsense - Bldsinn, Nonsens,
useless for the soul; opposed, in short, to the obvious laws of Hygiene
useless - nutzlos, unntzlich, wertlos
Hygiene - Hygiene
and common sense. I told him, too, that he being in other things such
an extremely sensible and sagacious savage, it pained me, very badly
sagacious - klug, scharfsinnig, weise
pained me, to see him now so deplorably foolish about this ridiculous
deplorably - bedauernswerte, klglich
Ramadan of his. Besides, argued I, fasting makes the body cave in;
hence the spirit caves in; and all thoughts born of a fast must
caves - (cave) nachgeben, aufgeben;Hhle
necessarily be half-starved. This is the reason why most dyspeptic
starved - (starve) verhungern, Hungers sterben, verhungern lasse
religionists cherish such melancholy notions about their hereafters. In
hereafters - (Hereafter) knftig
one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first
digressively - abschweifende
born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated
undigested - unverdaut
dumpling - Kndel, Klo, Klops
perpetuated - (perpetuate) verewigen perpetuieren
through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
dyspepsias - (dyspepsia) Verdauungsstrung
nurtured - (nurture) Umsorgen, Umhegen, Pppeln, Erziehung , Pflege
I then asked Queequeg whether he himself was ever troubled with
dyspepsia; expressing the idea very plainly, so that he could take it
dyspepsia - Verdauungsstrung
in. He said no; only upon one memorable occasion. It was after a great
memorable - denkwrdig, merkwrdig, einprgsam
feast given by his father the king, on the gaining of a great battle
wherein fifty of the enemy had been killed by about two oclock in the
afternoon, and all cooked and eaten that very evening.
No more, Queequeg, said I, shuddering; that will do; for I knew the
inferences without his further hinting them. I had seen a sailor who
inferences - (inference) Schlussfolgern, Schlussfolgerung, Inferenz
hinting - (hint) Hinweis, Tipp, Wink, Fingerzeig
had visited that very island, and he told me that it was the custom,
when a great battle had been gained there, to barbecue all the slain in
barbecue - Grill, Barbecue, Grillen, Grillplatte
the yard or garden of the victor; and then, one by one, they were
victor - Viktor
placed in great wooden trenchers, and garnished round like a pilau,
trenchers - (trencher) Grabenfrse
with breadfruit and cocoanuts; and with some parsley in their mouths,
breadfruit - Brotfruchtbaum Brotfrucht
parsley - Petersilie
were sent round with the victors compliments to all his friends, just
compliments - (compliment) Kompliment, Lob, Anerkennung, Achtungsbezeugung
as though these presents were so many Christmas turkeys.
Christmas - Weihnachten
turkeys - (Turkey) Pute, Puter, Truthahn, Truthenne
After all, I do not think that my remarks about religion made much
remarks - (remark) bemerken;Anmerkung, Bemerkung
impression upon Queequeg. Because, in the first place, he somehow
seemed dull of hearing on that important subject, unless considered
from his own point of view; and, in the second place, he did not more
than one third understand me, couch my ideas simply as I would; and,
couch - Liege
finally, he no doubt thought he knew a good deal more about the true
religion than I did. He looked at me with a sort of condescending
condescending - (condescend) herablassen bevormunden, herablassend behandel
concern and compassion, as though he thought it a great pity that such
compassion - Mitleid, Erbarmen, Mitgefhl
a sensible young man should be so hopelessly lost to evangelical pagan
hopelessly - verzweifelt, hoffnungslose;rettungslos (verloren)
evangelical - evangelisch, evangelikal
piety.
piety - Frmmigkeit Piett
At last we rose and dressed; and Queequeg, taking a prodigiously hearty
prodigiously - wunderbare
breakfast of chowders of all sorts, so that the landlady should not
make much profit by reason of his Ramadan, we sallied out to board the
Pequod, sauntering along, and picking our teeth with halibut bones.
halibut - Heilbutt, Heiligbutt, Heiligenbutt, Pferdezunge
As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the ship, Queequeg
carrying his harpoon, Captain Peleg in his gruff voice loudly hailed us
gruff - schroff, grob
from his wigwam, saying he had not suspected my friend was a cannibal,
and furthermore announcing that he let no cannibals on board that
craft, unless they previously produced their papers.
What do you mean by that, Captain Peleg? said I, now jumping on the
bulwarks, and leaving my comrade standing on the wharf.
I mean, he replied, he must show his papers.
Yes, said Captain Bildad in his hollow voice, sticking his head from
behind Pelegs, out of the wigwam. He must show that hes converted.
converted - (convert) konvertieren, umwandeln, Konvertit
Son of darkness, he added, turning to Queequeg, art thou at present
in communion with any Christian church?
communion - Kommunion
Why, said I, hes a member of the first Congregational Church. Here
Congregational - Gemeinde
be it said, that many tattooed savages sailing in Nantucket ships at
last come to be converted into the churches.
First Congregational Church, cried Bildad, what! that worships in
worships - (Worship) Verehrung, Anbetung, Gottesdienst
Deacon Deuteronomy Colemans meeting-house? and so saying, taking out
Deuteronomy - Deuteronomium
his spectacles, he rubbed them with his great yellow bandana
rubbed - (rub) reiben, abreiben, sich abreiben, sich abscheuer
bandana - Piratenkopftuch, Piratentuch, Halstuch
handkerchief, and putting them on very carefully, came out of the
wigwam, and leaning stiffly over the bulwarks, took a good long look at
Queequeg.
How long hath he been a member? he then said, turning to me; not
very long, I rather guess, young man.
No, said Peleg, and he hasnt been baptized right either, or it
would have washed some of that devils blue off his face.
Do tell, now, cried Bildad, is this Philistine a regular member of
Philistine - Philister, Philisterin
Deacon Deuteronomys meeting? I never saw him going there, and I pass
it every Lords day.
I dont know anything about Deacon Deuteronomy or his meeting, said
I; all I know is, that Queequeg here is a born member of the First
Congregational Church. He is a deacon himself, Queequeg is.
Young man, said Bildad sternly, thou art skylarking with me"explain
sternly - ernsthaft, streng
thyself, thou young Hittite. What church dost thee mean? answer me.
thyself - selbst
Hittite - Hethiter, Hethiterin, Hethitisch
Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied. I mean, sir, the same
ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Captain Peleg there,
Catholic - umfassend, allumfassend, universal
and Queequeg here, and all of us, and every mothers son and soul of us
belong; the great and everlasting First Congregation of this whole
worshipping world; we all belong to that; only some of us cherish some
queer crotchets no ways touching the grand belief; in _that_ we all
crotchets - (crotchet) Viertelnote
join hands.
Splice, thou meanst _splice_ hands, cried Peleg, drawing nearer.
Young man, youd better ship for a missionary, instead of a fore-mast
hand; I never heard a better sermon. Deacon Deuteronomy"why Father
Mapple himself couldnt beat it, and hes reckoned something. Come
reckoned - (reckon) rechnen, damit rechnen, zhlen
aboard, come aboard; never mind about the papers. I say, tell Quohog
there"whats that you call him? tell Quohog to step along. By the great
anchor, what a harpoon hes got there! looks like good stuff that; and
he handles it about right. I say, Quohog, or whatever your name is, did
handles - (handle) Henkel, Hantel, Griff, Trklinke;abarbeiten, behandel
you ever stand in the head of a whale-boat? did you ever strike a
fish?
Without saying a word, Queequeg, in his wild sort of way, jumped upon
the bulwarks, from thence into the bows of one of the whale-boats
hanging to the side; and then bracing his left knee, and poising his
harpoon, cried out in some such way as this:"
Capain, you see him small drop tar on water dere? You see him? well,
spose him one whale eye, well, den! and taking sharp aim at it, he
darted the iron right over old Bildads broad brim, clean across the
ships decks, and struck the glistening tar spot out of sight.
glistening - (glisten) glitzern, glnzen, gleien
Now, said Queequeg, quietly hauling in the line, spos-ee him whale-e
hauling - (haul) ziehen, schleppen, transportieren, befder
eye; why, dad whale dead.
Quick, Bildad, said Peleg, his partner, who, aghast at the close
vicinity of the flying harpoon, had retreated towards the cabin
retreated - (retreat) Rckzug
gangway. Quick, I say, you Bildad, and get the ships papers. We must
have Hedgehog there, I mean Quohog, in one of our boats. Look ye,
Hedgehog - Igel
Quohog, well give ye the ninetieth lay, and thats more than ever was
ninetieth - neunzigste
given a harpooneer yet out of Nantucket.
So down we went into the cabin, and to my great joy Queequeg was soon
enrolled among the same ships company to which I myself belonged.
When all preliminaries were over and Peleg had got everything ready for
preliminaries - (preliminary) vorlufig, vorbereitend
signing, he turned to me and said, I guess, Quohog there dont know
how to write, does he? I say, Quohog, blast ye! dost thou sign thy name
or make thy mark?
But at this question, Queequeg, who had twice or thrice before taken
offered pen, copied upon the paper, in the proper place, an exact
counterpart of a queer round figure which was tattooed upon his arm; so
counterpart - Gegenstck, Pendant, Duplikat, Kopie, Ebenbild, Gegenber
that through Captain Pelegs obstinate mistake touching his
obstinate - hartnckig, starrkpfig, stur, widerspenstig, widerborstig
appellative, it stood something like this:"
appellative - appellativ
Quohog. his X mark.
Meanwhile Captain Bildad sat earnestly and steadfastly eyeing Queequeg,
and at last rising solemnly and fumbling in the huge pockets of his
broad-skirted drab coat, took out a bundle of tracts, and selecting one
bundle - Bndel
tracts - (Tract) Gebiet, Teil
entitled The Latter Day Coming; or No Time to Lose, placed it in
entitled - (entitle) betiteln, benennen, den Titel verleihe
Queequegs hands, and then grasping them and the book with both his,
looked earnestly into his eyes, and said, Son of darkness, I must do
my duty by thee; I am part owner of this ship, and feel concerned for
part owner - Miteigentmer
the souls of all its crew; if thou still clingest to thy Pagan ways,
clingest - haften
which I sadly fear, I beseech thee, remain not for aye a Belial
beseech - anflehen, ersuchen, bitten
bondsman. Spurn the idol Bell, and the hideous dragon; turn from the
bondsman - Sklave
Spurn - verschmhen, abweisen, verachten, treten, mit Fen trete
wrath to come; mind thine eye, I say; oh! goodness gracious! steer
gracious - gndig, gtig
clear of the fiery pit!
Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildads language,
lingered - (linger) herumlungern, verzgern, Zeit brauchen, verweilen
heterogeneously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases.
heterogeneously - heterogene
Scriptural - Schriftlich
domestic - huslich, Haus
Avast there, avast there, Bildad, avast now spoiling our harpooneer,
spoiling - (spoil) plndern ruinieren, verderben, kaputtmachen, verwhne
cried Peleg. Pious harpooneers never make good voyagers"it takes the
voyagers - (voyager) Reisender
shark out of em; no harpooneer is worth a straw who aint pretty
straw - Halm, Strohhalm, Stroh, strohfarben, strohgelb, Stroh-,
sharkish. There was young Nat Swaine, once the bravest boat-header out
sharkish - haifisch
of all Nantucket and the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never
came to good. He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he
shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case
shrinked - schrumpfte, geschrumpft
sheered - (sheer) scheren, ausreien, gieren;rein, blan
claps - (clap) Tripper, Beifall;klatschen
he got stove and went to Davy Jones.
Peleg! Peleg! said Bildad, lifting his eyes and hands, thou thyself,
as I myself, hast seen many a perilous time; thou knowest, Peleg, what
it is to have the fear of death; how, then, canst thou prate in this
prate - Geschwtz plaudern, schwatzen, schwtzen, faseln
ungodly guise. Thou beliest thine own heart, Peleg. Tell me, when this
same Pequod here had her three masts overboard in that typhoon on
typhoon - Taifun
Japan, that same voyage when thou went mate with Captain Ahab, didst
thou not think of Death and the Judgment then?
Hear him, hear him now, cried Peleg, marching across the cabin, and
thrusting his hands far down into his pockets,"hear him, all of ye.
thrusting - stoend, Stichwaffe, drngend; (thrust) Sto, Stich, Vorsto
Think of that! When every moment we thought the ship would sink! Death
and the Judgment then? What? With all three masts making such an
everlasting thundering against the side; and every sea breaking over
thundering - donnernd; (thunder) Donner Donnern
us, fore and aft. Think of Death and the Judgment then? No! no time to
think about Death then. Life was what Captain Ahab and I was thinking
of; and how to save all hands"how to rig jury-masts"how to get into the
rig - ausrsten
jury - Jury, Preisrichter
nearest port; that was what I was thinking of.
Bildad said no more, but buttoning up his coat, stalked on deck, where
buttoning up - zuknpfend
stalked - (stalk) jdn. belauern;Stiel, Stengel
we followed him. There he stood, very quietly overlooking some
overlooking - (overlook) bersicht, berblick, bemerken
sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist. Now and then he
sailmakers - (sailmaker) Segelmacher
stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which
patch - notdrftig reparieren, reparieren, einsetzen;Flicke
tarred - (tar) teeren;Teer
twine - zwirnen;Faden
otherwise might have been wasted.
Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?
Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away from
the water, for the moment each occupied with his own thoughts, when the
occupied - (occupy) in Anspruch nehmen, belegen, bewohnen, besetze
above words were put to us by a stranger, who, pausing before us,
levelled his massive forefinger at the vessel in question. He was but
massive - massiv
forefinger - Zeigefinger
shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a
shabbily - schbig
faded - (fad) Mode, Trend, Modeerscheinung, Fimmel
black handkerchief investing his neck. A confluent small-pox had in all
confluent - zusammenflieend
pox - Pocken
directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated
complicated - (complicate) komplizieren
ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.
ribbed - (rib) Rippe (Profil);Drehschiene, Spant, Rippe, Lamelle
torrent - Sturzbach, Sturzflut
Have ye shipped in her? he repeated.
You mean the ship Pequod, I suppose, said I, trying to gain a little
more time for an uninterrupted look at him.
uninterrupted - ununterbrochen
Aye, the Pequod"that ship there, he said, drawing back his whole arm,
and then rapidly shoving it straight out from him, with the fixed
rapidly - schnell
shoving - (shove) schieben
bayonet of his pointed finger darted full at the object.
bayonet - Bajonett
Yes, said I, we have just signed the articles.
Anything down there about your souls?
About what?
Oh, perhaps you havnt got any, he said quickly. No matter though,
I know many chaps that havnt got any,"good luck to em; and they are
chaps - (chap) Bursche, Riss (in der Haut)
all the better off for it. A souls a sort of a fifth wheel to a
fifth wheel - fnftes Rad
wagon.
wagon - Wagen Bollerwagen
What are you jabbering about, shipmate? said I.
_Hes_ got enough, though, to make up for all deficiencies of that
deficiencies - (deficiency) Mangel
sort in other chaps, abruptly said the stranger, placing a nervous
abruptly - abrupt, pltzlich, unerwartet, abgerissen, abschssig
emphasis upon the word _he_.
Queequeg, said I, lets go; this fellow has broken loose from
somewhere; hes talking about something and somebody we dont know.
Stop! cried the stranger. Ye said true"ye havnt seen Old Thunder
yet, have ye?
Whos Old Thunder? said I, again riveted with the insane earnestness
riveted - (rivet) Niet vernieten Aufmerksamkeit richten au
earnestness - Ernst
of his manner.
Captain Ahab.
What! the captain of our ship, the Pequod?
Aye, among some of us old sailor chaps, he goes by that name. Ye
havnt seen him yet, have ye?
No, we havnt. Hes sick they say, but is getting better, and will be
all right again before long.
All right again before long! laughed the stranger, with a solemnly
derisive sort of laugh. Look ye; when Captain Ahab is all right, then
derisive - spttisch, hhnisch, lcherlich
this left arm of mine will be all right; not before.
What do you know about him?
What did they _tell_ you about him? Say that!
They didnt tell much of anything about him; only Ive heard that hes
a good whale-hunter, and a good captain to his crew.
Thats true, thats true"yes, both true enough. But you must jump when
he gives an order. Step and growl; growl and go"thats the word with
growl - Knurren Magenknurren
Captain Ahab. But nothing about that thing that happened to him off
Cape Horn, long ago, when he lay like dead for three days and nights;
nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar
Spaniard - Spanier, Spanierin
altar - Altar
in Santa?"heard nothing about that, eh? Nothing about the silver
calabash he spat into? And nothing about his losing his leg last
spat - laichen;Gamasche
voyage, according to the prophecy. Didnt ye hear a word about them
prophecy - Prophezeiung, Weissagung
matters and something more, eh? No, I dont think ye did; how could ye?
Who knows it? Not all Nantucket, I guess. But howsever, mayhap, yeve
mayhap - vielleicht
heard tell about the leg, and how he lost it; aye, ye have heard of
that, I dare say. Oh yes, _that_ every one knows amost"I mean they
know hes only one leg; and that a parmacetti took the other off.
My friend, said I, what all this gibberish of yours is about, I
dont know, and I dont much care; for it seems to me that you must be
a little damaged in the head. But if you are speaking of Captain Ahab,
of that ship there, the Pequod, then let me tell you, that I know all
about the loss of his leg.
_All_ about it, eh"sure you do?"all?
Pretty sure.
With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like
beggar - Bettler, Bettlerin
stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a
reverie - Trumerei
little, turned and said:"Yeve shipped, have ye? Names down on the
papers? Well, well, whats signed, is signed; and whats to be, will
be; and then again, perhaps it wont be, after all. Anyhow, its all
Anyhow - irgendwie
fixed and arranged aready; and some sailors or other must go with him,
I suppose; as well these as any other men, God pity em! Morning to ye,
shipmates, morning; the ineffable heavens bless ye; Im sorry I stopped
ineffable - unaussprechlich
bless - selig preisen
ye.
Look here, friend, said I, if you have anything important to tell
us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are
bamboozle - beschwindeln, tricksen
mistaken in your game; thats all I have to say.
And its said very well, and I like to hear a chap talk up that way;
you are just the man for him"the likes of ye. Morning to ye, shipmates,
morning! Oh! when ye get there, tell em Ive concluded not to make one
of em.
Ah, my dear fellow, you cant fool us that way"you cant fool us. It
fool - dumme Gans, Dummkopf, Narr, Nrrin
is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a
great secret in him.
Morning to ye, shipmates, morning.
Morning it is, said I. Come along, Queequeg, lets leave this crazy
man. But stop, tell me your name, will you?
Elijah.
Elijah! thought I, and we walked away, both commenting, after each
others fashion, upon this ragged old sailor; and agreed that he was
nothing but a humbug, trying to be a bugbear. But we had not gone
humbug - Humbug, Unsinn, Betrug, Schwindel, Gauner, Halunke
bugbear - Schrat
perhaps above a hundred yards, when chancing to turn a corner, and
looking back as I did so, who should be seen but Elijah following us,
though at a distance. Somehow, the sight of him struck me so, that I
said nothing to Queequeg of his being behind, but passed on with my
comrade, anxious to see whether the stranger would turn the same corner
that we did. He did; and then it seemed to me that he was dogging us,
but with what intent I could Not for the life of me imagine. This
intent - Absicht
Not for the life of me - Nicht um alles in der Welt!
circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing,
ambiguous - mehrdeutig (doppeldeutig, zweideutig), unklar, vage
shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all kinds of vague wonderments
shrouded - (shroud) Leichentuch, Totenhemd
begat - (beget) erzeugen, fortpflanzen
wonderments - (wonderment) Verwunderung
and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain
apprehensions - (apprehension) Greifen, Ergreifen, Fassen, Anfassen
Ahab; and the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver
calabash; and what Captain Peleg had said of him, when I left the ship
the day previous; and the prediction of the squaw Tistig; and the
voyage we had bound ourselves to sail; and a hundred other shadowy
shadowy - schattig
things.
I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really
satisfy - befriedigen, zufriedenstellen
dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg,
and on that side of it retraced our steps. But Elijah passed on,
retraced - (retrace) nachvollziehen, zurckverfolgen
without seeming to notice us. This relieved me; and once more, and
relieved - (relieve) erleichtern lindern entlasten ablsen seine Notdurft verrichten
finally as it seemed to me, I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.
A day or two passed, and there was great activity aboard the Pequod.
Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on
board, and bolts of canvas, and coils of rigging; in short, everything
coils - (coil) Wendel, Spule, Wicklung;aufwickeln
betokened that the ships preparations were hurrying to a close.
preparations - (preparation) Vorbereitung Prparat
Captain Peleg seldom or never went ashore, but sat in his wigwam
keeping a sharp look-out upon the hands: Bildad did all the purchasing
purchasing - (purchase) Einkauf, Anschaffung, kaufen, anschaffen
and providing at the stores; and the men employed in the hold and on
the rigging were working till long after night-fall.
On the day following Queequegs signing the articles, word was given at
all the inns where the ships company were stopping, that their chests
must be on board before night, for there was no telling how soon the
vessel might be sailing. So Queequeg and I got down our traps,
traps - (trap) Fallgrube, Falle, Fahrt (im Bergwerk);einfange
resolving, however, to sleep ashore till the last. But it seems they
resolving - (resolve) auflsen, beschlieen
always give very long notice in these cases, and the ship did not sail
for several days. But no wonder; there was a good deal to be done, and
there is no telling how many things to be thought of, before the Pequod
was fully equipped.
equipped - (equip) ausrsten, ausstatten, anlegen
Every one knows what a multitude of things"beds, sauce-pans, knives and
forks, shovels and tongs, napkins, nut-crackers, and what not, are
shovels - (shovel) Schaufel, Schppe, schaufeln, schippen
tongs - (tong) Tong
napkins - (napkin) Serviette, Mundtuch
crackers - (Cracker) Cracker, Krcker, Crackerin
indispensable to the business of housekeeping. Just so with whaling,
housekeeping - Haushaltung, Hausarbeit, Haushalt ; (housekeep) Haushaltun
which necessitates a three-years housekeeping upon the wide ocean, far
necessitates - (necessitate) erfordern, zwingen
from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers. And
grocers - (grocer) Lebensmittelhndler, Lebensmittelhndlerin, Kaufman
costermongers - (costermonger) Straenhndler
bakers - (baker) Bcker, Bckerin
bankers - (banker) Bankhalter, Bankier, Bankkaufmann
though this also holds true of merchant vessels, yet not by any means
to the same extent as with whalemen. For besides the great length of
extent - Umfang, Ausdehnung, Ausma, Gre
the whaling voyage, the numerous articles peculiar to the prosecution
of the fishery, and the impossibility of replacing them at the remote
impossibility - Unmglichkeit
harbors usually frequented, it must be remembered, that of all ships,
harbors - (harbor) Zufluchtsort, Hafen
frequented - (frequent) hufig;aufsuchen
whaling vessels are the most exposed to accidents of all kinds, and
especially to the destruction and loss of the very things upon which
the success of the voyage most depends. Hence, the spare boats, spare
spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but
spars - (spar) Holm (Rotorblatt); (Spar) (spar) Holm (Rotorblatt)
a spare Captain and duplicate ship.
duplicate - dupliziert, verdoppelt, vervielfltigen, kopiere
At the period of our arrival at the Island, the heaviest storage of the
storage - Lagerung, Speicherung, Lager, Speicher
Pequod had been almost completed; comprising her beef, bread, water,
comprising - (comprise) bestehen aus beinhalten
fuel, and iron hoops and staves. But, as before hinted, for some time
staves - (stave) Daube Sprosse Strophe, Vers, Notenlinien, Notensystem
there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of divers odds and
ends of things, both large and small.
Chief among those who did this fetching and carrying was Captain
Bildads sister, a lean old lady of a most determined and indefatigable
most determined - zielstrebigste
indefatigable - unermdlich
spirit, but withal very kindhearted, who seemed resolved that, if _she_
kindhearted - gutherzig
could help it, nothing should be found wanting in the Pequod, after
once fairly getting to sea. At one time she would come on board with a
jar of pickles for the stewards pantry; another time with a bunch of
jar - Topf, Krug, Glasgef
pickles - (pickle) Essiggurke, Metallbeize;beizen
pantry - Speisekammer, Vorratskammer
bunch - Bund, lowers, Traube, bndeln, anordnen
quills for the chief mates desk, where he kept his log; a third time
log - Logbuch;Log, Holzklotz, Kloben (Holzklotz);aufzeichnen, logge
with a roll of flannel for the small of some ones rheumatic back.
flannel - Flanell
rheumatic - rheumatisch
Never did any woman better deserve her name, which was Charity"Aunt
deserve - verdienen
Charity, as everybody called her. And like a sister of charity did this
charitable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn
bustle - Hektik hasten
her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort,
yield - hervorbringen, er/sie hat/hatte ergeben, weichen
comfort - Behaglichkeit, Bequemlichkeit, Komfort, Trost, Trstung
and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother
consolation - Trost Trostpreis
Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of
well-saved dollars.
But it was startling to see this excellent hearted Quakeress coming on
startling - berraschend, alarmierend, erschrecken
board, as she did the last day, with a long oil-ladle in one hand, and
ladle - Kelle, Suppenkelle, Schpfkelle, Schpflffel, Giepfanne
a still longer whaling lance in the other. Nor was Bildad himself nor
Captain Peleg at all backward. As for Bildad, he carried about with him
a long list of the articles needed, and at every fresh arrival, down
went his mark opposite that article upon the paper. Every once in a
while Peleg came hobbling out of his whalebone den, roaring at the men
hobbling - (hobble) Fufessel, Spannstrick
whalebone - Fischbein
roaring at - anbrllend
down the hatchways, roaring up to the riggers at the mast-head, and
hatchways - (hatchway) Ladeluke
riggers - (rigger) Takler
then concluded by roaring back into his wigwam.
During these days of preparation, Queequeg and I often visited the
preparation - Vorbereitung Prparat
craft, and as often I asked about Captain Ahab, and how he was, and
when he was going to come on board his ship. To these questions they
would answer, that he was getting better and better, and was expected
aboard every day; meantime, the two captains, Peleg and Bildad, could
attend to everything necessary to fit the vessel for the voyage. If I
had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly
in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so
long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the
absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open
absolute - absolut rein
dictator - Diktator
sea. But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he
suspects - (suspect) vermuten misstrauen verdchtigen einen Verdacht haben Verdchtige
be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up
insensibly - unempfindlich
strives - (strive) erstreben, bestreben
his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I
said nothing, and tried to think nothing.
At last it was given out that some time next day the ship would
given out - (give out) austeilen
certainly sail. So next morning, Queequeg and I took a very early
start.
It was nearly six oclock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we
imperfect - unvollkommen, mangelhaft, unvollstndig, fehlerhaft, Imperfekt
dawn - dmmern Morgendmmerung, Morgengrauen
drew nigh the wharf.
There are some sailors running ahead there, if I see right, said I to
Queequeg, it cant be shadows; shes off by sunrise, I guess; come
on!
Avast! cried a voice, whose owner at the same time coming close
behind us, laid a hand upon both our shoulders, and then insinuating
insinuating - (insinuate) andeuten, unterstellen, insinuieren, einschmeicheln
himself between us, stood stooping forward a little, in the uncertain
uncertain - ungewiss, unsicher, unbestimmt, unbestndig
twilight, strangely peering from Queequeg to me. It was Elijah.
twilight - Dmmerung, Zwielicht, Halbdunkel
Going aboard?
Hands off, will you, said I.
Lookee here, said Queequeg, shaking himself, go way!
Aint going aboard, then?
Yes, we are, said I, but what business is that of yours? Do you
know, Mr. Elijah, that I consider you a little impertinent?
No, no, no; I wasnt aware of that, said Elijah, slowly and
wonderingly looking from me to Queequeg, with the most unaccountable
wonderingly - verwundert
glances.
Elijah, said I, you will oblige my friend and me by withdrawing. We
oblige - verpflichten einen Gefallen tun
are going to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and would prefer not to be
detained.
detained - (detain) verhaften
Ye be, be ye? Coming back afore breakfast?
Hes cracked, Queequeg, said I, come on.
Holloa! cried stationary Elijah, hailing us when we had removed a few
stationary - stationr, unbeweglich, ortsgebunden, standortgebunden
hailing - (hail) jdm. zujubeln;(Hail to thee!) Wohl dir!, Sei gegrt!
paces.
paces - (pace) Tempo, Stufe, Schritt
Never mind him, said I, Queequeg, come on.
But he stole up to us again, and suddenly clapping his hand on my
shoulder, said"Did ye see anything looking like men going towards that
ship a while ago?
Struck by this plain matter-of-fact question, I answered, saying, Yes,
I thought I did see four or five men; but it was too dim to be sure.
Very dim, very dim, said Elijah. Morning to ye.
Once more we quitted him; but once more he came softly after us; and
touching my shoulder again, said, See if you can find em now, will
ye?
Find who?
Morning to ye! morning to ye! he rejoined, again moving off. Oh! I
rejoined - (rejoin) vereinigen
was going to warn ye against"but never mind, never mind"its all one,
all in the family too;"sharp frost this morning, aint it? Good-bye to
ye. Shant see ye again very soon, I guess; unless its before the
Grand Jury. And with these cracked words he finally departed, leaving
me, for the moment, in no small wonderment at his frantic impudence.
wonderment - Verwunderung
impudence - Flegelei, Frechheit, Unverschmtheit, Vermessenheit
At last, stepping on board the Pequod, we found everything in profound
quiet, not a soul moving. The cabin entrance was locked within; the
hatches were all on, and lumbered with coils of rigging. Going forward
lumbered - (lumber) Bauholz
to the forecastle, we found the slide of the scuttle open. Seeing a
slide - gleiten ausrutschen Rutsche Erdrutsch Dia, Klarsichtfoli
scuttle - ruinieren;Lftungsblech (am Auto)
light, we went down, and found only an old rigger there, wrapped in a
rigger - Takler
tattered pea-jacket. He was thrown at whole length upon two chests, his
tattered - (tatter) zerfetzen, zerfleddern, zerfledern;Lumpen, Fetzen
face downwards and inclosed in his folded arms. The profoundest slumber
profoundest - (profound) tiefgehend, profund
slumber - Halbschlaf, Schlummer, Schlfchen, schlummern, dsen, trumen
slept upon him.
Those sailors we saw, Queequeg, where can they have gone to? said I,
looking dubiously at the sleeper. But it seemed that, when on the
dubiously - fraglicherweise
wharf, Queequeg had not at all noticed what I now alluded to; hence I
alluded - (allude) andeuten, erwhnen
would have thought myself to have been optically deceived in that
optically - optische
deceived - (deceive) betrgen, tuschen
matter, were it not for Elijahs otherwise inexplicable question. But I
beat the thing down; and again marking the sleeper, jocularly hinted to
jocularly - witzig, lustig
Queequeg that perhaps we had best sit up with the body; telling him to
establish himself accordingly. He put his hand upon the sleepers rear,
establish - feststellen, etablieren, erffnen, grnden, niederlassen
as though feeling if it was soft enough; and then, without more ado,
sat quietly down there.
Gracious! Queequeg, dont sit there, said I.
Oh! perry dood seat, said Queequeg, my country way; wont hurt him
face.
Face! said I, call that his face? very benevolent countenance then;
but how hard he breathes, hes heaving himself; get off, Queequeg, you
heaving - hebend, hochhebend; (heave) heben, hieven, werfen, wuchte
are heavy, its grinding the face of the poor. Get off, Queequeg! Look,
grinding - reibend, Aufrauhen, Aufreiben, schleifend; (grind) reiben
hell twitch you off soon. I wonder he dont wake.
Queequeg removed himself to just beyond the head of the sleeper, and
lighted his tomahawk pipe. I sat at the feet. We kept the pipe passing
over the sleeper, from one to the other. Meanwhile, upon questioning
him in his broken fashion, Queequeg gave me to understand that, in his
land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king,
absence - Abwesenheit, Absenz, Fehlen, Absence
settees - (settee) Sitzbank, Sofa
sofas - (sofa) Sofa, Couch
chiefs, and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening
chiefs - (Chief) Huptling, Oberhaupt, Chef,
fattening - mstend; (fatten) msten dick werden, dicker werden, zunehmen
some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house
ottomans - (Ottoman) Ottomane, Canap, Couch, Polsterhocker, Sitzkissen
comfortably in that respect, you had only to buy up eight or ten lazy
comfortably - bequem, komfortabel
buy up - aufkaufen
fellows, and lay them round in the piers and alcoves. Besides, it was
piers - (pier) Seebrcke, Anlegestelle, Kai, Brckenpfeiler
very convenient on an excursion; much better than those garden-chairs
excursion - Ausflug, Exkursion, Abschweifung, Exkurs, Digression
which are convertible into walking-sticks; upon occasion, a chief
convertible - Cabriolet, Cabrio,
calling his attendant, and desiring him to make a settee of himself
attendant - Begleiter, Wchter, Aufpasser, Aufseher
desiring - (desire) begehren Begehren, Wunsch
settee - Sitzbank, Sofa
under a spreading tree, perhaps in some damp marshy place.
marshy - sumpfig, morastig, versumpft, moosig
While narrating these things, every time Queequeg received the tomahawk
narrating - (narrate) erzhlen berichten
from me, he flourished the hatchet-side of it over the sleepers head.
flourished - (flourish) gedeihen, blhen, spriessen, grnen
Whats that for, Queequeg?
Perry easy, kill-e; oh! perry easy!
He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe,
which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed
soothed - (sooth) Wahrheit
his soul, when we were directly attracted to the sleeping rigger. The
strong vapor now completely filling the contracted hole, it began to
vapor - Dampf prahlen
tell upon him. He breathed with a sort of muffledness; then seemed
muffledness - Dumpfheit
troubled in the nose; then revolved over once or twice; then sat up and
revolved - (revolve) drehen
rubbed his eyes.
Holloa! he breathed at last, who be ye smokers?
Shipped men, answered I, when does she sail?
Aye, aye, ye are going in her, be ye? She sails to-day. The Captain
came aboard last night.
What Captain?"Ahab?
Who but him indeed?
I was going to ask him some further questions concerning Ahab, when we
heard a noise on deck.
Holloa! Starbucks astir, said the rigger. Hes a lively chief mate,
lively - lebendig, munter (lebhaft), lebhaft, quirlig
that; good man, and a pious; but all alive now, I must turn to. And so
saying he went on deck, and we followed.
It was now clear sunrise. Soon the crew came on board in twos and
threes; the riggers bestirred themselves; the mates were actively
bestirred - (bestir) aufraffen
actively - aktiv active
engaged; and several of the shore people were busy in bringing various
last things on board. Meanwhile Captain Ahab remained invisibly
invisibly - unsichtbar
enshrined within his cabin.
enshrined - (enshrine) in einem Schrein bewahren verehren verankern
At length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal of the ships
dismissal - Wegschicken , Abweisen, Abweisung , Entlassung, Kndigung
riggers, and after the Pequod had been hauled out from the wharf, and
hauled - (haul) ziehen, schleppen, transportieren, befder
after the ever-thoughtful Charity had come off in a whale-boat, with
thoughtful - nachdenklich, bedchtig, aufmerksam
her last gift"a night-cap for Stubb, the second mate, her
brother-in-law, and a spare Bible for the steward"after all this, the
steward - Verwalter
two Captains, Peleg and Bildad, issued from the cabin, and turning to
the chief mate, Peleg said:
Now, Mr. Starbuck, are you sure everything is right? Captain Ahab is
all ready"just spoke to him"nothing more to be got from shore, eh?
Well, call all hands, then. Muster em aft here"blast em!
No need of profane words, however great the hurry, Peleg, said
Bildad, but away with thee, friend Starbuck, and do our bidding.
How now! Here upon the very point of starting for the voyage, Captain
Peleg and Captain Bildad were going it with a high hand on the
quarter-deck, just as if they were to be joint-commanders at sea, as
commanders - (commander) Befehlshaber, Kommandant, Kommandeur, Kommandr
well as to all appearances in port. And, as for Captain Ahab, no sign
all appearances - allem Anschein nach
of him was yet to be seen; only, they said he was in the cabin. But
then, the idea was, that his presence was by no means necessary in
getting the ship under weigh, and steering her well out to sea. Indeed,
steering - Lenkung ; (steer) Lenkung
as that was not at all his proper business, but the pilots; and as he
was not yet completely recovered"so they said"therefore, Captain Ahab
recovered - (recover) wiederfinden, sich erholen, beikommen
stayed below. And all this seemed natural enough; especially as in the
merchant service many captains never show themselves on deck for a
considerable time after heaving up the anchor, but remain over the
cabin table, having a farewell merry-making with their shore friends,
farewell - Lebewohl, Adieu, Abschied, Lebewohl sagen
before they quit the ship for good with the pilot.
But there was not much chance to think over the matter, for Captain
think over - berdenken
Peleg was now all alive. He seemed to do most of the talking and
commanding, and not Bildad.
commanding - (command) Befehl, Kommando, befehlen, kommandieren, gebiete
Aft here, ye sons of bachelors, he cried, as the sailors lingered at
bachelors - (bachelor) Junggeselle Bachelor
the main-mast. Mr. Starbuck, drive em aft.
Strike the tent there!"was the next order. As I hinted before, this
whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the
marquee - Festzelt Vordach, Markise, Lauftext, Laufschrift
Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known
to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
Man the capstan! Blood and thunder!"jump!"was the next command, and
capstan - Spill, Gangspill, q or anchor also, Capstan, Bandantriebsrolle
the crew sprang for the handspikes.
Now in getting under weigh, the station generally occupied by the pilot
is the forward part of the ship. And here Bildad, who, with Peleg, be
it known, in addition to his other officers, was one of the licensed
licensed - (license) Lizenz, Erlaubnis, Genehmigung, Schein, lizenzieren
pilots of the port"he being suspected to have got himself made a pilot
in order to save the Nantucket pilot-fee to all the ships he was
fee - Gebhr
concerned in, for he never piloted any other craft"Bildad, I say, might
now be seen actively engaged in looking over the bows for the
approaching anchor, and at intervals singing what seemed a dismal stave
approaching - (approach) sich nhern, nahekommen, hnlich sei
of psalmody, to cheer the hands at the windlass, who roared forth some
cheer - anfeuern, jauchzen, aufmuntern, jubeln
windlass - winden
sort of a chorus about the girls in Booble Alley, with hearty good
chorus - Chor Refrain, Kehrreim, Chorus
Alley - Allee, Bahn, Weg, Gasse, Pfad
will. Nevertheless, not three days previous, Bildad had told them that
no profane songs would be allowed on board the Pequod, particularly in
getting under weigh; and Charity, his sister, had placed a small choice
copy of Watts in each seamans berth.
Watts - (watt) Watt
Meantime, overseeing the other part of the ship, Captain Peleg ripped
overseeing - (oversee) berblicken beaufsichtigen, berwachen, leite
ripped - (rip) Riss;reien, der Lnge nach auftrennen
and swore astern in the most frightful manner. I almost thought he
frightful - schrecklich
would sink the ship before the anchor could be got up; involuntarily I
paused on my handspike, and told Queequeg to do the same, thinking of
the perils we both ran, in starting on the voyage with such a devil for
a pilot. I was comforting myself, however, with the thought that in
comforting - (comfort) Behaglichkeit, Bequemlichkeit, Komfort, Tros
pious Bildad might be found some salvation, spite of his seven hundred
and seventy-seventh lay; when I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear,
poke - stoen, stecken, stbern
and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in
horrified - (horrify) entsetzen, erschrecken, schockieren
apparition - Erscheinung
the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity. That was my
first kick.
Is that the way they heave in the marchant service? he roared.
heave - heben, hieven, werfen, wuchten, schleudern
Spring, thou sheep-head; spring, and break thy backbone! Why dont ye
backbone - Rckgrat, Wirbelsule
spring, I say, all of ye"spring! Quohog! spring, thou chap with the red
whiskers; spring there, Scotch-cap; spring, thou green pants. Spring, I
whiskers - (whisker) Barthaar, Barthaare , Schnurrhaar, Vibriss
say, all of ye, and spring your eyes out! And so saying, he moved
along the windlass, here and there using his leg very freely, while
imperturbable Bildad kept leading off with his psalmody. Thinks I,
imperturbable - unerschtterlich
Captain Peleg must have been drinking something to-day.
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It
was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into
merged - (merge) zusammenlegen, zusammenfgen, zusammenfhren, vereinen
night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose
wintry - winterlich
freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. The long rows of
armor - Rstung, Panzerung, Armierung, Bewehrung
teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white
ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from
tusks - (tusk) Hauer, Stozahn, Fangzahn eines Ebers
curving - (curve) Kurve Linie Kurven biegen, verbiegen
the bows.
Lank Bildad, as pilot, headed the first watch, and ever and anon, as
Lank - strhnig, dnn, schmchtig
the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering
frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang, his
howled - (howl) Heulen, jaulen
cordage - Tauwerk, Fasertauwerk
rang - (to ring) luten, klingeln, schellen
steady notes were heard,"
steady - stetig stabilisieren
_Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living
swelling - Anschwellen, Anschwellung ; (swell) Anschwellen, Anschwellung
green. So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between._
Never did those sweet words sound more sweetly to me than then. They
sweetly - s
were full of hope and fruition. Spite of this frigid winter night in
fruition - Erfllung
the boisterous Atlantic, spite of my wet feet and wetter jacket, there
was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and
meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the
meads - (mead) Met, Aue
vernal - Frhling
spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
untrodden - (untread) nicht betreten
unwilted - ungewollt
midsummer - Hochsommer Johannistag, Mittsommer
At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no
longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging
alongside.
alongside - nebenher, entlang, an der Seite
It was curious and not unpleasing, how Peleg and Bildad were affected
unpleasing - unangenehm
at this juncture, especially Captain Bildad. For loath to depart, yet;
juncture - Verbindungspunkt, Verbindungsstelle, Junktur
loath - abgeneigt
depart - verlassen, aufbrechen, abweichen
very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a
voyage"beyond both stormy Capes; a ship in which some thousands of his
stormy - strmisch
Capes - (Cape) Umhang, Kap
hard earned dollars were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate
sailed as captain; a man almost as old as he, once more starting to
encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye to
encounter - mit etw. in Berhrung kommen;entgegentreten, sich begegnen, treffen auf;Begegnung , Treffen , Zusammensto
pitiless - erbarmungslos, unbarmherzig
a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him,"poor old Bildad
brimful - voll, bervoll
lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides; ran down into the
cabin to speak another farewell word there; again came on deck, and
looked to windward; looked towards the wide and endless waters, only
bounded by the far-off unseen Eastern Continents; looked towards the
bounded - (bound) Sprung
land; looked aloft; looked right and left; looked everywhere and
nowhere; and at last, mechanically coiling a rope upon its pin,
coiling - (coil) Wendel, Spule, Wicklung;aufwickeln
convulsively grasped stout Peleg by the hand, and holding up a lantern,
convulsively - krampfhafte
grasped - (grasp) greifen, erfassen, begreifen, verstehen, Grif
lantern - Laterne
for a moment stood gazing heroically in his face, as much as to say,
gazing - (gaze) anstarren
heroically - heldenhafte
Nevertheless, friend Peleg, I can stand it; yes, I can.
As for Peleg himself, he took it more like a philosopher; but for all
his philosophy, there was a tear twinkling in his eye, when the lantern
twinkling - kurzer Augenblick, im Handumdrehen; (twinkle) funkeln zwinkern
came too near. And he, too, did not a little run from cabin to deck"now
a word below, and now a word with Starbuck, the chief mate.
But, at last, he turned to his comrade, with a final sort of look about
him,"Captain Bildad"come, old shipmate, we must go. Back the main-yard
there! Boat ahoy! Stand by to come close alongside, now! Careful,
careful!"come, Bildad, boy"say your last. Luck to ye, Starbuck"luck to
ye, Mr. Stubb"luck to ye, Mr. Flask"good-bye and good luck to ye
Flask - Flasche Flachmann, Taschenflasche, Kolben, Flakon , Formkasten
all"and this day three years Ill have a hot supper smoking for ye in
old Nantucket. Hurrah and away!
God bless ye, and have ye in His holy keeping, men, murmured old
murmured - (murmur) Rauschen, Murmeln , Gemurmel, Raunen, Herzgerusch
Bildad, almost incoherently. I hope yell have fine weather now, so
incoherently - unzusammenhngend, zusammenhanglose
that Captain Ahab may soon be moving among ye"a pleasant sun is all he
needs, and yell have plenty of them in the tropic voyage ye go. Be
careful in the hunt, ye mates. Dont stave the boats needlessly, ye
needlessly - unntige, unntig
harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent.
cedar - Zeder Zypressengewchs, Zedernholz
within the year. Dont forget your prayers, either. Mr. Starbuck, mind
that cooper dont waste the spare staves. Oh! the sail-needles are in
the green locker! Dont whale it too much a Lords days, men; but
locker - Spind, Schliefach
dont miss a fair chance either, thats rejecting Heavens good gifts.
Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I
thought. If ye touch at the islands, Mr. Flask, beware of fornication.
beware - sich hten (vor)
fornication - Unzucht
Good-bye, good-bye! Dont keep that cheese too long down in the hold,
Mr. Starbuck; itll spoil. Be careful with the butter"twenty cents the
pound it was, and mind ye, if"
Come, come, Captain Bildad; stop palavering,"away! and with that,
palavering - (palaver) Palaver
Peleg hurried him over the side, and both dropt into the boat.
dropt - (drop) Wasserspiegelunterschied, Tropfen
Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a
diverged - (diverge) divergieren, auseinandergehen, auseinanderstrebe
screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave
screaming - (scream) Schrei schreien
hulls - (Hull) Hlse, Schale, Hlle
three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone
lone - einzeln
Atlantic.
Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, newlanded
newlanded - neu gelandet
mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn.
encountered - (encounter) treffen, begegnen, Begegnung, Treffen
When on that shivering winters night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive
vindictive - rachschtig
bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her
helm but Bulkington! I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon
fearfulness - Furchtsamkeit
the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years dangerous
voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another
unrestingly - unruhig
push off - abschieben
tempestuous term. The land seemed scorching to his feet. Wonderfullest
Wonderfullest - Das Wunderbarste
things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs;
unmentionable - unaussprechlich, unerwhnbar
epitaphs - (epitaph) Grabinschrift; q
this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington. Let me only
stoneless - steinlos
say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that
miserably drives along the leeward land. The port would fain give
miserably - jmmerlich, elend
succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort,
succor - Hilfe
hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all thats kind to our
hearthstone - Kaminplatte
blankets - (blanket) Decke, Wolldecke, Bettdecke, Schicht, Lage, allgemein
mortalities. But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ships
mortalities - (mortality) Sterblichkeit, Mortalitt, Sterbeziffe
direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land,
direst - (dire) dster, bse, fatal, verzweifelt, hnderingend
hospitality - Gastfreundlichkeit, Gastfreundschaft, Gastlichkeit, Gastgewerbe
though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and
graze - Kratzen, Schrammen, Schaben, Schleifen
shudder - Schauder (wohliger) Schauder schaudern zittern
through. With all her might she crowds all sail off shore; in so doing,
fights gainst the very winds that fain would blow her homeward; seeks
all the lashed seas landlessness again; for refuges sake forlornly
landlessness - Landlosigkeit
forlornly - verlassene
rushing into peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!
peril - Gefahr, Risiko
bitterest - (bitter) herb, rau, bitter
Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally
Glimpses - (glimpse) Blick Aufblitzen, Aufleuchten, Schimmer, entdecke
mortally - sterbliche
intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid
intrepid - unerschrocken, furchtlos, mutig
effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the
independence - Unabhngigkeit, checkSelbstndigkeit
wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the
conspire - verschren
treacherous, slavish shore?
But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless,
shoreless - uferlos
indefinite as God"so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite,
perish - verderben, schlecht werden, umkommen, ums Leben komme
infinite - unendlich, endlos, unzhlige
than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For
ingloriously - unrhmliche
worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the
craven - feige Feigling, feiger Hund
terrible! is all this agony so vain? take heart, take heart, O
agony - Agonie, Qual, Pein, Todeskampf, Freudenausbruch
take heart - (aus etw.) Mut schpfen
Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy
grimly - grimmig
demigod - Halbgott
ocean-perishing"straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
perishing - (perish) verderben, schlecht werden, umkommen, ums Leben komme
apotheosis - Gottwerdung, Apotheose, Vergtterung, Verherrlichung
As Queequeg and I are now fairly embarked in this business of whaling;
embarked - (embark) einschiffen, an Bord gehen, beginnen, antreten
and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be regarded among
landsmen as a rather unpoetical and disreputable pursuit; therefore, I
unpoetical - unpoetische
disreputable - verrufen
am all anxiety to convince ye, ye landsmen, of the injustice hereby
anxiety - Besorgnis, Angst, Sorge
injustice - Unrecht Ungerechtigkeit
hereby - hiermit, hierdurch, hierbei
done to us hunters of whales.
In the first place, it may be deemed almost superfluous to establish
the fact, that among people at large, the business of whaling is not
accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions. If a
liberal - freiheitlich liberal Liberaler
stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous metropolitan society,
miscellaneous - gemischt, vermischt, verschieden, vielseitig
metropolitan - hauptstdtisch;Frankreich, ???
it would but slightly advance the general opinion of his merits, were
advance - erhhen, erheben, befrdern, vorrcken, Fortschritt, Vorschus
merits - (merit) Verdienst
he presented to the company as a harpooneer, say; and if in emulation
emulation - Nacheiferung, Wetteifer, Emulation
of the naval officers he should append the initials S.W.F. (Sperm Whale
naval - Flotten..., von der Marine, Marine..., See.
append - heften, anheften, hinzufgen, beifgen
initials - (initial) anfnglich, ursprnglich, erste
Fishery) to his visiting card, such a procedure would be deemed
procedure - Verfahren, Verfahrensweise, [medizinischer] Eingriff, Prozes
pre-eminently presuming and ridiculous.
eminently - besonders
presuming - (presume) annehmen, mutmaen, vermuten
Doubtless one leading reason why the world declines honoring us
declines - (decline) Sinken, Fall, Geflle, Abnahme, Rckgang, Schwchun
honoring - (honor) Ehre ehren
whalemen, is this: they think that, at best, our vocation amounts to a
butchering sort of business; and that when actively engaged therein, we
butchering - schlachtend; (butcher) schlachtend
are surrounded by all manner of defilements. Butchers we are, that is
defilements - (defilement) Verunreinigung
Butchers - (butcher) niedermetzeln, niedermachen;Metzger, Schlchte
true. But butchers, also, and butchers of the bloodiest badge have been
bloodiest - (bloody) blutig, blutbefleckt
badge - Abzeichen
all Martial Commanders whom the world invariably delights to honor. And
Martial - kriegerisch, martialisch, kampflustig, soldatisch, militrisch
invariably - stets, bestndig, ausnahmslos
as for the matter of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye
alleged - (allege) behaupten
uncleanliness - Unreinlichkeit
shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally
initiated - (initiate) Eingeweihter, Eingeweihte, Initiierter, Initiierte
unknown, and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm
triumphantly - triumphierend
whale-ship at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth. But
cleanliest - (cleanly) sauber, reinlich
even granting the charge in question to be true; what disordered
granting - (grant) gewhren erteilen bewilligen
slippery decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the unspeakable
slippery - rutschig, glitschig, aalglatt
comparable - vergleichbar; qual
carrion of those battle-fields from which so many soldiers return to
carrion - Aas, Kadaver
drink in all ladies plaudits? And if the idea of peril so much
plaudits - (plaudit) Beifall, lauter Beifall
enhances the popular conceit of the soldiers profession; let me assure
enhances - (enhance) erhhen, vergrern, verbessern
conceit - Eingebung Einbildung Konzept
ye that many a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery, would
veteran - Veteran, Kriegsveteran
quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm whales vast tail,
recoil - Rcksto zurckschrecken zurckschlage
fanning into eddies the air over his head. For what are the
eddies - (Eddy) Strudel
comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and
comprehensible - begreifbar, fassbar, verstndlich
interlinked - (interlink) miteinander verbinden, koppeln
wonders of God!
But, though the world scouts at us whale hunters, yet does it
scouts - (Scout) Spher, Kundschafter, Aufklrer
unwittingly pay us the profoundest homage; yea, an all-abounding
unwittingly - unbeabsichtigt, unabsichtlich, ungewollt, irrtmlich
abounding - (abound) in
adoration! for almost all the tapers, lamps, and candles that burn
adoration - Anbetung
tapers - (taper) abdrehen (konisch), zuspitzen, spitz zulaufen
round the globe, burn, as before so many shrines, to our glory!
shrines - (shrine) Heiligtum; q
But look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in all sorts of
scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been.
Why did the Dutch in De Witts time have admirals of their whaling
admirals - (admiral) Admiral
fleets? Why did Louis XVI. of France, at his own personal expense, fit
fleets - (fleet) Flotte;Fahrzeugpark
expense - Ausgabe, Aufwand, Verlust
out whaling ships from Dunkirk, and politely invite to that town some
Dunkirk - Dnkirchen
score or two of families from our own island of Nantucket? Why did
Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties
bounties - (bounty) Geschenk Belohnung, Kopfgeld, Prmie, Heuer
upwards of £1,000,000? And lastly, how comes it that we whalemen of
lastly - schlielich, zuletzt
America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world;
outnumber - in der berzahl/Mehrzahl sein, zahlenmig berlegen sein
sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen
thousand men; yearly consuming 4,000,000 of dollars; the ships worth,
yearly - jhrlich
at the time of sailing, $20,000,000! and every year importing into our
harbors a well reaped harvest of $7,000,000. How comes all this, if
reaped - (reap) ernten, schneiden, mhen, sensen
harvest - Ernte Frucht,
there be not something puissant in whaling?
puissant - krftig, mchtig
But this is not the half; look again.
I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life,
assert - versichern, zusichern, beteuern
cosmopolite - Weltbrger, Kosmopolit
point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty
years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken
operated - (operate) operieren betreiben, bedienen
potentially - unter Umstnden, mglicherweise
in one aggregate, than the high and mighty business of whaling. One way
aggregate - Anhufung, Ansammlung, Aggregation
and another, it has begotten events so remarkable in themselves, and so
begotten - (beget) erzeugen, fortpflanzen
remarkable - bemerkenswert, verwunderlich, denkwrdig, beachtenswert
continuously momentous in their sequential issues, that whaling may
continuously - stndig, ununterbrochen, andauernd, kontinuierlich
momentous - wichtig, bedeutsam, folgenreich, folgenschwer
sequential - sequenziell
well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves
offspring - Nachkomme, Nachkommin, Kind, Sohn
pregnant from her womb. It would be a hopeless, endless task to
womb - Gebrmutter; q
catalogue all these things. Let a handful suffice. For many years past
catalogue - Katalog, Liste, Verzeichnis
the whale-ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and
pioneer - Pionier, Wegbereiter
ferreting - aufsprend; (ferret) aufsprend
least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes
archipelagoes - Inselgruppen
which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed. If
American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once savage
peacefully - friedlich
harbors, let them fire salutes to the honor and glory of the
salutes - (salute) Salut salutieren
whale-ship, which originally showed them the way, and first interpreted
interpreted - (interpret) interpretieren dolmetschen, bersetzen
between them and the savages. They may celebrate as they will the
heroes of Exploring Expeditions, your Cooks, your Krusensterns; but I
say that scores of anonymous Captains have sailed out of Nantucket,
anonymous - namenlos anonym
that were as great, and greater than your Cook and your Krusenstern.
For in their succourless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish
succourless - erfolglos
handedness - Chiralitt Hndigkeit
sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands,
sharked - (shark) Haifisch, Hai
javelin - Speer
battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cook with all his marines
marines - (Marine) See
and muskets would not willingly have dared. All that is made such a
muskets - (musket) Muskete
willingly - gern, gerne
dared - (dare) sich getrauen, wagen, jemanden herausfordern
flourish of in the old South Sea Voyages, those things were but the
life-time commonplaces of our heroic Nantucketers. Often, adventures
commonplaces - (commonplace) alltglich, banal, gang und gbe, gewhnlic
heroic - heldenhaft, heroisch
which Vancouver dedicates three chapters to, these men accounted
dedicates - (dedicate) widmen sich widmen
unworthy of being set down in the ships common log. Ah, the world! Oh,
the world!
Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial,
colonial - kolonial
scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe
intercourse - Beziehungen, Umgang, Verkehr, Geschlechtsverkehr
and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific
provinces - (province) Provinz, Land
coast. It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous policy
of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted,
it might be distinctly shown how from those whalemen at last eventuated
distinctly - deutlich
eventuated - (eventuate) eintreten
the liberation of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia from the yoke of Old Spain,
liberation - Befreiung
Chili - scharfer Paprika, Chili
yoke - das Joch
and the establishment of the eternal democracy in those parts.
establishment - Verankerung (von Rechten), Feststellung
democracy - Demokratie, Volksherrschaft
That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was
sphere - Kugel Sphre, Bereich
given to the enlightened world by the whaleman. After its first
enlightened - (enlighten) aufklren
blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned
blunder - Patzer, Schnitzer, Fehler, Fehlgriff
Dutchman - Niederlnder, Hollnder
shunned - (shun) aus dem Weg gehen, ausweichen, meiden, scheuen
those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched
pestiferously - verderblich
there. The whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony.
colony - Kolonie, Pflanzung, Pflanzstadt
Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the
infancy - Suglingsphase, frhe Kindheit, Anfangsphase
Australian - Australier, Australierin, australisch
settlement - Regelung, Regulierung, Erledigung, Ansiedlung
emigrants were several times saved from starvation by the benevolent
emigrants - (emigrant) Auswanderer, Auswanderin, Emigrant, Emigrantin
starvation - Verhungern, Hunger
biscuit of the whale-ship luckily dropping an anchor in their waters.
luckily - glcklicherweise, auf glckliche Weise, mit Glck, zum Glck
The uncounted isles of all Polynesia confess the same truth, and do
uncounted - ungerechnet, ungezhlte
Polynesia - Polynesien
commercial homage to the whale-ship, that cleared the way for the
missionary and the merchant, and in many cases carried the primitive
missionaries to their first destinations. If that double-bolted land,
missionaries - (missionary) Missionar, Missionarin, missionarisch
Japan, is ever to become hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone to whom
hospitable - gastfreundlich, gastfrei
the credit will be due; for already she is on the threshold.
threshold - Schwelle, Trschwelle
But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no
declare - bekanntmachen, bekanntgeben, deklarieren, ausrufen, aussagen
æsthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to
associations - (association) Assoziation, Verknpfung, Zuordnung, Vereinigung
shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet
shiver - Schauder, Schauer, zittern, frsteln
unhorse - unpferdlich
split - gespalten Riss, Spalt, Spaltung, Spagat
helmet - Helm
every time.
The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you
chronicler - Chronist
will say.
_The whale no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler?_ Who
wrote the first account of our Leviathan? Who but mighty Job! And who
composed the first narrative of a whaling-voyage? Who, but no less a
composed - (compos) compos
prince than Alfred the Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down
the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times! And
Norwegian - Norweger, Norwegerin, Norwegisch, norwegischsprachi
who pronounced our glowing eulogy in Parliament? Who, but Edmund Burke!
glowing - (glow) glhen abstrahlen leuchten Glhen
eulogy - Lobrede, Lobesrede, Traurrede
True enough, but then whalemen themselves are poor devils; they have no
good blood in their veins.
_No good blood in their veins?_ They have something better than royal
blood there. The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel;
afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers of
settlers - (settler) Siedler, Siedlerin, Ansiedler, Ansiedlerin
Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and
ancestress - Ahnfrau
harpooneers"all kith and kin to noble Benjamin"this day darting the
kin - (king) Knig
darting - (dart) Pfeil, Satz
barbed iron from one side of the world to the other.
Good again; but then all confess that somehow whaling is not
respectable.
_Whaling not respectable?_ Whaling is imperial! By old English
imperial - kaiserlich imperial
statutory law, the whale is declared a royal fish. *
statutory - satzungsmig; satzungsgem; statutarisch; statutar (e.g. ''Statutarstadt'')
Oh, thats only nominal! The whale himself has never figured in any
nominal - nominal, substantivisch
grand imposing way.
imposing - (impose) auferlegen, aufzwingen
_The whale never figured in any grand imposing way?_ In one of the
mighty triumphs given to a Roman general upon his entering the worlds
triumphs - (triumph) Sieg, Erfolg
capital, the bones of a whale, brought all the way from the Syrian
coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.*
most conspicuous - aufflligste
cymballed - zymbalisiert
procession - Prozession, Umzug
*See subsequent chapters for something more on this head.
Grant it, since you cite it; but, say what you will, there is no real
Grant - gewhren erteilen bewilligen
cite - zitieren
dignity in whaling.
dignity - Wrde Frmlichkeit Amt
_No dignity in whaling?_ The dignity of our calling the very heavens
attest. Cetus is a constellation in the South! No more! Drive down your
attest - attestieren, beglaubigen
constellation - Sternbild, Asterismus, Konstellation, Sternzeichen
hat in presence of the Czar, and take it off to Queequeg! No more! I
know a man that, in his lifetime, has taken three hundred and fifty
whales. I account that man more honorable than that great captain of
antiquity who boasted of taking as many walled towns.
antiquity - Antike, Altertum
And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet
undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute
undiscovered - unentdeckt
prime - wichtigste
repute - Ruf
in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably
hushed - (hush) verstummen, still werden, zum Schweigen bringen, Still
unreasonably - unvernnftig, unvernnftige
ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a
hereafter - knftig
man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death,
undone - (undo) ffnen, aufmachen, etwas rckgngig machen, annulieren
my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in
executors - (executor) Testamentsvollstrecker, Testamentsvollstreckerin
creditors - (creditor) Glubiger, Kreditor
precious - kostbar, wertvoll, slich, kitschig
my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory
prospectively - zuknftige
ascribe - zurckfhren, zuschreiben
to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Harvard - Harvard
In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but
behalf - Vorteil, Nutzen, Interesse
substantiated facts. But after embattling his facts, an advocate who
substantiated - (substantiate) beglaubigen, besttigen, substantiiere
embattling - (embattle) aufstellen
should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell
suppress - unterdrcken
not unreasonable - zumutbar (Arbeit)
surmise - Vermutung, Mutmaung, vermuten, mutmaen, annehmen
eloquently upon his cause"such an advocate, would he not be
eloquently - wortgewandt, eloquente, beredsam
blameworthy?
blameworthy - verdammenswert
It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even
modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their
functions is gone through. There is a saltcellar of state, so called,
saltcellar - Salzkeller
and there may be a castor of state. How they use the salt,
precisely"who knows? Certain I am, however, that a kings head is
solemnly oiled at his coronation, even as a head of salad. Can it be,
though, that they anoint it with a view of making its interior run
anoint - len, schmieren, einreiben, salben
well, as they anoint machinery? Much might be ruminated here,
machinery - Maschinerie, maschinelle Ausrstung
concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in
regal - kniglich
common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints
meanly - gemein
contemptibly - verachtenswert, verchtliche
anoints - (anoint) len, schmieren, einreiben, salben
his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. In truth, a mature man
palpably - fhlbar, augenfllige
anointing - (anoint) len, schmieren, einreiben, salben
mature - ausgereift, mndig, erwachsen, reif
who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a
medicinally - medizinisches, medizinisch
quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he cant amount to
much in his totality.
totality - Totalitt
But the only thing to be considered here, is this"what kind of oil is
used at coronations? Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar
coronations - (coronation) Krnung
olive - Olive, olivfarben, olivfarbig
macassar - Makassar
oil, nor castor oil, nor bears oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil.
castor oil - Rizinusl
train oil - Fischtran
What then can it possibly be, but sperm oil in its unmanufactured,
unmanufactured - unbearbeitet
unpolluted state, the sweetest of all oils?
unpolluted - nicht verschmutzt, unbefleckt
Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and
loyal - loyal, treu
Britons - (Briton) Britannier Brite, Britin
queens with coronation stuff!
Knights - (Knight) Springer (Schach), Ritter, Pferd
Squires - begleitet; (squire) begleitet
The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a
Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an
descent - Abstieg, Runterweg , Herkunft, Abstammung, Verschlechterung
icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being
icy - eisig, Eis
adapted - (adapt) anpassen, angleichen, anwenden, einrichten
endure - ertragen, aushalten, dulden, von Bestand sein
latitudes - (latitude) Breite, geographische Breite, Breitengra
hard as twice-baked biscuit. Transported to the Indies, his live blood
would not spoil like bottled ale. He must have been born in some time
ale - Ale
of general drought and famine, or upon one of those fast days for which
drought - Drre, Trockenzeit, Trockenheit
famine - Hungersnot, Hunger
his state is famous. Only some thirty arid summers had he seen; those
arid - arid
summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness. But this, his
superfluousness - berflssigkeit
thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties
thinness - Dnnheit
token - Zeichen, Symbol, Andenken, Souvenir, Erinnerung, Jeton
anxieties - (anxiety) Besorgnis, Angst, Sorge
and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight. It was
indication - Anzeichen, Anzeige, Hinweis, Indiz
blight - Braunfule Geiel, Seuche, Plage, Heimsuchung
merely the condensation of the man. He was by no means ill-looking;
condensation - Kondensation
quite the contrary. His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and
closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength,
like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for
revivified - (revivify) wiederbeleben
long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow
or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was
torrid - glhend
patent - Patent
chronometer - Chronometer
vitality - Vitalitt, Lebenskraft
warranted to do well in all climates. Looking into his eyes, you seemed
warranted - (warrant) Nachweis Befehl garantieren
to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he
lingering - nachklingend, verweilend, zgernd; (linger) herumlunger
had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life
confronted - (confront) konfrontieren, entgegentreten, Sache , begegne
steadfast - unentwegt, standhaft
for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame
pantomime - Pantomime pantomimisieren
tame - zahm, friedlich
sobriety - Nchternheit, Ernsthaftigkeit
fortitude - innere
were certain qualities in him which at times affected, and in some
cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest. Uncommonly
overbalance - berwiegen
conscientious for a seaman, and endued with a deep natural reverence,
endued - (endue) kleiden;bekleiden
reverence - Ehrfurcht, Bewunderung, Verehrung, Hochachtung, Ehrerbietung
the wild watery loneliness of his life did therefore strongly incline
loneliness - Einsamkeit
incline - neigen Neigung, Anstieg, Geflle
him to superstition; but to that sort of superstition, which in some
superstition - Aberglaube
organizations seems rather to spring, somehow, from intelligence than
from ignorance. Outward portents and inward presentiments were his. And
portents - (portent) Omen, (bses) Vorzeichen
presentiments - (presentiment) Vorahnung
if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more
welded - (weld) schweien
did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child,
tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature,
ruggedness - Unempfindlichkeit
and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some
latent - latent
honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often
restrain - zurckhalten
gush - Schwall, Flut, strmen, herausquellen, schwrmen
evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery. I
evinced - (evince) bekunden, zeigen, zum Vorschein bringe
more perilous - gefahrvollere
vicissitudes - (vicissitude) Unbestndigkeit, Wandel, Wechsel, Vernderung
will have no man in my boat, said Starbuck, who is not afraid of a
whale. By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and
useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the
courage - Courage, Herz, Mut, Tapferkeit
arises - (arise) sich erheben, aufstehen, entstehen, auftreten, erwachse
encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more
fearless - furchtlos
dangerous comrade than a coward.
Aye, aye, said Stubb, the second mate, Starbuck, there, is as
careful a man as youll find anywhere in this fishery. But we shall
ere long see what that word careful precisely means when used by a
man like Stubb, or almost any other whale hunter.
Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a
crusader - Kreuzfahrer, Kreuzritter
sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon
sentiment - Gefhl
all mortally practical occasions. Besides, he thought, perhaps, that in
this business of whaling, courage was one of the great staple outfits
staple - Heftklammer
outfits - (outfit) Outfit
of the ship, like her beef and her bread, and not to be foolishly
wasted. Wherefore he had no fancy for lowering for whales after
lowering - Abbau (von Kosten), Absenkung; (lower) Abbau (von Kosten
sun-down; nor for persisting in fighting a fish that too much persisted
persisting - (persist) beharren
persisted - (persist) beharren
in fighting him. For, thought Starbuck, I am here in this critical
critical - kritisch, entscheidend, wesentlich, wichtig
ocean to kill whales for my living, and not to be killed by them for
theirs; and that hundreds of men had been so killed Starbuck well knew.
What doom was his own fathers? Where, in the bottomless deeps, could
he find the torn limbs of his brother?
limbs - (limb) Schenkel (geol. Falte), Glied
With memories like these in him, and, moreover, given to a certain
superstitiousness, as has been said; the courage of this Starbuck which
superstitiousness - Aberglaube
could, nevertheless, still flourish, must indeed have been extreme. But
it was not in reasonable nature that a man so organized, and with such
reasonable - vernnftig, anstndig
terrible experiences and remembrances as he had; it was not in nature
remembrances - (remembrance) Erinnerung
that these things should fail in latently engendering an element in
latently - latent
engendering - (engender) erzeugen
him, which, under suitable circumstances, would break out from its
confinement, and burn all his courage up. And brave as he might be, it
confinement - Gefangenschaft
was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which,
bravery - Tapferkeit
while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or
abiding - dauernd, bleibend, bestndi
firm - fest, straff (Busen), Fa. Firma, gesetzt, hart
conflict - Konflikt, Streit, Gegensatz, Inkompatibilitt
whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet
irrational - irrational, irrationell, unvernnftig
cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors,
withstand - widerstehen widerstehen (1 2)
terrific - frchterlich, furchtbar, schrecklich, schreckeinjagend
which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged
menace - Landplage, androhen
enraged - (enrage) wtend machen, in Wut versetzen, in Rage versetzen
and mighty man.
But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete
reveal - enthllen offenbaren
abasement of poor Starbucks fortitude, scarce might I have the heart
abasement - Erniedrigung
to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose
sorrowful - betrbt, kummervoll, sorgenvoll, traurig
shocking - (shock) Schock, Betroffenheit, Emprung, Schlag, Sto
expose - aufdecken, offenbaren, entblen, blolegen
the fall of valour in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint
valour - Tapferkeit, Heldenmut, Mannhaftigkeit
detestable - verabscheuenswert, abscheulich
stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be;
knaves - (knave) Knabe, Knappe, Junge, Boy, Knecht, Gauner
men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble
meagre - notdrftig (knapp, sprlich);karg (Einkommen, Mahl), mage
and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any
sparkling - glitzernd, funkelnd, prickelnd, sprudelnd; (sparkle) glitzern
ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their
ignominious - schndlich, schmhlich, schmachvoll, schimpflich
blemish - Makel, Schnheitsfehler
costliest robes. That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so
costliest - (costly) teuer, kostspielig
immaculate - makellos, unbefleckt, einfarbig, perfect, untadelig
manliness - Mnnlichkeit, Mannhaftigkeit
far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character
intact - intakt
seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a
undraped - (undrape) entrappen
spectacle - Spektakel, Schauspiel
valor-ruined man. Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight,
valor - die Tapferkeit
ruined - (ruin) Ruine Ruin ruinieren, auf die Knie zwingen, vernichte
shameful - schandbar, beschmend, blamabel, peinlich
completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars. But
stifle - ersticken
upbraidings - (upbraiding) Vorwurf, schimpfend
permitting - (permit) zulassen, erlauben;Erlaubnis, Erlaubnisschein
this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes,
but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. Thou shalt
robed - (rob) rauben, berauben, Raubbau treiben, ausrauben
investiture - Investitur
see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that
wields - (wield) beherrschen fhren ausben
democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God;
democratic - demokratisch
radiates - (radiate) strahlen, ausstrahlen
Himself! The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all
circumference - Umfang, Kreisumfang
democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!
omnipresence - Allgegenwart, Ubiquitt, Allgegenwrtigkeit
divine - gttlich
equality - Gleichheit Gleichberechtigung
If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall
renegades - (renegade) Rebell, Rebellin, Abtrnniger, Abtrnnige, Apostat
castaways - (castaway) Schiffbrchiger Fallengelassener, Abgewiesener
hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic
weave - ich/er/sie wbe, ich/er/sie wob, webte, weben
tragic - tragisch
graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among
graces - Anmut, Tischgebete; (grace) Tischgebet Anmut, Grazie, Aufschu
mournful - traurig, melancholisch, trbsinnig
perchance - zufllig
them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall
exalted - (exalt) ehren erhhen
mounts - (mount) Reittier, Berg, Lafette (Waffe);einbauen, aufsteige
touch that workmans arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a
ethereal - therisch himmlisch
rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics
rainbow - Regenbogen bunt, vielfarbig
disastrous - desastrs, katastrophal, verheerend, verhngnisvoll
critics - (critic) Kritiker, Kritikerin, Gegner
bear me out in it, thou just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one
royal mantle of humanity over all my kind! Bear me out in it, thou
mantle - Mantel, Hlle, Umhllung, Glhstrumpf, Hirnrind
humanity - Menschheit Humanitt, Menschlichkeit
great democratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict,
convict - verurteilen Strfling
Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly
poetic - dichterisch, poetisch
pearl - Perle
doubly - doppelt
hammered leaves of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old
hammered - (hammer) Hammer Schlagstck, Hahn, Schlaghebel, tMalleu
stumped - (stump) Stumpf Estompe ratlos sein, verblfft sei
paupered - (pauper) Bettelknabe, Armer, Untersttzungsempfnger
Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who
pebbles - (pebble) Stein, Steinchen, Kiesel, Kieselstein
didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a
hurl - schleudern
throne! Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest
marchings - Marschieren
cullest - am strksten aus
Thy selectest champions from the kingly commons; bear me out in it, O
selectest - (select) auswhlen
kingly - kniglich
God!
Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence,
according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky;
usage - Verwendung, Benutzung, Anwendung, Brauch, Gebrauch,
neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an
valiant - beherzt, heldenhaft, heroisch, khn
indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the
indifferent - gleichgltig, teilnahmslos
crisis - Krise
chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged
toiling - schuftend, qulend; (toil) Mhe schuften, sich plage
journeyman - Geselle, Wandergeselle
joiner - Tischler, Schreiner
for the year. Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his
humored - (humor) Komik, Humor
presided - (preside) den Vorsitz haben, prsidieren
whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his
encounter - treffen, begegnen, Begegnung, Treffen
crew all invited guests. He was as particular about the comfortable
arrangement of his part of the boat, as an old stage-driver is about
the snugness of his box. When close to the whale, in the very
death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and
unpitying - mitleidslos
off-handedly, as a whistling tinker his hammer. He would hum over his
handedly - eigenhndig
whistling - (whistle) pfeifen; (whistle) Pfeife, Trillerpfeife, Flt
tinker - Kesselflicker, Kesselflickerin, tfteln, frickeln
hum - Summen
old rigadig tunes while flank and flank with the most exasperated
tunes - (tune) Melodie stimmen
flank - in der Flanke angreifen flankieren Flanke
monster. Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death
into an easy chair. What he thought of death itself, there is no
telling. Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question;
but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a
comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a
sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there,
bestir - aufraffen
about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and
obeyed - (obey) gehorchen befolgen
not sooner.
What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going,
unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a
unfearing - unbengstlich
cheerily - froh
trudging - sich schleppend; (trudge) stapfen schleppen
world full of grave pedlars, all bowed to the ground with their packs;
pedlars - (pedlar) Hausierer
what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that
impious - piettlos
humor - Komik, Humor
thing must have been his pipe. For, like his nose, his short, black
little pipe was one of the regular features of his face. You would
almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk without his
bunk - trmen;Quatsch, Koje
nose as without his pipe. He kept a whole row of pipes there ready
row - Reihe, Zeile
loaded, stuck in a rack, within easy reach of his hand; and, whenever
loaded - (load) Last, Beschickung (Ladung), Belastung;beladen, ich ld
rack - Folterbank, Zahnstange, Gestell
easy reach - gute Verkehrsanbindung
he turned in, he smoked them all out in succession, lighting one from
succession - Abfolge Thronfolge
the other to the end of the chapter; then loading them again to be in
loading - Ladung, Laden ; (load) Ladung, Laden
readiness anew. For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his
readiness - Bereitschaft
anew - erneut, abermals, neuerlich
legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth.
I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least, of his
peculiar disposition; for every one knows that this earthly air,
whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless
terribly - furchtbar
infected - (infect) anstecken, infizieren
miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it; and as in
miseries - (misery) Misere, Elend
numberless - unzhlig, zahllos
exhaling - (exhale) ausatmen
time of the cholera, some people go about with a camphorated
cholera - Cholera
camphorated - (camphorate) Campherat
handkerchief to their mouths; so, likewise, against all mortal
tribulations, Stubbs tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of
disinfecting agent.
disinfecting - (disinfect) desinfizieren
The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Marthas Vineyard. A
short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales,
ruddy - rot, rtlich, verdammt, verflixt
pugnacious - kampflustig, streitschtig, streitlustig, rauflustig
who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally
leviathans - (Leviathan) Leviathan, Meerungeheuer
and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of
hereditarily - erblich
affronted - (affront) beleidigen Affront
honor with him, to destroy them whenever encountered. So utterly lost
was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic
majestic - majesttisch
bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of
any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion,
encountering - (encounter) treffen, begegnen, Begegnung, Treffen
the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least
magnified - (magnify) vergrern
water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small
rat - Ratte
circumvention - Umgehung berlistung
application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil. This
ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in
fearlessness - Furchtlosigkeit
waggish - waghalsig
the matter of whales; he followed these fish for the fun of it; and a
three years voyage round Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted
that length of time. As a carpenters nails are divided into wrought
nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly divided. Little Flask
was one of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long. They
called him King-Post on board of the Pequod; because, in form, he could
be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in
likened - (liken) vergleichen
Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers
whalers - (whaler) Walfnger, Walfngerin
radiating - (radiate) strahlen, ausstrahlen
inserted into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy concussions
brace - Klafter , Armspanne, Klammer, Spange, Klemme
concussions - (concussion) Gehirnerschtterung
of those battering seas.
battering - (batter) zerschlagen, ich/er/sie stie ab, schlagen
Now these three mates"Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, were momentous men.
They it was who by universal prescription commanded three of the
prescription - Rezept, Verschreibung, Rechtssetzung, Verjhrun
Pequods boats as headsmen. In that grand order of battle in which
headsmen - (headsman) Scharfrichter
Captain Ahab would probably marshal his forces to descend on the
marshal - Marschall, Feldmarschall
descend - absteigen, niedergehen, herunterkommen, herabsteigen
whales, these three headsmen were as captains of companies. Or, being
armed with their long keen whaling spears, they were as a picked trio
trio - Dreiergruppe, Trio, Terzett
of lancers; even as the harpooneers were flingers of javelins.
lancers - (lancer) Lancier, Lanzenreiter
javelins - (javelin) Speer
And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic
headsman - Scharfrichter
Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat-steerer or harpooneer,
Knight - Springer (Schach), Ritter, Pferd
steerer - Gabelschaft
who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when the
conjunctures - (conjuncture) Konjunktur
former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and
moreover, as there generally subsists between the two, a close intimacy
subsists - (subsist) fortdauern
intimacy - Intimitt
and friendliness; it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set
friendliness - Freundlichkeit
down who the Pequods harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of
them belonged.
First of all was Queequeg, whom Starbuck, the chief mate, had selected
selected - (select) auswhlen
for his squire. But Queequeg is already known.
squire - Landjunker, Junker;Knappe;begleiten
Next was Tashtego, an unmixed Indian from Gay Head, the most westerly
unmixed - (unmix) entmischen
westerly - westlich Westwind
promontory of Marthas Vineyard, where there still exists the last
remnant of a village of red men, which has long supplied the
remnant - Rest, berbleibsel, Relikt, berrest, Restposten
neighboring island of Nantucket with many of her most daring
harpooneers. In the fishery, they usually go by the generic name of
generic name - Gattungsname
Gay-Headers. Tashtegos long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones,
Headers - (header) Kopfzeile, Header, Kopfball
sable - Zobel Schwarz
and black rounding eyes"for an Indian, Oriental in their largeness, but
largeness - Gre
Antarctic in their glittering expression"all this sufficiently
Antarctic - antarktisch Antarktis
proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud
proclaimed - (proclaim) verknden, verkndigen, erklren
inheritor - Erbe
unvitiated - uninitiiert
warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had
quest - Frage, Suche
moose - Elch
scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main. But no longer
scoured - (scour) reinigen, umherstreifen
snuffing in the trail of the wild beasts of the woodland, Tashtego now
snuffing - schnupfend; (snuff) schnupfend
trail - folgen, verfolgen, nachstellen, nacheilen
beasts - (beast) Tier, Bestie, Unmensch, Biest
woodland - Wald
hunted in the wake of the great whales of the sea; the unerring harpoon
of the son fitly replacing the infallible arrow of the sires. To look
fitly - angemessen
arrow - Richtungspfeil, Pfeil
at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have
tawny - lohfarben
lithe - geschmeidig
snaky - schlangenartig
credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and
superstitions - (superstition) Aberglaube
Puritans - (Puritan) puritanisch
half-believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of the Powers
of the Air. Tashtego was Stubb the second mates squire.
Third among the harpooneers was Daggoo, a gigantic, coal-black
negro-savage, with a lion-like tread"an Ahasuerus to behold. Suspended
tread - (to tread) betreten, schreiten
Ahasuerus - Ahasverus, Ahasveros
from his ears were two golden hoops, so large that the sailors called
them ring-bolts, and would talk of securing the top-sail halyards to
securing - (secure) sicher, geschtzt, beschtzt, zuverlssig
halyards - (halyard) Fall
them. In his youth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped on board of a whaler,
voluntarily - freiwillig
lying in a lonely bay on his native coast. And never having been
anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pagan harbors
most frequented by whalemen; and having now led for many years the bold
life of the fishery in the ships of owners uncommonly heedful of what
heedful - achtsam
manner of men they shipped; Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues,
retained - (retain) behalten festhalten
virtues - (virtue) Tugend Keuschheit
and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all the pomp of six
erect - stramm (Haltung), steif;errichten
giraffe - Giraffe
pomp - Pomp
feet five in his socks. There was a corporeal humility in looking up at
corporeal - krperlich
him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to
beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, this imperial negro,
beg - Mnnchen machen;etwas erbitten (von jemandem);bitten (um
truce - Waffenstillstand, Waffenruhe
fortress - Festung
Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looked like a
chess-man beside him. As for the residue of the Pequods company, be it
chess - Schach (Spiel)
residue - berrest Rckstand Nachlass Residuum
said, that at the present day not one in two of the many thousand men
before the mast employed in the American whale fishery, are Americans
born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the same
Herein - hier
with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military
military - Militr
and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed in the
navies - (Navy) Marine, Flotte, Seestreitkrfte, Marineamt, Marineblau
construction of the American Canals and Railroads. The same, I say,
construction - Bau, Bauarbeit , Bauwerk, Bauwesen, Aufbau, Satzbau, Auslegun
Canals - (canal) Kanal, Gang
Railroads - (railroad) peitschen (durch)
because in all these cases the native American liberally provides the
liberally - liberal
brains, the rest of the world as generously supplying the muscles. No
generously - freigebige, grozgig, geners, dankenswerterweise
small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the
Azores - Azoren
outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews
augment - vergrern, erhhen, vermehren, wachsen, zunehmen, Augment
from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores. In like manner, the
peasants - (peasant) arm
rocky - felsig
Greenland whalers sailing out of Hull or London, put in at the Shetland
Hull - Hlse, Schale, Hlle
Islands, to receive the full complement of their crew. Upon the passage
homewards, they drop them there again. How it is, there is no telling,
homewards - (homeward) (homeward journey) Heimfahrt, heimwrts
but Islanders seem to make the best whalemen. They were nearly all
Islanders - (islander) Inselbewohner, Inselbewohnerin, Insulane
Islanders in the Pequod, _Isolatoes_ too, I call such, not
Isolatoes - Isolierte Kartoffeln
acknowledging the common continent of men, but each _Isolato_ living on
acknowledging - (acknowledge) zur Kenntnis nehmen, erkennen, bekenne
a separate continent of his own. Yet now, federated along one keel,
federated - (federate) fderieren
what a set these Isolatoes were! An Anacharsis Clootz deputation from
deputation - Abordnung
all the isles of the sea, and all the ends of the earth, accompanying
accompanying - (accompany) begleiten, geleiten, beiliegen
Old Ahab in the Pequod to lay the worlds grievances before that bar
grievances - (grievance) rgernis, Missstand, belstand
from which not very many of them ever come back. Black Little Pip"he
Pip - Kern
never did"oh, no! he went before. Poor Alabama boy! On the grim
Pequods forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine;
tambourine - Tamburin
prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck
prelusive - exklusiv
on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in
bid - Angebot, reizen, Gebot, Bieten, bieten
glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!
For several days after leaving Nantucket, nothing above hatches was
seen of Captain Ahab. The mates regularly relieved each other at the
watches, and for aught that could be seen to the contrary, they seemed
to be the only commanders of the ship; only they sometimes issued from
the cabin with orders so sudden and peremptory, that after all it was
peremptory - unabweisbar, entschieden
plain they but commanded vicariously. Yes, their supreme lord and
supreme - hchster, oberster
dictator was there, though hitherto unseen by any eyes not permitted to
penetrate into the now sacred retreat of the cabin.
penetrate - eindringen, penetrieren
retreat - Rckzug
Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below, I instantly
ascended - (ascend) steigen, aufsteigen
gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible; for my first vague
disquietude touching the unknown captain, now in the seclusion of the
disquietude - Unruhe Unwgbarkeit
sea, became almost a perturbation. This was strangely heightened at
perturbation - Strung
heightened - (heighten) erhhen, vergrern
times by the ragged Elijahs diabolical incoherences uninvitedly
diabolical - diabolische
incoherences - (incoherence) Zusammenhanglosigkeit
uninvitedly - uneingeladen
recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived
recurring - (recur) wiederkehren
subtle - subtil, fast unmerklich, haarfein, dezent
conceived - (conceive) konzipieren, erdenken, ersinnen, empfangen, verstehen
of. But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was
poorly - drftig, schlecht, arm
almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish
whimsicalities - (whimsicality) Launenhaftigkeit
prophet of the wharves. But whatever it was of apprehensiveness or
apprehensiveness - Besorgnis
uneasiness"to call it so"which I felt, yet whenever I came to look
uneasiness - Unbehagen
about me in the ship, it seemed against all warrantry to cherish such
warrantry - Rechtfertigung
emotions. For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew,
were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the
motley - zusammengewrfelt, bunt zusammengeworfen, vielflti
tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me
acquainted with, still I ascribed this"and rightly ascribed it"to the
ascribed - (ascribe) zurckfhren, zuschreiben
rightly - zurecht, zu Recht, richtig
fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation
uniqueness - Einmaligkeit, Einzigkeit, Eindeutigkeit
in which I had so abandonedly embarked. But it was especially the
abandonedly - im Stich gelassen
aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was
most forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and
forcibly - gewaltsame, gewaltsam
calculated - (calculate) kalkulieren, berechnen, ausrechne
allay - beruhigen, dmpfen, erleichtern, lindern
colourless - farblos
induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.
cheerfulness - Frhlichkeit, Frohsinn, Freundlichkeit
presentment - Darstellung
Three better, more likely sea-officers and men, each in his own
different way, could not readily be found, and they were every one of
readily - bereitwillig
them Americans; a Nantucketer, a Vineyarder, a Cape man. Now, it being
Vineyarder - Winzer
Christmas when the ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had
biting Polar weather, though all the time running away from it to the
southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed,
southward - sdwrts
latitude - Breite, geographische Breite, Breitengrad, Breitenkreis
gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all its intolerable
merciless - gnadenlos
weather behind us. It was one of those less lowering, but still grey
and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the
gloomy - dster, finster, trbe, dunkel
ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping
rushing through - durcheilend
and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of
rapidity - Schnelligkeit
the forenoon watch, so soon as I levelled my glance towards the
forenoon - Vormittag
taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension;
taffrail - Gelnder
foreboding - Ahnung, Vorahnung, bange Ahnung ; (forebode) Ahnung, Vorahnun
shivers - (shiver) Schauder, Schauer, zittern, frsteln
outran - (outrun) berholen
Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.
There seemed no sign of common bodily illness about him, nor of the
recovery from any. He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when
recovery - Wiedererlangung, Wiedergewinnung, Zurckgewinnung, Genesun
stake - Pfahl, Pflock, Marterpfahl, Scheiterhaufen, Anteil, Einsat
the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them,
overrunningly - berschieend
or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness. His
particle - Teilchen, Partikel , Partikel , Redeteilchen
compacted - (compact) zusammengedrngt
whole high, broad form, seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an
bronze - Bronze bronzen
unalterable mould, like Cellinis cast Perseus. Threading its way out
unalterable - unumstlich
mould - Heizform, Form;Gussform, Gieform, Moder;formen, gestalte
Threading - (thread) Faden, Garn, Zwirn, Nhgarn
from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his
tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you
scorched - (scorch) verbrennen rasen
saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish. It resembled that
slender - schlank
lividly - wtend
whitish - weilich,
resembled - (resemble) hneln, gleichen
perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a
seam - sumen, schrammen, zerschrammen, durchfurchen;Nutzschich
great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and
tearingly - trnenreich
without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from
wrenching - (wrench) reien
twig - Zweig
peels - (peel) schlen;Schale
grooves - (groove) Rille, Nut, gewhnlicher Gang, blicher Ablau
bark - Bellen
top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still
greenly alive, but branded. Whether that mark was born with him, or
greenly - naiv
whether it was the scar left by some desperate wound, no one could
scar - Narbe
certainly say. By some tacit consent, throughout the voyage little or
tacit - stillschweigend, impliziert, unausgesprochen
consent - zustimmen, einwilligen, Zustimmung, Konsens, Einverstndnis
no allusion was made to it, especially by the mates. But once
allusion - Anspielung, Allusion
Tashtegos senior, an old Gay-Head Indian among the crew,
senior - lter
superstitiously asserted that not till he was full forty years old did
superstitiously - aberglubische
Ahab become that way branded, and then it came upon him, not in the
fury of any mortal fray, but in an elemental strife at sea. Yet, this
fury - Furie
fray - Gefecht (auch fig.), Schlgerei;ausfransen
elemental - natrlich, elementar
strife - Streit, Unfriede
wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman
inferentially - folgernde
insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out
insinuated - (insinuate) andeuten, unterstellen, insinuieren, einschmeicheln
of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab. Nevertheless,
the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested
credulities - (credulity) Leichtglubigkeit
popularly - volkstmlich, allgemein
this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment. So that no
preternatural - auernatrlich
white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever
contradicted - (contradict) widersprechen
Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out"which might hardly come to
tranquilly - ruhig
pass, so he muttered"then, whoever should do that last office for the
dead, would find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole.
sole - Seezunge, Sohle, einzig
So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me, and the
powerfully - mchtig
livid brand which streaked it, that for the first few moments I hardly
livid - blau blass vor Wut, wtend, fuchsteufelswild
streaked - (streak) Schliere Spter Ginsterspanner schlieren flitzen
noted that not a little of this overbearing grimness was owing to the
overbearing - (overbear) berwltigen
grimness - Grimmigkeit
barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood. It had previously come
to me that this ivory leg had at sea been fashioned from the polished
bone of the sperm whales jaw. Aye, he was dismasted off Japan, said
dismasted - (dismast) entmastet
the old Gay-Head Indian once; but like his dismasted craft, he shipped
another mast without coming home for it. He has a quiver of em.
quiver - zittern
I was struck with the singular posture he maintained. Upon each side of
posture - Haltung
the Pequods quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizzen shrouds,
mizzen - Besanmast
there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the
auger - Holzbohrer Erdbohrer
plank. His bone leg steadied in that hole; one arm elevated, and
steadied - (steady) stetig stabilisieren
elevated - gehoben; (elevate) erhhen, anheben
holding by a shroud; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out
beyond the ships ever-pitching prow. There was an infinity of firmest
pitching - werfend, Stampfen (eines Schiffs); (pitch) werfen
infinity - Unendlichkeit
firmest - (firm) fest, straff (Busen), Fa. Firma, gesetzt, hart
fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and
determinate - begrenzt, bestimmt, festgelegt
unsurrenderable - unaufgebbar
wilfulness - Mutwilligkeit
fearless, forward dedication of that glance. Not a word he spoke; nor
dedication - Einsetzen, Einsatz, Hingeben, Hingabe
did his officers say aught to him; though by all their minutest
gestures and expressions, they plainly showed the uneasy, if not
gestures - (gesture) Geste, Gebrde, gestikuliere
painful, consciousness of being under a troubled master-eye. And not
only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion
crucifixion - Kreuzigung
in his face; in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some
mighty woe.
Ere long, from his first visit in the air, he withdrew into his cabin.
But after that morning, he was every day visible to the crew; either
standing in his pivot-hole, or seated upon an ivory stool he had; or
pivot - Drehpunkt, Angelpunkt, Zapfen, t-checkDrehpunkt
heavily walking the deck. As the sky grew less gloomy; indeed, began to
grow a little genial, he became still less and less a recluse; as if,
recluse - Einsiedler
when the ship had sailed from home, nothing but the dead wintry
bleakness of the sea had then kept him so secluded. And, by and by, it
bleakness - Kahlheit
secluded - (seclude) absondern, abschlieen
came to pass, that he was almost continually in the air; but, as yet,
continually - stndig, andauernd, immer wieder, immerzu
for all that he said, or perceptibly did, on the at last sunny deck, he
perceptibly - wahrnehmbar, merkliche
seemed as unnecessary there as another mast. But the Pequod was only
making a passage now; not regularly cruising; nearly all whaling
cruising - kreuzend; (cruise) kreuzend
preparatives needing supervision the mates were fully competent to, so
preparatives - (preparative) vorbereitend, prparativ
supervision - Aufsicht, Beaufsichtigung
that there was little or nothing, out of himself, to employ or excite
Ahab, now; and thus chase away, for that one interval, the clouds that
chase away - verjagen
layer upon layer were piled upon his brow, as ever all clouds choose
the loftiest peaks to pile themselves upon.
loftiest - (lofty) hoch,
peaks - (peak) Hchstwert, Pik (Berg), Spitze
Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling persuasiveness of the
warbling - (warble) trillern; (warble) (warble) trillern
persuasiveness - Beredsamkeit, Überzeugungskraft
pleasant, holiday weather we came to, seemed gradually to charm him
from his mood. For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and
cheeked - (cheek) Backe, ormal, Stirn, Mick , Pumpenmick
May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest,
misanthropic - menschenfeindlich
ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some
ruggedest - (rugged) robust, schroff
cloven - gespaltet, gespalten, kleben
oak - Eiche, Eichenholz, Eichen-
few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did,
sprouts - (sprout) sprieen;Schssling
visitants - (visitant) Besucher
in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish
playful - verspielt
girlish - mdchenhaft;Mdchen...
air. More than once did he put forth the faint blossom of a look,
blossom - Blte Bltezeit blhen, erblhen, aufblhen
which, in any other man, would have soon flowered out in a smile.
Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went
elapsed - (elapse) vergehen, verrinnen
icebergs - (iceberg) Eisberg
rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost
perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the
perpetually - ewig
reigns - (reign) Herrschaft, Regentschaft, herrschen, regieren
Tropic. The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing,
warmly - herzlich
ringing - kraftvoll, klar; (ring) kraftvoll, klar
perfumed - (perfume) Duft Parfm, Duftstoff, Parfum, parfmieren
overflowing - berlaufend, berflieend; (overflow) berflieen, berlaufe
redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped
redundant - berflssig redundant, berzhlig
Persian - persisch;Perser
sherbet - Sorbet,
heaped - (heap) Menschenmenge, Masse, Haufen, Haufe, Heap
up"flaked up, with rose-water snow. The starred and stately nights
flaked - (flak) Fliegerabwehrkanone, Flugabwehrkanone
seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely
haughty - hochmtig, stolz, berheblich, arrogant
dames - (Dame) Dame
jewelled - (jewel) Edelstein, Juwel , Schmuckstck, Kleinod
velvets - (velvet) Samt
pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted
pride - Hochmut Stolz, Trotz, Dnkel, Machtbewusstsein, Rude
conquering - (conquer) erobern
Earls - (earl) Graf
helmeted - (helmet) Helm
suns! For sleeping man, twas hard to choose between such winsome days
winsome - gewinnend
and such seducing nights. But all the witcheries of that unwaning
seducing - verfhrend; (seduce) verfhren, verleiten
witcheries - (witchery) Geisterbeschwrung
unwaning - auswandern
weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward
potencies - (potency) Zeugungskraft, Macht, Potenz
world. Inward they turned upon the soul, especially when the still mild
hours of eve came on; then, memory shot her crystals as the clear ice
crystals - (crystal) Kristall Kristallglas, Kristall (neute
most forms of noiseless twilights. And all these subtle agencies, more
noiseless - geruschlos
twilights - (twilight) Dmmerung, Zwielicht, Halbdunkel
agencies - (agency) Wille Agency Agentur Behrde
and more they wrought on Ahabs texture.
texture - Textur texturieren
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less
man has to do with aught that looks like death. Among sea-commanders,
the old greybeards will oftenest leave their berths to visit the
greybeards - (greybeard) Graubart
berths - (berth) Koje, Schlafplatz, Landungsplatz, Ladeplatz, Liegeplatz
night-cloaked deck. It was so with Ahab; only that now, of late, he
cloaked - (cloak) Umhang, Pelerine, Deckmantel, verhllen
seemed so much to live in the open air, that truly speaking, his visits
open air - unter freiem Himmel, im Freiem, Freilicht
were more to the cabin, than from the cabin to the planks. It feels
like going down into ones tomb,"he would mutter to himself"for an
mutter - murmeln; (mut) murmeln
old captain like me to be descending this narrow scuttle, to go to my
grave-dug berth.
dug - gegraben; (dig) gegraben
So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were
set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below;
sentinelled - (sentinel) Wache, Wachposten, Wchter, Wchterin, Markierung
slumbers - (slumber) Halbschlaf, Schlummer, Schlfchen, schlummern, dse
and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors
flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt
cautiousness - Behutsamkeit, Vorsicht
it to its place for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when
disturbing - (disturb) stren
slumbering - schlummernd; (slumber) Halbschlaf, Schlummer, Schlfche
this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the
quietude - Ruhe, Friede
habitually - gewhnlich, gewohnheitsmig
silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old
steersman - Rudergnger
man would emerge, gripping at the iron banister, to help his crippled
emerge - erscheinen, auftauchen, herauskommen, davonkomme
gripping - (grip) packen, fassen;Griffigkeit, Heft (von Sge, Feile)
banister - Gelnder Gelnderpfosten
crippled - (cripple) Krppel verkrppeln, lahm legen, lhme
way. Some considering touch of humanity was in him; for at times like
these, he usually abstained from patrolling the quarter-deck; because
abstained from - enthieltest
patrolling - patrouillierend; (patrol) patrouillierend
to his wearied mates, seeking repose within six inches of his ivory
wearied - (weary) mde
repose - ruhen
heel, such would have been the reverberating crack and din of that bony
heel - Hinterende des Hobels, Ferse, Absatz;flitzen;Brotkanten
reverberating - (reverberate) nachhallen, nachklingen, nachdrhnen
crack - Riss, Knall, Aufbruch, Bresche;aufbrechen, knallen, platze
din - (ding) (ding dong) bim bam, kling klang
step, that their dreams would have been on the crunching teeth of
crunching - (crunch) zermalen knirschen, knuspern, kalkulieren, durchrechne
sharks. But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings;
regardings - Rcksichten
and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from
lumber - Bauholz
pace - Tempo, Stufe, Schritt
taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the old second mate, came up from below,
mainmast - Gromast
with a certain unassured, deprecating humorousness, hinted that if
unassured - unversichert
deprecating - (deprecate) ablehnen, missbilligen, nicht gutheie
humorousness - Spahaftigkeit
Captain Ahab was pleased to walk the planks, then, no one could say
nay; but there might be some way of muffling the noise; hinting
muffling - umhllend, einhllend; (muffle) umhllend, einhllend
something indistinctly and hesitatingly about a globe of tow, and the
indistinctly - unklar, undeutliche
hesitatingly - zgerten
insertion into it, of the ivory heel. Ah! Stubb, thou didst not know
insertion - Einwurf, Einschub, Einfgung
Ahab then.
Am I a cannon-ball, Stubb, said Ahab, that thou wouldst wad me that
cannon ball - (cannon-ball) Bombe (Fuball-Jargon), Kanonenkugel
wouldst - oder
fashion? But go thy ways; I had forgot. Below to thy nightly grave;
nightly - nchtlich
where such as ye sleep between shrouds, to use ye to the filling one at
last."Down, dog, and kennel!
Starting at the unforseen concluding exclamation of the so suddenly
unforseen - unvorhergesehen
scornful old man, Stubb was speechless a moment; then said excitedly,
scornful - verchtlich
speechless - sprachlos, fassungslos, stumm
excitedly - aufgeregt
I am not used to be spoken to that way, sir; I do but less than half
like it, sir.
Avast! gritted Ahab between his set teeth, and violently moving away,
gritted - (grit) Schrot;Kies, Streusand, Schotter, Split
violently - gewaltttig
as if to avoid some passionate temptation.
passionate - leidenschaftlich
temptation - Versuchung, Verfhrung
No, sir; not yet, said Stubb, emboldened, I will not tamely be
emboldened - (embolden) ermutigen fetten, fett setzen
tamely - zahm
called a dog, sir.
Then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone,
donkey - Esel; Grauchen
mule - Schlappen, Maultier
ass - Arsch, Esel, Dummkopf
begone - fort
or Ill clear the world of thee!
As he said this, Ahab advanced upon him with such overbearing terrors
in his aspect, that Stubb involuntarily retreated.
I was never served so before without giving a hard blow for it,
muttered Stubb, as he found himself descending the cabin-scuttle. Its
very queer. Stop, Stubb; somehow, now, I dont well know whether to go
back and strike him, or"whats that?"down here on my knees and pray for
him? Yes, that was the thought coming up in me; but it would be the
first time I ever _did_ pray. Its queer; very queer; and hes queer
too; aye, take him fore and aft, hes about the queerest old man Stubb
ever sailed with. How he flashed at me!"his eyes like powder-pans! is
flashed - (flash) aufleuchten, blitzen, aufflammen
he mad? Anyway theres something on his mind, as sure as there must be
something on a deck when it cracks. He aint in his bed now, either,
cracks - (crack) Riss, Knall, Aufbruch, Bresche;aufbrechen, knalle
more than three hours out of the twenty-four; and he dont sleep then.
Didnt that Dough-Boy, the steward, tell me that of a morning he always
Dough - Teig Knete
finds the old mans hammock clothes all rumpled and tumbled, and the
rumpled - (rumple) zerknittern
sheets down at the foot, and the coverlid almost tied into knots, and
coverlid - Deckel
the pillow a sort of frightful hot, as though a baked brick had been on
brick - Backstein, Ziegel, externes Netzteil, bricken
it? A hot old man! I guess hes got what some folks ashore call a
conscience; its a kind of Tic-Dolly-row they say"worse nor a
Tic - Tic, Zucken, nervses Zucken
Dolly - Kamerawagen, Dolly, Pppchen
toothache. Well, well; I dont know what it is, but the Lord keep me
toothache - Zahnschmerz, Zahnweh
from catching it. Hes full of riddles; I wonder what he goes into the
riddles - (riddle) Rtsel
after hold for, every night, as Dough-Boy tells me he suspects; whats
that for, I should like to know? Whos made appointments with him in
the hold? Aint that queer, now? But theres no telling, its the old
game"Here goes for a snooze. Damn me, its worth a fellows while to be
snooze - dsen, nicken, ein Nickerchen machen, Schlfchen, Nickerchen
Damn - verdammen, verfluchen, chten, verschreien, verteufel
born into the world, if only to fall right asleep. And now that I think
of it, thats about the first thing babies do, and thats a sort of
queer, too. Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of em.
But thats against my principles. Think not, is my eleventh
principles - (principle) Grundsatz, Prinzip, Naturgesetz
eleventh - elfte, elfter
commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth"So here goes again.
commandment - Gebot
twelfth - zwlfte
But hows that? didnt he call me a dog? blazes! he called me ten times
blazes - (blaze) Lohe, Brand, Grobrand, brenne, Glut
a donkey, and piled a lot of jackasses on top of _that!_ He might as
jackasses - (jackass) Esel, Depp, Dummkopf, Trottel
well have kicked me, and done with it. Maybe he _did_ kick me, and I
didnt observe it, I was so taken all aback with his brow, somehow. It
aback - rckwrts
flashed like a bleached bone. What the devils the matter with me? I
dont stand right on my legs. Coming afoul of that old man has a sort
afoul - in Kollision, verwirrt, verheddert
of turned me wrong side out. By the Lord, I must have been dreaming,
though"How? how? how?"but the only ways to stash it; so here goes to
hammock again; and in the morning, Ill see how this plaguey juggling
plaguey - pestartig
juggling - jonglierend; (juggle) jonglieren; q
thinks over by daylight.
When Stubb had departed, Ahab stood for a while leaning over the
bulwarks; and then, as had been usual with him of late, calling a
sailor of the watch, he sent him below for his ivory stool, and also
his pipe. Lighting the pipe at the binnacle lamp and planting the stool
binnacle - Kompasshaus, Kompasshuschen
on the weather side of the deck, he sat and smoked.
In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were
Norse - altnordisch Microscopique
thrones - (throne) Thron
fabricated, saith tradition, of the tusks of the narwhale. How could
fabricated - (fabricate) fabrizieren, erzeugen, herstellen
narwhale - Einhornwal
one look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of bones, without
tripod - Dreifu, Stativ, Dreibein, Tripod
bethinking him of the royalty it symbolized? For a Khan of the plank,
royalty - Nutzungsgebhr Tantieme
symbolized - (symbolize) symbolisieren
and a king of the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.
Some moments passed, during which the thick vapor came from his mouth
in quick and constant puffs, which blew back again into his face. How
now, he soliloquized at last, withdrawing the tube, this smoking no
soliloquized - (soliloquize) ein Selbstgesprch fhren, mit sich selber rede
longer soothes. Oh, my pipe! hard must it go with me if thy charm be
soothes - (soothe) beruhigen, Wogen gltten, mildern, besnftigen
gone! Here have I been unconsciously toiling, not pleasuring"aye, and
ignorantly smoking to windward all the while; to windward, and with
ignorantly - unwissend
such nervous whiffs, as if, like the dying whale, my final jets were
whiffs - (whiff) Hauch
jets - (jet) Dsenflugzeug, Strahl, Dse;ausstoen
the strongest and fullest of trouble. What business have I with this
pipe? This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white
sereneness - Ruhe
send up - weiterleiten
vapors among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like
vapors - (vapor) Dampf prahlen
mine. Ill smoke no more"
He tossed the still lighted pipe into the sea. The fire hissed in the
waves; the same instant the ship shot by the bubble the sinking pipe
made. With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly paced the planks.
lurchingly - taumelnd
Next morning Stubb accosted Flask.
Such a queer dream, King-Post, I never had. You know the old mans
ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it; and when I tried to
kick back, upon my soul, my little man, I kicked my leg right off! And
then, presto! Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept
pyramid - Pyramide
kicking at it. But what was still more curious, Flask"you know how
curious all dreams are"through all this rage that I was in, I somehow
seemed to be thinking to myself, that after all, it was not much of an
insult, that kick from Ahab. Why, thinks I, whats the row? Its not
a real leg, only a false leg. And theres a mighty difference between
a living thump and a dead thump. Thats what makes a blow from the
hand, Flask, fifty times more savage to bear than a blow from a cane.
cane - Rohr Rohrstock Blindenstock, weisser Langstock
The living member"that makes the living insult, my little man. And
thinks I to myself all the while, mind, while I was stubbing my silly
stubbing - (stub) Stummel; Stumpf Abreizettel Stub, Stutzen, Abris
toes against that cursed pyramid"so confoundedly contradictory was it
confoundedly - umhangen verflixt
contradictory - widersprchlich
all, all the while, I say, I was thinking to myself, whats his leg
now, but a cane"a whalebone cane. Yes, thinks I, it was only a
playful cudgelling"in fact, only a whaleboning that he gave me"not a
cudgelling - (cudgel) Knppel, Totschlger (Knppel); (cudgel) Knppel
base kick. Besides, thinks I, look at it once; why, the end of it"the
foot part"what a small sort of end it is; whereas, if a broad footed
farmer kicked me, _theres_ a devilish broad insult. But this insult is
whittled down to a point only. But now comes the greatest joke of the
whittled - (whittle) (zurecht)schnitzen
dream, Flask. While I was battering away at the pyramid, a sort of
badger-haired old merman, with a hump on his back, takes me by the
badger - Dachs
haired - behaart
shoulders, and slews me round. What are you bout? says he. Slid!
slews - (slew) sich drehen, sich herumdrehen;Menge
man, but I was frightened. Such a phiz! But, somehow, next moment I was
over the fright. What am I about? says I at last. And what business
fright - Angst, Schreck, Schrecken
is that of yours, I should like to know, Mr. Humpback? Do _you_ want a
Humpback - Buckel Buckliger, Bucklige
kick? By the lord, Flask, I had no sooner said that, than he turned
round his stern to me, bent over, and dragging up a lot of seaweed he
seaweed - Algen, Tang, Seetang
had for a clout"what do you think, I saw?"why thunder alive, man, his
stern was stuck full of marlinspikes, with the points out. Says I, on
marlinspikes - (marlinspike) Marlspieker
second thoughts, I guess I wont kick you, old fellow. Wise Stubb,
said he, wise Stubb; and kept muttering it all the time, a sort of
muttering - murmeln, brummeln; (mutter) murmeln, brummeln
eating of his own gums like a chimney hag. Seeing he wasnt going to
gums - (gum) Gummi, Klebgummi, Harz
hag - altes Weib, Hexe
stop saying over his wise Stubb, wise Stubb, I thought I might as
well fall to kicking the pyramid again. But I had only just lifted my
foot for it, when he roared out, Stop that kicking! Halloa, says I,
whats the matter now, old fellow? Look ye here, says he; lets
argue the insult. Captain Ahab kicked ye, didnt he? Yes, he did,
says I"right _here_ it was. Very good, says he"he used his ivory
leg, didnt he? Yes, he did, says I. Well then, says he, wise
Stubb, what have you to complain of? Didnt he kick with right good
will? it wasnt a common pitch pine leg he kicked with, was it? No, you
were kicked by a great man, and with a beautiful ivory leg, Stubb. Its
an honor; I consider it an honor. Listen, wise Stubb. In old England
the greatest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen, and
lords - (Lord) Gebieter Herr herrschen
slapped - (slap) Klaps, Schlag, Makeup, Schminke, klatsche
made garter-knights of; but, be _your_ boast, Stubb, that ye were
garter - Strumpfband
boast - stolz sein auf etw
kicked by old Ahab, and made a wise man of. Remember what I say; _be_
kicked by him; account his kicks honors; and on no account kick back;
honors - (Honor) Ehre ehren
for you cant help yourself, wise Stubb. Dont you see that pyramid?
With that, he all of a sudden seemed somehow, in some queer fashion, to
swim off into the air. I snored; rolled over; and there I was in my
snored - (snore) schnarchen Schnarchen
hammock! Now, what do you think of that dream, Flask?
I dont know; it seems a sort of foolish to me, tho.
tho - obwohl
May be; may be. But its made a wise man of me, Flask. Dye see Ahab
standing there, sideways looking over the stern? Well, the best thing
you can do, Flask, is to let the old man alone; never speak to him,
whatever he says. Halloa! Whats that he shouts? Hark!
Halloa - hallo
Mast-head, there! Look sharp, all of ye! There are whales hereabouts!
Look sharp - Los!, Dalli, dalli!, Beeil dich!
hereabouts - (hereabout) hier herum
If ye see a white one, split your lungs for him!
What do you think of that now, Flask? aint there a small drop of
something queer about that, eh? A white whale"did ye mark that, man?
Look ye"theres something special in the wind. Stand by for it, Flask.
Ahab has that thats bloody on his mind. But, mum; he comes this way.
Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost
launched - (launch) Markteinfhrung;anstoen, starten (Rakete), abschiee
in its unshored, harbourless immensities. Ere that come to pass; ere
unshored - ungeschrieben
harbourless - ohne Schutz
immensities - (immensity) Unermesslichkeit, Grenzenlosigkeit
the Pequods weedy hull rolls side by side with the barnacled hulls of
weedy - schwchlich
the leviathan; at the outset it is but well to attend to a matter
almost indispensable to a thorough appreciative understanding of the
thorough - grndlich
appreciative - anerkenntlich
more special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts which
leviathanic - leviathanisch
revelations - (Revelation) Enthllung, Offenbarung, Erkenntnis
are to follow.
It is some systematized exhibition of the whale in his broad genera,
systematized - (systematize) systematisieren
genera - (genus) Gattung
that I would now fain put before you. Yet is it no easy task. The
put before - vorgemacht
classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here
classification - Klassifikation, Klassifizierung
constituents - (constituent) ausmachend, fest, Bestand-, verfassunggeben
essayed. Listen to what the best and latest authorities have laid down.
No branch of Zoology is so much involved as that which is entitled
Zoology - Zoologie, Tierkunde
Cetology, says Captain Scoresby, A.D. 1820.
It is not my intention, were it in my power, to enter into the inquiry
as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families.
cetacea - Wale, Wale und Delphine
* * * Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal
confusion - Verwirrung, Durcheinander, Konfusion, Verwechslung
historians - (historian) Historiker, Historikerin, Geschichtsschreiber
(sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A.D. 1839.
Unfitness to pursue our research in the unfathomable waters.
pursue - verfolgen, beschreiten, nachjagen, nachgehen
unfathomable - unfassbar, unermesslich
Impenetrable veil covering our knowledge of the cetacea. A field
veil - Vorhang Schleier verschleiern, verhllen
strewn with thorns. All these incomplete indications but serve to
strewn - bestreuen, streuen, gestreut
thorns - (thorn) Dorn
indications - (indication) Anzeichen, Anzeige, Hinweis, Indiz
torture us naturalists.
torture - Folter Tortur foltern
naturalists - (naturalist) Naturforscher, Naturforscherin, Naturalis
Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson,
those lights of zoology and anatomy. Nevertheless, though of real
anatomy - Anatomie
knowledge there be little, yet of books there are a plenty; and so in
some small degree, with cetology, or the science of whales. Many are
the men, small and great, old and new, landsmen and seamen, who have at
large or in little, written of the whale. Run over a few:"The Authors
of the Bible; Aristotle; Pliny; Aldrovandi; Sir Thomas Browne; Gesner;
Ray; Linnæus; Rondeletius; Willoughby; Green; Artedi; Sibbald; Brisson;
Ray - Schimmer, Strahl;ausstrahlen
Marten; Lacépède; Bonneterre; Desmarest; Baron Cuvier; Frederick
Marten - Marder
Cuvier; John Hunter; Owen; Scoresby; Beale; Bennett; J. Ross Browne;
the Author of Miriam Coffin; Olmstead; and the Rev. T. Cheever. But to
what ultimate generalizing purpose all these have written, the above
ultimate - letzter, ultimativ, uerster
generalizing - (generalize) generalisieren, pauschalisieren, verallgemeiner
cited extracts will show.
cited - (cit) Zitat
Of the names in this list of whale authors, only those following Owen
ever saw living whales; and but one of them was a real professional
harpooneer and whaleman. I mean Captain Scoresby. On the separate
subject of the Greenland or right-whale, he is the best existing
authority. But Scoresby knew nothing and says nothing of the great
sperm whale, compared with which the Greenland whale is almost unworthy
mentioning. And here be it said, that the Greenland whale is an usurper
usurper - Usurpator
upon the throne of the seas. He is not even by any means the largest of
the whales. Yet, owing to the long priority of his claims, and the
priority - vorrangig;Vorrang , Prioritt
profound ignorance which, till some seventy years back, invested the
then fabulous or utterly unknown sperm-whale, and which ignorance to
fabulous - mythisch, unglaubhaft, nicht glaubwrdig, sagenhaf
this present day still reigns in all but some few scientific retreats
retreats - (retreat) Rckzug
and whale-ports; this usurpation has been every way complete. Reference
to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past
days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one rival, was
rival - Gegner, Rivale, Konkurrent, Gegnerin
to them the monarch of the seas. But the time has at last come for a
monarch - Monarch, Monarchin, Frst
new proclamation. This is Charing Cross; hear ye! good people all,"the
proclamation - Proklamation
Charing - (char) Zeichen;verkohlen;Saibling
Greenland whale is deposed,"the great sperm whale now reigneth!
deposed - (depose) niederlegen, deponieren, entthronen (monarch only
reigneth - regiert
There are only two books in being which at all pretend to put the
living sperm whale before you, and at the same time, in the remotest
degree succeed in the attempt. Those books are Beales and Bennetts;
both in their time surgeons to English South-Sea whale-ships, and both
surgeons - (surgeon) Chirurg, Chirurgin, Wundarzt
exact and reliable men. The original matter touching the sperm whale to
be found in their volumes is necessarily small; but so far as it goes,
volumes - (volume) Volumen Lautstrke Jahrgang Band Volume
it is of excellent quality, though mostly confined to scientific
description. As yet, however, the sperm whale, scientific or poetic,
lives not complete in any literature. Far above all other hunted
whales, his is an unwritten life.
unwritten - (unwrite) ungeschrieben
Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular
comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the
comprehensive - umfassend, umfangreich
outline - Umriss, Kontur, Skizze, Skizzierung, Umrisszeichnung
present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent
laborers. As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I
laborers - (laborer) Arbeiter
hereupon offer my own poor endeavors. I promise nothing complete;
hereupon - hierauf, darauf
because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very
reason infallibly be faulty. I shall not pretend to a minute anatomical
faulty - fehlerhaft
anatomical - anatomisch
description of the various species, or"in this place at least"to much
of any description. My object here is simply to project the draught of
a systematization of cetology. I am the architect, not the builder.
systematization - Systematisierung
builder - Bauarbeiter, Bauarbeiterin; (''= master builder'') Baumeiste
But it is a ponderous task; no ordinary letter-sorter in the
sorter - Sortierer, Sortierprogramm
Post-Office is equal to it. To grope down into the bottom of the sea
grope - tasten tappen, herumtasten, begrapschen
after them; to have ones hands among the unspeakable foundations,
foundations - (foundation) Grndung Grundlage Fundament, Stiftun
ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing. What am I
pelvis - Becken
that I should essay to hook the nose of this leviathan! The awful
tauntings in Job might well appal me. Will he (the leviathan) make a
tauntings - (taunting) vorwurfsvoll, hhnisch
covenant with thee? Behold the hope of him is vain! But I have swam
covenant - Bund Zusage
through libraries and sailed through oceans; I have had to do with
sailed through - durchgesegelt
whales with these visible hands; I am in earnest; and I will try. There
are some preliminaries to settle.
First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology
unsettled - (unsettle) verwirren, beunruhigen
is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it
vestibule - Windfang, Vorraum; in large buildings: Vorhalle, Eingangshall
still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish. In his System of
moot - Volksversammlung, Streit
Nature, A.D. 1776, Linnæus declares, I hereby separate the whales from
declares - (declare) bekanntmachen, bekanntgeben, deklarieren, ausrufe
the fish. But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850,
sharks and shad, alewives and herring, against Linnæuss express edict,
alewives - (alewife) Schankwirtin
edict - Edikt
were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the
Leviathan.
The grounds upon which Linnæus would fain have banished the whales from
banished - (banish) verbannen, herauswerfen, vertreiben
the waters, he states as follows: On account of their warm bilocular
bilocular - bilokular
heart, their lungs, their movable eyelids, their hollow ears, penem
movable - beweglich
eyelids - (eyelid) Augenlid
intrantem feminam mammis lactantem, and finally, ex lege naturæ jure
meritoque. I submitted all this to my friends Simeon Macey and Charley
submitted - (submit) sich fgen vorlegen, einreichen, unterwerfen
Coffin, of Nantucket, both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and
messmates - (messmate) Schsselgenosse, Tischgenosse, Mitesser
they united in the opinion that the reasons set forth were altogether
insufficient. Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.
insufficient - unzureichend, ungengend
profanely - weltlich
Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned
waiving - (waive) verzichten
ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.
This fundamental thing settled, the next point is, in what internal
fundamental - Grundlage grundlegend, fundamental, grundstzlich
internal - intern, checkinnerlich, checkinlndisch
respect does the whale differ from other fish. Above, Linnæus has given
differ - sich unterscheiden
you those items. But in brief, they are these: lungs and warm blood;
whereas, all other fish are lungless and cold blooded.
lungless - lungenlos
cold blooded - kaltbltig
Next: how shall we define the whale, by his obvious externals, so as
externals - (external) auen-, extern, uerlich
conspicuously to label him for all time to come? To be short, then, a
conspicuously - auffallend, auffllig, sichtbar, deutlich
whale is _a spouting fish with a horizontal tail_. There you have him.
horizontal - horizontal, waagrecht, waagerecht
However contracted, that definition is the result of expanded
meditation. A walrus spouts much like a whale, but the walrus is not a
walrus - Walross
fish, because he is amphibious. But the last term of the definition is
amphibious - amphibisch
still more cogent, as coupled with the first. Almost any one must have
cogent - berzeugend, schlagend, stichhaltig
noticed that all the fish familiar to landsmen have not a flat, but a
vertical, or up-and-down tail. Whereas, among spouting fish the tail,
vertical - vertikal, senkrecht
though it may be similarly shaped, invariably assumes a horizontal
assumes - (assume) annehmen, voraussetzen, vermuten, unterstellen
position.
By the above definition of what a whale is, I do by no means exclude
exclude - ausschlieen
from the leviathanic brotherhood any sea creature hitherto identified
brotherhood - Bruderschaft Kammer
with the whale by the best informed Nantucketers; nor, on the other
best informed - bestinformiert, kenntnisreichste
hand, link with it any fish hitherto authoritatively regarded as
authoritatively - herrische
alien.* Hence, all the smaller, spouting, and horizontal tailed fish
must be included in this ground-plan of Cetology. Now, then, come the
grand divisions of the entire whale host.
divisions - (division) Teilung Teil Division Abteilung
*I am aware that down to the present time, the fish styled Lamatins and
Dugongs (Pig-fish and Sow-fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are
Dugongs - (dugong) Dugong, Meerkuh
Coffins - (coffin) Sarg einsargen
included by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig-fish
are a noisy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers,
lurking - lauernd; (lurk) lauern
and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny
spout - Tlle, Ausguss, Schnabel, Auslauf
deny - verweigern, leugnen;gegen jdn. retten
their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their
credentials - (credential) Berechtigungsnachweis, Zugangsdaten
passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
Kingdom - Knigreich, Knigtum
First: According to magnitude I divide the whales into three primary
comprehend - umfassen verstehen, begreifen, erfassen, einsehen
all, both small and large.
I. THE FOLIO WHALE; II. the OCTAVO WHALE; III. the DUODECIMO WHALE.
FOLIO - Seitenzahl
OCTAVO - Oktavband
DUODECIMO - duodezimo
As the type of the FOLIO I present the _Sperm Whale_; of the OCTAVO,
the _Grampus_; of the DUODECIMO, the _Porpoise_.
Grampus - Rundkopfdelphin, Rissosdelphin
Porpoise - Tmmler, Schweinswal
FOLIOS. Among these I here include the following chapters:"I. The
FOLIOS - (folio) Seitenzahl
_Sperm Whale_; II. the _Right Whale_; III. the _Fin-Back Whale_; IV.
Fin - Flosse, Grat, Naht
the _Hump-backed Whale_; V. the _Razor Back Whale_; VI. the _Sulphur
Sulphur - Schwefel
Bottom Whale_.
English of old vaguely known as the Trumpa whale, and the Physeter
whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the
Anvil - Amboss
French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the
Germans - (German) Deutscher , Deutsche, Germane, Germanin, Achtelcicer
Macrocephalus - Makrozephalus
Long Words. He is, without doubt, the largest inhabitant of the globe;
the most formidable of all whales to encounter; the most majestic in
most majestic - hoheitsvollste
aspect; and lastly, by far the most valuable in commerce; he being the
only creature from which that valuable substance, spermaceti, is
obtained. All his peculiarities will, in many other places, be enlarged
obtained - (obtain) erlangen, erhalten, bestehen
enlarged - (enlarge) vergrern
upon. It is chiefly with his name that I now have to do. Philologically
Philologically - philologisch
considered, it is absurd. Some centuries ago, when the Sperm whale was
almost wholly unknown in his own proper individuality, and when his oil
individuality - Individualitt
was only accidentally obtained from the stranded fish; in those days
accidentally - zufllig, durch Zufall, aus Versehen, versehentlic
spermaceti, it would seem, was popularly supposed to be derived from a
derived - (derive) erlangen herleiten, ableiten, abstammen, kommen von
creature identical with the one then known in England as the Greenland
or Right Whale. It was the idea also, that this same spermaceti was
that quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable
quickening - beschleunigend; (quicken) beschleunigend
syllable - Silbe
of the word literally expresses. In those times, also, spermaceti was
literally - wrtlich, buchstblich
exceedingly scarce, not being used for light, but only as an ointment
ointment - Salbe, Balsam
and medicament. It was only to be had from the druggists as you
medicament - Medikament
druggists - (druggist) Apotheker
nowadays buy an ounce of rhubarb. When, as I opine, in the course of
nowadays - gegenwrtig, zur Zeit, derzeitig, jetzt
ounce - Unze(n);Unze, Unze (Masseeinheit)
rhubarb - Rhabarber
opine - meinen
time, the true nature of spermaceti became known, its original name was
still retained by the dealers; no doubt to enhance its value by a
dealers - (dealer) Hndler Geber
enhance - erhhen, vergrern, verbessern
notion so strangely significant of its scarcity. And so the appellation
notion - Ahnung, Ansicht, Auffassung, Begriff
scarcity - Mangel, Knappheit
appellation - Benennung, Bezeichnung, Herkunftsbezeichnung
must at last have come to be bestowed upon the whale from which this
bestowed - (bestow) verstauen, einlagern, unterbringen, schenken, verleihe
spermaceti was really derived.
the most venerable of the leviathans, being the one first regularly
most venerable - verehrenswerteste
hunted by man. It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or
yields - (yield) hervorbringen, er/sie hat/hatte ergeben, weichen
commonly - gewhnlich
baleen; and the oil specially known as whale oil, an inferior article
specially - speziell
in commerce. Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by
indiscriminately - wahllos, willkrlich, unkritisch, querbeet
designated - (designate) bestimmen, kennzeichnen, markieren, benennen
all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black
Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Whale. There is a
deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus
obscurity - Dunkelheit, Unklarheit
multitudinously baptised. What then is the whale, which I include in
baptised - (baptise) taufen
the second species of my Folios? It is the Great Mysticetus of the
English naturalists; the Greenland Whale of the English whalemen; the
Baleine Ordinaire of the French whalemen; the Growlands Walfish of the
Walfish - Walfisch
Swedes. It is the whale which for more than two centuries past has been
Swedes - (Swede) Schwede, Schwedin, Svear
hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale
which the American fishermen have long pursued in the Indian ocean, on
the Brazil Banks, on the Nor West Coast, and various other parts of
the world, designated by them Right Whale Cruising Grounds.
Some pretend to see a difference between the Greenland whale of the
English and the right whale of the Americans. But they precisely agree
in all their grand features; nor has there yet been presented a single
determinate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by
radical - radikal radikalisch Wurzel
endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that
subdivisions - (subdivision) Unterteilung, Unterteilen, Unterabteilun
inconclusive - ergebnislos
some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.
repellingly - abstoend
intricate - kompliziert
The right whale will be elsewhere treated of at some length, with
reference to elucidating the sperm whale.
elucidating - (elucidate) erlutern, verdeutlichen, erklren
reckon - rechnen, damit rechnen, zhlen
a monster which, by the various names of Fin-Back, Tall-Spout, and
Long-John, has been seen almost in every sea and is commonly the whale
whose distant jet is so often descried by passengers crossing the
Atlantic, in the New York packet-tracks. In the length he attains, and
attains - (attain) erreichen, erlangen
in his baleen, the Fin-back resembles the right whale, but is of a less
resembles - (resemble) hneln, gleichen
portly girth, and a lighter colour, approaching to olive. His great
portly - korpulent, vollschlank, beleibt, stattlich
girth - Sattelgurt Umfang
lips present a cable-like aspect, formed by the intertwisting, slanting
intertwisting - (intertwist) verflechten
folds of large wrinkles. His grand distinguishing feature, the fin,
distinguishing - (distinguish) unterscheiden erkennen auszeichnen
from which he derives his name, is often a conspicuous object. This fin
derives - (derive) erlangen herleiten, ableiten, abstammen, kommen von
conspicuous - auffllig, augenfllig, offensichtlich, sichtbar
is some three or four feet long, growing vertically from the hinder
vertically - vertikal, senkrecht
hinder - behindern, aufhalten, hindern; (hind) behindern, aufhalte
end. Even if not the slightest other part of the creature be visible,
this isolated fin will, at times, be seen plainly projecting from the
isolated - (isolate) isolieren, absondern, abdichten
surface. When the sea is moderately calm, and slightly marked with
moderately - gemigte
spherical ripples, and this gnomon-like fin stands up and casts shadows
spherical - kugelfrmig, sphrisch, kugelig
ripples - (Ripple) Brummspannung, Welligkeit
gnomon - Gnomon
upon the wrinkled surface, it may well be supposed that the watery
circle surrounding it somewhat resembles a dial, with its style and
surrounding - Umgebung umliegend; (surround) umgeben, umringen, umzingeln
dial - Zifferblatt Whlscheibe whlen
wavy hour-lines graved on it. On that Ahaz-dial the shadow often goes
wavy - gewellt
Ahaz - Ahas
back. The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some
gregarious - gesellig Herde
hater - Hasser, Hasserin
men are man-haters. Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly
haters - (hater) Hasser, Hasserin
unexpectedly - unerwartet, unerwarteterweise
rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his
sullen - mrrisch, schlecht gelaunt, sauer, missmutig
straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear
spear - Speer, Lanze (Wurflanze);aufspieen, spieen, durchbohren
upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in
swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems
defy - herausfordern, die Stirn bieten, trotzen, widersetzen, lossagen
the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark
that style upon his back. From having the baleen in his mouth, the
Fin-Back is sometimes included with the right whale, among a theoretic
theoretic - theoretisch
species denominated _Whalebone whales_, that is, whales with baleen. Of
denominated - (denominate) benennen, bezeichnen
these so called Whalebone whales, there would seem to be several
varieties, most of which, however, are little known. Broad-nosed whales
and beaked whales; pike-headed whales; bunched whales; under-jawed
beaked - (beak) Schnabel, Zinken
bunched - (bunch) Bund, lowers, Traube, bndeln, anordnen
jawed - (jaw) Kiefer, Maul
whales and rostrated whales, are the fishermens names for a few sorts.
rostrated - rostriert
In connection with this appellative of Whalebone whales, it is of
great importance to mention, that however such a nomenclature may be
nomenclature - Nomenklatur
convenient in facilitating allusions to some kind of whales, yet it is
facilitating - (facilitate) erleichtern, frdern
in vain to attempt a clear classification of the Leviathan, founded
founded - (found) gefunden, aufgefunden;begrnden, grnden
upon either his baleen, or hump, or fin, or teeth; notwithstanding that
notwithstanding - obwohl, obgleich, wenngleich, obschon, ungeachtet
those marked parts or features very obviously seem better adapted to
afford the basis for a regular system of Cetology than any other
detached bodily distinctions, which the whale, in his kinds, presents.
detached - (detach) entfernen, ablsen, loslsen
distinctions - (distinction) Unterschied Auszeichnung
How then? The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose
peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales,
dispersed - (disperse) zerstreuen,
without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure in
regard - schtzen, betrachten, bercksichtigen, achten;Aufmerksamkei
other and more essential particulars. Thus, the sperm whale and the
more essential - wesentlichere
humpbacked whale, each has a hump; but there the similitude ceases.
humpbacked - bucklig
similitude - hnlichkeit
Then, this same humpbacked whale and the Greenland whale, each of these
has baleen; but there again the similitude ceases. And it is just the
same with the other parts above mentioned. In various sorts of whales,
above mentioned - obenerwhnt, oben erwhnt
they form such irregular combinations; or, in the case of any one of
combinations - (combination) Kombinieren Kombination, Kombinierte, Kombinat
them detached, such an irregular isolation; as utterly to defy all
general methodization formed upon such a basis. On this rock every one
methodization - Methodisierung
of the whale-naturalists has split.
But it may possibly be conceived that, in the internal parts of the
whale, in his anatomy"there, at least, we shall be able to hit the
right classification. Nay; what thing, for example, is there in the
Greenland whales anatomy more striking than his baleen? Yet we have
more striking - apartere
seen that by his baleen it is impossible correctly to classify the
classify - einordnen, einstufen, unterteilen, klassifiziere
Greenland whale. And if you descend into the bowels of the various
bowels - (bowel) Dickdarm Inneres, Eingeweide, Bauch
leviathans, why there you will not find distinctions a fiftieth part as
available to the systematizer as those external ones already
systematizer - Systematiker
external - auen-, extern, uerlich
enumerated. What then remains? nothing but to take hold of the whales
enumerated - (enumerate) aufzhlen
bodily, in their entire liberal volume, and boldly sort them that way.
And this is the Bibliographical system here adopted; and it is the only
Bibliographical - bibliographische
adopted - (adopt) adoptieren annehmen, bernehmen
one that can possibly succeed, for it alone is practicable. To proceed.
practicable - durchfhrbar, ausfhrbar, praktikabel
on the northern American coast. He has been frequently captured there,
and towed into harbor. He has a great pack on him like a peddler; or
you might call him the Elephant and Castle whale. At any rate, the
popular name for him does not sufficiently distinguish him, since the
distinguish - unterscheiden erkennen auszeichnen
sperm whale also has a hump though a smaller one. His oil is not very
valuable. He has baleen. He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of
light hearted - (light-hearted) unbeschwert
all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any
other of them.
known but his name. I have seen him at a distance off Cape Horn. Of a
retiring nature, he eludes both hunters and philosophers. Though no
eludes - (elude) entziehen
coward, he has never yet shown any part of him but his back, which
rises in a long sharp ridge. Let him go. I know little more of him, nor
does anybody else.
gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along the
brimstone - Zitronenfalter
Tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings. He is seldom seen;
Tartarian - Tartarisch
profounder - (profound) tiefgehend, profund
divings - (diving) Wasserspringen Tauchen
at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and
then always at too great a distance to study his countenance. He is
never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. Prodigies are
Prodigies - (prodigy) Orakel Wunder Wunderkind
told of him. Adieu, Sulphur Bottom! I can say nothing more that is true
Adieu - Adieu
of ye, nor can the oldest Nantucketer.
Thus ends BOOK I. (_Folio_), and now begins BOOK II. (_Octavo_).
OCTAVOES.*"These embrace the whales of middling magnitude, among which
embrace - umarmen annehmen, Umarmung
present may be numbered:"I., the _Grampus_; II., the _Black Fish_;
III., the _Narwhale_; IV., the _Thrasher_; V., the _Killer_.
*Why this book of whales is not denominated the Quarto is very plain.
Quarto - Quartformat
Because, while the whales of this order, though smaller than those of
the former order, nevertheless retain a proportionate likeness to them
proportionate - proportionieren
in figure, yet the bookbinders Quarto volume in its dimensioned form
dimensioned - (dimension) Dimension dimensionieren
does not preserve the shape of the Folio volume, but the Octavo volume
preserve - Konserve, Eingemachtes, Naturschutzgebiet, Naturreserva
does.
loud sonorous breathing, or rather blowing, has furnished a proverb to
sonorous - klangvoll
landsmen, is so well known a denizen of the deep, yet is he not
denizen - Bewohner, Bewohnerin, Stammgast, Stammgsti
popularly classed among whales. But possessing all the grand
distinctive features of the leviathan, most naturalists have recognised
distinctive - unverkennbar kennzeichnend, charakteristisch, unverwechselba
recognised - (recognise) anerkennen
him for one. He is of moderate octavo size, varying from fifteen to
moderate - moderat, mig, gemigt, mittelmig, moderieren
varying - (vary) variieren verndern sich ndern, checkvariieren
twenty-five feet in length, and of corresponding dimensions round the
corresponding - (correspond) entsprechen, korrespondieren
dimensions - (dimension) Dimension dimensionieren
waist. He swims in herds; he is never regularly hunted, though his oil
is considerable in quantity, and pretty good for light. By some
fishermen his approach is regarded as premonitory of the advance of the
premonitory - warnend
great sperm whale.
fishermens names for all these fish, for generally they are the best.
Where any name happens to be vague or inexpressive, I shall say so, and
inexpressive - ausdruckslos
suggest another. I do so now, touching the Black Fish, so-called,
because blackness is the rule among almost all whales. So, call him the
Hyena Whale, if you please. His voracity is well known, and from the
Hyena - Hyne
voracity - Unersttlichkeit
circumstance that the inner angles of his lips are curved upwards, he
angles - (Angle) Angel
carries an everlasting Mephistophelean grin on his face. This whale
Mephistophelean - mephistophelisch
averages some sixteen or eighteen feet in length. He is found in almost
all latitudes. He has a peculiar way of showing his dorsal hooked fin
dorsal - Rcken
in swimming, which looks something like a Roman nose. When not more
profitably employed, the sperm whale hunters sometimes capture the
profitably - rentabel, ntzlich
Hyena whale, to keep up the supply of cheap oil for domestic
employment"as some frugal housekeepers, in the absence of company, and
frugal - gengsam, sparsam, schlicht
housekeepers - (housekeeper) Haushlterin Hausfrau (hired) Haushlterin (hired) Haushlter
quite alone by themselves, burn unsavory tallow instead of odorous wax.
unsavory - widerwrtig
tallow - Talg,
wax - das Wachs
Though their blubber is very thin, some of these whales will yield you
blubber - Speck, Blubber, Walspeck
upwards of thirty gallons of oil.
whale_."Another instance of a curiously named whale, so named I suppose
from his peculiar horn being originally mistaken for a peaked nose. The
peaked - (peak) Hchstwert, Pik (Berg), Spitze
creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn averages five
feet, though some exceed ten, and even attain to fifteen feet. Strictly
exceed - berschreiten, hinausgehen ber, bertreffen, bersteige
attain - erreichen, erlangen
Strictly - strenges, grundstzlich, pingelig
speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw
lengthened - (lengthen) verlngern
tusk - Hauer, Stozahn, Fangzahn eines Ebers
in a line a little depressed from the horizontal. But it is only found
depressed - (depress) deprimieren
on the sinister side, which has an ill effect, giving its owner
something analogous to the aspect of a clumsy left-handed man. What
analogous - analog
clumsy - tollpatschig, ungeschickt, unbeholfen, schwerfllig
precise purpose this ivory horn or lance answers, it would be hard to
say. It does not seem to be used like the blade of the sword-fish and
bill-fish; though some sailors tell me that the Narwhale employs it for
a rake in turning over the bottom of the sea for food. Charley Coffin
rake - harken, stochern;Harke, Rechen
said it was used for an ice-piercer; for the Narwhale, rising to the
piercer - Luftspie (Gieerei), Lochdorn
surface of the Polar Sea, and finding it sheeted with ice, thrusts his
thrusts - (thrust) Sto, Stich, Vorsto, Schub, Schubkraft
horn up, and so breaks through. But you cannot prove either of these
breaks through - (break through) durchbrechen
surmises to be correct. My own opinion is, that however this one-sided
surmises - (surmise) Vermutung, Mutmaung, vermuten, mutmaen, annehmen
horn may really be used by the Narwhale"however that may be"it would
certainly be very convenient to him for a folder in reading pamphlets.
pamphlets - (pamphlet) Flugschrift
The Narwhale I have heard called the Tusked whale, the Horned whale,
Tusked - (tusk) Hauer, Stozahn, Fangzahn eines Ebers
Horned - (horn) Horn Waldhorn Jagdhorn Hupe, Trichter, Blec
and the Unicorn whale. He is certainly a curious example of the
Unicorn - Einhorn
Unicornism to be found in almost every kingdom of animated nature. From
Unicornism - Unicornismus
certain cloistered old authors I have gathered that this same
cloistered - (cloister) Kreuzgang Kloster Klosterleben, Klausur
sea-unicorns horn was in ancient days regarded as the great antidote
antidote - Gegenmittel, Gegengift
against poison, and as such, preparations of it brought immense prices.
It was also distilled to a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same
distilled - (distil) destillieren
volatile - volatil, flchtig, verdunstend, schwankend, unbestndig
fainting - Ohnmacht; (faint) Ohnmacht
way that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn.
deer - Hirsch
manufactured - (manufacture) Produktion, Herstellung, Produkt, herstelle
Originally it was in itself accounted an object of great curiosity.
Black Letter tells me that Sir Martin Frobisher on his return from that
voyage, when Queen Bess did gallantly wave her jewelled hand to him
gallantly - galante
from a window of Greenwich Palace, as his bold ship sailed down the
Thames; when Sir Martin returned from that voyage, saith Black
bended - (bend) Biegung, Krmmung, Kurve
highness - Hoheit
horn of the Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle
at Windsor. An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on
avers - (aver) behaupten
Earl - Graf
bended knees, did likewise present to her highness another horn,
pertaining to a land beast of the unicorn nature.
The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a
picturesque - malerisch; q
leopard - Leopard;
milk-white ground colour, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.
ground colour - Grundfarbe
dotted - (dot) stricheln;Punkt
oblong - lnglich, lang, quer, breit, rechteckig
His oil is very superior, clear and fine; but there is little of it,
and he is seldom hunted. He is mostly found in the circumpolar seas.
circumpolar - zirkumpolar
precisely known to the Nantucketer, and nothing at all to the professed
professed - (profess) bekennen
naturalist. From what I have seen of him at a distance, I should say
that he was about the bigness of a grampus. He is very savage"a sort of
bigness - Gre
Feegee fish. He sometimes takes the great Folio whales by the lip, and
hangs there like a leech, till the mighty brute is worried to death.
leech - Egel, Blutegel
brute - Tier, brutaler Kerl, brutal, Vieh
The Killer is never hunted. I never heard what sort of oil he has.
Exception might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the
Exception - Ausnahme, Ausnahmebedingung, Exception
ground of its indistinctness. For we are all killers, on land and on
indistinctness - Undeutlichkeiten
killers - (killer) Tter, Tterin, Totschlger, Totschlgerin
sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.
for his tail, which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes. He
thrashing - Flattern, Dreschen, prgelnd; (thrash) schlagen, dresche
mounts the Folio whales back, and as he swims, he works his passage by
flogging him; as some schoolmasters get along in the world by a similar
flogging - Auspeitschung ; (flog) Auspeitschung
schoolmasters - (schoolmaster) Schulmeister
process. Still less is known of the Thrasher than of the Killer. Both
are outlaws, even in the lawless seas.
outlaws - (outlaw) Verfemter chtung chten verbannen
lawless - rechtsfrei gesetzwidrig gesetzlos
Thus ends BOOK II. (_Octavo_), and begins BOOK III. (_Duodecimo_).
DUODECIMOES."These include the smaller whales. I. The Huzza Porpoise.
II. The Algerine Porpoise. III. The Mealy-mouthed Porpoise.
Algerine - Algerien
Mealy - mehlig
To those who have not chanced specially to study the subject, it may
possibly seem strange, that fishes not commonly exceeding four or five
feet should be marshalled among WHALES"a word, which, in the popular
marshalled - (marshal) Marschall, Feldmarschall
sense, always conveys an idea of hugeness. But the creatures set down
conveys - (convey) befrdern, transportieren, verfrachten, bermittel
hugeness - Riesigkeit, Riesenhaftigkeit
above as Duodecimoes are infallibly whales, by the terms of my
definition of what a whale is"_i.e._ a spouting fish, with a horizontal
tail.
common porpoise found almost all over the globe. The name is of my own
bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something
bestowal - Verleihung, Schenkung
must be done to distinguish them. I call him thus, because he always
swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing
hilarious - zum Totlachen, urkomisch, vergngt, irrsinnig witzig
tossing - hin- und herschleuder
themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd. Their
appearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner. Full of
fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.
breezy - zugig, luftig, frisch, windig, frhlich
They are the lads that always live before the wind. They are accounted
a lucky omen. If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding
omen - Omen
beholding - (behold) betrachten, sehen, schauen, anschauen
these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly
vivacious - lebhaft langlebig
godly - gttlich fromm rechtschaffen
gamesomeness is not in ye. A well-fed, plump Huzza Porpoise will yield
gamesomeness - Spieltriebigkeit
plump - prall werden, prall machen;drall, vollschlank, mollig, pummeli
you one good gallon of good oil. But the fine and delicate fluid
gallon - Gallone
delicate - empfindlich, heikel, schwierig, feingliedrig, filigran
fluid - Fluid, Flssigkeit, flieend
extracted from his jaws is exceedingly valuable. It is in request among
jewellers and watchmakers. Sailors put it on their hones. Porpoise meat
jewellers - (jeweller) Bijouterie, Juwelier
watchmakers - (watchmaker) Uhrmacher, Uhrmacherin
hones - (hone) Schleifstein;honen, verfeinern, verbessern, feinschleifen
is good eating, you know. It may never have occurred to you that a
porpoise spouts. Indeed, his spout is so small that it is not very
readily discernible. But the next time you have a chance, watch him;
discernible - erkennbar
and you will then see the great Sperm whale himself in miniature.
miniature - Miniatur, mittelalterliche Buchmalere
Very savage. He is only found, I think, in the Pacific. He is somewhat
larger than the Huzza Porpoise, but much of the same general make.
Provoke him, and he will buckle to a shark. I have lowered for him many
Provoke - provozieren, aufreizen, aufwhlen, aufhetzen
buckle - zuschnallen;Delle, Schnalle, Spange
lowered - (lower) niedriger, niedrigere
times, but never yet saw him captured.
largest kind of Porpoise; and only found in the Pacific, so far as it
is known. The only English name, by which he has hitherto been
designated, is that of the fishers"Right-Whale Porpoise, from the
fishers - (fisher) Fischer
circumstance that he is chiefly found in the vicinity of that Folio. In
shape, he differs in some degree from the Huzza Porpoise, being of a
differs - (differ) sich unterscheiden
less rotund and jolly girth; indeed, he is of quite a neat and
rotund - rund
neat - ordentlich, sauber, geschickt, hbsch
gentleman-like figure. He has no fins on his back (most other porpoises
fins - (fin) Flosse, Grat, Naht
have), he has a lovely tail, and sentimental Indian eyes of a hazel
sentimental - sentimental, rhrselig
hue. But his mealy-mouth spoils all. Though his entire back down to his
spoils - (spoil) plndern ruinieren, verderben, kaputtmachen, verwhne
side fins is of a deep sable, yet a boundary line, distinct as the mark
boundary - Grenze Grenzen Rand
in a ships hull, called the bright waist, that line streaks him from
streaks - (streak) Schliere Spter Ginsterspanner schlieren flitzen
stem to stern, with two separate colours, black above and white below.
stem - MINT
The white comprises part of his head, and the whole of his mouth, which
comprises - (comprise) bestehen aus beinhalten
makes him look as if he had just escaped from a felonious visit to a
felonious - verbrecherisch, verbrecherhaft
meal-bag. A most mean and mealy aspect! His oil is much like that of
the common porpoise.
* * * * * *
Beyond the DUODECIMO, this system does not proceed, inasmuch as the
Porpoise is the smallest of the whales. Above, you have all the
Leviathans of note. But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive,
rabble - Pbel, Gesindel
half-fabulous whales, which, as an American whaleman, I know by
reputation, but not personally. I shall enumerate them by their
enumerate - aufzhlen
fore-castle appellations; for possibly such a list may be valuable to
appellations - (appellation) Benennung, Bezeichnung, Herkunftsbezeichnung
future investigators, who may complete what I have here but begun. If
investigators - (investigator) Ermittler, Ermittlerin
any of the following whales, shall hereafter be caught and marked, then
he can readily be incorporated into this System, according to his
incorporated - (incorporate) zusammenschlieen, vereinigen, aufnehmen
Folio, Octavo, or Duodecimo magnitude:"The Bottle-Nose Whale; the Junk
Junk - Klamotte, Kluft (Kleider), Klamotten
Whale; the Pudding-Headed Whale; the Cape Whale; the Leading Whale; the
Cannon Whale; the Scragg Whale; the Coppered Whale; the Elephant Whale;
Cannon - Kanone
Coppered - (copper) Kupfer
the Iceberg Whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale; etc. From Icelandic,
etc - und so weiter, usw
Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists
of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of uncouth names. But I
uncouth - fremd, fremdartig, sonderbar, tlpelhaft, schwerfllig
omit them as altogether obsolete; and can hardly help suspecting them
omit - weglassen, auslassen
obsolete - verbraucht, zurck geblieben, altmodisch, obsolet
suspecting - (suspect) vermuten misstrauen verdchtigen einen Verdacht haben Verdchtige
for mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing.
Leviathanism - Leviathanismus
signifying - bedeutend; (signify) bedeuten
Finally: It was stated at the outset, that this system would not be
here, and at once, perfected. You cannot but plainly see that I have
kept my word. But I now leave my cetological System standing thus
cetological - cetologisch
unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the
unfinished - unvollendet
crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower. For small
crane - Kranich, Kran;den Kopf/Hals recken
uncompleted - unvollstndig
erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true
erections - (erection) Errichtung Erektion
ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever
posterity - Nachwelt;
completing anything. This whole book is but a draught"nay, but the
draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
Patience - Geduld
Concerning the officers of the whale-craft, this seems as good a place
as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship-board, arising
peculiarity - Singularitt, Einzigartigkeit, Besonderheit
arising - aufkommend, erhebend, entspringen
from the existence of the harpooneer class of officers, a class unknown
existence - Existenz, Dasein
of course in any other marine than the whale-fleet.
marine - See
The large importance attached to the harpooneers vocation is evinced
by the fact, that originally in the old Dutch Fishery, two centuries
and more ago, the command of a whale ship was not wholly lodged in the
lodged - (lodge) Lodge Loge Biberburg feststecken, festklemme
person now called the captain, but was divided between him and an
officer called the Specksnyder. Literally this word means Fat-Cutter;
usage, however, in time made it equivalent to Chief Harpooneer. In
equivalent - gleichwertig, entsprechend, quivalent, Entsprechung, quivalent
those days, the captains authority was restricted to the navigation
restricted - (restrict) beschrnken, begrenzen
navigation - Navigation Schifffahrt
and general management of the vessel; while over the whale-hunting
general management - Gesamtvorstand
department and all its concerns, the Specksnyder or Chief Harpooneer
concerns - (concern) Sorge, Anliegen, Betroffenheit, Besorgnis, Konzer
reigned supreme. In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted
corrupted - (corrupt) korrupt verderben, korrumpieren
title of Specksioneer, this old Dutch official is still retained, but
his former dignity is sadly abridged. At present he ranks simply as
abridged - (abridge) verkrzen
ranks - (rank) (sozialer) Stand, Rang, Dienstgrad
senior Harpooneer; and as such, is but one of the captains more
inferior subalterns. Nevertheless, as upon the good conduct of the
subalterns - (subaltern) Subaltern, Subalternoffizier
harpooneers the success of a whaling voyage largely depends, and since
in the American Fishery he is not only an important officer in the
boat, but under certain circumstances (night watches on a whaling
ground) the command of the ships deck is also his; therefore the grand
political maxim of the sea demands, that he should nominally live apart
demands - (demand) Nachfrage, Bedarf, Anspruch, verlangen, bestehen
nominally - nominell, namentlich
from the men before the mast, and be in some way distinguished as their
professional superior; though always, by them, familiarly regarded as
familiarly - vertraut
their social equal.
Now, the grand distinction drawn between officer and man at sea, is
this"the first lives aft, the last forward. Hence, in whale-ships and
merchantmen alike, the mates have their quarters with the captain; and
merchantmen - (merchantman) Handelsschiff
so, too, in most of the American whalers the harpooneers are lodged in
the after part of the ship. That is to say, they take their meals in
the captains cabin, and sleep in a place indirectly communicating with
it.
Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest
of all voyages now or ever made by man), the peculiar perils of it, and
the community of interest prevailing among a company, all of whom, high
prevailing - (prevail) erman: die Vorherrschaft erringen (''over'' ber) sich durchsetzen (''against'' gegen) vorherrschen berzeugen knnen
or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their
common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and
vigilance - Wachsamkeit
intrepidity - Furchtlosigkeit
hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a
less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind
rigorous - streng, rigoros, rauh, checkkrftig, checkgewaltig
discipline - Disziplin Strafe, Bestrafung, diszipliniere
how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some
Mesopotamian - Mesopotamier, Mesopotamierin, mesopotamisch, zweistromlndisch
primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious
externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom materially relaxed,
materially - materiell
and in no instance done away. Indeed, many are the Nantucket ships in
which you will see the skipper parading his quarter-deck with an elated
skipper - Schiffer, Schiffskapitn
parading - (parade) stolzieren;Exerzierplatz, Korso, Aufzug
elated - (elate) beschwingen, ermutigen
grandeur not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost as
grandeur - Herrlichkeit, Pracht, Hoheit
surpassed - (surpass) bersteigen, bertreffen, berschreiten, berbieten
extorting - (extort) erpressen, erzwingen
much outward homage as if he wore the imperial purple, and not the
shabbiest of pilot-cloth.
shabbiest - (shabby) schbig
And though of all men the moody captain of the Pequod was the least
given to that sort of shallowest assumption; and though the only homage
shallowest - (shallow) flach; q
assumption - bernahme Annahme Himmelfahrt,
he ever exacted, was implicit, instantaneous obedience; though he
implicit - implizit, stillschweigend
instantaneous - augenblicklich, unverzgert
obedience - Gehorsam, Folgsamkeit, Gehorsamkeit
required no man to remove the shoes from his feet ere stepping upon the
quarter-deck; and though there were times when, owing to peculiar
circumstances connected with events hereafter to be detailed, he
addressed them in unusual terms, whether of condescension or _in
condescension - Herablassung, Kondeszendenz
terrorem_, or otherwise; yet even Captain Ahab was by no means
unobservant of the paramount forms and usages of the sea.
unobservant - unaufmerksam, unachtsam
paramount - hervorragend, hchst, berragend, vorrangig
usages - (usage) Verwendung, Benutzung, Anwendung, Brauch, Gebrauch,
Nor, perhaps, will it fail to be eventually perceived, that behind
those forms and usages, as it were, he sometimes masked himself;
masked - (mask) Maske;abkleben (zum Schutz);abdecken, maskieren
incidentally making use of them for other and more private ends than
they were legitimately intended to subserve. That certain sultanism of
legitimately - legitim
subserve - dienlich sein
sultanism - Sultanismus
his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested;
unmanifested - unmanifestiert
through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an
incarnate - verkrpern;leibhaftig, in Menschengestalt, ... in Person
irresistible dictatorship. For be a mans intellectual superiority what
irresistible - unwiderstehlich
dictatorship - Diktatur, Gewaltherrschaft, Willkrherrschaft, Csarenherrschaft
intellectual - intellektuell Intellektueller, Intellektuelle
superiority - berlegenheit
it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over
assume - annehmen, voraussetzen, vermuten, unterstellen
supremacy - Vorherrschaft
other men, without the aid of some sort of external arts and
aid - Hilfsmittel, Hilfe, Mithilfe;helfen, beispringen
entrenchments, always, in themselves, more or less paltry and base.
entrenchments - (entrenchment) Verschanzung
paltry - geringfgig, drftig, mager, armselig, schbig
This it is, that for ever keeps Gods true princes of the Empire from
Empire - Reich, Imperium, Kaiserreich, Kaisertum, Weltreich
the worlds hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can
hustings - Wahlkampf
give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite
inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than
inferiority - Minderwertigkeit
Inert - trge inaktiv
through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass.
undoubted - zweifellos, unbestritten, unzweifelhaft
Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political
superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot
idiot - Idiot, Idiotin, Narr, Nrrin
imbecility they have imparted potency. But when, as in the case of
imbecility - Geistesschwche, Schwachsinn
imparted - (impart) weitergeben, gewhren, mitteilen, vermitteln
potency - Zeugungskraft, Macht, Potenz
Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an
ringed - geringelt (Muster)
encircles - (encircle) umzingeln, einfassen
imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the
plebeian - Plebejer plebejisch
crouch - sich ducken (vor), kriechen;kauern, hocke
tremendous centralization. Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would
centralization - Zentralisierung
dramatist - Bhnendichter, Dramatiker
depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest sweep and direct swing,
depict - darstellen, beschreiben, abbilden
indomitableness - Unbezwinglichkeiten
swing - schwingen, schaukeln, schwanken, baumeln, Schaukel, Hutsche
ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in his art, as the one
now alluded to.
But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket
grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors and
shagginess - Zottigheit
Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old
whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical trappings
majestical - majesttische
and housings are denied me. Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it
housings - (housing) Wohnbau, Unterkunft, Gehuse, wohnend
denied - (deny) leugnen, bestreiten, dementieren
must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and
plucked - (pluck) pflcken, abrupfen, zupfen, schlagen, ausrupfen
featured in the unbodied air!
unbodied - leblos
It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale
loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord
loaf - Laib;herumlungern, Zeit verschwenden, trdeln
and master; who, sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking
an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on
observation - Beobachtung Bemerkung
mutely - stumm
reckoning - Abrechnung ; (reckon) Abrechnung
the smooth, medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on
medallion - Medaillon
reserved - (reserve) Reservieren, Bedenken, Vorbehalt, Reservierthei
the upper part of his ivory leg. From his complete inattention to the
inattention - Unachtsamkeit, Unaufmerksamkeit
tidings, you would think that moody Ahab had not heard his menial. But
tidings - (tiding) Kunde;
menial - untergeordnet nieder, niedrig
presently, catching hold of the mizen shrouds, he swings himself to the
mizen - Besanmast
swings - (swing) schwingen, schaukeln, schwanken, baumeln, Schauke
deck, and in an even, unexhilarated voice, saying, Dinner, Mr.
unexhilarated - nicht erheitert
Starbuck, disappears into the cabin.
When the last echo of his sultans step has died away, and Starbuck,
echo - Echo, Widerhall, Tastaturecho, Bildschirmecho, widerhalle
the first Emir, has every reason to suppose that he is seated, then
Emir - Emir
Starbuck rouses from his quietude, takes a few turns along the planks,
rouses - (rouse) wachrufen, wecken
and, after a grave peep into the binnacle, says, with some touch of
pleasantness, Dinner, Mr. Stubb, and descends the scuttle. The second
pleasantness - Annehmlichkeit, Angenehmheit
Emir lounges about the rigging awhile, and then slightly shaking the
lounges - (lounge) Lounge, Wartezimmer, Warteraum, Wohnzimmer
main brace, to see whether it will be all right with that important
rope, he likewise takes up the old burden, and with a rapid Dinner,
Mr. Flask, follows after his predecessors.
predecessors - (predecessor) Vorgnger, Vorgngerin, Vorlufer
But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck,
seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all
restraint - Beschrnkung, Zgelung, Einschrnkung, Zwang
sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his
winks - (wink) zwinkern, blinzeln, funkeln, zuzwinkern
kicking off - (kick off) anstoen
shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right
strikes - (strike) streichen schlagen prgen streiken scheinen die Fahne streichen Strike Streik Schlag
over the Grand Turks head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching
dexterous - behnd, geschickt, fingerfertig, gewandt
sleight - List, Gerissenheit, Raffinement, Raffinesse
his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so
rollicking - ausgelassen, bermtig; (rollick) ausgelassen, bermtig
far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other
reversing - umkehrend, Umsteuerung, umsteuernd; (revers) Revers
processions, by bringing up the rear with music. But ere stepping into
the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a new face altogether, and,
pauses - (pause) pausieren, innehalten, Pause
then, independent, hilarious little Flask enters King Ahabs presence,
in the character of Abjectus, or the Slave.
It is not the least among the strange things bred by the intense
artificialness of sea-usages, that while in the open air of the deck
artificialness - Affektiertheit
some officers will, upon provocation, bear themselves boldly and
provocation - Provokation
defyingly enough towards their commander; yet, ten to one, let those
defyingly - trotzig
very officers the next moment go down to their customary dinner in that
customary - blich
same commanders cabin, and straightway their inoffensive, not to say
inoffensive - harmlos
deprecatory and humble air towards him, as he sits at the head of the
deprecatory - ablehnend
humble - demtig, ergeben
table; this is marvellous, sometimes most comical. Wherefore this
difference? A problem? Perhaps not. To have been Belshazzar, King of
Belshazzar - Belsazar
Babylon; and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but courteously,
Babylon - Babylon
haughtily - hochmtig, stolz, berheblich, arrogant
courteously - hfliche
therein certainly must have been some touch of mundane grandeur. But he
mundane - weltlich alltglich, ordinr, nervttend
who in the rightly regal and intelligent spirit presides over his own
presides - (preside) den Vorsitz haben, prsidieren
private dinner-table of invited guests, that mans unchallenged power
unchallenged - unangefochten, unbestritten
and dominion of individual influence for the time; that mans royalty
dominion - Herrschaft, Oberherrschaft, Vorherrschaft, Herrschaftsgebie
of state transcends Belshazzars, for Belshazzar was not the greatest.
transcends - (transcend) ubersteigen
Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Cæsar.
dined - (din) Lrm, Getse;drhnen
It is a witchery of social czarship which there is no withstanding.
witchery - Geisterbeschwrung
czarship - Zarentum
withstanding - (withstand) widerstehen widerstehen (1 2)
Now, if to this consideration you superadd the official supremacy of a
ship-master, then, by inference, you will derive the cause of that
inference - Schlussfolgern, Schlussfolgerung, Inferenz
derive - erlangen herleiten, ableiten, abstammen, kommen von
peculiarity of sea-life just mentioned.
Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion
mute - sprachlos;abdmpfen, dmpfen
sea lion - Seelwe
on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still
warlike - streitlustig, angriffslustig, kampfeslustig, kriegerisc
deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be
deferential - ehrerbietig
cubs - (cub) Tollpatsch, Flegel
served. They were as little children before Ahab; and yet, in Ahab,
there seemed not to lurk the smallest social arrogance. With one mind,
lurk - lauern
arrogance - Arroganz, Dnkel, Hochmut, berheblichkeit
their intent eyes all fastened upon the old mans knife, as he carved
the chief dish before him. I do not suppose that for the world they
would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even
profaned - (profane) weltlich profan
upon so neutral a topic as the weather. No! And when reaching out his
neutral - neutral erman: #German eutraler Staat g Neutraler Leerlaufstellun
knife and fork, between which the slice of beef was locked, Ahab
thereby motioned Starbucks plate towards him, the mate received his
meat as though receiving alms; and cut it tenderly; and a little
alms - Almosen
tenderly - zrtlich, zart, lieb
started if, perchance, the knife grazed against the plate; and chewed
grazed - (graze) Kratzen, Schrammen, Schaben, Schleifen
it noiselessly; and swallowed it, not without circumspection. For, like
noiselessly - geruschlos
circumspection - Umsicht
the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor
the German Emperor - der deutsche Kaiser
profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals
profoundly - tief
dines - (dine) speisen
Electors - (elector) Stimmbrger Elektor, Elektorin, Wahlmann, Wahlfrau
were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at table old
Ahab forbade not conversation; only he himself was dumb. What a relief
forbade - (forbid) verbieten, untersagen, verweigern, vorenthalten
dumb - stumm, sprachlos, bld, doof
it was to choking Stubb, when a rat made a sudden racket in the hold
choking - (choke) erwrgen, erdrosseln, ersticken, berwltigen
racket - Schlger
below. And poor little Flask, he was the youngest son, and little boy
of this weary family party. His were the shinbones of the saline beef;
shinbones - (shinbone) Schienbein
saline - salzhaltig
his would have been the drumsticks. For Flask to have presumed to help
drumsticks - (drumstick) Trommelstock, Schlegel, Hhnchenkeule
presumed - (presume) annehmen, mutmaen, vermuten
himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the
tantamount - gleichbedeutend
larceny - Diebstahl
first degree. Had he helped himself at that table, doubtless, never
more would he have been able to hold his head up in this honest world;
nevertheless, strange to say, Ahab never forbade him. And had Flask
helped himself, the chances were Ahab had never so much as noticed it.
Least of all, did Flask presume to help himself to butter. Whether he
thought the owners of the ship denied it to him, on account of its
clotting his clear, sunny complexion; or whether he deemed that, on so
clotting - Gerinnun
long a voyage in such marketless waters, butter was at a premium, and
marketless - marktlos
premium - premium Bonus, Prmie, Versicherungsbeitrag, Versicherungsprmie
therefore was not for him, a subaltern; however it was, Flask, alas!
subaltern - Subaltern, Subalternoffizier
was a butterless man!
butterless - ohne Butter
Another thing. Flask was the last person down at the dinner, and Flask
is the first man up. Consider! For hereby Flasks dinner was badly
jammed in point of time. Starbuck and Stubb both had the start of him;
and yet they also have the privilege of lounging in the rear. If Stubb
lounging - faulenzend; (lounge) Lounge, Wartezimmer, Warteraum, Wohnzimmer
even, who is but a peg higher than Flask, happens to have but a small
appetite, and soon shows symptoms of concluding his repast, then Flask
appetite - Appetit Begierde, Lust
must bestir himself, he will not get more than three mouthfuls that
mouthfuls - (mouthful) mundvoll
day; for it is against holy usage for Stubb to precede Flask to the
deck. Therefore it was that Flask once admitted in private, that ever
since he had arisen to the dignity of an officer, from that moment he
arisen - (arise) sich erheben, aufstehen, entstehen, auftreten, erwachse
had never known what it was to be otherwise than hungry, more or less.
For what he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal
relieve - erleichtern lindern entlasten ablsen seine Notdurft verrichten
hunger - hungern;Hunger
in him. Peace and satisfaction, thought Flask, have for ever departed
from my stomach. I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fish a bit of
old-fashioned beef in the forecastle, as I used to when I was before
the mast. Theres the fruits of promotion now; theres the vanity of
vanity - Vergnglichkeit Eitelkeit Leere
glory: theres the insanity of life! Besides, if it were so that any
insanity - Wahnsinn
mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flasks
grudge - Groll, Neid, missgnnen
official capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample
capacity - Kapazitt Befugnis
obtain - erlangen, erhalten, bestehen
ample - gro, umfangreich, ppig
vengeance, was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask
through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before
dumfoundered - berflssig geworden
awful Ahab.
Now, Ahab and his three mates formed what may be called the first table
in the Pequods cabin. After their departure, taking place in inverted
inverted - (invert) umkehren, invertieren
order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared, or rather was
restored to some hurried order by the pallid steward. And then the
pallid - fahl, bleich, blass
three harpooneers were bidden to the feast, they being its residuary
residuary - restlich
legatees. They made a sort of temporary servants hall of the high and
legatees - (legatee) Vermchtnisnehmer
mighty cabin.
In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless
tolerable - ertrglich passabel
constraint - Einschrnkung, Beschrnkung, Restriktion, Zwang
invisible domineerings of the captains table, was the entire care-free
license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior
license - Lizenz, Erlaubnis, Genehmigung, Schein, lizenzieren
fellows the harpooneers. While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid
masters - (Master) Haupt..., Grund, Meister, fhrend, leitend;bewltige
of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed
hinges - (hinge) Angel, Scharnier, Trband, abhngen
their food with such a relish that there was a report to it. They dined
relish - Aroma, Geschmack, Genu, Qualitt
like lords; they filled their bellies like Indian ships all day loading
bellies - (belly) Bauch, Magen
with spices. Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that
spices - (spice) wrzen;Gewrz
to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale
vacancies - (vacancy) Vakanz, freie Stelle, freies Zimmer, freier Platz
Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly
quarried out of the solid ox. And if he were not lively about it, if he
quarried - (quarry) stbern;Beute, Jagdbeute, verfolgtes Wild
ox - Ochse, Rind
did not go with a nimble hop-skip-and-jump, then Tashtego had an
nimble - schnell, gelenkig, behnd, flink
hop - tanzen (hpfen);schwoofen (ugs. tanzen
skip - berspringen, hpfen, springen;Sprung
ungentlemanly way of accelerating him by darting a fork at his back,
ungentlemanly - unfein
accelerating - (accelerate) beschleunigen eilen, beeilen
harpoon-wise. And once Daggoo, seized with a sudden humor, assisted
seized with - befallen
Dough-Boys memory by snatching him up bodily, and thrusting his head
into a great empty wooden trencher, while Tashtego, knife in hand,
trencher - Grabenfrse
began laying out the circle preliminary to scalping him. He was
preliminary - vorlufig, vorbereitend
scalping - (scalp) Oberkopf Kopfhaut Skalp
naturally a very nervous, shuddering sort of little fellow, this
bread-faced steward; the progeny of a bankrupt baker and a hospital
progeny - Nachkommen, Nachfahren, Nachkommenschaft, Werk, Schaffen
bankrupt - bankrott in
nurse. And what with the standing spectacle of the black terrific Ahab,
and the periodical tumultuous visitations of these three savages,
periodical - Periodikum
tumultuous - tumultuarisch
visitations - (visitation) Umgangsrecht
Dough-Boys whole life was one continual lip-quiver. Commonly, after
seeing the harpooneers furnished with all things they demanded, he
would escape from their clutches into his little pantry adjoining, and
clutches - (clutch) Vogelgelege;Kupplung (Auto), Gelege
adjoining - (adjoin) angrenzend
fearfully peep out at them through the blinds of its door, till all was
fearfully - furchtsam, ngstlich
blinds - (blind) blind, unkritisch, ignorant, Jalousie , Blind, Blinde
over.
It was a sight to see Queequeg seated over against Tashtego, opposing
his filed teeth to the Indians: crosswise to them, Daggoo seated on
crosswise - kreuzweise, quer
the floor, for a bench would have brought his hearse-plumed head to the
hearse - Leichenwagen
plumed - (plum) Pflaumenbaum;Pflaume, Zwetschke (sterr.)
low carlines; at every motion of his colossal limbs, making the low
colossal - riesig, gewaltig, immens, kolossal
cabin framework to shake, as when an African elephant goes passenger in
framework - Rahmen, Gerst, Fachwerk, Bezugssystem, Gefge
a ship. But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious,
wonderfully - wunderbar
abstemious - enthaltsam
not to say dainty. It seemed hardly possible that by such comparatively
dainty - Delikatesse fein, zart, zierlich
comparatively - vergleichsweise, verhltnismig
small mouthfuls he could keep up the vitality diffused through so
diffused - (diffuse) verbreiten, diffundiere
broad, baronial, and superb a person. But, doubtless, this noble savage
baronial - freiherrlich
superb - groartig, superb
fed strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air; and through
his dilated nostrils snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds. Not by
dilated - (dilate) dilatieren, weiten, vergrern, erweitern
beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished. But Queequeg, he had a
mortal, barbaric smack of the lip in eating"an ugly sound enough"so
smack - riechen nach, schmecken nach;Geschmack, Knall, Beigeschmack
much so, that the trembling Dough-Boy almost looked to see whether any
trembling - Zittern , Beben ; (tremble) zittern Zittern
marks of teeth lurked in his own lean arms. And when he would hear
Tashtego singing out for him to produce himself, that his bones might
be picked, the simple-witted steward all but shattered the crockery
witted - (wit) nmlich, und zwar
shattered - (shatter) zum Zerspringen bringen, zerschmettern, zersplitter
hanging round him in the pantry, by his sudden fits of the palsy. Nor
palsy - Ohnmacht, Lhmung
did the whetstone which the harpooneers carried in their pockets, for
whetstone - Schleifstein, Wetzstein, Abziehstein
their lances and other weapons; and with which whetstones, at dinner,
whetstones - (whetstone) Schleifstein, Wetzstein, Abziehstein
they would ostentatiously sharpen their knives; that grating sound did
ostentatiously - prahlerische
sharpen - schrfen
not at all tend to tranquillize poor Dough-Boy. How could he forget
tranquillize - beruhigen
that in his Island days, Queequeg, for one, must certainly have been
guilty of some murderous, convivial indiscretions. Alas! Dough-Boy!
murderous - mrderisch
indiscretions - (indiscretion) Indiskretion
hard fares the white waiter who waits upon cannibals. Not a napkin
napkin - Serviette, Mundtuch
should he carry on his arm, but a buckler. In good time, though, to his
great delight, the three salt-sea warriors would rise and depart; to
his credulous, fable-mongering ears, all their martial bones jingling
credulous - leichtglubig
mongering - Handel; (monger) Krmer, Hndler, Verkufer
jingling - (jingle) Jingle
in them at every step, like Moorish scimetars in scabbards.
Moorish - maurisch
scabbards - (scabbard) Schwertscheide
But, though these barbarians dined in the cabin, and nominally lived
barbarians - (barbarian) barbarisch Barbar, Barbarin
there; still, being anything but sedentary in their habits, they were
sedentary - ortsgebunden sitzend
scarcely ever in it except at mealtimes, and just before sleeping-time,
mealtimes - (mealtime) Essenszeit
when they passed through it to their own peculiar quarters.
In this one matter, Ahab seemed no exception to most American whale
captains, who, as a set, rather incline to the opinion that by rights
by rights - von Rechts wegen
the ships cabin belongs to them; and that it is by courtesy alone that
by courtesy - aus Hflichkeit, aus Geflligkeit
anybody else is, at any time, permitted there. So that, in real truth,
the mates and harpooneers of the Pequod might more properly be said to
have lived out of the cabin than in it. For when they did enter it, it
was something as a street-door enters a house; turning inwards for a
inwards - (inward) innere innen
moment, only to be turned out the next; and, as a permanent thing,
residing in the open air. Nor did they lose much hereby; in the cabin
residing - (resid) Rckstand
was no companionship; socially, Ahab was inaccessible. Though nominally
socially - gesellschaftliche
inaccessible - unzugnglich unerreichbar
included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it. He
lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled
Grisly - grssliche, grsslich
Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan
of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the
winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old
sucking - Saugen ; (suck) saugen lutschen mies sein, zum Kotzen sei
paws - (paw) Tatze, Pfote, Pranke
inclement - rau, rauh
age, Ahabs soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed
caved - (cave) nachgeben, aufgeben;Hhle
upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
It was during the more pleasant weather, that in due rotation with the
more pleasant - angenehmer
rotation - Rotation Umdrehung
other seamen my first mast-head came round.
In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost
simultaneously with the vessels leaving her port; even though she may
simultaneously - gleichzeitig
have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper
cruising ground. And if, after a three, four, or five years voyage she
is drawing nigh home with anything empty in her"say, an empty vial
vial - Phiole
even"then, her mast-heads are kept manned to the last; and not till her
skysail-poles sail in among the spires of the port, does she altogether
poles - (Pole) (North Pole) Nordpol
relinquish the hope of capturing one whale more.
relinquish - verlassen, aufgeben, berlassen, abtreten, Verzicht leisten
capturing - (capture) Fang, Festnahme, Gefangennahme, Erfassung
Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a
very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate
expatiate - ausbreiten
here. I take it, that the earliest standers of mast-heads were the old
Egyptians; because, in all my researches, I find none prior to them.
prior - frher, Vorrang
For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless, by
progenitors - (progenitor) Ahn, Vorfahr, Vorfahre, Stammvater, Urahn
builders - (builder) Bauarbeite
Babel - Stimmengewirr
their tower, have intended to rear the loftiest mast-head in all Asia,
or Africa either; yet (ere the final truck was put to it) as that great
stone mast of theirs may be said to have gone by the board, in the
dread gale of Gods wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel
builders priority over the Egyptians. And that the Egyptians were a
priority - Prioritt
nation of mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general
assertion - Versicherung, Zusicherung, Behauptung, Beteuerung
belief among archæologists, that the first pyramids were founded for
astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar
astronomical - astronomisch
stair-like formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with
formation - Bildung
edifices - (edifice) Bauwerk, Gebude, Lehrgebude, Gedankengebude
prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were
upliftings - (uplifting) erhebend, hochhebend
astronomers - (astronomer) Astronom, Astronomus, Himmelskundle
wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the
wont - nicht
mount - Reittier, Berg, Lafette (Waffe);einbauen, aufsteigen, anbringe
look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing
in sight. In saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times,
saint - St. Sankt ...;Heilige {m,f}
Stylites - (stylite) Sulenheiliger, Stylit
who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole
pillar - Pfeiler, Sule
latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the
summit - Gipfel
ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a
tackle - Angel Tackling in Angriff nehmen, angehen
dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his
dauntless - unerschrocken, furchtlos
place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing
fogs - (fog) umnebeln, verschleiern;(dicker) Nebel, Nebel
frosts - (Frost) Reif Frost glasieren
hail - jdm. zujubeln;(Hail to thee!) Wohl dir!, Sei gegrt!
valiantly - tapfer
everything out to the last, literally died at his post. Of modern
standers-of-mast-heads we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron,
and bronze men; who, though well capable of facing out a stiff gale,
are still entirely incompetent to the business of singing out upon
incompetent - inkompetent, unfhig
discovering any strange sight. There is Napoleon; who, upon the top of
the column of Vendome, stands with arms folded, some one hundred and
fifty feet in the air; careless, now, who rules the decks below;
whether Louis Philippe, Louis Blanc, or Louis the Devil. Great
Washington, too, stands high aloft on his towering main-mast in
Baltimore, and like one of Hercules pillars, his column marks that
pillars - (pillar) Pfeiler, Sule
point of human grandeur beyond which few mortals will go. Admiral
Admiral - Admiral
Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his mast-head in
Trafalgar Square; and ever when most obscured by that London smoke,
obscured - (obscure) obskur, dunkel, vernebelt, finster
token is yet given that a hidden hero is there; for where there is
smoke, must be fire. But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor
Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however madly invoked to
hail - jdm. zujubeln;(Hail to thee!) Wohl dir!, Sei gegrt!
madly - irr, verrckt
befriend by their counsels the distracted decks upon which they gaze;
befriend - behilflich sein, freundlich sein
counsels - (counsel) Beratung Rat, Ratschlag, Anwalt, Anwltin
however it may be surmised, that their spirits penetrate through the
surmised - (surmise) Vermutung, Mutmaung, vermuten, mutmaen, annehmen
thick haze of the future, and descry what shoals and what rocks must be
haze - Schleier, Dunst, Dunstschleier;schikanieren
descry - wahrnehmen, erkennen, entdecken, herauslesen
shunned.
It may seem unwarrantable to couple in any respect the mast-head
standers of the land with those of the sea; but that in truth it is not
so, is plainly evinced by an item for which Obed Macy, the sole
historian of Nantucket, stands accountable. The worthy Obed tells us,
historian - Historiker, Historikerin, Geschichtsschreiber
accountable - verantwortlich
that in the early times of the whale fishery, ere ships were regularly
launched in pursuit of the game, the people of that island erected
lofty spars along the sea-coast, to which the look-outs ascended by
sea coast - (sea-coast) Seekste
means of nailed cleats, something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house.
cleats - (cleat) Klampe Stollen
hen house - (hen-house) Hhnerstall
A few years ago this same plan was adopted by the Bay whalemen of New
Zealand, who, upon descrying the game, gave notice to the ready-manned
descrying - (descry) wahrnehmen, erkennen, entdecken, herauslesen
gave notice - kndigte
boats nigh the beach. But this custom has now become obsolete; turn we
become obsolete - veralten
then to the one proper mast-head, that of a whale-ship at sea. The
three mast-heads are kept manned from sun-rise to sun-set; the seamen
taking their regular turns (as at the helm), and relieving each other
relieving - (relieve) erleichtern lindern entlasten ablsen seine Notdurft verrichten
every two hours. In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly
tropics - (tropic) Wendekreis tropisch
pleasant the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is
meditative - versponnen, nachdenklich
delightful. There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks,
striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while
stilts - (stilt) Stelze Stelzenlufer Sterz
beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters
of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous
Colossus at old Rhodes. There you stand, lost in the infinite series of
Colossus - Koloss, Riese, Gigant
the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves. The tranced ship
ruffled - (ruffle) Rsche, Krause
indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you
indolently - trge
drowsy - schlfrig einschlfernd mde, langweilig, verschlafen, dsig
into languor. For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime
languor - Mattigkeit, Schwche
uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras
uneventfulness - ereignislos
gazettes - (gazette) Gazette Amtsblatt, Anzeiger
with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into
delude - irrefhren, tuschen
unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt
afflictions - (affliction) Leiden, Behinderung
securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what
you shall have for dinner"for all your meals for three years and more
are snugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable.
stowed - (stow) packen (verstauen)
immutable - unvernderbar, unvernderlich
In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years
whalesmen - Walfnger
voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you spend at the
mast-head would amount to several entire months. And it is much to be
deplored that the place to which you devote so considerable a portion
deplored - (deplore) bedauern
devote - widmen
of the whole term of your natural life, should be so sadly destitute of
destitute - notleidend
anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a
inhabitiveness - Bewohnbarkeit
breed - aufziehen, erzeugen, zchten, sich paaren, brten
comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock,
localness - Ortsgebundenheit
pertains - (pertain) gehren, verbunden, betreffen, sich beziehen auf
a hearse, a sentry box, a pulpit, a coach, or any other of those small
sentry - Wache, Wachposten, Schildwache, Wachturm
and snug contrivances in which men temporarily isolate themselves. Your
contrivances - (contrivance) Vorrichtung, Maschinerie, Apparat, Behelf
isolate - isolieren, absondern, abdichten
most usual point of perch is the head of the t gallant-mast, where you
most usual - blichste
perch - Vogelstange;Barsch
stand upon two thin parallel sticks (almost peculiar to whalemen)
called the t gallant cross-trees. Here, tossed about by the sea, the
beginner feels about as cosy as he would standing on a bulls horns. To
beginner - Anfnger, Anfngerin, Neuling
be sure, in cold weather you may carry your house aloft with you, in
the shape of a watch-coat; but properly speaking the thickest
watch-coat is no more of a house than the unclad body; for as the soul
is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle, and cannot freely move about
glued - (glue) Klebstoff, Leim, Kleber, leimen, kleben
fleshy - fleischig
tabernacle - Tabernakel, Stiftshtte, Mischkan, Laubhtte, Sukka, Tabernakel
in it, nor even move out of it, without running great risk of perishing
(like an ignorant pilgrim crossing the snowy Alps in winter); so a
watch-coat is not so much of a house as it is a mere envelope, or
envelope - verhllen;Kuvert, Versandtasche, Hllenkurve
additional skin encasing you. You cannot put a shelf or chest of
additional - zustzlich
encasing - (encase) eingehllen
drawers in your body, and no more can you make a convenient closet of
drawers - (drawer) Zeichner, Schublade, Aussteller
your watch-coat.
Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a
southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or
unprovided - (unprovide) nicht zur Verfgung stellen
enviable - beneidenswert
pulpits, called _crows-nests_, in which the look-outs of a Greenland
nests - (nest) Nest
whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas. In
the fireside narrative of Captain Sleet, entitled A Voyage among the
Icebergs, in quest of the Greenland Whale, and incidentally for the
re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland; in this
admirable volume, all standers of mast-heads are furnished with a
admirable - bewundernswert
charmingly circumstantial account of the then recently invented
charmingly - reizend, charmant, anmutig
circumstantial - umstandsbezogen, umstandsmig, umstndlich, detaillier
_crows-nest_ of the Glacier, which was the name of Captain Sleets
nest - Nest
Glacier - Gletscher, Ferner, Kees
good craft. He called it the _Sleets crows-nest_, in honor of
himself; he being the original inventor and patentee, and free from all
inventor - Erfinder, Erfinderin
patentee - Patentinhaber
ridiculous false delicacy, and holding that if we call our own children
after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and
inventors - (inventor) Erfinder, Erfinderin
patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves any other
patentees - (patentee) Patentinhaber
denominate - benennen, bezeichnen
apparatus we may beget. In shape, the Sleets crows-nest is something
apparatus - Apparat Apparat
like a large tierce or pipe; it is open above, however, where it is
furnished with a movable side-screen to keep to windward of your head
in a hard gale. Being fixed on the summit of the mast, you ascend into
ascend - steigen, aufsteigen
it through a little trap-hatch in the bottom. On the after side, or
hatch - brten, schraffieren, ausbrten, anzetteln;Brut, Fallt
side next the stern of the ship, is a comfortable seat, with a locker
underneath for umbrellas, comforters, and coats. In front is a leather
rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and
trumpet - Trompete
telescope - Teleskop, Fernrohr
other nautical conveniences. When Captain Sleet in person stood his
nautical - nautisch
conveniences - (convenience) Bequemlichkeit Annehmlichkeit
mast-head in this crows-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a
rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask
rifle - Gewehr, Karabiner
and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or
stray - verirrt;Streuverlust;abirren, vagabundieren, streunen, irren
narwhales - (narwhale) Einhornwal
vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot
vagrant - der Landstreicher / die Landstreicherin
unicorns - (unicorn) Einhorn
infesting - (infest) befallen
successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the
resistance - Widerstand
water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing. Now, it
shoot down - niederschieen
was plainly a labor of love for Captain Sleet to describe, as he does,
labor - Arbeit
all the little detailed conveniences of his crows-nest; but though he
so enlarges upon many of these, and though he treats us to a very
enlarges - (enlarge) vergrern
scientific account of his experiments in this crows-nest, with a small
compass he kept there for the purpose of counteracting the errors
compass - Kompass
counteracting - (counteract) entgegenwirken, bekmpfen
resulting from what is called the local attraction of all binnacle
magnets; an error ascribable to the horizontal vicinity of the iron in
ascribable - zurckfhrbar
the ships planks, and in the Glaciers case, perhaps, to there having
been so many broken-down blacksmiths among her crew; I say, that though
the Captain is very discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his
discreet - diskret
learned binnacle deviations, azimuth compass observations, and
deviations - (deviation) Abweichung, Abweichen, bertretung, Verfehlun
observations - (observation) Beobachtung Bemerkung
approximate errors, he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was
not so much immersed in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail
immersed - (immerse) eintauchen vertiefen
meditations - (meditation) Meditation
being attracted occasionally towards that well replenished little
occasionally - gelegentlich
case-bottle, so nicely tucked in on one side of his crows nest, within
easy reach of his hand. Though, upon the whole, I greatly admire and
even love the brave, the honest, and learned Captain; yet I take it
very ill of him that he should so utterly ignore that case-bottle,
seeing what a faithful friend and comforter it must have been, while
comforter - Trster Bettdecke, Plumeau, Plmo
with mittened fingers and hooded head he was studying the mathematics
mittened - (mitten) Fustling, Fausthandschuh
aloft there in that birds nest within three or four perches of the
perches - (perch) Vogelstange;Barsch
pole.
pole - (North Pole) Nordpol
But if we Southern whale-fishers are not so snugly housed aloft as
Captain Sleet and his Greenlandmen were; yet that disadvantage is
greatly counter-balanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those
counter - Zhler, Ladentisch;kontern
widely - breit entfernt
seductive seas in which we South fishers mostly float. For one, I used
seductive - verfhrerisch
float - treiben, schwimmen, schweben, gleiten
to lounge up the rigging very leisurely, resting in the top to have a
lounge - Lounge, Wartezimmer, Warteraum, Wohnzimmer
leisurely - gemchlich
chat with Queequeg, or any one else off duty whom I might find there;
off duty - dienstfrei
then ascending a little way further, and throwing a lazy leg over the
top-sail yard, take a preliminary view of the watery pastures, and so
pastures - (pasture) Weide weiden
at last mount to my ultimate destination.
Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept
frankly - ehrlich gesagt, um ehrlich zu sein
but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how
revolving - drehend, rotierend; (revolve) drehen
could I"being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering
altitude"how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all
altitude - Hhe
lightly - leicht
whale-ships standing orders, Keep your weather eye open, and sing out
standing orders - Dauerauftrge
every time.
And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of
movingly - rhrende
admonish - ermahnen, warnen
Nantucket! Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with
enlisting - (enlist) eintragen
vigilant - aufmerksam, umsichtig, wachsam
fisheries - (fishery) Fischerei
lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who
unseasonable - unzeitig, ungelegen
meditativeness - Nachdenklichkeit
offers to ship with the Phædon instead of Bowditch in his head. Beware
offers - (offer) offerieren, anbieten, bieten, zeigen;Antrag, Offert
of such an one, I say; your whales must be seen before they can be
killed; and this sunken-eyed young Platonist will tow you ten wakes
Platonist - Platoniker
round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer. Nor
pint - Pint
are these monitions at all unneeded. For nowadays, the whale-fishery
monitions - (monition) Mahnung
unneeded - unntig
furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded
furnishes - (furnish) mblieren, einrichten, ausrsten
asylum - Asyl psychiatrische Anstalt
young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking
disgusted - (disgust) ekeln Ekel
sentiment in tar and blubber. Childe Harold not unfrequently perches
Childe - ein Kind
unfrequently - unregelmig
himself upon the mast-head of some luckless disappointed whale-ship,
luckless - erfolglos glcklos
and in moody phrase ejaculates:"
ejaculates - (ejaculate) ejakulieren Ejakulat
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand
blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.
Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young
philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient
upbraiding - Vorwurf, schimpfend; (upbraid) Vorwurf, schimpfend
sufficient - gengend, ausreichend, hinreichend
interest in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so hopelessly lost
to all honorable ambition, as that in their secret souls they would
rather not see whales than otherwise. But all in vain; those young
Platonists have a notion that their vision is imperfect; they are
Platonists - (Platonist) Platoniker
vision - Sicht, Sehvermgen, Sehkraft, Augenlicht, Trugbild
short-sighted; what use, then, to strain the visual nerve? They have
visual - visuell
nerve - Nerv
left their opera-glasses at home.
opera - Oper; (opus) Oper
Why, thou monkey, said a harpooneer to one of these lads, weve been
cruising now hard upon three years, and thou hast not raised a whale
yet. Whales are scarce as hens teeth whenever thou art up here.
Perhaps they were; or perhaps there might have been shoals of them in
the far horizon; but lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of
lulled - (lull) Windstille
opium - Opium
listlessness - Lustlosigkeit
vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending
vacant - frei, vakant, leer, nichtssagend, ausdruckslos
blending - Vermischung, vermengend, verblendend; (blend) Mischung mische
cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity;
cadence - Rhythmus, Kadenz, Tonfall, Gleichschritt, Pedaltak
takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep,
blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange,
pervading - (pervade) durchziehen
half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every
dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him
dimly - trbe
uprising - Aufstand, Aufruhr ; (uprise) Aufstand, Aufruhr
undiscernible - nicht feststellbar
the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by
elusive - flchtig, schwer fassbar, schwierig, schwer zu beschreiben
continually flitting through it. In this enchanted mood, thy spirit
flitting - wandernd; (flit) gaukeln
enchanted - (enchant) verzaubern
ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space;
ebbs away - verebbt
like Cranmers sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of
sprinkled - (sprinkle) sprhen besprhen Nieselregen
Pantheistic - pantheistisch
every shore the round globe over.
There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a
gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from
the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on
inscrutable - undurchschaubar
ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your
identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And
Descartian - Descartianisch
vortices - Wirbel
hover - rtteln verweilen zgern bewegen
perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled
throttled - (throttle) erdrosseln, drosseln;abdrosseln
shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no
shriek - Kreischen
transparent - durchsichtig, transparent, erkennbar
more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Pantheists - (pantheist) Pantheist
(_Enter Ahab: Then, all._)
It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning
shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the
cabin-gangway to the deck. There most sea-captains usually walk at that
hour, as country gentlemen, after the same meal, take a few turns in
the garden.
Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old
stride - schreiten
rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all over
dented, like geological stones, with the peculiar mark of his walk. Did
geological - geologische
you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also,
fixedly - bestimmt
you would see still stranger foot-prints"the foot-prints of his one
unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.
unsleeping - nicht schlafen
But on the occasion in question, those dents looked deeper, even as his
dents - (dent) Delle, Kerbe, Vertiefung, Beule
nervous step that morning left a deeper mark. And, so full of his
thought was Ahab, that at every uniform turn that he made, now at the
main-mast and now at the binnacle, you could almost see that thought
turn in him as he turned, and pace in him as he paced; so completely
possessing him, indeed, that it all but seemed the inward mould of
every outer movement.
Dye mark him, Flask? whispered Stubb; the chick thats in him pecks
chick - Tussi, Kcken, Kken, schick;Muschen (fam.)
pecks - (peck) picken;Ksschen (flchtig);flchtiger Kuss
the shell. Twill soon be out.
The hours wore on;"Ahab now shut up within his cabin; anon, pacing the
deck, with the same intense bigotry of purpose in his aspect.
bigotry - Bigotterie, Engstirnigkeit, Borniertheit, fanatische Verblendung
It drew near the close of day. Suddenly he came to a halt by the
halt - unterbrechen, halten;Halt
bulwarks, and inserting his bone leg into the auger-hole there, and
inserting - (insert) einsetzen, einfgen, einwerfen, Beilage
with one hand grasping a shroud, he ordered Starbuck to send everybody
aft.
Sir! said the mate, astonished at an order seldom or never given on
ship-board except in some extraordinary case.
Send everybody aft, repeated Ahab. Mast-heads, there! come down!
When the entire ships company were assembled, and with curious and not
wholly unapprehensive faces, were eyeing him, for he looked not unlike
unapprehensive - nicht beunruhigt
the weather horizon when a storm is coming up, Ahab, after rapidly
glancing over the bulwarks, and then darting his eyes among the crew,
started from his standpoint; and as though not a soul were nigh him
standpoint - Standpunkt, Sichtweise
resumed his heavy turns upon the deck. With bent head and half-slouched
hat he continued to pace, unmindful of the wondering whispering among
unmindful - unbedacht, sorglos
whispering - Geflster ; (whisper) Geflster, Flstern, Wispern
the men; till Stubb cautiously whispered to Flask, that Ahab must have
cautiously - vorsichtig
summoned them there for the purpose of witnessing a pedestrian feat.
But this did not last long. Vehemently pausing, he cried:"
What do ye do when ye see a whale, men?
Sing out for him! was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed
voices.
Good! cried Ahab, with a wild approval in his tones; observing the
approval - Genehmigung, Billigung, Erlaubnis, Zustimmung
hearty animation into which his unexpected question had so magnetically
animation - Belebung, Vitalisierung, Animation
unexpected - unerwartet
magnetically - magnetisch
thrown them.
And what do ye next, men?
Lower away, and after him!
And what tune is it ye pull to, men?
tune - Melodie stimmen
A dead whale or a stove boat!
More and more strangely and fiercely glad and approving, grew the
fiercely - heftig, wtend
approving - (approve) billigen, genehmigen, zusagen
countenance of the old man at every shout; while the mariners began to
gaze curiously at each other, as if marvelling how it was that they
marvelling - (marvel) Wunderding, Wunder; (marvel) wundern
themselves became so excited at such seemingly purposeless questions.
purposeless - zwecklos
But, they were all eagerness again, as Ahab, now half-revolving in his
pivot-hole, with one hand reaching high up a shroud, and tightly,
almost convulsively grasping it, addressed them thus:"
All ye mast-headers have before now heard me give orders about a white
whale. Look ye! dye see this Spanish ounce of gold?"holding up a
broad bright coin to the sun"it is a sixteen dollar piece, men. Dye
see it? Mr. Starbuck, hand me yon top-maul.
maul - Spalthammer misshandeln zerfleischen bel zurichten anmotzen
While the mate was getting the hammer, Ahab, without speaking, was
slowly rubbing the gold piece against the skirts of his jacket, as if
to heighten its lustre, and without using any words was meanwhile lowly
heighten - erhhen, vergrern
lustre - Kronleuchter, Glanz, Glanzton
humming to himself, producing a sound so strangely muffled and
inarticulate that it seemed the mechanical humming of the wheels of his
inarticulate - sprachlos, unfhig zu sprechen, undeutlich, unartikulier
mechanical - mechanisch
vitality in him.
Receiving the top-maul from Starbuck, he advanced towards the main-mast
with the hammer uplifted in one hand, exhibiting the gold with the
other, and with a high raised voice exclaiming: Whosoever of ye raises
exclaiming - (exclaim) ausrufen
me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw;
whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed whale, with three holes
punctured in his starboard fluke"look ye, whosoever of ye raises me
punctured - (puncture) Einstich, Reifenpanne , durchstechen, punktieren
fluke - der Dusel
that same white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!
Huzza! huzza! cried the seamen, as with swinging tarpaulins they
tarpaulins - (tarpaulin) Persenning, Plane
hailed the act of nailing the gold to the mast.
Its a white whale, I say, resumed Ahab, as he threw down the
topmaul: a white whale. Skin your eyes for him, men; look sharp for
white water; if ye see but a bubble, sing out.
All this while Tashtego, Daggoo, and Queequeg had looked on with even
more intense interest and surprise than the rest, and at the mention of
the wrinkled brow and crooked jaw they had started as if each was
separately touched by some specific recollection.
separately - getrennt
recollection - Erinnerung
Captain Ahab, said Tashtego, that white whale must be the same that
some call Moby Dick.
Moby Dick? shouted Ahab. Do ye know the white whale then, Tash?
Does he fan-tail a little curious, sir, before he goes down? said the
Gay-Header deliberately.
And has he a curious spout, too, said Daggoo, very bushy, even for a
bushy - buschig
parmacetty, and mighty quick, Captain Ahab?
And he have one, two, three"oh! good many iron in him hide, too,
Captain, cried Queequeg disjointedly, all twiske-tee be-twisk, like
disjointedly - unzusammenhngende
him"him" faltering hard for a word, and screwing his hand round and
faltering - schwankend; (falter) Wanken, wackeln, schwcheln, stolper
screwing - Vgelei (vulg.), Vgeln (vulg.);schrauben
hand round - herumreichen
round as though uncorking a bottle"like him"him"
uncorking - (uncork) entkorken
Corkscrew! cried Ahab, aye, Queequeg, the harpoons lie all twisted
and wrenched in him; aye, Daggoo, his spout is a big one, like a whole
wrenched - (wrench) reien
shock of wheat, and white as a pile of our Nantucket wool after the
wheat - Weizen weizenfarben
great annual sheep-shearing; aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a
annual - jhrlich
shearing - Schur; (shear) abschneiden, scheren, Scherkraft
split jib in a squall. Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have
jib - widerstreben
seen"Moby Dick"Moby Dick!
Captain Ahab, said Starbuck, who, with Stubb and Flask, had thus far
been eyeing his superior with increasing surprise, but at last seemed
struck with a thought which somewhat explained all the wonder. Captain
Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick"but it was not Moby Dick that took off
thy leg?
Who told thee that? cried Ahab; then pausing, Aye, Starbuck; aye, my
hearties all round; it was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that
hearties - (hearty) herzlich, herzhaft, deftig
brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye, he shouted
with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart-stricken moose;
sob - Huso
Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor
razed - (raze) niederreien, auslschen
pegging lubber of me for ever and a day! Then tossing both arms, with
pegging - annagelnd; (peg) Holzdbel, Pflock, Stift, Haltestift
measureless imprecations he shouted out: Aye, aye! and Ill chase him
measureless - unermesslich
imprecations - (imprecation) Verwnschung Fluch
round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom,
Maelstrom - Mahlstrom, Strudel
and round perditions flames before I give him up. And this is what ye
have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land,
and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin
out. What say ye, men, will ye splice hands on it, now? I think ye do
look brave.
Aye, aye! shouted the harpooneers and seamen, running closer to the
excited old man: A sharp eye for the white whale; a sharp lance for
sharp eye - Scharfblick
Moby Dick!
God bless ye, he seemed to half sob and half shout. God bless ye,
men. Steward! go draw the great measure of grog. But whats this long
grog - Grog Schamotte
face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not
game for Moby Dick?
I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Death too, Captain
Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we follow; but I
came here to hunt whales, not my commanders vengeance. How many
barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain
Ahab? it will not fetch thee much in our Nantucket market.
Nantucket market! Hoot! But come closer, Starbuck; thou requirest a
Hoot - Spaveranstaltung, Spamacher
requirest - requirieren
little lower layer. If moneys to be the measurer, man, and the
measurer - Messgert
accountants have computed their great counting-house the globe, by
accountants - (accountant) Rechnungsprfer, Buchfhrer
computed - (compute) berechnen, errechnen
girdling it with guineas, one to every three parts of an inch; then,
girdling - umgebend; (girdle) umgebend
guineas - (Guinea) Guinea
let me tell thee, that my vengeance will fetch a great premium _here!_
He smites his chest, whispered Stubb, whats that for? methinks it
smites - (smite) schlagen
rings most vast, but hollow.
Vengeance on a dumb brute! cried Starbuck, that simply smote thee
smote - (smite) schlagen
from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing,
blindest - (blind) blind, unkritisch, ignorant, Jalousie , Blind, Blinde
Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.
blasphemous - blasphemisch, gotteslsterlich
Hark ye yet again"the little lower layer. All visible objects, man,
are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event"in the living act, the
pasteboard - Pappkarton
masks - (mask) Maske;abkleben (zum Schutz);abdecken, maskieren
undoubted deed"there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth
deed - Tat, Akt, Werk, Urkunde, urkundlich bertragen; (dee) Tat, Ak
the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man
mouldings - (moulding) Zierleiste, Profil, schimmelnd, gieend
unreasoning - (unreason) Unvernunft Torheit
will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach
outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is
that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think theres naught beyond.
shoved - (shove) schieben
But tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous
heaps - (heap) Menschenmenge, Masse, Haufen, Haufe, Heap
outrageous - ungeheuerlich, haarstrubend, schockierend, verstrend
strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable
sinewing - (sinew) Sehne
thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the
white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me
wreak - auslassen, treiben
of blasphemy, man; Id strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the
blasphemy - Blasphemie, Gotteslsterung
insulted - (insult) beleidigen Beleidigung, Krnkung, Verletzung
sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of
fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations. But not my
fair play - ehrliches Spiel
jealousy - Eifersucht, Missgunst, Neid
presiding - (preside) den Vorsitz haben, prsidieren
creations - (Creation) Erfindung, Werk, Kreation, Schpfung
master, man, is even that fair play. Whos over me? Truth hath no
confines. Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends glarings is
confines - (confine) beschrnken Begrenzung
more intolerable - unertrglichere
a doltish stare! So, so; thou reddenest and palest; my heat has melted
doltish - tlpelhaft
reddenest - am rtesten
thee to anger-glow. But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, that
anger - rger, Zorn, Wut, Groll
glow - glhen abstrahlen leuchten Glhen
in heat - lufig
thing unsays itself. There are men from whom warm words are small
unsays - (unsay) widerrufen
indignity. I meant not to incense thee. Let it go. Look! see yonder
incense - Weihrauch, Ruchwerk ''(archaic)'', empren, erzrne
Turkish cheeks of spotted tawn"living, breathing pictures painted by
Turkish - Trkisch
the sun. The Pagan leopards"the unrecking and unworshipping things,
leopards - (leopard) Leopard;
unrecking - Abwracken
unworshipping - nicht verehren
that live; and seek, and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel!
The crew, man, the crew! Are they not one and all with Ahab, in this
matter of the whale? See Stubb! he laughs! See yonder Chilian! he
Chilian - Chilenisch
snorts to think of it. Stand up amid the general hurricane, thy one
snorts - (snort) Schnauben schnupfen, sniffen
tost sapling cannot, Starbuck! And what is it? Reckon it. Tis but to
tost - (toss) Wurf Mnzwurf werfen verwerfen, wegwerfen, vermische
help strike a fin; no wondrous feat for Starbuck. What is it more? From
this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely
he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a
foremast - Fockmast
clutched - (clutch) Vogelgelege;Kupplung (Auto), Gelege
whetstone? Ah! constrainings seize thee; I see! the billow lifts thee!
constrainings - Zwnge
seize - ergreifen, fassen, packen, beschlagnahmen, erfassen
Speak, but speak!"Aye, aye! thy silence, then, _that_ voices thee.
(_Aside_) Something shot from my dilated nostrils, he has inhaled it in
inhaled - (inhale) einatmen inhalieren
his lungs. Starbuck now is mine; cannot oppose me now, without
oppose - ablehnen widersprechen
rebellion.
rebellion - Rebellion, Aufstand, Aufruhr
God keep me!"keep us all! murmured Starbuck, lowly.
But in his joy at the enchanted, tacit acquiescence of the mate, Ahab
acquiescence - Duldung, Einwilligung, Einverstndnis, Fgung
did not hear his foreboding invocation; nor yet the low laugh from the
invocation - Bittgebet, Aufruf
hold; nor yet the presaging vibrations of the winds in the cordage; nor
presaging - (presage) Prophezeiung, Anzeichen;ahnen
vibrations - (vibration) Vibration, Schwingung
yet the hollow flap of the sails against the masts, as for a moment
flap - Klappe, klappen, Patte (an einer Tasche);Hosenklappe
their hearts sank in. For again Starbucks downcast eyes lighted up
downcast - niedergeschlagen, geknickt, entmutigt
lighted up - aufgeleuchtet
with the stubbornness of life; the subterranean laugh died away; the
stubbornness - Sturheit
subterranean - unterirdisch
winds blew on; the sails filled out; the ship heaved and rolled as
before. Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come?
admonitions - (admonition) Ermahnung
warnings - (warning) Warnung, Mahnung, Achtung
But rather are ye predictions than warnings, ye shadows! Yet not so
much predictions from without, as verifications of the foregoing things
verifications - (verification) Verifizierung Verifikation
foregoing - vorhergehend; (forego) vorhergehend
within. For with little external to constrain us, the innermost
constrain - zwingen;etw. einschrnken
innermost - innerst
necessities in our being, these still drive us on.
necessities - (necessity) Notwendigkeit, Nezessitt, Not, Bedrfnis
The measure! the measure! cried Ahab.
Receiving the brimming pewter, and turning to the harpooneers, he
brimming - (brim) bersprudeln;Rand
pewter - Hartzinn Zinnkrug, Zinnseidel
ordered them to produce their weapons. Then ranging them before him
near the capstan, with their harpoons in their hands, while his three
mates stood at his side with their lances, and the rest of the ships
company formed a circle round the group; he stood for an instant
searchingly eyeing every man of his crew. But those wild eyes met his,
searchingly - grndlich
as the bloodshot eyes of the prairie wolves meet the eye of their
bloodshot - blutunterlaufen
wolves - (wolf) Wolf, Meister Graubein , herunterschlingen
leader, ere he rushes on at their head in the trail of the bison; but,
bison - Wisent Bison, Amerikanischer Bison
alas! only to fall into the hidden snare of the Indian.
snare - Schlinge, Falle
Drink and pass! he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the
flagon - Flasche
nearest seaman. The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short
draughts"long swallows, men; tis hot as Satans hoof. So, so; it goes
draughts - (draught) Spielstein
swallows - (swallow) schlucken, verschlingen, anbeien, einstecken
hoof - Huf
round excellently. It spiralizes in ye; forks out at the
excellently - ausgezeichnet
spiralizes - spiralisiert
serpent-snapping eye. Well done; almost drained. That way it went, this
drained - (drain) Abfluss entwssern, abflieen lassen, ablasse
way it comes. Hand it me"heres a hollow! Men, ye seem the years; so
brimming life is gulped and gone. Steward, refill!
gulped - (gulp) Schluck schlucken schlingen, verschlingen
refill - nachfllen, (wieder) auffllen;Ersatzmine, Ersatzpatrone
Attend now, my braves. I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and
mustered - (muster) (must) Weinmost;musst, Moder, Muss, Most (fr Wein)
ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there
with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some
sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me. O men,
revive - auffrischen wiederbeleben
you will yet see that"Ha! boy, come back? bad pennies come not sooner.
Hand it me. Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wert not
thou St. Vitus imp"away, thou ague!
imp - Wichtel, Schelm, Kobold
ague - Schttelfrost Schttelfrost
Advance, ye mates! Cross your lances full before me. Well done! Let me
touch the axis. So saying, with extended arm, he grasped the three
level, radiating lances at their crossed centre; while so doing,
suddenly and nervously twitched them; meanwhile, glancing intently from
Starbuck to Stubb; from Stubb to Flask. It seemed as though, by some
nameless, interior volition, he would fain have shocked into them the
volition - Vorsatz Wille, Willenskraft
shocked - (shock) Schock, Betroffenheit, Emprung, Schlag, Sto
same fiery emotion accumulated within the Leyden jar of his own
accumulated - (accumulate) aufstauen sich vermehren
magnetic life. The three mates quailed before his strong, sustained,
quailed - (quail) Wachtel
sustained - (sustain) unterhalten, aufrechterhalten, versorgen
and mystic aspect. Stubb and Flask looked sideways from him; the honest
eye of Starbuck fell downright.
In vain! cried Ahab; but, maybe, tis well. For did ye three but
once take the full-forced shock, then mine own electric thing, _that_
had perhaps expired from out me. Perchance, too, it would have dropped
expired - (expire) ablaufen, erlschen, verfallen, ausatmen
ye dead. Perchance ye need it not. Down lances! And now, ye mates, I do
appoint ye three cupbearers to my three pagan kinsmen there"yon three
appoint - bestimmen, festlegen, ausstatten, ausrsten, festsetze
cupbearers - (cupbearer) Mundschenk, Mundschenkin
kinsmen - (kinsman) Verwandter, Angehriger, Landsmann
most honorable gentlemen and noblemen, my valiant harpooneers. Disdain
noblemen - (nobleman) Edelmann, Adeliger, Adliger, Aristokrat
the task? What, when the great Pope washes the feet of beggars, using
Pope - Papst
beggars - (beggar) Bettler, Bettlerin
his tiara for ewer? Oh, my sweet cardinals! your own condescension,
tiara - Tiara
ewer - Krug
cardinals - (cardinal) grundstzlich kardinalrot Grundzahl, Kardinalzah
_that_ shall bend ye to it. I do not order ye; ye will it. Cut your
seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!
seizings - (seizing) (to seize) erfassen, ergreifen, anpacken
Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the
detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs
up, before him.
Stab me not with that keen steel! Cant them; cant them over! know ye
Cant - kippen, verkanten
not the goblet end? Turn up the socket! So, so; now, ye cup-bearers,
goblet - Kelch
socket - Steckdose, Buchse, Fassung
bearers - (bearer) Trger, Trgerin, Inhaber, Inhaberin
advance. The irons! take them; hold them while I fill! Forthwith,
Forthwith - sofort, unverzglich
slowly going from one officer to the other, he brimmed the harpoon
sockets with the fiery waters from the pewter.
sockets - (socket) Steckdose, Buchse, Fassung
Now, three to three, ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow
Commend - belobigen, beglckwnschen, loben, anvertraue
chalices - (chalice) Kelch
Bestow - verstauen, einlagern, unterbringen, schenken, verleihe
them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha!
indissoluble - unauflsbar
league - Liga, Spielklasse, Bund
Starbuck! but the deed is done! Yon ratifying sun now waits to sit upon
ratifying - (ratify) besttigen, ratifizieren
it. Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the
deathful whaleboats bow"Death to Moby Dick! God hunt us all, if we do
deathful - tdlich
not hunt Moby Dick to his death! The long, barbed steel goblets were
lifted; and to cries and maledictions against the white whale, the
maledictions - (malediction) Verwnschung, Fluch
spirits were simultaneously quaffed down with a hiss. Starbuck paled,
quaffed - (quaff) zechen
hiss - Zischen, Fauchen, Knurren
and turned, and shivered. Once more, and finally, the replenished
shivered - (shiver) Schauder, Schauer, zittern, frsteln
pewter went the rounds among the frantic crew; when, waving his free
hand to them, they all dispersed; and Ahab retired within his cabin.
_The cabin; by the stern windows; Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out_.
I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, whereer I
turbid - trb
sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them;
envious - neidisch, neidvoll, betulich
sidelong - seitwrts
whelm - berschtten
but first I pass.
Yonder, by ever-brimming goblets rim, the warm waves blush like wine.
rim - Felge, Rand, Radkranz
blush - Schamrte;errten, sich schmen
The gold brow plumbs the blue. The diver sun"slow dived from noon"goes
plumbs - (plumb) lotrecht;loten
diver - Taucher, Taucherin ; (div) Taucher, Taucherin
down; my soul mounts up! she wearies with her endless hill. Is, then,
wearies - (weary) mde
the crown too heavy that I wear? this Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet is it
Lombardy - Lombardei
bright with many a gem; I the wearer, see not its far flashings; but
gem - Edelstein, Juwel, Kleinod
wearer - Trgerin
flashings - (flashing) Witterungsschutz Blinken, Aufblinken, Freiziehen
darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzlingly confounds. Tis iron"that
darkly - dunkle, dunkel
dazzlingly - verwirrt
confounds - (confound) verwirren verschlimmern, verschlechtern, besiege
I know"not gold. Tis split, too"that I feel; the jagged edge galls me
jagged - zackig; (jag) zackig
galls - (gall) Galle
so, my brain seems to beat against the solid metal; aye, steel skull,
mine; the sort that needs no helmet in the most brain-battering fight!
Dry heat upon my brow? Oh! time was, when as the sunrise nobly spurred
nobly - gromtig, edel
spurred - (spur) anspornen, ankurbeln (Wirtsch.), beflgeln;Anspor
me, so the sunset soothed. No more. This lovely light, it lights not
me; all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can neer enjoy. Gifted
loveliness - Lieblichkeit
with the high perception, I lack the low, enjoying power; damned, most
perception - Wahrnehmung
subtly and most malignantly! damned in the midst of Paradise! Good
subtly - subtil
malignantly - bsartig
night"good night! (_waving his hand, he moves from the window_.)
Twas not so hard a task. I thought to find one stubborn, at the least;
but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels, and they
cogged - (cog) Radzahn
revolve. Or, if you will, like so many ant-hills of powder, they all
revolve - drehen
stand before me; and I their match. Oh, hard! that to fire others, the
match itself must needs be wasting! What Ive dared, Ive willed; and
what Ive willed, Ill do! They think me mad"Starbuck does; but Im
demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness thats only calm to
demoniac - dmonisch
comprehend itself! The prophecy was that I should be dismembered;
dismembered - (dismember) zergliedern zerstckeln
and"Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will dismember my
prophesy - prophezeien
dismember - zergliedern zerstckeln
dismemberer. Now, then, be the prophet and the fulfiller one. Thats
dismemberer - Zerstrer
fulfiller - Erfller
more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye
cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I
cricket - Heimchen, Kricket, Grille
players - (player) Spieler, Spielerin, Schauspieler, Gamer, Vorsetzer
pugilists - (pugilist) Boxer, Boxerin
deaf - taub, gehrlos, die gehrlos
Burkes - (burke) Burke
blinded - (blind) blind, unkritisch, ignorant, Jalousie , Blind, Blinde
will not say as schoolboys do to bullies"Take some one of your own
schoolboys - (schoolboy) Schler, Schuljunge
bullies - (bully) Rabauke, Bully, Tyrann, Schikaneur, einschchtern
size; dont pommel _me!_ No, yeve knocked me down, and I am up again;
pommel - Vorderzwiesel, Sattelknauf
but _ye_ have run and hidden. Come forth from behind your cotton bags!
I have no long gun to reach ye. Come, Ahabs compliments to ye; come
and see if ye can swerve me. Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye
swerve - ausweichen abschweifen Schlenker
swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me? The path to my fixed
purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
rails - (rail) Gleis, Schiene, Reling, Gelnder
whereon - worauf
grooved - (groove) Rille, Nut, gewhnlicher Gang, blicher Ablau
Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under
unsounded - falsch
gorges - (gorge) Schlucht, Kehle;ich/er/sie fre, fresse
rifled - (rifle) Gewehr, Karabiner
torrents beds, unerringly I rush! Naughts an obstacle, naughts an
unerringly - unfehlbar, zielsichere
obstacle - Hindernis, Hrde
angle to the iron way!
_By the Mainmast; Starbuck leaning against it_.
My soul is more than matched; shes overmanned; and by a madman!
overmanned - (overman) Aufseher, Steiger
Insufferable sting, that sanity should ground arms on such a field! But
Insufferable - unausstehlich, unertrglich, untragbar
sting - Stachel, brennender Schmerz, Stich;schmerzlich treffen
sanity - Verstand,
he drilled deep down, and blasted all my reason out of me! I think I
drilled - (drill) einexerzieren, abrichten, drillen;Bohrer, Bohrmaschin
see his impious end; but feel that I must help him to it. Will I, nill
nill - nichts
I, the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with a cable I have
tows - (tow) Werg;abschleppen, schleppen
no knife to cut. Horrible old man! Whos over him, he cries;"aye, he
would be a democrat to all above; look, how he lords it over all below!
democrat - Demokrat, Demokratin
Oh! I plainly see my miserable office,"to obey, rebelling; and worse
rebelling - rebellierend, aufbumend; (rebel) rebellierend, aufbumend
yet, to hate with touch of pity! For in his eyes I read some lurid woe
lurid - widerlich grell reierisch
would shrivel me up, had I it. Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow
shrivel - schrumpeln, verschrumpeln
wide. The hated whale has the round watery world to swim in, as the
small gold-fish has its glassy globe. His heaven-insulting purpose, God
glassy - glasig, glsern, glasartig
insulting - (insult) beleidigen Beleidigung, Krnkung, Verletzung
may wedge aside. I would up heart, were it not like lead. But my whole
wedge - verkeilen, festklemmen, mit einem Keil spalten;keilen, einkeile
like lead - (schwer) wie Blei
clocks run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to
lift again.
[_A burst of revelry from the forecastle_.]
Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch of
human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by the sharkish sea. The white
Whelped - (whelp) Welpe
whale is their demigorgon. Hark! the infernal orgies! that revelry is
Hark - horchen
forward! mark the unfaltering silence aft! Methinks it pictures life.
unfaltering - unbeugsam
Foremost through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled,
embattled - (embattle) aufstellen
bantering bow, but only to drag dark Ahab after it, where he broods
bantering - neckend, neckisch (neckend); (banter) Gelabere
within his sternward cabin, builded over the dead water of the wake,
sternward - nach hinten
dead water - Totraum (geol.), Totwasser (Kielwasser)
and further on, hunted by its wolfish gurglings. The long howl thrills
further on - weiterhin
gurglings - (gurgling) gurgelnd
howl - Heulen, jaulen
thrills - (thrill) Nervenkitzel;erregen, erschauern, durchdringen
me through! Peace! ye revellers, and set the watch! Oh, life! tis in
revellers - (reveller) Feiernder, Feiernde, Schwelger, Schwelgerin
an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge,"as wild,
beat down - herunterhandeln
untutored things are forced to feed"Oh, life! tis now that I do feel
the latent horror in thee! but tis not me! that horrors out of me!
and with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight
ye, ye grim, phantom futures! Stand by me, hold me, bind me, O ye
blessed influences!
Fore-Top.
(_Stubb solus, and mending a brace_.)
Ha! ha! ha! ha! hem! clear my throat!"Ive been thinking over it ever
hem - sumen, einfassen, einsumen, einschlieen [Mil.];Saum
since, and that ha, has the final consequence. Why so? Because a
laughs the wisest, easiest answer to all thats queer; and come what
will, one comforts always left"that unfailing comfort is, its all
unfailing - zuverlssig, unermdlich
predestinated. I heard not all his talk with Starbuck; but to my poor
predestinated - (predestinate) vorherbestimmen
eye Starbuck then looked something as I the other evening felt. Be sure
the old Mogul has fixed him, too. I twigged it, knew it; had had the
Mogul - Mogul, Multimillionr
twigged - (twig) Zweig
gift, might readily have prophesied it"for when I clapped my eye upon
prophesied - (prophesy) prophezeien
his skull I saw it. Well, Stubb, _wise_ Stubb"thats my title"well,
Stubb, what of it, Stubb? Heres a carcase. I know not all that may be
carcase - Schlachtkrper
coming, but be it what it will, Ill go to it laughing. Such a waggish
leering as lurks in all your horribles! I feel funny. Fa, la! lirra,
leering - lstern; (leer) lstern
Fa - Fuballverband
skirra! Whats my juicy little pear at home doing now? Crying its eyes
out?"Giving a party to the last arrived harpooneers, I dare say, gay as
a frigates pennant, and so am I"fa, la! lirra, skirra! Oh"
pennant - Wimpel, Signalflagge
Well drink to-night with hearts as light, To love, as gay and fleeting
fleeting - (fleet) Flotte;Fahrzeugpark
As bubbles that swim, on the beakers brim, And break on the lips while
meeting.
A brave stave that"who calls? Mr. Starbuck? Aye, aye, sir"(_Aside_)
hes my superior, he has his too, if Im not mistaken."Aye, aye, sir,
just through with this job"coming.
HARPOONEERS AND SAILORS.
(_Foresail rises and discovers the watch standing, lounging, leaning,
Foresail - Fock
and lying in various attitudes, all singing in chorus_.)
Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies! Farewell and adieu to you,
ladies of Spain! Our captains commanded."
1ST NANTUCKET SAILOR. Oh, boys, dont be sentimental; its bad for the
digestion! Take a tonic, follow me!
digestion - Verdauung
tonic - Strkungsmittel, Tonika
(_Sings, and all follow._)
Our captain stood upon the deck, A spy-glass in his hand, A viewing of
spy - Spion, Spionin, Spitzel , ausspionieren, ersphen
those gallant whales That blew at every strand. Oh, your tubs in your
strand - Strand, Ader, Faden, Strhne;auf den Strand setze
tubs - (tub) Dose; q
boats, my boys, And by your braces stand, And well have one of those
braces - (brace) Klafter , Armspanne, Klammer, Spange, Klemme
fine whales, Hand, boys, over hand! So, be cheery, my lads! may your
hearts never fail! While the bold harpooner is striking the whale!
harpooner - Harpunier
MATES VOICE FROM THE QUARTER-DECK. Eight bells there, forward!
2ND NANTUCKET SAILOR. Avast the chorus! Eight bells there! dye hear,
bell-boy? Strike the bell eight, thou Pip! thou blackling! and let me
blackling - Schwrzen
call the watch. Ive the sort of mouth for that"the hogshead mouth. So,
hogshead - Oxhoft
so, (_thrusts his head down the scuttle_,) Star-bo-l-e-e-n-s, a-h-o-y!
Eight bells there below! Tumble up!
DUTCH SAILOR. Grand snoozing to-night, maty; fat night for that. I mark
snoozing - (snooze) dsen, nicken, ein Nickerchen machen, Schlfche
maty - Matjes
this in our old Moguls wine; its quite as deadening to some as
deadening - abstumpfend, abttend; (deaden) abtten
filliping to others. We sing; they sleep"aye, lie down there, like
filliping - (fillip) Schnalzen
ground-tier butts. At em again! There, take this copper-pump, and hail
tier - Rang, Reihe, Etage
butts - (butt) stoen;Kippe, P
copper - Kupfer
pump - Pumps;Pumpe;aufpumpen, pumpen
em through it. Tell em to avast dreaming of their lasses. Tell em
lasses - (las) (La) US-Bundesstaat
its the resurrection; they must kiss their last, and come to judgment.
Thats the way"_thats_ it; thy throat aint spoiled with eating
Amsterdam butter.
FRENCH SAILOR. Hist, boys! lets have a jig or two before we ride to
jig - Hilfsmittel, Montagegestell
anchor in Blanket Bay. What say ye? There comes the other watch. Stand
by all legs! Pip! little Pip! hurrah with your tambourine!
PIP. (_Sulky and sleepy._) Dont know where it is.
Sulky - schmollend, verdrossen, Sulky
FRENCH SAILOR. Beat thy belly, then, and wag thy ears. Jig it, men, I
wag - wedeln schwnzen Wedeln Schelm
say; merrys the word; hurrah! Damn me, wont you dance? Form, now,
Indian-file, and gallop into the double-shuffle? Throw yourselves!
gallop - Galopp galoppieren
shuffle - Mischen, Mischeln , Schlurfen
Legs! legs!
ICELAND SAILOR. I dont like your floor, maty; its too springy to my
springy - elastisch
taste. Im used to ice-floors. Im sorry to throw cold water on the
subject; but excuse me.
excuse - entschuldigen, verzeihen, sich entschuldigen, Ausrede, Ausflucht
MALTESE SAILOR. Me too; wheres your girls? Who but a fool would take
MALTESE - Malteser, Maltese; Malteserin , Maltesisch
his left hand by his right, and say to himself, how dye do? Partners!
I must have partners!
SICILIAN SAILOR. Aye; girls and a green!"then Ill hop with ye; yea,
SICILIAN - sizilianisch Sizilianisch Sizilianer, Sizilianerin
turn grasshopper!
LONG-ISLAND SAILOR. Well, well, ye sulkies, theres plenty more of us.
sulkies - (sulky) schmollend, verdrossen, Sulky
Hoe corn when you may, say I. All legs go to harvest soon. Ah! here
Hoe - Hacke
comes the music; now for it!
AZORE SAILOR. (_Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up the
scuttle_.) Here you are, Pip; and theres the windlass-bitts; up you
mount! Now, boys! (_The half of them dance to the tambourine; some go
below; some sleep or lie among the coils of rigging. Oaths a-plenty_.)
Oaths - (oath) Eid, Schwur, Fluch, erman:
AZORE SAILOR. (_Dancing_) Go it, Pip! Bang it, bell-boy! Rig it, dig
Bang - Schlag, Knall;knallen (derb koitieren), schlage
dig - Sto, Puff, Seitenhieb
it, stig it, quig it, bell-boy! Make fire-flies; break the jinglers!
jinglers - (jingler) Scherzkeks
PIP. Jinglers, you say?"there goes another, dropped off; I pound it so.
CHINA SAILOR. Rattle thy teeth, then, and pound away; make a pagoda of
Rattle - klappern, rasseln, erschteln, knattern
pagoda - Pagode
thyself.
FRENCH SAILOR. Merry-mad! Hold up thy hoop, Pip, till I jump through
hoop - Reifen
it! Split jibs! tear yourselves!
jibs - (jib) widerstreben
TASHTEGO. (_Quietly smoking._) Thats a white man; he calls that fun:
humph! I save my sweat.
humph - hm
sweat - schwitzen;Schwei
OLD MANX SAILOR. I wonder whether those jolly lads bethink them of what
MANX - Manx, Manx-Glisch
they are dancing over. Ill dance over your grave, I will"thats the
bitterest threat of your night-women, that beat head-winds round
threat - drohen;Bedrohung, Drohung
corners. O Christ! to think of the green navies and the green-skulled
skulled - geschdigt
crews! Well, well; belike the whole worlds a ball, as you scholars
scholars - (scholar) Student, Schler, Schlerin, Studentin, Gelehrter
have it; and so tis right to make one ballroom of it. Dance on, lads,
ballroom - Ballsaal, Tanzsaal, Festsaal, Standardtanz
youre young; I was once.
3D NANTUCKET SAILOR. Spell oh!"whew! this is worse than pulling after
whew - puh
whales in a calm"give us a whiff, Tash.
whiff - Hauch
(_They cease dancing, and gather in clusters. Meantime the sky
cease - aufhren, einstellen
clusters - (cluster) Anhufung, Bschel, Gruppe, Haufen
darkens"the wind rises_.)
darkens - (darken) verdunkeln
LASCAR SAILOR. By Brahma! boys, itll be douse sail soon. The sky-born,
douse - begieen
high-tide Ganges turned to wind! Thou showest thy black brow, Seeva!
high-tide - (high tide) Hochwasser (des Meeres)
Ganges - Ganges
showest - zeigen
MALTESE SAILOR. (_Reclining and shaking his cap_.) Its the waves"the
Reclining - (recline) zurcklehnen hinlegen anlehnen
snows caps turn to jig it now. Theyll shake their tassels soon. Now
tassels - (tassel) Quaste
would all the waves were women, then Id go drown, and chassee with
drown - ertrinken ertrnken berwltigen
them evermore! Theres naught so sweet on earth"heaven may not match
evermore - immerfort
it!"as those swift glances of warm, wild bosoms in the dance, when the
over-arboring arms hide such ripe, bursting grapes.
arboring - Verankerung
ripe - reif
grapes - (grape) Traube, Weintraube, Weinbeere
SICILIAN SAILOR. (_Reclining_.) Tell me not of it! Hark ye, lad"fleet
interlacings of the limbs"lithe swayings"coyings"flutterings! lip!
interlacings - Einschbe
swayings - (swaying) schwankend
coyings - Ablenkungsmanver
flutterings - (flutter) Flattern, Gleichlaufschwankung
heart! hip! all graze: unceasing touch and go! not taste, observe ye,
hip - Hfte
else come satiety. Eh, Pagan? (_Nudging_.)
satiety - Sattheit, Sttigung, Befriedigung
Nudging - (nudge) Stups (leise oder heimlich) Schubs, Sto, Stupse
TAHITAN SAILOR. (_Reclining on a mat_.) Hail, holy nakedness of our
nakedness - Nacktheit
dancing girls!"the Heeva-Heeva! Ah! low veiled, high palmed Tahiti! I
veiled - (veil) Vorhang Schleier verschleiern, verhllen
palmed - (palm) Palme, Schaufel (am Geweih)
still rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid! I saw thee woven
woven - gewoben; (weave) gewoben
in the wood, my mat! green the first day I brought ye thence; now worn
and wilted quite. Ah me!"not thou nor I can bear the change! How then,
wilted - (wilt) welken
if so be transplanted to yon sky? Hear I the roaring streams from
transplanted - (transplant) verpflanzen, umpflanzen, umsetzen, transplantiere
streams - (stream) Bach Strom Datenstrom strmen streamen
Pirohitees peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the
peak - Hchstwert, Pik (Berg), Spitze
crags - (crag) Klippe
villages?"The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (_Leaps to his
spine - Rckgrat, Wirbelsule, Rcken, Stachel, Dorn
feet_.)
PORTUGUESE SAILOR. How the sea rolls swashing gainst the side! Stand
PORTUGUESE - portugiesisch Portugiese, Portugiesin, Portugiesisch
swashing - schwappend, plantschend; (swash) schwappend, plantschend
by for reefing, hearties! the winds are just crossing swords, pell-mell
reefing - Riffing; (reef) Riffing
mell - mischen
theyll go lunging presently.
lunging - (lung) Lunge
DANISH SAILOR. Crack, crack, old ship! so long as thou crackest, thou
crackest - (crack) Riss, Knall, Aufbruch, Bresche;aufbrechen, knalle
holdest! Well done! The mate there holds ye to it stiffly. Hes no more
afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic
fort - Festung, Fort, Sttzpunkt
Baltic - Ostsee
with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes!
4TH NANTUCKET SAILOR. He has his orders, mind ye that. I heard old Ahab
tell him he must always kill a squall, something as they burst a
waterspout with a pistol"fire your ship right into it!
waterspout - Wasserhose Wasserspeier
ENGLISH SAILOR. Blood! but that old mans a grand old cove! We are the
cove - Bucht, Hohlkehle (Profil), Wlbung
lads to hunt him up his whale!
ALL. Aye! aye!
OLD MANX SAILOR. How the three pines shake! Pines are the hardest sort
pines - (pine) pineapple = Ananasa
of tree to live when shifted to any other soil, and here theres none
but the crews cursed clay. Steady, helmsman! steady. This is the sort
clay - Lehm, Ton, Asche
of weather when brave hearts snap ashore, and keeled hulls split at
snap - Knacken, Knallen, Schnappen, Zuschnappen, Schnippen, Schnalze
keeled - (keel) Kiel
sea. Our captain has his birthmark; look yonder, boys, theres another
birthmark - Muttermal
in the sky"lurid-like, ye see, all else pitch black.
DAGGOO. What of that? Whos afraid of blacks afraid of me! Im
quarried out of it!
SPANISH SAILOR. (_Aside_.) He wants to bully, ah!"the old grudge makes
bully - Raufbold ;jdn. unter Druck setzen;einschchtern, schikanieren, ntigen
me touchy (_Advancing_.) Aye, harpooneer, thy race is the undeniable
touchy - heikel, empfindlich, gereizt, reizbar, belnehmerisch
undeniable - unbestreitbar, unleugbar
dark side of mankind"devilish dark at that. No offence.
No offence - Nichts fr ungut!
DAGGOO (_grimly_). None.
ST. JAGOS SAILOR. That Spaniards mad or drunk. But that cant be, or
else in his one case our old Moguls fire-waters are somewhat long in
working.
5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR. Whats that I saw"lightning? Yes.
SPANISH SAILOR. No; Daggoo showing his teeth.
DAGGOO (_springing_). Swallow thine, mannikin! White skin, white liver!
mannikin - (arch) Gewlbe, Bogen, Furcken
SPANISH SAILOR (_meeting him_). Knife thee heartily! big frame, small
heartily - herzlich
spirit!
ALL. A row! a row! a row!
TASHTEGO (_with a whiff_). A row alow, and a row aloft"Gods and
men"both brawlers! Humph!
brawlers - (brawler) Schlger, Rabauke, Krakeeler, Raufbold
BELFAST SAILOR. A row! arrah a row! The Virgin be blessed, a row!
Plunge in with ye!
Plunge - eintauchen, tauchen
ENGLISH SAILOR. Fair play! Snatch the Spaniards knife! A ring, a ring!
OLD MANX SAILOR. Ready formed. There! the ringed horizon. In that ring
Cain struck Abel. Sweet work, right work! No? Why then, God, madst
thou the ring?
MATES VOICE FROM THE QUARTER-DECK. Hands by the halyards! in
top-gallant sails! Stand by to reef topsails!
reef - Segel reffen;Riff
topsails - (topsail) Toppsegel
ALL. The squall! the squall! jump, my jollies! (_They scatter_.)
jollies - (jolly) vergngt, lustig
scatter - zerstreuen, verstreuen, ausstreuen; (scat) zerstreue
PIP (_shrinking under the windlass_). Jollies? Lord help such jollies!
shrinking - (shrink) schrumpfen, abnehmen, drcken
Crish, crash! there goes the jib-stay! Blang-whang! God! Duck lower,
crash - Zusammensto, Krach, Zusammenbruch;zusammenbreche
Duck - untertauchen (in);Schiertuch, Ente, Segeltuch;kneifen, ausreie
Pip, here comes the royal yard! Its worse than being in the whirled
whirled - (whirl) wirbeln, lschnell, Wirbeln, Wirbel, Trube
woods, the last day of the year! Whod go climbing after chestnuts now?
But there they go, all cursing, and here I dont. Fine prospects to
cursing - verwnschend; (curs) verwnschend
prospects - (prospect) Sicht, Perspektive, Aussicht, Erwartung, Chanc
em; theyre on the road to heaven. Hold on hard! Jimmini, what a
squall! But those chaps there are worse yet"they are your white
squalls, they. White squalls? white whale, shirr! shirr! Here have I
squalls - (squall) Be, Sturmbe
shirr - Gummischnur
heard all their chat just now, and the white whale"shirr! shirr!"but
spoken of once! and only this evening"it makes me jingle all over like
jingle - Jingle
my tambourine"that anaconda of an old man swore em in to hunt him! Oh,
anaconda - Anakonda
thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on
this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no
bowels to feel fear!
I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest;
my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more
did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul. A
wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahabs quenchless feud
sympathetical - mitfhlend
quenchless - unlschlich
feud - Fehde
seemed mine. With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous
greedy - gierig, habgierig, habschtig, gefrig
monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of
violence and revenge.
violence - Gewalt, Gewalttaten, Gewaltttigkeiten
revenge - Rache rchen
For some time past, though at intervals only, the unaccompanied,
unaccompanied - unbegleitet
secluded White Whale had haunted those uncivilized seas mostly
haunted - (haunt) spuken verfolgen Treffpunkt
uncivilized - unzivilisiert, ungesittet
frequented by the Sperm Whale fishermen. But not all of them knew of
his existence; only a few of them, comparatively, had knowingly seen
him; while the number who as yet had actually and knowingly given
battle to him, was small indeed. For, owing to the large number of
whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire
cruisers - (cruiser) Kreuzer Streifenwagen
disorderly - unordentlich
watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest
adventurously - abenteuerlich, abenteuerliche
along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth
or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any
stretch - strecken, dehnen, langziehen, dehnen
sort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity
irregularity - Unregelmigkeit Unebenheit Unvorschriftsmigkei
of the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances,
direct and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole
obstructed - (obstruct) behindern, versperren
world-wide whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings
individualizing - (individualize) individualisieren
concerning Moby Dick. It was hardly to be doubted, that several vessels
reported to have encountered, at such or such a time, or on such or
such a meridian, a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity,
meridian - Meridian
malignity - Bosheit, Bsartigkeit
which whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had
mischief - Unfug, Unheil, Querulantentum
assailants - (assailant) Angreifer
completely escaped them; to some minds it was not an unfair
presumption, I say, that the whale in question must have been no other
presumption - Annahme berheblichkeit Vermutung
than Moby Dick. Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been marked
by various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity, cunning, and
unfrequent - unregelmig
cunning - schlau, clever, s, niedlich
malice in the monster attacked; therefore it was, that those who by
accident ignorantly gave battle to Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps,
for the most part, were content to ascribe the peculiar terror he bred,
terror - Schrecken, Grauen, schreckliche Furcht, Terror
more, as it were, to the perils of the Sperm Whale fishery at large,
than to the individual cause. In that way, mostly, the disastrous
encounter between Ahab and the whale had hitherto been popularly
regarded.
And as for those who, previously hearing of the White Whale, by chance
caught sight of him; in the beginning of the thing they had every one
of them, almost, as boldly and fearlessly lowered for him, as for any
fearlessly - furchtlos, angstlos
other whale of that species. But at length, such calamities did ensue
calamities - (calamity) Unheil, Kalamitt
ensue - folgen, ansetzen, erfolgen, nachfolgen
in these assaults"not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken
sprained - (sprain) verstauchen Verstauchung
limbs, or devouring amputations"but fatal to the last degree of
devouring - (devour) verschlingen, fressen, herunterschlingen, zerstren
amputations - (amputation) Amputation
fatality; those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and
fatality - Verhngnis
repulses - (repulse) zurckschlagen, abweisen
accumulating - (accumulate) aufstauen sich vermehren
piling their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake
piling - Spundwand ; (pile) Spundwand
the fortitude of many brave hunters, to whom the story of the White
Whale had eventually come.
Nor did wild rumors of all sorts fail to exaggerate, and still the more
rumors - (rumor) Gercht Gercht
exaggerate - bertreiben
horrify the true histories of these deadly encounters. For not only do
horrify - entsetzen, erschrecken, schockieren
encounters - (encounter) treffen, begegnen, Begegnung, Treffen
fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising
terrible events,"as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in
smitten - (smite) schlagen
fungi - Pilze; (fungus) Pilz
maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors
abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.
abound - in
adequate - angemessen, adquat, entsprechend
cling - anschmiegen
And as the sea surpasses the land in this matter, so the whale fishery
surpasses - (surpass) bersteigen, bertreffen, berschreiten, berbieten
surpasses every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and
wonderfulness - Herrlichkeit
fearfulness of the rumors which sometimes circulate there. For not only
circulate - umlaufen, kreisen, zirkulieren, kursieren
are whalemen as a body unexempt from that ignorance and
unexempt - nicht freigestellt
superstitiousness hereditary to all sailors; but of all sailors, they
are by all odds the most directly brought into contact with whatever is
appallingly astonishing in the sea; face to face they not only eye its
appallingly - schreckliche, entsetzliche
astonishing - (astonish) erstaunen
greatest marvels, but, hand to jaw, give battle to them. Alone, in such
remotest waters, that though you sailed a thousand miles, and passed a
thousand shores, you would not come to any chiseled hearth-stone, or
chiseled - (chisel) schummeln, meieln;Meiel, Stemmeisen, Beitel
aught hospitable beneath that part of the sun; in such latitudes and
longitudes, pursuing too such a calling as he does, the whaleman is
longitudes - (longitude) Lnge, geographische Lnge, Lngengrad
pursuing - verfolgend; (pursue) verfolgen, beschreiten, nachjage
wrapped by influences all tending to make his fancy pregnant with many
a mighty birth.
No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over
transit - Transit, Durchgang, Durchreise, Theodolit
the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in
outblown - ausgeblasen
the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and
incorporate - zusammenschlieen, vereinigen, aufnehmen
morbid - morbid krankhaft
half-formed f"tal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which
f - fA
eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything
unborrowed - nicht ausgeliehen
that visibly appears. So that in many cases such a panic did he finally
visibly - sichtbar
strike, that few who by those rumors, at least, had heard of the White
Whale, few of those hunters were willing to encounter the perils of his
jaw.
But there were still other and more vital practical influences at work.
more vital - lebenswichtigere
Not even at the present day has the original prestige of the Sperm
prestige - Prestige, Ansehen, Geltung, Wertschtzung
Whale, as fearfully distinguished from all other species of the
leviathan, died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body. There are
died out - ausgestorben
those this day among them, who, though intelligent and courageous
courageous - mutig
enough in offering battle to the Greenland or Right whale, would
perhaps"either from professional inexperience, or incompetency, or
inexperience - Unerfahrenheit
incompetency - Unfhigkeit, Inkompetenz
timidity, decline a contest with the Sperm Whale; at any rate, there
timidity - Furchtsamkeit
decline - Sinken, Fall, Geflle, Abnahme, Rckgang, Schwchun
contest - Auseinandersetzung, Debatte, Wettkampf, Wettbewerb, Wettstrei
are plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations not
sailing under the American flag, who have never hostilely encountered
hostilely - feindselige
the Sperm Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan is
restricted to the ignoble monster primitively pursued in the North;
ignoble - unedel, gemein
primitively - primitiv
seated on their hatches, these men will hearken with a childish
childish - kindgerecht kindisch
fireside interest and awe, to the wild, strange tales of Southern
whaling. Nor is the pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale
pre - vor.
eminent - ausgesprochen angesehen
tremendousness - Ungeheure, Ungeheuerlichkeit
anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows
feelingly - gefhlvoll
prows - (prow) Bug
which stem him.
And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary
legendary - legendr
times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book
naturalists"Olassen and Povelson"declaring the Sperm Whale not only to
declaring - (declare) bekanntmachen, bekanntgeben, deklarieren, ausrufe
be a consternation to every other creature in the sea, but also to be
so incredibly ferocious as continually to be athirst for human blood.
ferocious - wild, brutal, grausam
Nor even down to so late a time as Cuviers, were these or almost
similar impressions effaced. For in his Natural History, the Baron
effaced - (efface) unkenntlich machen, unlesbar machen, verwische
himself affirms that at sight of the Sperm Whale, all fish (sharks
affirms - (affirm) zustimmen, bejahen, besttigen, untersttzen
at sight - bei Vorlage
included) are struck with the most lively terrors, and often in the
precipitancy of their flight dash themselves against the rocks with
precipitancy - Hast
such violence as to cause instantaneous death. And however the general
experiences in the fishery may amend such reports as these; yet in
amend - verbessern, ausbessern, novellieren
their full terribleness, even to the bloodthirsty item of Povelson, the
terribleness - Schrecklichkeit
bloodthirsty - blutrnstig, blutdrstig
superstitious belief in them is, in some vicissitudes of their
vocation, revived in the minds of the hunters.
revived - (revive) auffrischen wiederbeleben
So that overawed by the rumors and portents concerning him, not a few
overawed - (overawe) einschchtern
of the fishermen recalled, in reference to Moby Dick, the earlier days
recalled - (recall) zurckrufen erinnern
of the Sperm Whale fishery, when it was oftentimes hard to induce long
oftentimes - oftmals
practised Right whalemen to embark in the perils of this new and daring
warfare; such men protesting that although other leviathans might be
warfare - Kriegsfhrung
hopefully pursued, yet to chase and point lance at such an apparition
hopefully - hoffnungsvoll hoffentlich
as the Sperm Whale was not for mortal man. That to attempt it, would be
inevitably to be torn into a quick eternity. On this head, there are
inevitably - zwangslufig erwartbarerweise
some remarkable documents that may be consulted.
consulted - (consult) Rat halten beraten, beratschlagen, um Rat frage
Nevertheless, some there were, who even in the face of these things
were ready to give chase to Moby Dick; and a still greater number who,
chancing only to hear of him distantly and vaguely, without the
distantly - entfernt
specific details of any certain calamity, and without superstitious
calamity - Unheil, Kalamitt
accompaniments, were sufficiently hardy not to flee from the battle if
accompaniments - (accompaniment) Begleitung
offered.
One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked
with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was
the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had
ubiquitous - allgegenwrtig, berall vorhanden, berall verbreitet, ubiquitr
instant of time.
Nor, credulous as such minds must have been, was this conceit
altogether without some faint show of superstitious probability. For as
the secrets of the currents in the seas have never yet been divulged,
divulged - (divulge) verbreiten, bekannt machen, preisgeben, verrate
even to the most erudite research; so the hidden ways of the Sperm
erudite - belesen, gelehrt, gebildet
Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part, unaccountable to
his pursuers; and from time to time have originated the most curious
pursuers - (pursuer) Verfolger, Verfolgerin
originated - (originate) entwickeln, erzeugen, entstehen, entspringen
most curious - neugierigste, kurioseste
and contradictory speculations regarding them, especially concerning
speculations - (speculation) Spekulation, Betrachtung
the mystic modes whereby, after sounding to a great depth, he
depth - Tiefe
transports himself with such vast swiftness to the most widely distant
points.
It is a thing well known to both American and English whale-ships, and
as well a thing placed upon authoritative record years ago by Scoresby,
authoritative - autoritativ, offiziell, vorherrschend, gebieterisch
that some whales have been captured far north in the Pacific, in whose
bodies have been found the barbs of harpoons darted in the Greenland
seas. Nor is it to be gainsaid, that in some of these instances it has
gainsaid - (gainsay) leugnen, widersprechen
been declared that the interval of time between the two assaults could
not have exceeded very many days. Hence, by inference, it has been
exceeded - (exceed) berschreiten, hinausgehen ber, bertreffe
believed by some whalemen, that the Nor West Passage, so long a
problem to man, was never a problem to the whale. So that here, in the
real living experience of living men, the prodigies related in old
times of the inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there
was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the
wrecks - (wreck) Wrack, Schrott, Schrotthaufen, Schrottkist
surface); and that still more wonderful story of the Arethusa fountain
near Syracuse (whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy
Land by an underground passage); these fabulous narrations are almost
narrations - (narration) Erzhlung
fully equalled by the realities of the whalemen.
Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and
familiarity - Vertrautheit
knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had
escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen
should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not
only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in
immortality - Unsterblichkeit
ubiquity - Allgegenwrtigkeit, Allgegenwart
time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he
groves - (grove) Hain, Gehlz, Wldchen
flanks - (flank) in der Flanke angreifen flankieren Flanke
would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to
unharmed - unverletzt, unversehrt
spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for
deception - Betrug, Betrgerei, Tuschung
again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied
unensanguined - unausgeblutet
unsullied - unbefleckt
jet would once more be seen.
But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in
surmisings - (surmising) vermutend, einbildend
the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike
incontestable - unanfechtbar, unbestreitbar
the imagination with unwonted power. For, it was not so much his
imagination - Vorstellungskraft, Imagination, Einbildungskraft, Fantasi
unwonted - ungewohnt
uncommon bulk that so much distinguished him from other sperm whales,
but, as was elsewhere thrown out"a peculiar snow-white wrinkled
forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump. These were his prominent
pyramidical - pyramidenfrmig
prominent - berstehend, hervorstehend, hervorstechend, prominent
features; the tokens whereby, even in the limitless, uncharted seas, he
limitless - grenzenlos, unbegrenzt
uncharted - nicht entworfen
revealed his identity, at a long distance, to those who knew him.
The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the
marbled - (marble) Marmor Murmel marmorieren
same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive
appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by
his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue
vivid - lebendig, lebhaft, anschaulich
sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden
milky - milchig
creamy - sahnig, cremig, cremeartig
spangled - (spangle) Flitter, Flitterblttchen, Glanzplttchen, Glitzer
gleamings.
gleamings - (gleaming) durchschimmernd, schimmernd, glnzend
Nor was it his unwonted magnitude, nor his remarkable hue, nor yet his
deformed lower jaw, that so much invested the whale with natural
terror, as that unexampled, intelligent malignity which, according to
unexampled - beispiellos
specific accounts, he had over and over again evinced in his assaults.
More than all, his treacherous retreats struck more of dismay than
dismay - Furcht, Ohnmacht
perhaps aught else. For, when swimming before his exulting pursuers,
exulting - (exult) jubeln, jauchzen
with every apparent symptom of alarm, he had several times been known
apparent - offensichtlich offenbar
to turn round suddenly, and, bearing down upon them, either stave their
turn round - umlenken, wenden, umbiegen
bearing down - (bear down) lasten auf, sich schnell nhern, sich strzen auf
boats to splinters, or drive them back in consternation to their ship.
Already several fatalities had attended his chase. But though similar
fatalities - (fatality) Verhngnis
disasters, however little bruited ashore, were by no means unusual in
bruited - (bruit) verbreiten
the fishery; yet, in most instances, such seemed the White Whales
infernal aforethought of ferocity, that every dismembering or death
aforethought - vorbedacht
dismembering - (dismember) zergliedern zerstckeln
that he caused, was not wholly regarded as having been inflicted by an
inflicted - (inflict) zufgen, checkverhngen
unintelligent agent.
Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed, distracted fury the minds of
pitches - (pitch) werfen, festsetzen, errichten;Tonhhe, Tonlage, Pec
inflamed - (inflame) anznden, entflammen, anregen, aufregen, erzrne
his more desperate hunters were impelled, when amid the chips of chewed
impelled - (impel) antreiben, vorantreiben, ntigen
boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the
swam out - (swim out) hinausschwimmen
white curds of the whales direful wrath into the serene, exasperating
curds - (curd) Ksebruch
sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal.
bridal - Hochzeit brutlich, hochzeitlich, Braut-, Hochzeit-
His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the
oars - (oar) Ruder
eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had
seizing - (to seize) erfassen, ergreifen, anpacken; (seize) ergreife
dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly
duellist - Duellant
seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the
fathom - ergrnden, Faden, Klafter (Lngenma)
whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping
his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away
Ahabs leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk,
turbaned - turbantragend
no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming
Venetian - venezianisch Venezianer, Venezianerin
malice. Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that
almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness
vindictiveness - Rachsucht
against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness
he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but
woes - (woe) Weh, Jammer, Kummer, Leid
all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam
exasperations - (exasperation) berforderung, Verzweiflung, Verbitterung, Frust
before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious
monomaniac - Monomane, Monomanin
incarnation - Verkrperung Inkarnation, checkVerkrperung, checkInbegriff {m
agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left
living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity
lung - Lunge
intangible - abstrakt, ungreifbar, immateriell, vage
which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern
Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of
Ophites - (ophite) ophit
the east reverenced in their statue devil;"Ahab did not fall down and
reverenced - (reverence) Ehrfurcht, Bewunderung, Verehrung, Hochachtun
worship it like them; but deliriously transferring its idea to the
deliriously - wahnsinnig, irreredende
transferring - (transfer) bertragen versetzen bringen bertragung, Versetzun
abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All
abhorred - (abhor) verabscheuen
pitted - (pit) Fallgrube, Schachtgrube, Box (Sport)
mutilated - (mutilate) verstmmeln, verschandeln
that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things;
maddens - (madden) rasend machen
torments - (torment) Qual qulen, peinigen
stirs - (stir) erschttern, bewegen, sich rhren, verrhren;Aufregun
all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the
sinews - (sinew) Sehne
brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy
demonisms - (demonism) Dmonismus
Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby
personified - (personify) personifizieren
practically - praktisch
assailable - angreifbar
Dick. He piled upon the whales white hump the sum of all the general
rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if
his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot hearts shell upon it.
mortar - Mrtel Mrser
It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at
probable - glaubhaft, wahrscheinlich
monomania - Monomanie
the precise time of his bodily dismemberment. Then, in darting at the
dismemberment - Zerstckelung
monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate,
corporal animosity; and when he received the stroke that tore him, he
corporal - Unteroffizier, Korporal;Unteroffizier (Luftwaffe)
animosity - Hass, Abneigung, Animositt
probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.
agonizing - (agonize) qulen
laceration - Platzwunde
Yet, when by this collision forced to turn towards home, and for long
collision - Zusammensto, Kollision
turn towards - zuwenden
months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish lay stretched together in
one hammock, rounding in mid winter that dreary, howling Patagonian
Cape; then it was, that his torn body and gashed soul bled into one
gashed - (gash) tiefer Schnitt, tiefer Riss, klaffende Wunde;einschneiden
another; and so interfusing, made him mad. That it was only then, on
interfusing - (interfuse) verschmelzen
the homeward voyage, after the encounter, that the final monomania
seized him, seems all but certain from the fact that, at intervals
during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a
raving - (rave) wten, toben, rasen; (rave) (rave) wten, toben, rasen
lunatic - Irre
unlimbed - ohne Gliedmaen
leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was
vital - Leben
moreover intensified by his delirium, that his mates were forced to
intensified - (intensify) intensifizieren, intensivieren
delirium - Delirium, Fieberphantasie, Taumel
lace him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock. In a
lace - schnren, Spitze (Gewebe)
strait-jacket, he swung to the mad rockings of the gales. And, when
rockings - (rocking) Kipphebel, schaukelnd
running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship, with mild stunsails
spread, floated across the tranquil tropics, and, to all appearances,
tranquil - ruhig, gelassen
the old mans delirium seemed left behind him with the Cape Horn
swells, and he came forth from his dark den into the blessed light and
air; even then, when he bore that firm, collected front, however pale,
and issued his calm orders once again; and his mates thanked God the
direful madness was now gone; even then, Ahab, in his hidden self,
raved on. Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.
raved - (rave) schwrmen, rasen
feline - katzenartig
When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some
transfigured - (transfigure) umgestalten
still subtler form. Ahabs full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly
subtler - (subtle) subtil, fast unmerklich, haarfein, dezent
lunacy - Verrcktheit, Wahnsinn
subsided - (subside) einsinken abklingen, nachlassen, abschwellen
deepeningly - vertiefend
contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows
unabated - ungebrochen, unvermindert
Northman - Skandinavier
narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge. But, as in his
unfathomably - unergrndlich
Highland - Hochland
gorge - Schlucht, Kehle;ich/er/sie fre, fressen, ich/er/sie fra
narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahabs broad madness had been
left behind; so in that broad madness, not one jot of his great natural
intellect had perished. That before living agent, now became the living
intellect - Intellekt
instrument. If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy
trope - Prototyp Tropus, Trope
stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its
concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost
concentred - (concentre) konzentriere dich
his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold
more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one
sanely - gesund, zurechnungsfhige
reasonable object.
This is much; yet Ahabs larger, darker, deeper part remains unhinted.
unhinted - nicht angedeutet
But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound. Winding
popularize - popularisieren
profundities - (profundity) Tiefgrndigkeit, Tiefe
far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de Cluny where
spiked - (spik) Stachel
we here stand"however grand and wonderful, now quit it;"and take your
way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes;
nobler - (noble) Adeliger, Adliger, Adelige, Adlige
where far beneath the fantastic towers of mans upper earth, his root
of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique
essence - Wesen Essenz, Extrakt, Parfm
buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes! So with a broken
throned - (throne) Thron
torsoes - Torsos
throne, the great gods mock that captive king; so like a Caryatid, he
mock - Nachahmung, Imitation, Parodie, Veralberung, Prototyp, nachahme
captive - Gefangener, Gefangene
Caryatid - Karyatide
patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow the piled entablatures of
upholding - haltend, aufrechterhaltend; (uphold) hochheben, hochhalte
entablatures - (entablature) Oberteil, Hauptgesims, Geblk
ages. Wind ye down there, ye prouder, sadder souls! question that
proud, sad king! A family likeness! aye, he did beget ye, ye young
family likeness - Familienhnlichkeit
exiled royalties; and from your grim sire only will the old
exiled - (exile) Exil, Verbannung, Exilant, Exilantin, Verbannte
royalties - (royalty) Nutzungsgebhr Tantieme
sire - Herr Mnnchen;
state-secret come.
state-secret - (state secret) Staatsgeheimnis
Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse of this, namely: all my means
namely - und zwar, nmlich
are sane, my motive and my object mad. Yet without power to kill, or
sane - vernnftig zurechnungsfhig
motive - Motiv, Beweggrund
change, or shun the fact; he likewise knew that to mankind he did long
shun - aus dem Weg gehen, ausweichen, meiden, scheuen
dissemble; in some sort, did still. But that thing of his dissembling
dissemble - verbergen vortuschen, verhehlen, anmerken lassen
dissembling - (dissemble) verbergen vortuschen, verhehlen, anmerken lassen
was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.
perceptibility - Erkennbarkeit, Wahrnehmbarkeit
Nevertheless, so well did he succeed in that dissembling, that when
with ivory leg he stepped ashore at last, no Nantucketer thought him
otherwise than but naturally grieved, and that to the quick, with the
grieved - (grieve) weh tun, krnken, bekmmern;sich grmen (ber)
terrible casualty which had overtaken him.
casualty - Unfall, Unglck, Unglcksfall, Kalamitt
overtaken - (overtake) berholen aufholen
The report of his undeniable delirium at sea was likewise popularly
ascribed to a kindred cause. And so too, all the added moodiness which
moodiness - Launenhaftigkeit
always afterwards, to the very day of sailing in the Pequod on the
present voyage, sat brooding on his brow. Nor is it so very unlikely,
brooding - grblerisch, grbelnd; (brood) Brut brten, grbeln
that far from distrusting his fitness for another whaling voyage, on
distrusting - (distrust) Misstrauen, Argwohn
account of such dark symptoms, the calculating people of that prudent
isle were inclined to harbor the conceit, that for those very reasons
he was all the better qualified and set on edge, for a pursuit so full
of rage and wildness as the bloody hunt of whales. Gnawed within and
wildness - Wildheit, Wildsein, Ungezhmtheit
Gnawed - (gnaw) nagen, kauen, knabbern, verfolgen
scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable
infixed - (infix) Infix
unrelenting - unerbittlich, unbeugsam
incurable - unheilbar
idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart
his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes.
appalling - entsetzlich, erschreckend; (appal) entsetzlich, erschreckend
brutes - (brute) Tier, brutaler Kerl, brutal, Vieh
Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that,
corporeally - krperliches
incapacitated - (incapacitate) unfhig machen;kampfunfhig, hindern
yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on
superlatively - hchst
his underlings to the attack. But be all this as it may, certain it is,
underlings - Kulis, Untergeordneten
that with the mad secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in
him, Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one
only and all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale. Had any one
engrossing - (engross) beschlagnahmen, beanspruchen
of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking
in him then, how soon would their aghast and righteous souls have
righteous - rechtschaffen gerecht, gerechtfertigt
wrenched the ship from such a fiendish man! They were bent on
fiendish - teuflisch
profitable cruises, the profit to be counted down in dollars from the
profitable - gewinnbringend, profitabel, lukrativ, eintrglich
mint. He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural
mint - Mnzanstalt, Minze;ausprgen
immitigable - unnachgiebig
revenge.
Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses
chasing - ziselierend, jagend; (chas) ziselierend, jagend
curses - (curs) (cur) Hundesohn, Kter
a Jobs whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made
up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals"morally enfeebled
mongrel - Mischling, Mischlingshund
morally - moralisch
enfeebled - (enfeeble) schwchen
also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in
incompetence - Inkompetenz
unaided - blo
Starbuck, the invulnerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in
invulnerable - unverwundbar
jollity - Frhlichkeiten
recklessness - Leichtsinnigkeit, Fahrlssigkeit, Gewagthei
Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask. Such a crew, so
mediocrity - Mittelmigkeit, Mittelma
officered, seemed specially picked and packed by some infernal fatality
to help him to his monomaniac revenge. How it was that they so
aboundingly responded to the old mans ire"by what evil magic their
aboundingly - in Hlle und Flle
ire - rger, Zorn, Wut
souls were possessed, that at times his hate seemed almost theirs; the
White Whale as much their insufferable foe as his; how all this came to
be"what the White Whale was to them, or how to their unconscious
understandings, also, in some dim, unsuspected way, he might have
understandings - (understanding) Verstehen, Verstndnis, Vereinbarung, Einigun
unsuspected - unverdchtigt, unerwartet
seemed the gliding great demon of the seas of life,"all this to
demon - Dmon, Teufel
explain, would be to dive deeper than Ishmael can go. The subterranean
miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by
whither - wohin
the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick? Who does not feel the
irresistible arm drag? What skiff in tow of a seventy-four can stand
still? For one, I gave myself up to the abandonment of the time and the
abandonment - berlassen, Aufgabe, Preisgabe, Hinterlassung
place; but while yet all a-rush to encounter the whale, could see
naught in that brute but the deadliest ill.
deadliest - (deadly) tdlich
What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he
was to me, as yet remains unsaid.
unsaid - (unsay) widerrufen
Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which
considerations - (consideration) Erwgung, berlegung, Rcksicht, Vergtun
could not but occasionally awaken in any mans soul some alarm, there
awaken - aufwecken, aufwachen, erwachen, wach werden
was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him,
which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest;
overpowered - (overpower) berwltigen, bermannen
and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost
despair of putting it in a comprehensible form. It was the whiteness of
the whale that above all things appalled me. But how can I hope to
explain myself here; and yet, in some dim, random way, explain myself I
must, else all these chapters might be naught.
Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty,
refiningly - raffiniert
as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles,
imparting - (impart) weitergeben, gewhren, mitteilen, vermitteln
japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations have in some way
pearls - (pearl) Perle
recognised a certain royal preeminence in this hue; even the barbaric,
preeminence - Überlegenheit
grand old kings of Pegu placing the title Lord of the White Elephants
above all their other magniloquent ascriptions of dominion; and the
magniloquent - hochtrabend
ascriptions - (ascription) Zurckfhren
modern kings of Siam unfurling the same snow-white quadruped in the
Siam - Siam
unfurling - (unfurl) entfalten, entrollen, aufrollen
quadruped - Vierfer, Vierferin, Vierfler, Vierflerin
royal standard; and the Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a
Hanoverian - Hannoveraner
snow-white charger; and the great Austrian Empire, Cæsarian, heir to
charger - Ladegert
Austrian - sterreichisch sterreicher, sterreicherin
heir - Erbe, Erbin, Thronerbe
overlording Rome, having for the imperial colour the same imperial hue;
overlording - (overlord) Oberherr, Lehnsherr
and though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself,
eminence - Eminenz
giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; and
mastership - Meisterschaft
though, besides, all this, whiteness has been even made significant of
gladness, for among the Romans a white stone marked a joyful day; and
gladness - Frhlichkeit, Freude
Romans - (Roman) rmisch lateinisch katholisch Rmer, Rmerin, Lateinisc
though in other mortal sympathies and symbolizings, this same hue is
sympathies - (sympathy) Mitleid, Mitgefhl, Empathie, Einfhlungsvermge
symbolizings - Symbolisierungen
made the emblem of many touching, noble things"the innocence of brides,
emblem - Emblem
the benignity of age; though among the Red Men of America the giving of
benignity - Gutartigkeit
the white belt of wampum was the deepest pledge of honor; though in
pledge - zusichern, versprechen, geloben, zusagen, verpfnden, Gelbni
many climes, whiteness typifies the majesty of Justice in the ermine of
typifies - (typify) versinnbildlichen, verkrpern
Justice - Gerechtigkeit, Genugtuung, Justiz
ermine - Hermelin Hermelin
the Judge, and contributes to the daily state of kings and queens drawn
contributes - (contribute) beisteuern, beitragen
by milk-white steeds; though even in the higher mysteries of the most
steeds - (steed) erman: Ross (see also Stute )
august religions it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness
spotlessness - Makellosigkeit
and power; by the Persian fire worshippers, the white forked flame
worshippers - (worshipper) Anbeter, Anbeterin
being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies,
holiest - (holey) lchrig
mythologies - (mythology) Mythologie, Sagenwelt, Gtterlehre
Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white bull; and
though to the noble Iroquois, the midwinter sacrifice of the sacred
Iroquois - Irokese Irokesen, Haudenosaunee, irokesische Sprachen
midwinter - tiefster Winter, Mitte des Winters, Wintersonnenwende
sacrifice - opfern Opfer
White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that
spotless, faithful creature being held the purest envoy they could send
spotless - fleckenlos
purest - (pur) pur
envoy - Gesandter, Gesandte
to the Great Spirit with the annual tidings of their own fidelity; and
fidelity - Redlichkeit Genauigkeit Treue Wiedergabetreu
though directly from the Latin word for white, all Christian priests
derive the name of one part of their sacred vesture, the alb or tunic,
alb - Albe
tunic - Tunika
worn beneath the cassock; and though among the holy pomps of the Romish
cassock - Soutane
pomps - (pomp) Pomp
Romish - romanisch
faith, white is specially employed in the celebration of the Passion of
our Lord; though in the Vision of St. John, white robes are given to
the redeemed, and the four-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white
elders - (elder) Holunder, lterer
before the great white throne, and the Holy One that sitteth there
sitteth - (sit) er/sie hat/hatte gesessen, sitzen, ich/er/sie sa
white like wool; yet for all these accumulated associations, with
whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime, there yet lurks an
elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more
of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood.
redness - Rte Rtung
affrights - (affright) erschrecken
This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness, when
divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled with any object
terrible in itself, to heighten that terror to the furthest bounds.
furthest - (furth) weiter
bounds - (bound) Sprung
witness the white bear of the poles, and the white shark of the
witness - etw. miterleben;erleben, bezeugen, Zeuge sein bei; miterleben
tropics; what but their smooth, flaky whiteness makes them the
flaky - flockig; blttrig, schuppig, aus Schichten bestehen
transcendent horrors they are? That ghastly whiteness it is which
transcendent - berweltlich
imparts such an abhorrent mildness, even more loathsome than terrific,
imparts - (impart) weitergeben, gewhren, mitteilen, vermitteln
abhorrent - unvertrglich unvereinbar, kontrr, abgestoen, abgescheu
mildness - Milde
loathsome - ekelhaft, abscheulich, scheulich, widerlich
to the dumb gloating of their aspect. So that not the fierce-fanged
gloating - (gloat) hmisch freuen, sich weiden, sich diebisch freue
fanged - (fang) Fang, Fangzahn
tiger in his heraldic coat can so stagger courage as the white-shrouded
heraldic - heraldisch
stagger - Staffelung;abstufen, staffeln, wanken; (stag) Hirsch, Hirschboc
bear or shark.*
*With reference to the Polar bear, it may possibly be urged by him who
urged - (urge) Drang drngen, mahnen, treiben, anspornen, provozieren,
would fain go still deeper into this matter, that it is not the
whiteness, separately regarded, which heightens the intolerable
heightens - (heighten) erhhen, vergrern
hideousness of that brute; for, analysed, that heightened hideousness,
hideousness - Abscheulichkeit
it might be said, only rises from the circumstance, that the
irresponsible ferociousness of the creature stands invested in the
irresponsible - nicht verantwortlich verantwortungslos, unverantwortlich
ferociousness - Grausamkeiten
fleece of celestial innocence and love; and hence, by bringing together
fleece - Vlies Fell Fleece Fleecejacke abziehen, ausnehmen, betrge
celestial - himmlisch Himmels-
bringing together - zusammenbringend [alt], zusammen bringend
two such opposite emotions in our minds, the Polar bear frightens us
with so unnatural a contrast. But even assuming all this to be true;
assuming - annehmend, angenommen; (assume) annehmen, voraussetzen, vermute
yet, were it not for the whiteness, you would not have that intensified
terror.
As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in that
ghostliness - Geisterhaftigkeit
creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the
beheld - (behold) betrachten, sehen, schauen, anschauen
tallies - (tally) Zhler;bereinstimmen (Angaben)
same quality in the Polar quadruped. This peculiarity is most vividly
hit by the French in the name they bestow upon that fish. The Romish
mass for the dead begins with Requiem eternam (eternal rest), whence
_Requiem_ denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music.
Requiem - Totenmesse;Seelenmesse
denominating - (denominate) benennen, bezeichnen
Now, in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this shark,
and the mild deadliness of his habits, the French call him _Requin_.
deadliness - Tdlichkeit
Bethink thee of the albatross, whence come those clouds of spiritual
albatross - der Albatros
wonderment and pale dread, in which that white phantom sails in all
imaginations? Not Coleridge first threw that spell; but Gods great,
imaginations - (imagination) Vorstellungskraft, Imagination, Einbildungskraf
unflattering laureate, Nature.*
unflattering - ungeschminkt
laureate - Laureat, Laureatin
*I remember the first albatross I ever saw. It was during a prolonged
gale, in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas. From my forenoon watch
below, I ascended to the overclouded deck; and there, dashed upon the
overclouded - (overcloud) bewlken
main hatches, I saw a regal, feathery thing of unspotted whiteness, and
feathery - gefiedert
unspotted - ungefleckt
with a hooked, Roman bill sublime. At intervals, it arched forth its
vast archangel wings, as if to embrace some holy ark. Wondrous
flutterings and throbbings shook it. Though bodily unharmed, it uttered
throbbings - (throbbing) klopfend
cries, as some kings ghost in supernatural distress. Through its
inexpressible, strange eyes, methought I peeped to secrets which took
inexpressible - unaussprechlich
methought - (methinks) mich dnken
hold of God. As Abraham before the angels, I bowed myself; the white
thing was so white, its wings so wide, and in those for ever exiled
waters, I had lost the miserable warping memories of traditions and of
warping - Verziehen; (warp) Verziehen
towns. Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage. I cannot tell, can only
plumage - Gefieder, Vogelgefieder, Federkleid, Federschmuck
hint, the things that darted through me then. But at last I awoke; and
turning, asked a sailor what bird was this. A goney, he replied. Goney!
never had heard that name before; is it conceivable that this glorious
conceivable - absehbar, begreiflich, denkbar, erdenklich
thing is utterly unknown to men ashore! never! But some time after, I
learned that goney was some seamans name for albatross. So that by no
possibility could Coleridges wild Rhyme have had aught to do with
Rhyme - Reim reimen (mit)
those mystical impressions which were mine, when I saw that bird upon
our deck. For neither had I then read the Rhyme, nor knew the bird to
be an albatross. Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a
burnish - polieren
little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet.
merit - Verdienst
I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the bird
chiefly lurks the secret of the spell; a truth the more evinced in
this, that by a solecism of terms there are birds called grey
solecism - Solzismus, Sprachschnitzer, Sprachsnde
albatrosses; and these I have frequently seen, but never with such
albatrosses - Albatrosse
emotions as when I beheld the Antarctic fowl.
But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, and I will
Whisper - Geflster, Flstern, Wispern
tell; with a treacherous hook and line, as the fowl floated on the sea.
At last the Captain made a postman of it; tying a lettered, leathern
postman - Postbote, Brieftrger, Postmann
leathern - ledern
tally round its neck, with the ships time and place; and then letting
tally - Zhler;bereinstimmen (Angaben)
it escape. But I doubt not, that leathern tally, meant for man, was
taken off in Heaven, when the white fowl flew to join the wing-folding,
the invoking, and adoring cherubim!
invoking - (invoke) anrufen sich berhmen aufrufen
adoring - (adore) anbeten, verehren
Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of the
White Steed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger,
large-eyed, small-headed, bluff-chested, and with the dignity of a
chested - (chest) Kiste, Brustkasten, Brust, Koffer
thousand monarchs in his lofty, overscorning carriage. He was the
monarchs - (monarch) Monarch, Monarchin, Frst
overscorning - bervorteilung
elected Xerxes of vast herds of wild horses, whose pastures in those
elected - (elect) entscheiden, whlen, gewhlt
days were only fenced by the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies. At
their flaming head he westward trooped it like that chosen star which
flaming - flammend; (flame) Flamme, poetic, anmachen
trooped - (troop) Truppe
every evening leads on the hosts of light. The flashing cascade of his
every evening - allabendlich
flashing - Witterungsschutz Blinken, Aufblinke
cascade - Wasserfall, Kaskade, herabstrzen, hintereinanderschalten
mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more
mane - Mhne
comet - Komet
resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him. A
resplendent - prachtvoll, prchtig, glnzend
beaters - (beater) Klopfer, Rhrbesen, Quirl (Kche)
most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western
archangelical - erzangelisch
unfallen - nicht gefallen
world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the
trappers - (trapper) Trapper
glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god,
glories - (glory) Pracht, Herrlichkeit, Prunk, Geprnge, Ruhm
primeval - urzeitlich ursprnglich, Ur-, einfach, primitiv
bluff-browed and fearless as this mighty steed. Whether marching amid
browed - (brow) Braue, Augenbraue
his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly
aides - hilft; (aid) hilft
marshals - (marshal) Marschall, Feldmarschall
countless - unzhlig, unzhlbar, zahllos
cohorts - (cohort) Klasse, Gruppe, Kohorte, Kategorie
endlessly - endlos
streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his
streamed - (stream) Bach Strom Datenstrom strmen streamen
plains - (plain) unscheinbar, einfach, vollstndige, ehrlich
circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White
circumambient - Umland
browsing - Verbiss ; (brows) Verbiss
Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through
gallopingly - galoppierend
reddening - (redden) errten
his cool milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to
milkiness - Weiblichkeit
the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe.
Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of this
noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly, which so
clothed him with divineness; and that this divineness had that in it
divineness - Gttlichkeit
which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain
enforced - (enforce) vollstrecken durchsetzen durchsetzen (1) checkbekrftigen
nameless terror.
But there are other instances where this whiteness loses all that
accessory and strange glory which invests it in the White Steed and
accessory - Zubehrsatz, zustzlich, Zusatz
Albatross.
What is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels and often shocks
Albino - albino- Albino
peculiarly - eigenartige, eigen
repels - (repel) zurckweisen, abweisen, abwehren, zurckdrnge
shocks - (shock) Schock, Betroffenheit, Emprung, Schlag, Sto
the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed by his own kith and kin! It is
loathed - (loathe) verabscheuen, ablehnen, hassen
that whiteness which invests him, a thing expressed by the name he
bears. The Albino is as well made as other men"has no substantive
substantive - materiell
deformity"and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him
deformity - Missbildung
more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion. Why should this be
abortion - Fehlgeburt Abtreibung, Schwangerschaftsabbruch
so?
Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature in her least palpable but not
aspects - (aspect) Aspekt, Aktionsart
palpable - greifbar
the less malicious agencies, fail to enlist among her forces this
enlist - eintragen
crowning attribute of the terrible. From its snowy aspect, the
crowning - krnend, Bombage (ballige Flche); (crown) krnen
attribute - Eigenschaft, Merkmal, Attribut, Beifgung, zuschreiben
gauntleted ghost of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White
gauntleted - (gauntlet) Fehdehandschuh, Schutzhandschuh
Squall. Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice
omitted so potent an auxiliary. How wildly it heightens the effect of
omitted - (omit) weglassen, auslassen
potent - Potente
auxiliary - helfend, untersttzend, hilfs-, subsidir, zurckhaltend, Helfer
that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their
faction, the desperate White Hoods of Ghent murder their bailiff in the
faction - Splitterpartei
Hoods - (hood) Motorhaube;Khlerhaube;Kapuze, Haube
bailiff - Gerichtsvollzieher, Bttel
market-place!
Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary experience of all
mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue. It
witness - Zeugnis Zeuge, Zeugin , bezeugen, erman: Zeuge sein
supernaturalism - bernatrlichkeit
cannot well be doubted, that the one visible quality in the aspect of
the dead which most appals the gazer, is the marble pallor lingering
gazer - Gaffer
pallor - Blsse
there; as if indeed that pallor were as much like the badge of
consternation in the other world, as of mortal trepidation here. And
trepidation - Beklommenheit, Angst, Bangen, Zittern, Erbeben, Trepidation
from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the
expressive - ausdrucksvoll, ausdrucksstark
shroud in which we wrap them. Nor even in our superstitions do we fail
wrap - einhllen, einwickeln, wickeln, einpacken, hllen
to throw the same snowy mantle round our phantoms; all ghosts rising in
a milk-white fog"Yea, while these terrors seize us, let us add, that
even the king of terrors, when personified by the evangelist, rides on
evangelist - Evangelist, Evangelistin
his pallid horse.
Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious
thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest
deny - leugnen, bestreiten, dementieren
idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.
idealized - (idealize) idealisieren
But though without dissent this point be fixed, how is mortal man to
dissent - dissentieren Dissens
account for it? To analyse it, would seem impossible. Can we, then, by
the citation of some of those instances wherein this thing of
citation - Vorladung Zitieren Zitat, Zitierung, Aufzhlun
whiteness"though for the time either wholly or in great part stripped
of all direct associations calculated to impart to it aught fearful,
impart - weitergeben, gewhren, mitteilen, vermitteln
but nevertheless, is found to exert over us the same sorcery, however
exert - anstrengen ausben
sorcery - Zauberei, Hexerei
modified;"can we thus hope to light upon some chance clue to conduct us
to the hidden cause we seek?
Let us try. But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety,
subtlety - Geschicklichkeit, Feinheit, Feinsinn, Feinsinnigkeit
appeals - (appeal) Revision, Wirkung, Anziehungskraft;reizen, zusage
and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls. And
though, doubtless, some at least of the imaginative impressions about
imaginative - einfallsreich
to be presented may have been shared by most men, yet few perhaps were
entirely conscious of them at the time, and therefore may not be able
to recall them now.
Why to the man of untutored ideality, who happens to be but loosely
ideality - Idealitt
loosely - locker
acquainted with the peculiar character of the day, does the bare
bare - knapp, kahl, nackt, blo;entblen, abnehmen, freimache
mention of Whitsuntide marshal in the fancy such long, dreary,
Whitsuntide - Pfingsten
speechless processions of slow-pacing pilgrims, down-cast and hooded
pilgrims - (Pilgrim) Pilger, Wallfahrer
with new-fallen snow? Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of
unread - ungelesen
unsophisticated - unkultiviert, unkompliziert
Protestant - Protestant, Protestantin, protestantisch, evangelisch
the Middle American States, why does the passing mention of a White
Friar or a White Nun, evoke such an eyeless statue in the soul?
Friar - Mnch, Ordensbruder
Nun - Blaumeise, Klosterfrau, Nonne
evoke - hervorrufen
eyeless - augenlos
Or what is there apart from the traditions of dungeoned warriors and
dungeoned - (dungeon) Verlies, Kerker, Donjon
kings (which will not wholly account for it) that makes the White Tower
of London tell so much more strongly on the imagination of an
untravelled American, than those other storied structures, its
untravelled - ungereist
neighbors"the Byward Tower, or even the Bloody? And those sublimer
sublimer - (sublime) sublimieren
towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar
moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare
mention of that name, while the thought of Virginias Blue Ridge is
full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, irrespective of all
dewy - frisch, taufeucht
dreaminess - Vertrumtheit
latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a
spectralness over the fancy, while that of the Yellow Sea lulls us with
spectralness - Spektralitt
lulls - (lull) Windstille
mortal thoughts of long lacquered mild afternoons on the waves,
lacquered - (lacquer) Lack lackieren
followed by the gaudiest and yet sleepiest of sunsets? Or, to choose a
gaudiest - (gaudy) grell, farbenprchtig
sleepiest - (sleepy) schlfrig verschlafen
sunsets - (sunset) Sonnenuntergang Lebensabend
wholly unsubstantial instance, purely addressed to the fancy, why, in
unsubstantial - inhaltslos, gehaltlos, wesenlos
purely - rein, blo
reading the old fairy tales of Central Europe, does the tall pale man
fairy - Fee, Elfe, Feenwesen , Naturgeister
of the Hartz forests, whose changeless pallor unrustlingly glides
changeless - unvernderlichen, unvernderlich
unrustlingly - unaufrichtig
through the green of the groves"why is this phantom more terrible than
more terrible - furchtbarere
all the whooping imps of the Blocksburg?
whooping - (whoop) schreien; (whoop) (whoop) schreien
imps - (imp) Wichtel, Schelm, Kobold
Nor is it, altogether, the remembrance of her cathedral-toppling
remembrance - Erinnerung
toppling - (topple) strzen, umkippen, umfallen, wackeln
earthquakes; nor the stampedoes of her frantic seas; nor the
tearlessness of arid skies that never rain; nor the sight of her wide
tearlessness - Trnenlosigkeit
field of leaning spires, wrenched cope-stones, and crosses all adroop
cope - bewltigen
(like canted yards of anchored fleets); and her suburban avenues of
canted - (cant) kippen, verkanten
suburban - vorstdtisch, Vorort
house-walls lying over upon each other, as a tossed pack of cards;"it
is not these things alone which make tearless Lima, the strangest,
tearless - ohne zu weinen
saddest city thou canst see. For Lima has taken the white veil; and
there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe. Old as Pizarro,
this whiteness keeps her ruins for ever new; admits not the cheerful
greenness of complete decay; spreads over her broken ramparts the rigid
decay - Verfall, Verwesung, Fulnis, verfallen, verderben, faulen
ramparts - (rampart) Festungswall, Bollwerk
rigid - steif, starr, rigide
pallor of an apoplexy that fixes its own distortions.
distortions - (distortion) Verzerrung, Verformung, Verwindung, Verdrehung
I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness
phenomenon - Phnomen, Erscheinung
is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of
confessed - (confess) gestehen, bekennen, verraten, beichten
exaggerating - (exaggerate) bertreiben
objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there
unimaginative - ideenarm, einfallslos, fantasielos (phantasielos)
aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind
awfulness - Schrecklichkeit
almost solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when
exhibited under any form at all approaching to muteness or
exhibited - (exhibit) zeigen, zur Schau stellen, ausstellen, vorzeigen
muteness - Stummheit
universality. What I mean by these two statements may perhaps be
universality - Allgemeingltigkeit, Allgemeinheit, Universalitt, Katholizitt
respectively elucidated by the following examples.
respectively - beziehungsweise, jeweils
elucidated - (elucidate) erlutern, verdeutlichen, erklren
First: The mariner, when drawing nigh the coasts of foreign lands, if
by night he hear the roar of breakers, starts to vigilance, and feels
roar - brllen Tosen Brllen Aufheulen
just enough of trepidation to sharpen all his faculties; but under
faculties - (faculty) Kollegium, Lehrpersonal, Fakultt, Vermgen, Fhigkei
precisely similar circumstances, let him be called from his hammock to
view his ship sailing through a midnight sea of milky whiteness"as if
sailing through - durchsegelnd
from encircling headlands shoals of combed white bears were swimming
encircling - einkreisend; (encircle) umzingeln, einfassen
headlands - (headland) Landspitze, Landzunge, Kap, Huk , Vorgewende
combed - (comb) Kamm
round him, then he feels a silent, superstitious dread; the shrouded
phantom of the whitened waters is horrible to him as a real ghost; in
whitened - (whiten) weien erman: wei werden
vain the lead assures him he is still off soundings; heart and helm
assures - (assure) sichern versichern
soundings - (sounding) erklingend, tnend, sondierend
they both go down; he never rests till blue water is under him again.
Yet where is the mariner who will tell thee, Sir, it was not so much
the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous
whiteness that so stirred me?
Second: To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of the
snow-howdahed Andes conveys naught of dread, except, perhaps, in the
howdahed - Wie bitte
Andes - Anden
mere fancying of the eternal frosted desolateness reigning at such vast
desolateness - Verwstung
reigning - (reign) Herrschaft, Regentschaft, herrschen, regieren
altitudes, and the natural conceit of what a fearfulness it would be to
altitudes - (altitude) Hhe
lose oneself in such inhuman solitudes. Much the same is it with the
oneself - selbst, sich
inhuman - unmenschlich, inhuman
solitudes - (solitude) Einsamkeit, Alleinsein
backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference views an
backwoodsman - Hinterwldler
comparative - vergleichend komparativ verhltnismig, relativ, Hherstuf
unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig
unbounded - unbegrenzt
to break the fixed trance of whiteness. Not so the sailor, beholding
the scenery of the Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal
scenery - Landschaft Kulisse
trick of legerdemain in the powers of frost and air, he, shivering and
legerdemain - Zaubertrick
half shipwrecked, instead of rainbows speaking hope and solace to his
shipwrecked - (shipwreck) Schiffswrack Schiffbruch
solace - Trost trsten
misery, views what seems a boundless churchyard grinning upon him with
churchyard - Friedhof
its lean ice monuments and splintered crosses.
monuments - (monument) Denkmal, Monument
But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is
but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a
surrenderest - aufgeben
hypo, Ishmael.
hypo - unter
Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of
foaled - (foal) Fohlen, Fllen, Jungpferd
Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey"why is it that upon the
sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that
sunniest - (sunny) sonnig, heiter
buffalo - Bffel, Wisent, Bison, Bffel
robe - Robe
he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness"why
muskiness - Moschus
will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in
snort - Schnauben schnupfen, sniffen
paw - Tatze, Pfote, Pranke
phrensies of affright? There is no remembrance in him of any gorings of
phrensies - (phrensy) Phrasendrescherei
affright - erschrecken
gorings - (goring) aufspieend
wild creatures in his green northern home, so that the strange
muskiness he smells cannot recall to him anything associated with the
associated - (associate) Weggefhrte vereinige
experience of former perils; for what knows he, this New England colt,
of the black bisons of distant Oregon?
No: but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of the
beholdest - Siehste
knowledge of the demonism in the world. Though thousands of miles from
demonism - Dmonismus
Oregon, still when he smells that savage musk, the rending, goring
rending - (rend) zerreien
goring - aufspieend; (gor) aufspieend
bison herds are as present as to the deserted wild foal of the
foal - Fohlen, Fllen, Jungpferd
prairies, which this instant they may be trampling into dust.
Thus, then, the muffled rollings of a milky sea; the bleak rustlings of
rollings - (rolling) rollend, Walzen
rustlings - (rustle) Suseln (Bltter), Geknister
the festooned frosts of mountains; the desolate shiftings of the
festooned - (festoon) Feston, Girlande, Lichterkette
desolate - verlassen verlassen
shiftings - (shifting) wechseln
windrowed snows of prairies; all these, to Ishmael, are as the shaking
windrowed - (windrow) Schwade
of that buffalo robe to the frightened colt!
Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic
sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere
those things must exist. Though in many of its aspects this visible
world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in
spheres - (sphere) Kugel Sphre, Bereich
fright.
But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and
incantation - Beschwrung
learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange
more strange - merkwrdigere
and far more portentous"why, as we have seen, it is at once the most
meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the
Christians Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent
intensifying - (intensify) intensifizieren, intensivieren
in things the most appalling to mankind.
Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids
indefiniteness - Unbestimmtheit
heartless - herzlos
and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the
stabs - (stab) Stich (Messer-);erstechen
thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky
way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a colour as
the visible absence of colour; and at the same time the concrete of all
concrete - konkret, bestimmt, genau, aus Beton, Beton
colours; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness,
blankness - Leere
full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows"a colourless, all-colour
of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory
atheism - Atheismus, Gottesleugnung, Gottlosigkeit
shrink - schrumpfen, abnehmen, drcken
of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues"every stately
or lovely emblazoning"the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea,
emblazoning - (emblazon) schmcken
tinges - (tinge) tnen
and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of
gilded - (gild) vergolden
butterflies - (butterfly) Schmetterling
young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent
subtile - subtil
inherent - innewohnend, inhrent
in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified
deified - (deify) vergttern
Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover
harlot - Dirne, Hure, Nutte
allurements - (allurement) Lockung
nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and
consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her
cosmetic - kosmetisch Kosmetikum, Kosmetik, Hautverschnerungsmittel
hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless
colorless - farblos
in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all
operating - (operate) operieren betreiben, bedienen
objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge"pondering all
tulips - (tulip) Tulpe
tinge - tnen
pondering - (ponder) grbeln berlegen, nachdenken
this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful
leper - Ausstziger; q edicine now usually
travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring
travellers - (traveller) Reisender, Reisende
Lapland - Lappland
glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at
gazes - (gaze) anstarren
blind - blind, unkritisch, ignorant, Jalousie , Blind, Blinder, Blind
the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him. And
monumental - monumental
wraps - (wrap) einhllen, einwickeln, wickeln, einpacken, hllen
of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at
the fiery hunt?
HIST! Did you hear that noise, Cabaco?
It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in
a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to
cordon - Kordon
the scuttle-butt near the taffrail. In this manner, they passed the
buckets to fill the scuttle-butt. Standing, for the most part, on the
buckets - (bucket) Eimer ein Eimer voll Schaufel
hallowed precincts of the quarter-deck, they were careful not to speak
hallowed - (hallow) anbeten, heiligen
precincts - (precinct) umschlossener Bezirk Einkaufsfugngerzon
or rustle their feet. From hand to hand, the buckets went in the
rustle - Rascheln, Rauschen, Knistern
deepest silence, only broken by the occasional flap of a sail, and the
occasional - gelegentlich, okkasionell
steady hum of the unceasingly advancing keel.
unceasingly - unaufhrlich, unaufhrliche
It was in the midst of this repose, that Archy, one of the cordon,
whose post was near the after-hatches, whispered to his neighbor, a
Cholo, the words above.
Hist! did you hear that noise, Cabaco?
Take the bucket, will ye, Archy? what noise dye mean?
bucket - Eimer ein Eimer voll Schaufel
There it is again"under the hatches"dont you hear it"a cough"it
cough - husten Husten
sounded like a cough.
Cough be damned! Pass along that return bucket.
There again"there it is!"it sounds like two or three sleepers turning
sleepers - (sleeper) Schwelle (Gleis), Schlfer
over, now!
Caramba! have done, shipmate, will ye? Its the three soaked biscuits
soaked - (soak) durchnssen trnken, einweichen, durchziehen, Einweichen
ye eat for supper turning over inside of ye"nothing else. Look to the
bucket!
Say what ye will, shipmate; Ive sharp ears.
Aye, you are the chap, aint ye, that heard the hum of the old
Quakeresss knitting-needles fifty miles at sea from Nantucket; youre
knitting - Stricken ; (knit) stricken
the chap.
Grin away; well see what turns up. Hark ye, Cabaco, there is somebody
down in the after-hold that has not yet been seen on deck; and I
suspect our old Mogul knows something of it too. I heard Stubb tell
Flask, one morning watch, that there was something of that sort in the
wind.
Tish! the bucket!
Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin after the squall that
took place on the night succeeding that wild ratification of his
ratification - Besttigung Ratifikation, Ratifizierung
purpose with his crew, you would have seen him go to a locker in the
transom, and bringing out a large wrinkled roll of yellowish sea
bringing out - herausbringendem
yellowish - gelblich
charts, spread them before him on his screwed-down table. Then seating
himself before it, you would have seen him intently study the various
lines and shadings which there met his eye; and with slow but steady
shadings - (shading) Schraffierung, Dunkeltnung, schattierend
pencil trace additional courses over spaces that before were blank. At
intervals, he would refer to piles of old log-books beside him, wherein
piles - (pile) Haufen, Pfahl, Pulk
were set down the seasons and places in which, on various former
voyages of various ships, sperm whales had been captured or seen.
While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his
head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever
threw shifting gleams and shadows of lines upon his wrinkled brow, till
it almost seemed that while he himself was marking out lines and
courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing
tracing - Nebeneintragungsvermer
lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.
But it was not this night in particular that, in the solitude of his
solitude - Einsamkeit, Alleinsein
cabin, Ahab thus pondered over his charts. Almost every night they were
brought out; almost every night some pencil marks were effaced, and
others were substituted. For with the charts of all four oceans before
substituted - (substitute) ersetzen auswechseln Ersatz Ersatzspiele
him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to
maze - Irrgarten
the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul.
accomplishment - Ausfhrung Fertigkeit, Errungenschaft, Fhigkeit, Leistung
Now, to any one not fully acquainted with the ways of the leviathans,
it might seem an absurdly hopeless task thus to seek out one solitary
absurdly - sinnwidrig
creature in the unhooped oceans of this planet. But not so did it seem
to Ahab, who knew the sets of all tides and currents; and thereby
calculating the driftings of the sperm whales food; and, also, calling
to mind the regular, ascertained seasons for hunting him in particular
ascertained - (ascertain) feststellen
latitudes; could arrive at reasonable surmises, almost approaching to
certainties, concerning the timeliest day to be upon this or that
certainties - (certainty) Gewissheit
timeliest - (timely) zeitgerecht, fristgerecht, zur rechten Zei
ground in search of his prey.
So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the
periodicalness - Regelmigkeit
sperm whales resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe
resorting - (resort) umsortieren;Badeort (Seebad)
that, could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world;
were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully
logs - (log) Logbuch;Log, Holzklotz, Kloben (Holzklotz);aufzeichne
collated, then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to
collated - (collate) abgleichen, kollationieren, vergleichen, zuordnen
migrations - (migration) Wohnsitzwechsel, Migration, Wanderun
correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the
correspond - entsprechen, korrespondieren
invariability - Unvernderlichkeit
flights of swallows. On this hint, attempts have been made to construct
construct - bauen, konstruieren
elaborate migratory charts of the sperm whale.*
elaborate - ausfhrlich, durchdacht, ausfhren
migratory - Zug
*Since the above was written, the statement is happily borne out by
an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National
circular - Kreis
Lieutenant - Leutnant, Leutnantin, Gehilfe, Stellvertreter
Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it
Observatory - Observatorium, Sternwarte
appears that precisely such a chart is in course of completion; and
completion - Fertigstellung, Vervollstndigung, Vollendung
ocean into districts of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of
districts - (district) Bezirk, Kreis, Landkreis, Stadtteil
longitude; perpendicularly through each of which districts are twelve
longitude - Lnge, geographische Lnge, Lngengrad
columns for the twelve months; and horizontally through each of which
horizontally - horizontal, waagerecht
districts are three lines; one to show the number of days that have
been spent in each month in every district, and the two others to
show the number of days in which whales, sperm or right, have been
seen.
Besides, when making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the
sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct"say, rather, secret
intelligence from the Deity"mostly swim in _veins_, as they are called;
continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating
undeviating - unbeirrbar, unentwegt
exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one
exactitude - Exaktheit, Genauigkeit
tithe of such marvellous precision. Though, in these cases, the
tithe - Zehnt
precision - Przision, Genauigkeit, Messprzision, Wiederholgenauigkeit
direction taken by any one whale be straight as a surveyors parallel,
and though the line of advance be strictly confined to its own
unavoidable, straight wake, yet the arbitrary _vein_ in which at these
unavoidable - unausweichlich, unvermeidlich, unvermeidbar
arbitrary - willkrlich, nach Ermessen, in freiem Ermessen
vein - Vene, Ader, Geder , Goldader
times he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width
embraces - (embrace) umarmen annehmen, Umarmung
width - Breite, Weite
(more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract); but
never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ships mast-heads, when
exceeds - (exceed) berschreiten, hinausgehen ber, bertreffe
circumspectly gliding along this magic zone. The sum is, that at
circumspectly - vorsichtigen
breadth - Breite
migrating - (migrate) migrieren
whales may with great confidence be looked for.
And hence not only at substantiated times, upon well known separate
feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey; but in crossing
the widest expanses of water between those grounds he could, by his
expanses - (expanse) Flche, Ausdehnung, Weite
art, so place and time himself on his way, as even then not to be
wholly without prospect of a meeting.
There was a circumstance which at first sight seemed to entangle his
entangle - verwickeln
delirious but still methodical scheme. But not so in the reality,
delirious - deliris
methodical - methodisch
scheme - Programm, Plan, Projekt, Intrige, Komplott
perhaps. Though the gregarious sperm whales have their regular seasons
for particular grounds, yet in general you cannot conclude that the
herds which haunted such and such a latitude or longitude this year,
say, will turn out to be identically the same with those that were
identically - identische, identisch
found there the preceding season; though there are peculiar and
preceding - (precede) vorangehen, vorausgehen
unquestionable instances where the contrary of this has proved true. In
unquestionable - fraglos, unzweifelhaft
general, the same remark, only within a less wide limit, applies to the
remark - bemerken;Anmerkung, Bemerkung
solitaries and hermits among the matured, aged sperm whales. So that
solitaries - (solitary) einsam, einzeln
matured - (mature) ausgereift, mndig, erwachsen, reif
though Moby Dick had in a former year been seen, for example, on what
is called the Seychelle ground in the Indian ocean, or Volcano Bay on
Volcano - Vulkan, q oetic
the Japanese Coast; yet it did not follow, that were the Pequod to
visit either of those spots at any subsequent corresponding season, she
would infallibly encounter him there. So, too, with some other feeding
grounds, where he had at times revealed himself. But all these seemed
only his casual stopping-places and ocean-inns, so to speak, not his
casual - zufllig, beilufig, gelegentlich, gleichgltig, unmethodisc
places of prolonged abode. And where Ahabs chances of accomplishing
accomplishing - (accomplish) vollenden
his object have hitherto been spoken of, allusion has only been made to
whatever way-side, antecedent, extra prospects were his, ere a
antecedent - frher, vorausgehend, vorgngig, voriger
would become probabilities, and, as Ahab fondly thought, every
probabilities - (probability) Wahrscheinlichkeit
fondly - lieb, liebevoll, zrtlich, verliebt
possibility the next thing to a certainty. That particular set time and
certainty - Gewissheit
place were conjoined in the one technical phrase"the
conjoined - (conjoin) verbinden
Season-on-the-Line. For there and then, for several consecutive years,
consecutive - aufeinander folgend, konsekutiv, fortlaufend, in Folge
Moby Dick had been periodically descried, lingering in those waters for
periodically - zeitweise
awhile, as the sun, in its annual round, loiters for a predicted
loiters - (loiter) rumlungern, rumhngen, herumhngen, abhngen
interval in any one sign of the Zodiac. There it was, too, that most of
Zodiac - Zodiac, Zodiak, Tierkreis
the deadly encounters with the white whale had taken place; there the
waves were storied with his deeds; there also was that tragic spot
deeds - (deed) Tat, Akt, Werk, Urkunde, urkundlich bertragen
where the monomaniac old man had found the awful motive to his
vengeance. But in the cautious comprehensiveness and unloitering
cautious - vorsichtig, zaghaft, behutsam
comprehensiveness - Umfang
vigilance with which Ahab threw his brooding soul into this unfaltering
hunt, he would not permit himself to rest all his hopes upon the one
crowning fact above mentioned, however flattering it might be to those
flattering - (flatter) schmeicheln
hopes; nor in the sleeplessness of his vow could he so tranquillize his
sleeplessness - Schlaflosigkeit
vow - Gelbde, Schwur, Eid, Gelbnis, schwren
unquiet heart as to postpone all intervening quest.
unquiet - laut
postpone - verschieben, aufschieben, zurckstellen
intervening - (intervene) eingreifen, einschreiten, dazwischengehe
Now, the Pequod had sailed from Nantucket at the very beginning of the
Season-on-the-Line. No possible endeavor then could enable her
commander to make the great passage southwards, double Cape Horn, and
southwards - (southward) sdwrts
then running down sixty degrees of latitude arrive in the equatorial
equatorial - quatorial quatorial
Pacific in time to cruise there. Therefore, he must wait for the next
ensuing season. Yet the premature hour of the Pequods sailing had,
ensuing - (ensue) folgen, ansetzen, erfolgen, nachfolgen
perhaps, been correctly selected by Ahab, with a view to this very
complexion of things. Because, an interval of three hundred and
sixty-five days and nights was before him; an interval which, instead
of impatiently enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt;
impatiently - ungeduldig
enduring - (endure) ertragen, aushalten, dulden, von Bestand sein
if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote
from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow
off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any
Bengal - Bengalen
other waters haunted by his race. So that Monsoons, Pampas,
Monsoons - (monsoon) Monsun, Monsunwind, Monsunzeit, Monsunregen
Pampas - (pampa) Pampa
Nor-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoon,
might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the
devious - heimtckisch, hinterrcks, unaufrichtig, verschlagen
zag - zack
Pequods circumnavigating wake.
circumnavigating - (circumnavigate) umschiffen, umsegeln, umgehe
But granting all this; yet, regarded discreetly and coolly, seems it
discreetly - klug, diskrete
not but a mad idea, this; that in the broad boundless ocean, one
solitary whale, even if encountered, should be thought capable of
individual recognition from his hunter, even as a white-bearded Mufti
recognition - Erkennen, Wiedererkennen, Erkennung, Anerkennung
Mufti - Mufti,
in the thronged thoroughfares of Constantinople? Yes. For the peculiar
thronged - (throng) Menschengewhl, Gedrnge, Menschenmenge, Schwarm
Constantinople - Konstantinopel
snow-white brow of Moby Dick, and his snow-white hump, could not but be
unmistakable. And have I not tallied the whale, Ahab would mutter to
unmistakable - unverwechselbar, unverkennbar, unberhrbar
tallied - (tally) Zhler;bereinstimmen (Angaben)
himself, as after poring over his charts till long after midnight he
poring - (pore) Pore
would throw himself back in reveries"tallied him, and shall he escape?
His broad fins are bored, and scalloped out like a lost sheeps ear!
scalloped - (scallop) Jakobsmuschel, Pilgermuschel
And here, his mad mind would run on in a breathless race; till a
breathless - atemlos
weariness and faintness of pondering came over him; and in the open air
weariness - Mdigkeit
faintness - Schwche, Mattigkeit, Mattheit, Verblasstheit
of the deck he would seek to recover his strength. Ah, God! what
recover - wiederfinden, sich erholen, beikommen
trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one
trances - (trance) Trance
unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes
unachieved - unerreicht
revengeful - rachgierig, rachschtig
clenched - (clench) ballen
with his own bloody nails in his palms.
Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid
exhausting - (exhaust) erschpfen, dezimieren, Auspuff, Abgas, Abluft
intolerably - unertrglich, unausstehlich
dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through
resuming - (resume) weiter;Lebenslauf;fortsetzen, wiedererlange
the day, carried them on amid a clashing of phrensies, and whirled them
clashing - zusammengeratend
round and round and round in his blazing brain, till the very throbbing
throbbing - klopfend; (throb) klopfen, schlagen, pochen, pulsieren, Pochen
of his life-spot became insufferable anguish; and when, as was
sometimes the case, these spiritual throes in him heaved his being up
from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked
chasm - Abgrund, Kluft, Spalte
flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap
lightnings - (lightning) Blitz Entladung
fiends - (fiend) Dmon, Dmonin, bser Geist, Teufel, Monster
beckoned - (beckon) heranwinken, herbeiwinken, zuwinken, einladen
down among them; when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild
yawned - (yawn) ghnen Ghnen
cry would be heard through the ship; and with glaring eyes Ahab would
glaring - (glare) Blendung entrstetes Starren missbilligend anstarren
burst from his state room, as though escaping from a bed that was on
fire. Yet these, perhaps, instead of being the unsuppressable symptoms
unsuppressable - nicht unterdrckbar
of some latent weakness, or fright at his own resolve, were but the
weakness - Schwche, Faible
resolve - auflsen, beschlieen
plainest tokens of its intensity. For, at such times, crazy Ahab, the
plainest - (plain) unscheinbar, einfach, vollstndige, ehrlich
scheming, unappeasedly steadfast hunter of the white whale; this Ahab
scheming - rnkevoll; (scheme) Programm, Plan, Projekt, Intrige, Komplott
unappeasedly - unaufgeregt
that had gone to his hammock, was not the agent that so caused him to
burst from it in horror again. The latter was the eternal, living
principle or soul in him; and in sleep, being for the time dissociated
dissociated - (dissociate) separieren, lsen, sich distanzieren, zurckziehe
from the characterizing mind, which at other times employed it for its
characterizing - (characterize) charakterisieren
outer vehicle or agent, it spontaneously sought escape from the
spontaneously - spontan
scorching contiguity of the frantic thing, of which, for the time, it
contiguity - Zusammenhang
was no longer an integral. But as the mind does not exist unless
integral - integral, ein Ganzes ausmachen
leagued with the soul, therefore it must have been that, in Ahabs
leagued - (league) Liga, Spielklasse, Bund
case, yielding up all his thoughts and fancies to his one supreme
yielding - (yield) hervorbringen, er/sie hat/hatte ergebe
purpose; that purpose, by its own sheer inveteracy of will, forced
sheer - scheren, ausreien, gieren;rein, blank, Abweichung vom Kur
inveteracy - Hartnckigkeit
itself against gods and devils into a kind of self-assumed, independent
assumed - (assume) annehmen, voraussetzen, vermuten, unterstellen
being of its own. Nay, could grimly live and burn, while the common
vitality to which it was conjoined, fled horror-stricken from the
unbidden and unfathered birth. Therefore, the tormented spirit that
unfathered - ungevattert
glared out of bodily eyes, when what seemed Ahab rushed from his room,
glared - (glare) Blendung entrstetes Starren missbilligend anstarren
was for the time but a vacated thing, a formless somnambulistic being,
vacated - (vacate) entleeren
formless - formlos
somnambulistic - schlafwandlerisch
a ray of living light, to be sure, but without an object to colour, and
therefore a blankness in itself. God help thee, old man, thy thoughts
have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus
makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that
vulture - Geier, Geierin, Aasgeier
vulture the very creature he creates.
So far as what there may be of a narrative in this book; and, indeed,
as indirectly touching one or two very interesting and curious
its earlier part, is as important a one as will be found in this
more familiarly enlarged upon, in order to be adequately understood,
adequately - angemessen, hinreichend, angemessene
and moreover to take away any incredulity which a profound ignorance of
incredulity - Unglubigkeit
the entire subject may induce in some minds, as to the natural verity
verity - Wahrhaftigkeit
of the main points of this affair.
I care not to perform this part of my task methodically; but shall be
content to produce the desired impression by separate citations of
citations - (citation) Vorladung Zitieren Zitat, Zitierung, Aufzhlun
items, practically or reliably known to me as a whaleman; and from
reliably - zuverlssig, verlsslich
these citations, I take it"the conclusion aimed at will naturally
follow of itself.
First: I have personally known three instances where a whale, after
receiving a harpoon, has effected a complete escape; and, after an
interval (in one instance of three years), has been again struck by the
same hand, and slain; when the two irons, both marked by the same
private cypher, have been taken from the body. In the instance where
cypher - Chiffre
three years intervened between the flinging of the two harpoons; and I
intervened - (intervene) eingreifen, einschreiten, dazwischengehe
think it may have been something more than that; the man who darted
them happening, in the interval, to go in a trading ship on a voyage to
Africa, went ashore there, joined a discovery party, and penetrated far
penetrated - (penetrate) eindringen, penetrieren
into the interior, where he travelled for a period of nearly two years,
often endangered by serpents, savages, tigers, poisonous miasmas, with
endangered - (endanger) gefhrden
serpents - (serpent) Schlange, Serpent
tigers - (tiger) Tiger
miasmas - (miasma) Miasma
all the other common perils incident to wandering in the heart of
incident - Vorfall, Begebenheit, Ereignis, Geschehnis
unknown regions. Meanwhile, the whale he had struck must also have been
on its travels; no doubt it had thrice circumnavigated the globe,
circumnavigated - (circumnavigate) umschiffen, umsegeln, umgehe
brushing with its flanks all the coasts of Africa; but to no purpose.
no purpose - umsonst
This man and this whale again came together, and the one vanquished the
vanquished - (vanquish) besiegen
other. I say I, myself, have known three instances similar to this;
that is in two of them I saw the whales struck; and, upon the second
attack, saw the two irons with the respective marks cut in them,
afterwards taken from the dead fish. In the three-year instance, it so
fell out that I was in the boat both times, first and last, and the
last time distinctly recognised a peculiar sort of huge mole under the
whales eye, which I had observed there three years previous. I say
three years, but I am pretty sure it was more than that. Here are three
instances, then, which I personally know the truth of; but I have heard
of many other instances from persons whose veracity in the matter there
veracity - Aufrichtigkeit
is no good ground to impeach.
impeach - verhindern anklagen in Verruf bringen, schlechtmache
Secondly: It is well known in the Sperm Whale Fishery, however ignorant
the world ashore may be of it, that there have been several memorable
historical instances where a particular whale in the ocean has been at
distant times and places popularly cognisable. Why such a whale became
cognisable - Erkennbar
thus marked was not altogether and originally owing to his bodily
peculiarities as distinguished from other whales; for however peculiar
in that respect any chance whale may be, they soon put an end to his
peculiarities by killing him, and boiling him down into a peculiarly
valuable oil. No: the reason was this: that from the fatal experiences
of the fishery there hung a terrible prestige of perilousness about
perilousness - Gefhrlichkeit
such a whale as there did about Rinaldo Rinaldini, insomuch that most
fishermen were content to recognise him by merely touching their
recognise - anerkennen
tarpaulins when he would be discovered lounging by them on the sea,
without seeking to cultivate a more intimate acquaintance. Like some
cultivate - kultivieren, anbauen, pflegen, bestellen
acquaintance - Bekanntschaft, Umgang, Bekannter, Bekannte
poor devils ashore that happen to know an irascible great man, they
irascible - aufbrausend, jhzornig
make distant unobtrusive salutations to him in the street, lest if they
unobtrusive - bescheiden, unaufdringlich, dezent, unauffllig
salutations - (salutation) Begrung Titel
pursued the acquaintance further, they might receive a summary thump
for their presumption.
But not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual
celebrity"Nay, you may call it an ocean-wide renown; not only was he
renown - Ansehen, Ruf, Ruhm
famous in life and now is immortal in forecastle stories after death,
but he was admitted into all the rights, privileges, and distinctions
privileges - (privilege) Privileg, Vergnstigung, privilegieren
of a name; had as much a name indeed as Cambyses or Cæsar. Was it not
Cambyses - Kambyses
so, O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so
famed - (fame) Ruhm, Berhmtheit, Bekanntheit
scarred - (scar) Narbe
long didst lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was
oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay? Was it not so, O New Zealand
palmy - glorreich
Jack! thou terror of all cruisers that crossed their wakes in the
vicinity of the Tattoo Land? Was it not so, O Morquan! King of Japan,
Tattoo - ttowieren
whose lofty jet they say at times assumed the semblance of a snow-white
semblance - Anschein
cross against the sky? Was it not so, O Don Miguel! thou Chilian whale,
marked like an old tortoise with mystic hieroglyphics upon the back! In
tortoise - Schildkrte, Landschildkrte
hieroglyphics - (hieroglyphic) hieroglyphisch
plain prose, here are four whales as well known to the students of
prose - Prosa
Cetacean History as Marius or Sylla to the classic scholar.
Cetacean - Waltier
classic - klassisch Klassiker
scholar - Student, Schler, Schlerin, Studentin, Gelehrter
But this is not all. New Zealand Tom and Don Miguel, after at various
times creating great havoc among the boats of different vessels, were
havoc - Zerstrung, Verwstung, Chaos, Durcheinander
finally gone in quest of, systematically hunted out, chased and killed
systematically - systematisch
by valiant whaling captains, who heaved up their anchors with that
anchors - (anchor) Anker
express object as much in view, as in setting out through the
Narragansett Woods, Captain Butler of old had it in his mind to capture
Butler - Butler
that notorious murderous savage Annawon, the headmost warrior of the
headmost - oberst
Indian King Philip.
I do not know where I can find a better place than just here, to make
mention of one or two other things, which to me seem important, as in
printed form establishing in all respects the reasonableness of the
printed form - Vordruck
establishing - (establish) feststellen, etablieren, erffnen, grnde
reasonableness - Vernnftigkeit
whole story of the White Whale, more especially the catastrophe. For
catastrophe - Katastrophe, Unglck
this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full
disheartening - (dishearten) entmutigen
as much bolstering as error. So ignorant are most landsmen of some of
bolstering - polsternd; (bolster) Polster polstern, untersttze
the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some
hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the
fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still
scout - Spher, Kundschafter, Aufklrer
worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.
more detestable - verabscheuenswertere
allegory - Allegorie, Sinnbild, Allegorik
First: Though most men have some vague flitting ideas of the general
perils of the grand fishery, yet they have nothing like a fixed, vivid
conception of those perils, and the frequency with which they recur.
conception - Empfngnis Vorstellung, Konzeption
frequency - Hufigkeit, Frequenz, Regelmigkeit
recur - wiederkehren
One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters
and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at
casualties - (casualty) Unfall, Unglck, Unglcksfall, Kalamitt
home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record. Do you
transient - vergnglich, vorbergehend, temporr, instationr
suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps caught by
the whale-line off the coast of New Guinea, is being carried down to
Guinea - Guinea
the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan"do you suppose that
that poor fellows name will appear in the newspaper obituary you will
obituary - Todesanzeige, Traueranzeige, Nekrolog, Nachruf
read to-morrow at your breakfast? No: because the mails are very
irregular between here and New Guinea. In fact, did you ever hear what
might be called regular news direct or indirect from New Guinea? Yet I
tell you that upon one particular voyage which I made to the Pacific,
among many others we spoke thirty different ships, every one of which
had had a death by a whale, some of them more than one, and three that
had each lost a boats crew. For Gods sake, be economical with your
lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of
mans blood was spilled for it.
Secondly: People ashore have indeed some indefinite idea that a whale
is an enormous creature of enormous power; but I have ever found that
when narrating to them some specific example of this two-fold
enormousness, they have significantly complimented me upon my
enormousness - Riesigkeit
significantly - wesentlich, betrchtlich
facetiousness; when, I declare upon my soul, I had no more idea of
facetiousness - Scherzhaftigkeit
being facetious than Moses, when he wrote the history of the plagues of
facetious - spttisch, spttelnd, sarkastisch, spaig, witzig
plagues - (plague) Pest Plage, Seuche, Geiel , Qulgeist , zusetze
Egypt.
But fortunately the special point I here seek can be established upon
testimony entirely independent of my own. That point is this: The Sperm
testimony - Zeugnis, Zeugenaussage, Testimonium
Whale is in some cases sufficiently powerful, knowing, and judiciously
malicious, as with direct aforethought to stave in, utterly destroy,
and sink a large ship; and what is more, the Sperm Whale _has_ done it.
First: In the year 1820 the ship Essex, Captain Pollard, of Nantucket,
was cruising in the Pacific Ocean. One day she saw spouts, lowered her
boats, and gave chase to a shoal of sperm whales. Ere long, several of
the whales were wounded; when, suddenly, a very large whale escaping
from the boats, issued from the shoal, and bore directly down upon the
ship. Dashing his forehead against her hull, he so stove her in, that
Dashing - (dash) Bindestrich, Gedankenstrich, Querstrich, Spurt, Sprint
in less than ten minutes she settled down and fell over. Not a
surviving plank of her has been seen since. After the severest
severest - (sever) abtrennen, durchtrennen, abbrechen
exposure, part of the crew reached the land in their boats. Being
exposure - Kontakt, Einwirkung, Lage, Witterung, Belichtung
returned home at last, Captain Pollard once more sailed for the Pacific
in command of another ship, but the gods shipwrecked him again upon
unknown rocks and breakers; for the second time his ship was utterly
lost, and forthwith forswearing the sea, he has never tempted it since.
forswearing - (forswear) abschwren, entschieden bestreiten, strikt ablehne
tempted - (tempt) in Versuchung fhren, versuchen, locken
At this day Captain Pollard is a resident of Nantucket. I have seen
resident - Einwohner, Einwohnerin, Bewohner, Bewohnerin, Assistentarzt
Owen Chace, who was chief mate of the Essex at the time of the tragedy;
tragedy - Tragdie
I have read his plain and faithful narrative; I have conversed with his
son; and all this within a few miles of the scene of the catastrophe.*
*The following are extracts from Chaces narrative: Every fact seemed
to warrant me in concluding that it was anything but chance which
warrant - Nachweis Befehl garantieren
directed his operations; he made two several attacks upon the ship, at
a short interval between them, both of which, according to their
direction, were calculated to do us the most injury, by being made
ahead, and thereby combining the speed of the two objects for the
shock; to effect which, the exact man"uvres which he made were
man - manA
necessary. His aspect was most horrible, and such as indicated
most horrible - abscheulichste
resentment and fury. He came directly from the shoal which we had just
resentment - Ressentiment, Abneigung, Missgunst, rger
before entered, and in which we had struck three of his companions, as
if fired with revenge for their sufferings. Again: At all events, the
sufferings - (suffering) leidend Leiden
whole circumstances taken together, all happening before my own eyes,
and producing, at the time, impressions in my mind of decided,
calculating mischief, on the part of the whale (many of which
impressions I cannot now recall), induce me to be satisfied that I am
correct in my opinion.
Here are his reflections some time after quitting the ship, during a
black night in an open boat, when almost despairing of reaching any
hospitable shore. The dark ocean and swelling waters were nothing; the
fears of being swallowed up by some dreadful tempest, or dashed upon
hidden rocks, with all the other ordinary subjects of fearful
contemplation, seemed scarcely entitled to a moments thought; the
dismal looking wreck, and _the horrid aspect and revenge of the whale_,
wreck - Wrack, Schrott, Schrotthaufen, Schrottkiste, Zusammensto
wholly engrossed my reflections, until day again made its appearance.
engrossed - (engross) beschlagnahmen, beanspruchen
In another place"p. 45,"he speaks of _the mysterious and mortal attack
of the animal_.
Secondly: The ship Union, also of Nantucket, was in the year 1807
totally lost off the Azores by a similar onset, but the authentic
though from the whale hunters I have now and then heard casual
allusions to it.
Thirdly: Some eighteen or twenty years ago Commodore J"", then
Thirdly - drittens
commanding an American sloop-of-war of the first class, happened to be
dining with a party of whaling captains, on board a Nantucket ship in
dining - (din) Lrm, Getse;drhnen
the harbor of Oahu, Sandwich Islands. Conversation turning upon whales,
the Commodore was pleased to be sceptical touching the amazing strength
sceptical - skeptisch
ascribed to them by the professional gentlemen present. He peremptorily
peremptorily - bestimmt, entschieden
denied for example, that any whale could so smite his stout
smite - schlagen
sloop-of-war as to cause her to leak so much as a thimbleful. Very
thimbleful - einen Fingerhut voll
good; but there is more coming. Some weeks after, the Commodore set
sail in this impregnable craft for Valparaiso. But he was stopped on
the way by a portly sperm whale, that begged a few moments
confidential business with him. That business consisted in fetching the
Commodores craft such a thwack, that with all his pumps going he made
thwack - durchbluen, durchbleuen
pumps - (pump) Pumps;Pumpe;aufpumpen, pumpen
straight for the nearest port to heave down and repair. I am not
superstitious, but I consider the Commodores interview with that whale
as providential. Was not Saul of Tarsus converted from unbelief by a
providential - glcklich
Tarsus - Fuwurzel, Tarsus
unbelief - Unglaube
similar fright? I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
I will now refer you to Langsdorffs Voyages for a little circumstance
in point, peculiarly interesting to the writer hereof. Langsdorff, you
hereof - hiervon
must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusensterns
Russian - russisch, russlndisch, altrussisch, Russe, Russin
famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning of the present century.
Captain Langsdorff thus begins his seventeenth chapter:
seventeenth - siebzehnter siebzehnte
By the thirteenth of May our ship was ready to sail, and the next day
thirteenth - dreizehnte
we were out in the open sea, on our way to Ochotsh. The weather was
open sea - Hochsee
very clear and fine, but so intolerably cold that we were obliged to
keep on our fur clothing. For some days we had very little wind; it was
not till the nineteenth that a brisk gale from the northwest sprang up.
nineteenth - neunzehnte
northwest - Nordwesten
sprang up - (spring up) aus dem Boden schieen, (Wind) aufkommen
An uncommon large whale, the body of which was larger than the ship
itself, lay almost at the surface of the water, but was not perceived
by any one on board till the moment when the ship, which was in full
sail, was almost upon him, so that it was impossible to prevent its
striking against him. We were thus placed in the most imminent danger,
as this gigantic creature, setting up its back, raised the ship three
feet at least out of the water. The masts reeled, and the sails fell
reeled - (reel) Spule Haspel Demoband aufrollen drehen, kreise
altogether, while we who were below all sprang instantly upon the deck,
concluding that we had struck upon some rock; instead of this we saw
the monster sailing off with the utmost gravity and solemnity. Captain
gravity - Bedenklichkeit, Ernst, Erdanziehung, Gravitation, Schwerkraft
DWolf applied immediately to the pumps to examine whether or not the
vessel had received any damage from the shock, but we found that very
happily it had escaped entirely uninjured.
uninjured - unbeschdigt
Now, the Captain DWolf here alluded to as commanding the ship in
question, is a New Englander, who, after a long life of unusual
Englander - Englnder
adventures as a sea-captain, this day resides in the village of
Dorchester near Boston. I have the honor of being a nephew of his. I
nephew - Neffe
have particularly questioned him concerning this passage in Langsdorff.
concerning this - zu diesem Punkt, hierzu
He substantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large
substantiates - (substantiate) beglaubigen, besttigen, substantiiere
one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my
Siberian - sibirisch Sibirier, Sibirierin, Sibirische Katze
purchased - (purchase) Einkauf, Anschaffung, kaufen, anschaffen
uncle after bartering away the vessel in which he sailed from home.
bartering - (barter) Tauschhandel, Tauschgeschft, Tauschware, tauschen
In that up and down manly book of old-fashioned adventure, so full,
manly - mnnlich
too, of honest wonders"the voyage of Lionel Wafer, one of ancient
Wafer - Oblate, Waffel, Hostie, Wafer, Halbleiterscheibe
Dampiers old chums"I found a little matter set down so like that just
chums - (chum) anfreunden
quoted from Langsdorff, that I cannot forbear inserting it here for a
forbear - Vorfahr
corroborative example, if such be needed.
corroborative - bestrkend
Lionel, it seems, was on his way to John Ferdinando, as he calls the
modern Juan Fernandes. In our way thither, he says, about four
oclock in the morning, when we were about one hundred and fifty
leagues from the Main of America, our ship felt a terrible shock, which
put our men in such consternation that they could hardly tell where
they were or what to think; but every one began to prepare for death.
And, indeed, the shock was so sudden and violent, that we took it for
granted the ship had struck against a rock; but when the amazement was
granted - (grant) gewhren erteilen bewilligen
a little over, we cast the lead, and sounded, but found no ground. * *
* * * The suddenness of the shock made the guns leap in their
carriages, and several of the men were shaken out of their hammocks.
carriages - (carriage) Kutsche Gang, Haltung, Wagen, Frachtgeld, Frach
shaken out - ausgeschttelt
hammocks - (hammock) Hngematte Bauminsel
Captain Davis, who lay with his head on a gun, was thrown out of his
cabin! Lionel then goes on to impute the shock to an earthquake, and
impute - zuschreiben anrechnen, zurechnen, in Betracht ziehe
seems to substantiate the imputation by stating that a great
substantiate - beglaubigen, besttigen, substantiieren, untermauer
imputation - Unterstellung
earthquake, somewhere about that time, did actually do great mischief
along the Spanish land. But I should not much wonder if, in the
darkness of that early hour of the morning, the shock was after all
caused by an unseen whale vertically bumping the hull from beneath.
bumping - (bump) Schlag, Sto, Bums,
I might proceed with several more examples, one way or another known to
me, of the great power and malice at times of the sperm whale. In more
than one instance, he has been known, not only to chase the assailing
assailing - anstrmend; (assail) angreifen
boats back to their ships, but to pursue the ship itself, and long
withstand all the lances hurled at him from its decks. The English ship
hurled - (hurl) schleudern
Pusie Hall can tell a story on that head; and, as for his strength, let
me say, that there have been examples where the lines attached to a
running sperm whale have, in a calm, been transferred to the ship, and
transferred - (transfer) bertragen versetzen bringen bertragung, Versetzun
secured there; the whale towing her great hull through the water, as a
horse walks off with a cart. Again, it is very often observed that, if
cart - Pferdewagen, Wagen, Karren
the sperm whale, once struck, is allowed time to rally, he then acts,
allowed time - Vorgabezeit
rally - Zusammenkunft, Rallye;um sich scharen;Sternfahrt;sammeln
not so often with blind rage, as with wilful, deliberate designs of
destruction to his pursuers; nor is it without conveying some eloquent
conveying - (convey) befrdern, transportieren, verfrachten, bermittel
eloquent - redegewandt, eloquent, wortgewandt
indication of his character, that upon being attacked he will
frequently open his mouth, and retain it in that dread expansion for
expansion - Expansion
several consecutive minutes. But I must be content with only one more
and a concluding illustration; a remarkable and most significant one,
illustration - Illustration
by which you will not fail to see, that not only is the most marvellous
event in this book corroborated by plain facts of the present day, but
corroborated - (corroborate) besttigen, untermauern, sttzen, bekrftigen
that these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages;
repetitions - (repetition) Wiederholung, Wdh(lg). Wiederholung
so that for the millionth time we say amen with Solomon"Verily there is
millionth - millionstel, milliontel
amen - amen
Verily - wahrlich gewiss, natrlich, sicher
nothing new under the sun.
In the sixth Christian century lived Procopius, a Christian magistrate
Procopius - Prokopius
magistrate - richterlicher Beamter
of Constantinople, in the days when Justinian was Emperor and
Belisarius general. As many know, he wrote the history of his own
times, a work every way of uncommon value. By the best authorities, he
has always been considered a most trustworthy and unexaggerating
most trustworthy - kreditfhigste
unexaggerating - ohne zu bertreiben
historian, except in some one or two particulars, not at all affecting
the matter presently to be mentioned.
Now, in this history of his, Procopius mentions that, during the term
of his prefecture at Constantinople, a great sea-monster was captured
prefecture - Prfektur
in the neighboring Propontis, or Sea of Marmora, after having destroyed
vessels at intervals in those waters for a period of more than fifty
years. A fact thus set down in substantial history cannot easily be
substantial - wesentlich, essenziell, substanziell
gainsaid. Nor is there any reason it should be. Of what precise species
this sea-monster was, is not mentioned. But as he destroyed ships, as
well as for other reasons, he must have been a whale; and I am strongly
inclined to think a sperm whale. And I will tell you why. For a long
time I fancied that the sperm whale had been always unknown in the
Mediterranean and the deep waters connecting with it. Even now I am
certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be, in the
present constitution of things, a place for his habitual gregarious
constitution - Verfassen, Verfassung, Konstitution, Grundgesetz
habitual - gewohnt gewhnlich, habituell
resort. But further investigations have recently proved to me, that in
resort - umsortieren;Badeort (Seebad)
investigations - (investigation) Untersuchung
modern times there have been isolated instances of the presence of the
sperm whale in the Mediterranean. I am told, on good authority, that on
the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the
skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war readily passes
through the Dardanelles, hence a sperm whale could, by the same route,
Dardanelles - Dardanellen
pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis.
In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar
substance called _brit_ is to be found, the aliment of the right whale.
aliment - Nahrungsmittel
But I have every reason to believe that the food of the sperm
whale"squid or cuttle-fish"lurks at the bottom of that sea, because
squid - Tintenfisch;Kalmar
cuttle - Sepia
large creatures, but by no means the largest of that sort, have been
found at its surface. If, then, you properly put these statements
together, and reason upon them a bit, you will clearly perceive that,
according to all human reasoning, Procopiuss sea-monster, that for
half a century stove the ships of a Roman Emperor, must in all
probability have been a sperm whale.
Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his
thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby
Dick; though he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that
one passion; nevertheless it may have been that he was by nature and
long habituation far too wedded to a fiery whalemans ways, altogether
habituation - Gewhnung
to abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage. Or at least if
collateral - nebeneinanderliegend, benachbart, Neben-, Bei-, begleitend
this were otherwise, there were not wanting other motives much more
influential with him. It would be refining too much, perhaps, even
influential - einflussreich
refining - verfeinernd; (refine) verfeinern
considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the
White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all
sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he
slew - sich drehen, sich herumdrehen;Menge; (slay) sich drehe
multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would
multiplied - (multiply) multiplizieren
subsequently - anschlieend, danach, darauffolgend, daraufhin
prove to be the hated one he hunted. But if such an hypothesis be
hypothesis - Hypothese
indeed exceptionable, there were still additional considerations which,
exceptionable - ausnahmefhig
though not so strictly according with the wildness of his ruling
passion, yet were by no means incapable of swaying him.
incapable - unfhig
swaying - schwankend; (sway) Schwingen, Schwenken, Hin- und Herschwinge
To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in
accomplish - vollenden
the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order. He knew,
apt - passend;Hochgeschwindigkeitszug;geeignet, begabt
for example, that however magnetic his ascendency in some respects was
ascendency - Aufstieg
over Starbuck, yet that ascendency did not cover the complete spiritual
man any more than mere corporeal superiority involves intellectual
mastership; for to the purely spiritual, the intellectual but stand in
a sort of corporeal relation. Starbucks body and Starbucks coerced
coerced - (coerce) erzwingen konvertieren
will were Ahabs, so long as Ahab kept his magnet at Starbucks brain;
magnet - Magnet
still he knew that for all this the chief mate, in his soul, abhorred
his captains quest, and could he, would joyfully disintegrate himself
joyfully - freudig
disintegrate - desintegrieren, auflsen, zerfallen
from it, or even frustrate it. It might be that a long interval would
frustrate - frustrieren
elapse ere the White Whale was seen. During that long interval Starbuck
would ever be apt to fall into open relapses of rebellion against his
relapses - (relapse) zurckfallen sich verschlimmern, sich verschlechter
captains leadership, unless some ordinary, prudential, circumstantial
leadership - Fhrung, Leitung, checkLeitung, ilitary
prudential - klglich
influences were brought to bear upon him. Not only that, but the subtle
insanity of Ahab respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly
noways - (noway) keineswegs
manifested than in his superlative sense and shrewdness in foreseeing
manifested - (manifest) manifest Ladungsliste Manifest manifestieren
superlative - Superlativ, Hchststufe, Meiststufe, hervorragend
shrewdness - Schlauheit
foreseeing - (foresee) vorhersehen, voraussehen
that, for the present, the hunt should in some way be stripped of that
strange imaginative impiousness which naturally invested it; that the
impiousness - Gottlosigkeit
full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure
obscure - obskur, dunkel, vernebelt, finster
background (for few mens courage is proof against protracted
proof - Beweis polierte Platte aufgehen lassen
protracted - (protract) verlngern, sich ziehen, sich hinziehe
meditation unrelieved by action); that when they stood their long night
unrelieved - unvermindert, ungelindert
watches, his officers and men must have some nearer things to think of
than Moby Dick. For however eagerly and impetuously the savage crew had
impetuously - heftige, heftig
hailed the announcement of his quest; yet all sailors of all sorts are
more or less capricious and unreliable"they live in the varying outer
capricious - kaprizis, launenhaft, unberechenbar, schrullig
unreliable - unzuverlssig
weather, and they inhale its fickleness"and when retained for any
inhale - einatmen inhalieren
fickleness - Unbestndigkeit, Wankelmut
object remote and blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and
promissory - versprechend, Eigenwechsel
passion in the end, it is above all things requisite that temporary
requisite - erforderlich, notwendig, Erfordernis, Voraussetzung
interests and employments should intervene and hold them healthily
intervene - eingreifen, einschreiten, dazwischengehen, dazwischenfahren
healthily - gesundes
suspended for the final dash.
Nor was Ahab unmindful of another thing. In times of strong emotion
mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.
evanescent - schwindend, dahinschwindend
The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought
constitutional - verfassungsmig verfassungsgem
Ahab, is sordidness. Granting that the White Whale fully incites the
sordidness - Schmutz
incites - (incite) anstacheln
hearts of this my savage crew, and playing round their savageness even
savageness - Wildheit, Roheit, Grausamkeit, Wut
breeds a certain generous knight-errantism in them, still, while for
breeds - (breed) aufziehen, erzeugen, zchten, sich paaren, brten
errantism - Irrweg
the love of it they give chase to Moby Dick, they must also have food
for their more common, daily appetites. For even the high lifted and
chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two
chivalric - ritterlich
Crusaders - (crusader) Kreuzfahrer, Kreuzritter
traverse - durchkreuzen, durchqueren, berqueren
thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without
sepulchre - Grabkammer, Gruft
committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious
burglaries - (burglary) Einbruch, Einbruchdiebstahl
perquisites by the way. Had they been strictly held to their one final
perquisites - (perquisite) Vergnstigung, Extra, Zusatzleistung, Vergtun
and romantic object"that final and romantic object, too many would have
turned from in disgust. I will not strip these men, thought Ahab, of
disgust - ekeln Ekel
all hopes of cash"aye, cash. They may scorn cash now; but let some
months go by, and no perspective promise of it to them, and then this
perspective - Aussicht Perspektive
same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would
quiescent - ruhig
mutinying - (mutiny) Meuterei
soon cashier Ahab.
cashier - Kassierer, Kassenbeamte
Nor was there wanting still another precautionary motive more related
precautionary - vorsorglich
more related - verwandtere
to Ahab personally. Having impulsively, it is probable, and perhaps
impulsively - impulsive, impulsiv
somewhat prematurely revealed the prime but private purpose of the
prematurely - voreilig, vorschnell, vorzeitig, zu frh
Pequods voyage, Ahab was now entirely conscious that, in so doing, he
had indirectly laid himself open to the unanswerable charge of
unanswerable - unbeantwortbar, antwortlos
usurpation; and with perfect impunity, both moral and legal, his crew
impunity - Straflosigkeit, Straffreiheit, Straflosigkeit
if so disposed, and to that end competent, could refuse all further
disposed - (dispose) beseitigen, entsorgen, ordnen
obedience to him, and even violently wrest from him the command. From
wrest - erzwingen
even the barely hinted imputation of usurpation, and the possible
barely - kaum gerade noch
consequences of such a suppressed impression gaining ground, Ahab must
suppressed - (suppress) unterdrcken
of course have been most anxious to protect himself. That protection
protection - Schutz
could only consist in his own predominating brain and heart and hand,
predominating - (predominate) vorherrschen
backed by a heedful, closely calculating attention to every minute
atmospheric influence which it was possible for his crew to be
atmospheric - atmosphrisch
subjected to.
For all these reasons then, and others perhaps too analytic to be
analytic - analytisch
verbally developed here, Ahab plainly saw that he must still in a good
verbally - verbal
degree continue true to the natural, nominal purpose of the Pequods
voyage; observe all customary usages; and not only that, but force
himself to evince all his well known passionate interest in the general
evince - bekunden, zeigen, zum Vorschein bringen, an den Tag legen
pursuit of his profession.
Be all this as it may, his voice was now often heard hailing the three
mast-heads and admonishing them to keep a bright look-out, and not omit
admonishing - (admonish) ermahnen, warnen
reporting even a porpoise. This vigilance was not long without reward.
It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging
cloudy - bewlkt, wolkig, trb
sultry - schwl drckend, hei, sexy
lazily - faul, ruhig, trge
about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters.
Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving what is called a sword-mat,
weaving - Webstck ; (weave) Webstck
for an additional lashing to our boat. So still and subdued and yet
lashing - Tauwerk, peitschend, Geielung; (lash) Tauwerk, peitschen
subdued - (subdue) unter Kontrolle bringen, unterwerfen
somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie
preluding - (prelude) Prludium, Vorspiel
lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own
invisible self.
I was the attendant or page of Queequeg, while busy at the mat. As I
kept passing and repassing the filling or woof of marline between the
repassing - (repass) wieder vorbeikommen
woof - wuff
long yarns of the warp, using my own hand for the shuttle, and as
warp - verzerren (Tatsache), verwinden (Tragflchen)
shuttle - Weberschiffchen Schtzen, Webschtzen, Pendelverkehr,
Queequeg, standing sideways, ever and anon slid his heavy oaken sword
between the threads, and idly looking off upon the water, carelessly
threads - (thread) Faden, Garn, Zwirn, Nhgarn
idly - unttig, trge
and unthinkingly drove home every yarn: I say so strange a dreaminess
unthinkingly - gedankenlos, gedankenlose
did there then reign all over the ship and all over the sea, only
broken by the intermitting dull sound of the sword, that it seemed as
intermitting - (intermit) unterbrechen, nachlassen
if this were the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically
Loom - Webstuhl;undeutlich sichtbar werde
weaving and weaving away at the Fates. There lay the fixed threads of
the warp subject to but one single, ever returning, unchanging
unchanging - unvernderlich, gleichbleibend
vibration, and that vibration merely enough to admit of the crosswise
admit of - zulassen
interblending of other threads with its own. This warp seemed
interblending - Vermischung
necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle
necessity - Notwendigkeit, Nezessitt, Not, Bedrfnis
ply - Windung (Technik), Strhne, Kordlage;handhaben, betreibe
and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads. Meantime,
destiny - Los, Geschick, Schicksal
Queequegs impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof
slantingly, or crookedly, or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be;
slantingly - schrge
crookedly - schief
weakly - Schwach
and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding
contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savages
fabric - Bau, Rohbau, Struktur, Gewebe, Textil
sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and
woof; this easy, indifferent sword must be chance"aye, chance, free
will, and necessity"nowise incompatible"all interweavingly working
nowise - auf gar keinen Fall
incompatible - inkompatibel, unvereinbar
interweavingly - ineinander verwoben
together. The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its
swerved - (swerve) ausweichen abschweifen Schlenker
ultimate course"its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending
alternating - (alternate) alternierend, wechselnd, abwechselnd, Wechsel
to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads;
and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of
restrained - (restrain) zurckhalten
necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though
thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the
prescribed - (prescribe) verschreiben, verordnen, vorschreiben
last featuring blow at events.
blow at - anblasen
Thus we were weaving and weaving away when I started at a sound so
strange, long drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of
musically - musikalisch
free will dropped from my hand, and I stood gazing up at the clouds
whence that voice dropped like a wing. High aloft in the cross-trees
was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego. His body was reaching eagerly
forward, his hand stretched out like a wand, and at brief sudden
wand - Stab
intervals he continued his cries. To be sure the same sound was that
very moment perhaps being heard all over the seas, from hundreds of
whalemens look-outs perched as high in the air; but from few of those
perched - (perch) Vogelstange;Barsch
lungs could that accustomed old cry have derived such a marvellous
cadence as from Tashtego the Indians.
As he stood hovering over you half suspended in air, so wildly and
eagerly peering towards the horizon, you would have thought him some
prophet or seer beholding the shadows of Fate, and by those wild cries
announcing their coming.
There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!
Where-away?
On the lee-beam, about two miles off! a school of them!
beam - Balken Breite Pflugbaum, Grindel, Strahl, strahlen, beamen
Instantly all was commotion.
The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and
ticks - (tick) ticken, normal (gut) laufen;Ticken, Zeichen, Zeck
reliable uniformity. And thereby whalemen distinguish this fish from
uniformity - Einheitlichkeit, Uniformitt
other tribes of his genus.
tribes - (tribe) Stamm, Volksstamm, Sippe, Volk
genus - Gattung ; (genu) Gattung
There go flukes! was now the cry from Tashtego; and the whales
disappeared.
Quick, steward! cried Ahab. Time! time!
Dough-Boy hurried below, glanced at the watch, and reported the exact
minute to Ahab.
The ship was now kept away from the wind, and she went gently rolling
kept away - ferngehalten
before it. Tashtego reporting that the whales had gone down heading to
leeward, we confidently looked to see them again directly in advance of
confidently - getrost, vertrauend
our bows. For that singular craft at times evinced by the Sperm Whale
when, sounding with his head in one direction, he nevertheless, while
concealed beneath the surface, mills round, and swiftly swims off in
mills - (mill) Promille, 1/10 Prozent;Mhle, Fabrik;frsen, anfrsen
the opposite quarter"this deceitfulness of his could not now be in
deceitfulness - Falschheit
Tashtego had been in any way alarmed, or indeed knew at all of our
vicinity. One of the men selected for shipkeepers"that is, those not
shipkeepers - Schiffskapitne
appointed to the boats, by this time relieved the Indian at the
appointed - (appoint) bestimmen, festlegen, ausstatten, ausrste
main-mast head. The sailors at the fore and mizzen had come down; the
line tubs were fixed in their places; the cranes were thrust out; the
cranes - (crane) Kranich, Kran;den Kopf/Hals recken
thrust out - vorstrecken
mainyard was backed, and the three boats swung over the sea like three
mainyard - Haupthof
samphire baskets over high cliffs. Outside of the bulwarks their eager
samphire - Queller, Glasschmelz
baskets - (basket) Korb
cliffs - (cliff) Kliff, Felsvorsprung, Klippe
crews with one hand clung to the rail, while one foot was expectantly
clung - (cling) anschmiegen
rail - Gleis, Schiene, Reling, Gelnder
poised on the gunwale. So look the long line of man-of-wars men about
gunwale - Dollbord
to throw themselves on board an enemys ship.
But at this critical instant a sudden exclamation was heard that took
every eye from the whale. With a start all glared at dark Ahab, who was
surrounded by five dusky phantoms that seemed fresh formed out of air.
The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side
of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the
tackles and bands of the boat which swung there. This boat had always
tackles - (tackle) Angel Tackling in Angriff nehmen, angehen
been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the
technically - eigentlich, genau genommen, de jure, technisch, fachlich
captains, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter. The
figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white
tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips. A rumpled Chinese
evilly - bel
protruding - (protrude) herausragen, hervorragen, herausstehen, vorstehen
jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black
funereally - dster, traurige
trowsers of the same dark stuff. But strangely crowning this ebonness
ebonness - Ebenbrtigkeit
was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and
plaited - (plait) Falte
turban - Turban
coiled round and round upon his head. Less swart in aspect, the
coiled - (coil) Wendel, Spule, Wicklung;aufwickeln
companions of this figure were of that vivid, tiger-yellow complexion
peculiar to some of the aboriginal natives of the Manillas;"a race
notorious for a certain diabolism of subtilty, and by some honest white
diabolism - Diabolismus
subtilty - Subtilitt
mariners supposed to be the paid spies and secret confidential agents
spies - (spy) Spion, Spionin, Spitzel , ausspionieren, ersphen
on the water of the devil, their lord, whose counting-room they suppose
to be elsewhere.
While yet the wondering ships company were gazing upon these
strangers, Ahab cried out to the white-turbaned old man at their head,
All ready there, Fedallah?
Ready, was the half-hissed reply.
Lower away then; dye hear? shouting across the deck. Lower away
there, I say.
Such was the thunder of his voice, that spite of their amazement the
men sprang over the rail; the sheaves whirled round in the blocks; with
a wallow, the three boats dropped into the sea; while, with a
dexterous, off-handed daring, unknown in any other vocation, the
sailors, goat-like, leaped down the rolling ships side into the tossed
leaped - (leap) hervorspringen, hpfen, berspringen
boats below.
Hardly had they pulled out from under the ships lee, when a fourth
keel, coming from the windward side, pulled round under the stern, and
showed the five strangers rowing Ahab, who, standing erect in the
rowing - rudernd; (row) rudernd
stern, loudly hailed Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, to spread themselves
widely, so as to cover a large expanse of water. But with all their
eyes again riveted upon the swart Fedallah and his crew, the inmates of
the other boats obeyed not the command.
Captain Ahab?" said Starbuck.
Spread yourselves, cried Ahab; give way, all four boats. Thou,
Flask, pull out more to leeward!
Aye, aye, sir, cheerily cried little King-Post, sweeping round his
great steering oar. Lay back! addressing his crew.
oar - Ruder
There!"there!"there again! There she blows right ahead, boys!"lay
back!
Never heed yonder yellow boys, Archy.
Oh, I dont mind em, sir, said Archy; I knew it all before now.
Didnt I hear em in the hold? And didnt I tell Cabaco here of it?
What say ye, Cabaco? They are stowaways, Mr. Flask.
stowaways - (stowaway) blinder Passagier, blinde Passagierin
Pull, pull, my fine hearts-alive; pull, my children; pull, my little
ones, drawlingly and soothingly sighed Stubb to his crew, some of whom
drawlingly - mit leiser Stimme
soothingly - lindernde
sighed - (sigh) Seufzen, Seufzer, Suseln (Wind);suseln (Wind)
still showed signs of uneasiness. Why dont you break your backbones,
backbones - (backbone) Rckgrat, Wirbelsule
my boys? What is it you stare at? Those chaps in yonder boat? Tut! They
are only five more hands come to help us"never mind from where"the more
the merrier. Pull, then, do pull; never mind the brimstone"devils are
merrier - (merry) frhlich, heiter
good fellows enough. So, so; there you are now; thats the stroke for a
thousand pounds; thats the stroke to sweep the stakes! Hurrah for the
stakes - (stake) Pfahl, Pflock, Marterpfahl, Scheiterhaufen, Antei
gold cup of sperm oil, my heroes! Three cheers, men"all hearts alive!
Easy, easy; dont be in a hurry"dont be in a hurry. Why dont you snap
your oars, you rascals? Bite something, you dogs! So, so, so,
rascals - (rascal) Gauner, Strolch, Bsewicht, Schurke, Bengel
then:"softly, softly! Thats it"thats it! long and strong. Give way
there, give way! The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are
ragamuffin - Lumpenkind
all asleep. Stop snoring, ye sleepers, and pull. Pull, will ye? pull,
snoring - Schnarchen ; (snore) schnarchen Schnarchen
cant ye? pull, wont ye? Why in the name of gudgeons and ginger-cakes
gudgeons - (gudgeon) Zapfen
ginger - mit Ingwer wrzen; Ingwer
dont ye pull?"pull and break something! pull, and start your eyes out!
Here! whipping out the sharp knife from his girdle; every mothers
girdle - Grtel, Hfthalter
son of ye draw his knife, and pull with the blade between his teeth.
Thats it"thats it. Now ye do something; that looks like it, my
steel-bits. Start her"start her, my silver-spoons! Start her,
marling-spikes!
Stubbs exordium to his crew is given here at large, because he had
rather a peculiar way of talking to them in general, and especially in
inculcating the religion of rowing. But you must not suppose from this
inculcating - (inculcate) einimpfen, einschrfen
specimen of his sermonizings that he ever flew into downright passions
sermonizings - Predigtttigkeit
with his congregation. Not at all; and therein consisted his chief
peculiarity. He would say the most terrific things to his crew, in a
tone so strangely compounded of fun and fury, and the fury seemed so
compounded - (compound) zusammensetzen
calculated merely as a spice to the fun, that no oarsman could hear
spice - wrzen;Gewrz
oarsman - Ruderer
such queer invocations without pulling for dear life, and yet pulling
invocations - (Invocation) Bittgebet, Aufruf
for the mere joke of the thing. Besides he all the time looked so easy
and indolent himself, so loungingly managed his steering-oar, and so
indolent - trge, faul, arbeitsscheu, ermdend, schmerzlos, indolent
loungingly - faulenzen
broadly gaped"open-mouthed at times"that the mere sight of such a
broadly - allgemein
yawning commander, by sheer force of contrast, acted like a charm upon
the crew. Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists,
humorists - (humorist) Humorist, Humoristin
whose jollity is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put all
inferiors on their guard in the matter of obeying them.
inferiors - (inferior) untergeordnet, nachgeordnet, unterlegen, tiefe
In obedience to a sign from Ahab, Starbuck was now pulling obliquely
across Stubbs bow; and when for a minute or so the two boats were
pretty near to each other, Stubb hailed the mate.
Mr. Starbuck! larboard boat there, ahoy! a word with ye, sir, if ye
please!
Halloa! returned Starbuck, turning round not a single inch as he
spoke; still earnestly but whisperingly urging his crew; his face set
whisperingly - flsternd
urging - drngend; (urge) Drang drngen, mahnen, treiben, ansporne
like a flint from Stubbs.
flint - Feuerstein; q
What think ye of those yellow boys, sir!
Smuggled on board, somehow, before the ship sailed. (Strong, strong,
boys!) in a whisper to his crew, then speaking out loud again: A sad
whisper to - zuflstern
business, Mr. Stubb! (seethe her, seethe her, my lads!) but never mind,
Mr. Stubb, all for the best. Let all your crew pull strong, come what
will. (Spring, my men, spring!) Theres hogsheads of sperm ahead, Mr.
hogsheads - (hogshead) Oxhoft
Stubb, and thats what ye came for. (Pull, my boys!) Sperm, sperms the
play! This at least is duty; duty and profit hand in hand.
Aye, aye, I thought as much, soliloquized Stubb, when the boats
diverged, as soon as I clapt eye on em, I thought so. Aye, and thats
what he went into the after hold for, so often, as Dough-Boy long
suspected. They were hidden down there. The White Whales at the bottom
of it. Well, well, so be it! Cant be helped! All right! Give way, men!
It aint the White Whale to-day! Give way!
Now the advent of these outlandish strangers at such a critical instant
advent - Ankunft
as the lowering of the boats from the deck, this had not unreasonably
awakened a sort of superstitious amazement in some of the ships
company; but Archys fancied discovery having some time previous got
abroad among them, though indeed not credited then, this had in some
small measure prepared them for the event. It took off the extreme edge
of their wonder; and so what with all this and Stubbs confident way of
accounting for their appearance, they were for the time freed from
superstitious surmisings; though the affair still left abundant room
for all manner of wild conjectures as to dark Ahabs precise agency in
conjectures - (conjecture) Vermutung, Verdacht, Mutmaung, Hypothese
agency - Wille Agency Agentur Behrde
the matter from the beginning. For me, I silently recalled the
mysterious shadows I had seen creeping on board the Pequod during the
creeping - (creep) kriechen schleichen Knilch, Widerling
dim Nantucket dawn, as well as the enigmatical hintings of the
enigmatical - rtselhaft, hintergrndig, dunkel
hintings - Andeutungen
unaccountable Elijah.
Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided the
furthest to windward, was still ranging ahead of the other boats; a
circumstance bespeaking how potent a crew was pulling him. Those tiger
yellow creatures of his seemed all steel and whalebone; like five
trip-hammers they rose and fell with regular strokes of strength, which
hammers - (hammer) Hammer Schlagstck, Hahn, Schlaghebel, tMalleu
strokes - (stroke) streicheln;Sto, Schlag, Streich, Hub
periodically started the boat along the water like a horizontal burst
boiler out of a Mississippi steamer. As for Fedallah, who was seen
boiler - Dampfkessel, Kocher, Erhitzer;Badeofen
steamer - Dampfschiff, Dampfer
pulling the harpooneer oar, he had thrown aside his black jacket, and
displayed his naked chest with the whole part of his body above the
displayed - (display) Vorfhrung, Vorstellung, Display, Monitor, Bildschirm
gunwale, clearly cut against the alternating depressions of the watery
depressions - (depression) Senke Depression, Abschwung
horizon; while at the other end of the boat Ahab, with one arm, like a
fencers, thrown half backward into the air, as if to counterbalance
counterbalance - Gegengewicht, Gegenkraft
any tendency to trip; Ahab was seen steadily managing his steering oar
tendency - Tendenz (''not often used in this sense one would rather use a verb such as "zu (...) neigen" or tendieren'')
as in a thousand boat lowerings ere the White Whale had torn him. All
lowerings - (lowering) Abbau (von Kosten), Absenkung
at once the outstretched arm gave a peculiar motion and then remained
outstretched - (outstretch) ausstrecken
fixed, while the boats five oars were seen simultaneously peaked. Boat
and crew sat motionless on the sea. Instantly the three spread boats in
the rear paused on their way. The whales had irregularly settled bodily
down into the blue, thus giving no distantly discernible token of the
movement, though from his closer vicinity Ahab had observed it.
Every man look out along his oars! cried Starbuck. Thou, Queequeg,
stand up!
Nimbly springing up on the triangular raised box in the bow, the savage
Nimbly - flink
stood erect there, and with intensely eager eyes gazed off towards the
intensely - intensiv
spot where the chase had last been descried. Likewise upon the extreme
stern of the boat where it was also triangularly platformed level with
triangularly - dreieckig, dreieckige
the gunwale, Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing
adroitly - gewandte
himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft, and silently
jerking - stoweise, zusammenzuckend
tossings - (tossing) hin- und herschleudern, mit jemandem knobbeln
eyeing the vast blue eye of the sea.
Not very far distant Flasks boat was also lying breathlessly still;
breathlessly - atemlose
its commander recklessly standing upon the top of the loggerhead, a
loggerhead - Dummkopf
stout sort of post rooted in the keel, and rising some two feet above
rooted - (root) wurzeln;Haupt, Wurzel, Nullstelle [math.]
the level of the stern platform. It is used for catching turns with the
whale line. Its top is not more spacious than the palm of a mans hand,
spacious - gerumig weitrumig
palm - Palme, Schaufel (am Geweih)
and standing upon such a base as that, Flask seemed perched at the
mast-head of some ship which had sunk to all but her trucks. But little
King-Post was small and short, and at the same time little King-Post
was full of a large and tall ambition, so that this loggerhead
stand-point of his did by no means satisfy King-Post.
I cant see three seas off; tip us up an oar there, and let me on to
that.
Upon this, Daggoo, with either hand upon the gunwale to steady his way,
swiftly slid aft, and then erecting himself volunteered his lofty
erecting - (erect) stramm (Haltung), steif;errichten
shoulders for a pedestal.
pedestal - Sockel, Podest, Piedestal, Postament
Good a mast-head as any, sir. Will you mount?
That I will, and thank ye very much, my fine fellow; only I wish you
fifty feet taller.
Whereupon planting his feet firmly against two opposite planks of the
firmly - sicher, fest
boat, the gigantic negro, stooping a little, presented his flat palm to
Flasks foot, and then putting Flasks hand on his hearse-plumed head
and bidding him spring as he himself should toss, with one dexterous
toss - Wurf Mnzwurf werfen verwerfen, wegwerfen, vermische
fling landed the little man high and dry on his shoulders. And here was
fling - Affre (Liebesaffre)
Flask now standing, Daggoo with one lifted arm furnishing him with a
furnishing - Einrichtungsgegenstnde, Ausstattung; (furnish) mbliere
breastband to lean against and steady himself by.
breastband - Brustband
lean against - (Leiter) anlegen
At any time it is a strange sight to the tyro to see with what wondrous
tyro - Anfnger
habitude of unconscious skill the whaleman will maintain an erect
habitude - Veranlagung
posture in his boat, even when pitched about by the most riotously
riotously - tobend, aufrhrerische
perverse and cross-running seas. Still more strange to see him giddily
perverse - pervers, abartig, widernatrlich
giddily - leichtsinnig
perched upon the loggerhead itself, under such circumstances. But the
sight of little Flask mounted upon gigantic Daggoo was yet more
curious; for sustaining himself with a cool, indifferent, easy,
sustaining - aushaltend, tragend; (sustain) unterhalten, aufrechterhalte
unthought of, barbaric majesty, the noble negro to every roll of the
unthought - (unthink) nicht nachdenken
sea harmoniously rolled his fine form. On his broad back, flaxen-haired
harmoniously - harmonisch, harmonisches
flaxen - flachsen flachsfarben
Flask seemed a snow-flake. The bearer looked nobler than the rider.
snow flake - (snow-flake) Schneeflocke
bearer - Trger, Trgerin, Inhaber, Inhaberin
rider - Reiter, Reiterin, Mitfahrer, Mitfahrerin, Zusatzklause
Though truly vivacious, tumultuous, ostentatious little Flask would now
ostentatious - protzig, prahlerisch, prunkhaft, prunkvoll
and then stamp with impatience; but not one added heave did he thereby
give to the negros lordly chest. So have I seen Passion and Vanity
lordly - frstlich, adelig, einem Lord gem, vornehm
stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her
alter - verndern, ndern, wandeln, modifizieren, abndern
tides and her seasons for that.
Meanwhile Stubb, the third mate, betrayed no such far-gazing
betrayed - (betray) verraten im Stich lassen, von etwas zeugen, verleite
solicitudes. The whales might have made one of their regular soundings,
solicitudes - (solicitude) Besorgnis, Besorgtheit
not a temporary dive from mere fright; and if that were the case,
Stubb, as his wont in such cases, it seems, was resolved to solace the
languishing interval with his pipe. He withdrew it from his hatband,
languishing - schmachtend, ermattend; (languish) ermatten, erschlaffe
hatband - Hutschnur
where he always wore it aslant like a feather. He loaded it, and rammed
aslant - schief
feather - Feder, Vogelfeder, befiedern
rammed - (ram) RAM
home the loading with his thumb-end; but hardly had he ignited his
thumb - Daumen durchblttern
ignited - (ignite) znden, anznden
match across the rough sandpaper of his hand, when Tashtego, his
sandpaper - Schleifpapier, Schmirgelpapier, Sandpapier, Schleifpapierboge
harpooneer, whose eyes had been setting to windward like two fixed
stars, suddenly dropped like light from his erect attitude to his seat,
crying out in a quick phrensy of hurry, Down, down all, and give
phrensy - Phrasendrescherei
way!"there they are!
To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been
visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish white
greenish - grnlich
water, and thin scattered puffs of vapor hovering over it, and
suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from white
suffusingly - durchdringend
rolling billows. The air around suddenly vibrated and tingled, as it
vibrated - (vibrate) vibrieren Vibration
tingled - (tingle) kribbeln, prickeln, Prickeln
were, like the air over intensely heated plates of iron. beneath this
beneath this - hierunter
atmospheric waving and curling, and partially beneath a thin layer of
curling - Curling ; (curl) Locke
partially - teilweise, teils, zum Teil
water, also, the whales were swimming. Seen in advance of all the other
indications, the puffs of vapor they spouted, seemed their forerunning
forerunning - (forerun) Vorlauf
couriers and detached flying outriders.
couriers - (courier) Reisefhrer Kurier Kurierdienst
outriders - (outrider) Vorreiter
All four boats were now in keen pursuit of that one spot of troubled
water and air. But it bade fair to outstrip them; it flew on and on, as
bade - geboten
outstrip - berflgeln, berholen, berrunden, bertreffen
a mass of interblending bubbles borne down a rapid stream from the
hills.
Pull, pull, my good boys, said Starbuck, in the lowest possible but
intensest concentrated whisper to his men; while the sharp fixed glance
intensest - (intense) intensiv hochgradig
from his eyes darted straight ahead of the bow, almost seemed as two
visible needles in two unerring binnacle compasses. He did not say much
to his crew, though, nor did his crew say anything to him. Only the
silence of the boat was at intervals startlingly pierced by one of his
startlingly - aufschreckende
pierced - (pierce) lochen, durchbohren
peculiar whispers, now harsh with command, now soft with entreaty.
harsh - rau, harsch, unwirsch, scharf
entreaty - Flehen
How different the loud little King-Post. Sing out and say something,
my hearties. Roar and pull, my thunderbolts! Beach me, beach me on
thunderbolts - (thunderbolt) Donnerkeil, Blitzstrahl, Blitz mit Donnerschlag
their black backs, boys; only do that for me, and Ill sign over to you
my Marthas Vineyard plantation, boys; including wife and children,
boys. Lay me on"lay me on! O Lord, Lord! but I shall go stark, staring
mad! See! see that white water! And so shouting, he pulled his hat
from his head, and stamped up and down on it; then picking it up,
flirted it far off upon the sea; and finally fell to rearing and
flirted - (flirt) Flirt flirten, anbaggern, anmachen, aufreien
plunging in the boats stern like a crazed colt from the prairie.
crazed - (craze) Fimmel
Look at that chap now, philosophically drawled Stubb, who, with his
philosophically - philosophisch
drawled - (drawl) gedehnt sprechen, schleppend spreche
unlighted short pipe, mechanically retained between his teeth, at a
unlighted - unbeleuchtet
short distance, followed after"Hes got fits, that Flask has. Fits?
yes, give him fits"thats the very word"pitch fits into em. Merrily,
Merrily - frhlich, lustig
merrily, hearts-alive. Pudding for supper, you know;"merrys the word.
Pull, babes"pull, sucklings"pull, all. But what the devil are you
babes - (babe) Puppe
sucklings - Suglinge
hurrying about? Softly, softly, and steadily, my men. Only pull, and
keep pulling; nothing more. Crack all your backbones, and bite your
knives in two"thats all. Take it easy"why dont ye take it easy, I
say, and burst all your livers and lungs!
livers - (liver) Leber
But what it was that inscrutable Ahab said to that tiger-yellow crew of
his"these were words best omitted here; for you live under the blessed
light of the evangelical land. Only the infidel sharks in the audacious
seas may give ear to such words, when, with tornado brow, and eyes of
tornado - Tornado, Windhose
red murder, and foam-glued lips, Ahab leaped after his prey.
Meanwhile, all the boats tore on. The repeated specific allusions of
Flask to that whale, as he called the fictitious monster which he
fictitious - erfunden, fiktiv
declared to be incessantly tantalizing his boats bow with its
incessantly - stndig, immerzu, fortwhrend, unaufhrlich
tantalizing - (tantalize) qulen, hinhalten (mit), peinigen, aufreizen
tail"these allusions of his were at times so vivid and life-like, that
they would cause some one or two of his men to snatch a fearful look
over the shoulder. But this was against all rule; for the oarsmen must
oarsmen - (oarsman) Ruderer
put out their eyes, and ram a skewer through their necks; usage
ram - RAM
skewer - Spie; (skew) Spie
pronouncing that they must have no organs but ears, and no limbs but
organs - (organ) Organ Orgel
arms, in these critical moments.
It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe! The vast swells of the
omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as they rolled
along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless
gunwales - (gunwale) Dollbord
bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip
for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost
seemed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the
dip - einfallen, sich senken, sich neigen, frben;Dip, Tunk
watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the
glens - (glen) Tobel
hollows - (hollow) hohl, dumpf
spurrings - (spurring) (spur) Ansporn, Sporn (zool., bot.)
goadings - Triebfedern
top of the opposite hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other
headlong - mit dem Kopf zuerst kopfber Hals ber Kopf
sled - schlittern
side;"all these, with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and
the shuddering gasps of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the
ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like
a wild hen after her screaming brood;"all this was thrilling.
hen - Vogelweibchen;Henne, Huhn
brood - Brut brten, grbeln
thrilling - (thrill) Nervenkitzel;erregen, erschauern, durchdringen
Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever
raw recruit - blutiger Anfnger
fever - Fieber, Temperaturerhhung
heat of his first battle; not the dead mans ghost encountering the
first unknown phantom in the other world;"neither of these can feel
stranger and stronger emotions than that man does, who for the first
time finds himself pulling into the charmed, churned circle of the
charmed - (charm) Talisman;Charme, Zauberformel, Lieblichkeit;bezaubern
churned - (churn) durchschtteln, aufwhlen, wusseln, rtteln
hunted sperm whale.
The dancing white water made by the chase was now becoming more and
more visible, owing to the increasing darkness of the dun cloud-shadows
dun - mahnen
flung upon the sea. The jets of vapor no longer blended, but tilted
tilted - (tilt) Schrfedehnung, Hchstleistung
everywhere to right and left; the whales seemed separating their wakes.
The boats were pulled more apart; Starbuck giving chase to three whales
running dead to leeward. Our sail was now set, and, with the still
rising wind, we rushed along; the boat going with such madness through
the water, that the lee oars could scarcely be worked rapidly enough to
escape being torn from the row-locks.
Soon we were running through a suffusing wide veil of mist; neither
suffusing - (suffuse) berziehen, bedecken, durchfluten, erflle
ship nor boat to be seen.
Give way, men, whispered Starbuck, drawing still further aft the
sheet of his sail; there is time to kill a fish yet before the squall
comes. Theres white water again!"close to! Spring!
Soon after, two cries in quick succession on each side of us denoted
denoted - (denote) markieren, kennzeichnen, bezeichnen, anzeigen
that the other boats had got fast; but hardly were they overheard, when
overheard - (overhear) zufllig mit anhren
with a lightning-like hurtling whisper Starbuck said: Stand up! and
hurtling - zusammen prallend, zusammenprallend
Queequeg, harpoon in hand, sprang to his feet.
Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life and death peril
so close to them ahead, yet with their eyes on the intense countenance
of the mate in the stern of the boat, they knew that the imminent
instant had come; they heard, too, an enormous wallowing sound as of
wallowing - (wallow) im Schmutz wlzen; (wallow) (wallow) im Schmutz wlzen
fifty elephants stirring in their litter. Meanwhile the boat was still
stirring - ergreifend, bewegend, aufwhlend; (stir) ergreifend, bewegen
litter - Snfte, Trage, Bahre, Wurf, Streu, Stroh, Abfall ; (lit) Snft
booming through the mist, the waves curling and hissing around us like
the erected crests of enraged serpents.
crests - (crest) Gipfel Kamm, Haube, Krone, Helmzier, Zimir
Thats his hump. _There_, _there_, give it to him! whispered
Starbuck.
A short rushing sound leaped out of the boat; it was the darted iron of
Queequeg. Then all in one welded commotion came an invisible push from
astern, while forward the boat seemed striking on a ledge; the sail
ledge - Felsvorsprung
collapsed and exploded; a gush of scalding vapor shot up near by;
collapsed - (collapse) einstrzen, kollabieren, zusammenfalle
near by - dabei, in der Nhe
something rolled and tumbled like an earthquake beneath us. The whole
crew were half suffocated as they were tossed helter-skelter into the
suffocated - (suffocate) ersticken, wrgen
skelter - hasten
white curdling cream of the squall. Squall, whale, and harpoon had all
curdling - gerinnend; (curdle) gerinnen
blended together; and the whale, merely grazed by the iron, escaped.
Though completely swamped, the boat was nearly unharmed. Swimming round
swamped - (swamp) Sumpf, Moor, berfluten, berschwemmen
it we picked up the floating oars, and lashing them across the gunwale,
tumbled back to our places. There we sat up to our knees in the sea,
the water covering every rib and plank, so that to our downward gazing
eyes the suspended craft seemed a coral boat grown up to us from the
bottom of the ocean.
The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together;
bucklers - (buckler) Faustschild, Tartsche
the whole squall roared, forked, and crackled around us like a white
crackled - (crackle) Knistern
fire upon the prairie, in which, unconsumed, we were burning; immortal
unconsumed - unverbraucht
in these jaws of death! In vain we hailed the other boats; as well roar
to the live coals down the chimney of a flaming furnace as hail those
furnace - Ofen, Hochofen, Schmelzofen, Heizung
boats in that storm. Meanwhile the driving scud, rack, and mist, grew
darker with the shadows of night; no sign of the ship could be seen.
The rising sea forbade all attempts to bale out the boat. The oars were
bale - bndeln;Ballen, Pack, Bndel
useless as propellers, performing now the office of life-preservers.
propellers - (propeller) Propeller, Luftschraube
preservers - (preserver) Bewahrer
So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many
waterproof - wasserfest wasserdicht, wasserundurchlssig
keg - Fass
failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then
failures - (failure) Misserfolg, Ausfall, Verschlechterung, Misslingen
contrived - (contrive) ersinnen entwerfen bewerkstelligen
ignite - znden, anznden
stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the
stretching - (stretch) strecken, dehnen, langziehen, dehnen
waif - verlassenes obdachloses Kind
standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up
that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There,
imbecile - Schwachsinnige, geistesschwach
forlornness - Verzweifelung
then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly
holding up hope in the midst of despair.
Wet, drenched through, and shivering cold, despairing of ship or boat,
drenched - (drench) Regenguss
we lifted up our eyes as the dawn came on. The mist still spread over
the sea, the empty lantern lay crushed in the bottom of the boat.
Suddenly Queequeg started to his feet, hollowing his hand to his ear.
hollowing - (hollow) hohl, dumpf
We all heard a faint creaking, as of ropes and yards hitherto muffled
by the storm. The sound came nearer and nearer; the thick mists were
mists - (mist) Nebel
dimly parted by a huge, vague form. Affrighted, we all sprang into the
sea as the ship at last loomed into view, bearing right down upon us
loomed - (loom) Webstuhl;undeutlich sichtbar werde
within a distance of not much more than its length.
Floating on the waves we saw the abandoned boat, as for one instant it
abandoned - (abandon) im Stich lassen, preisgeben, verlassen, abbrechen
tossed and gaped beneath the ships bows like a chip at the base of a
cataract; and then the vast hull rolled over it, and it was seen no
more till it came up weltering astern. Again we swam for it, were
dashed against it by the seas, and were at last taken up and safely
landed on board. Ere the squall came close to, the other boats had cut
loose from their fish and returned to the ship in good time. The ship
had given us up, but was still cruising, if haply it might light upon
haply - wahllos
some token of our perishing,"an oar or a lance pole.
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed
affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast
practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more
practical joke - Schabernack
wit - nmlich, und zwar
thereof - davon
discerns - (discern) erkennen, wahrnehmen, bemerken, feststellen
than suspects that the joke is at nobodys expense but his own.
However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing. He
dispirits - (dispirit) entmutigen
disputing - (dispute) Streit, Disput, Debatte, errtern, bestreiten
bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all
creeds - (creed) Credo, Kredo, Glaubensbekenntnis
persuasions - (persuasion) berredung berzeugung berredungskunst
hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich
knobby - knotig, knubbelig, huckelig, hckerig
ostrich - Strau, Vogelstrau
of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints. And as for
gobbles - (gobble) verschlingen, hinunterschlingen
bullets - (bullet) Geschoss (Kugel), Kugel
flints - (flint) Feuerstein; q
small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster, peril
worryings - (worrying) (worry) sorgen, sich Gedanken machen, qulen, klagen
of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly,
limb - Schenkel (geol. Falte), Glied
sly - schlau, gerissen, listig, verschmitzt
good-natured hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by the unseen
good-natured - (good natured) gutartig
punches - (punch) Stanze, Faustschla
and unaccountable old joker. That odd sort of wayward mood I am
joker - Spavogel Joker, Jolly
wayward - eigenwillig, eigensinnig, launisch, widerspenstig
speaking of, comes over a man only in some time of extreme tribulation;
tribulation - Trbsal, Drangsal
it comes in the very midst of his earnestness, so that what just before
might have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems but a part
of the general joke. There is nothing like the perils of whaling to
breed this free and easy sort of genial, desperado philosophy; and with
desperado - Schurke
it I now regarded this whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great White
Whale its object.
Queequeg, said I, when they had dragged me, the last man, to the
deck, and I was still shaking myself in my jacket to fling off the
water; Queequeg, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often
fine friend - treulose Tomate (ugs.)
happen? Without much emotion, though soaked through just like me, he
gave me to understand that such things did often happen.
Mr. Stubb, said I, turning to that worthy, who, buttoned up in his
oil-jacket, was now calmly smoking his pipe in the rain; Mr. Stubb, I
think I have heard you say that of all whalemen you ever met, our chief
mate, Mr. Starbuck, is by far the most careful and prudent. I suppose
most careful - reiflichste
then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy
foggy - neblig, diesig
squall is the height of a whalemans discretion?
Certain. Ive lowered for whales from a leaking ship in a gale off
leaking - (leak) undicht
Cape Horn.
Mr. Flask, said I, turning to little King-Post, who was standing
close by; you are experienced in these things, and I am not. Will you
tell me whether it is an unalterable law in this fishery, Mr. Flask,
for an oarsman to break his own back pulling himself back-foremost into
deaths jaws?
Cant you twist that smaller? said Flask. Yes, thats the law. I
twist - Zwirn Biegung Wendung Twist verziehen, drehen, wickel
should like to see a boats crew backing water up to a whale face
foremost. Ha, ha! the whale would give them squint for squint, mind
squint - blinzeln schielen Schielen Strabismus
that!
Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement
impartial - unparteiisch, unparteilich
witnesses - (Witness) Zeugnis Zeuge, Zeugin , bezeugen, erman: Zeuge sein
of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings
capsizings - Kenterungen
in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of
consequent - folgend
bivouacks - Biwaks
common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the
occurrence - Vorfall
superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign
resign - aufgeben, resignieren, abdanken, verzichten (auf)
my life into the hands of him who steered the boat"oftentimes a fellow
who at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of
impetuousness - Ungestm
scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that
scuttling - (scuttle) ruinieren;Lftungsblech (am Auto)
stampings - (stamping) stampfen
the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be
imputed to Starbucks driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a
imputed - (impute) zuschreiben anrechnen, zurechnen, in Betracht ziehe
driving on - antreibend
squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for
his great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to
heedfulness - Aufmerksamkeit
this uncommonly prudent Starbucks boat; and finally considering in
what a devils chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking
implicated - (implicate) implikatieren
all things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make
a rough draft of my will. Queequeg, said I, come along, you shall be
rough draft - Konzept
my lawyer, executor, and legatee.
executor - Testamentsvollstrecker, Testamentsvollstreckerin
legatee - Vermchtnisnehmer
It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at
tinkering - flickend, bastelnd; (tinker) Kesselflicker, Kesselflickeri
their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world
testaments - (Testament) Testament, Letzter Wille
more fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical
fond - (to be fond of sb/sth) jemanden/etwas gerne mgen
diversion - Ablenkung, Ablenkungsmanver, Unterhaltung,
life that I had done the same thing. After the ceremony was concluded
upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled
away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as
good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a
supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might
supplementary - zustzlich
be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.
burial - Begrbnis
I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a
contentedly - zufriedene
clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.
family vault - Familiengruft
Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock,
rolling up - aufkrempelnd
frock - Kleid, Kutte
here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the
devil fetch the hindmost.
hindmost - letzte, hinterste
Who would have thought it, Flask! cried Stubb; if I had but one leg
you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole
with my timber toe. Oh! hes a wonderful old man!
I dont think it so strange, after all, on that account, said Flask.
If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing.
That would disable him; but he has one knee, and good part of the other
disable - auerstand setzen, auerstande setzen, auer Stand setze
left, you know.
I dont know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel.
kneel - knien
Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering
the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it
is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active
jeopardize - gefhrden, in Gefahr bringen
perils of the chase. So Tamerlanes soldiers often argued with tears in
their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried
invaluable - unbezahlbar, unschtzbar
into the thickest of the fight.
But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect. Considering that
with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger;
considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and
extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then
comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed
maimed - (maim) verstmmeln, verschandeln
man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? As a general thing, the
joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.
Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little of
his entering a boat in certain comparatively harmless vicissitudes of
the chase, for the sake of being near the scene of action and giving
his orders in person, yet for Captain Ahab to have a boat actually
apportioned to him as a regular headsman in the hunt"above all for
apportioned - (apportion) aufteilen proportional aufteilen
Captain Ahab to be supplied with five extra men, as that same boats
crew, he well knew that such generous conceits never entered the heads
of the owners of the Pequod. Therefore he had not solicited a boats
solicited - (solicit) anfordern, bedrngen, erbitten, nachsuchen, werben
crew from them, nor had he in any way hinted his desires on that head.
Nevertheless he had taken private measures of his own touching all that
matter. Until Cabacos published discovery, the sailors had little
foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of
foreseen - (foresee) vorhersehen, voraussehen
port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the
whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then
whaleboats - (whaleboat) Walfangboot
found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his
bestirring - (bestir) aufraffen
thole - Ruderdolle
own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even
solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is
solicitously - besorgte
skewers - (skewer) Spie
running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was
groove - Rille, Nut, gewhnlicher Gang, blicher Ablauf, bliche Routine
observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra
solicitude - Besorgnis, Besorgtheit
coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better
sheathing - Ummantelung; (sheath) Ummantelung
withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety
he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it
thigh - Oberschenkel
cleat - Klampe Stollen
is sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boats bow for bracing
the knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was
stabbing - Messerstecherei ; (stab) Messerstecherei
observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee
fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the
semi - halb.
depression - Senke Depression, Abschwung
carpenters chisel gouged out a little here and straightened it a
chisel - schummeln, meieln;Meiel, Stemmeisen, Beitel
gouged - (gouge) Grabstichel, Hohlbeitel, Hohlmeiel, Furche
straightened - (straighten) richten (gerade biegen);gerade mache
little there; all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and
curiosity at the time. But almost everybody supposed that this
preparative - vorbereitend, prparativ
the ultimate chase of Moby Dick; for he had already revealed his
intention to hunt that mortal monster in person. But such a supposition
supposition - Annahme, Supposition , Annehmen
did by no means involve the remotest suspicion as to any boats crew
being assigned to that boat.
Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned
subordinate - untergeordnet, nachgeordnet, Untergebene, Befehlsempfnger
waned - (wan) Groraumnetzwerk
away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane. Besides, now and then such
wane - abnehmen, abflauen, schwinden
unaccountable odds and ends of strange nations come up from the unknown
nooks and ash-holes of the earth to man these floating outlaws of
whalers; and the ships themselves often pick up such queer castaway
castaway - Schiffbrchiger Fallengelassener, Abgewiesener , Ausgestoener
creatures found tossing about the open sea on planks, bits of wreck,
oars, whaleboats, canoes, blown-off Japanese junks, and what not; that
blown off - (blown-off) weggeblasen
Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin
Beelzebub - Beelzebub
to chat with the captain, and it would not create any unsubduable
unsubduable - ununterdrckbar
excitement in the forecastle.
But be all this as it may, certain it is that while the subordinate
phantoms soon found their place among the crew, though still as it were
somehow distinct from them, yet that hair-turbaned Fedallah remained a
muffled mystery to the last. Whence he came in a mannerly world like
mannerly - manierlich
this, by what sort of unaccountable tie he soon evinced himself to be
linked with Ahabs peculiar fortunes; nay, so far as to have some sort
of a half-hinted influence; Heaven knows, but it might have been even
authority over him; all this none knew. But one cannot sustain an
sustain - unterhalten, aufrechterhalten, versorgen
indifferent air concerning Fedallah. He was such a creature as
civilized, domestic people in the temperate zone only see in their
temperate - gemigt zurckhaltend
dreams, and that but dimly; but the like of whom now and then glide
glide - gleiten gleiten lassen
among the unchanging Asiatic communities, especially the Oriental isles
Asiatic - asiatisch
to the east of the continent"those insulated, immemorial, unalterable
countries, which even in these modern days still preserve much of the
ghostly aboriginalness of earths primal generations, when the memory
ghostly - geisterhaft, spukhaft
aboriginalness - Eingeborenheit
of the first man was a distinct recollection, and all men his
descendants, unknowing whence he came, eyed each other as real
descendants - (descendant) Nachkomme, Nachkommin, Deszendent, Deszendentin
unknowing - unwissend, unwissenden
phantoms, and asked of the sun and the moon why they were created and
to what end; when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed
consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the
uncanonical Rabbins, indulged in mundane amours.
uncanonical - unkanonisch
Rabbins - (rabbin) Rabbiner
indulged in - nachgehangen
Days, weeks passed, and under easy sail, the ivory Pequod had slowly
swept across four several cruising-grounds; that off the Azores; off
the Cape de Verdes; on the Plate (so called), being off the mouth of
being off - wegscherend
the Rio de la Plata; and the Carrol Ground, an unstaked, watery
unstaked - ungesichert
locality, southerly from St. Helena.
locality - Ortschaft
southerly - sdlich
St. Helena - St. Helena
It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and
moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver;
scrolls - (scroll) Schriftrolle, Buchrolle, Volute, Schnrkel
and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery
seethings - (seething) wtend
silvery - silbrig, silberig, silberhell, silbern
silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen
far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow. Lit up by the moon, it
looked celestial; seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from
the sea. Fedallah first descried this jet. For of these moonlight
nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a
look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day. And yet,
though herds of whales were seen by night, not one whaleman in a
hundred would venture a lowering for them. You may think with what
emotions, then, the seamen beheld this old Oriental perched aloft at
such unusual hours; his turban and the moon, companions in one sky. But
when, after spending his uniform interval there for several successive
successive - aufeinanderfolgende, aufeinander folgend
nights without uttering a single sound; when, after all this silence,
uttering - auszusprechen; (utter) auszusprechen
his unearthly voice was heard announcing that silvery, moon-lit jet,
every reclining mariner started to his feet as if some winged spirit
had lighted in the rigging, and hailed the mortal crew. There she
blows! Had the trump of judgment blown, they could not have quivered
quivered - (quiver) zittern
more; yet still they felt no terror; rather pleasure. For though it was
a most unwonted hour, yet so impressive was the cry, and so deliriously
exciting, that almost every soul on board instinctively desired a
instinctively - unwillkrlich
lowering.
Walking the deck with quick, side-lunging strides, Ahab commanded the
tgallant sails and royals to be set, and every stunsail spread. The
best man in the ship must take the helm. Then, with every mast-head
manned, the piled-up craft rolled down before the wind. The strange,
upheaving, lifting tendency of the taffrail breeze filling the hollows
upheaving - (upheave) emporheben
of so many sails, made the buoyant, hovering deck to feel like air
buoyant - schwimmend, schwimmfhig, beschwingt, heiter, lebhaft
beneath the feet; while still she rushed along, as if two antagonistic
antagonistic - antagonistisch
influences were struggling in her"one to mount direct to heaven, the
struggling - kmpfend, ringend; (struggle) Kampf, Gefecht, sich durchbeie
other to drive yawingly to some horizontal goal. And had you watched
yawingly - ghnend
Ahabs face that night, you would have thought that in him also two
different things were warring. While his one live leg made lively
echoes along the deck, every stroke of his dead limb sounded like a
echoes - (echo) Echo, Widerhall, Tastaturecho, Bildschirmech
coffin-tap. On life and death this old man walked. But though the ship
tap - Wasserhahn;Schlacke absteche
so swiftly sped, and though from every eye, like arrows, the eager
arrows - (arrow) Richtungspfeil, Pfeil
glances shot, yet the silvery jet was no more seen that night. Every
sailor swore he saw it once, but not a second time.
This midnight-spout had almost grown a forgotten thing, when, some days
after, lo! at the same silent hour, it was again announced: again it
was descried by all; but upon making sail to overtake it, once more it
overtake - berholen aufholen
disappeared as if it had never been. And so it served us night after
night, till no one heeded it but to wonder at it. Mysteriously jetted
jetted - (jet) Dsenflugzeug, Strahl, Dse;ausstoen
into the clear moonlight, or starlight, as the case might be;
starlight - Sternenlicht
disappearing again for one whole day, or two days, or three; and
somehow seeming at every distinct repetition to be advancing still
repetition - Wiederholung, Wdh(lg). Wiederholung
further and further in our van, this solitary jet seemed for ever
alluring us on.
alluring - (allure) verlocken
Nor with the immemorial superstition of their race, and in accordance
accordance - bereinstimmung
with the preternaturalness, as it seemed, which in many things invested
preternaturalness - bernatrlichkeit
the Pequod, were there wanting some of the seamen who swore that
whenever and wherever descried; at however remote times, or in however
far apart latitudes and longitudes, that unnearable spout was cast by
unnearable - unnahbar
one self-same whale; and that whale, Moby Dick. For a time, there
reigned, too, a sense of peculiar dread at this flitting apparition, as
if it were treacherously beckoning us on and on, in order that the
treacherously - verrterisch, verrterische
beckoning - (beckon) heranwinken, herbeiwinken, zuwinken, einladen
monster might turn round upon us, and rend us at last in the remotest
rend - zerreien
and most savage seas.
These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a
wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in
which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a
blandness - Hflichkeit
devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so
wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful
wearily - mde
lonesomely - einsame, einsam
vengeful - rachschtig
errand, seemed vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.
vacating - (vacate) entleeren
urn - Urne
But, at last, when turning to the eastward, the Cape winds began
eastward - ostwrts
howling around us, and we rose and fell upon the long, troubled seas
that are there; when the ivory-tusked Pequod sharply bowed to the
blast, and gored the dark waves in her madness, till, like showers of
silver chips, the foam-flakes flew over her bulwarks; then all this
flew over - berflog
desolate vacuity of life went away, but gave place to sights more
vacuity - Leere
dismal than before.
Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither
before us; while thick in our rear flew the inscrutable sea-ravens. And
ravens - (raven) Rabe
every morning, perched on our stays, rows of these birds were seen; and
spite of our hootings, for a long time obstinately clung to the hemp,
hootings - (hoot) Gejohle
obstinately - stur
hemp - Hanf
as though they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft; a
drifting - (drift) Drift driften, treiben, irren, ziellos ziehe
uninhabited - unbewohnt
thing appointed to desolation, and therefore fit roosting-place for
roosting - (roost) Schlafplatz;schlafen
their homeless selves. And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved
homeless - obdachlos, wohnungslos
selves - (self) Selbst
the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great
mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering
remorse - Reue, Gewissensbisse
it had bred.
Cape of Good Hope, do they call ye? Rather Cape Tormentoso, as called
of yore; for long allured by the perfidious silences that before had
yore - lange zurckliegend
allured - (allure) verlocken
perfidious - perfide
silences - (silence) Stille, Schweigen , zum Schweigen bringen, Ruhe
attended us, we found ourselves launched into this tormented sea, where
guilty beings transformed into those fowls and these fish, seemed
transformed - (transform) verwandeln, transformieren, umwandeln
condemned to swim on everlastingly without any haven in store, or beat
everlastingly - immerwhrende
that black air without any horizon. But calm, snow-white, and
unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still
unvarying - gleichbleibenden, unvernderlich
feathers - (feather) Feder, Vogelfeder, befiedern
beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be
descried.
During all this blackness of the elements, Ahab, though assuming for
the time the almost continual command of the drenched and dangerous
deck, manifested the gloomiest reserve; and more seldom than ever
gloomiest - (gloomy) dster, finster, trbe, dunkel
reserve - Reservieren, Bedenken, Vorbehalt, Reserviertheit, Reserv
addressed his mates. In tempestuous times like these, after everything
above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but
passively to await the issue of the gale. Then Captain and crew become
passively - passiv
await - erwarten, harren, warten
practical fatalists. So, with his ivory leg inserted into its
fatalists - (fatalist) Fatalist, Fatalistin
accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for
hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an
occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very
congeal - erstarren gerinnen, koagulieren
eyelashes together. Meantime, the crew driven from the forward part of
eyelashes - (eyelash) Wimper, Augenwimper
the ship by the perilous seas that burstingly broke over its bows,
burstingly - berstend
stood in a line along the bulwarks in the waist; and the better to
guard against the leaping waves, each man had slipped himself into a
sort of bowline secured to the rail, in which he swung as in a loosened
bowline - Palstek, Bulin
loosened - (loosen) lsen, lockern
belt. Few or no words were spoken; and the silent ship, as if manned by
painted sailors in wax, day after day tore on through all the swift
madness and gladness of the demoniac waves. By night the same muteness
of humanity before the shrieks of the ocean prevailed; still in silence
prevailed - (prevail) erman: die Vorherrschaft erringen (''over'' ber) sich durchsetzen (''against'' gegen) vorherrschen berzeugen knnen
the men swung in the bowlines; still wordless Ahab stood up to the
bowlines - (bowline) Palstek, Bulin
wordless - wortlos
blast. Even when wearied nature seemed demanding repose he would not
demanding - (demand) Nachfrage, Bedarf, Anspruch, verlangen, bestehen
seek that repose in his hammock. Never could Starbuck forget the old
mans aspect, when one night going down into the cabin to mark how the
barometer stood, he saw him with closed eyes sitting straight in his
barometer - Barometer
floor-screwed chair; the rain and half-melted sleet of the storm from
which he had some time before emerged, still slowly dripping from the
dripping - Bratenfett ; (drip) Bratenfett
unremoved hat and coat. On the table beside him lay unrolled one of
unremoved - unentfernt
unrolled - (unroll) abrollen
those charts of tides and currents which have previously been spoken
of. His lantern swung from his tightly clenched hand. Though the body
was erect, the head was thrown back so that the closed eyes were
thrown back - zurckgeworfen
pointed towards the needle of the tell-tale that swung from a beam in
tale - Geschichte, Erzhlung, Fabel
the ceiling.*
*The cabin-compass is called the tell-tale, because without going to
the compass at the helm, the Captain, while below, can inform himself
inform - benachrichtigen, mitteilen, informieren
of the course of the ship.
Terrible old man! thought Starbuck with a shudder, sleeping in this
gale, still thou steadfastly eyest thy purpose.
South-eastward from the Cape, off the distant Crozetts, a good cruising
ground for Right Whalemen, a sail loomed ahead, the Goney (Albatross)
by name. As she slowly drew nigh, from my lofty perch at the
fore-mast-head, I had a good view of that sight so remarkable to a tyro
in the far ocean fisheries"a whaler at sea, and Long absent from home.
Long absent - Aus den Augen, aus dem Sinn.
As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the
fullers - (fuller) prallerem
skeleton of a stranded walrus. All down her sides, this spectral
spectral - spektral, Spektral-
appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust, while all
traced - (trace) Zeichen, Spur
reddened - (redden) errten
her spars and her rigging were like the thick branches of trees furred
over with hoar-frost. Only her lower sails were set. A wild sight it
hoar - (hoar frost) Raufrost, Raureif
was to see her long-bearded look-outs at those three mast-heads. They
seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment
raiment - Kleidung
that had survived nearly four years of cruising. Standing in iron hoops
nailed to the mast, they swayed and swung over a fathomless sea; and
fathomless - unergrndlich
though, when the ship slowly glided close under our stern, we six men
in the air came so nigh to each other that we might almost have leaped
from the mast-heads of one ship to those of the other; yet, those
forlorn-looking fishermen, mildly eyeing us as they passed, said not
one word to our own look-outs, while the quarter-deck hail was being
heard from below.
Ship ahoy! Have ye seen the White Whale?
But as the strange captain, leaning over the pallid bulwarks, was in
the act of putting his trumpet to his mouth, it somehow fell from his
hand into the sea; and the wind now rising amain, he in vain strove to
make himself heard without it. Meantime his ship was still increasing
the distance between. While in various silent ways the seamen of the
Pequod were evincing their observance of this ominous incident at the
evincing - (evince) bekunden, zeigen, zum Vorschein bringe
observance - Beachtung
first mere mention of the White Whales name to another ship, Ahab for
a moment paused; it almost seemed as though he would have lowered a
boat to board the stranger, had not the threatening wind forbade. But
taking advantage of his windward position, he again seized his trumpet,
and knowing by her aspect that the stranger vessel was a Nantucketer
and shortly bound home, he loudly hailed"Ahoy there! This is the
Pequod, bound round the world! Tell them to address all future letters
to the Pacific ocean! and this time three years, if I am not at home,
tell them to address them to ""
At that moment the two wakes were fairly crossed, and instantly, then,
in accordance with their singular ways, shoals of small harmless fish,
that for some days before had been placidly swimming by our side,
placidly - sanften, friedlichen, sanft
darted away with what seemed shuddering fins, and ranged themselves
fore and aft with the strangers flanks. Though in the course of his
continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar
voyagings - Reisen
sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously
capriciously - kaprizis
carry meanings.
Swim away from me, do ye? murmured Ahab, gazing over into the water.
There seemed but little in the words, but the tone conveyed more of
deep helpless sadness than the insane old man had ever before evinced.
helpless - hilflos
But turning to the steersman, who thus far had been holding the ship in
the wind to diminish her headway, he cried out in his old lion
diminish - vermindern, verkleinern, reduzieren, verringern, schrumpfe
voice,"Up helm! Keep her off round the world!
Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings;
inspire - inspirieren beatmen, einhauchen, einflen, checkbegeistern
but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through
whereto - wohin
numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that
we left behind secure, were all the time before us.
Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for
ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange
than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise
Cyclades - Kykladen
in the voyage. But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in
tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or other, swims
before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they
either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.
mazes - (maze) Irrgarten
midway - Mitte, Mittelstrae
whelmed - (whelm) berschtten
The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had
ostensible - anscheinend, augenscheinlich, offenbar, scheinbar
spoken was this: the wind and sea betokened storms. But even had this
not been the case, he would not after all, perhaps, have boarded
her"judging by his subsequent conduct on similar occasions"if so it had
been that, by the process of hailing, he had obtained a negative answer
negative answer - Ablehnung
to the question he put. For, as it eventually turned out, he cared not
to consort, even for five minutes, with any stranger captain, except he
consort - Gemahl, Gemahlin
could contribute some of that information he so absorbingly sought. But
contribute - beisteuern, beitragen
absorbingly - aufsaugende
all this might remain inadequately estimated, were not something said
inadequately - mangelhafte, unangemessen
estimated - (estimate) Schtzung, Abschtzung, Kostenvoranschlag, abschtzen
here of the peculiar usages of whaling-vessels when meeting each other
in foreign seas, and especially on a common cruising-ground.
If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the
Barrens - (barren) steril, unfruchtbar, drr, karg, ausgetrocknet
equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering
casually - gelegentlich
each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of
inhospitable - unwirtlich, ungastlich
them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment
salutation - Begrung Titel
to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting down for a while and
interchange - Autobahnkreuz
resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the
illimitable Pine Barrens and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling
illimitable - unbeschrnkt, unermesslich
vessels descrying each other at the ends of the earth"off lone
Fannings Island, or the far away Kings Mills; how much more natural,
I say, that under such circumstances these ships should not only
interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and
hails - (hail) jdm. zujubeln;(Hail to thee!) Wohl dir!, Sei gegrt!
sociable contact. And especially would this seem to be a matter of
course, in the case of vessels owned in one seaport, and whose
captains, officers, and not a few of the men are personally known to
each other; and consequently, have all sorts of dear domestic things to
talk about.
For the long absent ship, the outward-bounder, perhaps, has letters on
bounder - Schurke
board; at any rate, she will be sure to let her have some papers of a
date a year or two later than the last one on her blurred and
blurred - (blur) verschwimmen, verwischen, verschmieren, unscharf mache
thumb-worn files. And in return for that courtesy, the outward-bound
ship would receive the latest whaling intelligence from the
cruising-ground to which she may be destined, a thing of the utmost
importance to her. And in degree, all this will hold true concerning
whaling vessels crossing each others track on the cruising-ground
itself, even though they are equally long absent from home. For one of
them may have received a transfer of letters from some third, and now
transfer - bertragen versetzen bringen bertragung, Versetzun
far remote vessel; and some of those letters may be for the people of
the ship she now meets. Besides, they would exchange the whaling news,
and have an agreeable chat. For not only would they meet with all the
agreeable - angenehm vertrglich, liebenswrdig, gefllig
sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar
congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared
congenialities - (congeniality) Gleichgesinntheit, Wesensgleichheit, hnlichkeit
privations and perils.
privations - (privation) Entbehrung, Einschrnkung, Mangel, Armut, Not
Nor would difference of country make any very essential difference;
that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case
with Americans and English. Though, to be sure, from the small number
of English whalers, such meetings do not very often occur, and when
meetings - (meeting) Versammlung, Treffen, Sitzung
they do occur there is too apt to be a sort of shyness between them;
shyness - Schchternheit, Scheu, Scheuheit
for your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not
Englishman - Englnder
Yankee - Ypsilon Ami, Yankee
fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself. Besides, the English
whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the
American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his
nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant. But where this
nondescript - unbestimmbar, unauffllig, unbestimmt, unscheinbar
provincialisms - (provincialism) Provinzialismus, Regionalismus
peasant - arm
superiority in the English whalemen does really consist, it would be
hard to say, seeing that the Yankees in one day, collectively, kill
collectively - kollektives, insgesamt
more whales than all the English, collectively, in ten years. But this
is a harmless little foible in the English whale-hunters, which the
foible - Schwche, Eigenheit, Marotte, Spleen
Nantucketer does not take much to heart; probably, because he knows
that he has a few foibles himself.
foibles - (foible) Schwche, Eigenheit, Marotte, Spleen
So, then, we see that of all ships separately sailing the sea, the
whalers have most reason to be sociable"and they are so. Whereas, some
merchant ships crossing each others wake in the mid-Atlantic, will
oftentimes pass on without so much as a single word of recognition,
mutually cutting each other on the high seas, like a brace of dandies
dandies - (dandy) Dandy, Pinkel, prima, schn, gut
in Broadway; and all the time indulging, perhaps, in finical criticism
indulging - (indulge) nachgeben, erliegen, frnen, htscheln, verwhnen
finical - anspruchsvoll, pedantisch, pingelig, fein
criticism - Kritik, Tadel
upon each others rig. As for Men-of-War, when they chance to meet at
sea, they first go through such a string of silly bowings and
bowings - (bowing) (bow) sich vorbeugen
scrapings, such a ducking of ensigns, that there does not seem to be
scrapings - (scraping) schabend, kratzend
ducking - untertauchend, grinse
ensigns - (ensign) Fhnrich Fahne
much right-down hearty good-will and brotherly love about it at all. As
brotherly - brderlich, geschwisterlich
touching Slave-ships meeting, why, they are in such a prodigious hurry,
they run away from each other as soon as possible. And as for Pirates,
when they chance to cross each others cross-bones, the first hail
is"How many skulls?"the same way that whalers hail"How many
barrels? And that question once answered, pirates straightway steer
apart, for they are infernal villains on both sides, and dont like to
villains - (villain) Schurke, Gauner, Halunke, Bsewicht, am
see overmuch of each others villanous likenesses.
overmuch - allzu viel, allzuviel
likenesses - (likeness) Gestalt Abbild
But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious, hospitable, sociable,
unostentatious - schlicht, unaufdringlich
free-and-easy whaler! What does the whaler do when she meets another
whaler in any sort of decent weather? She has a _Gam_, a thing so
utterly unknown to all other ships that they never heard of the name
even; and if by chance they should hear of it, they only grin at it,
grin at - angrinsen
and repeat gamesome stuff about spouters and blubber-boilers, and
boilers - (boiler) Dampfkessel, Kocher, Erhitzer;Badeofen
such like pretty exclamations. Why it is that all Merchant-seamen, and
exclamations - (exclamation) Ausruf Exklamation
also all Pirates and Man-of-Wars men, and Slave-ship sailors, cherish
such a scornful feeling towards Whale-ships; this is a question it
would be hard to answer. Because, in the case of pirates, say, I should
like to know whether that profession of theirs has any peculiar glory
about it. It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at
elevation - Hebung, Erheben, Anhebung, Anheben
the gallows. And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion,
he has no proper foundation for his superior altitude. Hence, I
foundation - Grndung Grundlage Fundament, Stiftung, Foundation
conclude, that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman,
boasting - Prahlen, Prahlerei, Angeben, Angabe ; (boast) Prahlen, Prahlere
in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to stand on.
But what is a _Gam?_ You might wear out your index-finger running up
index - Index, Verzeichnis, indizieren
and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word. Dr.
Dr - Dr.
Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Websters ark does not
erudition - Belesenheit, Gelehrtheit, Bildung, Gelehrsamkeit
hold it. Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years
been in constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees.
Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the
Lexicon. With that view, let me learnedly define it.
Lexicon - Lexikon, Wortschatz
learnedly - gelehrt
GAM. NOUN"_A social meeting of two_ (_or more_) _Whaleships, generally
NOUN - Dingwort, Gegenstandswort , Namenwort, Nennwort, Nomen
Whaleships - Walfangschiffe
on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange
visits by boats crews: the two captains remaining, for the time, on
board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other._
There is another little item about Gamming which must not be forgotten
here. All professions have their own little peculiarities of detail; so
has the whale fishery. In a pirate, man-of-war, or slave ship, when the
captain is rowed anywhere in his boat, he always sits in the stern
rowed - (row) Reihe, Zeile
sheets on a comfortable, sometimes cushioned seat there, and often
cushioned - (cushion) Kissen Puffer, Polster, Bande, polstern, abdmpfe
steers himself with a pretty little milliners tiller decorated with
steers - (steer) steuern, fhren, lenken;junger Ochse, Rind
gay cords and ribbons. But the whale-boat has no seat astern, no sofa
ribbons - (ribbon) Band Farbband
sofa - Sofa, Couch
of that sort whatever, and no tiller at all. High times indeed, if
whaling captains were wheeled about the water on castors like gouty old
gouty - Gicht
aldermen in patent chairs. And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never
aldermen - (alderman) Stadtrat
admits of any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete
effeminacy - Weichlichkeit, Verweiblichung
boats crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or
harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the
occasion, and the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to
his visit all standing like a pine tree. And often you will notice that
being conscious of the eyes of the whole visible world resting on him
from the sides of the two ships, this standing captain is all alive to
the importance of sustaining his dignity by maintaining his legs. Nor
maintaining - (maintain) unterhalten, warten, beibehalten, aufrechterhalten
is this any very easy matter; for in his rear is the immense projecting
steering oar hitting him now and then in the small of his back, the
after-oar reciprocating by rapping his knees in front. He is thus
reciprocating - (reciprocate) etwas austauschen
rapping - (rap) pochen, schlagen;Geplapper
completely wedged before and behind, and can only expand himself
wedged - (wedge) verkeilen, festklemmen, mit einem Keil spalten;keile
sideways by settling down on his stretched legs; but a sudden, violent
settling down - einnistend
pitch of the boat will often go far to topple him, because length of
topple - strzen, umkippen, umfallen, wackeln
foundation is nothing without corresponding breadth. Merely make a
spread angle of two poles, and you cannot stand them up. Then, again,
it would never do in plain sight of the worlds riveted eyes, it would
never do, I say, for this straddling captain to be seen steadying
straddling - (straddle) grtschen, spreizen, breitbeinig stehe
steadying - (steady) stetig stabilisieren
himself the slightest particle by catching hold of anything with his
hands; indeed, as token of his entire, buoyant self-command, he
generally carries his hands in his trowsers pockets; but perhaps being
generally very large, heavy hands, he carries them there for ballast.
ballast - Ballast Bettung, Schotter, beschottern
Nevertheless there have occurred instances, well authenticated ones
authenticated - (authenticate) authentifizieren, ausweisen, beglaubigen
too, where the captain has been known for an uncommonly critical moment
or two, in a sudden squall say"to seize hold of the nearest oarsmans
hair, and hold on there like grim death.
(_As told at the Golden Inn._)
The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is
much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you meet
more travellers than in any other part.
It was not very long after speaking the Goney that another
homeward-bound whaleman, the Town-Ho,* was encountered. She was manned
almost wholly by Polynesians. In the short gam that ensued she gave us
Polynesians - (Polynesian) polynesisch Polynesier
strong news of Moby Dick. To some the general interest in the White
Whale was now wildly heightened by a circumstance of the Town-Hos
story, which seemed obscurely to involve with the whale a certain
obscurely - dunkel
wondrous, inverted visitation of one of those so called judgments of
visitation - Umgangsrecht
judgments - (Judgment) Urteil Urteilsvermgen Beurteilung Richtspruc
God which at times are said to overtake some men. This latter
circumstance, with its own particular accompaniments, forming what may
be called the secret part of the tragedy about to be narrated, never
narrated - (narrate) erzhlen berichten
reached the ears of Captain Ahab or his mates. For that secret part of
the story was unknown to the captain of the Town-Ho himself. It was the
private property of three confederate white seamen of that ship, one of
confederate - vereinigen, verbnden;Bundesgenosse
whom, it seems, communicated it to Tashtego with Romish injunctions of
injunctions - (injunction) Verfgung, Verfgen, Anordnen, Auferlegen
secrecy, but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and
secrecy - Geheimhaltung Geheimniskrmerei, Geheimnistuerei
rambled - (ramble) Abschweifen umherziehen spazieren, bummeln, schlendern
revealed so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could
not well withhold the rest. Nevertheless, so potent an influence did
withhold - zurckhalten, einbehalten, vorenthalten
this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full
knowledge of it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so, were
they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret among
governed - (govern) regieren, steuern, regulieren, lenken, regeln
themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequods main-mast.
transpired - (transpire) sich ereignen, geschehen;schwitzen
abaft - achtern, hintern, achteraus
Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as
Interweaving - (interweave) verweben, verflechten, durchweben, einweben
thread - Faden, Garn, Zwirn, Nhgarn
publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now
publicly - ffentlich
proceed to put on lasting record.
*The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head,
still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.
terrapin - Wasserschildkrte, Sumpfschildkrte
For my humors sake, I shall preserve the style in which I once
narrated it at Lima, to a lounging circle of my Spanish friends, one
saints eve, smoking upon the thick-gilt tiled piazza of the Golden
gilt - vergoldet, vergoldete, vergolden; (gild) vergoldet, vergoldet
Inn. Of those fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were
cavaliers - (Cavalier) nachlssig bermtig hochmtig Kavallerist Kavalier
on the closer terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they
interluding - (interlude) Zwischenspiel
occasionally put, and which are duly answered at the time.
Some two years prior to my first learning the events which I am about
rehearsing to you, gentlemen, the Town-Ho, Sperm Whaler of Nantucket,
rehearsing - probend; (rehears) probend
was cruising in your Pacific here, not very many days sail eastward
from the eaves of this good Golden Inn. She was somewhere to the
eaves - (eave) Traufe
northward of the Line. One morning upon handling the pumps, according
handling - Fahrverhalten, Warenumschlag, Umschlag; (handle) Fahrverhalte
to daily usage, it was observed that she made more water in her hold
than common. They supposed a sword-fish had stabbed her, gentlemen. But
stabbed - (stab) Stich (Messer-);erstechen
the captain, having some unusual reason for believing that rare good
luck awaited him in those latitudes; and therefore being very averse to
awaited - (await) erwarten, harren, warten
averse - abgeneigt
quit them, and the leak not being then considered at all dangerous,
though, indeed, they could not find it after searching the hold as low
down as was possible in rather heavy weather, the ship still continued
her cruisings, the mariners working at the pumps at wide and easy
cruisings - (cruising) kreuzend
intervals; but no good luck came; more days went by, and not only was
the leak yet undiscovered, but it sensibly increased. So much so, that
sensibly - vernnftig
now taking some alarm, the captain, making all sail, stood away for the
nearest harbor among the islands, there to have his hull hove out and
hove - heben, hochheben
repaired.
Though no small passage was before her, yet, if the commonest chance
favoured, he did not at all fear that his ship would founder by the
way, because his pumps were of the best, and being periodically
relieved at them, those six-and-thirty men of his could easily keep the
ship free; never mind if the leak should double on her. In truth, well
nigh the whole of this passage being attended by very prosperous
prosperous - blhend, florierend, erfolgreich, wohlhabend, gnstig
breezes, the Town-Ho had all but certainly arrived in perfect safety at
her port without the occurrence of the least fatality, had it not been
for the brutal overbearing of Radney, the mate, a Vineyarder, and the
brutal - brutal
bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from
provoked - (provoke) provozieren, aufreizen, aufwhlen, aufhetzen
Steelkilt - Stahlkilt
Buffalo.
Lakeman!"Buffalo! Pray, what is a Lakeman, and where is Buffalo?
said Don Sebastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass.
On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but"I crave your
crave - sehnen
courtesy"may be, you shall soon hear further of all that. Now,
gentlemen, in square-sail brigs and three-masted ships, well-nigh as
masted - (mast) Mast
large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far
Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet
been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly
agrarian - Agrar-, agrarisch
connected with the open ocean. For in their interflowing aggregate,
those grand fresh-water seas of ours,"Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and
Huron - Hurone
Superior, and Michigan,"possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many
expansiveness - die Ausdehnung
of the oceans noblest traits; with many of its rimmed varieties of
noblest - (noble) Adeliger, Adliger, Adelige, Adlige
traits - (trait) Eigenschaft, Zug
rimmed - (rim) Felge, Rand, Radkranz
races and of climes. They contain round archipelagoes of romantic
isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by
Polynesian - polynesisch Polynesier
shored - (shore) Ufer, Sttzbalken, Kste, Strebe
two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long
maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East,
approaches - (approach) sich nhern, nahekommen, hnlich sei
territorial - territorial
dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by
frowned - (frown) die Stirn runzeln
batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they
craggy - felsig
have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they
thunderings - (thundering) donnernd
victories - (victory) Sieg
yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash
from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by
peltry - Pelzwerk
wigwams - (wigwam) Wigwam
flanked - (flank) in der Flanke angreifen flankieren Flanke
ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried
unentered - nicht eingetreten
lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild
genealogies - (genealogy) Abstammung Ahnentafel Ahnenforschung, Genealogie
harboring - (harbor) Zufluchtsort, Hafen
Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give
Afric - Afrikanisch
robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and
Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the
full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer,
rigged - (rig) ausrsten
cruiser - Kreuzer Streifenwagen
and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as
Borean - Boreanisch
dismasting - (dismast) entmastet
blasts - (blast) schlagen, vernichten, sprengen;mit Wucht schieen;B
direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks
lash - Peitsche, Wimper;anbinden
shipwrecks - (shipwreck) Schiffswrack Schiffbruch
are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full
many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew. Thus, gentlemen,
though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean
inlander - Inselbewohner; (inland) binnenlndisch, binnen
nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any. And for Radney,
though in his infancy he may have laid him down on the lone Nantucket
beach, to nurse at his maternal sea; though in after life he had long
followed our austere Atlantic and your contemplative Pacific; yet was
austere - schlicht, gengsam
he quite as vengeful and full of social quarrel as the backwoods
quarrel - sich streiten, zanken
backwoods - (backwood) Hinterholz
seaman, fresh from the latitudes of buck-horn handled Bowie-knives. Yet
buck - Dollar, Bock (Tier), Rammler;bocken
was this Nantucketer a man with some good-hearted traits; and this
Lakeman, a mariner, who though a sort of devil indeed, might yet by
inflexible firmness, only tempered by that common decency of human
inflexible - inflexibel, unflexibel, unbeugsam
firmness - Strke, Festigkeit
tempered - (temper) Gereiztheit, Laune, Temperament, Anlassen, Ausheize
decency - Anstand
recognition which is the meanest slaves right; thus treated, this
Steelkilt had long been retained harmless and docile. At all events, he
docile - fgsam, gefgig, steuerbar, handhabbar
had proved so thus far; but Radney was doomed and made mad, and
doomed - (doom) Bann Urteil, Verbannung, Strafe, Untergang, To
Steelkilt"but, gentlemen, you shall hear.
It was not more than a day or two at the furthest after pointing her
prow for her island haven, that the Town-Hos leak seemed again
increasing, but only so as to require an hour or more at the pumps
every day. You must know that in a settled and civilized ocean like our
Atlantic, for example, some skippers think little of pumping their
skippers - (skipper) Schiffer, Schiffskapitn
pumping - (pump) Pumps;Pumpe;aufpumpen, pumpen
whole way across it; though of a still, sleepy night, should the
officer of the deck happen to forget his duty in that respect, the
probability would be that he and his shipmates would never again
remember it, on account of all hands gently subsiding to the bottom.
subsiding - (subside) einsinken abklingen, nachlassen, abschwellen
Nor in the solitary and savage seas far from you to the westward,
gentlemen, is it altogether unusual for ships to keep clanging at their
clanging - klirrend; (clang) klirrend
pump-handles in full chorus even for a voyage of considerable length;
that is, if it lie along a tolerably accessible coast, or if any other
accessible - zugnglich barrierefrei
reasonable retreat is afforded them. It is only when a leaky vessel is
in some very out of the way part of those waters, some really landless
latitude, that her captain begins to feel a little anxious.
Much this way had it been with the Town-Ho; so when her leak was found
gaining once more, there was in truth some small concern manifested by
several of her company; especially by Radney the mate. He commanded the
upper sails to be well hoisted, sheeted home anew, and every way
hoisted - (hoist) hochziehen, hissen, Hebezeug
expanded to the breeze. Now this Radney, I suppose, was as little of a
coward, and as little inclined to any sort of nervous apprehensiveness
touching his own person as any fearless, unthinking creature on land or
unthinking - (unthink) nicht nachdenken
on sea that you can conveniently imagine, gentlemen. Therefore when he
conveniently - bequem, bequemerweise, fglich, passenderweise
betrayed this solicitude about the safety of the ship, some of the
seamen declared that it was only on account of his being a part owner
in her. So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was
on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they
slily - schlau
stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear
overflowed - (overflow) berflieen, berlaufen, checkberflute
rippling - (ripple) sich kruseln, Wellen schlage
water; clear as any mountain spring, gentlemen"that bubbling from the
pumps ran across the deck, and poured itself out in steady spouts at
the lee scupper-holes.
scupper - Speigatt
Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional
conventional - konventionell, herkmmlich
world of ours"watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command
over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his
fellow men - (fellow-men) Mitmenschen
superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he
manhood - Menschentum, Menschsein, Menschheit, Mnnlichkeit, Mannsein
conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a
conceives - (conceive) konzipieren, erdenken, ersinnen, empfangen, verstehen
bitterness - Bitterkeit, Bitternis
chance he will pull down and pulverize that subalterns tower, and make
pull down - niederreien, herunterreien
pulverize - zerreiben, pulverisieren, vermahlen
a little heap of dust of it. Be this conceit of mine as it may,
heap - Menschenmenge, Masse, Haufen, Haufe, Heap
gentlemen, at all events Steelkilt was a tall and noble animal with a
head like a Roman, and a flowing golden beard like the tasseled
tasseled - (tassel) Quaste
housings of your last viceroys snorting charger; and a brain, and a
snorting - schnauben, prusten; (snort) Schnauben schnupfen, sniffen
heart, and a soul in him, gentlemen, which had made Steelkilt
Charlemagne, had he been born son to Charlemagnes father. But Radney,
the mate, was ugly as a mule; yet as hardy, as stubborn, as malicious.
He did not love Steelkilt, and Steelkilt knew it.
Espying the mate drawing near as he was toiling at the pump with the
rest, the Lakeman affected not to notice him, but unawed, went on with
unawed - ungesehen
his gay banterings.
banterings - (bantering) neckend, neckisch (neckend)
Aye, aye, my merry lads, its a lively leak this; hold a cannikin,
one of ye, and lets have a taste. By the Lord, its worth bottling! I
tell ye what, men, old Rads investment must go for it! he had best cut
investment - Investition, Anlage
away his part of the hull and tow it home. The fact is, boys, that
sword-fish only began the job; hes come back again with a gang of
gang - Clique, Bande, Rotte, Gruppe;abgleichen
ship-carpenters, saw-fish, and file-fish, and what not; and the whole
posse of em are now hard at work cutting and slashing at the bottom;
posse - Trupp Suchtrupp Bande
slashing - schlitzend; (slash) schlitzend
making improvements, I suppose. If old Rad were here now, Id tell him
Rad - krass, irre, bombig
to jump overboard and scatter em. Theyre playing the devil with his
estate, I can tell him. But hes a simple old soul,"Rad, and a beauty
estate - Stand Gut, Landgut
too. Boys, they say the rest of his property is invested in
looking-glasses. I wonder if hed give a poor devil like me the model
of his nose.
Damn your eyes! whats that pump stopping for? roared Radney,
pretending not to have heard the sailors talk. Thunder away at it!
Aye, aye, sir, said Steelkilt, merry as a cricket. Lively, boys,
lively, now! And with that the pump clanged like fifty fire-engines;
clanged - (clang) schallen
the men tossed their hats off to it, and ere long that peculiar gasping
gasping - keuchend; (gasp) keuchen japsen, prusten, Atemzug, Luftholen
of the lungs was heard which denotes the fullest tension of lifes
denotes - (denote) markieren, kennzeichnen, bezeichnen, anzeigen
tension - Spannung
utmost energies.
Quitting the pump at last, with the rest of his band, the Lakeman went
forward all panting, and sat himself down on the windlass; his face
panting - hecheln, keucheln, nach Luft schnappen; (pant) hecheln, keuchel
fiery red, his eyes bloodshot, and wiping the profuse sweat from his
wiping - (wipe) lschen, abstreifen, abwischen, aufreibe
profuse - bermig, enorm, reichlich, ppig
brow. Now what cozening fiend it was, gentlemen, that possessed Radney
cozening - (cozen) (arch) Gewlbe, Bogen, Furcken
fiend - Dmon, Dmonin, bser Geist, Teufel, Monster
to meddle with such a man in that corporeally exasperated state, I know
meddle - einmischen
not; but so it happened. Intolerably striding along the deck, the mate
commanded him to get a broom and sweep down the planks, and also a
shovel, and remove some offensive matters consequent upon allowing a
shovel - Schaufel, Schppe, schaufeln, schippen
offensive - beleidigend offensiv Offensive, Angriff
pig to run at large.
Now, gentlemen, sweeping a ships deck at sea is a piece of household
work which in all times but raging gales is regularly attended to every
evening; it has been known to be done in the case of ships actually
foundering at the time. Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of
inflexibility - Unbeugsamkeit
sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom
instinctive - instinktiv
neatness - Nettigkeit, Reinlichkeit
would not willingly drown without first washing their faces. But in all
vessels this broom business is the prescriptive province of the boys,
prescriptive - verordnend
province - Provinz, Land
if boys there be aboard. Besides, it was the stronger men in the
Town-Ho that had been divided into gangs, taking turns at the pumps;
gangs - (gang) Clique, Bande, Rotte, Gruppe;abgleichen
and being the most athletic seaman of them all, Steelkilt had been
most athletic - athletischste
regularly assigned captain of one of the gangs; consequently he should
have been freed from any trivial business not connected with truly
trivial - unbedeutend, bedeutungslos, belanglos, geringfgig, trivial
nautical duties, such being the case with his comrades. I mention all
these particulars so that you may understand exactly how this affair
stood between the two men.
But there was more than this: the order about the shovel was almost as
order about - herumkommandieren
plainly meant to sting and insult Steelkilt, as though Radney had spat
in his face. Any man who has gone sailor in a whale-ship will
understand this; and all this and doubtless much more, the Lakeman
fully comprehended when the mate uttered his command. But as he sat
still for a moment, and as he steadfastly looked into the mates
malignant eye and perceived the stacks of powder-casks heaped up in him
malignant - bsartig, malign
stacks - (stack) Stapel Stapelspeicher stapeln
heaped up - geschttet
and the slow-match silently burning along towards them; as he
slow match - (slow-match) Lunte , Zndschnur
instinctively saw all this, that strange forbearance and unwillingness
forbearance - Langmut, Geduld, Duldsamkeit, Nachsicht, Unterlassung
unwillingness - Unwilligkeit
to stir up the deeper passionateness in any already ireful being"a
passionateness - Leidenschaftlichkeit
ireful - wtend
repugnance most felt, when felt at all, by really valiant men even when
aggrieved"this nameless phantom feeling, gentlemen, stole over
aggrieved - (aggrieve) krnken, verletzen
Steelkilt.
Therefore, in his ordinary tone, only a little broken by the bodily
exhaustion he was temporarily in, he answered him saying that sweeping
exhaustion - Erschpfung, Ermattung
the deck was not his business, and he would not do it. And then,
without at all alluding to the shovel, he pointed to three lads as the
alluding - (allude) andeuten, erwhnen
customary sweepers; who, not being billeted at the pumps, had done
sweepers - (sweeper) Raumpfleger, Putzfrau, Putzmann, Kaminkehrer, Libero
billeted - (billet) (Stahl-) Knppel
little or nothing all day. To this, Radney replied with an oath, in a
most domineering and outrageous manner unconditionally reiterating his
domineering - (domineer) tyrannisieren
reiterating - (reiterate) reiterieren
command; meanwhile advancing upon the still seated Lakeman, with an
uplifted coopers club hammer which he had snatched from a cask near
snatched from - entrissen
by.
Heated and irritated as he was by his spasmodic toil at the pumps, for
irritated - (irritate) reizen, irritieren, rgern
spasmodic - krampfhaft, sprunghaft
all his first nameless feeling of forbearance the sweating Steelkilt
sweating - Schwitzen; (sweat) Schwitzen
could but ill brook this bearing in the mate; but somehow still
brook - Bach
smothering the conflagration within him, without speaking he remained
smothering - (smother) ersticken
conflagration - Feuersbrunst, Grobrand, Flchenbrand
doggedly rooted to his seat, till at last the incensed Radney shook the
doggedly - verbissene
incensed - (incense) Weihrauch, Ruchwerk ''(archaic)'', empren, erzrne
hammer within a few inches of his face, furiously commanding him to do
his bidding.
Steelkilt rose, and slowly retreating round the windlass, steadily
followed by the mate with his menacing hammer, deliberately repeated
menacing - (menace) Landplage, androhen
his intention not to obey. Seeing, however, that his forbearance had
not the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with
intimation - Andeutung
his twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it
infatuated - (infatuate) betren
was to no purpose. And in this way the two went once slowly round the
windlass; when, resolved at last no longer to retreat, bethinking him
that he had now forborne as much as comported with his humor, the
forborne - (forbear) Vorfahr
comported - (comport) verhalten, benehmen
Lakeman paused on the hatches and thus spoke to the officer:
Mr. Radney, I will not obey you. Take that hammer away, or look to
yourself. But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where
the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of
his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
Retreating not the thousandth part of an inch; stabbing him in the eye
thousandth part - tausendstel
with the unflinching poniard of his glance, Steelkilt, clenching his
unflinching - unnachgiebig, entschlossen
poniard - Dolch
clenching - (clench) ballen
right hand behind him and creepingly drawing it back, told his
creepingly - schleichend
persecutor that if the hammer but grazed his cheek he (Steelkilt) would
persecutor - Verfolger
murder him. But, gentlemen, the fool had been branded for the slaughter
slaughter - Schlachtung, rituelles Schlachten, Schchten, Schchtung
by the gods. Immediately the hammer touched the cheek; the next instant
the lower jaw of the mate was stove in his head; he fell on the hatch
spouting blood like a whale.
Ere the cry could go aft Steelkilt was shaking one of the backstays
backstays - (backstay) Backstag
leading far aloft to where two of his comrades were standing their
mastheads. They were both Canallers.
mastheads - (masthead) Mastspitze Mitarbeiterverzeichnis Titel
Canallers! cried Don Pedro. We have seen many whale-ships in our
harbours, but never heard of your Canallers. Pardon: who and what are
harbours - (harbour) Hafen, Zufluchtsort
they?
Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal.
Canal - Kanal, Gang
boatmen - (boatman) Ruderer
You must have heard of it.
Nay, Senor; hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary
Senor - Senor
land, we know but little of your vigorous North.
Aye? Well then, Don, refill my cup. Your chichas very fine; and ere
proceeding further I will tell ye what our Canallers are; for such
information may throw side-light upon my story.
For three hundred and sixty miles, gentlemen, through the entire
breadth of the state of New York; through numerous populous cities and
populous - volkreich, bevlkerungsreich, bevlkert, hufig gesproche
most thriving villages; through long, dismal, uninhabited swamps, and
thriving - florierend, pulsierend; (thrive) gedeihen, prosperiere
swamps - (swamp) Sumpf, Moor, berfluten, berschwemmen
affluent, cultivated fields, unrivalled for fertility; by billiard-room
affluent - Reicher, Geldsack , reichlich, wohlhabend, begtert
cultivated - (cultivate) kultivieren, anbauen, pflegen, bestellen
unrivalled - unerreicht
fertility - Fruchtbarkeit
billiard - Billiarde;Billard
and bar-room; through the holy-of-holies of great forests; on Roman
holies - (holy) heilig
arches over Indian rivers; through sun and shade; by happy hearts or
broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk
counties; and especially, by rows of snow-white chapels, whose spires
counties - (county) Grafschaft Landkreis, Bezirk,
chapels - (chapel) Kapelle
stand almost like milestones, flows one continual stream of Venetianly
milestones - (milestone) Kilometerstein, Meilenstein, Postmeilensule
Venetianly - Venezianisch
corrupt and often lawless life. Theres your true Ashantee, gentlemen;
there howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you;
under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronising lee of churches.
patronising - (patronise) beschtzen, bevormunden, beschirmen
For by some curious fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan
freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so
freebooters - (freebooter) Freibeuter
encamp - lagern
sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.
vicinities - (vicinity) Nhe Nachbarschaft, Umgebung
Is that a friar passing? said Don Pedro, looking downwards into the
crowded plazza, with humorous concern.
Well for our northern friend, Dame Isabellas Inquisition wanes in
Dame - Dame
Inquisition - Inquisition, Glaubensgericht, Ketzergericht
wanes - (wane) abnehmen, abflauen, schwinden
Lima, laughed Don Sebastian. Proceed, Senor.
A moment! Pardon! cried another of the company. In the name of all
us Limeese, I but desire to express to you, sir sailor, that we have by
no means overlooked your delicacy in not substituting present Lima for
distant Venice in your corrupt comparison. Oh! do not bow and look
surprised; you know the proverb all along this coast"Corrupt as Lima.
It but bears out your saying, too; churches more plentiful than
plentiful - massenhaft, reichlich
billiard-tables, and for ever open"and Corrupt as Lima. So, too,
Venice; I have been there; the holy city of the blessed evangelist, St.
Mark!"St. Dominic, purge it! Your cup! Thanks: here I refill; now, you
purge - Subern, Suberung, Reinigen, Putzen
pour out again.
pour out - ausschtten
Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would
depicted - (depict) darstellen, beschreiben, abbilden
make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is
picturesquely - malerisch, pittoresk, malerische
he. Like Mark Antony, for days and days along his green-turfed, flowery
turfed - (turf) Rasen Grassode
Nile, he indolently floats, openly toying with his red-cheeked
Cleopatra, ripening his apricot thigh upon the sunny deck. But ashore,
ripening - Reifung ; (ripen) reifen ausreifen
apricot - Aprikose, Marille , aprikosenfarben, apricot
all this effeminacy is dashed. The brigandish guise which the Canaller
brigandish - ruberisch
so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his
gaily - unbekmmert
ribboned - (ribbon) Band Farbband
grand features. A terror to the smiling innocence of the villages
through which he floats; his swart visage and bold swagger are not
visage - Gesicht
swagger - schwadronieren
unshunned in cities. Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received
unshunned - nicht gemieden werden
vagabond - Vagabund, Landstreicher, Landstreicherin
good turns from one of these Canallers; I thank him heartily; would
fain be not ungrateful; but it is often one of the prime redeeming
ungrateful - undankbar
redeeming - (redeem) zurckkaufen loslsen, freikaufen, befreien, einlse
qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm
to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one. In
wealthy - wohlhabend, reich
sum, gentlemen, what the wildness of this canal life is, is
emphatically evinced by this; that our wild whale-fishery contains so
emphatically - ausdrckliche
many of its most finished graduates, and that scarce any race of
mankind, except Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling
captains. Nor does it at all diminish the curiousness of this matter,
curiousness - Neugierde
that to many thousands of our rural boys and young men born along its
rural - lndlich, drflich
line, the probationary life of the Grand Canal furnishes the sole
probationary - bedingt freigelassen
transition between quietly reaping in a Christian corn-field, and
reaping - (reap) ernten, schneiden, mhen, sensen
recklessly ploughing the waters of the most barbaric seas.
I see! I see! impetuously exclaimed Don Pedro, spilling his chicha
spilling - umschttend, verschttend; (spill) verschtte
upon his silvery ruffles. No need to travel! The worlds one Lima. I
ruffles - (ruffle) Rsche, Krause
had thought, now, that at your temperate North the generations were
cold and holy as the hills."But the story.
I left off, gentlemen, where the Lakeman shook the backstay. Hardly
backstay - Backstag
had he done so, when he was surrounded by the three junior mates and
junior - jnger
the four harpooneers, who all crowded him to the deck. But sliding down
the ropes like baleful comets, the two Canallers rushed into the
baleful - verderblich, unheilvoll
comets - (comet) Komet
uproar, and sought to drag their man out of it towards the forecastle.
uproar - Aufruhr
Others of the sailors joined with them in this attempt, and a twisted
turmoil ensued; while standing out of harms way, the valiant captain
turmoil - Aufruhr, Tumult, Unruhe, Unordnung
danced up and down with a whale-pike, calling upon his officers to
manhandle that atrocious scoundrel, and smoke him along to the
manhandle - misshandeln
atrocious - grauenhaft
scoundrel - Schurke, Gauner, Gaunerin, Halunke
quarter-deck. At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of
the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to
prick out the object of his resentment. But Steelkilt and his
prick out - stechen, lochen, ausstechen, auspflanzen
desperadoes were too much for them all; they succeeded in gaining the
desperadoes - (desperado) Schurke
forecastle deck, where, hastily slewing about three or four large casks
hastily - hastig
slewing - (slew) sich drehen, sich herumdrehen;Menge
in a line with the windlass, these sea-Parisians entrenched themselves
Parisians - (Parisian) Pariser, Pariserin, pariserisch
entrenched - (entrench) graben, ausheben, eingraben, verschanze
behind the barricade.
barricade - Barrikade verbarrikadieren
Come out of that, ye pirates! roared the captain, now menacing them
with a pistol in each hand, just brought to him by the steward. Come
out of that, ye cut-throats!
Steelkilt leaped on the barricade, and striding up and down there,
defied the worst the pistols could do; but gave the captain to
defied - (defy) herausfordern, die Stirn bieten, trotzen, widersetze
pistols - (pistol) Pistole, Faustfeuerwaffe, Zndpistole
understand distinctly, that his (Steelkilts) death would be the signal
for a murderous mutiny on the part of all hands. Fearing in his heart
lest this might prove but too true, the captain a little desisted, but
desisted - (desist) aufhren
still commanded the insurgents instantly to return to their duty.
insurgents - (insurgent) aufstndisch, aufrhrerisch, Aufstndische
Will you promise not to touch us, if we do? demanded their
ringleader.
ringleader - Anfhrer, Anfhrerin, Rdelsfhrer, Rdelsfhrerin
Turn to! turn to!"I make no promise;"to your duty! Do you want to
sink the ship, by knocking off at a time like this? Turn to! and he
knocking off - abschlagend
once more raised a pistol.
Sink the ship? cried Steelkilt. Aye, let her sink. Not a man of us
turns to, unless you swear not to raise a rope-yarn against us. What
say ye, men? turning to his comrades. A fierce cheer was their
response.
The Lakeman now patrolled the barricade, all the while keeping his eye
patrolled - (patrol) Patrouille, Streife
on the Captain, and jerking out such sentences as these:"Its not our
fault; we didnt want it; I told him to take his hammer away; it was
fault - Fehler Schuld Fehler, Charakterschwche, Verfehlun
boys business; he might have known me before this; I told him not to
prick the buffalo; I believe I have broken a finger here against his
prick - spitzer Gegenstand, Stich, Stachel;Schwanz;prickeln, einsteche
cursed jaw; aint those mincing knives down in the forecastle there,
mincing - zerhackend, affektiert; (mince) Hackfleisch, Gehacktes, Hac
men? look to those handspikes, my hearties. Captain, by God, look to
yourself; say the word; dont be a fool; forget it all; we are ready to
turn to; treat us decently, and were your men; but we wont be
decently - annehmbar
flogged.
flogged - (flog) peitschen
Turn to! I make no promises, turn to, I say!
Look ye, now, cried the Lakeman, flinging out his arm towards him,
there are a few of us here (and I am one of them) who have shipped for
the cruise, dye see; now as you well know, sir, we can claim our
discharge as soon as the anchor is down; so we dont want a row; its
discharge - entladen entlassen Ablauf Befreiung Entladung Entlassun
not our interest; we want to be peaceable; we are ready to work, but we
wont be flogged.
Turn to! roared the Captain.
Steelkilt glanced round him a moment, and then said:"I tell you what
it is now, Captain, rather than kill ye, and be hung for such a shabby
rascal, we wont lift a hand against ye unless ye attack us; but till
you say the word about not flogging us, we dont do a hands turn.
Down into the forecastle then, down with ye, Ill keep ye there till
yere sick of it. Down ye go.
Shall we? cried the ringleader to his men. Most of them were against
it; but at length, in obedience to Steelkilt, they preceded him down
preceded - (precede) vorangehen, vorausgehen
into their dark den, growlingly disappearing, like bears into a cave.
growlingly - knurrend
As the Lakemans bare head was just level with the planks, the Captain
and his posse leaped the barricade, and rapidly drawing over the slide
of the scuttle, planted their group of hands upon it, and loudly called
for the steward to bring the heavy brass padlock belonging to the
brass - Messingschild
padlock - Vorhngeschloss mit einem Vorhngeschloss verschlieen
companionway. Then opening the slide a little, the Captain whispered
companionway - Niedergang
something down the crack, closed it, and turned the key upon them"ten
in number"leaving on deck some twenty or more, who thus far had
remained neutral.
All night a wide-awake watch was kept by all the officers, forward and
aft, especially about the forecastle scuttle and fore hatchway; at
hatchway - Ladeluke
which last place it was feared the insurgents might emerge, after
breaking through the bulkhead below. But the hours of darkness passed
bulkhead - Schott
in peace; the men who still remained at their duty toiling hard at the
pumps, whose clinking and clanking at intervals through the dreary
clinking - (clink) tnen, klirren, klingen
clanking - klirrend; (clank) klirren, klppern, aneinanderschlagen
night dismally resounded through the ship.
resounded - (resound) widerhallen
At sunrise the Captain went forward, and knocking on the deck,
summoned the prisoners to work; but with a yell they refused. Water was
yell - kreischen, schreien
refused - (refuse) Mll;abweisen, verweigern, abschlagen, ablehnen
then lowered down to them, and a couple of handfuls of biscuit were
tossed after it; when again turning the key upon them and pocketing it,
the Captain returned to the quarter-deck. Twice every day for three
days this was repeated; but on the fourth morning a confused wrangling,
wrangling - (wrangle) streiten; (wrangle) treiben rangeln, streite
and then a scuffling was heard, as the customary summons was delivered;
scuffling - schlurften, raufend; (scuffle) schlurften, raufend
summons - Vorladung; (summon) Vorladung
and suddenly four men burst up from the forecastle, saying they were
ready to turn to. The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet,
fetid - stinkend
closeness - Nhe
famishing - (famish) verhungern, hungern
united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained
retribution - Vergeltung
them to surrender at discretion. Emboldened by this, the Captain
surrender - kapitulieren, ergeben
at discretion - nach Belieben
reiterated his demand to the rest, but Steelkilt shouted up to him a
reiterated - (reiterate) reiterieren
terrific hint to stop his babbling and betake himself where he
babbling - schwafelnd, labernd, stammelnd; (babble) brabbeln, murmel
betake - begeben sich
belonged. On the fifth morning three others of the mutineers bolted up
mutineers - (mutineer) Meuterer, Meuterin
into the air from the desperate arms below that sought to restrain
them. Only three were left.
Better turn to, now? said the Captain with a heartless jeer.
jeer - (to jeer) spotten, verhhnen, sticheln
Shut us up again, will ye! cried Steelkilt.
Oh certainly, said the Captain, and the key clicked.
It was at this point, gentlemen, that enraged by the defection of
defection - Abtrnnigkeit, Treuebruch, berlaufen (to the other party)
seven of his former associates, and stung by the mocking voice that had
associates - (Associate) Weggefhrte vereinige
stung - (sting) Stachel, brennender Schmerz, Stich;schmerzlich treffen
mocking - spttisch; (moc) spttisch
last hailed him, and maddened by his long entombment in a place as
entombment - Verschttung, Begrbnis
black as the bowels of despair; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to
the two Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst
out of their hole at the next summoning of the garrison; and armed with
garrison - Standort, Garnison
their keen mincing knives (long, crescentic, heavy implements with a
crescentic - halbmondfrmig
implements - (implement) Werkzeug, Gert, Arbeitsgert, vollziehe
handle at each end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail; and if
amuck - Amok laufen
by any devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship. For
devilishness - Schrecklichkeit
desperation - Verzweiflung
himself, he would do this, he said, whether they joined him or not.
That was the last night he should spend in that den. But the scheme met
with no opposition on the part of the other two; they swore they were
opposition - Opposition
ready for that, or for any other mad thing, for anything in short but a
surrender. And what was more, they each insisted upon being the first
man on deck, when the time to make the rush should come. But to this
their leader as fiercely objected, reserving that priority for himself;
reserving - (reserve) Reservieren, Bedenken, Vorbehalt, Reservierthei
in the matter; and both of them could not be first, for the ladder
would but admit one man at a time. And here, gentlemen, the foul play
of these miscreants must come out.
miscreants - (miscreant) gewissenloser Mensch, beltter, Schurk
Upon hearing the frantic project of their leader, each in his own
separate soul had suddenly lighted, it would seem, upon the same piece
of treachery, namely: to be foremost in breaking out, in order to be
treachery - Verrat
the first of the three, though the last of the ten, to surrender; and
thereby secure whatever small chance of pardon such conduct might
merit. But when Steelkilt made known his determination still to lead
made known - bekannt gemacht, bekanntgemacht [alt]
determination - Bestimmung Determination Bestimmtheit Feststellung Entschluss Unterscheidung
them to the last, they in some way, by some subtle chemistry of
villany, mixed their before secret treacheries together; and when their
villany - Schurkerei
treacheries - (treachery) Verrat
leader fell into a doze, verbally opened their souls to each other in
three sentences; and bound the sleeper with cords, and gagged him with
gagged - (gag) Knebel Maulkorberlass Witz, Gag, wrgen, knebel
cords; and shrieked out for the Captain at midnight.
shrieked - (shriek) Kreischen
Thinking murder at hand, and smelling in the dark for the blood, he
and all his armed mates and harpooneers rushed for the forecastle. In a
few minutes the scuttle was opened, and, bound hand and foot, the still
struggling ringleader was shoved up into the air by his perfidious
allies, who at once claimed the honor of securing a man who had been
allies - (ally) vereinigen, verbinden;Bndnispartner, Verbndete
fully ripe for murder. But all these were collared, and dragged along
collared - (collar) Kragen Halskette Halsband Ring
the deck like dead cattle; and, side by side, were seized up into the
mizzen rigging, like three quarters of meat, and there they hung till
morning. Damn ye, cried the Captain, pacing to and fro before them,
the vultures would not touch ye, ye villains!
vultures - (vulture) Geier, Geierin, Aasgeier
At sunrise he summoned all hands; and separating those who had
rebelled from those who had taken no part in the mutiny, he told the
rebelled - (rebel) Rebell;auflehnen, aufbumen
former that he had a good mind to flog them all round"thought, upon the
flog - peitschen
whole, he would do so"he ought to"justice demanded it; but for the
present, considering their timely surrender, he would let them go with
timely - zeitgerecht, fristgerecht, zur rechten Zeit, rechtzeitig
a reprimand, which he accordingly administered in the vernacular.
reprimand - Verweis ;jdn. rgen
administered - (administer) darreichen, verabreichen, verwalten, administrieren
vernacular - Nationalsprache Umgangssprache, Vernakularsprach
But as for you, ye carrion rogues, turning to the three men in the
rogues - (rogue) Schurke Lmmel, Strolch, Vagabund, Landstreiche
rigging"for you, I mean to mince ye up for the try-pots; and, seizing
mince - Hackfleisch, Gehacktes, Hack, Hackepeter
a rope, he applied it with all his might to the backs of the two
traitors, till they yelled no more, but lifelessly hung their heads
traitors - (traitor) Verrter, Verrterin, Vaterlandsverrte
lifelessly - leblose
sideways, as the two crucified thieves are drawn.
crucified - (crucify) kreuzigen
My wrist is sprained with ye! he cried, at last; but there is still
rope enough left for you, my fine bantam, that wouldnt give up. Take
bantam - Zwerghuhn
that gag from his mouth, and let us hear what he can say for himself.
gag - Knebel Maulkorberlass Witz, Gag, wrgen, knebel
For a moment the exhausted mutineer made a tremulous motion of his
tremulous - zitternd ngstlich, furchtsam
cramped jaws, and then painfully twisting round his head, said in a
cramped - (cramp) Krampf krampfen
sort of hiss, What I say is this"and mind it well"if you flog me, I
murder you!
Say ye so? then see how ye frighten me"and the Captain drew off with
the rope to strike.
Best not, hissed the Lakeman.
But I must,"and the rope was once more drawn back for the stroke.
Steelkilt here hissed out something, inaudible to all but the Captain;
inaudible - unhrbar, nicht zu hren
who, to the amazement of all hands, started back, paced the deck
rapidly two or three times, and then suddenly throwing down his rope,
throwing down - hinwerfend
said, I wont do it"let him go"cut him down: dye hear?
But as the junior mates were hurrying to execute the order, a pale
execute - hinrichten ausfhren, durchfhren
man, with a bandaged head, arrested them"Radney the chief mate. Ever
bandaged - (bandage) Verband bandagieren
since the blow, he had lain in his berth; but that morning, hearing the
tumult on the deck, he had crept out, and thus far had watched the
crept - (creep) kriechen schleichen Knilch, Widerling
whole scene. Such was the state of his mouth, that he could hardly
speak; but mumbling something about _his_ being willing and able to do
what the captain dared not attempt, he snatched the rope and advanced
snatched - (snatch) klauen, stehlen, Reien
to his pinioned foe.
pinioned - (pinion) Getrieberad, Ritzel
You are a coward! hissed the Lakeman.
So I am, but take that. The mate was in the very act of striking,
when another hiss stayed his uplifted arm. He paused: and then pausing
no more, made good his word, spite of Steelkilts threat, whatever that
might have been. The three men were then cut down, all hands were
turned to, and, sullenly worked by the moody seamen, the iron pumps
sullenly - mrrisch, mrrischen
clanged as before.
Just after dark that day, when one watch had retired below, a clamor
clamor - Geschrei, Gezeter, Schreierei, Krach, Lrm
was heard in the forecastle; and the two trembling traitors running up,
besieged the cabin door, saying they durst not consort with the crew.
besieged - (besiege) belagern, einkesseln, umzingeln, umstellen
durst - (dare) sich getrauen, wagen, jemanden herausfordern
Entreaties, cuffs, and kicks could not drive them back, so at their own
Entreaties - (entreaty) Flehen
cuffs - (cuff) Manschette;Hosenaufschlag, Umschlag (an der Hose)
instance they were put down in the ships run for salvation. Still, no
sign of mutiny reappeared among the rest. On the contrary, it seemed,
reappeared - (reappear) wieder erscheinen, wiederauftreten
that mainly at Steelkilts instigation, they had resolved to maintain
instigation - Anstiftung
the strictest peacefulness, obey all orders to the last, and, when the
peacefulness - Friedlichkeit
ship reached port, desert her in a body. But in order to insure the
insure - versichern
speediest end to the voyage, they all agreed to another thing"namely,
speediest - (speedy) schnell
not to sing out for whales, in case any should be discovered. For,
spite of her leak, and spite of all her other perils, the Town-Ho still
maintained her mast-heads, and her captain was just as willing to lower
for a fish that moment, as on the day his craft first struck the
cruising ground; and Radney the mate was quite as ready to change his
berth for a boat, and with his bandaged mouth seek to gag in death the
vital jaw of the whale.
But though the Lakeman had induced the seamen to adopt this sort of
adopt - adoptieren annehmen, bernehmen
passiveness in their conduct, he kept his own counsel (at least till
passiveness - Passivitten
counsel - Beratung Rat, Ratschlag, Anwalt, Anwltin
all was over) concerning his own proper and private revenge upon the
man who had stung him in the ventricles of his heart. He was in Radney
ventricles - (ventricle) Herzkammer
the chief mates watch; and as if the infatuated man sought to run more
than half way to meet his doom, after the scene at the rigging, he
insisted, against the express counsel of the captain, upon resuming the
head of his watch at night. Upon this, and one or two other
circumstances, Steelkilt systematically built the plan of his revenge.
During the night, Radney had an unseamanlike way of sitting on the
unseamanlike - unseemannisch
bulwarks of the quarter-deck, and leaning his arm upon the gunwale of
the boat which was hoisted up there, a little above the ships side. In
this attitude, it was well known, he sometimes dozed. There was a
dozed - (doze) Halbschlaf
considerable vacancy between the boat and the ship, and down between
vacancy - Vakanz, freie Stelle, freies Zimmer, freier Platz
this was the sea. Steelkilt calculated his time, and found that his
next trick at the helm would come round at two oclock, in the morning
of the third day from that in which he had been betrayed. At his
leisure, he employed the interval in braiding something very carefully
braiding - flechtend; (braid) flechtend
in his watches below.
What are you making there? said a shipmate.
What do you think? what does it look like?
Like a lanyard for your bag; but its an odd one, seems to me.
lanyard - Schlsselband Abzugsleine
Yes, rather oddish, said the Lakeman, holding it at arms length
oddish - Seltsam
before him; but I think it will answer. Shipmate, I havent enough
twine,"have you any?
But there was none in the forecastle.
Then I must get some from old Rad; and he rose to go aft.
You dont mean to go a begging to _him!_ said a sailor.
begging - bittend, bettelnd; (beg) bittend, bettelnd
Why not? Do you think he wont do me a turn, when its to help
himself in the end, shipmate? and going to the mate, he looked at him
quietly, and asked him for some twine to mend his hammock. It was given
him"neither twine nor lanyard were seen again; but the next night an
iron ball, closely netted, partly rolled from the pocket of the
Lakemans monkey jacket, as he was tucking the coat into his hammock
tucking - (tuck) zurckstreifen, einklemmen;Bundfalte
for a pillow. Twenty-four hours after, his trick at the silent
helm"nigh to the man who was apt to doze over the grave always ready
dug to the seamans hand"that fatal hour was then to come; and in the
fore-ordaining soul of Steelkilt, the mate was already stark and
ordaining - (ordain) festlegen weihen
stretched as a corpse, with his forehead crushed in.
corpse - Leiche, Leichnam
But, gentlemen, a fool saved the would-be murderer from the bloody
murderer - Mrder, Mrderin
deed he had planned. Yet complete revenge he had, and without being the
avenger. For by a mysterious fatality, Heaven itself seemed to step in
avenger - Rcher, Rcherin
to take out of his hands into its own the damning thing he would have
damning - (damn) verdammen, verfluchen, chten, verschreien, verteufel
done.
It was just between daybreak and sunrise of the morning of the second
daybreak - Tagesanbruch
day, when they were washing down the decks, that a stupid Teneriffe
Teneriffe - Teneriffa
man, drawing water in the main-chains, all at once shouted out, There
she rolls! there she rolls! Jesu, what a whale! It was Moby Dick.
Moby Dick! cried Don Sebastian; St. Dominic! Sir sailor, but do
whales have christenings? Whom call you Moby Dick?
christenings - (christening) Taufe
A very white, and famous, and most deadly immortal monster, Don;"but
that would be too long a story.
How? how? cried all the young Spaniards, crowding.
Spaniards - (Spaniard) Spanier, Spanierin
Nay, Dons, Dons"nay, nay! I cannot rehearse that now. Let me get more
rehearse - wiederholen erzhlen ben, proben
into the air, Sirs.
The chicha! the chicha! cried Don Pedro; our vigorous friend looks
faint;"fill up his empty glass!
No need, gentlemen; one moment, and I proceed."Now, gentlemen, so
suddenly perceiving the snowy whale within fifty yards of the
perceiving - wahrnehmend, merkend; (perceive) wahrnehmen
ship"forgetful of the compact among the crew"in the excitement of the
forgetful - vergesslich
compact - zusammengedrngt
moment, the Teneriffe man had instinctively and involuntarily lifted
his voice for the monster, though for some little time past it had been
plainly beheld from the three sullen mast-heads. All was now a phrensy.
The White Whale"the White Whale! was the cry from captain, mates, and
harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to
undeterred - unentmutigt
rumours - (rumour) Sage, Gercht;munkeln
capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed
askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass,
askance - skeptisch, ablehnend, schief, seitwrts, quer
that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a
spangling - schmckend; (spangle) Flitter, Flitterblttchen, Glanzplttche
living opal in the blue morning sea. Gentlemen, a strange fatality
opal - Opal
pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out
pervades - (pervade) durchziehen
before the world itself was charted. The mutineer was the bowsman of
bowsman - Bogenschtze
the mate, and when fast to a fish, it was his duty to sit next him,
while Radney stood up with his lance in the prow, and haul in or
haul - ziehen, schleppen, transportieren, befder
slacken the line, at the word of command. Moreover, when the four boats
slacken - entspannen
were lowered, the mates got the start; and none howled more fiercely
with delight than did Steelkilt, as he strained at his oar. After a
strained - (strain) Spannung, starke Inanspruchnahme, Zug;anstrenge
stiff pull, their harpooneer got fast, and, spear in hand, Radney
sprang to the bow. He was always a furious man, it seems, in a boat.
And now his bandaged cry was, to beach him on the whales topmost back.
topmost - oberst
Nothing loath, his bowsman hauled him up and up, through a blinding
blinding - blendend, grell; (blind) blind, unkritisch, ignorant, Jalousie
foam that blent two whitenesses together; till of a sudden the boat
blent - (blend) Mischung mischen, mixen, vermischen
whitenesses - (whiteness) Weie, Weiheit, Weisein
struck as against a sunken ledge, and keeling over, spilled out the
keeling - fahrend; (keel) fahrend
standing mate. That instant, as he fell on the whales slippery back,
the boat righted, and was dashed aside by the swell, while Radney was
tossed over into the sea, on the other flank of the whale. He struck
out through the spray, and, for an instant, was dimly seen through that
veil, wildly seeking to remove himself from the eye of Moby Dick. But
the whale rushed round in a sudden maelstrom; seized the swimmer
swimmer - Schwimmer, Schwimmerin
between his jaws; and rearing high up with him, plunged headlong again,
and went down.
Meantime, at the first tap of the boats bottom, the Lakeman had
slackened the line, so as to drop astern from the whirlpool; calmly
slackened - (slacken) entspannen
whirlpool - Wirbel, Strudel, Stromschnelle
looking on, he thought his own thoughts. But a sudden, terrific,
downward jerking of the boat, quickly brought his knife to the line. He
cut it; and the whale was free. But, at some distance, Moby Dick rose
again, with some tatters of Radneys red woollen shirt, caught in the
teeth that had destroyed him. All four boats gave chase again; but the
whale eluded them, and finally wholly disappeared.
In good time, the Town-Ho reached her port"a savage, solitary
place"where no civilized creature resided. There, headed by the
resided - (resid) Rckstand
Lakeman, all but five or six of the foremastmen deliberately deserted
foremastmen - (foremastman) Vormann
among the palms; eventually, as it turned out, seizing a large double
war-canoe of the savages, and setting sail for some other harbor.
The ships company being reduced to but a handful, the captain called
upon the Islanders to assist him in the laborious business of heaving
laborious - arbeitsintensiv
down the ship to stop the leak. But to such unresting vigilance over
unresting - (unrest) Unruhe
their dangerous allies was this small band of whites necessitated, both
necessitated - (necessitate) erfordern, zwingen
by night and by day, and so extreme was the hard work they underwent,
underwent - (undergo) durchmachen
that upon the vessel being ready again for sea, they were in such a
weakened condition that the captain durst not put off with them in so
weakened - (weaken) schwchen, abschwchen, schwcheln
heavy a vessel. After taking counsel with his officers, he anchored the
ship as far off shore as possible; loaded and ran out his two cannon
from the bows; stacked his muskets on the poop; and warning the
stacked - (stack) Stapel Stapelspeicher stapeln
poop - Schei (coll.);kacken (vulg.);auspumpen
Islanders not to approach the ship at their peril, took one man with
him, and setting the sail of his best whale-boat, steered straight
before the wind for Tahiti, five hundred miles distant, to procure a
procure - beschaffen, erwerben, besorgen, aufbringen
reinforcement to his crew.
reinforcement - Verstrkung
On the fourth day of the sail, a large canoe was descried, which
seemed to have touched at a low isle of corals. He steered away from
corals - (coral) Koralle
it; but the savage craft bore down on him; and soon the voice of
Steelkilt hailed him to heave to, or he would run him under water. The
heave to - beidrehen
captain presented a pistol. With one foot on each prow of the yoked
war-canoes, the Lakeman laughed him to scorn; assuring him that if the
assuring - (assure) sichern versichern
pistol so much as clicked in the lock, he would bury him in bubbles and
foam.
What do you want of me? cried the captain.
Where are you bound? and for what are you bound? demanded Steelkilt;
no lies.
I am bound to Tahiti for more men.
Very good. Let me board you a moment"I come in peace. With that he
leaped from the canoe, swam to the boat; and climbing the gunwale,
stood face to face with the captain.
Cross your arms, sir; throw back your head. Now, repeat after me. As
throw back - zurckwerfen
soon as Steelkilt leaves me, I swear to beach this boat on yonder
island, and remain there six days. If I do not, may lightnings strike
me!
A pretty scholar, laughed the Lakeman. Adios, Senor! and leaping
into the sea, he swam back to his comrades.
Watching the boat till it was fairly beached, and drawn up to the
roots of the cocoa-nut trees, Steelkilt made sail again, and in due
roots - (root) wurzeln;Haupt, Wurzel, Nullstelle [math.]
cocoa - Kakao
time arrived at Tahiti, his own place of destination. There, luck
place of destination - Bestimmungsort
befriended him; two ships were about to sail for France, and were
befriended - (befriend) behilflich sein, freundlich sein
providentially in want of precisely that number of men which the sailor
providentially - glckliche
headed. They embarked; and so for ever got the start of their former
captain, had he been at all minded to work them legal retribution.
Some ten days after the French ships sailed, the whale-boat arrived,
and the captain was forced to enlist some of the more civilized
more civilized - zivilisiertere
Tahitians, who had been somewhat used to the sea. Chartering a small
Tahitians - (Tahitian) Tahitianer, Tahitier, Tahitianerin, Tahitieri
Chartering - (charter) Charta
native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all
right there, again resumed his cruisings.
Where Steelkilt now is, gentlemen, none know; but upon the island of
Nantucket, the widow of Radney still turns to the sea which refuses to
refuses - (refuse) Mll;abweisen, verweigern, abschlagen, ablehnen
give up its dead; still in dreams sees the awful white whale that
destroyed him. * * * *
Are you through? said Don Sebastian, quietly.
I am, Don.
Then I entreat you, tell me if to the best of your own convictions,
entreat - ersuchen
convictions - (conviction) berzeugung Verurteilung
this your story is in substance really true? It is so passing
wonderful! Did you get it from an unquestionable source? Bear with me
if I seem to press.
Also bear with all of us, sir sailor; for we all join in Don
Sebastians suit, cried the company, with exceeding interest.
Is there a copy of the Holy Evangelists in the Golden Inn,
Evangelists - (Evangelist) Evangelist, Evangelistin
gentlemen?
Nay, said Don Sebastian; but I know a worthy priest near by, who
will quickly procure one for me. I go for it; but are you well advised?
this may grow too serious.
Will you be so good as to bring the priest also, Don?
Though there are no Auto-da-Fés in Lima now, said one of the company
Auto - Personenkraftwagen (PKW), Personenwagen
to another; I fear our sailor friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy.
archiepiscopacy - Erzbistum
Let us withdraw more out of the moonlight. I see no need of this.
withdraw - annullieren, entziehen, abziehen, ausscheiden
Excuse me for running after you, Don Sebastian; but may I also beg
that you will be particular in procuring the largest sized Evangelists
procuring - (procure) beschaffen, erwerben, besorgen, aufbringen
you can.
* * * * * *
This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists, said Don
Sebastian, gravely, returning with a tall and solemn figure.
gravely - ernst, ernstlich, schwerlich
Let me remove my hat. Now, venerable priest, further into the light,
and hold the Holy Book before me that I may touch it.
So help me Heaven, and on my honor the story I have told ye,
gentlemen, is in substance and its great items, true. I know it to be
true; it happened on this ball; I trod the ship; I knew the crew; I
have seen and talked with Steelkilt since the death of Radney.
I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas,
something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the
eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored
alongside the whale-ship so that he can be fairly stepped upon there.
It may be worth while, therefore, previously to advert to those curious
advert - Zeitungsanzeige;hinweisen
imaginary portraits of him which even down to the present day
confidently challenge the faith of the landsman. It is time to set the
world right in this matter, by proving such pictures of the whale all
wrong.
It may be that the primal source of all those pictorial delusions will
pictorial - bildhaft piktorialistisch Illustrierte
delusions - (delusion) Tuschung, Irrefhrung, Wahn, Wahnvorstellung
be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For
Hindoo - Hindu
ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble
inventive - einfallsreich, originell, schpferisch
unscrupulous - skrupellos
panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields,
panellings - Vertfelungen
temples - (temple) Tempel, Schlfe, Bethaus, Synagoge
pedestals - (pedestal) Sockel, Podest, Piedestal, Postament
shields - (shield) Schild, abgeschirmt, Abschirmung;abschirmen
medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of
medallions - (medallion) Medaillon
chain-armor like Saladins, and a helmeted head like St. Georges; ever
since then has something of the same sort of license prevailed, not
only in most popular pictures of the whale, but in many scientific
presentations of him.
Now, by all odds, the most ancient extant portrait anyways purporting
purporting - (purport) vorgeben, unterstellen, beabsichtigen
to be the whales, is to be found in the famous cavern-pagoda of
cavern - groe Kaverne
Elephanta, in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless
Brahmins - (Brahmin) Brahmane
sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits,
pursuits - (pursuit) Verfolgung
every conceivable avocation of man, were prefigured ages before any of
avocation - Nebenbeschftigung
prefigured - (prefigure) hindeuten auf, prophezeien, ankndigen
them actually came into being. No wonder then, that in some sort our
noble profession of whaling should have been there shadowed forth. The
shadowed - (shadow) Schatten beschatten
Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall,
depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly
depicting - (depict) darstellen, beschreiben, abbilden
known as the Matse Avatar. But though this sculpture is half man and
Matse - Matze
Avatar - Avatar, Avatara, Herabkunft, Inkarnation, Verkrperung
half whale, so as only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small
section of him is all wrong. It looks more like the tapering tail of an
anaconda, than the broad palms of the true whales majestic flukes.
But go to the old Galleries, and look now at a great Christian
painters portrait of this fish; for he succeeds no better than the
antediluvian Hindoo. It is Guidos picture of Perseus rescuing
antediluvian - vorsintflutlich, altfrnkisch
rescuing - (rescue) retten Rettung
Andromeda from the sea-monster or whale. Where did Guido get the model
of such a strange creature as that? Nor does Hogarth, in painting the
same scene in his own Perseus Descending, make out one whit better.
The huge corpulence of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the
corpulence - Korpulenz
Hogarthian - Hogarthianisch
undulates - (undulate) wogen, schwingen, wellenfrmig bewegen, ondulieren
surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water. It has a sort of howdah on
its back, and its distended tusked mouth into which the billows are
rolling, might be taken for the Traitors Gate leading from the Thames
by water into the Tower. Then, there are the Prodromus whales of old
Scotch Sibbald, and Jonahs whale, as depicted in the prints of old
Bibles and the cuts of old primers. What shall be said of these? As for
Bibles - (Bible) Bibel
primers - (primer) Primer (Geschtz), Einfhrung, Fibel
the book-binders whale winding like a vine-stalk round the stock of a
vine - Kletterpflanze, Ranke
stalk - jdn. belauern;Stiel, Stengel
descending anchor"as stamped and gilded on the backs and title-pages of
many books both old and new"that is a very picturesque but purely
fabulous creature, imitated, I take it, from the like figures on
imitated - (imitate) imitieren
antique vases. Though universally denominated a dolphin, I nevertheless
universally - allbekannt, allgemein
call this book-binders fish an attempt at a whale; because it was so
intended when the device was first introduced. It was introduced by an
old Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the
publisher - Herausgeber, Herausgeberin, Verlag
Revival of Learning; and in those days, and even down to a
Revival - Wiederbelebung Erweckung
comparatively late period, dolphins were popularly supposed to be a
dolphins - (dolphin) Delphin
species of the Leviathan.
In the vignettes and other embellishments of some ancient books you
vignettes - (vignette) Vignette, bildhafte Darstellung, Szenerie
embellishments - (embellishment) Ausschmckung, Beschnigung, Fioritur, Gerank
will at times meet with very curious touches at the whale, where all
manner of spouts, jets deau, hot springs and cold, Saratoga and
Baden-Baden, come bubbling up from his unexhausted brain. In the
unexhausted - unerschpft
title-page of the original edition of the Advancement of Learning you
title-page - (title page) Titelblatt , Haupttitelseite
original edition - Originalausgabe
will find some curious whales.
But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those
unprofessional - laienhaft
pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations,
delineations - (delineation) Skizze
by those who know. In old Harriss collection of voyages there are some
plates of whales extracted from a Dutch book of voyages, A.D. 1671,
entitled A Whaling Voyage to Spitzbergen in the ship Jonas in the
Whale, Peter Peterson of Friesland, master. In one of those plates the
Friesland - Friesland
whales, like great rafts of logs, are represented lying among
rafts - (raft) Flo, Holzflo
ice-isles, with white bears running over their living backs. In another
running over - berfahrend
plate, the prodigious blunder is made of representing the whale with
perpendicular flukes.
Then again, there is an imposing quarto, written by one Captain
Colnett, a Post Captain in the English navy, entitled A Voyage round
Cape Horn into the South Seas, for the purpose of extending the
Spermaceti Whale Fisheries. In this book is an outline purporting to
be a Picture of a Physeter or Spermaceti whale, drawn by scale from
scale - Skala, Kesselsteine, Schuppe;ersteigen, erklettern, vergrer
one killed on the coast of Mexico, August, 1793, and hoisted on deck.
I doubt not the captain had this veracious picture taken for the
veracious - wahrheitsgetreu
benefit of his marines. To mention but one thing about it, let me say
that it has an eye which applied, according to the accompanying scale,
to a full grown sperm whale, would make the eye of that whale a
bow-window some five feet long. Ah, my gallant captain, why did ye not
give us Jonah looking out of that eye!
Nor are the most conscientious compilations of Natural History for the
compilations - (compilation) Zusammenstellung Sammelwerk, Sammlun
benefit of the young and tender, free from the same heinousness of
tender - empfindlich, Ausschreibung, Angebot, zart;andienen, anbieten
heinousness - Schwrze
mistake. Look at that popular work Goldsmiths Animated Nature. In
the abridged London edition of 1807, there are plates of an alleged
edition - Ausgabe Auflage
whale and a narwhale. I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this
inelegant - unelegant, geschmacklos
unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow; and, as for the
unsightly - unansehnlich, hsslich
amputated - (amputate) amputieren
narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this
amaze - verwundern
nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine upon
hippogriff - Hippogreif
genuine - echt, original, genuin
any intelligent public of schoolboys.
Then, again, in 1825, Bernard Germain, Count de Lacépède, a great
naturalist, published a scientific systemized whale book, wherein are
systemized - (systemize) systematisieren
several pictures of the different species of the Leviathan. All these
are not only incorrect, but the picture of the Mysticetus or Greenland
incorrect - inkorrekt
whale (that is to say, the Right whale), even Scoresby, a long
experienced man as touching that species, declares not to have its
counterpart in nature.
But the placing of the cap-sheaf to all this blundering business was
sheaf - Garbe Bndel
blundering - pfuschend; (blunder) Patzer, Schnitzer, Fehler, Fehlgriff
reserved for the scientific Frederick Cuvier, brother to the famous
Baron. In 1836, he published a Natural History of Whales, in which he
gives what he calls a picture of the Sperm Whale. Before showing that
picture to any Nantucketer, you had best provide for your summary
retreat from Nantucket. In a word, Frederick Cuviers Sperm Whale is
not a Sperm Whale, but a squash. Of course, he never had the benefit of
squash - zerquetschen
a whaling voyage (such men seldom have), but whence he derived that
picture, who can tell? Perhaps he got it as his scientific predecessor
predecessor - Vorgnger, Vorgngerin, Vorlufer
in the same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that
abortions - (abortion) Fehlgeburt Abtreibung, Schwangerschaftsabbruch
is, from a Chinese drawing. And what sort of lively lads with the
pencil those Chinese are, many queer cups and saucers inform us.
saucers - (saucer) Untertasse
As for the sign-painters whales seen in the streets hanging over the
shops of oil-dealers, what shall be said of them? They are generally
Richard III. whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage;
dromedary - Dromedar
humps - (hump) Hgel Buckel Hcker bumsen
breakfasting on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of
tarts - (tart) Torte
mariners: their deformities floundering in seas of blood and blue
deformities - (deformity) Missbildung
floundering - (flounder) sich abqulen, taumeln, stolper
paint.
But these manifold mistakes in depicting the whale are not so very
manifold - vervielfltigen;Sammelrohr, mehrfach, vielfltig, Kopie
surprising after all. Consider! Most of the scientific drawings have
drawings - (drawing) Zeichnung, nachziehend
been taken from the stranded fish; and these are about as correct as a
drawing of a wrecked ship, with broken back, would correctly represent
wrecked - (wreck) Wrack, Schrott, Schrotthaufen, Schrottkist
the noble animal itself in all its undashed pride of hull and spars.
Though elephants have stood for their full-lengths, the living
Leviathan has never yet fairly floated himself for his portrait. The
living whale, in his full majesty and significance, is only to be seen
at sea in unfathomable waters; and afloat the vast bulk of him is out
of sight, like a launched line-of-battle ship; and out of that element
it is a thing eternally impossible for mortal man to hoist him bodily
hoist - hochziehen, hissen, Hebezeug
into the air, so as to preserve all his mighty swells and undulations.
undulations - (undulation) Wellenbewegung, Wellenform
And, not to speak of the highly presumable difference of contour
presumable - vermutlich
contour - Kontur Hhenlinie, Hhenlinien, Isohypse, Niveaulinie
between a young sucking whale and a full-grown Platonian Leviathan;
Platonian - Platonisch
yet, even in the case of one of those young sucking whales hoisted to a
ships deck, such is then the outlandish, eel-like, limbered, varying
limbered - (limber) locker, biegsam
shape of him, that his precise expression the devil himself could not
catch.
But it may be fancied, that from the naked skeleton of the stranded
whale, accurate hints may be derived touching his true form. Not at
accurate - genau, przise, exakt
all. For it is one of the more curious things about this Leviathan,
that his skeleton gives very little idea of his general shape. Though
Jeremy Benthams skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of
one of his executors, correctly conveys the idea of a burly-browed
burly - krftig
utilitarian old gentleman, with all Jeremys other leading personal
characteristics; yet nothing of this kind could be inferred from any
characteristics - (characteristic) charakteristisch, bezeichnend, kennzeichnen
leviathans articulated bones. In fact, as the great Hunter says, the
articulated - (articulate) wortgewandt;artikulieren, deutlich aussprechen
mere skeleton of the whale bears the same relation to the fully
invested and padded animal as the insect does to the chrysalis that so
padded - (pad) Unterlage, Polster, Matte, Sttze
chrysalis - Puppe
roundingly envelopes it. This peculiarity is strikingly evinced in the
roundingly - rundlich
envelopes - (envelope) verhllen;Kuvert, Versandtasche, Hllenkurve
strikingly - auffallend
head, as in some part of this book will be incidentally shown. It is
also very curiously displayed in the side fin, the bones of which
almost exactly answer to the bones of the human hand, minus only the
thumb. This fin has four regular bone-fingers, the index, middle, ring,
and little finger. But all these are permanently lodged in their fleshy
permanently - stetig, fr immer
covering, as the human fingers in an artificial covering. However
recklessly the whale may sometimes serve us, said humorous Stubb one
day, he can never be truly said to handle us without mittens.
mittens - (mitten) Fustling, Fausthandschuh
For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it, you must needs
conclude that the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world
which must remain unpainted to the last. True, one portrait may hit the
unpainted - (unpaint) entmalen
mark much nearer than another, but none can hit it with any very
considerable degree of exactness. So there is no earthly way of finding
exactness - Genauigkeit, Exaktheit
out precisely what the whale really looks like. And the only mode in
which you can derive even a tolerable idea of his living contour, is by
going a whaling yourself; but by so doing, you run no small risk of
being eternally stove and sunk by him. Wherefore, it seems to me you
had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this
fastidious - pedantisch, manisch,
Leviathan.
Erroneous - unrichtig, fehlerhaft
Pictures of Whaling Scenes.
In connexion with the monstrous pictures of whales, I am strongly
tempted here to enter upon those still more monstrous stories of them
which are to be found in certain books, both ancient and modern,
especially in Pliny, Purchas, Hackluyt, Harris, Cuvier, etc. But I pass
that matter by.
I know of only four published outlines of the great Sperm Whale;
outlines - (outline) Umriss, Kontur, Skizze, Skizzierung, Umrisszeichnung
Colnetts, Hugginss, Frederick Cuviers, and Beales. In the previous
better than theirs; but, by great odds, Beales is the best. All
Beales drawings of this whale are good, excepting the middle figure in
the picture of three whales in various attitudes, capping his second
frontispiece - Frontispiz Frontspie, Fronton, Giebelfeld
doubt calculated to excite the civil scepticism of some parlor men, is
scepticism - Skepsis
admirably correct and life-like in its general effect. Some of the
admirably - bewundernswert
Sperm Whale drawings in J. Ross Browne are pretty correct in contour;
but they are wretchedly engraved. That is not his fault though.
wretchedly - erbrmlich
engraved - (engrave) gravieren, meieln, eingraviere
Of the Right Whale, the best outline pictures are in Scoresby; but they
are drawn on too small a scale to convey a desirable impression. He has
convey - befrdern, transportieren, verfrachten, bermitteln, ausrichte
desirable - erwnscht wnschenswert,
but one picture of whaling scenes, and this is a sad deficiency,
deficiency - Mangel
because it is by such pictures only, when at all well done, that you
can derive anything like a truthful idea of the living whale as seen by
truthful - wahrheitsliebend wahrheitsgem, wahrheitsgetreu
his living hunters.
But, taken for all in all, by far the finest, though in some details
not the most correct, presentations of whales and whaling scenes to be
most correct - korrekteste
anywhere found, are two large French engravings, well executed, and
engravings - (engraving) Gravieren, Stechen, Gravur, Stich
executed - (execute) hinrichten ausfhren, durchfhren
taken from paintings by one Garnery. Respectively, they represent
paintings - (painting) Gemlde Malerei
attacks on the Sperm and Right Whale. In the first engraving a noble
engraving - Gravieren, Stechen, Gravur, Stich ; (engrave) Gravieren, Steche
Sperm Whale is depicted in full majesty of might, just risen beneath
the boat from the profundities of the ocean, and bearing high in the
air upon his back the terrific wreck of the stoven planks. The prow of
the boat is partially unbroken, and is drawn just balancing upon the
monsters spine; and standing in that prow, for that one single
incomputable flash of time, you behold an oarsman, half shrouded by the
incomputable - unberechenbar
incensed boiling spout of the whale, and in the act of leaping, as if
from a precipice. The action of the whole thing is wonderfully good and
precipice - Abgrund, Steilhang
true. The half-emptied line-tub floats on the whitened sea; the wooden
tub - Dose; q
poles of the spilled harpoons obliquely bob in it; the heads of the
bob - Troddel;tanzen (Boot);Bob (Frisur)
swimming crew are scattered about the whale in contrasting expressions
of affright; while in the black stormy distance the ship is bearing
down upon the scene. Serious fault might be found with the anatomical
details of this whale, but let that pass; since, for the life of me, I
could not draw so good a one.
In the second engraving, the boat is in the act of drawing alongside
the barnacled flank of a large running Right Whale, that rolls his
black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock-slide from the
mossy - moosig
Patagonian cliffs. His jets are erect, full, and black like soot; so
soot - Ru ''Swiss spelling:'' Russ
that from so abounding a smoke in the chimney, you would think there
must be a brave supper cooking in the great bowels below. Sea fowls are
pecking at the small crabs, shell-fish, and other sea candies and
pecking - (peck) Ksschen (flchtig); (pec) (peck) Ksschen (flchtig)
candies - (candy) Sigkeit, kandieren, Bonbon, Kandis;Naschereien
maccaroni, which the Right Whale sometimes carries on his pestilent
carries on - betreibt
pestilent - pestartig, gefhrlich
back. And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through
the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake, and
tons - (ton) Tonne (Massema)
causing the slight boat to rock in the swells like a skiff caught nigh
the paddle-wheels of an ocean steamer. Thus, the foreground is all
foreground - Vordergrund
raging commotion; but behind, in admirable artistic contrast, is the
artistic - knstlerisch, gestalterisch, kunstvoll
glassy level of a sea becalmed, the drooping unstarched sails of the
becalmed - (becalm) beruhigen
drooping - (droop) durchhngen, herabhngen, herunterhngen, herabsinken
unstarched - (unstarch) ungestrkt
powerless ship, and the inert mass of a dead whale, a conquered
powerless - kraftlos machtlos
fortress, with the flag of capture lazily hanging from the whale-pole
inserted into his spout-hole.
Who Garnery the painter is, or was, I know not. But my life for it he
was either practically conversant with his subject, or else
conversant - vertraut
marvellously tutored by some experienced whaleman. The French are the
marvellously - wunderbare, wunderbar
tutored - (tutor) Privatunterricht geben;Lehrprogramm, Begleiter, Lehrer
lads for painting action. Go and gaze upon all the paintings of Europe,
and where will you find such a gallery of living and breathing
commotion on canvas, as in that triumphal hall at Versailles; where the
triumphal - (thriumphal arch) Siegestor, Triumphbogen
beholder fights his way, pell-mell, through the consecutive great
beholder - Betrachter, Beobachter
battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern
Lights, and the successive armed kings and Emperors dash by, like a
charge of crowned centaurs? Not wholly unworthy of a place in that
centaurs - (Centaur) Zentaur
gallery, are these sea battle-pieces of Garnery.
The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picturesqueness of
aptitude - Begabung Eignung
picturesqueness - Malerhaftigkeit
things seems to be peculiarly evinced in what paintings and engravings
they have of their whaling scenes. With not one tenth of Englands
experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that of the
thousandth - tausendste Tausendste Tausendstel
Americans, they have nevertheless furnished both nations with the only
finished sketches at all capable of conveying the real spirit of the
sketches - (sketch) skizzieren entwerfen Skizze Sketch
whale hunt. For the most part, the English and American whale
draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical
draughtsmen - (draughtsman) Zeichner, Bauzeichner , Konstruktionszeichne
outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so
far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to
sketching the profile of a pyramid. Even Scoresby, the justly renowned
sketching - (sketch) skizzieren entwerfen Skizze Sketch
renowned - (renown) Ansehen, Ruf, Ruhm
Right whaleman, after giving us a stiff full length of the Greenland
whale, and three or four delicate miniatures of narwhales and
miniatures - (miniature) Miniatur, mittelalterliche Buchmalere
porpoises, treats us to a series of classical engravings of boat hooks,
chopping knives, and grapnels; and with the microscopic diligence of a
chopping - zerhackend, abhackend; (chop) zerhackend, abhackend
diligence - Sorgfalt Flei, Eifer
Leuwenhoeck submits to the inspection of a shivering world ninety-six
Leuwenhoeck - Lwenhack
submits - (submit) sich fgen vorlegen, einreichen, unterwerfen
inspection - Inspektion, Prfung
fac-similes of magnified Arctic snow crystals. I mean no disparagement
similes - (simile) Vergleich, Gleichnis
disparagement - Verunglimpfung, Herabsetzung, Herabwrdigung
to the excellent voyager (I honor him for a veteran), but in so
important a matter it was certainly an oversight not to have procured
oversight - Versehen
for every crystal a sworn affidavit taken before a Greenland Justice of
the Peace.
In addition to those fine engravings from Garnery, there are two other
French engravings worthy of note, by some one who subscribes himself
subscribes - (subscribe) abonnieren
H. Durand. One of them, though not precisely adapted to our present
purpose, nevertheless deserves mention on other accounts. It is a quiet
deserves - (deserve) verdienen
noon-scene among the isles of the Pacific; a French whaler anchored,
inshore, in a calm, and lazily taking water on board; the loosened
inshore - an der Kste
sails of the ship, and the long leaves of the palms in the background,
both drooping together in the breezeless air. The effect is very fine,
breezeless - windstill
when considered with reference to its presenting the hardy fishermen
under one of their few aspects of oriental repose. The other engraving
is quite a different affair: the ship hove-to upon the open sea, and in
hove to - (hove-to) beiliegen
the very heart of the Leviathanic life, with a Right Whale alongside;
the vessel (in the act of cutting-in) hove over to the monster as if to
a quay; and a boat, hurriedly pushing off from this scene of activity,
quay - Kai
pushing off - abschiebend
is about giving chase to whales in the distance. The harpoons and
lances lie levelled for use; three oarsmen are just setting the mast in
its hole; while from a sudden roll of the sea, the little craft stands
half-erect out of the water, like a rearing horse. From the ship, the
smoke of the torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke
over a village of smithies; and to windward, a black cloud, rising up
smithies - (smithy) mit der Hand schmieden
with earnest of squalls and rains, seems to quicken the activity of the
quicken - beschleunigen
excited seamen.
Stone; in Mountains; in Stars.
On Tower-hill, as you go down to the London docks, you may have seen a
crippled beggar (or _kedger_, as the sailors say) holding a painted
board before him, representing the tragic scene in which he lost his
leg. There are three whales and three boats; and one of the boats
(presumed to contain the missing leg in all its original integrity) is
integrity - Integritt
being crunched by the jaws of the foremost whale. Any time these ten
years, they tell me, has that man held up that picture, and exhibited
that stump to an incredulous world. But the time of his justification
justification - Rechtfertigung, Begrndung, Ausrichtung, Blocksatz
has now come. His three whales are as good whales as were ever
published in Wapping, at any rate; and his stump as unquestionable a
stump as any you will find in the western clearings. But, though for
clearings - (clearing) Klrung, Aufklrung, Lichtung, Rodung, Waldlichtung
ever mounted on that stump, never a stump-speech does the poor whaleman
make; but, with downcast eyes, stands ruefully contemplating his own
ruefully - klgliche, reuig
contemplating - (contemplate) nachsinnen
amputation.
amputation - Amputation
Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag
Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and
whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm
graven - (grave) feierlich, Gruft, massiv, wrdig, ernst
Whale-teeth, or ladies busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and
busks - (busk) Straenmusik
other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous
little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough
ingenious - ingenis, genial, findig
elaborately - ausfhrlich
carve - zerschneiden, einritzen, schnitzen;Einmeieln ;behauen (Stein etc.), zerlegen
material, in their hours of ocean leisure. Some of them have little
boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the
dentistical - zahnmedizinisch
skrimshandering business. But, in general, they toil with their
jack-knives alone; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of the sailor,
they will turn you out anything you please, in the way of a mariners
fancy.
Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man
exile - Exil, Verbannung, Exilant, Exilantin, Verbannte
civilization - Zivilisation, Kultur, Zivilisiertwerden
restores - (restore) wiederherstellen, restaurieren
to that condition in which God placed him, _i.e._ what is called
savagery. Your true whale-hunter is as much a savage as an Iroquois. I
savagery - Wildheit
myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the
allegiance - Treue, Loyalitt, Treuherzigkeit, Gefolgschaft
Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel against him.
rebel - Rebell;auflehnen, aufbumen
Now, one of the peculiar characteristics of the savage in his domestic
hours, is his wonderful patience of industry. An ancient Hawaiian
Hawaiian - hawaiisch hawaiianisch Hawaiier, Hawaiianer, Hawaiianisc
war-club or spear-paddle, in its full multiplicity and elaboration of
multiplicity - Multiplizitt
elaboration - Ausarbeitung, Elaboration
carving, is as great a trophy of human perseverance as a Latin lexicon.
trophy - Trophe
perseverance - Beharrlichkeit, Ausdauer, Durchhaltevermgen
For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a sharks tooth, that
sea shell - (sea-shell) Seemuschel
miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has
intricacy - Gewundenheit, Komplexitt, Schwierigkeit, Verworrenheit
cost steady years of steady application.
As with the Hawaiian savage, so with the white sailor-savage. With the
same marvellous patience, and with the same single sharks tooth, of
his one poor jack-knife, he will carve you a bit of bone sculpture, not
carve - schneiden tranchieren, zerlegen, schnitzen
quite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design, as
workmanlike - fachmnnisch
maziness - Verwirrung
the Greek savage, Achilless shield; and full of barbaric spirit and
shield - Schild, abgeschirmt, Abschirmung;abschirmen
suggestiveness, as the prints of that fine old Dutch savage, Albert
suggestiveness - Zweideutigkeit
Durer.
Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of
the noble South Sea war-wood, are frequently met with in the
forecastles of American whalers. Some of them are done with much
forecastles - (forecastle) Vorschiff, Bugkastell
accuracy.
accuracy - Genauigkeit, Sorgfalt, Exaktheit, Richtigkeit
At some old gable-roofed country houses you will see brass whales hung
by the tail for knockers to the road-side door. When the porter is
knockers - (knocker) Klopfer
sleepy, the anvil-headed whale would be best. But these knocking whales
are seldom remarkable as faithful essays. On the spires of some
old-fashioned churches you will see sheet-iron whales placed there for
weather-cocks; but they are so elevated, and besides that are to all
intents and purposes so labelled with _Hands off!_ you cannot examine
intents - (intent) Absicht
them closely enough to decide upon their merit.
In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken
cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain,
groupings - (grouping) Gruppierung Eingruppierung
you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the
petrified - (petrify) versteinern erstarren
Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against
them in a surf of green surges.
surges - (surge) Aufwallung, Schwall, Welle, Woge, berspannung
Then, again, in mountainous countries where the traveller is
continually girdled by amphitheatrical heights; here and there from
amphitheatrical - amphitheatralisch
some lucky point of view you will catch passing glimpses of the
profiles of whales defined along the undulating ridges. But you must be
ridges - (ridge) Grat First Bergrcken, Kamm, (3) checkBergrcke
a thorough whaleman, to see these sights; and not only that, but if you
wish to return to such a sight again, you must be sure and take the
exact intersecting latitude and longitude of your first stand-point,
intersecting - (intersect) erman: sich schneiden
else so chance-like are such observations of the hills, that your
precise, previous stand-point would require a laborious re-discovery;
like the Soloma Islands, which still remain incognita, though once
high-ruffed Mendanna trod them and old Figuera chronicled them.
ruffed - (ruff) Krause;Kampflufer (Vogel)
chronicled - (chronicle) Chronik
Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out
expandingly - expandierend
trace out - trassieren
great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them; as
starry - sternenklar, gestirnt, bestirnt, sternfrmig, sternartig
when long filled with thoughts of war the Eastern nations saw armies
locked in battle among the clouds. Thus at the North have I chased
Leviathan round and round the Pole with the revolutions of the bright
revolutions - (revolution) Revolution Umdrehung
points that first defined him to me. And beneath the effulgent
effulgent - glnzend, strahlend
Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase
against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and
the Flying Fish.
With a frigates anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for
bridle - Zaumzeug, Zaum, aufzumen, Zaumzeug anlegen, zgel
fasces - Faszes, Liktorenbndel
spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to
see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really
fabled - (fable) Fabel fabulieren
lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!
encamped - (encamp) lagern
Steering north-eastward from the Crozetts, we fell in with vast meadows
of brit, the minute, yellow substance, upon which the Right Whale
largely feeds. For leagues and leagues it undulated round us, so that
undulated - (undulate) wogen, schwingen, wellenfrmig bewegen, ondulieren
we seemed to be sailing through boundless fields of ripe and golden
wheat.
On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen, who, secure from
the attack of a Sperm Whaler like the Pequod, with open jaws sluggishly
sluggishly - faul
swam through the brit, which, adhering to the fringing fibres of that
fringing - (fringe) Franse, Saum, Einfassung, Rand, Peripherie, Randgruppe
wondrous Venetian blind in their mouths, was in that manner separated
from the water that escaped at the lip.
As morning mowers, who side by side slowly and seethingly advance their
seethingly - brodelnd
scythes through the long wet grass of marshy meads; even so these
monsters swam, making a strange, grassy, cutting sound; and leaving
grassy - grasbewachsen
behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea.*
swaths - (swath) Schneise, Schwade, Schwaden, Schwung , Landstric
*That part of the sea known among whalemen as the Brazil Banks does
not bear that name as the Banks of Newfoundland do, because of there
being shallows and soundings there, but because of this remarkable
shallows - (shallow) flach; q
meadow-like appearance, caused by the vast drifts of brit continually
drifts - (drift) Drift driften, treiben, irren, ziellos ziehe
floating in those latitudes, where the Right Whale is often chased.
But it was only the sound they made as they parted the brit which at
all reminded one of mowers. Seen from the mast-heads, especially when
they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms
looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else. And as in
the great hunting countries of India, the stranger at a distance will
sometimes pass on the plains recumbent elephants without knowing them
to be such, taking them for bare, blackened elevations of the soil;
blackened - (blacken) schwrzen
elevations - (elevation) Hebung, Erheben, Anhebung, Anheben
even so, often, with him, who for the first time beholds this species
beholds - (behold) betrachten, sehen, schauen, anschauen
of the leviathans of the sea. And even when recognised at last, their
immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such
renders - (render) leisten, wiedergeben
bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with
bulky - massig, wuchtig, sperrig
overgrowth - berwucherung
the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.
Indeed, in other respects, you can hardly regard any creatures of the
deep with the same feelings that you do those of the shore. For though
some old naturalists have maintained that all creatures of the land are
of their kind in the sea; and though taking a broad general view of the
general view - Gesamtbild , Gesamtansicht
thing, this may very well be; yet coming to specialties, where, for
specialties - (specialty) Spezialitt
example, does the ocean furnish any fish that in disposition answers to
the sagacious kindness of the dog? The accursed shark alone can in any
generic respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him.
generic - allgemein, generisch, typisch, artmig, gattungsmig
analogy - Analogie
But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas
have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and
unspeakably - unsagbare, unsagbar
unsocial - unsozial
repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita,
repelling - abweisend, zurckweisend; (repel) zurckweisen, abweise
so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his
one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of
superficial - oberflchlich
all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen
immemorially - uralte
befallen - (befall) befallen, zustoen, hereinbrechen, widerfahren
tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters;
though but a moments consideration will teach, that however baby man
may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering
brag - angeben, prahlen
future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever,
to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize
the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the
stateliest - (stately) stattlich
stiffest - (stiff) steif, starr, Steifer, Zechpreller, prellen, abspeisen
frigate - Fregatte
continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense
of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
aboriginally - eingeborene
The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese
vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow.
That same ocean rolls now; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships
of last year. Yea, foolish mortals, Noahs flood is not yet subsided;
two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
Wherein differ the sea and the land, that a miracle upon one is not a
miracle - Wunder, Mirakel
miracle upon the other? Preternatural terrors rested upon the Hebrews,
Hebrews - (Hebrew) hebrisch Hebrer, Hebrerin, Hebrisch
when under the feet of Korah and his company the live ground opened and
swallowed them up for ever; yet not a modern sun ever sets, but in
precisely the same manner the live sea swallows up ships and crews.
swallows up - verschluckt
But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it
is also a fiend to its own off-spring; worse than the Persian host who
murdered his own guests; sparing not the creatures which itself hath
sparing - (spar) Sparring;Holm (Tragflche);Holm (Rotorblatt);boxen
spawned. Like a savage tigress that tossing in the jungle overlays her
spawned - (spawn) hervorbringen, laichen;Brut, Laich
tigress - Tigerin, Tigerweibchen
jungle - Urwald, Dschungel
overlays - (overlay) berlagern, einblenden;Overlay, Überlagerung
own cubs, so the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against the
rocks, and leaves them there side by side with the split wrecks of
ships. No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting
like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean
overruns the globe.
overruns - (overrun) befallen, berschwemmen, berhufen, berziehe
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures
subtleness - Hintergrndigkeit, Subtilitt, Nuanciertheit, Zwischentne
glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously
unapparent - nicht offensichtlich
hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish
brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the
brilliance - Brillanz
dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once
more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey
cannibalism - Kannibalismus
upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile
most docile - gelehrigste
earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a
strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean
surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one
verdant - grn ppig, grnend, frisch, unerfahren, grn hinter den Ohre
insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the
encompassed - (encompass) umschlieen, umgeben, umfassen, enthalten
horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that
isle, thou canst never return!
Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her
wading - watend; (wad) watend
way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a gentle air impelling
impelling - antreibend, treibend; (impel) antreiben, vorantreiben, ntigen
her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity her three tall tapering
masts mildly waved to that languid breeze, as three mild palms on a
languid - schwach
plain. And still, at wide intervals in the silvery night, the lonely,
alluring jet would be seen.
But one transparent blue morning, when a stillness almost preternatural
spread over the sea, however unattended with any stagnant calm; when
unattended - unbeaufsichtigt
stagnant - abgestanden stagnierend
the long burnished sun-glade on the waters seemed a golden finger laid
burnished - (burnish) polieren
glade - Lichtung
across them, enjoining some secrecy; when the slippered waves whispered
enjoining - (enjoin) auferlegen, vorschreiben, anordnen, ermahnen
slippered - (slipper) Hausschuh, Latschen, Pantoffel, Patschen
together as they softly ran on; in this profound hush of the visible
sphere a strange spectre was seen by Daggoo from the main-mast-head.
spectre - Schreckgespenst, Gespenst
In the distance, a great white mass lazily rose, and rising higher and
higher, and disentangling itself from the azure, at last gleamed before
disentangling - (disentangle) entwirren
our prow like a snow-slide, new slid from the hills. Thus glistening
for a moment, as slowly it subsided, and sank. Then once more arose,
arose - (arise) sich erheben, aufstehen, entstehen, auftreten, erwachse
and silently gleamed. It seemed not a whale; and yet is this Moby Dick?
thought Daggoo. Again the phantom went down, but on re-appearing once
more, with a stiletto-like cry that startled every man from his nod,
stiletto - Stilett, Dolchmesser, Stckelschuh, Stiletto
the negro yelled out"There! there again! there she breaches! right
breaches - (breach) Bruch Versto, Bresche, Brechen
ahead! The White Whale, the White Whale!
Upon this, the seamen rushed to the yard-arms, as in swarming-time the
swarming - (to swarm) wimmeln, schwrmen, wuseln; (swarm) Schwarm
bees rush to the boughs. Bare-headed in the sultry sun, Ahab stood on
boughs - (bough) Ast
the bowsprit, and with one hand pushed far behind in readiness to wave
his orders to the helmsman, cast his eager glance in the direction
indicated aloft by the outstretched motionless arm of Daggoo.
Whether the flitting attendance of the one still and solitary jet had
attendance - Anwesenheit
gradually worked upon Ahab, so that he was now prepared to connect the
ideas of mildness and repose with the first sight of the particular
whale he pursued; however this was, or whether his eagerness betrayed
him; whichever way it might have been, no sooner did he distinctly
whichever - was auch immer
perceive the white mass, than with a quick intensity he instantly gave
orders for lowering.
The four boats were soon on the water; Ahabs in advance, and all
swiftly pulling towards their prey. Soon it went down, and while, with
oars suspended, we were awaiting its reappearance, lo! in the same spot
reappearance - Wiedererscheinung
where it sank, once more it slowly rose. Almost forgetting for the
moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous
most wondrous - wundersamste
phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind. A
vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing
pulpy - breiig
furlongs - (furlong) Achtelmeile
cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms
innumerable - unzhlige, unzhlig
radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of
anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.
anacondas - (anaconda) Anakonda
hapless - unglckselig
No perceptible face or front did it have; no conceivable token of
perceptible - wahrnehmbar, sprbar, fhlbar
either sensation or instinct; but undulated there on the billows, an
sensation - Gefhl, Empfindung, Sensation
unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life.
As with a low sucking sound it slowly disappeared again, Starbuck still
gazing at the agitated waters where it had sunk, with a wild voice
exclaimed"Almost rather had I seen Moby Dick and fought him, than to
have seen thee, thou white ghost!
What was it, Sir? said Flask.
The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld,
and returned to their ports to tell of it.
But Ahab said nothing; turning his boat, he sailed back to the vessel;
the rest as silently following.
Whatever superstitions the sperm whalemen in general have connected
with the sight of this object, certain it is, that a glimpse of it
being so very unusual, that circumstance has gone far to invest it with
portentousness. So rarely is it beheld, that though one and all of them
declare it to be the largest animated thing in the ocean, yet very few
of them have any but the most vague ideas concerning its true nature
and form; notwithstanding, they believe it to furnish to the sperm
whale his only food. For though other species of whales find their food
above water, and may be seen by man in the act of feeding, the
spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the
obtains - (obtain) erlangen, erhalten, bestehen
zones - (zone) Bereich, Distrikt, Eingabefeld
surface; and only by inference is it that any one can tell of what,
precisely, that food consists. At times, when closely pursued, he will
disgorge what are supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some
disgorge - ausspeien, ausspucken, auswerfen
of them thus exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length. They
fancy that the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings
ordinarily - gewhnlich, gewhnliche
clings - (cling) anschmiegen
by them to the bed of the ocean; and that the sperm whale, unlike other
species, is supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it.
There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop
Kraken - Krake
Bishop - Lufer (Schach), Bischof
Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid. The manner in
ultimately - schlielich letztendlich
which the Bishop describes it, as alternately rising and sinking, with
alternately - abwechselnd, wechselweise, abwechslungsweise
some other particulars he narrates, in all this the two correspond. But
narrates - (narrate) erzhlen berichten
much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he
abatement - Abnahme, Verminderung, Verringerung, Unterdrckung
assigns it.
assigns - (assign) zuweisen zuteilen
By some naturalists who have vaguely heard rumors of the mysterious
creature, here spoken of, it is included among the class of
cuttle-fish, to which, indeed, in certain external respects it would
seem to belong, but only as the Anak of the tribe.
With reference to the whaling scene shortly to be described, as well as
for the better understanding of all similar scenes elsewhere presented,
I have here to speak of the magical, sometimes horrible whale-line.
magical - magisch, zauberisch
The line originally used in the fishery was of the best hemp, slightly
vapored with tar, not impregnated with it, as in the case of ordinary
vapored - (vapor) Dampf prahlen
impregnated - (impregnate) schwngern, besamen, befruchten, imprgnieren
ropes; for while tar, as ordinarily used, makes the hemp more pliable
pliable - biegsam, geschmeidig
to the rope-maker, and also renders the rope itself more convenient to
the sailor for common ship use; yet, not only would the ordinary
quantity too much stiffen the whale-line for the close coiling to which
stiffen - aussteifen, versteifen, verstrken, ertchtigen
it must be subjected; but as most seamen are beginning to learn, tar in
general by no means adds to the ropes durability or strength, however
durability - Haltbarkeit
much it may give it compactness and gloss.
compactness - Kompaktheit
gloss - Glosse, Glasur (Metall), Funote
Of late years the Manilla rope has in the American fishery almost
entirely superseded hemp as a material for whale-lines; for, though not
superseded - (supersede) aufheben ablsen, ersetzen, den Platz einnehmen vo
so durable as hemp, it is stronger, and far more soft and elastic; and
durable - strapazierfhig, haltbar, dauerhaft
I will add (since there is an æsthetics in all things), is much more
handsome and becoming to the boat, than hemp. Hemp is a dusky, dark
fellow, a sort of Indian; but Manilla is as a golden-haired Circassian
Circassian - Tscherkessisch Tscherkesse, Tscherkessin
to behold.
The whale-line is only two-thirds of an inch in thickness. At first
thickness - Dicke
sight, you would not think it so strong as it really is. By experiment
its one and fifty yarns will each suspend a weight of one hundred and
suspend - suspendieren aufhngen aufheben, aussetzen, aufschieben
twenty pounds; so that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal
to three tons. In length, the common sperm whale-line measures
something over two hundred fathoms. Towards the stern of the boat it is
spirally coiled away in the tub, not like the worm-pipe of a still
spirally - spiralfrmig
though, but so as to form one round, cheese-shaped mass of densely
densely - dichte, dicht
bedded sheaves, or layers of concentric spiralizations, without any
layers - (layer) durch Ableger vermehren, berlagern, schichten;Auflag
concentric - konzentrisch
spiralizations - Spiralisierungen
hollow but the heart, or minute vertical tube formed at the axis of
the cheese. As the least tangle or kink in the coiling would, in
tangle - Wirrwarr, Gewirr, Durcheinander;sich verheddern (verwickeln
running out, infallibly take somebodys arm, leg, or entire body off,
the utmost precaution is used in stowing the line in its tub. Some
precaution - Vorsorge Vorsichtsmanahme
stowing - (stow) packen (verstauen); (stow) (stow) packen (verstauen)
harpooneers will consume almost an entire morning in this business,
carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a
reeving - (reeve) Vogt
block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all
possible wrinkles and twists.
twists - (twist) Zwirn Biegung Wendung Twist verziehen, drehe
In the English boats two tubs are used instead of one; the same line
being continuously coiled in both tubs. There is some advantage in
this; because these twin-tubs being so small they fit more readily into
the boat, and do not strain it so much; whereas, the American tub,
nearly three feet in diameter and of proportionate depth, makes a
diameter - Durchmesser
rather bulky freight for a craft whose planks are but one half-inch in
freight - verfrachten;Fracht, Frachtgut
thickness; for the bottom of the whale-boat is like critical ice, which
will Bear up a considerable distributed weight, but not very much of a
Bear up - Mut fassen, wieder frhlich werden;Kopf hoch!
distributed - (distribute) aufteilen, verteilen, ausliefern, beliefern
concentrated one. When the painted canvas cover is clapped on the
American line-tub, the boat looks as if it were pulling off with a
prodigious great wedding-cake to present to the whales.
Both ends of the line are exposed; the lower end terminating in an
terminating - (terminate) abbrechen, terminieren, entlassen
eye-splice or loop coming up from the bottom against the side of the
loop - Schlaufe, Schleife, Endlosschleife, Stromkrei
tub, and hanging over its edge completely disengaged from everything.
disengaged - (disengage) ausklinken, aushaken, entkuppeln
This arrangement of the lower end is necessary on two accounts. First:
In order to facilitate the fastening to it of an additional line from a
facilitate - erleichtern, frdern
neighboring boat, in case the stricken whale should sound so deep as to
threaten to carry off the entire line originally attached to the
threaten - drohen, bedrohen, androhen
carry off - abtragen, verschleppen
harpoon. In these instances, the whale of course is shifted like a mug
mug - Becher, Visage, Krug
of ale, as it were, from the one boat to the other; though the first
boat always hovers at hand to assist its consort. Second: This
hovers - (hover) rtteln verweilen zgern bewegen
arrangement is indispensable for common safetys sake; for were the
lower end of the line in any way attached to the boat, and were the
whale then to run the line out to the end almost in a single, smoking
minute as he sometimes does, he would not stop there, for the doomed
boat would infallibly be dragged down after him into the profundity of
profundity - Tiefgrndigkeit, Tiefe
the sea; and in that case no town-crier would ever find her again.
crier - Schreier
Before lowering the boat for the chase, the upper end of the line is
taken aft from the tub, and passing round the loggerhead there, is
again carried forward the entire length of the boat, resting crosswise
upon the loom or handle of every mans oar, so that it jogs against his
jogs - (jog) Joggen
wrist in rowing; and also passing between the men, as they alternately
sit at the opposite gunwales, to the leaded chocks or grooves in the
leaded - verbleit
chocks - (chock) festkeilen
extreme pointed prow of the boat, where a wooden pin or skewer the size
of a common quill, prevents it from slipping out. From the chocks it
quill - Kiel Schreibfeder, Federkiel, Stift, Stachel
hangs in a slight festoon over the bows, and is then passed inside the
festoon - Feston, Girlande, Lichterkette
boat again; and some ten or twenty fathoms (called box-line) being
coiled upon the box in the bows, it continues its way to the gunwale
still a little further aft, and is then attached to the short-warp"the
rope which is immediately connected with the harpoon; but previous to
that connexion, the short-warp goes through sundry mystifications too
mystifications - (mystification) Verblffung
tedious to detail.
tedious - ermdend, langweilig, langwierig, lstig
Thus the whale-line folds the whole boat in its complicated coils,
twisting and writhing around it in almost every direction. All the
writhing - gekrmmt; (writhe) winden, krmmen
oarsmen are involved in its perilous contortions; so that to the timid
contortions - (contortion) Kontorsion
eye of the landsman, they seem as Indian jugglers, with the deadliest
jugglers - (juggler) Gaukler, Jongleur, Trickser
snakes sportively festooning their limbs. Nor can any son of mortal
sportively - mutwillige
festooning - (festoon) Feston, Girlande, Lichterkette
woman, for the first time, seat himself amid those hempen intricacies,
intricacies - (intricacy) Gewundenheit, Komplexitt, Schwierigkei
and while straining his utmost at the oar, bethink him that at any
straining - anspannend, anstrengend; (strain) anspannend, anstrengend
unknown instant the harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible
contortions be put in play like ringed lightnings; he cannot be thus
circumstanced without a shudder that makes the very marrow in his bones
circumstanced - (circumstance) Umstand
marrow - Mark
to quiver in him like a shaken jelly. Yet habit"strange thing! what
jelly - Wackelpudding, Wackelpeter;Gelee, Gallert
cannot habit accomplish?"Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes,
Gayer - (gay) vergngt, schwul, homosexuell, lustig, heiter
sallies - (sally) aufbrechen
mirth - Frhlichkeit, Belustigung, Freude
and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany, than you
repartees - (repartee) schlagfertige Antwort; Konter Schlagabtausch; Geplnkel Schlagfertigkeit schlagfertig Schlagabtausch
will hear over the half-inch white cedar of the whale-boat, when thus
hung in hangmans nooses; and, like the six burghers of Calais before
nooses - (noose) Schlinge; q
burghers - (burgher) Brger, Brgerin
King Edward, the six men composing the crew pull into the jaws of
composing - (compos) compos
death, with a halter around every neck, as you may say.
halter - Schlinge, Strik; (halt) Schlinge, Strik
Perhaps a very little thought will now enable you to account for those
repeated whaling disasters"some few of which are casually chronicled"of
this man or that man being taken out of the boat by the line, and lost.
For, when the line is darting out, to be seated then in the boat, is
like being seated in the midst of the manifold whizzings of a
whizzings - (whizzing) schwirren
steam-engine in full play, when every flying beam, and shaft, and
steam-engine - (steam engine) Dampfmaschine
wheel, is grazing you. It is worse; for you cannot sit motionless in
grazing - abgrasend; (graze) Kratzen, Schrammen, Schaben, Schleifen
the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle,
cradle - Wiege wiegen
and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest
warning; and only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and
adjusting - (adjust) anpassen, abstimmen, ausrichten, justieren
buoyancy - Auftrieb Schwimmfhigkeit Belastbarkeit, Frhlichkei
simultaneousness of volition and action, can you escape being made a
simultaneousness - Gleichzeitigkeit, Simultanitt
Mazeppa of, and run away with where the all-seeing sun himself could
never pierce you out.
pierce - lochen, durchbohren
Again: as the profound calm which only apparently precedes and
precedes - (precede) vorangehen, vorausgehen
prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself;
prophesies - (prophesy) prophezeien
for, indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm; and
contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal
powder, and the ball, and the explosion; so the graceful repose of the
graceful - anmutig, ansprechend, elegant, grazis
line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being brought
serpentines - (serpentine) gewunden, Serpentine
into actual play"this is a thing which carries more of true terror than
any other aspect of this dangerous affair. But why say more? All men
live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their
halters - (halter) Schlinge, Strik
necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death,
that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would
not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before
your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.
poker - Schrhaken
If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to
Queequeg it was quite a different object.
When you see him quid, said the savage, honing his harpoon in the
honing - (hon) (honourable) ehrenhaft
bow of his hoisted boat, then you quick see him parm whale.
The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special
to engage them, the Pequods crew could hardly resist the spell of
resist - widerstehen, erwehren;gegen etw. bestehen
sleep induced by such a vacant sea. For this part of the Indian Ocean
through which we then were voyaging is not what whalemen call a lively
ground; that is, it affords fewer glimpses of porpoises, dolphins,
flying-fish, and other vivacious denizens of more stirring waters, than
denizens - (denizen) Bewohner, Bewohnerin, Stammgast, Stammgsti
those off the Rio de la Plata, or the in-shore ground off Peru.
It was my turn to stand at the foremast-head; and with my shoulders
leaning against the slackened royal shrouds, to and fro I idly swayed
in what seemed an enchanted air. No resolution could withstand it; in
resolution - Entschlossenheit, Standfestigkeit, Vorsatz, Auflsung,
that dreamy mood losing all consciousness, at last my soul went out of
my body; though my body still continued to sway as a pendulum will,
pendulum - Pendel
long after the power which first moved it is withdrawn.
Ere forgetfulness altogether came over me, I had noticed that the
forgetfulness - Vergesslichkeit Vergessen, Vergessenheit
seamen at the main and mizzen-mast-heads were already drowsy. So that
at last all three of us lifelessly swung from the spars, and for every
swing that we made there was a nod from below from the slumbering
helmsman. The waves, too, nodded their indolent crests; and across the
nodded - (nod) nicken einnicken Kopfnicken
wide trance of the sea, east nodded to west, and the sun over all.
Suddenly bubbles seemed bursting beneath my closed eyes; like vices my
vices - (vice) der Schraubstock
hands grasped the shrouds; some invisible, gracious agency preserved
me; with a shock I came back to life. And lo! close under our lee, not
forty fathoms off, a gigantic Sperm Whale lay rolling in the water like
the capsized hull of a frigate, his broad, glossy back, of an Ethiopian
glossy - glnzend
hue, glistening in the suns rays like a mirror. But lazily undulating
in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his
trough - Trog, Futtertrog, Mulde , Graben, Rinne, Dachrinne, Wellenta
vapory jet, the whale looked like a portly burgher smoking his pipe of
burgher - Brger, Brgerin
a warm afternoon. But that pipe, poor whale, was thy last. As if struck
by some enchanters wand, the sleepy ship and every sleeper in it all
at once started into wakefulness; and more than a score of voices from
wakefulness - Wachsamkeit, Aufmerksamkeit, Schlaflosigkeit, Wachheit
all parts of the vessel, simultaneously with the three notes from
aloft, shouted forth the accustomed cry, as the great fish slowly and
regularly spouted the sparkling brine into the air.
Clear away the boats! Luff! cried Ahab. And obeying his own order, he
dashed the helm down before the helmsman could handle the spokes.
spokes - (spoke) Radspeiche, Speiche, gesprochen
The sudden exclamations of the crew must have alarmed the whale; and
ere the boats were down, majestically turning, he swam away to the
majestically - majesttisch
leeward, but with such a steady tranquillity, and making so few ripples
tranquillity - Ruhe, Stille
as he swam, that thinking after all he might not as yet be alarmed,
be alarmed - sich ngstigen (um)
Ahab gave orders that not an oar should be used, and no man must speak
but in whispers. So seated like Ontario Indians on the gunwales of the
boats, we swiftly but silently paddled along; the calm not admitting of
the noiseless sails being set. Presently, as we thus glided in chase,
the monster perpendicularly flitted his tail forty feet into the air,
flitted - (flit) gaukeln
and then sank out of sight like a tower swallowed up.
There go flukes! was the cry, an announcement immediately followed by
Stubbs producing his match and igniting his pipe, for now a respite
igniting - (ignite) znden, anznden
was granted. After the full interval of his sounding had elapsed, the
whale rose again, and being now in advance of the smokers boat, and
much nearer to it than to any of the others, Stubb counted upon the
honor of the capture. It was obvious, now, that the whale had at length
become aware of his pursuers. All silence of cautiousness was therefore
no longer of use. Paddles were dropped, and oars came loudly into play.
Paddles - (paddle) verhauen;planschen, watscheln, rudern, paddeln;Padde
And still puffing at his pipe, Stubb cheered on his crew to the
puffing - Aufblhung; (puff) Aufblhung
cheered - (cheer) anfeuern, jauchzen, aufmuntern, jubeln
assault.
Yes, a mighty change had come over the fish. All alive to his jeopardy,
he was going head out; that part obliquely projecting from the mad
yeast which he brewed.*
*It will be seen in some other place of what a very light substance the
entire interior of the sperm whales enormous head consists. Though
apparently the most massive, it is by far the most buoyant part about
most massive - massivste
him. So that with ease he elevates it in the air, and invariably does
elevates - (elevate) erhhen, anheben
so when going at his utmost speed. Besides, such is the breadth of the
upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water
formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he
lower part - Unterteil
elevating - (elevate) erhhen, anheben
thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish
transform - verwandeln, transformieren, umwandeln
sluggish - faul, schwach, inaktiv, lustlos
galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat.
sharppointed - scharfkantig
Start her, start her, my men! Dont hurry yourselves; take plenty of
time"but start her; start her like thunder-claps, thats all, cried
Stubb, spluttering out the smoke as he spoke. Start her, now; give em
spluttering - stotternd; (splutter) stotternd
the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy"start
her, all; but keep cool, keep cool"cucumbers is the word"easy,
keep cool - khles Blut bewahren, kaltbleiben, Ruhe bewahren
cucumbers - (cucumber) Gurke, Salatgurke
easy"only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the
buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys"thats all. Start
graves - (Graf) Graf
her!
Woo-hoo! Wa-hee! screamed the Gay-Header in reply, raising some old
Wa - US-Bundesstaat
screamed - (scream) Schrei schreien
war-whoop to the skies; as every oarsman in the strained boat
whoop - schreien
involuntarily bounced forward with the one tremendous leading stroke
bounced - (bounce) abprallen hpfen, auf und ab hpfen, platzen, Bounce
which the eager Indian gave.
But his wild screams were answered by others quite as wild. Kee-hee!
screams - (scream) Schrei schreien
Kee-hee! yelled Daggoo, straining forwards and backwards on his seat,
like a pacing tiger in his cage.
cage - Kfig
Ka-la! Koo-loo! howled Queequeg, as if smacking his lips over a
smacking - schmeckend, schmatzend; (smack) schmeckend, schmatzend
mouthful of Grenadiers steak. And thus with oars and yells the keels
mouthful - mundvoll
steak - Steak, Beefsteak, Lendenschnitte
yells - (yell) kreischen, schreien
keels - (keel) Kiel
cut the sea. Meanwhile, Stubb retaining his place in the van, still
retaining - (retain) behalten festhalten
encouraged his men to the onset, all the while puffing the smoke from
his mouth. Like desperadoes they tugged and they strained, till the
tugged - (tug) zerren schleppen Ruck
welcome cry was heard"Stand up, Tashtego!"give it to him! The harpoon
was hurled. Stern all! The oarsmen backed water; the same moment
something went hot and hissing along every one of their wrists. It was
the magical line. An instant before, Stubb had swiftly caught two
additional turns with it round the loggerhead, whence, by reason of its
increased rapid circlings, a hempen blue smoke now jetted up and
circlings - (circling) umkreisend
mingled with the steady fumes from his pipe. As the line passed round
mingled - (mingle) vermischen, vermengen, untermischen
fumes - (fume) Rauch, Qualm, rauchen, qualmen, schumen
and round the loggerhead; so also, just before reaching that point, it
blisteringly passed through and through both of Stubbs hands, from
blisteringly - blitzschnell
which the hand-cloths, or squares of quilted canvas sometimes worn at
quilted - (quilt) Steppdecke only for decorative examples: Quilt
these times, had accidentally dropped. It was like holding an enemys
sharp two-edged sword by the blade, and that enemy all the time
striving to wrest it out of your clutch.
Wet the line! wet the line! cried Stubb to the tub oarsman (him
seated by the tub) who, snatching off his hat, dashed sea-water into
sea water - (sea-water) Meerwasser
it.* More turns were taken, so that the line began holding its place.
The boat now flew through the boiling water like a shark all fins.
flew through - durchflog
Stubb and Tashtego here changed places"stem for stern"a staggering
staggering - taumelnd, wankend, torkelnd; (stagger) taumelnd, wanken
business truly in that rocking commotion.
*Partly to show the indispensableness of this act, it may here be
indispensableness - Unentbehrlichkeiten
stated, that, in the old Dutch fishery, a mop was used to dash the
mop - Mopp; i
running line with water; in many other ships, a wooden piggin, or
piggin - (pig) Schwein
bailer, is set apart for that purpose. Your hat, however, is the most
bailer - Schpfeimer, Schpffass
convenient.
From the vibrating line extending the entire length of the upper part
vibrating - (vibrate) vibrieren Vibration
of the boat, and from its now being more tight than a harpstring, you
harpstring - Harfensaite
would have thought the craft had two keels"one cleaving the water, the
other the air"as the boat churned on through both opposing elements at
once. A continual cascade played at the bows; a ceaseless whirling eddy
ceaseless - endlos
eddy - Strudel
in her wake; and, at the slightest motion from within, even but of a
little finger, the vibrating, cracking craft canted over her spasmodic
gunwale into the sea. Thus they rushed; each man with might and main
clinging to his seat, to prevent being tossed to the foam; and the tall
clinging - (cling) anschmiegen
form of Tashtego at the steering oar crouching almost double, in order
to bring down his centre of gravity. Whole Atlantics and Pacifics
Pacifics - (Pacific) ruhig, still, friedlich
seemed passed as they shot on their way, till at length the whale
somewhat slackened his flight.
Haul in"haul in! cried Stubb to the bowsman! and, facing round
towards the whale, all hands began pulling the boat up to him, while
yet the boat was being towed on. Soon ranging up by his flank, Stubb,
firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart
into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately
sterning out of the way of the whales horrible wallow, and then
sterning - (stern) ernst, Heck
ranging up for another fling.
The red tide now poured from all sides of the monster like brooks down
brooks - (brook) Bach
a hill. His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which
bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake. The slanting sun
seethed - (seethe) kochen, sieden, schumen, sprudeln
playing upon this crimson pond in the sea, sent back its reflection
crimson - Purpur, Purpurrot, Karmesin, purpurn
pond - Weiher, Teich
reflection - Reflexion, Abbild, Reflektion, Abwgung
into every face, so that they all glowed to each other like red men.
glowed - (glow) glhen abstrahlen leuchten Glhen
And all the while, jet after jet of white smoke was agonizingly shot
from the spiracle of the whale, and vehement puff after puff from the
spiracle - Atemloch, Spritzloch, Saugloch, Kellerfenster
vehement - vehement, heftig
mouth of the excited headsman; as at every dart, hauling in upon his
crooked lance (by the line attached to it), Stubb straightened it again
and again, by a few rapid blows against the gunwale, then again and
again sent it into the whale.
Pull up"pull up! he now cried to the bowsman, as the waning whale
waning - (wane) abnehmen, abflauen, schwinden; (wan) (wane) abnehme
relaxed in his wrath. Pull up!"close to! and the boat ranged along
the fishs flank. When reaching far over the bow, Stubb slowly churned
his long sharp lance into the fish, and kept it there, carefully
churning and churning, as if cautiously seeking to feel after some gold
churning - (churn) groe Milchkanne [Br.
watch that the whale might have swallowed, and which he was fearful of
breaking ere he could Hook it out. But that gold watch he sought was
Hook it - Hau ab!
the innermost life of the fish. And now it is struck; for, starting
from his trance into that unspeakable thing called his flurry, the
monster horribly wallowed in his blood, overwrapped himself in
horribly - frchterlich
wallowed - (wallow) im Schmutz wlzen
overwrapped - eingewickelt
impenetrable, mad, boiling spray, so that the imperilled craft,
impenetrable - undurchlssig
imperilled - (imperil) gefhrden riskieren
instantly dropping astern, had much ado blindly to struggle out from
struggle - Kampf, Gefecht, sich durchbeien, sich schwer tun
that phrensied twilight into the clear air of the day.
phrensied - (phrensy) Phrasendrescherei
And now abating in his flurry, the whale once more rolled out into
abating - (abate) vermindern, verzehren (Rauch), verringern
flurry - leichter) Schneefall (lkurzer) Schneeschauer Windsto, B
view; surging from side to side; spasmodically dilating and contracting
spasmodically - krampfhaften
dilating - (dilate) dilatieren, weiten, vergrern, erweitern
contracting - (contract) Vertrag, Kontrakt;ich/er/sie zog zusamme
his spout-hole, with sharp, cracking, agonized respirations. At last,
agonized - (agonize) qulen
respirations - (respiration) Atmung Veratmung
gush after gush of clotted red gore, as if it had been the purple lees
clotted - (clot) Blutgerinnsel Trottel Klumpen bilden
of red wine, shot into the frighted air; and falling back again, ran
falling back - zurckfallend
dripping down his motionless flanks into the sea. His heart had burst!
Hes dead, Mr. Stubb, said Daggoo.
Yes; both pipes smoked out! and withdrawing his own from his mouth,
Stubb scattered the dead ashes over the water; and, for a moment, stood
thoughtfully eyeing the vast corpse he had made.
thoughtfully - nachdenklich, aufmerksam
A word concerning an incident in the last chapter.
According to the invariable usage of the fishery, the whale-boat pushes
invariable - unvernderlich
off from the ship, with the headsman or whale-killer as temporary
steersman, and the harpooneer or whale-fastener pulling the foremost
fastener - Verschluss, Schloss, Schliee, Schlieer
oar, the one known as the harpooneer-oar. Now it needs a strong,
nervous arm to strike the first iron into the fish; for often, in what
is called a long dart, the heavy implement has to be flung to the
distance of twenty or thirty feet. But however prolonged and exhausting
the chase, the harpooneer is expected to pull his oar meanwhile to the
uttermost; indeed, he is expected to set an example of superhuman
uttermost - uerste
superhuman - bermenschlich
loud and intrepid exclamations; and what it is to keep shouting at the
shouting at - anschreiend
top of ones compass, while all the other muscles are strained and half
started"what that is none know but those who have tried it. For one, I
cannot bawl very heartily and work very recklessly at one and the same
bawl - schreien, brllen, heulen
time. In this straining, bawling state, then, with his back to the
fish, all at once the exhausted harpooneer hears the exciting
cry"Stand up, and give it to him! He now has to drop and secure his
oar, turn round on his centre half way, seize his harpoon from the
crotch, and with what little strength may remain, he essays to pitch it
crotch - Gabelung, Verzweigung, Astgabel, Schritt, Leistengegend
somehow into the whale. No wonder, taking the whole fleet of whalemen
in a body, that out of fifty fair chances for a dart, not five are
successful; no wonder that so many hapless harpooneers are madly cursed
and disrated; no wonder that some of them actually burst their
blood-vessels in the boat; no wonder that some sperm whalemen are
absent four years with four barrels; no wonder that to many ship
owners, whaling is but a losing concern; for it is the harpooneer that
makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can
you expect to find it there when most wanted!
Again, if the dart be successful, then at the second critical instant,
that is, when the whale starts to run, the boatheader and harpooneer
boatheader - Bootskpfe
likewise start to running fore and aft, to the imminent jeopardy of
themselves and every one else. It is then they change places; and the
headsman, the chief officer of the little craft, takes his proper
station in the bows of the boat.
Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both
foolish and unnecessary. The headsman should stay in the bows from
first to last; he should both dart the harpoon and the lance, and no
rowing whatever should be expected of him, except under circumstances
obvious to any fisherman. I know that this would sometimes involve a
slight loss of speed in the chase; but long experience in various
whalemen of more than one nation has convinced me that in the vast
majority of failures in the fishery, it has not by any means been so
majority - Mehrheit, Majoritt, Erwachsenenalter
much the speed of the whale as the before described exhaustion of the
harpooneer that has caused them.
To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this
efficiency - Effizienz Einzimmerwohnung, Einraumwohnung
world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out
of toil.
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in
twigs - (twig) Zweig
productive subjects, grow the chapters.
productive - produktiv konstruktiv
The crotch alluded to on a previous page deserves independent mention.
It is a notched stick of a peculiar form, some two feet in length,
notched - (notch) Kerbe, Nut, Furche, Einrckung, Einkerbung
which is perpendicularly inserted into the starboard gunwale near the
bow, for the purpose of furnishing a rest for the wooden extremity of
the harpoon, whose other naked, barbed end slopingly projects from the
slopingly - schrg
prow. Thereby the weapon is instantly at hand to its hurler, who
snatches it up as readily from its rest as a backwoodsman swings his
rifle from the wall. It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in
reposing - (repose) ruhen
the crotch, respectively called the first and second irons.
But these two harpoons, each by its own cord, are both connected with
cord - Schnur, Kordel, Strick, Kabel, Litze
the line; the object being this: to dart them both, if possible, one
instantly after the other into the same whale; so that if, in the
coming drag, one should draw out, the other may still retain a hold. It
is a doubling of the chances. But it very often happens that owing to
the instantaneous, violent, convulsive running of the whale upon
convulsive - krampfhaft
receiving the first iron, it becomes impossible for the harpooneer,
however lightning-like in his movements, to pitch the second iron into
him. Nevertheless, as the second iron is already connected with the
line, and the line is running, hence that weapon must, at all events,
be anticipatingly tossed out of the boat, somehow and somewhere; else
anticipatingly - vorausschauend
the most terrible jeopardy would involve all hands. Tumbled into the
most terrible - furchtbarste
water, it accordingly is in such cases; the spare coils of box line
(mentioned in a preceding chapter) making this feat, in most instances,
prudently practicable. But this critical act is not always unattended
prudently - klug, kluge
with the saddest and most fatal casualties.
most fatal - fatalste
Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown
overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror,
thenceforth - von da
dangling - baumelnd; (dangle) baumeln
skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines,
skittishly - ungebrdige
curvetting - (curvet) Bogensprung
entangling - (entangle) verwickeln
or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.
Nor, in general, is it possible to secure it again until the whale is
fairly captured and a corpse.
Consider, now, how it must be in the case of four boats all engaging
engaging - (engage) beschftigen anstellen angreifen, anlegen, einraste
one unusually strong, active, and knowing whale; when owing to these
unusually - ungewhnlich
qualities in him, as well as to the thousand concurring accidents of
concurring - (concur) bereinstimmen, zustimmen, zusammentreffe
such an audacious enterprise, eight or ten loose second irons may be
enterprise - Unternehmen Unterfangen, Vorhaben, Unternehmungsgeis
simultaneously dangling about him. For, of course, each boat is
supplied with several harpoons to bend on to the line should the first
one be ineffectually darted without recovery. All these particulars are
ineffectually - unwirksam, unwirksames
faithfully narrated here, as they will not fail to elucidate several
faithfully - brav, glaubend, vertrauend, treu
elucidate - erlutern, verdeutlichen, erklren
most important, however intricate passages, in scenes hereafter to be
passages - (passage) Durchfahrt, Übergang, Gang
painted.
Stubbs whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a
calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow
tandem - Tandem
business of towing the trophy to the Pequod. And now, as we eighteen
men with our thirty-six arms, and one hundred and eighty thumbs and
thumbs - (thumb) Daumen durchblttern
fingers, slowly toiled hour after hour upon that inert, sluggish corpse
toiled - (toil) Mhe schuften, sich plagen, sich qulen, roboten
in the sea; and it seemed hardly to budge at all, except at long
budge - bewegen, rhren
intervals; good evidence was hereby furnished of the enormousness of
the mass we moved. For, upon the great canal of Hang-Ho, or whatever
they call it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot-path will
draw a bulky freighted junk at the rate of a mile an hour; but this
freighted - (freight) verfrachten;Fracht, Frachtgut
grand argosy we towed heavily forged along, as if laden with pig-lead
forged - (forge) sich Bahn brechen, formen, erfinden, flschen;Schmiede
in bulk.
Darkness came on; but three lights up and down in the Pequods
main-rigging dimly guided our way; till drawing nearer we saw Ahab
dropping one of several more lanterns over the bulwarks. Vacantly
lanterns - (lantern) Laterne
eyeing the heaving whale for a moment, he issued the usual orders for
securing it for the night, and then handing his lantern to a seaman,
went his way into the cabin, and did not come forward again until
morning.
Though, in overseeing the pursuit of this whale, Captain Ahab had
evinced his customary activity, to call it so; yet now that the
creature was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or
dissatisfaction - Unzufriedenheit
despair, seemed working in him; as if the sight of that dead body
reminded him that Moby Dick was yet to be slain; and though a thousand
other whales were brought to his ship, all that would not one jot
advance his grand, monomaniac object. Very soon you would have thought
from the sound on the Pequods decks, that all hands were preparing to
cast anchor in the deep; for heavy chains are being dragged along the
deck, and thrust rattling out of the port-holes. But by those clanking
links, the vast corpse itself, not the ship, is to be moored. Tied by
the head to the stern, and by the tail to the bows, the whale now lies
with its black hull close to the vessels and seen through the darkness
of the night, which obscured the spars and rigging aloft, the two"ship
and whale, seemed yoked together like colossal bullocks, whereof one
bullocks - (bullock) chslein Ochse
whereof - wovon
reclines while the other remains standing.*
reclines - (recline) zurcklehnen hinlegen anlehnen
*A little item may as well be related here. The strongest and most
reliable hold which the ship has upon the whale when moored alongside,
is by the flukes or tail; and as from its greater density that part is
density - Dichte, Massendichte
relatively heavier than any other (excepting the side-fins), its
relatively - relativ, verhltnismig
flexibility even in death, causes it to sink low beneath the surface;
flexibility - Flexibilitt
so that with the hand you cannot get at it from the boat, in order to
put the chain round it. But this difficulty is ingeniously overcome: a
ingeniously - genial, geniale
overcome - berwinden
small, strong line is prepared with a wooden float at its outer end,
and a weight in its middle, while the other end is secured to the ship.
By adroit management the wooden float is made to rise on the other side
adroit - geschickt, gewandt
of the mass, so that now having girdled the whale, the chain is readily
made to follow suit; and being slipped along the body, is at last
locked fast round the smallest part of the tail, at the point of
junction with its broad flukes or lobes.
junction - Kreuzung, Knotenpunkt, Grenzzone
lobes - (lobe) Hirnlappen
If moody Ahab was now all quiescence, at least so far as could be known
quiescence - Stillegung
on deck, Stubb, his second mate, flushed with conquest, betrayed an
flushed - (flush) Wassersplung, Wallung, Schwall;sple
conquest - Eroberung Conquest-Modus, Conquestmodus
unusual but still good-natured excitement. Such an unwonted bustle was
he in that the staid Starbuck, his official superior, quietly resigned
to him for the time the sole management of affairs. One small, helping
cause of all this liveliness in Stubb, was soon made strangely
liveliness - Munterkeit, Lebendigkeit
manifest. Stubb was a high liver; he was somewhat intemperately fond of
manifest - manifest Ladungsliste Manifest manifestieren
intemperately - unmige, unmig
the whale as a flavorish thing to his palate.
flavorish - geschmacklich
palate - Gaumen
A steak, a steak, ere I sleep! You, Daggoo! overboard you go, and cut
me one from his small!
Here be it known, that though these wild fishermen do not, as a general
thing, and according to the great military maxim, make the enemy defray
defray - bestreiten, bezahlen, tragen, decken
the current expenses of the war (at least before realizing the proceeds
expenses - (expense) Ausgabe, Aufwand, Verlust
of the voyage), yet now and then you find some of these Nantucketers
who have a genuine relish for that particular part of the Sperm Whale
designated by Stubb; comprising the tapering extremity of the body.
About midnight that steak was cut and cooked; and lighted by two
lanterns of sperm oil, Stubb stoutly stood up to his spermaceti supper
stoutly - beleibt
at the capstan-head, as if that capstan were a sideboard. Nor was Stubb
sideboard - Anrichte, Sideboard, Bfett
the only banqueter on whales flesh that night. Mingling their
banqueter - Banketteilnehmer
Mingling - mischend, vermischend; (mingle) vermischen, vermenge
mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks,
mumblings - (mumbling) Genuschel, murmelnd
mastications - (mastication) Mastikation
swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness.
smackingly - schmatzend
feasted - (feast) Fest, Festgelage;feiern
fatness - Dicke, Beleibtheit
The few sleepers below in their bunks were often startled by the sharp
bunks - (bunk) trmen;Quatsch, Koje
slapping of their tails against the hull, within a few inches of the
slapping - (slap) Klaps, Schlag, Makeup, Schminke, klatsche
sleepers hearts. Peering over the side you could just see them (as
before you heard them) wallowing in the sullen, black waters, and
turning over on their backs as they scooped out huge globular pieces of
scooped out - (scoop out) ausgraben
the whale of the bigness of a human head. This particular feat of the
shark seems all but miraculous. How at such an apparently unassailable
unassailable - unangreifbar unanfechtbar
surface, they contrive to gouge out such symmetrical mouthfuls, remains
contrive - ersinnen entwerfen bewerkstelligen
gouge - Grabstichel, Hohlbeitel, Hohlmeiel, Furche
symmetrical - symmetrisch
a part of the universal problem of all things. The mark they thus leave
on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in
carpenter - Zimmermann, Zimmerfrau
countersinking for a screw.
countersinking - (countersink) Ansenkung, Senkbohrung, ansenken, versenken
screw - Schraube, Schiffsschraube, Wchter, Aufpasser, Wrter
Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks
will be seen longingly gazing up to the ships decks, like hungry dogs
longingly - sehnschtige
round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every
killed man that is tossed to them; and though, while the valiant
butchers over the deck-table are thus cannibally carving each others
cannibally - kannibalisch
live meat with carving-knives all gilded and tasselled, the sharks,
tasselled - (tassel) Quaste
also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away
jewel - Edelstein, Juwel, Schmuckstck, Kleinod
hilted - (hilt) Griff
quarrelsomely - znkisch, streitschtige
under the table at the dead meat; and though, were you to turn the
whole affair upside down, it would still be pretty much the same thing,
upside - Oberseite Vorteil, positive Seite, Schokoladenseite, gute Seit
that is to say, a shocking sharkish business enough for all parties;
and though sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships
crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy
trotting - traben; (trot) traben
handy - griffig, ntzlich
in case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be
decently buried; and though one or two other like instances might be
set down, touching the set terms, places, and occasions, when sharks do
most socially congregate, and most hilariously feast; yet is there no
congregate - ansammeln, versammeln, zusammenkommen
hilariously - vergngte, ausgelassen
conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless
numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm
jovial - jovial, frhlich, heiter
whale, moored by night to a whaleship at sea. If you have never seen
whaleship - Walfangschiff
that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of
devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
expediency - Zweckmigkeit, Zweckdienlichkeit, Opportunitt
conciliating - (conciliate) beschwichtigen
But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings of the banquet that was
going on so nigh him, no more than the sharks heeded the smacking of
his own epicurean lips.
epicurean - genussschtig
Cook, cook!"wheres that old Fleece? he cried at length, widening his
widening - (widen) erman: sich weiten erweitern
legs still further, as if to form a more secure base for his supper;
and, at the same time darting his fork into the dish, as if stabbing
with his lance; cook, you cook!"sail this way, cook!
The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously
glee - Frhlichkeit
roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came
shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was
shambling - watschelnd; (shamble) schlurfen, schleichen, watscheln
galley - Galeere Kombse
something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well
scoured like his other pans; this old Fleece, as they called him, came
shuffling and limping along, assisting his step with his tongs, which,
after a clumsy fashion, were made of straightened iron hoops; this old
Ebony floundered along, and in obedience to the word of command, came
to a dead stop on the opposite side of Stubbs sideboard; when, with
both hands folded before him, and resting on his two-legged cane, he
bowed his arched back still further over, at the same time sideways
inclining his head, so as to bring his best ear into play.
inclining - sich neigend, neigend; (incline) neigen Neigung, Anstie
Cook, said Stubb, rapidly lifting a rather reddish morsel to his
reddish - rtlich
morsel - Happen
mouth, dont you think this steak is rather overdone? Youve been
overdone - (overdo) bertreiben zu lange kochen
beating this steak too much, cook; its too tender. Dont I always say
that to be good, a whale-steak must be tough? There are those sharks
tough - zh widerstandsfhig knifflig, schwierig, Pech
now over the side, dont you see they prefer it tough and rare? What a
shindy they are kicking up! Cook, go and talk to em; tell em they are
welcome to help themselves civilly, and in moderation, but they must
civilly - hflich
moderation - Mahalten Migung Diskussionsleitung
keep quiet. Blast me, if I can hear my own voice. Away, cook, and
deliver my message. Here, take this lantern, snatching one from his
sideboard; now then, go and preach to em!
Sullenly taking the offered lantern, old Fleece limped across the deck
to the bulwarks; and then, with one hand dropping his light low over
the sea, so as to get a good view of his congregation, with the other
hand he solemnly flourished his tongs, and leaning far over the side in
a mumbling voice began addressing the sharks, while Stubb, softly
crawling behind, overheard all that was said.
Fellow-critters: Ise ordered here to say dat you must stop dat dam
critters - (critter) Kreatur, Tier
noise dare. You hear? Stop dat dam smackin ob de lip! Massa Stubb say
dat you can fill your dam bellies up to de hatchings, but by Gor! you
hatchings - (hatching) Schraffur, Schraffierung, Strichelung, Schattierun
must stop dat dam racket!
Cook, here interposed Stubb, accompanying the word with a sudden slap
slap - Klaps, Schlag, Makeup, Schminke, klatschen, (leicht) schlage
on the shoulder,"Cook! why, damn your eyes, you mustnt swear that way
when youre preaching. Thats no way to convert sinners, cook!
convert - konvertieren, umwandeln, Konvertit
Who dat? Den preach to him yourself, sullenly turning to go.
No, cook; go on, go on.
Well, den, Belubed fellow-critters:"
Right! exclaimed Stubb, approvingly, coax em to it; try that, and
approvingly - zustimmend
Fleece continued.
Do you is all sharks, and by natur wery woracious, yet I zay to you,
fellow-critters, dat dat woraciousness"top dat dam slappin ob de
woraciousness - Sorglosigkeit
tail! How you tink to hear, spose you keep up such a dam slappin and
bitin dare?
Cook, cried Stubb, collaring him, I wont have that swearing. Talk
collaring - (collar) Kragen Halskette Halsband Ring
to em gentlemanly.
gentlemanly - vornehm
Once more the sermon proceeded.
Your woraciousness, fellow-critters, I dont blame ye so much for; dat
blame - jemadem die Schuld zuweisen
is natur, and cant be helped; but to gobern dat wicked natur, dat is
de pint. You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why
den you be angel; for all angel is noting more dan de shark well
goberned. Now, look here, bredren, just try wonst to be cibil, a
helping yourselbs from dat whale. Dont be tearin de blubber out your
yourselbs - Sie selbst
neighbours mout, I say. Is not one shark dood right as toder to dat
mout - Maul
whale? And, by Gor, none on you has de right to dat whale; dat whale
belong to some one else. I know some o you has berry brig mout,
berry - Beere
brigger dan oders; but den de brig mouts sometimes has de small
oders - (Oder) Oder
mouts - Maulwrfe
bellies; so dat de brigness of de mout is not to swaller wid, but to
brigness - Brachialitt
swaller - schlucken
bit off de blubber for de small fry ob sharks, dat cant get into de
small fry - kleines Wrstchen
scrouge to help demselves.
demselves - selbst
Well done, old Fleece! cried Stubb, thats Christianity; go on.
No use goin on; de dam willains will keep a scougin and slappin
each oder, Massa Stubb; dey dont hear one word; no use a-preachin to
oder - Oder
such dam guttons as you call em, till dare bellies is full, and dare
bellies is bottomless; and when dey do get em full, dey wont hear you
den; for den dey sink in de sea, go fast to sleep on de coral, and
cant hear noting at all, no more, for eber and eber.
Upon my soul, I am about of the same opinion; so give the benediction,
Fleece, and Ill away to my supper.
Upon this, Fleece, holding both hands over the fishy mob, raised his
shrill voice, and cried"
shrill - schrill scharf
Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill
damndest - am verdammtesten
your dam bellies till dey bust"and den die.
bust - Pleite gehen, kaputt gehen;Busen, Bste
Now, cook, said Stubb, resuming his supper at the capstan; stand
just where you stood before, there, over against me, and pay particular
attention.
All dention, said Fleece, again stooping over upon his tongs in the
desired position.
Well, said Stubb, helping himself freely meanwhile; I shall now go
back to the subject of this steak. In the first place, how old are you,
cook?
What dat do wid de teak, said the old black, testily.
testily - heftig, reizbar
Silence! How old are you, cook?
Bout ninety, dey say, he gloomily muttered.
gloomily - dster, finster
And you have lived in this world hard upon one hundred years, cook,
and dont know yet how to cook a whale-steak? rapidly bolting another
bolting - verriegelnd, abriegelnd; (bolt) verriegelnd, abriegelnd
mouthful at the last word, so that morsel seemed a continuation of the
continuation - Fortsetzung
question. Where were you born, cook?
Hind de hatchway, in ferry-boat, goin ober de Roanoke.
ferry boat - (ferry-boat) Fhrboot , Fhre
Born in a ferry-boat! Thats queer, too. But I want to know what
ferry - Fhre
country you were born in, cook!
Didnt I say de Roanoke country? he cried sharply.
No, you didnt, cook; but Ill tell you what Im coming to, cook. You
must go home and be born over again; you dont know how to cook a
whale-steak yet.
Bress my soul, if I cook noder one, he growled, angrily, turning
noder - nder
angrily - verrgert, wtend
round to depart.
Come back, cook;"here, hand me those tongs;"now take that bit of steak
there, and tell me if you think that steak cooked as it should be? Take
it, I say"holding the tongs towards him"take it, and taste it.
Faintly smacking his withered lips over it for a moment, the old negro
muttered, Best cooked teak I eber taste; joosy, berry joosy.
joosy - witzig
Cook, said Stubb, squaring himself once more; do you belong to the
church?
Passed one once in Cape-Down, said the old man sullenly.
And you have once in your life passed a holy church in Cape-Town,
where you doubtless overheard a holy parson addressing his hearers as
parson - Pastor
his beloved fellow-creatures, have you, cook! And yet you come here,
and tell me such a dreadful lie as you did just now, eh? said Stubb.
Where do you expect to go to, cook?
Go to bed berry soon, he mumbled, half-turning as he spoke.
mumbled - (mumble) murmeln, nuscheln, mmmeln, Murmeln
Avast! heave to! I mean when you die, cook. Its an awful question.
Now whats your answer?
When dis old brack man dies, said the negro slowly, changing his
whole air and demeanor, he hisself wont go nowhere; but some bressed
demeanor - Benehmen
hisself - sich selbst
bressed - gepresst
angel will come and fetch him.
Fetch him? How? In a coach and four, as they fetched Elijah? And fetch
fetched - (fetch) holen, einfangen, abrufen, apportieren
him where?
Up dere, said Fleece, holding his tongs straight over his head, and
keeping it there very solemnly.
So, then, you expect to go up into our main-top, do you, cook, when
you are dead? But dont you know the higher you climb, the colder it
gets? Main-top, eh?
Didnt say dat tall, said Fleece, again in the sulks.
sulks - (sulk) schmollen
You said up there, didnt you? and now look yourself, and see where
your tongs are pointing. But, perhaps you expect to get into heaven by
crawling through the lubbers hole, cook; but, no, no, cook, you dont
get there, except you go the regular way, round by the rigging. Its a
ticklish business, but must be done, or else its no go. But none of us
ticklish - kitzlig, kitzelig, brenzlig, heikel
are in heaven yet. Drop your tongs, cook, and hear my orders. Do ye
hear? Hold your hat in one hand, and clap tother atop of your heart,
when Im giving my orders, cook. What! that your heart, there?"thats
your gizzard! Aloft! aloft!"thats it"now you have it. Hold it there
gizzard - Kaumagen
now, and pay attention.
All dention, said the old black, with both hands placed as desired,
vainly wriggling his grizzled head, as if to get both ears in front at
grizzled - (grizzle) nrgeln
one and the same time.
Well then, cook, you see this whale-steak of yours was so very bad,
that I have put it out of sight as soon as possible; you see that,
dont you? Well, for the future, when you cook another whale-steak for
my private table here, the capstan, Ill tell you what to do so as not
to spoil it by overdoing. Hold the steak in one hand, and show a live
overdoing - (overdo) bertreiben zu lange kochen
coal to it with the other; that done, dish it; dye hear? And now
to-morrow, cook, when we are cutting in the fish, be sure you stand by
cutting in - einschneidend
to get the tips of his fins; have them put in pickle. As for the ends
of the flukes, have them soused, cook. There, now ye may go.
But Fleece had hardly got three paces off, when he was recalled.
Cook, give me cutlets for supper to-morrow night in the mid-watch.
cutlets - (cutlet) Schnitzel, Kotelett
Dye hear? away you sail, then."Halloa! stop! make a bow before you
go."Avast heaving again! Whale-balls for breakfast"dont forget.
Wish, by gor! whale eat him, stead of him eat whale. Im bressed if
he aint more of shark dan Massa Shark hisself, muttered the old man,
limping away; with which sage ejaculation he went to his hammock.
ejaculation - Ejakulation, Samenerguss
That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp, and,
like Stubb, eat him by his own light, as you may say; this seems so
outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and
philosophy of it.
It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right
Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large
esteemed - (esteem) Achtung, Ansehen, Wertschtzung, schtzen
prices there. Also, that in Henry VIIIths time, a certain cook of the
court obtained a handsome reward for inventing an admirable sauce to be
eaten with barbacued porpoises, which, you remember, are a species of
whale. Porpoises, indeed, are to this day considered fine eating. The
meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being
well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.
spiced - (spice) wrzen;Gewrz
turtle - Schildkrte
veal - Kalbfleisch
The old monks of Dunfermline were very fond of them. They had a great
monks - (monk) Mnch
porpoise grant from the crown.
The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all
hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but
when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet
meat pie - (meat-pie) Fleischpastete
long, it takes away your appetite. Only the most unprejudiced of men
unprejudiced - vorurteilsfrei, unvoreingenommen
like Stubb, nowadays partake of cooked whales; but the Esquimaux are
partake - teilnehmen, mitmachen, mitessen
not so fastidious. We all know how they live upon whales, and have rare
old vintages of prime old train oil. Zogranda, one of their most famous
vintages - (vintage) Traubenlese Jahrgang Jahrgang
doctors, recommends strips of blubber for infants, as being exceedingly
strips - (strip) Zeichenkette
infants - (infant) Sugling, Wickelkind, Kleinkind
juicy and nourishing. And this reminds me that certain Englishmen, who
nourishing - (nourish) ernhren, aufziehen, erziehen, groziehen
long ago were accidentally left in Greenland by a whaling vessel"that
these men actually lived for several months on the mouldy scraps of
mouldy - schimmelig, verschimmelt
scraps - (scrap) ausrangieren;Abfallholz, Teil, Schrott
whales which had been left ashore after trying out the blubber. Among
the Dutch whalemen these scraps are called fritters; which, indeed,
they greatly resemble, being brown and crisp, and smelling something
resemble - hneln, gleichen
crisp - sprde knackig, knusprig, forsch
like old Amsterdam housewives dough-nuts or oly-cooks, when fresh.
They have such an eatable look that the most self-denying stranger can
eatable - essbar
denying - (deny) leugnen, bestreiten, dementieren
hardly keep his hands off.
But what further depreciates the whale as a civilized dish, is his
depreciates - (depreciate) herabsetzen abschreiben abwerten, entwerten
exceeding richness. He is the great prize ox of the sea, too fat to be
richness - Reichtum
delicately good. Look at his hump, which would be as fine eating as the
delicately - zart, vorsichtig, fein, lecker, empfindlich
buffalos (which is esteemed a rare dish), were it not such a solid
pyramid of fat. But the spermaceti itself, how bland and creamy that
is; like the transparent, half-jellied, white meat of a cocoanut in the
jellied - (jelly) Wackelpudding, Wackelpeter;Gelee, Gallert
cocoanut - Kokosnuss
third month of its growth, yet far too rich to supply a substitute for
butter. Nevertheless, many whalemen have a method of absorbing it into
some other substance, and then partaking of it. In the long try watches
partaking - teilnehmend; (partake) teilnehmen, mitmachen, mitessen
of the night it is a common thing for the seamen to dip their
ship-biscuit into the huge oil-pots and let them fry there awhile. Many
a good supper have I thus made.
In the case of a small Sperm Whale the brains are accounted a fine
dish. The casket of the skull is broken into with an axe, and the two
plump, whitish lobes being withdrawn (precisely resembling two large
puddings), they are then mixed with flour, and cooked into a most
puddings - (pudding) Blutwurst Pudding Pudding (1 2 4) checkAuflau
delectable mess, in flavor somewhat resembling calves head, which is
delectable - kstlich, lecker, Leckerei, Kstlichkeit
quite a dish among some epicures; and every one knows that some young
epicures - (epicure) Genieer, Feinschmecker
bucks among the epicures, by continually dining upon calves brains, by
bucks - (buck) Dollar, Bock (Tier), Rammler;bocken
and by get to have a little brains of their own, so as to be able to
tell a calfs head from their own heads; which, indeed, requires
uncommon discrimination. And that is the reason why a young buck with
discrimination - Diskriminierung, Unterscheidung, Schlechterstellung
an intelligent looking calfs head before him, is somehow one of the
saddest sights you can see. The head looks a sort of reproachfully at
reproachfully - vorwurfsvolle
him, with an Et tu Brute! expression.
It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively
excessively - bermig exzessiv
unctuous that landsmen seem to regard the eating of him with
unctuous - schmierig
abhorrence; that appears to result, in some way, from the consideration
abhorrence - Abscheu, Ekel, Ekel
before mentioned: _i.e._ that a man should eat a newly murdered thing
of the sea, and eat it too by its own light. But no doubt the first man
that ever murdered an ox was regarded as a murderer; perhaps he was
hung; and if he had been put on his trial by oxen, he certainly would
trial - Erprobung, Prozess, Versuch, Probe
oxen - Ochsen
have been; and he certainly deserved it if any murderer does. Go to the
meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds
bipeds - (biped) Zweifer, Zweiferin, Zweifler, Zweiflerin
staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight
quadrupeds - (quadruped) Vierfer, Vierferin, Vierfler, Vierflerin
take a tooth out of the cannibals jaw? Cannibals? who is not a
cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that
more tolerable - ertrglichere
salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it
cellar - Keller
will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of
provident - vorausschauend, vorsorgend, vorsorglich
judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who
gourmand - Gourmand, Schlemmer, Schlemmerin, Vielfra
nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy
nailest - am besten nageln
geese - Gnse
feastest - festlich
bloated - (bloat) schwellen, aufblasen, aufblhen, Tympanie
paté-de-foie-gras.
But Stubb, he eats the whale by its own light, does he? and that is
adding insult to injury, is it? Look at your knife-handle, there, my
civilized and enlightened gourmand dining off that roast beef, what is
roast beef - Rinderbraten
that handle made of?"what but the bones of the brother of the very ox
you are eating? And what do you pick your teeth with, after devouring
that fat goose? With a feather of the same fowl. And with what quill
goose - Gans
did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to
Suppression - Unterdrckung Verdrngung
Cruelty - Grausamkeit, Qulerei
Ganders formally indite his circulars? It is only within the last month
Ganders - (gander) Gnserich, Ganter, Ganterich , Blick
formally - ausdrcklich, formell
indite - abfassen
circulars - (circular) Kreis
or two that that society passed a resolution to patronize nothing but
patronize - frdern, beschirmen, beschtzen, untersttzen, frequentieren
steel pens.
When in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and
weary toil, is brought alongside late at night, it is not, as a general
thing at least, customary to proceed at once to the business of cutting
him in. For that business is an exceedingly laborious one; is not very
soon completed; and requires all hands to set about it. Therefore, the
common usage is to take in all sail; lash the helm alee; and then send
every one below to his hammock till daylight, with the reservation
that, until that time, anchor-watches shall be kept; that is, two and
two for an hour, each couple, the crew in rotation shall mount the deck
to see that all goes well.
But sometimes, especially upon the Line in the Pacific, this plan will
not answer at all; because such incalculable hosts of sharks gather
incalculable - unschtzbar unabsehbar, unkalkulierbar
round the moored carcase, that were he left so for six hours, say, on a
stretch, little more than the skeleton would be visible by morning. In
most other parts of the ocean, however, where these fish do not so
largely abound, their wondrous voracity can be at times considerably
considerably - wesentlich, betrchtlich, beachtlich
diminished, by vigorously stirring them up with sharp whaling-spades, a
diminished - (diminish) vermindern, verkleinern, reduzieren, verringer
spades - (spade) Spaten, Schaufel (fr Kinder);Pik (Kartenspiel)
procedure notwithstanding, which, in some instances, only seems to
tickle them into still greater activity. But it was not thus in the
tickle - Kitzeln
present case with the Pequods sharks; though, to be sure, any man
unaccustomed to such sights, to have looked over her side that night,
unaccustomed - ungewohnt
would have almost thought the whole round sea was one huge cheese, and
those sharks the maggots in it.
maggots - (maggot) Made, Fleischmade
Nevertheless, upon Stubb setting the anchor-watch after his supper was
concluded; and when, accordingly, Queequeg and a forecastle seaman came
on deck, no small excitement was created among the sharks; for
immediately suspending the cutting stages over the side, and lowering
suspending - (suspend) suspendieren aufhngen aufheben, aussetze
three lanterns, so that they cast long gleams of light over the turbid
sea, these two mariners, darting their long whaling-spades, kept up an
incessant murdering of the sharks,* by striking the keen steel deep
into their skulls, seemingly their only vital part. But in the foamy
skulls - (skull) Totenschdel, Totenkopf, Schdel
foamy - schaumig, schumend, Schaum
confusion of their mixed and struggling hosts, the marksmen could not
marksmen - (marksman) Scharfschtze, Przisionsschtze
always hit their mark; and this brought about new revelations of the
incredible ferocity of the foe. They viciously snapped, not only at
viciously - bsartig
snapped - (snap) Knacken, Knallen, Schnappen, Zuschnappen, Schnippe
each others disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and
disembowelments - (disembowelment) Ausweiden
flexible - biegsam, flexibel, elastisch, dehnbar, fgsam
bit their own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again
by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound. Nor was
oppositely - gegenberliegende, gegenberliegend
voided - (void) nichtig
this all. It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these
unsafe - unsicher
corpses - (corpse) Leiche, Leichnam
creatures. A sort of generic or Pantheistic vitality seemed to lurk in
their very joints and bones, after what might be called the individual
life had departed. Killed and hoisted on deck for the sake of his skin,
one of these sharks almost took poor Queequegs hand off, when he tried
to shut down the dead lid of his murderous jaw.
lid - Deckel
*The whaling-spade used for cutting-in is made of the very best steel;
spade - Spaten, Schaufel (fr Kinder);Pik (Kartenspiel)
is about the bigness of a mans spread hand; and in general shape,
corresponds to the garden implement after which it is named; only its
corresponds - (correspond) entsprechen, korrespondieren
sides are perfectly flat, and its upper end considerably narrower than
the lower. This weapon is always kept as sharp as possible; and when
being used is occasionally honed, just like a razor. In its socket, a
honed - (hon) (honourable) ehrenhaft
stiff pole, from twenty to thirty feet long, is inserted for a handle.
Queequeg no care what god made him shark, said the savage,
agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; wedder Fejee god or
Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin.
It was a Saturday night, and such a Sabbath as followed! ex officio
ex officio - von Amts wegen
professors of Sabbath breaking are all whalemen. The ivory Pequod was
turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher. You would
shamble - schlurfen, schleichen, watscheln
butcher - niedermetzeln, niedermachen;Metzger, Schlchte
have thought we were offering up ten thousand red oxen to the sea gods.
In the first place, the enormous cutting tackles, among other ponderous
things comprising a cluster of blocks generally painted green, and
cluster - Anhufung, Bschel, Gruppe, Haufen
which no single man can possibly lift"this vast bunch of grapes was
swayed up to the main-top and firmly lashed to the lower mast-head, the
strongest point anywhere above a ships deck. The end of the
hawser-like rope winding through these intricacies, was then conducted
hawser - Trosse, Tau
conducted - (conduct) Leitung, Fhrung, leiten, fhren, sich verhalte
to the windlass, and the huge lower block of the tackles was swung over
the whale; to this block the great blubber hook, weighing some one
hundred pounds, was attached. And now suspended in stages over the
side, Starbuck and Stubb, the mates, armed with their long spades,
began cutting a hole in the body for the insertion of the hook just
above the nearest of the two side-fins. This done, a broad,
semicircular line is cut round the hole, the hook is inserted, and the
semicircular - halbkreisfrmig
main body of the crew striking up a wild chorus, now commence heaving
main body - Baukrper
in one dense crowd at the windlass. When instantly, the entire ship
dense - dicht
careens over on her side; every bolt in her starts like the nail-heads
careens - (careen) kielholen krngen schlingern
of an old house in frosty weather; she trembles, quivers, and nods her
quivers - (quiver) zittern
nods - (nod) nicken einnicken Kopfnicken
frighted mast-heads to the sky. More and more she leans over to the
leans - (lean) knapp, schlank, hager, mager
whale, while every gasping heave of the windlass is answered by a
helping heave from the billows; till at last, a swift, startling snap
is heard; with a great swash the ship rolls upwards and backwards from
swash - planschen, schwappen
the whale, and the triumphant tackle rises into sight dragging after it
triumphant - triumphieren
the disengaged semicircular end of the first strip of blubber. Now as
the blubber envelopes the whale precisely as the rind does an orange,
rind - Schwarte, Rinde
so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes
stripped off - (strip off) abreien (Plakat, Tapete)
stripped by spiralizing it. For the strain constantly kept up by the
spiralizing - Spiralisieren
constantly - stndig regelmig konstant
windlass continually keeps the whale rolling over and over in the
water, and as the blubber in one strip uniformly peels off along the
uniformly - konstant, gleichmig
line called the scarf, simultaneously cut by the spades of Starbuck
and Stubb, the mates; and just as fast as it is thus peeled off, and
peeled off - abgeblttert
indeed by that very act itself, it is all the time being hoisted higher
and higher aloft till its upper end grazes the main-top; the men at the
grazes - (graze) Kratzen, Schrammen, Schaben, Schleifen
windlass then cease heaving, and for a moment or two the prodigious
blood-dripping mass sways to and fro as if let down from the sky, and
sways - (sway) Schwingen, Schwenken, Hin- und Herschwingen, Mitschwinge
every one present must take good heed to dodge it when it swings, else
dodge - ausweichen, beiseite springen, umgehen
it may box his ears and pitch him headlong overboard.
One of the attending harpooneers now advances with a long, keen weapon
called a boarding-sword, and watching his chance he dexterously slices
dexterously - gewandt, geschickt
out a considerable hole in the lower part of the swaying mass. Into
this hole, the end of the second alternating great tackle is then
hooked so as to retain a hold upon the blubber, in order to prepare for
what follows. Whereupon, this accomplished swordsman, warning all hands
swordsman - Fechter
to stand off, once more makes a scientific dash at the mass, and with a
few sidelong, desperate, lunging slicings, severs it completely in
slicings - (slicing) schneidend, in Scheiben schneidend
severs - (sever) abtrennen, durchtrennen, abbrechen
twain; so that while the short lower part is still fast, the long upper
strip, called a blanket-piece, swings clear, and is all ready for
lowering. The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one
heavers - (heaver) heavier
tackle is peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other
peeling - Schlen ; (peel) Schlen
is slowly slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the
main hatchway right beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the
unfurnished - (unfurnish) unmbliert
blubber-room. Into this twilight apartment sundry nimble hands keep
coiling away the long blanket-piece as if it were a great live mass of
plaited serpents. And thus the work proceeds; the two tackles hoisting
and lowering simultaneously; both whale and windlass heaving, the
heavers singing, the blubber-room gentlemen coiling, the mates
scarfing, the ship straining, and all hands swearing occasionally, by
scarfing - Flickschusterei; (scarf) Flickschusterei
way of assuaging the general friction.
assuaging - (assuage) lindern, mildern, abschwchen, besnftige
friction - Reibung, Reiberei, Friktion
I have given no small attention to that not unvexed subject, the skin
unvexed - unbedrckt
of the whale. I have had controversies about it with experienced
controversies - (controversy) Kontroverse, Meinungsverschiedenheit
whalemen afloat, and learned naturalists ashore. My original opinion
remains unchanged; but it is only an opinion.
unchanged - unverndert
The question is, what and where is the skin of the whale? Already you
know what his blubber is. That blubber is something of the consistence
consistence - Konsistenz (1 2)
of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and
tougher - (tough) zh widerstandsfhig knifflig, schwierig, Pech
more elastic - dehnbarere
ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness.
Now, however preposterous it may at first seem to talk of any
preposterous - grotesk, unmglich, unertrglich, unsagbar
creatures skin as being of that sort of consistence and thickness, yet
in point of fact these are no arguments against such a presumption;
because you cannot raise any other dense enveloping layer from the
enveloping - (envelop) einhllen, umhllen
whales body but that same blubber; and the outermost enveloping layer
outermost - uerst
of any animal, if reasonably dense, what can that be but the skin?
reasonably - vernnftig halbwegs einigermaen
True, from the unmarred dead body of the whale, you may scrape off with
unmarred - ungetrbt
scrape off - abkratzen
your hand an infinitely thin, transparent substance, somewhat
resembling the thinnest shreds of isinglass, only it is almost as
shreds - (shred) Schrot;Schnitzel, Stckchen;fetzen, zerfetzen
isinglass - Hausenblase
flexible and soft as satin; that is, previous to being dried, when it
not only contracts and thickens, but becomes rather hard and brittle. I
contracts - (contract) Vertrag, Kontrakt;ich/er/sie zog zusamme
thickens - (thicken) verdicken
brittle - sprde, brchig, brckelig, mrbe
have several such dried bits, which I use for marks in my whale-books.
It is transparent, as I said before; and being laid upon the printed
page, I have sometimes pleased myself with fancying it exerted a
exerted - (exert) anstrengen ausben
magnifying influence. At any rate, it is pleasant to read about whales
magnifying - (magnify) vergrern
through their own spectacles, as you may say. But what I am driving at
here is this. That same infinitely thin, isinglass substance, which, I
admit, invests the entire body of the whale, is not so much to be
regarded as the skin of the creature, as the skin of the skin, so to
speak; for it were simply ridiculous to say, that the proper skin of
the tremendous whale is thinner and more tender than the skin of a
more tender - zartere
new-born child. But no more of this.
new-born - (new born) neugeboren
Assuming the blubber to be the skin of the whale; then, when this skin,
as in the case of a very large Sperm Whale, will yield the bulk of one
hundred barrels of oil; and, when it is considered that, in quantity,
or rather weight, that oil, in its expressed state, is only three
fourths, and not the entire substance of the coat; some idea may hence
be had of the enormousness of that animated mass, a mere part of whose
mere integument yields such a lake of liquid as that. Reckoning ten
integument - Haut
barrels to the ton, you have ten tons for the net weight of only three
ton - Tonne (Massema)
net weight - Nettogewicht
quarters of the stuff of the whales skin.
In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among
the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it is all over
obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in
thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line
engravings. But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon the
impressed - (impress) beeindrucken prgen
isinglass substance above mentioned, but seem to be seen through it, as
if they were engraved upon the body itself. Nor is this all. In some
instances, to the quick, observant eye, those linear marks, as in a
observant - aufmerksam
linear - linear
veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations.
These are hieroglyphical; that is, if you call those mysterious cyphers
hieroglyphical - (hieroglyphic) hieroglyphisch
cyphers - (cypher) Chiffre
on the walls of pyramids hieroglyphics, then that is the proper word to
use in the present connexion. By my retentive memory of the
retentive memory - gutes Gedchtnis
hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in particular, I was much struck
with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the
chiselled - (chisel) schummeln, meieln;Meiel, Stemmeisen, Beitel
famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi.
hieroglyphic - hieroglyphisch
palisades - (palisade) Palisade
Like those mystic rocks, too, the mystic-marked whale remains
undecipherable. This allusion to the Indian rocks reminds me of another
undecipherable - nicht entzifferbar
thing. Besides all the other phenomena which the exterior of the Sperm
phenomena - Phnomene
exterior - Auen- ueres, Auenseite
Whale presents, he not seldom displays the back, and more especially
his flanks, effaced in great part of the regular linear appearance, by
reason of numerous rude scratches, altogether of an irregular, random
scratches - (scratch) kratzen zerkratzen, verkratzen, Kratzer
aspect. I should say that those New England rocks on the sea-coast,
which Agassiz imagines to bear the marks of violent scraping contact
with vast floating icebergs"I should say, that those rocks must not a
little resemble the Sperm Whale in this particular. It also seems to me
that such scratches in the whale are probably made by hostile contact
hostile - feindlich, feindselig, gegnerisch, unvershnlich, antagonistisch
with other whales; for I have most remarked them in the large,
remarked - (remark) bemerken;Anmerkung, Bemerkung
full-grown bulls of the species.
bulls - (bull) Bulle, Stier
A word or two more concerning this matter of the skin or blubber of the
whale. It has already been said, that it is stript from him in long
stript - (strip) Zeichenkette
pieces, called blanket-pieces. Like most sea-terms, this one is very
happy and significant. For the whale is indeed wrapt up in his blubber
wrapt - (wrap) einhllen, einwickeln, wickeln, einpacken, hllen
as in a real blanket or counterpane; or, still better, an Indian poncho
poncho - Poncho Regenponcho
slipt over his head, and skirting his extremity. It is by reason of
slipt - geschlpft
this cosy blanketing of his body, that the whale is enabled to keep
blanketing - verdeckend; (blanket) Decke, Wolldecke, Bettdecke, Schicht, Lag
enabled - (enable) berechtigen, befhigen, ermglichen, anordne
himself comfortable in all weathers, in all seas, times, and tides.
What would become of a Greenland whale, say, in those shuddering, icy
seas of the North, if unsupplied with his cosy surtout? True, other
unsupplied - unversorgt
fish are found exceedingly brisk in those Hyperborean waters; but
these, be it observed, are your cold-blooded, lungless fish, whose very
bellies are refrigerators; creatures, that warm themselves under the
refrigerators - (refrigerator) Khlschrank, Khlraum
lee of an iceberg, as a traveller in winter would bask before an inn
bask - genieen
fire; whereas, like man, the whale has lungs and warm blood. Freeze his
blood, and he dies. How wonderful is it then"except after
explanation"that this great monster, to whom corporeal warmth is as
indispensable as it is to man; how wonderful that he should be found at
home, immersed to his lips for life in those Arctic waters! where, when
seamen fall overboard, they are sometimes found, months afterwards,
perpendicularly frozen into the hearts of fields of ice, as a fly is
found glued in amber. But more surprising is it to know, as has been
amber - Bernstein Bernsteingelb bernsteinen
proved by experiment, that the blood of a Polar whale is warmer than
that of a Borneo negro in summer.
It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong
individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare
virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself
spaciousness - Gerumigkeit
after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too,
live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep
thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peters, and
dome - Kuppel,
like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of
thine own.
But how easy and how hopeless to teach these fine things! Of erections,
how few are domed like St. Peters! of creatures, how few vast as the
whale!
Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go astern!
The vast tackles have now done their duty. The peeled white body of the
peeled - (peel) schlen;Schale
beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue,
beheaded - (behead) enthaupten, kpfen
flashes - (flash) aufleuchten, blitzen, aufflammen
it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk. It is still colossal.
Slowly it floats more and more away, the water round it torn and
splashed by the insatiate sharks, and the air above vexed with
splashed - (splash) Spritzen pltschern, platschen
insatiate - gierig auf
rapacious flights of screaming fowls, whose beaks are like so many
rapacious - unersttlich, habgierig, raubgierig, Raub
beaks - (beak) Schnabel, Zinken
insulting poniards in the whale. The vast white headless phantom floats
poniards - (poniard) Dolch
headless - kopflos
further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats,
what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the
cubic - q Kubik...;kubisch, wrfelig
murderous din. For hours and hours from the almost stationary ship that
hideous sight is seen. Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon
the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that
wafted - (waft) treiben, wehen, wallen, wabern
joyous - freudig
great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite
perspectives.
perspectives - (perspective) Aussicht Perspektive
Theres a most doleful and most mocking funeral! The sea-vultures all
in pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or
mourning - Trauer Trauerkleidung, Trauerbekleidung ; (mourn) trauern
punctiliously - frmliche
speckled. In life but few of them would have helped the whale, I ween,
speckled - (speckle) Fleck, Sprenkel
ween - hoffen
if peradventure he had needed it; but upon the banquet of his funeral
peradventure - ungefhr
they most piously do pounce. Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from
piously - fromm, fromme
pounce - zuschlagen;bimsen
vultureism - Geierismus
which not the mightiest whale is free.
Nor is this the end. Desecrated as the body is, a vengeful ghost
Desecrated - (desecrate) entheiligen, schnden, entweihen
survives and hovers over it to scare. Espied by some timid man-of-war
scare - jemanden ngstigen, aufschrecken, erschrecken
Espied - (espy) ersphen
or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring
afar - Afar, Danakil
obscuring - (obscure) obskur, dunkel, vernebelt, finster
the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in
the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the
whales unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the
unharming - unschdlich
log"_shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware!_ And for years
afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly
sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there
vacuum - Vakuum staubsaugen
when a stick was held. Theres your law of precedents; theres your
precedents - (precedent) Przedenz, Przedenzfall, Prjudiz
utility of traditions; theres the story of your obstinate survival of
utility - Ntzlichkeit
survival - berleben Relikt, berbleibsel, berlebsel, berrest
old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in
the air! Theres orthodoxy!
orthodoxy - Orthodoxie,
Thus, while in life the great whales body may have been a real terror
to his foes, in his death his ghost becomes a powerless panic to a
world.
Are you a believer in ghosts, my friend? There are other ghosts than
believer - Glubiger, Glubige
the Cock-Lane one, and far deeper men than Doctor Johnson who believe
Lane - Gasse Spur, Route
in them.
It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping
stripping - abziehend, entkleidend; (strip) abziehend, entkleidend
the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded. Now, the beheading of the
beheading - Enthauptung ; (behead) enthaupten, kpfen
Sperm Whale is a scientific anatomical feat, upon which experienced
whale surgeons very much pride themselves: and not without reason.
Consider that the whale has nothing that can properly be called a neck;
on the contrary, where his head and body seem to join, there, in that
very place, is the thickest part of him. Remember, also, that the
surgeon must operate from above, some eight or ten feet intervening
operate - operieren betreiben, bedienen
between him and his subject, and that subject almost hidden in a
discoloured, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea. Bear
discoloured - (discolour) verfrben
in mind, too, that under these untoward circumstances he has to cut
untoward - ungnstig, schdlich, unvorteilhaft, problematisch, schwierig
many feet deep in the flesh; and in that subterraneous manner, without
subterraneous - unterirdisch
so much as getting one single peep into the ever-contracting gash thus
gash - tiefer Schnitt, tiefer Riss, klaffende Wunde;einschneiden
made, he must skilfully steer clear of all adjacent, interdicted parts,
skilfully - geschickt
interdicted - (interdict) Interdikt
and exactly divide the spine at a critical point hard by its insertion
into the skull. Do you not marvel, then, at Stubbs boast, that he
marvel - wundern
demanded but ten minutes to behead a sperm whale?
behead - enthaupten, kpfen
When first severed, the head is dropped astern and held there by a
severed - (sever) abtrennen, durchtrennen, abbrechen
cable till the body is stripped. That done, if it belong to a small
whale it is hoisted on deck to be deliberately disposed of. But, with a
full grown leviathan this is impossible; for the sperm whales head
embraces nearly one third of his entire bulk, and completely to suspend
such a burden as that, even by the immense tackles of a whaler, this
were as vain a thing as to attempt weighing a Dutch barn in jewellers
barn - Stadel, Scheune, Baracke
scales.
The Pequods whale being decapitated and the body stripped, the head
was hoisted against the ships side"about half way out of the sea, so
that it might yet in great part be buoyed up by its native element. And
buoyed - (buoy) Boje, Tonne, aufbojen, flott erhalte
there with the strained craft steeply leaning over to it, by reason of
steeply - steil
the enormous downward drag from the lower mast-head, and every yard-arm
on that side projecting like a crane over the waves; there, that
blood-dripping head hung to the Pequods waist like the giant
Holoferness from the girdle of Judith.
When this last task was accomplished it was noon, and the seamen went
below to their dinner. Silence reigned over the before tumultuous but
now deserted deck. An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow
lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves
lotus - Hornklee, Lotos, Lotosblume, Lotus
unfolding - offenlegend, entfaltend; (unfold) entfalten, ausbreite
upon the sea.
A short space elapsed, and up into this noiselessness came Ahab alone
noiselessness - Geruschlosigkeit
from his cabin. Taking a few turns on the quarter-deck, he paused to
gaze over the side, then slowly getting into the main-chains he took
Stubbs long spade"still remaining there after the whales
decapitation"and striking it into the lower part of the half-suspended
decapitation - Enthauptung, Dekapitation, Kpfung, Kpfen
mass, placed its other end crutch-wise under one arm, and so stood
crutch - Krcke Sttze
leaning over with eyes attentively fixed on this head.
attentively - aufmerksam
It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so
intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynxs in the desert. Speak, thou vast
and venerable head, muttered Ahab, which, though ungarnished with a
ungarnished - schmucklos
beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty
head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou
hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams,
has moved amid this worlds foundations. Where unrecorded names and
navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous
untold - nicht erzhlt, unsagbar
rot - verrotten, verderben, faulen, verfaulen
hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the
ballasted - (ballast) Ballast Bettung, Schotter, beschottern
drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar
most familiar - familirste
home. Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many
a sailors side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay
sleepless - schlaflos
them down. Thou sawst the locked lovers when leaping from their
lovers - (lover) Geliebte, Liebhaber, Liebhaberin
flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true
to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. Thou sawst the
murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours
he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his
murderers still sailed on unharmed"while swift lightnings shivered the
neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to
outstretched, longing arms. O head! thou hast seen enough to split the
planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!
Sail ho! cried a triumphant voice from the main-mast-head.
Aye? Well, now, thats cheering, cried Ahab, suddenly erecting
cheering - (cheer) anfeuern, jauchzen, aufmuntern, jubeln
himself, while whole thunder-clouds swept aside from his brow. That
lively cry upon this deadly calm might almost convert a better
man."Where away?
Three points on the starboard bow, sir, and bringing down her breeze
bringing down - herunterbringend
to us!
Better and better, man. Would now St. Paul would come along that way,
and to my breezelessness bring his breeze! O Nature, and O soul of man!
breezelessness - Windstille
how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not the
analogies - (analogy) Analogie
smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate
atom - Atom
in mind.
Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than
the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock.
By and by, through the glass the strangers boats and manned mast-heads
proved her a whale-ship. But as she was so far to windward, and
shooting by, apparently making a passage to some other ground, the
Pequod could not hope to reach her. So the signal was set to see what
response would be made.
Here be it said, that like the vessels of military marines, the ships
of the American Whale Fleet have each a private signal; all which
signals being collected in a book with the names of the respective
vessels attached, every captain is provided with it. Thereby, the whale
commanders are enabled to recognise each other upon the ocean, even at
considerable distances and with no small facility.
facility - Leichtigkeit Einrichtung, Vorrichtung, Anlage
The Pequods signal was at last responded to by the strangers setting
her own; which proved the ship to be the Jeroboam of Nantucket.
Squaring her yards, she bore down, ranged abeam under the Pequods lee,
abeam - querab
and lowered a boat; it soon drew nigh; but, as the side-ladder was
being rigged by Starbucks order to accommodate the visiting captain,
accommodate - machen, endigen, in bereinstimmung bringen, anpasse
the stranger in question waved his hand from his boats stern in token
of that proceeding being entirely unnecessary. It turned out that the
Jeroboam had a malignant epidemic on board, and that Mayhew, her
epidemic - Epidemie, Seuche, epidemisch
captain, was fearful of infecting the Pequods company. For, though
infecting - (infect) anstecken, infizieren
himself and boats crew remained untainted, and though his ship was
untainted - fleckenlos
half a rifle-shot off, and an incorruptible sea and air rolling and
incorruptible - unbestechlich, nicht korrumpierbar, moralisch gefestig
flowing between; yet conscientiously adhering to the timid quarantine
conscientiously - gewissenhafte
quarantine - Quarantne unter Quarantne stellen
of the land, he peremptorily refused to come into direct contact with
the Pequod.
But this did by no means prevent all communications. Preserving an
interval of some few yards between itself and the ship, the Jeroboams
boat by the occasional use of its oars contrived to keep parallel to
the Pequod, as she heavily forged through the sea (for by this time it
blew very fresh), with her main-topsail aback; though, indeed, at times
topsail - Toppsegel
by the sudden onset of a large rolling wave, the boat would be pushed
some way ahead; but would be soon skilfully brought to her proper
bearings again. Subject to this, and other the like interruptions now
bearings - (bearing) tragend, Manieren, Lager (Maschinenbau)
interruptions - (interruption) Unterbrechung
and then, a conversation was sustained between the two parties; but at
intervals not without still another interruption of a very different
interruption - Unterbrechung
sort.
Pulling an oar in the Jeroboams boat, was a man of a singular
appearance, even in that wild whaling life where individual
notabilities make up all totalities. He was a small, short, youngish
notabilities - (notability) Bekanntheit, Celebrity
totalities - (totality) Totalitt
youngish - jugendlich
man, sprinkled all over his face with freckles, and wearing redundant
freckles - (freckle) Sommersprosse Fleckchen
yellow hair. A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut
cabalistically - kabalistisch
walnut - Walnuss, Walnussbaum, Walnussholz, Nussbaumhol
tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on
his wrists. A deep, settled, fanatic delirium was in his eyes.
fanatic - fanatisch Fanatiker, Fanatikerin
So soon as this figure had been first descried, Stubb had
exclaimed"Thats he! thats he!"the long-togged scaramouch the
togged - (tog) anziehen
Town-Hos company told us of! Stubb here alluded to a strange story
told of the Jeroboam, and a certain man among her crew, some time
previous when the Pequod spoke the Town-Ho. According to this account
and what was subsequently learned, it seemed that the scaramouch in
question had gained a wonderful ascendency over almost everybody in the
Jeroboam. His story was this:
He had been originally nurtured among the crazy society of Neskyeuna
Shakers, where he had been a great prophet; in their cracked, secret
Shakers - (Shaker) Schttelbecher;Mixbecher
meetings having several times descended from heaven by the way of a
descended - (descend) absteigen, niedergehen, herunterkommen, herabsteigen
trap-door, announcing the speedy opening of the seventh vial, which he
trap-door - (trap door) Falltr
carried in his vest-pocket; but, which, instead of containing
gunpowder, was supposed to be charged with laudanum. A strange,
gunpowder - Schiepulver
laudanum - Laudanum
apostolic whim having seized him, he had left Neskyeuna for Nantucket,
apostolic - apostolisch
where, with that cunning peculiar to craziness, he assumed a steady,
craziness - Verdrehtheit
common-sense exterior, and offered himself as a green-hand candidate
for the Jeroboams whaling voyage. They engaged him; but straightway
upon the ships getting out of sight of land, his insanity broke out in
a freshet. He announced himself as the archangel Gabriel, and commanded
freshet - Erfrischung
the captain to jump overboard. He published his manifesto, whereby he
manifesto - Manifest
set himself forth as the deliverer of the isles of the sea and
vicar-general of all Oceanica. The unflinching earnestness with which
vicar - Vikar
Oceanica - Ozeanien
he declared these things;"the dark, daring play of his sleepless,
excited imagination, and all the preternatural terrors of real
delirium, united to invest this Gabriel in the minds of the majority of
the ignorant crew, with an atmosphere of sacredness. Moreover, they
sacredness - Heiligkeit
were afraid of him. As such a man, however, was not of much practical
use in the ship, especially as he refused to work except when he
pleased, the incredulous captain would fain have been rid of him; but
apprised that that individuals intention was to land him in the first
apprised - (apprise) benachrichtigen
convenient port, the archangel forthwith opened all his seals and
seals - (seal) versiegeln;Siegel, Stempel, Seehun
vials"devoting the ship and all hands to unconditional perdition, in
vials - (vial) Phiole
devoting - (devot) widmen
unconditional - bedingungslos
case this intention was carried out. So strongly did he work upon his
disciples among the crew, that at last in a body they went to the
disciples - (Disciple) Jnger, Jngerin
captain and told him if Gabriel was sent from the ship, not a man of
them would remain. He was therefore forced to relinquish his plan. Nor
would they permit Gabriel to be any way maltreated, say or do what he
maltreated - (maltreat) misshandeln
would; so that it came to pass that Gabriel had the complete freedom of
freedom - Freiheit
the ship. The consequence of all this was, that the archangel cared
little or nothing for the captain and mates; and since the epidemic had
broken out, he carried a higher hand than ever; declaring that the
broken out - ausgebrochen
plague, as he called it, was at his sole command; nor should it be
plague - Pest Plage, Seuche, Geiel , Qulgeist , zusetzen, plagen
stayed but according to his good pleasure. The sailors, mostly poor
devils, cringed, and some of them fawned before him; in obedience to
fawned - (fawn) schmeicheln, schwnzel
his instructions, sometimes rendering him personal homage, as to a god.
rendering - wiedergebend, huldigend, Auffhrung; (render) wiedergeben
Such things may seem incredible; but, however wondrous, they are true.
Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the
fanatics - (fanatic) fanatisch Fanatiker, Fanatikerin
measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless
power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others. But it is time to
deceiving - (deceive) betrgen, tuschen
bedevilling - behexend; (bedevil) plagen, heimsuchen
return to the Pequod.
I fear not thy epidemic, man, said Ahab from the bulwarks, to Captain
Mayhew, who stood in the boats stern; come on board.
But now Gabriel started to his feet.
Think, think of the fevers, yellow and bilious! Beware of the horrible
fevers - (fever) Fieber, Temperaturerhhung
bilious - widerlich, Gallen..., reizbar
plague!
Gabriel! Gabriel! cried Captain Mayhew; thou must either" But that
instant a headlong wave shot the boat far ahead, and its seethings
drowned all speech.
Hast thou seen the White Whale? demanded Ahab, when the boat drifted
drifted - (drift) Drift driften, treiben, irren, ziellos ziehe
back.
Think, think of thy whale-boat, stoven and sunk! Beware of the
horrible tail!
I tell thee again, Gabriel, that" But again the boat tore ahead as if
dragged by fiends. Nothing was said for some moments, while a
succession of riotous waves rolled by, which by one of those occasional
riotous - tumultuarisch, aufrhrerisch, tobend
caprices of the seas were tumbling, not heaving it. Meantime, the
caprices - (caprice) Laune
tumbling - einstrzen, hinabstrzen; (tumble) Sturz, Fall, berschla
hoisted sperm whales head jogged about very violently, and Gabriel was
jogged - (jog) Joggen
seen eyeing it with rather more apprehensiveness than his archangel
nature seemed to warrant.
When this interlude was over, Captain Mayhew began a dark story
concerning Moby Dick; not, however, without frequent interruptions from
frequent - hufig;aufsuchen
Gabriel, whenever his name was mentioned, and the crazy sea that seemed
leagued with him.
It seemed that the Jeroboam had not long left home, when upon speaking
a whale-ship, her people were reliably apprised of the existence of
Moby Dick, and the havoc he had made. Greedily sucking in this
Greedily - gierig
sucking in - ansaugend
intelligence, Gabriel solemnly warned the captain against attacking the
White Whale, in case the monster should be seen; in his gibbering
gibbering - (gibber) Kauderwelsch sprechen
insanity, pronouncing the White Whale to be no less a being than the
Shaker God incarnated; the Shakers receiving the Bible. But when, some
Shaker - Schttelbecher;Mixbecher
incarnated - (incarnate) verkrpern;leibhaftig, in Menschengestal
year or two afterwards, Moby Dick was fairly sighted from the
mast-heads, Macey, the chief mate, burned with ardour to encounter him;
ardour - Begeisterung, Überschwang, Hitze
and the captain himself being not unwilling to let him have the
unwilling - (unwill) nicht will
opportunity, despite all the archangels denunciations and
denunciations - (denunciation) Denunziation
forewarnings, Macey succeeded in persuading five men to man his boat.
forewarnings - (forewarning) Vorwarnung
With them he pushed off; and, after much weary pulling, and many
perilous, unsuccessful onsets, he at last succeeded in getting one iron
unsuccessful - erfolglos
onsets - (onset) Angriff, Ansturm, checkAnschlag, Anzeichen
fast. Meantime, Gabriel, ascending to the main-royal mast-head, was
tossing one arm in frantic gestures, and hurling forth prophecies of
hurling - schleudernd; (hurl) schleudern
prophecies - (prophecy) Prophezeiung, Weissagung
speedy doom to the sacrilegious assailants of his divinity. Now, while
sacrilegious - gotteslsterlich
divinity - Gottheit Theologie
Macey, the mate, was standing up in his boats bow, and with all the
reckless energy of his tribe was venting his wild exclamations upon the
reckless - waghalsig, unverantwortlich, unbekmmert, leichtsinnig
venting - (vent) entlften; (vent) (vent) entlften
whale, and essaying to get a fair chance for his poised lance, lo! a
broad white shadow rose from the sea; by its quick, fanning motion,
temporarily taking the breath out of the bodies of the oarsmen. Next
instant, the luckless mate, so full of furious life, was smitten bodily
into the air, and making a long arc in his descent, fell into the sea
at the distance of about fifty yards. Not a chip of the boat was
harmed, nor a hair of any oarsmans head; but the mate for ever sank.
harmed - (harm) Schaden
It is well to parenthesize here, that of the fatal accidents in the
parenthesize - klammern, in Klammern setzen, einklammern
Sperm-Whale Fishery, this kind is perhaps almost as frequent as any.
Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated;
annihilated - (annihilate) vernichten
oftener the boats bow is knocked off, or the thigh-board, in which the
knocked off - abgeklopfter, abgeklopft
headsman stands, is torn from its place and accompanies the body. But
accompanies - (accompany) begleiten, geleiten, beiliegen
strangest of all is the circumstance, that in more instances than one,
when the body has been recovered, not a single mark of violence is
discernible; the man being stark dead.
The whole calamity, with the falling form of Macey, was plainly
descried from the ship. Raising a piercing shriek"The vial! the vial!
Gabriel called off the terror-stricken crew from the further hunting of
called off - (call off) rckgngig machen, absagen
the whale. This terrible event clothed the archangel with added
influence; because his credulous disciples believed that he had
specifically fore-announced it, instead of only making a general
prophecy, which any one might have done, and so have chanced to hit one
of many marks in the wide margin allowed. He became a nameless terror
margin - Seitenrand Gewinnspanne, Gewinnmarge, Einschuss
to the ship.
Mayhew having concluded his narration, Ahab put such questions to him,
narration - Erzhlung
that the stranger captain could not forbear inquiring whether he
intended to hunt the White Whale, if opportunity should offer. To which
Ahab answered"Aye. Straightway, then, Gabriel once more started to
his feet, glaring upon the old man, and vehemently exclaimed, with
downward pointed finger"Think, think of the blasphemer"dead, and down
blasphemer - Gotteslsterer, Blasphemist; Gotteslsterin, Blasphemistin
there!"beware of the blasphemers end!
Ahab stolidly turned aside; then said to Mayhew, Captain, I have just
stolidly - sturen
bethought me of my letter-bag; there is a letter for one of thy
bethought - (bethink) besinnen
officers, if I mistake not. Starbuck, look over the bag.
Every whale-ship takes out a goodly number of letters for various
ships, whose delivery to the persons to whom they may be addressed,
delivery - Lieferung Entbindung, Geburt
depends upon the mere chance of encountering them in the four oceans.
Thus, most letters never reach their mark; and many are only received
after attaining an age of two or three years or more.
Soon Starbuck returned with a letter in his hand. It was sorely
sorely - schlimm
tumbled, damp, and covered with a dull, spotted, green mould, in
consequence of being kept in a dark locker of the cabin. Of such a
Canst not read it? cried Ahab. Give it me, man. Aye, aye, its but
a dim scrawl;"whats this? As he was studying it out, Starbuck took a
scrawl - Sudelarbeit;kritzeln
long cutting-spade pole, and with his knife slightly split the end, to
insert the letter there, and in that way, hand it to the boat, without
insert - einsetzen, einfgen, einwerfen, Beilage
its coming any closer to the ship.
Meantime, Ahab holding the letter, muttered, Mr. Har"yes, Mr. Harry"(a
Harry - Harry
womans pinny hand,"the mans wife, Ill wager)"Aye"Mr. Harry Macey,
wager - die Wette
Ship Jeroboam;"why its Macey, and hes dead!
Poor fellow! poor fellow! and from his wife, sighed Mayhew; but let
me have it.
Nay, keep it thyself, cried Gabriel to Ahab; thou art soon going
that way.
Curses throttle thee! yelled Ahab. Captain Mayhew, stand by now to
throttle - erdrosseln, drosseln;abdrosseln
receive it; and taking the fatal missive from Starbucks hands, he
missive - Sendschreiben, Schrieb
caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the
boat. But as he did so, the oarsmen expectantly desisted from rowing;
the boat drifted a little towards the ships stern; so that, as if by
magic, the letter suddenly ranged along with Gabriels eager hand. He
clutched it in an instant, seized the boat-knife, and impaling the
feet. Then Gabriel shrieked out to his comrades to give way with their
oars, and in that manner the mutinous boat rapidly shot away from the
mutinous - zum Meutern aufgelegt, in Meuterstimmung befindlich, meuterisc
Pequod.
As, after this interlude, the seamen resumed their work upon the jacket
of the whale, many strange things were hinted in reference to this wild
affair.
In the tumultuous business of cutting-in and attending to a whale,
there is much running backwards and forwards among the crew. Now hands
are wanted here, and then again hands are wanted there. There is no
staying in any one place; for at one and the same time everything has
to be done everywhere. It is much the same with him who endeavors the
description of the scene. We must now retrace our way a little. It was
retrace - nachvollziehen, zurckverfolgen
mentioned that upon first breaking ground in the whales back, the
blubber-hook was inserted into the original hole there cut by the
spades of the mates. But how did so clumsy and weighty a mass as that
same hook get fixed in that hole? It was inserted there by my
descend upon the monsters back for the special purpose referred to.
But in very many cases, circumstances require that the harpooneer shall
remain on the whale till the whole flensing or stripping operation is
flensing - (flense) flensen
concluded. The whale, be it observed, lies almost entirely submerged,
submerged - (submerge) abtauchen, versinken, untertauchen
excepting the immediate parts operated upon. So down there, some ten
feet below the level of the deck, the poor harpooneer flounders about,
half on the whale and half in the water, as the vast mass revolves like
revolves - (revolve) drehen
a tread-mill beneath him. On the occasion in question, Queequeg figured
mill - Promille, 1/10 Prozent;Mhle, Fabrik;frsen, anfrsen
in the Highland costume"a shirt and socks"in which to my eyes, at
least, he appeared to uncommon advantage; and no one had a better
chance to observe him, as will presently be seen.
Being the savages bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar
in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to
attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead
scrabble - Scrabble
scramble - krabbeln drngeln verrhren, verquirlen, verwrfel
whales back. You have seen Italian organ-boys holding a dancing-ape by
organ - Organ Orgel
a long cord. Just so, from the ships steep side, did I hold Queequeg
down there in the sea, by what is technically called in the fishery a
monkey-rope, attached to a strong strip of canvas belted round his
waist.
It was a humorously perilous business for both of us. For, before we
proceed further, it must be said that the monkey-rope was fast at both
ends; fast to Queequegs broad canvas belt, and fast to my narrow
leather one. So that for better or for worse, we two, for the time,
were wedded; and should poor Queequeg sink to rise no more, then both
usage and honor demanded, that instead of cutting the cord, it should
drag me down in his wake. So, then, an elongated Siamese ligature
elongated - (elongate) lngen, recken, verlngern
Siamese - siamesisch Siamesisch Siamkatze Siamese, Siamesin
ligature - Ligatur
united us. Queequeg was my own inseparable twin brother; nor could I
twin brother - Zwillingsbruder
any way get rid of the dangerous liabilities which the hempen bond
liabilities - (liability) Schuld, Schulden, Verbindlichkeit, Verpflichtung
bond - Bindung, Obligation, Pfandbrief;binden
entailed.
So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then,
metaphysically - metaphysische
conceive - konzipieren, erdenken, ersinnen, empfangen, verstehen
that while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to
perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock
company of two; that my free will had received a mortal wound; and that
mortal wound - Todeswunde
anothers mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited
misfortune - Pech, Ungemach, Unglck, Unfall, Unheil
unmerited - unverdient
disaster and death. Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of
interregnum in Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have
interregnum - Interregnum Pause, Unterbrechung
equity - Gerechtigkeit, Gleichheit, Fairness, Billigkei
so gross an injustice. And yet still further pondering"while I jerked
gross - grob brutto brutto
jerked - (jerk) Zuckung, Satz, Reflex, ruckweise;Wichser;erschtter
him now and then from between the whale and ship, which would threaten
to jam him"still further pondering, I say, I saw that this situation of
mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes; only, in
most cases, he, one way or other, has this Siamese connexion with a
plurality of other mortals. If your banker breaks, you snap; if your
plurality - Pluralitt
banker - Bankhalter, Bankier, Bankkaufmann
apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True,
apothecary - Apothekerin
pills - (Pill) Medikament, Pille, Tablette;Fluse
you may say that, by exceeding caution, you may possibly escape these
and the multitudinous other evil chances of life. But handle Queequegs
multitudinous - Massen-
monkey-rope heedfully as I would, sometimes he jerked it so, that I
heedfully - achtsame
came very near sliding overboard. Nor could I possibly forget that, do
what I would, I only had the management of one end of it.*
*The monkey-rope is found in all whalers; but it was only in the Pequod
that the monkey and his holder were ever tied together. This
holder - Halter, Stnder, Halterung, Halter, Besitzer
improvement upon the original usage was introduced by no less a man
than Stubb, in order to afford the imperilled harpooneer the strongest
possible guarantee for the faithfulness and vigilance of his
guarantee - Garantie Garant garantieren, versichern
faithfulness - Treue
monkey-rope holder.
I have hinted that I would often jerk poor Queequeg from between the
whale and the ship"where he would occasionally fall, from the incessant
rolling and swaying of both. But this was not the only jamming jeopardy
he was exposed to. Unappalled by the massacre made upon them during the
Unappalled - Unbeeindruckt
night, the sharks now freshly and more keenly allured by the before
freshly - frisch
keenly - scharfe
pent blood which began to flow from the carcass"the rabid creatures
carcass - Aas, Aase
rabid - tollwtig Tollwut
swarmed round it like bees in a beehive.
swarmed - (swarm) Schwarm
beehive - Bienenstaat, Bienenstock, Bienenkorb, Beehive-Frisu
And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them
aside with his floundering feet. A thing altogether incredible were it
not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise
miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a man.
miscellaneously - gemischte
carnivorous - fleischfressend
Nevertheless, it may well be believed that since they have such a
ravenous finger in the pie, it is deemed but wise to look sharp to
pie - Kuchen
them. Accordingly, besides the monkey-rope, with which I now and then
jerked the poor fellow from too close a vicinity to the maw of what
seemed a peculiarly ferocious shark"he was provided with still another
protection. Suspended over the side in one of the stages, Tashtego and
Daggoo continually flourished over his head a couple of keen
whale-spades, wherewith they slaughtered as many sharks as they could
wherewith - womit
slaughtered - (slaughter) Schlachtung, rituelles Schlachten, Schchte
reach. This procedure of theirs, to be sure, was very disinterested and
disinterested - (disinterest) Desinteresse
benevolent of them. They meant Queequegs best happiness, I admit; but
in their hasty zeal to befriend him, and from the circumstance that
zeal - Eifer, Begeisterung
both he and the sharks were at times half hidden by the blood-muddled
muddled - (muddle) verwirren Wirrwarr
water, those indiscreet spades of theirs would come nearer amputating a
indiscreet - unbedachtsam, unbesonnen, unberlegt
amputating - (amputate) amputieren
leg than a tail. But poor Queequeg, I suppose, straining and gasping
there with that great iron hook"poor Queequeg, I suppose, only prayed
to his Yojo, and gave up his life into the hands of his gods.
Well, well, my dear comrade and twin-brother, thought I, as I drew in
and then slacked off the rope to every swell of the sea"what matters
slacked - (slack) Schlupf, flau, schlaff
it, after all? Are you not the precious image of each and all of us men
in this whaling world? That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those
gasp - keuchen japsen, prusten, Atemzug, Luftholen
sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and what between sharks
and spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad.
But courage! there is good cheer in store for you, Queequeg. For now,
as with blue lips and blood-shot eyes the exhausted savage at last
climbs up the chains and stands all dripping and involuntarily
trembling over the side; the steward advances, and with a benevolent,
consolatory glance hands him"what? Some hot Cognac? No! hands him, ye
consolatory - trstlich
Cognac - Cognac, Kognak
gods! hands him a cup of tepid ginger and water!
Ginger? Do I smell ginger? suspiciously asked Stubb, coming near.
suspiciously - verdchtig argwhnisch
coming near - herankommend
Yes, this must be ginger, peering into the as yet untasted cup. Then
untasted - nicht gekostet
standing as if incredulous for a while, he calmly walked towards the
astonished steward slowly saying, Ginger? ginger? and will you have
the goodness to tell me, Mr. Dough-Boy, where lies the virtue of
ginger? Ginger! is ginger the sort of fuel you use, Dough-boy, to
kindle a fire in this shivering cannibal? Ginger!"what the devil is
kindle - anznden
ginger? Sea-coal? firewood?"lucifer matches?"tinder?"gunpowder?"what
firewood - Brennholz, Feuerholz
tinder - Zunder
the devil is ginger, I say, that you offer this cup to our poor
Queequeg here.
There is some sneaking Temperance Society movement about this
sneaking - (sneak) Duckmuser, Duckmuserin, Kriecher, Kriecheri
business, he suddenly added, now approaching Starbuck, who had just
come from forward. Will you look at that kannakin, sir: smell of it,
if you please. Then watching the mates countenance, he added, The
steward, Mr. Starbuck, had the face to offer that calomel and jalap to
Queequeg, there, this instant off the whale. Is the steward an
apothecary, sir? and may I ask whether this is the sort of bitters by
bitters - (bitter) herb, rau, bitter
which he blows back the life into a half-drowned man?
I trust not, said Starbuck, it is poor stuff enough.
Aye, aye, steward, cried Stubb, well teach you to drug a
harpooneer; none of your apothecarys medicine here; you want to poison
us, do ye? You have got out insurances on our lives and want to murder
insurances - (insurance) Versicherung
us all, and pocket the proceeds, do ye?
It was not me, cried Dough-Boy, it was Aunt Charity that brought the
ginger on board; and bade me never give the harpooneers any spirits,
but only this ginger-jub"so she called it.
jub - jubeln
Ginger-jub! you gingerly rascal! take that! and run along with ye to
gingerly - behutsam, sanft, vorsichtig, zimperlich
the lockers, and get something better. I hope I do no wrong, Mr.
lockers - (locker) Spind, Schliefach
Starbuck. It is the captains orders"grog for the harpooneer on a
whale.
Enough, replied Starbuck, only dont hit him again, but"
Oh, I never hurt when I hit, except when I hit a whale or something of
that sort; and this fellows a weazel. What were you about saying,
sir?
Only this: go down with him, and get what thou wantest thyself.
When Stubb reappeared, he came with a dark flask in one hand, and a
sort of tea-caddy in the other. The first contained strong spirits, and
caddy - Teedose;Kcherfliege
was handed to Queequeg; the second was Aunt Charitys gift, and that
was freely given to the waves.
over Him.
It must be borne in mind that all this time we have a Sperm Whales
prodigious head hanging to the Pequods side. But we must let it
continue hanging there a while till we can get a chance to attend to
it. For the present other matters press, and the best we can do now for
the head, is to pray heaven the tackles may hold.
Now, during the past night and forenoon, the Pequod had gradually
drifted into a sea, which, by its occasional patches of yellow brit,
patches - (patch) notdrftig reparieren, reparieren, einsetzen;Flicke
gave unusual tokens of the vicinity of Right Whales, a species of the
Leviathan that but few supposed to be at this particular time lurking
anywhere near. And though all hands commonly disdained the capture of
those inferior creatures; and though the Pequod was not commissioned to
commissioned - (commission) Auftrag Kommission, Ausschuss, Abschluprmi
cruise for them at all, and though she had passed numbers of them near
the Crozetts without lowering a boat; yet now that a Sperm Whale had
been brought alongside and beheaded, to the surprise of all, the
announcement was made that a Right Whale should be captured that day,
if opportunity offered.
Nor was this long wanting. Tall spouts were seen to leeward; and two
boats, Stubbs and Flasks, were detached in pursuit. Pulling further
and further away, they at last became almost invisible to the men at
the mast-head. But suddenly in the distance, they saw a great heap of
tumultuous white water, and soon after news came from aloft that one or
both the boats must be fast. An interval passed and the boats were in
plain sight, in the act of being dragged right towards the ship by the
towing whale. So close did the monster come to the hull, that at first
it seemed as if he meant it malice; but suddenly going down in a
maelstrom, within three rods of the planks, he wholly disappeared from
rods - (rod) Stange, Stock, Stab, Latte
view, as if diving under the keel. Cut, cut! was the cry from the
diving - Wasserspringen Tauchen ; (div) Wasserspringen Tauchen
ship to the boats, which, for one instant, seemed on the point of being
brought with a deadly dash against the vessels side. But having plenty
of line yet in the tubs, and the whale not sounding very rapidly, they
paid out abundance of rope, and at the same time pulled with all their
might so as to get ahead of the ship. For a few minutes the struggle
was intensely critical; for while they still slacked out the tightened
tightened - (tighten) anziehen
line in one direction, and still plied their oars in another, the
contending strain threatened to take them under. But it was only a few
contending - streitend, disputierend; (contend) streite
feet advance they sought to gain. And they stuck to it till they did
gain it; when instantly, a swift tremor was felt running like lightning
tremor - Zittern Tremor Beben
along the keel, as the strained line, scraping beneath the ship,
suddenly rose to view under her bows, snapping and quivering; and so
quivering - (quiver) zittern
flinging off its drippings, that the drops fell like bits of broken
drippings - (dripping) Bratenfett
glass on the water, while the whale beyond also rose to sight, and once
more the boats were free to fly. But the fagged whale abated his speed,
fagged - (fag) Schwuchtel, Schwuchtel (abw.
abated - (abate) vermindern, verzehren (Rauch), verringern
and blindly altering his course, went round the stern of the ship
altering - (alter) verndern, ndern, wandeln, modifizieren, abndern
towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete
circuit.
circuit - Umlauf Schaltkreis Bezirk
Meantime, they hauled more and more upon their lines, till close
flanking him on both sides, Stubb answered Flask with lance for lance;
flanking - (flank) in der Flanke angreifen flankieren Flanke
and thus round and round the Pequod the battle went, while the
multitudes of sharks that had before swum round the Sperm Whales body,
multitudes - (multitude) Vielzahl, Menge, Menschenmenge, Volk
rushed to the fresh blood that was spilled, thirstily drinking at every
thirstily - durstig, durstige
new gash, as the eager Israelites did at the new bursting fountains
Israelites - (Israelite) Israelit, Israelitin, israelitisch
fountains - (fountain) Springbrunnen Fontne
that poured from the smitten rock.
At last his spout grew thick, and with a frightful roll and vomit, he
vomit - bergeben
turned upon his back a corpse.
While the two headsmen were engaged in making fast cords to his flukes,
and in other ways getting the mass in readiness for towing, some
conversation ensued between them.
I wonder what the old man wants with this lump of foul lard, said
lump - Klumpen, Klo, Stck (Wrfelzucker )
lard - Schmalz, Schweinefett
Stubb, not without some disgust at the thought of having to do with so
ignoble a leviathan.
Wants with it? said Flask, coiling some spare line in the boats bow,
did you never hear that the ship which but once has a Sperm Whales
head hoisted on her starboard side, and at the same time a Right
Whales on the larboard; did you never hear, Stubb, that that ship can
never afterwards capsize?
Why not?
I dont know, but I heard that gamboge ghost of a Fedallah saying so,
gamboge - Gamboge, Gummigutt, Gummigutta, Gutti
and he seems to know all about ships charms. But I sometimes think
hell charm the ship to no good at last. I dont half like that chap,
Stubb. Did you ever notice how that tusk of his is a sort of carved
into a snakes head, Stubb?
Sink him! I never look at him at all; but if ever I get a chance of a
dark night, and he standing hard by the bulwarks, and no one by; look
down there, Flask"pointing into the sea with a peculiar motion of both
hands"Aye, will I! Flask, I take that Fedallah to be the devil in
disguise. Do you believe that cock and bull story about his having been
disguise - Verkleidung Tarnung verstellen
stowed away on board ship? Hes the devil, I say. The reason why you
stowed away - verdrckte
dont see his tail, is because he tucks it up out of sight; he carries
tucks - (tuck) zurckstreifen, einklemmen;Bundfalte
it coiled away in his pocket, I guess. Blast him! now that I think of
it, hes always wanting oakum to stuff into the toes of his boots.
oakum - Werg
He sleeps in his boots, dont he? He hasnt got any hammock; but Ive
seen him lay of nights in a coil of rigging.
coil - Wendel, Spule, Wicklung;aufwickeln
No doubt, and its because of his cursed tail; he coils it down, do ye
see, in the eye of the rigging.
Whats the old man have so much to do with him for?
Striking up a swap or a bargain, I suppose.
swap - Tausch;austauschen, wechseln, tauschen, eintauschen
bargain - Angebot Vereinbarung, Abmachung, Schnppchen, Anschaffun
Bargain?"about what?
Why, do ye see, the old man is hard bent after that White Whale, and
the devil there is trying to come round him, and get him to swap away
his silver watch, or his soul, or something of that sort, and then
hell surrender Moby Dick.
Pooh! Stubb, you are skylarking; how can Fedallah do that?
I dont know, Flask, but the devil is a curious chap, and a wicked
one, I tell ye. Why, they say as how he went a sauntering into the old
flag-ship once, switching his tail about devilish easy and
gentlemanlike, and inquiring if the old governor was at home. Well, he
governor - Gouverneur, Gouverneurin, Regler
was at home, and asked the devil what he wanted. The devil, switching
his hoofs, up and says, I want John. What for? says the old
governor. What business is that of yours, says the devil, getting
mad,"I want to use him. Take him, says the governor"and by the
Lord, Flask, if the devil didnt give John the Asiatic cholera before
he got through with him, Ill eat this whale in one mouthful. But look
sharp"aint you all ready there? Well, then, pull ahead, and lets get
the whale alongside.
I think I remember some such story as you were telling, said Flask,
when at last the two boats were slowly advancing with their burden
towards the ship, but I cant remember where.
Three Spaniards? Adventures of those three bloody-minded soldadoes?
soldadoes - Soldatinnen und Soldaten
Did ye read it there, Flask? I guess ye did?
No: never saw such a book; heard of it, though. But now, tell me,
Stubb, do you suppose that that devil you was speaking of just now, was
the same you say is now on board the Pequod?
Am I the same man that helped kill this whale? Doesnt the devil live
for ever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any
parson a wearing mourning for the devil? And if the devil has a
latch-key to get into the admirals cabin, dont you suppose he can
latch - Riegel, Sperre, Klinke
crawl into a porthole? Tell me that, Mr. Flask?
porthole - Bullauge
How old do you suppose Fedallah is, Stubb?
Do you see that mainmast there? pointing to the ship; well, thats
the figure one; now take all the hoops in the Pequods hold, and string
along in a row with that mast, for oughts, do you see; well, that
wouldnt begin to be Fedallahs age. Nor all the coopers in creation
couldnt show hoops enough to make oughts enough.
But see here, Stubb, I thought you a little boasted just now, that you
meant to give Fedallah a sea-toss, if you got a good chance. Now, if
hes so old as all those hoops of yours come to, and if he is going to
live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard"tell me
that?
Give him a good ducking, anyhow.
But hed crawl back.
Duck him again; and keep ducking him.
Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though"yes, and
drown you"what then?
I should like to see him try it; Id give him such a pair of black
eyes that he wouldnt dare to show his face in the admirals cabin
again for a long while, let alone down in the orlop there, where he
orlop - oderlop
lives, and hereabouts on the upper decks where he sneaks so much. Damn
sneaks - (sneak) Duckmuser, Duckmuserin, Kriecher, Kriecheri
the devil, Flask; so you suppose Im afraid of the devil? Whos afraid
of him, except the old governor who daresnt catch him and put him in
double-darbies, as he deserves, but lets him go about kidnapping
kidnapping - Entfhrung, Menschenraub, Kinderrau
people; aye, and signed a bond with him, that all the people the devil
kidnapped, hed roast for him? Theres a governor!
kidnapped - (kidnap) entfhren Entfhrung, Menschenraub, Kinderraub
roast - braten rsten Braten gebraten
Do you suppose Fedallah wants to kidnap Captain Ahab?
kidnap - entfhren Entfhrung, Menschenraub, Kinderraub
Do I suppose it? Youll know it before long, Flask. But I am going now
to keep a sharp look-out on him; and if I see anything very suspicious
going on, Ill just take him by the nape of his neck, and say"Look
nape - Nacken
here, Beelzebub, you dont do it; and if he makes any fuss, by the Lord
Ill make a grab into his pocket for his tail, take it to the capstan,
grab - kapern, aufbereiten
and give him such a wrenching and heaving, that his tail will come
short off at the stump"do you see; and then, I rather guess when he
finds himself docked in that queer fashion, hell sneak off without the
docked - (doc) Doktor
sneak - Duckmuser, Duckmuserin, Kriecher, Kriecherin, schleiche
poor satisfaction of feeling his tail between his legs.
And what will you do with the tail, Stubb?
Do with it? Sell it for an ox whip when we get home;"what else?
Now, do you mean what you say, and have been saying all along, Stubb?
Mean or not mean, here we are at the ship.
The boats were here hailed, to tow the whale on the larboard side,
where fluke chains and other necessaries were already prepared for
securing him.
Didnt I tell you so? said Flask; yes, youll soon see this right
whales head hoisted up opposite that parmacettis.
In good time, Flasks saying proved true. As before, the Pequod steeply
leaned over towards the sperm whales head, now, by the counterpoise of
counterpoise - Gegengewicht
both heads, she regained her even keel; though sorely strained, you may
regained - (regain) wiedergewinnen
well believe. So, when on one side you hoist in Lockes head, you go
over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kants and you come
back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep
trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard,
trimming - Beschneiden, Entgraten, Trimmung; (trim) krzen, nachschneide
and then you will float light and right.
In disposing of the body of a right whale, when brought alongside the
ship, the same preliminary proceedings commonly take place as in the
preliminary proceedings - Ermittlungsverfahren
case of a sperm whale; only, in the latter instance, the head is cut
off whole, but in the former the lips and tongue are separately removed
and hoisted on deck, with all the well known black bone attached to
what is called the crown-piece. But nothing like this, in the present
case, had been done. The carcases of both whales had dropped astern;
carcases - (carcase) Schlachtkrper
and the head-laden ship not a little resembled a mule carrying a pair
of overburdening panniers.
overburdening - (overburden) Abraum, berlasten
panniers - (pannier) Packtasche, Fahrradtasche
Meantime, Fedallah was calmly eyeing the right whales head, and ever
and anon glancing from the deep wrinkles there to the lines in his own
hand. And Ahab chanced so to stand, that the Parsee occupied his
shadow; while, if the Parsees shadow was there at all it seemed only
to blend with, and lengthen Ahabs. As the crew toiled on, Laplandish
lengthen - verlngern
Laplandish - Lapplndisch
speculations were bandied among them, concerning all these passing
bandied - (bandy) verbreiten, wechseln
things.
Here, now, are two great whales, laying their heads together; let us
join them, and lay together our own.
Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right
Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales
noteworthy - bemerkenswert
regularly hunted by man. To the Nantucketer, they present the two
extremes of all the known varieties of the whale. As the external
difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a
observable - beobachtbar
head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequods side; and as we
may freely go from one to the other, by merely stepping across the
deck:"where, I should like to know, will you obtain a better chance to
study practical cetology than here?
In the first place, you are struck by the general contrast between
these heads. Both are massive enough in all conscience; but there is a
certain mathematical symmetry in the Sperm Whales which the Right
mathematical - mathematisch rechnerisch
symmetry - Symmetrie
Whales sadly lacks. There is more character in the Sperm Whales head.
As you behold it, you involuntarily yield the immense superiority to
him, in point of pervading dignity. In the present instance, too, this
dignity is heightened by the pepper and salt colour of his head at the
summit, giving token of advanced age and large experience. In short, he
advanced age - fortgeschrittenes Alter
is what the fishermen technically call a grey-headed whale.
Let us now note what is least dissimilar in these heads"namely, the two
dissimilar - ungleich
most important organs, the eye and the ear. Far back on the side of the
head, and low down, near the angle of either whales jaw, if you
narrowly search, you will at last see a lashless eye, which you would
fancy to be a young colts eye; so out of all proportion is it to the
proportion - Teil, Proportion, Anteil
magnitude of the head.
Now, from this peculiar sideway position of the whales eyes, it is
sideway - Seitenweg
plain that he can never see an object which is exactly ahead, no more
than he can one exactly astern. In a word, the position of the whales
eyes corresponds to that of a mans ears; and you may fancy, for
yourself, how it would fare with you, did you sideways survey objects
through your ears. You would find that you could only command some
thirty degrees of vision in advance of the straight side-line of sight;
side line - (side-line) Seitenlinie
and about thirty more behind it. If your bitterest foe were walking
straight towards you, with dagger uplifted in broad day, you would not
dagger - Dolch
be able to see him, any more than if he were stealing upon you from
behind. In a word, you would have two backs, so to speak; but, at the
same time, also, two fronts (side fronts): for what is it that makes
the front of a man"what, indeed, but his eyes?
Moreover, while in most other animals that I can now think of, the eyes
are so planted as imperceptibly to blend their visual power, so as to
imperceptibly - unmerkliche, unmerklich
produce one picture and not two to the brain; the peculiar position of
the whales eyes, effectually divided as they are by many cubic feet of
effectually - wirksame
cubic - q Kubik...;kubisch, wrfelig
solid head, which towers between them like a great mountain separating
two lakes in valleys; this, of course, must wholly separate the
impressions which each independent organ imparts. The whale, therefore,
must see one distinct picture on this side, and another distinct
picture on that side; while all between must be profound darkness and
nothingness to him. Man may, in effect, be said to look out on the
nothingness - Nichtvorhandensein, Nichts, Leere, Bedeutungslosigkeit
world from a sentry-box with two joined sashes for his window. But with
sashes - (sash) Schieberahmen, Schrpe
the whale, these two sashes are separately inserted, making two
distinct windows, but sadly impairing the view. This peculiarity of the
impairing - (impair) beeintrchtigen, schdigen
whales eyes is a thing always to be borne in mind in the fishery; and
to be remembered by the reader in some subsequent scenes.
A curious and most puzzling question might be started concerning this
puzzling - verwirrend, rtselhaft; (puzzle) Rtsel Puzzle, Geduldspie
visual matter as touching the Leviathan. But I must be content with a
hint. So long as a mans eyes are open in the light, the act of seeing
is involuntary; that is, he cannot then help mechanically seeing
involuntary - unabsichtlich, unwillkrlich, ungewollt, unfreiwilli
whatever objects are before him. Nevertheless, any ones experience
will teach him, that though he can take in an undiscriminating sweep of
undiscriminating - unterschiedslos
things at one glance, it is quite impossible for him, attentively, and
completely, to examine any two things"however large or however small"at
one and the same instant of time; never mind if they lie side by side
and touch each other. But if you now come to separate these two
objects, and surround each by a circle of profound darkness; then, in
order to see one of them, in such a manner as to bring your mind to
bear on it, the other will be utterly excluded from your contemporary
excluded - (exclude) ausschlieen
contemporary - zeitgenssisch, modern, zeitnah, Zeitgenosse, Zeitgenossin
consciousness. How is it, then, with the whale? True, both his eyes, in
themselves, must simultaneously act; but is his brain so much more
comprehensive, combining, and subtle than mans, that he can at the
same moment of time attentively examine two distinct prospects, one on
one side of him, and the other in an exactly opposite direction? If he
can, then is it as marvellous a thing in him, as if a man were able
simultaneously to go through the demonstrations of two distinct
demonstrations - (demonstration) Demonstration, Vorfhrung, Kundgebung
problems in Euclid. Nor, strictly investigated, is there any
incongruity in this comparison.
incongruity - Inkongruenz, Unvereinbarkeit, Ungleichheit, Disparitt
It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the
idle - trge, nicht in Betrieb, faul, nutzlos, unttig;faulenze
extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when
vacillations - (vacillation) Unentschlossenheit, Zgerlichkeit, Unschlssigkeit
beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer
beset - befallen, bedrngen
liability - Schuld, Schulden, Verbindlichkeit, Verpflichtung
frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly
frights - (fright) Angst, Schreck, Schrecken
proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their
perplexity - Perplexitt
divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them.
diametrically - diametral, diametrisch
But the ear of the whale is full as curious as the eye. If you are an
entire stranger to their race, you might hunt over these two heads for
hours, and never discover that organ. The ear has no external leaf
whatever; and into the hole itself you can hardly insert a quill, so
wondrously minute is it. It is lodged a little behind the eye. With
wondrously - auf wundersame Weise
respect to their ears, this important difference is to be observed
between the sperm whale and the right. While the ear of the former has
an external opening, that of the latter is entirely and evenly covered
evenly - ausgeglichene
over with a membrane, so as to be quite imperceptible from without.
membrane - Membran, Membrane, Hutchen
imperceptible - unmerklich
Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the
world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear
which is smaller than a hares? But if his eyes were broad as the lens
lens - Linse
of Herschels great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of
capacious - gerumig
porches - (porch) Vorbau, Vordach, Veranda
cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of
cathedrals - (cathedral) Kirche, Mnster, Kathedrale, Dom
hearing? Not at all."Why then do you try to enlarge your mind?
Subtilize it.
Subtilize - subtilisieren
Let us now with whatever levers and steam-engines we have at hand, cant
levers - (lever) Montiereisen (Reifen);Hebel
over the sperm whales head, that it may lie bottom up; then, ascending
by a ladder to the summit, have a peep down the mouth; and were it not
that the body is now completely separated from it, with a lantern we
might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach. But
Mammoth - Mammut
let us hold on here by this tooth, and look about us where we are. What
a really beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! from floor to ceiling,
chaste - keusch
lined, or rather papered with a glistening white membrane, glossy as
bridal satins.
satins - (satin) Satin, Satinstoff, Satintuch, Atlasstoff
But come out now, and look at this portentous lower jaw, which seems
like the long narrow lid of an immense snuff-box, with the hinge at one
snuff - schnffeln, schnuppern;Butzen, schnupfen, Schnupftabak
hinge - Angel, Scharnier, Trband, abhngen
end, instead of one side. If you pry it up, so as to get it overhead,
and expose its rows of teeth, it seems a terrific portcullis; and such,
portcullis - Fallgatter
alas! it proves to many a poor wight in the fishery, upon whom these
spikes fall with impaling force. But far more terrible is it to behold,
spikes - (spike) Nagel, Spitze, Stachel, hre, Getreidehre, hre
when fathoms down in the sea, you see some sulky whale, floating there
suspended, with his prodigious jaw, some fifteen feet long, hanging
straight down at right-angles with his body, for all the world like a
ships jib-boom. This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of
dispirited - (dispirit) entmutigen
sorts, perhaps; hypochondriac; and so supine, that the hinges of his
hypochondriac - hypochondrisch Hypochonder, Hypochonderin
supine - in Rckenlage Lagewort, Supinum
jaw have relaxed, leaving him there in that ungainly sort of plight, a
ungainly - unbeholfen
reproach to all his tribe, who must, no doubt, imprecate lock-jaws upon
reproach - Vorwurf Schande vorwerfen
imprecate - herabwnschen
him.
In most cases this lower jaw"being easily unhinged by a practised
unhinged - (unhinge) aus den Angeln heben
artist"is disengaged and hoisted on deck for the purpose of extracting
the ivory teeth, and furnishing a supply of that hard white whalebone
with which the fishermen fashion all sorts of curious articles,
including canes, umbrella-stocks, and handles to riding-whips.
whips - (Whip) Peitsche, Knute, Zagel , peitschen, auspeitschen
With a long, weary hoist the jaw is dragged on board, as if it were an
anchor; and when the proper time comes"some few days after the other
work"Queequeg, Daggoo, and Tashtego, being all accomplished dentists,
are set to drawing teeth. With a keen cutting-spade, Queequeg lances
the gums; then the jaw is lashed down to ringbolts, and a tackle being
ringbolts - (ringbolt) Ringschraube
rigged from aloft, they drag out these teeth, as Michigan oxen drag
stumps of old oaks out of wild wood lands. There are generally
stumps - (stump) Stumpf Estompe ratlos sein, verblfft sei
oaks - (oak) Eiche, Eichenholz, Eichen-
forty-two teeth in all; in old whales, much worn down, but undecayed;
undecayed - unverdorben
nor filled after our artificial fashion. The jaw is afterwards sawn
sawn - sgen, gesgt
into slabs, and piled away like joists for building houses.
joists - (joist) Balken, Querbalken, Holzbalken, Deckenbalken
Crossing the deck, let us now have a good long look at the Right
Whales head.
As in general shape the noble Sperm Whales head may be compared to a
Roman war-chariot (especially in front, where it is so broadly
chariot - Streitwagen Triumphwagen
rounded); so, at a broad view, the Right Whales head bears a rather
inelegant resemblance to a gigantic galliot-toed shoe. Two hundred
years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a
shoemakers last. And in this same last or shoe, that old woman of the
nursery tale, with the swarming brood, might very comfortably be
nursery - Kinderstube, Kinderzimmer, Kindergarten, Kinderzimmer
lodged, she and all her progeny.
But as you come nearer to this great head it begins to assume different
aspects, according to your point of view. If you stand on its summit
and look at these two F-shaped spoutholes, you would take the whole
spoutholes - Schlupflcher
head for an enormous bass-viol, and these spiracles, the apertures in
bass - Bass
viol - Gambe, Viola da Gamba, Kniegeige
spiracles - (spiracle) Atemloch, Spritzloch, Saugloch, Kellerfenster
apertures - (aperture) ffnung Blende Blendenzahl
its sounding-board. Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange,
crested, comb-like incrustation on the top of the mass"this green,
crested - (crest) Gipfel Kamm, Haube, Krone, Helmzier, Zimir
comb - Kamm
incrustation - Verkrustung
barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the crown, and the
Greenlanders - (Greenlander) Grnlnder, Grnlnderin
Southern fishers the bonnet of the Right Whale; fixing your eyes
solely on this, you would take the head for the trunk of some huge oak,
with a birds nest in its crotch. At any rate, when you watch those
live crabs that nestle here on this bonnet, such an idea will be almost
nestle - es sich gemtlich machen anschmiegen
bonnet - Haube Motorhaube
sure to occur to you; unless, indeed, your fancy has been fixed by the
technical term crown also bestowed upon it; in which case you will
technical term - Fachbegriff , Fachausdruck
take great interest in thinking how this mighty monster is actually a
diademed king of the sea, whose green crown has been put together for
diademed - (diadem) Diadem
him in this marvellous manner. But if this whale be a king, he is a
very sulky looking fellow to grace a diadem. Look at that hanging lower
diadem - Diadem
lip! what a huge sulk and pout is there! a sulk and pout, by
sulk - schmollen
pout - schmollen
carpenters measurement, about twenty feet long and five feet deep; a
measurement - Messung Ma
sulk and pout that will yield you some 500 gallons of oil and more.
A great pity, now, that this unfortunate whale should be hare-lipped.
unfortunate - unglcklich, unglckselig
hare - Hase
The fissure is about a foot across. Probably the mother during an
fissure - Riss, Spalte, rissig werden
important interval was sailing down the Peruvian coast, when
Peruvian - Peruaner, Peruanerin, peruanisch
earthquakes caused the beach to gape. Over this lip, as over a slippery
gape - ghnen;gaffe, angaffen
threshold, we now slide into the mouth. Upon my word were I at
slide into - hineingleiten
Mackinaw, I should take this to be the inside of an Indian wigwam. Good
Lord! is this the road that Jonah went? The roof is about twelve feet
high, and runs to a pretty sharp angle, as if there were a regular
ridge-pole there; while these ribbed, arched, hairy sides, present us
with those wondrous, half vertical, scimetar-shaped slats of whalebone,
slats - (slat) Leiste, Streifen, Lamelle
say three hundred on a side, which depending from the upper part of the
head or crown bone, form those Venetian blinds which have elsewhere
been cursorily mentioned. The edges of these bones are fringed with
cursorily - oberflchlich
fringed - (fringe) Franse, Saum, Einfassung, Rand, Peripherie, Randgruppe
hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in
strains - (strain) Spannung, starke Inanspruchnahme, Zug;anstrenge
whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes
retains - (retain) behalten festhalten
openmouthed - mit offenem Mund
through the seas of brit in feeding time. In the central blinds of
bone, as they stand in their natural order, there are certain curious
marks, curves, hollows, and ridges, whereby some whalemen calculate the
curves - (curve) Kurve Linie Kurven biegen, verbiegen
calculate - kalkulieren, berechnen, ausrechnen, sich etwas ausrechnen
creatures age, as the age of an oak by its circular rings. Though the
certainty of this criterion is far from demonstrable, yet it has the
criterion - Kriterium
demonstrable - nachweislich
savor of analogical probability. At any rate, if we yield to it, we
savor - Geschmack;genieen, recht genieen, auskosten, wrdigen
analogical - analogisch, Analogie
must grant a far greater age to the Right Whale than at first glance
will seem reasonable.
In old times, there seem to have prevailed the most curious fancies
concerning these blinds. One voyager in Purchas calls them the wondrous
whiskers inside of the whales mouth;* another, hogs bristles; a
third old gentleman in Hackluyt uses the following elegant language:
elegant - elegant, schick
There are about two hundred and fifty fins growing on each side of his
upper _chop_, which arch over his tongue on each side of his mouth.
chop - abhacken
*This reminds us that the Right Whale really has a sort of whisker, or
whisker - Barthaar, Barthaare , Schnurrhaar, Vibrisse, Haaresbreit
rather a moustache, consisting of a few scattered white hairs on the
moustache - Schnurrbart, Oberlippenbart, Schnauzbart, Schnauzer
upper part of the outer end of the lower jaw. Sometimes these tufts
tufts - (tuft) Bschel, Tuff
impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn
countenance.
As every one knows, these same hogs bristles, fins, whiskers,
bristles - (bristle) Borste
blinds, or whatever you please, furnish to the ladies their busks and
other stiffening contrivances. But in this particular, the demand has
stiffening - Versteifung; (stiffen) aussteifen, versteifen, verstrke
long been on the decline. It was in Queen Annes time that the bone was
in its glory, the farthingale being then all the fashion. And as those
farthingale - Reifrock
ancient dames moved about gaily, though in the jaws of the whale, as
you may say; even so, in a shower, with the like thoughtlessness, do we
thoughtlessness - Gedankenlosigkeit
nowadays fly under the same jaws for protection; the umbrella being a
tent spread over the same bone.
But now forget all about blinds and whiskers for a moment, and,
standing in the Right Whales mouth, look around you afresh. Seeing all
these colonnades of bone so methodically ranged about, would you not
colonnades - (colonnade) Kolonnade
think you were inside of the great Haarlem organ, and gazing upon its
thousand pipes? For a carpet to the organ we have a rug of the softest
rug - Teppich, Brcke
Turkey"the tongue, which is glued, as it were, to the floor of the
Turkey - Pute, Puter, Truthahn, Truthenne
mouth. It is very fat and tender, and apt to tear in pieces in hoisting
it on deck. This particular tongue now before us; at a passing glance I
should say it was a six-barreler; that is, it will yield you about that
amount of oil.
Ere this, you must have plainly seen the truth of what I started
with"that the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely
different heads. To sum up, then: in the Right Whales there is no
great well of sperm; no ivory teeth at all; no long, slender mandible
mandible - Unterkiefer,
of a lower jaw, like the Sperm Whales. Nor in the Sperm Whale are
there any of those blinds of bone; no huge lower lip; and scarcely
anything of a tongue. Again, the Right Whale has two external
spout-holes, the Sperm Whale only one.
Look your last, now, on these venerable hooded heads, while they yet
lie together; for one will soon sink, unrecorded, in the sea; the other
will not be very long in following.
Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whales there? It is the same
he died with, only some of the longer wrinkles in the forehead seem now
faded away. I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like
faded away - abgeklungen
placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death. But mark the
placidity - Gemtsruhe, Gelassenheit
speculative - spekulativ
other heads expression. See that amazing lower lip, pressed by
accident against the vessels side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw.
Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical
resolution in facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a
Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in
his latter years.
Ere quitting, for the nonce, the Sperm Whales head, I would have you,
as a sensible physiologist, simply"particularly remark its front
physiologist - Physiologe, Physiologin
aspect, in all its compacted collectedness. I would have you
investigate it now with the sole view of forming to yourself some
unexaggerated, intelligent estimate of whatever battering-ram power may
unexaggerated - unbertrieben
estimate - Schtzung, Abschtzung, Kostenvoranschlag, abschtzen
be lodged there. Here is a vital point; for you must either
satisfactorily settle this matter with yourself, or for ever remain an
satisfactorily - zufriedenstellend
infidel as to one of the most appalling, but not the less true events,
perhaps anywhere to be found in all recorded history.
You observe that in the ordinary swimming position of the Sperm Whale,
the front of his head presents an almost wholly vertical plane to the
water; you observe that the lower part of that front slopes
slopes - (slope) Steigung, Hang, Abhang, Ableitung
considerably backwards, so as to furnish more of a retreat for the long
socket which receives the boom-like lower jaw; you observe that the
mouth is entirely under the head, much in the same way, indeed, as
though your own mouth were entirely under your chin. Moreover you
observe that the whale has no external nose; and that what nose he
has"his spout hole"is on the top of his head; you observe that his eyes
and ears are at the sides of his head, nearly one third of his entire
length from the front. Wherefore, you must now have perceived that the
front of the Sperm Whales head is a dead, blind wall, without a single
organ or tender prominence of any sort whatsoever. Furthermore, you are
prominence - Protuberanz
now to consider that only in the extreme, lower, backward sloping part
sloping - (slop) Schmutzwasser
of the front of the head, is there the slightest vestige of bone; and
vestige - Spur berrest, berbleibsel
not till you get near twenty feet from the forehead do you come to the
full cranial development. So that this whole enormous boneless mass is
cranial - kranial, Schdel
boneless - schier
as one wad. Finally, though, as will soon be revealed, its contents
contents - (content) (to be content with) sich mit etwas begngen
comprise - bestehen aus beinhalten
most delicate - zierlichste
of the nature of the substance which so impregnably invests all that
impregnably - unbezwingliche, unberwindlich
apparent effeminacy. In some previous place I have described to you how
the blubber wraps the body of the whale, as the rind wraps an orange.
Just so with the head; but with this difference: about the head this
envelope, though not so thick, is of a boneless toughness, inestimable
toughness - Zhigkeit
inestimable - unschtzbar
by any man who has not handled it. The severest pointed harpoon, the
sharpest lance darted by the strongest human arm, impotently rebounds
impotently - unfhig
from it. It is as though the forehead of the Sperm Whale were paved
with horses hoofs. I do not think that any sensation lurks in it.
Bethink yourself also of another thing. When two large, loaded Indiamen
Indiamen - (Indiaman) Indianer
chance to crowd and crush towards each other in the docks, what do the
sailors do? They do not suspend between them, at the point of coming
contact, any merely hard substance, like iron or wood. No, they hold
there a large, round wad of tow and cork, enveloped in the thickest and
cork - Cork
toughest of ox-hide. That bravely and uninjured takes the jam which
toughest - (tough) zh widerstandsfhig knifflig, schwierig, Pech
bravely - tapfer, artig
would have snapped all their oaken handspikes and iron crow-bars. By
crow - Krhe
itself this sufficiently illustrates the obvious fact I drive at. But
illustrates - (illustrate) illustrieren
supplementary to this, it has hypothetically occurred to me, that as
hypothetically - hypothetische
ordinary fish possess what is called a swimming bladder in them,
bladder - Blase
capable, at will, of distension or contraction; and as the Sperm Whale,
distension - Dehnung
contraction - Verkleinerung, Kontraktion, Schrumpfung, Schrumpfen
as far as I know, has no such provision in him; considering, too, the
provision - Vorrat
otherwise inexplicable manner in which he now depresses his head
depresses - (depress) deprimieren
altogether beneath the surface, and anon swims with it high elevated
out of the water; considering the unobstructed elasticity of its
unobstructed - unversperrt
elasticity - Elastizitt
envelope; considering the unique interior of his head; it has
unique - einzigartig, unikal
hypothetically occurred to me, I say, that those mystical lung-celled
honeycombs there may possibly have some hitherto unknown and
honeycombs - (honeycomb) Wabe, Bienenwabe, Honigwabe
unsuspected connexion with the outer air, so as to be susceptible to
susceptible - anfllig, beeindruckbar, empfnglich, empfindlich
atmospheric distension and contraction. If this be so, fancy the
irresistibleness of that might, to which the most impalpable and
irresistibleness - Unwiderstehlichkeiten
most impalpable - unfhlbarste
destructive of all elements contributes.
destructive - destruktiv, schdlich, zerstrend
Now, mark. Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable
uninjurable - unjurierbar
wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a
mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood
is"by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest
obedient - gehorsam, folgsam
insect. So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the
specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this
specialities - (speciality) Spezialfach, Besonderheit, Spezialitt
concentrations - (concentration) Konzentration
expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more
inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all
feats - (feat) Kunststck
renounced - (renounce) sich distanzieren, sich verleugne
ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the
abide - aushalten ausstehen, ertragen, zahlen, verbleiben, weile
Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed
Isthmus - Isthmus, Landenge, Landbrcke
the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your
elevate - erhhen, anheben
eye-brow. For unless you own the whale, you are but a provincial and
provincial - provinziell, provinzial
sentimentalist in Truth. But clear Truth is a thing for salamander
sentimentalist - Gefhlsmensch
salamander - Salamander
giants only to encounter; how small the chances for the provincials
provincials - (provincial) provinziell, provinzial
then? What befell the weakling youth lifting the dread goddesss veil
weakling - Schwchling, Feigling, Weichei
at Lais?
Now comes the Baling of the Case. But to comprehend it aright, you must
Baling - Ballenpressen; (bal) Ballenpressen
know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated
upon.
Regarding the Sperm Whales head as a solid oblong, you may, on an
inclined plane, sideways divide it into two quoins,* whereof the lower
is the bony structure, forming the cranium and jaws, and the upper an
cranium - Hirnschdel, Hirnschale
unctuous mass wholly free from bones; its broad forward end forming the
expanded vertical apparent forehead of the whale. At the middle of the
forehead horizontally subdivide this upper quoin, and then you have two
subdivide - unterteilen (in), aufgliedern
almost equal parts, which before were naturally divided by an internal
wall of a thick tendinous substance.
tendinous - tendins
*Quoin is not a Euclidean term. It belongs to the pure nautical
Euclidean - euklidisch [math.]
mathematics. I know not that it has been defined before. A quoin is a
solid which differs from a wedge in having its sharp end formed by the
wedge in - einklemmen
steep inclination of one side, instead of the mutual tapering of both
inclination - Neigung
sides.
The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of
subdivided - (subdivide) unterteilen (in), aufgliedern
honeycomb - Wabe, Bienenwabe, Honigwabe
oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand
recrossing - (recross) erneut berqueren
infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole
infiltrated - (infiltrate) infiltrieren Infiltrat
extent. The upper part, known as the Case, may be regarded as the great
Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale. And as that famous great tierce is
mystically carved in front, so the whales vast plaited forehead forms
mystically - mystisch, mystischen
innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his
adornment - Verzierung
wondrous tun. Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished
with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun
most excellent - famoseste
Rhenish - Rheinisch
of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily
vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure,
limpid, and odoriferous state. Nor is this precious substance found
limpid - klar, durchsichtig
odoriferous - wohlriechend
unalloyed in any other part of the creature. Though in life it remains
unalloyed - unvermischt
perfectly fluid, yet, upon exposure to the air, after death, it soon
begins to concrete; sending forth beautiful crystalline shoots, as when
crystalline - kristallin, kristallinisch, kristallen, Kristall
the first thin delicate ice is just forming in water. A large whales
case generally yields about five hundred gallons of sperm, though from
unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it is spilled, leaks, and
leaks - (leak) undicht
dribbles away, or is otherwise irrevocably lost in the ticklish
dribbles - (dribble) sabbern, geifern, tropfen, dribbeln, Dribbel
business of securing what you can.
I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun was
costly - teuer, kostspielig
coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not
possibly have compared with the silken pearl-coloured membrane, like
the lining of a fine pelisse, forming the inner surface of the Sperm
inner surface - Innenseite
Whales case.
It will have been seen that the Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale
embraces the entire length of the entire top of the head; and since"as
has been elsewhere set forth"the head embraces one third of the whole
length of the creature, then setting that length down at eighty feet
for a good sized whale, you have more than twenty-six feet for the
depth of the tun, when it is lengthwise hoisted up and down against a
ships side.
As in decapitating the whale, the operators instrument is brought
decapitating - (decapitate) kpfen
close to the spot where an entrance is subsequently forced into the
spermaceti magazine; he has, therefore, to be uncommonly heedful, lest
a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly
untimely - vorzeitig, verfrht
invade - eindringen, verletzen, berfallen, einmarschieren, einfallen
sanctuary - Zuflucht, Herberge, Asyl
wastingly - verschwenderisch
let out its invaluable contents. It is this decapitated end of the
head, also, which is at last elevated out of the water, and retained in
that position by the enormous cutting tackles, whose hempen
combinations, on one side, make quite a wilderness of ropes in that
wilderness - Wildnis, Wste
quarter.
Thus much being said, attend now, I pray you, to that marvellous and"in
this particular instance"almost fatal operation whereby the Sperm
Whales great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped.
tapped - (tap) Wasserhahn;Schlacke absteche
Nimble as a cat, Tashtego mounts aloft; and without altering his erect
posture, runs straight out upon the overhanging mainyard-arm, to the
overhanging - (overhang) berhngen, Überhang;hervorstehen
with him a light tackle called a whip, consisting of only two parts,
travelling through a single-sheaved block. Securing this block, so that
travelling through - durchreisend
sheaved - (sheave) Laufrolle
it hangs down from the yard-arm, he swings one end of the rope, till it
is caught and firmly held by a hand on deck. Then, hand-over-hand, down
the other part, the Indian drops through the air, till dexterously he
lands on the summit of the head. There"still high elevated above the
rest of the company, to whom he vivaciously cries"he seems some Turkish
vivaciously - temperamentvoll
Muezzin calling the good people to prayers from the top of a tower. A
Muezzin - Muezzin
short-handled sharp spade being sent up to him, he diligently searches
for the proper place to begin breaking into the Tun. In this business
he proceeds very heedfully, like a treasure-hunter in some old house,
sounding the walls to find where the gold is masoned in. By the time
this cautious search is over, a stout iron-bound bucket, precisely like
a well-bucket, has been attached to one end of the whip; while the
other end, being stretched across the deck, is there held by two or
three alert hands. These last now hoist the bucket within grasp of the
alert - alarmieren;Alarm, Warnton, Alarmruf, wachsam
Indian, to whom another person has reached up a very long pole.
Inserting this pole into the bucket, Tashtego downward guides the
bucket into the Tun, till it entirely disappears; then giving the word
to the seamen at the whip, up comes the bucket again, all bubbling like
a dairy-maids pail of new milk. Carefully lowered from its height, the
dairy - Molkerei Milchladen Molkereiprodukte, Milchprodukte, Milch
pail - Eimer
full-freighted vessel is caught by an appointed hand, and quickly
emptied into a large tub. Then remounting aloft, it again goes through
remounting - (remount) wieder einhngen
the same round until the deep cistern will yield no more. Towards the
end, Tashtego has to ram his long pole harder and harder, and deeper
and deeper into the Tun, until some twenty feet of the pole have gone
down.
Now, the people of the Pequod had been baling some time in this way;
several tubs had been filled with the fragrant sperm; when all at once
a queer accident happened. Whether it was that Tashtego, that wild
Indian, was so heedless and reckless as to let go for a moment his
heedless - unachtsam, achtlos, nicht beachtend, unaufmerksam
one-handed hold on the great cabled tackles suspending the head; or
cabled - (cable) Seil, Tau, Kabel, Leitung, Kette
whether the place where he stood was so treacherous and oozy; or
oozy - schlammig
whether the Evil One himself would have it to fall out so, without
stating his particular reasons; how it was exactly, there is no telling
now; but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came
suckingly up"my God! poor Tashtego"like the twin reciprocating bucket
suckingly - lutschend
in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of
Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling, went clean out of
sight!
Man overboard! cried Daggoo, who amid the general consternation first
came to his senses. Swing the bucket this way! and putting one foot
into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip
itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost
before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom. Meantime, there
was a terrible tumult. Looking over the side, they saw the before
lifeless head throbbing and heaving just below the surface of the sea,
as if that moment seized with some momentous idea; whereas it was only
the poor Indian unconsciously revealing by those struggles the perilous
struggles - (struggle) Kampf, Gefecht, sich durchbeien, sich schwer tun
depth to which he had sunk.
At this instant, while Daggoo, on the summit of the head, was clearing
the whip"which had somehow got foul of the great cutting tackles"a
sharp cracking noise was heard; and to the unspeakable horror of all,
one of the two enormous hooks suspending the head tore out, and with a
vast vibration the enormous mass sideways swung, till the drunk ship
reeled and shook as if smitten by an iceberg. The one remaining hook,
upon which the entire strain now depended, seemed every instant to be
on the point of giving way; an event still more likely from the violent
giving way - nachgebend
motions of the head.
Come down, come down! yelled the seamen to Daggoo, but with one hand
holding on to the heavy tackles, so that if the head should drop, he
would still remain suspended; the negro having cleared the foul line,
rammed down the bucket into the now collapsed well, meaning that the
buried harpooneer should grasp it, and so be hoisted out.
In heavens name, man, cried Stubb, are you ramming home a cartridge
ramming - (ram) RAM
cartridge - Patrone, Kartusche
there?"Avast! How will that help him; jamming that iron-bound bucket on
top of his head? Avast, will ye!
Stand clear of the tackle! cried a voice like the bursting of a
rocket.
rocket - Feuerwerksrakete; Rakete, Anpfiff
Almost in the same instant, with a thunder-boom, the enormous mass
dropped into the sea, like Niagaras Table-Rock into the whirlpool; the
suddenly relieved hull rolled away from it, to far down her glittering
copper; and all caught their breath, as half swinging"now over the
sailors heads, and now over the water"Daggoo, through a thick mist of
spray, was dimly beheld clinging to the pendulous tackles, while poor,
pendulous - hngend
buried-alive Tashtego was sinking utterly down to the bottom of the
sea! But hardly had the blinding vapor cleared away, when a naked
cleared away - weggerumt
figure with a boarding-sword in his hand, was for one swift moment seen
hovering over the bulwarks. The next, a loud splash announced that my
splash - Spritzen pltschern, platschen
brave Queequeg had dived to the rescue. One packed rush was made to the
rescue - retten Rettung
side, and every eye counted every ripple, as moment followed moment,
ripple - Brummspannung, Welligkeit
and no sign of either the sinker or the diver could be seen. Some hands
sinker - Bleigewicht
now jumped into a boat alongside, and pushed a little off from the
ship.
Ha! ha! cried Daggoo, all at once, from his now quiet, swinging perch
overhead; and looking further off from the side, we saw an arm thrust
upright from the blue waves; a sight strange to see, as an arm thrust
forth from the grass over a grave.
Both! both!"it is both!"cried Daggoo again with a joyful shout; and
soon after, Queequeg was seen boldly striking out with one hand, and
with the other clutching the long hair of the Indian. Drawn into the
waiting boat, they were quickly brought to the deck; but Tashtego was
long in coming to, and Queequeg did not look very brisk.
Now, how had this noble rescue been accomplished? Why, diving after the
slowly descending head, Queequeg with his keen sword had made side
lunges near its bottom, so as to scuttle a large hole there; then
lunges - (lunge) Ausfall Ausfallschritt losstrzen, ausfallen
dropping his sword, had thrust his long arm far inwards and upwards,
and so hauled out poor Tash by the head. He averred, that upon first
averred - (aver) behaupten
thrusting in for him, a leg was presented; but well knowing that that
was not as it ought to be, and might occasion great trouble;"he had
thrust back the leg, and by a dexterous heave and toss, had wrought a
somerset upon the Indian; so that with the next trial, he came forth in
the good old way"head foremost. As for the great head itself, that was
doing as well as could be expected.
And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of
obstetrics - (obstetric) geburtshilflich
Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was
successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and
apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be
impediments - (impediment) Hindernis, Behinderung
forgotten. Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing
Midwifery - Geburtshilfe
and boxing, riding and rowing.
I know that this queer adventure of the Gay-Headers will be sure to
seem incredible to some landsmen, though they themselves may have
either seen or heard of some ones falling into a cistern ashore; an
accident which not seldom happens, and with much less reason too than
the Indians, considering the exceeding slipperiness of the curb of the
slipperiness - Schlpfrigkeit
curb - Beschrnkung, Zurckhaltung, Zwang, Einschrnkung
Sperm Whales well.
But, peradventure, it may be sagaciously urged, how is this? We thought
sagaciously - scharfsinnig, kluge
the tissued, infiltrated head of the Sperm Whale, was the lightest and
tissued - (tissue) Gewebe Papier, Tuch, oilet paper
most corky part about him; and yet thou makest it sink in an element of
corky - korkartig
a far greater specific gravity than itself. We have thee there. Not at
specific gravity - Dichte , spezifisches Gewicht
all, but I have ye; for at the time poor Tash fell in, the case had
been nearly emptied of its lighter contents, leaving little but the
dense tendinous wall of the well"a double welded, hammered substance,
as I have before said, much heavier than the sea water, and a lump of
which sinks in it like lead almost. But the tendency to rapid sinking
in this substance was in the present instance materially counteracted
counteracted - (counteract) entgegenwirken, bekmpfen
by the other parts of the head remaining undetached from it, so that it
undetached - nicht abgetrennt
sank very slowly and deliberately indeed, affording Queequeg a fair
chance for performing his agile obstetrics on the run, as you may say.
agile - behnde, agil, wendig
Yes, it was a running delivery, so it was.
Now, had Tashtego perished in that head, it had been a very precious
perishing; smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant
smothered - (smother) ersticken
daintiest - (dainty) Delikatesse fein, zart, zierlich
spermaceti; coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber
coffined - (coffin) Sarg einsargen
hearsed - (hears) vernimmt, hrt
tombed - (tomb) Grabmal, Gruft
and sanctum sanctorum of the whale. Only one sweeter end can readily be
sanctum - Allerheiligstes
recalled"the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey
honey - Honig
in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that
leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed. How
many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Platos honey head, and
sweetly perished there?
To scan the lines of his face, or feel the bumps on the head of this
bumps - (bump) Schlag, Sto, Bums,
Leviathan; this is a thing which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has
Physiognomist - Gesichtsleser, Gesichtsleserin, Physiognomiker, Physiognomikerin
Phrenologist - Phrenologe, Phrenologin
as yet undertaken. Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as
undertaken - (undertake) unternehmen, ausfhren, verpflichten
hopeful - hoffnungsvoll
for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar,
scrutinized - (scrutinize) grndlich prfen, hinterfrage
or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the
Gall - Galle
manipulated - (manipulate) manipulieren
Pantheon. Still, in that famous work of his, Lavater not only treats of
Pantheon - Pantheon
the various faces of men, but also attentively studies the faces of
horses, birds, serpents, and fish; and dwells in detail upon the
dwells - (dwell) leben, verbleiben, wohnen, verweilen
modifications of expression discernible therein. Nor have Gall and his
modifications - (modification) nderung, Abnderung, Modifikation
disciple Spurzheim failed to throw out some hints touching the
disciple - Jnger, Jngerin
phrenological characteristics of other beings than man. Therefore,
phrenological - phrenologisch
though I am but ill qualified for a pioneer, in the application of
these two semi-sciences to the whale, I will do my endeavor. I try all
things; I achieve what I can.
Physiognomically regarded, the Sperm Whale is an anomalous creature. He
Physiognomically - Physiognomisch
anomalous - unregelmig, irregulr, anomal
has no proper nose. And since the nose is the central and most
conspicuous of the features; and since it perhaps most modifies and
modifies - (modify) ndern, abndern, modifizieren
finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that
its entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect
appendage - Extremitt, Krperglied, Gliedmae, Auswuchs
the countenance of the whale. For as in landscape gardening, a spire,
spire - Turmspitze, Spitze (Turm-)
cupola, monument, or tower of some sort, is deemed almost indispensable
cupola - Kuppel
to the completion of the scene; so no face can be physiognomically in
keeping without the elevated open-work belfry of the nose. Dash the
open work - (open-work) durchbrochen
belfry - Glockenturm Glockenstube Belagerungsturm Bergfried
nose from Phidiass marble Jove, and what a sorry remainder!
remainder - Rest, Teilungsrest, Restposten, runtersetzen
Nevertheless, Leviathan is of so mighty a magnitude, all his
proportions are so stately, that the same deficiency which in the
proportions - (proportion) Teil, Proportion, Anteil
sculptured Jove were hideous, in him is no blemish at all. Nay, it is
an added grandeur. A nose to the whale would have been impertinent. As
impertinent - unverschmt, impertinent, irrelevant, unwichtig
on your physiognomical voyage you sail round his vast head in your
physiognomical - physiognomisch
sail round - umschiffen
jolly-boat, your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the
conceptions - (conception) Empfngnis Vorstellung, Konzeption
reflection that he has a nose to be pulled. A pestilent conceit, which
so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest
insist - auf ... bestehen
obtruding - aufdrngend; (obtrude) aufdrngend
royal beadle on his throne.
beadle - Bttel, Kirchendiener
In some particulars, perhaps the most imposing physiognomical view to
be had of the Sperm Whale, is that of the full front of his head. This
aspect is sublime.
In thought, a fine human brow is like the East when troubled with the
morning. In the repose of the pasture, the curled brow of the bull has
curled - (curl) Locke
a touch of the grand in it. Pushing heavy cannon up mountain defiles,
defiles - (defile) defilieren
the elephants brow is majestic. Human or animal, the mystical brow is
as that great golden seal affixed by the German emperors to their
seal - versiegeln;Siegel , Stempel , Seehund , Robbe ;sich etw. sichern;Plombe
affixed - (affix) Anhang, Anhngsel, Affix, Zusatzsilbe, befestige
German - Deutscher , Deutsche, Germane, Germanin, Achtelcicero, Deutsc
decrees. It signifies"God: done this day by my hand. But in most
decrees - (decree) Erlass, Dekret, Verordnung, Verfgung, Beschluss
creatures, nay in man himself, very often the brow is but a mere strip
of alpine land lying along the snow line. Few are the foreheads which
alpine - alpin
snow line - Schneefallgrenze , Schneegrenze
foreheads - (forehead) Stirn
like Shakespeares or Melancthons rise so high, and descend so low,
that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes;
tideless - gezeitenlos
and all above them in the foreheads wrinkles, you seem to track the
antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters
antlered - geweiht
track the snow prints of the deer. But in the great Sperm Whale, this
high and mighty god-like dignity inherent in the brow is so immensely
immensely - unermesslich, ungeheuer, extrem
amplified, that gazing on it, in that full front view, you feel the
amplified - (amplify) erman: verstrken gloss ore intense; vergrern gloss
front view - Vorderansicht
Deity and the dread powers more forcibly than in beholding any other
object in living nature. For you see no one point precisely; not one
distinct feature is revealed; no nose, eyes, ears, or mouth; no face;
he has none, proper; nothing but that one broad firmament of a
firmament - Firmament
forehead, pleated with riddles; dumbly lowering with the doom of boats,
pleated - (pleat) Falte plissieren, in Falten legen, flteln
dumbly - stumme
and ships, and men. Nor, in profile, does this wondrous brow diminish;
though that way viewed its grandeur does not domineer upon you so. In
domineer - tyrannisieren
profile, you plainly perceive that horizontal, semi-crescentic
depression in the foreheads middle, which, in man, is Lavaters mark
of genius.
genius - Genie Genialitt
But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a
nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his
pyramidical silence. And this reminds me that had the great Sperm Whale
been known to the young Orient World, he would have been deified by
Orient - Osten;orientieren, ausrichten;Orient
their child-magian thoughts. They deified the crocodile of the Nile,
magian - Magier
crocodile - Krokodil
because the crocodile is tongueless; and the Sperm Whale has no tongue,
tongueless - zungenlos
or at least it is so exceedingly small, as to be incapable of
protrusion. If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall
protrusion - Herausragen, Heraustreten, Vorstehen, Ausbeulen, Vorstlpen
lure back to their birth-right, the merry May-day gods of old; and
lure - kdern;Kder
May Day - (May-Day) der Erste Mai
livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; in the now
livingly - lebendig
enthrone - einsetzen
egotistical - egoistisch
unhaunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Joves high seat, the great
unhaunted - Ungeheuerlich
Sperm Whale shall lord it.
Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics. But there is
deciphered - (decipher) dechiffrieren, entschlsseln, entziffern
granite - Granit
no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every mans and every beings
decipher - dechiffrieren, entschlsseln, entziffern
face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing
Physiognomy - Physiognomik
fable. If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could
not read the simplest peasants face in its profounder and more subtle
meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of
unlettered - ungebildet
Chaldee - Chaldisch
the Sperm Whales brow? I but put that brow before you. Read it if you
can.
If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist
Sphinx - Sphinx
his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to
geometrical - geometrische
square.
In the full-grown creature the skull will measure at least twenty feet
in length. Unhinge the lower jaw, and the side view of this skull is as
Unhinge - aus den Angeln heben
side view - Seitenansicht
the side of a moderately inclined plane resting throughout on a level
base. But in life"as we have elsewhere seen"this inclined plane is
angularly filled up, and almost squared by the enormous superincumbent
angularly - eckig
mass of the junk and sperm. At the high end the skull forms a crater to
crater - Becher
bed that part of the mass; while under the long floor of this crater"in
another cavity seldom exceeding ten inches in length and as many in
cavity - Hohlraum, Gravur, Aushhlung, Loch, Hhle
depth"reposes the mere handful of this monsters brain. The brain is at
least twenty feet from his apparent forehead in life; it is hidden away
behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the
outworks - (outwork) Heimarbeit
citadel - Zitadelle
amplified fortifications of Quebec. So like a choice casket is it
fortifications - (fortification) Festungsbau, Befestigen, Festung, Fort
secreted in him, that I have known some whalemen who peremptorily deny
that the Sperm Whale has any other brain than that palpable semblance
of one formed by the cubic-yards of his sperm magazine. Lying in
strange folds, courses, and convolutions, to their apprehensions, it
convolutions - (convolution) Windung, Zusammenwicklung
seems more in keeping with the idea of his general might to regard that
mystic part of him as the seat of his intelligence.
It is plain, then, that phrenologically the head of this Leviathan, in
the creatures living intact state, is an entire delusion. As for his
true brain, you can then see no indications of it, nor feel any. The
whale, like all things that are mighty, wears a false brow to the
common world.
If you unload his skull of its spermy heaps and then take a rear view
unload - entladen, ausladen
spermy - Spermien
rear view - Rckansicht
of its rear end, which is the high end, you will be struck by its
resemblance to the human skull, beheld in the same situation, and from
the same point of view. Indeed, place this reversed skull (scaled down
reversed - (revers) Revers
scaled - (scale) Skala, Kesselsteine, Schuppe;ersteigen, erkletter
to the human magnitude) among a plate of mens skulls, and you would
involuntarily confound it with them; and remarking the depressions on
confound - verwirren verschlimmern, verschlechtern, besiegen, verfluche
remarking - (remark) bemerken;Anmerkung, Bemerkung
one part of its summit, in phrenological phrase you would say"This man
had no self-esteem, and no veneration. And by those negations,
veneration - Verehrung
negations - (negation) Verneinung, Negierung, Negation
considered along with the affirmative fact of his prodigious bulk and
affirmative - affirmativ affirmativer Satz
power, you can best form to yourself the truest, though not the most
best form - Bestform
exhilarating conception of what the most exalted potency is.
exhilarating - (exhilarate) beglcken, beschwingen, erregen, berauschen
But if from the comparative dimensions of the whales proper brain, you
deem it incapable of being adequately charted, then I have another idea
deem - halten, erachten, ansehen
for you. If you attentively regard almost any quadrupeds spine, you
will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebræ to a strung
necklace of dwarfed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the
dwarfed - (dwarf) Zwerg, Zwergin, Zwergstern
rudimental - ansatzweise, elementar
skull proper. It is a German conceit, that the vertebræ are absolutely
undeveloped skulls. But the curious external resemblance, I take it the
undeveloped - unentwickelt unbebaut
Germans were not the first men to perceive. A foreign friend once
pointed it out to me, in the skeleton of a foe he had slain, and with
the vertebræ of which he was inlaying, in a sort of basso-relievo, the
inlaying - Tfelung; (inlay) Plombe
basso - Bass
beaked prow of his canoe. Now, I consider that the phrenologists have
phrenologists - (phrenologist) Phrenologe, Phrenologin
omitted an important thing in not pushing their investigations from the
cerebellum through the spinal canal. For I believe that much of a mans
cerebellum - Kleinhirn
spinal - Wirbelsule
character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel
your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine
joist - Balken, Querbalken, Holzbalken, Deckenbalken
never yet upheld a full and noble soul. I rejoice in my spine, as in
upheld - (uphold) hochheben, hochhalten, aufrecht halte
rejoice - freuen
the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the
world.
Apply this spinal branch of phrenology to the Sperm Whale. His cranial
phrenology - Phrenologie
cavity is continuous with the first neck-vertebra; and in that vertebra
the bottom of the spinal canal will measure ten inches across, being
eight in height, and of a triangular figure with the base downwards. As
it passes through the remaining vertebræ the canal tapers in size, but
for a considerable distance remains of large capacity. Now, of course,
this canal is filled with much the same strangely fibrous substance"the
fibrous - faserig
spinal cord"as the brain; and directly communicates with the brain. And
what is still more, for many feet after emerging from the brains
emerging - (emerge) erscheinen, auftauchen, herauskommen, davonkomme
cavity, the spinal cord remains of an undecreasing girth, almost equal
undecreasing - nicht abnehmen
to that of the brain. Under all these circumstances, would it be
unreasonable to survey and map out the whales spine phrenologically?
unreasonable - unvernnftig, kompromisslos, nicht nachvollziehbar, unklug
For, viewed in this light, the wonderful comparative smallness of his
smallness - Kleinheit
brain proper is more than compensated by the wonderful comparative
compensated - (compensate) kompensieren ausgleichen eine Kompensation zahlen
magnitude of his spinal cord.
But leaving this hint to operate as it may with the phrenologists, I
would merely assume the spinal theory for a moment, in reference to the
Sperm Whales hump. This august hump, if I mistake not, rises over one
of the larger vertebræ, and is, therefore, in some sort, the outer
convex mould of it. From its relative situation then, I should call
convex - konvex
this high hump the organ of firmness or indomitableness in the Sperm
Whale. And that the great monster is indomitable, you will yet have
indomitable - unerschtterlich, unbeugsam, unbezhmbar
reason to know.
The predestinated day arrived, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau,
Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen.
At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and
Germans are now among the least; but here and there at very wide
intervals of latitude and longitude, you still occasionally meet with
their flag in the Pacific.
For some reason, the Jungfrau seemed quite eager to pay her respects.
While yet some distance from the Pequod, she rounded to, and dropping a
boat, her captain was impelled towards us, impatiently standing in the
bows instead of the stern.
What has he in his hand there? cried Starbuck, pointing to something
wavingly held by the German. Impossible!"a lamp-feeder!
wavingly - winkend
Not that, said Stubb, no, no, its a coffee-pot, Mr. Starbuck; hes
coming off to make us our coffee, is the Yarman; dont you see that big
tin can there alongside of him?"thats his boiling water. Oh! hes all
right, is the Yarman.
Go along with you, cried Flask, its a lamp-feeder and an oil-can.
feeder - Bewsserungsgraben, Einspeisung
Hes out of oil, and has come a-begging.
However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the
whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old
invertedly - auf den Kopf gestellt
contradict - widersprechen
proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing
really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did
indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare.
indubitably - unzweifelhaft
As he mounted the deck, Ahab abruptly accosted him, without at all
heeding what he had in his hand; but in his broken lingo, the German
heeding - (heed) beherzigen, beachten
soon evinced his complete ignorance of the White Whale; immediately
turning the conversation to his lamp-feeder and oil can, with some
remarks touching his having to turn into his hammock at night in
profound darkness"his last drop of Bremen oil being gone, and not a
single flying-fish yet captured to supply the deficiency; concluding by
hinting that his ship was indeed what in the Fishery is technically
called a _clean_ one (that is, an empty one), well deserving the name
deserving - verdient; (deserve) verdienen
of Jungfrau or the Virgin.
His necessities supplied, Derick departed; but he had not gained his
ships side, when whales were almost simultaneously raised from the
mast-heads of both vessels; and so eager for the chase was Derick, that
without pausing to put his oil-can and lamp-feeder aboard, he slewed
slewed - (slew) sich drehen, sich herumdrehen;Menge
round his boat and made after the leviathan lamp-feeders.
feeders - (feeder) Bewsserungsgraben, Einspeisung
Now, the game having risen to leeward, he and the other three German
boats that soon followed him, had considerably the start of the
Pequods keels. There were eight whales, an average pod. Aware of their
pod - Schote, Hlse, Kapsel, Rettungskapsel, Kabine, Schule
danger, they were going all abreast with great speed straight before
the wind, rubbing their flanks as closely as so many spans of horses in
spans - (span) umfassen;Spanne, Bereich, drehen
harness. They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling
harness - Geschirr, Pferdegeschirr, Gurt, Anschnallgurt, vorspannen
unrolling - (unroll) abrollen
a great wide parchment upon the sea.
parchment - Pergament Pergamentpapier
Full in this rapid wake, and many fathoms in the rear, swam a huge,
humped old bull, which by his comparatively slow progress, as well as
humped - (hump) Hgel Buckel Hcker bumsen
by the unusual yellowish incrustations overgrowing him, seemed
incrustations - (incrustation) Verkrustung
overgrowing - (overgrow) berwuchern
afflicted with the jaundice, or some other infirmity. Whether this
afflicted with - geplagt
jaundice - Gelbsucht, Ikterus, sich verfrben, rot anlaufen
infirmity - Gebrechlichkeit
whale belonged to the pod in advance, seemed questionable; for it is
questionable - fragwrdig, zwiespltig, gewagt, verwegen
not customary for such venerable leviathans to be at all social.
Nevertheless, he stuck to their wake, though indeed their back water
must have retarded him, because the white-bone or swell at his broad
retarded - (retard) Verzgerung, Versptung, verhindern, verschiebe
muzzle was a dashed one, like the swell formed when two hostile
muzzle - Schnauze Maulkorb Mndung einen Maulkorb anlegen jemandem einen Maulkorb verpassen
currents meet. His spout was short, slow, and laborious; coming forth
with a choking sort of gush, and spending itself in torn shreds,
followed by strange subterranean commotions in him, which seemed to
commotions - (commotion) Aufregung Spektakel , Theater, Zirkus, Aufstand
have egress at his other buried extremity, causing the waters behind
him to upbubble.
Whos got some paregoric? said Stubb, he has the stomach-ache, Im
stomach ache - (stomach-ache) Leibschmerzen
afraid. Lord, think of having half an acre of stomach-ache! Adverse
acre - Morgen, Acker, Joch, Joch Landes
ache - Schmerz
Adverse - widrig gegnerisch
winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys. Its the first foul wind
I ever knew to blow from astern; but look, did ever whale yaw so
yaw - gieren, vom Kurs abweichen
before? it must be, hes lost his tiller.
As an overladen Indiaman bearing down the Hindostan coast with a deck
overladen - (overlade) berladen
Indiaman - Indianer
load of frightened horses, careens, buries, rolls, and wallows on her
load - Last, Beschickung (Ladung), Belastung;beladen, ich ld
wallows - (wallow) im Schmutz wlzen
way; so did this old whale heave his aged bulk, and now and then partly
turning over on his cumbrous rib-ends, expose the cause of his devious
cumbrous - lstig
wake in the unnatural stump of his starboard fin. Whether he had lost
that fin in battle, or had been born without it, it were hard to say.
Only wait a bit, old chap, and Ill give ye a sling for that wounded
sling - Armschlinge
arm, cried cruel Flask, pointing to the whale-line near him.
Mind he dont sling thee with it, cried Starbuck. Give way, or the
German will have him.
With one intent all the combined rival boats were pointed for this one
fish, because not only was he the largest, and therefore the most
valuable whale, but he was nearest to them, and the other whales were
going with such great velocity, moreover, as almost to defy pursuit for
the time. At this juncture the Pequods keels had shot by the three
German boats last lowered; but from the great start he had had,
Dericks boat still led the chase, though every moment neared by his
foreign rivals. The only thing they feared, was, that from being
rivals - (rival) Gegner, Rivale, Konkurrent, Gegnerin
already so nigh to his mark, he would be enabled to dart his iron
before they could completely overtake and pass him. As for Derick, he
seemed quite confident that this would be the case, and occasionally
with a deriding gesture shook his lamp-feeder at the other boats.
deriding - (deride) verhhnen, verlachen, verspotten, lustig machen ber
gesture - Geste, Gebrde, gestikulieren, erman: (jemandem etwas) bedeuten
The ungracious and ungrateful dog! cried Starbuck; he mocks and
ungracious - unfreundlich, ungndig
mocks - (mock) Nachahmung, Imitation, Parodie, Veralberung, Prototy
dares me with the very poor-box I filled for him not five minutes
dares - (dare) sich getrauen, wagen, jemanden herausfordern
ago!"then in his old intense whisper"Give way, greyhounds! Dog to
greyhounds - (greyhound) Windhund, Windhundrde, Windhndin, Windhundwelpe
it!
I tell ye what it is, men"cried Stubb to his crew"its against my
religion to get mad; but Id like to eat that villainous
villainous - niedertrchtig, bsartig
Yarman"Pull"wont ye? Are ye going to let that rascal beat ye? Do ye
love brandy? A hogshead of brandy, then, to the best man. Come, why
brandy - Kognak, Brandy, Weinbrand, Branntwein, Kurzer
dont some of ye burst a blood-vessel? Whos that been dropping an
anchor overboard"we dont budge an inch"were becalmed. Halloo, heres
Halloo - hallo
grass growing in the boats bottom"and by the Lord, the mast theres
budding. This wont do, boys. Look at that Yarman! The short and long
budding - angehend, aufkeimend, im Erblhe
of it is, men, will ye spit fire or not?
spit - speien, brutzeln, knistern (Feuer), spucken;Bratspie
Oh! see the suds he makes! cried Flask, dancing up and down"What a
suds - Seifenlauge, Schaum; (sud) Seifenlauge, Schaum
hump"Oh, _do_ pile on the beef"lays like a log! Oh! my lads, _do_
spring"slap-jacks and quahogs for supper, you know, my lads"baked clams
jacks - (Jack) Hans, Hanns, Hannes, Hnsel
and muffins"oh, _do_, _do_, spring,"hes a hundred barreller"dont lose
muffins - (muffin) Muffin
barreller - Fabinder
him now"dont oh, _dont!_"see that Yarman"Oh, wont ye pull for your
duff, my lads"such a sog! such a sogger! Dont ye love sperm? There
sogger - Sauger
goes three thousand dollars, men!"a bank!"a whole bank! The bank of
England!"Oh, _do_, _do_, _do!_"Whats that Yarman about now?
At this moment Derick was in the act of pitching his lamp-feeder at the
advancing boats, and also his oil-can; perhaps with the double view of
retarding his rivals way, and at the same time economically
retarding - (retard) Verzgerung, Versptung, verhindern, verschiebe
economically - betriebswirtschaftlich
accelerating his own by the momentary impetus of the backward toss.
The unmannerly Dutch dogger! cried Stubb. Pull now, men, like fifty
unmannerly - unmanierlich
thousand line-of-battle-ship loads of red-haired devils. What dye say,
loads - (load) Last, Beschickung (Ladung), Belastung;beladen, ich ld
Tashtego; are you the man to snap your spine in two-and-twenty pieces
for the honor of old Gayhead? What dye say?
I say, pull like god-dam,"cried the Indian.
Fiercely, but evenly incited by the taunts of the German, the Pequods
incited - (incite) anstacheln
taunts - (taunt) sticheln, necken;Spott, Hohn
three boats now began ranging almost abreast; and, so disposed,
momentarily neared him. In that fine, loose, chivalrous attitude of the
momentarily - momentan jeden Moment, jeden Augenblick
chivalrous - ritterlich, ehrlich
headsman when drawing near to his prey, the three mates stood up
proudly, occasionally backing the after oarsman with an exhilarating
cry of, There she slides, now! Hurrah for the white-ash breeze! Down
slides - (slid) glitt ab, abgeglitten
with the Yarman! Sail over him!
But so decided an original start had Derick had, that spite of all
their gallantry, he would have proved the victor in this race, had not
gallantry - Tapferkeit
a righteous judgment descended upon him in a crab which caught the
crab - Krebs, Krabbe, Winde, Nrgler
blade of his midship oarsman. While this clumsy lubber was striving to
midship - Mittschiffs
free his white-ash, and while, in consequence, Dericks boat was nigh
to capsizing, and he thundering away at his men in a mighty rage;"that
capsizing - (capsize) kentern zum Kentern bringen
was a good time for Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask. With a shout, they took
a mortal start forwards, and slantingly ranged up on the Germans
quarter. An instant more, and all four boats were diagonically in the
diagonically - diagonal
whales immediate wake, while stretching from them, on both sides, was
the foaming swell that he made.
foaming - schaumig, schumend; (foam) Schaum Schaumgummi schumen
It was a terrific, most pitiable, and maddening sight. The whale was
most pitiable - bedauernswerteste
maddening - (madden) rasend machen
now going head out, and sending his spout before him in a continual
tormented jet; while his one poor fin beat his side in an agony of
fright. Now to this hand, now to that, he yawed in his faltering
yawed - (yaw) gieren, vom Kurs abweichen
flight, and still at every billow that he broke, he spasmodically sank
in the sea, or sideways rolled towards the sky his one beating fin. So
have I seen a bird with clipped wing making affrighted broken circles
clipped - (clip) scheren, stutzen, krzen, kappen, schneiden;neppe
in the air, vainly striving to escape the piratical hawks. But the bird
piratical - piratisch
hawks - (hawk) Falke, Habicht;auf der Strae verkaufen, beizen (Jagd
has a voice, and with plaintive cries will make known her fear; but the
plaintive - traurig, wehleidig, klagend, Klage
make known - bekannt machen, bekanntmachen [alt]
fear of this vast dumb brute of the sea, was chained up and enchanted
chained up - verkettete
in him; he had no voice, save that choking respiration through his
respiration - Atmung Veratmung
spiracle, and this made the sight of him unspeakably pitiable; while
pitiable - bedauerlich, bedauernswert, erbrmlich, klglich
still, in his amazing bulk, portcullis jaw, and omnipotent tail, there
was enough to appal the stoutest man who so pitied.
stoutest - (stout) beleibt
pitied - (pity) Mitleid schade bemitleiden, Mitleid haben mit
Seeing now that but a very few moments more would give the Pequods
boats the advantage, and rather than be thus foiled of his game, Derick
foiled - (foil) Florett, Foli
chose to hazard what to him must have seemed a most unusually long
hazard - Zufall Gefahr Hindernis riskieren, hasardieren
dart, ere the last chance would for ever escape.
But no sooner did his harpooneer stand up for the stroke, than all
three tigers"Queequeg, Tashtego, Daggoo"instinctively sprang to their
feet, and standing in a diagonal row, simultaneously pointed their
diagonal - diagonal, schrg, Diagonale
barbs; and darted over the head of the German harpooneer, their three
Nantucket irons entered the whale. Blinding vapors of foam and
white-fire! The three boats, in the first fury of the whales headlong
rush, bumped the Germans aside with such force, that both Derick and
bumped - (bump) Schlag, Sto, Bums,
his baffled harpooneer were spilled out, and sailed over by the three
baffled - (baffle) verblffen, verdutzen, verwirren, ratlos machen
flying keels.
Dont be afraid, my butter-boxes, cried Stubb, casting a passing
glance upon them as he shot by; yell be picked up presently"all
right"I saw some sharks astern"St. Bernards dogs, you know"relieve
distressed travellers. Hurrah! this is the way to sail now. Every keel
distressed - (distress) Kummer, Bedrngnis, Drangsal, Bekmmerung, Not
a sunbeam! Hurrah!"Here we go like three tin kettles at the tail of a
sunbeam - Sonnenstrahl
kettles - (kettle) Wasserkocher, Kessel
mad cougar! This puts me in mind of fastening to an elephant in a
cougar - Puma, Berglwe, Silberlwe
tilbury on a plain"makes the wheel-spokes fly, boys, when you fasten to
him that way; and theres danger of being pitched out too, when you
strike a hill. Hurrah! this is the way a fellow feels when hes going
to Davy Jones"all a rush down an endless inclined plane! Hurrah! this
whale carries the everlasting mail!
But the monsters run was a brief one. Giving a sudden gasp, he
tumultuously sounded. With a grating rush, the three lines flew round
tumultuously - lrmende
flew round - umflog
the loggerheads with such a force as to gouge deep grooves in them;
loggerheads - (loggerhead) Dummkopf
while so fearful were the harpooneers that this rapid sounding would
soon exhaust the lines, that using all their dexterous might, they
exhaust - erschpfen, dezimieren, Auspuff, Abgas, Abluft
caught repeated smoking turns with the rope to hold on; till at
last"owing to the perpendicular strain from the lead-lined chocks of
the boats, whence the three ropes went straight down into the blue"the
gunwales of the bows were almost even with the water, while the three
sterns tilted high in the air. And the whale soon ceasing to sound, for
sterns - (stern) ernst, Heck
ceasing - beendend, endend; (cease) aufhren, einstellen
some time they remained in that attitude, fearful of expending more
expending - (expend) aufwenden, ausgeben (Geld), aufbrauchen
line, though the position was a little ticklish. But though boats have
been taken down and lost in this way, yet it is this holding on, as
it is called; this hooking up by the sharp barbs of his live flesh from
hooking up - (hook up) verkabeln, verbinden, anschlieen, einhaken
the back; this it is that often torments the Leviathan into soon rising
again to meet the sharp lance of his foes. Yet not to speak of the
peril of the thing, it is to be doubted whether this course is always
the best; for it is but reasonable to presume, that the longer the
stricken whale stays under water, the more he is exhausted. Because,
owing to the enormous surface of him"in a full grown sperm whale
something less than 2000 square feet"the pressure of the water is
immense. We all know what an astonishing atmospheric weight we
ourselves stand up under; even here, above-ground, in the air; how
vast, then, the burden of a whale, bearing on his back a column of two
hundred fathoms of ocean! It must at least equal the weight of fifty
atmospheres. One whaleman has estimated it at the weight of twenty
line-of-battle ships, with all their guns, and stores, and men on
board.
As the three boats lay there on that gently rolling sea, gazing down
into its eternal blue noon; and as not a single groan or cry of any
groan - Sthnen Seufzen, chzen, Knarren
sort, nay, not so much as a ripple or a bubble came up from its depths;
what landsman would have thought, that beneath all that silence and
placidity, the utmost monster of the seas was writhing and wrenching in
agony! Not eight inches of perpendicular rope were visible at the bows.
Seems it credible that by three such thin threads the great Leviathan
credible - glaubhaft glaubwrdig
was suspended like the big weight to an eight day clock. Suspended? and
eight day - achttgig
to what? To three bits of board. Is this the creature of whom it was
once so triumphantly said"Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons?
or his head with fish-spears? The sword of him that layeth at him
layeth - legen
cannot hold, the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon: he esteemeth iron
esteemeth - wertschtzt
as straw; the arrow cannot make him flee; darts are counted as stubble;
stubble - Stoppel, Bartstoppel
he laugheth at the shaking of a spear! This the creature? this he? Oh!
laugheth - lacht
that unfulfilments should follow the prophets. For with the strength of
unfulfilments - unerfllte Wnsche
prophets - (Prophet) Prophet, Prophetin
a thousand thighs in his tail, Leviathan had run his head under the
thighs - (thigh) Oberschenkel
mountains of the sea, to hide him from the Pequods fish-spears!
In that sloping afternoon sunlight, the shadows that the three boats
sent down beneath the surface, must have been long enough and broad
enough to shade half Xerxes army. Who can tell how appalling to the
wounded whale must have been such huge phantoms flitting over his head!
Stand by, men; he stirs, cried Starbuck, as the three lines suddenly
vibrated in the water, distinctly conducting upwards to them, as by
conducting - (conduct) Leitung, Fhrung, leiten, fhren, sich verhalte
magnetic wires, the life and death throbs of the whale, so that every
wires - (wire) Draht, Ader, Wanze, Geld
throbs - (throb) klopfen, schlagen, pochen, pulsieren, Pochen
oarsman felt them in his seat. The next moment, relieved in great part
from the downward strain at the bows, the boats gave a sudden bounce
bounce - abprallen hpfen, auf und ab hpfen, platzen, Bounce
upwards, as a small icefield will, when a dense herd of white bears are
icefield - Eisfeld
herd - Herde
scared from it into the sea.
Haul in! Haul in! cried Starbuck again; hes rising.
The lines, of which, hardly an instant before, not one hands breadth
could have been gained, were now in long quick coils flung back all
dripping into the boats, and soon the whale broke water within two
ships lengths of the hunters.
His motions plainly denoted his extreme exhaustion. In most land
animals there are certain valves or flood-gates in many of their veins,
valves - (valve) Ventil, Armatur, Hahn, Wasserhahn
whereby when wounded, the blood is in some degree at least instantly
shut off in certain directions. Not so with the whale; one of whose
peculiarities it is to have an entire non-valvular structure of the
non - nicht.
valvular - klappenfrmig
blood-vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a
harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial
drain - Abfluss entwssern, abflieen lassen, ablassen, trockne
arterial - arteriell
system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of
water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to
pour from him in incessant streams. Yet so vast is the quantity of
blood in him, and so distant and numerous its interior fountains, that
he will keep thus bleeding and bleeding for a considerable period; even
as in a drought a river will flow, whose source is in the well-springs
of far-off and undiscernible hills. Even now, when the boats pulled
upon this whale, and perilously drew over his swaying flukes, and the
perilously - gefhrlich
lances were darted into him, they were followed by steady jets from the
new made wound, which kept continually playing, while the natural
spout-hole in his head was only at intervals, however rapid, sending
its affrighted moisture into the air. From this last vent no blood yet
moisture - Feuchtigkeit, Nsse
came, because no vital part of him had thus far been struck. His life,
as they significantly call it, was untouched.
As the boats now more closely surrounded him, the whole upper part of
his form, with much of it that is ordinarily submerged, was plainly
revealed. His eyes, or rather the places where his eyes had been, were
beheld. As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the
misgrown - (misgrow) falsch wachsen
noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whales eyes
prostrate - niedergestreckt niederwerfen, erniedrigen
had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see.
protruded - (protrude) herausragen, hervorragen, herausstehen, vorstehen
bulbs - (bulb) Zwiebel
But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his
blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light
the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate
bridals - (bridal) Hochzeit brutlich, hochzeitlich, Braut-, Hochzeit-
makings - (making) anfertigend, machend, Herstellung
illuminate - beleuchten, erhellen, illuminieren
the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to
inoffensiveness - Harmlosigkeit
all. Still rolling in his blood, at last he partially disclosed a
disclosed - (disclose) enthllen verffentlichen, bekanntgebe
strangely discoloured bunch or protuberance, the size of a bushel, low
protuberance - Protuberanz, Vorsprung, Schwellung, Hervortreten
bushel - Scheffel
down on the flank.
A nice spot, cried Flask; just let me prick him there once.
Avast! cried Starbuck, theres no need of that!
But humane Starbuck was too late. At the instant of the dart an
ulcerous jet shot from this cruel wound, and goaded by it into more
ulcerous - eiternd, eitrig, geschwrig, ulzers
goaded - (goad) Stachelstock anstacheln, antreiben, anspornen, reize
than sufferable anguish, the whale now spouting thick blood, with swift
fury blindly darted at the craft, bespattering them and their glorying
glorying - (glory) Pracht, Herrlichkeit, Prunk, Geprnge, Ruhm
crews all over with showers of gore, capsizing Flasks boat and marring
marring - (mar) beschdigen, verunstalten
the bows. It was his death stroke. For, by this time, so spent was he
by loss of blood, that he helplessly rolled away from the wreck he had
helplessly - hilflose
made; lay panting on his side, impotently flapped with his stumped fin,
flapped - (flap) Klappe, klappen, Patte (an einer Tasche);Hosenklappe
then over and over slowly revolved like a waning world; turned up the
white secrets of his belly; lay like a log, and died. It was most
piteous, that last expiring spout. As when by unseen hands the water is
piteous - Mitleid erregend, erbrmlich, herzzerreiend
expiring - (expire) ablaufen, erlschen, verfallen, ausatmen
gradually drawn off from some mighty fountain, and with half-stifled
drawn off - abgezapft
stifled - (stifle) ersticken
melancholy gurglings the spray-column lowers and lowers to the
lowers - (lower) niedriger, niedrigere
ground"so the last long dying spout of the whale.
Soon, while the crews were awaiting the arrival of the ship, the body
showed symptoms of sinking with all its treasures unrifled.
unrifled - ungelesen
Immediately, by Starbucks orders, lines were secured to it at
different points, so that ere long every boat was a buoy; the sunken
buoy - Boje, Tonne, aufbojen, flott erhalte
whale being suspended a few inches beneath them by the cords. By very
heedful management, when the ship drew nigh, the whale was transferred
to her side, and was strongly secured there by the stiffest
fluke-chains, for it was plain that unless artificially upheld, the
artificially - knstlich
body would at once sink to the bottom.
It so chanced that almost upon first cutting into him with the spade,
the entire length of a corroded harpoon was found imbedded in his
corroded - (corrode) zerfressen korrodieren, rosten
flesh, on the lower part of the bunch before described. But as the
stumps of harpoons are frequently found in the dead bodies of captured
whales, with the flesh perfectly healed around them, and no prominence
healed - (heal) verheilen, abheilen, heilen
of any kind to denote their place; therefore, there must needs have
denote - markieren, kennzeichnen, bezeichnen, anzeigen
been some other unknown reason in the present case fully to account for
the ulceration alluded to. But still more curious was the fact of a
ulceration - Eiterung
lance-head of stone being found in him, not far from the buried iron,
the flesh perfectly firm about it. Who had darted that stone lance? And
when? It might have been darted by some Nor West Indian long before
America was discovered.
What other marvels might have been rummaged out of this monstrous
rummaged - (rummage) durchwhlen, stbern
cabinet there is no telling. But a sudden stop was put to further
cabinet - Schrank, Wandschrank , Kabinett, Rat, Ministerrat
discoveries, by the ships being unprecedentedly dragged over sideways
unprecedentedly - noch nie dagewesen
to the sea, owing to the bodys immensely increasing tendency to sink.
However, Starbuck, who had the ordering of affairs, hung on to it to
the last; hung on to it so resolutely, indeed, that when at length the
resolutely - entschlossen, entschieden
ship would have been capsized, if still persisting in locking arms with
the body; then, when the command was given to break clear from it, such
was the immovable strain upon the timber-heads to which the
fluke-chains and cables were fastened, that it was impossible to cast
them off. Meantime everything in the Pequod was aslant. To cross to the
other side of the deck was like walking up the steep gabled roof of a
gabled - (gable) Giebel, Gabel
house. The ship groaned and gasped. Many of the ivory inlayings of her
gasped - (gasp) keuchen japsen, prusten, Atemzug, Luftholen
inlayings - (inlaying) Tfelung
bulwarks and cabins were started from their places, by the unnatural
cabins - (cabin) Htte, Blockhtte, Kabine, Kajte
dislocation. In vain handspikes and crows were brought to bear upon the
dislocation - Verrenkung, Luxation
crows - (Crow) Krhe
immovable fluke-chains, to pry them adrift from the timberheads; and so
adrift - abtreibend
timberheads - (timberhead) Holzkopf
low had the whale now settled that the submerged ends could not be at
all approached, while every moment whole tons of ponderosity seemed
ponderosity - Nachdenklichkeit
added to the sinking bulk, and the ship seemed on the point of going
over.
Hold on, hold on, wont ye? cried Stubb to the body, dont be in
such a devil of a hurry to sink! By thunder, men, we must do something
or go for it. No use prying there; avast, I say with your handspikes,
and run one of ye for a prayer book and a pen-knife, and cut the big
chains.
Knife? Aye, aye, cried Queequeg, and seizing the carpenters heavy
hatchet, he leaned out of a porthole, and steel to iron, began slashing
leaned out - hinausgebeugt
at the largest fluke-chains. But a few strokes, full of sparks, were
sparks - (spark) Funke;aufkeimen lassen, entfachen
given, when the exceeding strain effected the rest. With a terrific
snap, every fastening went adrift; the ship righted, the carcase sank.
Now, this occasional inevitable sinking of the recently killed Sperm
Whale is a very curious thing; nor has any fisherman yet adequately
accounted for it. Usually the dead Sperm Whale floats with great
buoyancy, with its side or belly considerably elevated above the
surface. If the only whales that thus sank were old, meagre, and
broken-hearted creatures, their pads of lard diminished and all their
pads - (pad) Unterlage, Polster, Matte, Sttze
bones heavy and rheumatic; then you might with some reason assert that
this sinking is caused by an uncommon specific gravity in the fish so
sinking, consequent upon this absence of buoyant matter in him. But it
is not so. For young whales, in the highest health, and swelling with
noble aspirations, prematurely cut off in the warm flush and May of
aspirations - (aspiration) Aufsaugung, Einsaugung
flush - Wassersplung, Wallung, Schwall;splen, aussplen;rot werde
life, with all their panting lard about them; even these brawny,
buoyant heroes do sometimes sink.
Be it said, however, that the Sperm Whale is far less liable to this
accident than any other species. Where one of that sort go down, twenty
Right Whales do. This difference in the species is no doubt imputable
in no small degree to the greater quantity of bone in the Right Whale;
his Venetian blinds alone sometimes weighing more than a ton; from this
incumbrance the Sperm Whale is wholly free. But there are instances
incumbrance - Belastung
where, after the lapse of many hours or several days, the sunken whale
lapse - Entgleisung, Ausrutscher , Verfallen, Erlschen, Verfall
again rises, more buoyant than in life. But the reason of this is
obvious. Gases are generated in him; he swells to a prodigious
generated - (generate) generieren erzeugen
magnitude; becomes a sort of animal balloon. A line-of-battle ship
balloon - Ballon, Luftballon, Heiluftballon
could hardly keep him under then. In the Shore Whaling, on soundings,
among the Bays of New Zealand, when a Right Whale gives token of
Bays - (bay) Erker, Bucht, Gestell, Bellen
sinking, they fasten buoys to him, with plenty of rope; so that when
buoys - (buoy) Boje, Tonne, aufbojen, flott erhalte
the body has gone down, they know where to look for it when it shall
have ascended again.
It was not long after the sinking of the body that a cry was heard from
the Pequods mast-heads, announcing that the Jungfrau was again
lowering her boats; though the only spout in sight was that of a
Fin-Back, belonging to the species of uncapturable whales, because of
uncapturable - nicht fassbar
its incredible power of swimming. Nevertheless, the Fin-Backs spout is
so similar to the Sperm Whales, that by unskilful fishermen it is
unskilful - ungeschickt
often mistaken for it. And consequently Derick and all his host were
now in valiant chase of this unnearable brute. The Virgin crowding all
sail, made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared
far to leeward, still in bold, hopeful chase.
Oh! many are the Fin-Backs, and many are the Dericks, my friend.
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the
enterprises - (enterprise) Unternehmen Unterfangen, Vorhabe
disorderliness - Unordnung
true method.
The more I dive into this matter of whaling, and push my researches up
to the very spring-head of it so much the more am I impressed with its
great honorableness and antiquity; and especially when I find so many
honorableness - Ehrenhaftigkeit
great demi-gods and heroes, prophets of all sorts, who one way or other
have shed distinction upon it, I am transported with the reflection
that I myself belong, though but subordinately, to so emblazoned a
subordinately - unterordnend
emblazoned - (emblazon) schmcken
fraternity.
fraternity - Bruderschaft Gemeinschaft, Vereinigung, Verbindun
The gallant Perseus, a son of Jupiter, was the first whaleman; and to
the eternal honor of our calling be it said, that the first whale
attacked by our brotherhood was not killed with any sordid intent.
sordid - dreckig, schbig, schmutzig, geizig
Those were the knightly days of our profession, when we only bore arms
knightly - ritterlich
to succor the distressed, and not to fill mens lamp-feeders. Every one
knows the fine story of Perseus and Andromeda; how the lovely
Andromeda, the daughter of a king, was tied to a rock on the sea-coast,
and as Leviathan was in the very act of carrying her off, Perseus, the
prince of whalemen, intrepidly advancing, harpooned the monster, and
intrepidly - unerschrocken, furchtlos
delivered and married the maid. It was an admirable artistic exploit,
exploit - Heldentat Exploit ausnutzen, ausbeuten
rarely achieved by the best harpooneers of the present day; inasmuch as
this Leviathan was slain at the very first dart. And let no man doubt
this Arkite story; for in the ancient Joppa, now Jaffa, on the Syrian
coast, in one of the Pagan temples, there stood for many ages the vast
skeleton of a whale, which the citys legends and all the inhabitants
legends - (legend) Legende Kartenlegende
asserted to be the identical bones of the monster that Perseus slew.
When the Romans took Joppa, the same skeleton was carried to Italy in
triumph. What seems most singular and suggestively important in this
suggestively - anregend
story, is this: it was from Joppa that Jonah set sail.
Akin to the adventure of Perseus and Andromeda"indeed, by some supposed
Akin - hnlich
to be indirectly derived from it"is that famous story of St. George and
the Dragon; which dragon I maintain to have been a whale; for in many
old chronicles whales and dragons are strangely jumbled together, and
chronicles - (chronicle) Chronik
dragons - (dragon) Drachen, Drache
jumbled - (jumble) Mischmasch, Durcheinander, durcheinander
often stand for each other. Thou art as a lion of the waters, and as a
dragon of the sea, saith Ezekiel; hereby, plainly meaning a whale; in
truth, some versions of the Bible use that word itself. Besides, it
would much subtract from the glory of the exploit had St. George but
subtract - subtrahieren, abziehen
encountered a crawling reptile of the land, instead of doing battle
reptile - Kriechtier, Reptil, Wurm
with the great monster of the deep. Any man may kill a snake, but only
a Perseus, a St. George, a Coffin, have the heart in them to march
boldly up to a whale.
Let not the modern paintings of this scene mislead us; for though the
mislead - in die Irre fhren, irrefhren
creature encountered by that valiant whaleman of old is vaguely
represented of a griffin-like shape, and though the battle is depicted
griffin - Greif
on land and the saint on horseback, yet considering the great ignorance
saint - Sankt
horseback - Pferdercken zu Pferde
of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists;
and considering that as in Perseus case, St. Georges whale might have
crawled up out of the sea on the beach; and considering that the animal
crawled - (crawl) kriechen
ridden by St. George might have been only a large seal, or sea-horse;
bearing all this in mind, it will not appear altogether incompatible
with the sacred legend and the ancientest draughts of the scene, to
hold this so-called dragon no other than the great Leviathan himself.
In fact, placed before the strict and piercing truth, this whole story
strict - streng
will fare like that fish, flesh, and fowl idol of the Philistines,
Philistines - (Philistine) Philister, Philisterin
Dagon by name; who being planted before the ark of Israel, his horses
head and both the palms of his hands fell off from him, and only the
stump or fishy part of him remained. Thus, then, one of our own noble
stamp, even a whaleman, is the tutelary guardian of England; and by
tutelary - schtzende
guardian - Wchter, Wache, Vormund, Erziehungsberechtigte
good rights, we harpooneers of Nantucket should be enrolled in the most
noble order of St. George. And therefore, let not the knights of that
honorable company (none of whom, I venture to say, have ever had to do
with a whale like their great patron), let them never eye a Nantucketer
patron - Schirmherr, Patron, Mzen, Kunde, Inhaber, Stammkunde
with disdain, since even in our woollen frocks and tarred trowsers we
frocks - (frock) Kleid, Kutte
are much better entitled to St. Georges decoration than they.
decoration - Dekorieren, Verschnern, Dekoration, Verschnerung, Auszeichnung
Whether to admit Hercules among us or not, concerning this I long
remained dubious: for though according to the Greek mythologies, that
antique Crockett and Kit Carson"that brawny doer of rejoicing good
Kit - Wir bleiben in Verbindung!;Bausatz
doer - Macher, Macherin ; (doe) Macher, Macherin
rejoicing - frohlockend, sich freuend; (rejoice) freuen
deeds, was swallowed down and thrown up by a whale; still, whether that
strictly makes a whaleman of him, that might be mooted. It nowhere
mooted - (moot) Volksversammlung, Streit
appears that he ever actually harpooned his fish, unless, indeed, from
the inside. Nevertheless, he may be deemed a sort of involuntary
whaleman; at any rate the whale caught him, if he did not the whale. I
claim him for one of our clan.
clan - Clan, Sippe
But, by the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of
Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the still more
ancient Hebrew story of Jonah and the whale; and vice versâ; certainly
vice - der Schraubstock
they are very similar. If I claim the demi-god then, why not the
prophet?
Nor do heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole
saints - (Saint) Sankt
demigods - (demigod) Halbgott
roll of our order. Our grand master is still to be named; for like
royal kings of old times, we find the head waters of our fraternity in
nothing short of the great gods themselves. That wondrous oriental
story is now to be rehearsed from the Shaster, which gives us the dread
rehearsed - (rehears) Proben
Vishnoo, one of the three persons in the godhead of the Hindoos; gives
godhead - Gottheit
Hindoos - (Hindoo) Hindu
us this divine Vishnoo himself for our Lord;"Vishnoo, who, by the first
of his ten earthly incarnations, has for ever set apart and sanctified
incarnations - (Incarnation) Verkrperung Inkarnation, checkVerkrperun
sanctified - (sanctify) heiligen
the whale. When Brahma, or the God of Gods, saith the Shaster, resolved
to recreate the world after one of its periodical dissolutions, he gave
recreate - auffrischen, nachbauen, nachmachen, nachbilden
dissolutions - (dissolution) Auflsung
birth to Vishnoo, to preside over the work; but the Vedas, or mystical
preside - den Vorsitz haben, prsidieren
Vedas - (Veda) Veda, Veden
before beginning the creation, and which therefore must have contained
something in the shape of practical hints to young architects, these
Vedas were lying at the bottom of the waters; so Vishnoo became
incarnate in a whale, and sounding down in him to the uttermost depths,
rescued the sacred volumes. Was not this Vishnoo a whaleman, then? even
rescued - (rescue) retten Rettung
as a man who rides a horse is called a horseman?
horseman - Reiter
Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! theres a
member-roll for you! What club but the whalemans can head off like
that?
Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in
the preceding chapter. Now some Nantucketers rather distrust this
distrust - Misstrauen, Argwohn
historical story of Jonah and the whale. But then there were some
sceptical Greeks and Romans, who, standing out from the orthodox pagans
orthodox - orthodox
of their times, equally doubted the story of Hercules and the whale,
and Arion and the dolphin; and yet their doubting those traditions did
not make those traditions one whit the less facts, for all that.
One old Sag-Harbor whalemans chief reason for questioning the Hebrew
story was this:"He had one of those quaint old-fashioned Bibles,
embellished with curious, unscientific plates; one of which represented
unscientific - unwissenschaftlich
Jonahs whale with two spouts in his head"a peculiarity only true with
respect to a species of the Leviathan (the Right Whale, and the
varieties of that order), concerning which the fishermen have this
saying, A penny roll would choke him; his swallow is so very small.
choke - erwrgen, erdrosseln, ersticken, berwltigen
But, to this, Bishop Jebbs anticipative answer is ready. It is not
anticipative - vorausschauend
necessary, hints the Bishop, that we consider Jonah as tombed in the
whales belly, but as temporarily lodged in some part of his mouth. And
this seems reasonable enough in the good Bishop. For truly, the Right
Whales mouth would accommodate a couple of whist-tables, and
whist - der Whist
comfortably seat all the players. Possibly, too, Jonah might have
ensconced himself in a hollow tooth; but, on second thoughts, the Right
ensconced - (ensconce) sicher unterbringen bequem machen, niederlassen
Whale is toothless.
toothless - zahnlos
Another reason which Sag-Harbor (he went by that name) urged for his
want of faith in this matter of the prophet, was something obscurely in
reference to his incarcerated body and the whales gastric juices. But
incarcerated - (incarcerate) einsperren
gastric - gastrisch, Magen
this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist
exegetist - Exegetin
supposes that Jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a
_dead_ whale"even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned
their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them. Besides, it has
been divined by other continental commentators, that when Jonah was
divined - (divine) gttlich
continental - kontinental
commentators - (commentator) Kommentator, Kommentatorin
thrown overboard from the Joppa ship, he straightway effected his
escape to another vessel near by, some vessel with a whale for a
figure-head; and, I would add, possibly called The Whale, as some
craft are nowadays christened the Shark, the Gull, the Eagle. Nor
christened - (christen) taufen
have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the
exegetists - (exegetist) Exegetin
opined - (opine) meinen
whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver"an
preserver - Bewahrer
inflated bag of wind"which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was
inflated - (inflate) aufblasen, aufpumpen, aufblhen
saved from a watery doom. Poor Sag-Harbor, therefore, seems worsted all
round. But he had still another reason for his want of faith. It was
this, if I remember right: Jonah was swallowed by the whale in the
Mediterranean Sea, and after three days he was vomited up somewhere
vomited - (vomit) bergeben
within three days journey of Nineveh, a city on the Tigris, very much
Tigris - Tigris
more than three days journey across from the nearest point of the
Mediterranean coast. How is that?
But was there no other way for the whale to land the prophet within
that short distance of Nineveh? Yes. He might have carried him round by
the way of the Cape of Good Hope. But not to speak of the passage
through the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up
the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the
complete circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of
the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any
shallow - flach; q
whale to swim in. Besides, this idea of Jonahs weathering the Cape of
Good Hope at so early a day would wrest the honor of the discovery of
that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputed discoverer, and
headland - Landspitze, Landzunge, Kap, Huk , Vorgewende
reputed - (repute) Ruf
so make modern history a liar.
liar - Lgner, Lgnerin
But all these foolish arguments of old Sag-Harbor only evinced his
foolish pride of reason"a thing still more reprehensible in him, seeing
more reprehensible - tadelnswertere
that he had but little learning except what he had picked up from the
sun and the sea. I say it only shows his foolish, impious pride, and
abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a
clergy - Geistlichkeit, Klerus
Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonahs going to Nineveh
via the Cape of Good Hope was advanced as a signal magnification of the
via - ber
magnification - Vergrerung
general miracle. And so it was. Besides, to this day, the highly
enlightened Turks devoutly believe in the historical story of Jonah.
Turks - (Turk) Trke, Trkin
devoutly - andchtig
And some three centuries ago, an English traveller in old Harriss
Voyages, speaks of a Turkish Mosque built in honor of Jonah, in which
Mosque - Moschee
Mosque was a miraculous lamp that burnt without any oil.
To make them run easily and swiftly, the axles of carriages are
axles - (axle) Achse, Welle, Radachse
anointed; and for much the same purpose, some whalers perform an
analogous operation upon their boat; they grease the bottom. Nor is it
grease - Fett Schmierfett, Schmiere, schmieren, bestechen
to be doubted that as such a procedure can do no harm, it may possibly
be of no contemptible advantage; considering that oil and water are
hostile; that oil is a sliding thing, and that the object in view is to
make the boat slide bravely. Queequeg believed strongly in anointing
his boat, and one morning not long after the German ship Jungfrau
disappeared, took more than customary pains in that occupation;
crawling under its bottom, where it hung over the side, and rubbing in
the unctuousness as though diligently seeking to insure a crop of hair
unctuousness - Salbung
crop - Ernte, Haarschnitt, Schnitt
from the crafts bald keel. He seemed to be working in obedience to
some particular presentiment. Nor did it remain unwarranted by the
event.
Towards noon whales were raised; but so soon as the ship sailed down to
them, they turned and fled with swift precipitancy; a disordered
flight, as of Cleopatras barges from Actium.
barges - (barge) Lastkahn, Schleppkahn
Nevertheless, the boats pursued, and Stubbs was foremost. By great
exertion, Tashtego at last succeeded in planting one iron; but the
exertion - Anstrengung, Kraftanstrengung, Anspannung, Ausbung
stricken whale, without at all sounding, still continued his horizontal
flight, with added fleetness. Such unintermitted strainings upon the
fleetness - Schnelligkeit
unintermitted - ununterbrochen
planted iron must sooner or later inevitably extract it. It became
extract - Auszug Extrakt entnehmen, herausziehen, entziehen
imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him. But to
imperative - essenziell, essentiell, notwendig, unverzichtbar
haul the boat up to his flank was impossible, he swam so fast and
furious. What then remained?
Of all the wondrous devices and dexterities, the sleights of hand and
dexterities - (dexterity) Fingerfertigkeit, Geschicklichkeit, Gewandtheit
sleights - (sleight) List, Gerissenheit, Raffinement, Raffinesse
countless subtleties, to which the veteran whaleman is so often forced,
subtleties - (subtlety) Geschicklichkeit, Feinheit, Feinsinn, Feinsinnigkeit
none exceed that fine man"uvre with the lance called pitchpoling. Small
sword, or broad sword, in all its exercises boasts nothing like it. It
boasts - (boast) stolz sein auf etw
is only indispensable with an inveterate running whale; its grand fact
inveterate - chronisch, tief verwurzelt, unberwindbar, eingefleisch
and feature is the wonderful distance to which the long lance is
accurately darted from a violently rocking, jerking boat, under extreme
accurately - genau, akkurat, przise
headway. Steel and wood included, the entire spear is some ten or
twelve feet in length; the staff is much slighter than that of the
harpoon, and also of a lighter material"pine. It is furnished with a
small rope called a warp, of considerable length, by which it can be
hauled back to the hand after darting.
But before going further, it is important to mention here, that though
the harpoon may be pitchpoled in the same way with the lance, yet it is
seldom done; and when done, is still less frequently successful, on
account of the greater weight and inferior length of the harpoon as
compared with the lance, which in effect become serious drawbacks. As a
drawbacks - (drawback) Nachteil, Minuspunkt, Schattenseite, Hake
general thing, therefore, you must first get fast to a whale, before
any pitchpoling comes into play.
Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and
coolness - Khle
equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel
equanimity - Gelassenheit, Gleichmut
excel - ausstechen, bersteigen, bertreffen, sich hervortu
in pitchpoling. Look at him; he stands upright in the tossed bow of the
flying boat; wrapt in fleecy foam, the towing whale is forty feet
fleecy - wollig
ahead. Handling the long lance lightly, glancing twice or thrice along
its length to see if it be exactly straight, Stubb whistlingly gathers
whistlingly - pfeifend
up the coil of the warp in one hand, so as to secure its free end in
his grasp, leaving the rest unobstructed. Then holding the lance full
before his waistbands middle, he levels it at the whale; when,
covering him with it, he steadily depresses the butt-end in his hand,
thereby elevating the point till the weapon stands fairly balanced upon
his palm, fifteen feet in the air. He minds you somewhat of a juggler,
juggler - Gaukler, Jongleur, Trickser
balancing a long staff on his chin. Next moment with a rapid, nameless
impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming
impulse - Impuls, Triebkraft, Drang, innerer Antrieb, Kraftsto
bright steel - Blankstahl
distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale. Instead of
sparkling water, he now spouts red blood.
That drove the spigot out of him! cried Stubb. Tis Julys immortal
spigot - Zapfhahn
Fourth; all fountains must run wine today! Would now, it were old
Orleans whiskey, or old Ohio, or unspeakable old Monongahela! Then,
whiskey - Whisky
Tashtego, lad, Id have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and wed drink
round it! Yea, verily, hearts alive, wed brew choice punch in the
brew - Gebru;brauen, aufbrhen, im Anzug sein (Gewitter), gren
spread of his spout-hole there, and from that live punch-bowl quaff the
quaff - zechen
living stuff.
Again and again to such gamesome talk, the dexterous dart is repeated,
the spear returning to its master like a greyhound held in skilful
greyhound - Windhund, Windhundrde, Windhndin, Windhundwelpe
skilful - gewandt, gekonnt, geschickt, erfahren
leash. The agonized whale goes into his flurry; the tow-line is
leash - Leine, Hundeleine
slackened, and the pitchpoler dropping astern, folds his hands, and
mutely watches the monster die.
That for six thousand years"and no one knows how many millions of ages
before"the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and
sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many
sprinkling - berieselnd; (sprinkle) sprhen besprhen Nieselregen
mistifying - verschleiern
sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back,
thousands of hunters should have been close by the fountain of the
whale, watching these sprinklings and spoutings"that all this should
sprinklings - (sprinkling) berieselnd
spoutings - (spouting) herausspritzend
be, and yet, that down to this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter
minutes past one oclock P.M. of this sixteenth day of December, A.D.
sixteenth - sechzehnte Sechzehntel
1851), it should still remain a problem, whether these spoutings are,
after all, really water, or nothing but vapor"this is surely a
noteworthy thing.
Let us, then, look at this matter, along with some interesting items
contingent. Every one knows that by the peculiar cunning of their
contingent - Anteil, Kontingent, Truppenkontingent, mglic
gills, the finny tribes in general breathe the air which at all times
is combined with the element in which they swim; hence, a herring or a
cod might live a century, and never once raise its head above the
surface. But owing to his marked internal structure which gives him
regular lungs, like a human beings, the whale can only live by
inhaling the disengaged air in the open atmosphere. Wherefore the
inhaling - (inhale) einatmen inhalieren
necessity for his periodical visits to the upper world. But he cannot
in any degree breathe through his mouth, for, in his ordinary attitude,
the Sperm Whales mouth is buried at least eight feet beneath the
surface; and what is still more, his windpipe has no connexion with his
windpipe - Trachea, Luftrhre
mouth. No, he breathes through his spiracle alone; and this is on the
top of his head.
If I say, that in any creature breathing is only a function
indispensable to vitality, inasmuch as it withdraws from the air a
withdraws - (withdraw) annullieren, entziehen, abziehen, ausscheiden
certain element, which being subsequently brought into contact with the
blood imparts to the blood its vivifying principle, I do not think I
vivifying - (vivify) anregen, beleben
shall err; though I may possibly use some superfluous scientific words.
err - irren
Assume it, and it follows that if all the blood in a man could be
aerated with one breath, he might then seal up his nostrils and not
aerated - (aerate) belften
seal up - abdichten
fetch another for a considerable time. That is to say, he would then
live without breathing. Anomalous as it may seem, this is precisely the
case with the whale, who systematically lives, by intervals, his full
hour and more (when at the bottom) without drawing a single breath, or
so much as in any way inhaling a particle of air; for, remember, he has
no gills. How is this? Between his ribs and on each side of his spine
he is supplied with a remarkable involved Cretan labyrinth of
vermicelli-like vessels, which vessels, when he quits the surface, are
vermicelli - Nudeln, Vermicelli, Fadennudeln
completely distended with oxygenated blood. So that for an hour or
oxygenated - (oxygenate) oxygenieren
more, a thousand fathoms in the sea, he carries a surplus stock of
surplus - berschuss, Rest
vitality in him, just as the camel crossing the waterless desert
camel - Kamel
waterless - wasserlos
carries a surplus supply of drink for future use in its four
supplementary stomachs. The anatomical fact of this labyrinth is
indisputable; and that the supposition founded upon it is reasonable
indisputable - unbestreitbar, eindeutig
and true, seems the more cogent to me, when I consider the otherwise
inexplicable obstinacy of that leviathan in _having his spoutings out_,
obstinacy - Sturheit, Eigensinn
as the fishermen phrase it. This is what I mean. If unmolested, upon
unmolested - unbelstigt, unbehelligt
rising to the surface, the Sperm Whale will continue there for a period
of time exactly uniform with all his other unmolested risings. Say he
risings - (rising) steigend, aufgehend
stays eleven minutes, and jets seventy times, that is, respires seventy
respires - (respire) atmen, aufatmen
breaths; then whenever he rises again, he will be sure to have his
seventy breaths over again, to a minute. Now, if after he fetches a few
fetches - (fetch) holen, einfangen, abrufen, apportieren
breaths you alarm him, so that he sounds, he will be always dodging up
again to make good his regular allowance of air. And not till those
allowance - Erlaubnis
seventy breaths are told, will he finally go down to stay out his full
term below. Remark, however, that in different individuals these rates
are different; but in any one they are alike. Now, why should the whale
thus insist upon having his spoutings out, unless it be to replenish
replenish - wieder auffllen, wieder aufstocken
his reservoir of air, ere descending for good? How obvious is it, too,
reservoir - Reservoir Stausee
that this necessity for the whales rising exposes him to all the fatal
hazards of the chase. For not by hook or by net could this vast
hazards - (hazard) Zufall Gefahr Hindernis riskieren, hasardieren
leviathan be caught, when sailing a thousand fathoms beneath the
sunlight. Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great
necessities that strike the victory to thee!
victory - Sieg
In man, breathing is incessantly going on"one breath only serving for
two or three pulsations; so that whatever other business he has to
pulsations - (pulsation) Pulsschlag
attend to, waking or sleeping, breathe he must, or die he will. But the
Sperm Whale only breathes about one seventh or Sunday of his time.
It has been said that the whale only breathes through his spout-hole;
if it could truthfully be added that his spouts are mixed with water,
truthfully - wahrhaftig, wahrheitsgem, vertrauensvoll
then I opine we should be furnished with the reason why his sense of
smell seems obliterated in him; for the only thing about him that at
obliterated - (obliterate) auslschen, verwischen
all answers to his nose is that identical spout-hole; and being so
clogged with two elements, it could not be expected to have the power
clogged - (clog) Holzschuh, Holzpantoffel, Pantine , hemmen, verstopfe
of smelling. But owing to the mystery of the spout"whether it be water
or whether it be vapor"no absolute certainty can as yet be arrived at
be arrived - vorliegen, angekommen sein
on this head. Sure it is, nevertheless, that the Sperm Whale has no
proper olfactories. But what does he want of them? No roses, no
olfactories - (olfactory) geruchlich
violets, no Cologne-water in the sea.
violets - (violet) Violett Veilchen
Furthermore, as his windpipe solely opens into the tube of his spouting
canal, and as that long canal"like the grand Erie Canal"is furnished
with a sort of locks (that open and shut) for the downward retention of
retention - Zurckhaltung Behalten Erinnerung
air or the upward exclusion of water, therefore the whale has no voice;
exclusion - Exklusion, Ausgrenzung, Ausschluss
unless you insult him by saying, that when he so strangely rumbles, he
rumbles - (rumble) Poltern, Rumpeln, hunder, Schlgerei, rumpeln;
talks through his nose. But then again, what has the whale to say?
Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this
world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a
stammer - stammeln, stottern, Stottern
living. Oh! happy that the world is such an excellent listener!
Now, the spouting canal of the Sperm Whale, chiefly intended as it is
for the conveyance of air, and for several feet laid along,
conveyance - Transport, bertragung, Transportmittel, Verkehrsmitte
horizontally, just beneath the upper surface of his head, and a little
to one side; this curious canal is very much like a gas-pipe laid down
in a city on one side of a street. But the question returns whether
this gas-pipe is also a water-pipe; in other words, whether the spout
of the Sperm Whale is the mere vapor of the exhaled breath, or whether
exhaled - (exhale) ausatmen
that exhaled breath is mixed with water taken in at the mouth, and
discharged through the spiracle. It is certain that the mouth
discharged - (discharge) entladen entlassen Ablauf Befreiung Entladung Entlassun
indirectly communicates with the spouting canal; but it cannot be
proved that this is for the purpose of discharging water through the
discharging - (discharge) entladen entlassen Ablauf Befreiung Entladung Entlassun
spiracle. Because the greatest necessity for so doing would seem to be,
when in feeding he accidentally takes in water. But the Sperm Whales
food is far beneath the surface, and there he cannot spout even if he
would. Besides, if you regard him very closely, and time him with your
watch, you will find that when unmolested, there is an undeviating
rhyme between the periods of his jets and the ordinary periods of
respiration.
But why pester one with all this reasoning on the subject? Speak out!
pester - belstigen
You have seen him spout; then declare what the spout is; can you not
tell water from air? My dear sir, in this world it is not so easy to
settle these plain things. I have ever found your plain things the
knottiest of all. And as for this whale spout, you might almost stand
knottiest - (knotty) knotig
in it, and yet be undecided as to what it is precisely.
be undecided - in der Schwebe sein
The central body of it is hidden in the snowy sparkling mist enveloping
it; and how can you certainly tell whether any water falls from it,
when, always, when you are close enough to a whale to get a close view
of his spout, he is in a prodigious commotion, the water cascading all
cascading - (cascade) Wasserfall, Kaskade, herabstrze
around him. And if at such times you should think that you really
perceived drops of moisture in the spout, how do you know that they are
not merely condensed from its vapor; or how do you know that they are
not those identical drops superficially lodged in the spout-hole
superficially - oberflchlich
fissure, which is countersunk into the summit of the whales head? For
countersunk - (countersink) Ansenkung, Senkbohrung, ansenken, versenken
even when tranquilly swimming through the mid-day sea in a calm, with
swimming through - durchschwimmend
his elevated hump sun-dried as a dromedarys in the desert; even then,
the whale always carries a small basin of water on his head, as under a
basin - (bas) Bas
blazing sun you will sometimes see a cavity in a rock filled up with
rain.
Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the
precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be peering
into it, and putting his face in it. You cannot go with your pitcher to
pitcher - Werfer, Krug
this fountain and fill it, and bring it away. For even when coming into
slight contact with the outer, vapory shreds of the jet, which will
often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of
feverishly - fieberhafte
acridness - Herbheit
the thing so touching it. And I know one, who coming into still closer
contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view, or
otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm.
Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to
evade it. Another thing; I have heard it said, and I do not much doubt
evade - ausweichen meiden sich entziehen
it, that if the jet is fairly spouted into your eyes, it will blind
you. The wisest thing the investigator can do then, it seems to me, is
investigator - Ermittler, Ermittlerin
to let this deadly spout alone.
Still, we can hypothesize, even if we cannot prove and establish. My
hypothesize - vermuten
hypothesis is this: that the spout is nothing but mist. And besides
other reasons, to this conclusion I am impelled, by considerations
touching the great inherent dignity and sublimity of the Sperm Whale; I
account him no common, shallow being, inasmuch as it is an undisputed
undisputed - unstrittig, unstreitig, unbestritten
fact that he is never found on soundings, or near shores; all other
whales sometimes are. He is both ponderous and profound. And I am
convinced that from the heads of all ponderous profound beings, such as
Plato, Pyrrho, the Devil, Jupiter, Dante, and so on, there always goes
up a certain semi-visible steam, while in the act of thinking deep
thoughts. While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the
treatise - Abhandlung, Traktat
curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected
there, a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over
worming - (worm) Wurm elender Wurm
undulation - Wellenbewegung, Wellenform
my head. The invariable moisture of my hair, while plunged in deep
thought, after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an
shingled - (shingle) kurzschneiden
attic - Dachgeschoss, Dachboden, Estrich
August noon; this seems an additional argument for the above
supposition.
And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to
behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild
head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his incommunicable
overhung - (overhang) berhngen, Überhang;hervorstehen
canopy - Baldachin, Himmel, Vordach, berdach, berhang, Kronendach
engendered - (engender) erzeugen
contemplations, and that vapor"as you will sometimes see it"glorified
contemplations - (contemplation) Betrachtung Meditation Erwarten
glorified - (glorify) verherrlichen glorifizieren, verklren, anbeten
by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts.
For, dye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate
irradiate - strahlen, bestrahlen
vapor. And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my
mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a
enkindling - (enkindle) anznden, entfachen, anstecken
heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny;
but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of
denials - (denial) Leugnung, Dementi, Bestreitung, Abstreitung, Verneinung
all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this
combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who
combination - Kombinieren Kombination, Kombinierte, Kombinat , Vereinigun
regards them both with equal eye.
regards - (regard) schtzen, betrachten, bercksichtige
Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope,
warbled - (warble) trillern
praises - (praise) Lob loben, preisen
antelope - Antilope
and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial,
alights - (alight) landen
I celebrate a tail.
Reckoning the largest sized Sperm Whales tail to begin at that point
of the trunk where it tapers to about the girth of a man, it comprises
upon its upper surface alone, an area of at least fifty square feet.
The compact round body of its root expands into two broad, firm, flat
palms or flukes, gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in
shoaling - Schwrmen; (shoal) Schwrmen
thickness. At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap,
overlap - berlappen, berlagern, berdecken, hinausragen be
then sideways recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy
recede - zurcktreten
between. In no living thing are the lines of beauty more exquisitely
exquisitely - exquisit
defined than in the crescentic borders of these flukes. At its utmost
expansion in the full grown whale, the tail will considerably exceed
twenty feet across.
The entire member seems a dense webbed bed of welded sinews; but cut
into it, and you find that three distinct strata compose it:"upper,
strata - Schichten; (stratum) Bank
compose - zusammenstellen, zusammensetzen, komponieren, enthalten, umfasst
middle, and lower. The fibres in the upper and lower layers, are long
and horizontal; those of the middle one, very short, and running
crosswise between the outside layers. This triune structure, as much as
triune - dreieinig
anything else, imparts power to the tail. To the student of old Roman
walls, the middle layer will furnish a curious parallel to the thin
course of tiles always alternating with the stone in those wonderful
relics of the antique, and which undoubtedly contribute so much to the
undoubtedly - zweifellos
great strength of the masonry.
masonry - Maurerhandwerk Mauern Mauerwerk, Gemuer
But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough,
the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of
knit - stricken
muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins
muscular - muskulr, Muskel
filaments - (filament) Faser Glhwendel
loins - (loin) Lende Rippenstck, Karree
and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and
largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent
measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.
Could annihilation occur to matter, this were the thing to do it.
Nor does this"its amazing strength, at all tend to cripple the graceful
cripple - Krppel verkrppeln, lahm legen, lhmen, zunichte machen
flexion of its motions; where infantileness of ease undulates through a
flexion - Krmmung, Beugung
infantileness - Infantilitt
Titanism of power. On the contrary, those motions derive their most
Titanism - Titanismus
appalling beauty from it. Real strength never impairs beauty or
impairs - (impair) beeintrchtigen, schdigen
harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly
harmony - Harmonie, Einklang, Wohlklang, Harmonielehre
bestows - (bestow) verstauen, einlagern, unterbringen, schenken, verleihe
imposingly - imponierend
beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic. Take away the tied
tendons that all over seem bursting from the marble in the carved
Hercules, and its charm would be gone. As devout Eckerman lifted the
Eckerman - Eckermann
linen sheet from the naked corpse of Goethe, he was overwhelmed with
the massive chest of the man, that seemed as a Roman triumphal arch.
When Angelo paints even God the Father in human form, mark what
robustness is there. And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in
the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which
hermaphroditical - hermaphroditisch
his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so
embodied - (embody) verkrpern
destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but
brawniness - Krftigkeit
the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on
feminine - feminin, weiblich
submission - Unterbreitung, Unterwerfung
endurance - Ausdauer
all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his
conceded - (concede) zugeben, zugestehen, einrumen, zulassen
teachings.
teachings - (teaching) unterrichten, beibringen, lehren
Such is the subtle elasticity of the organ I treat of, that whether
wielded in sport, or in earnest, or in anger, whatever be the mood it
wielded - (wield) beherrschen fhren ausben
be in, its flexions are invariably marked by exceeding grace. Therein
flexions - (flexion) Krmmung, Beugung
no fairys arm can transcend it.
transcend - ubersteigen
Five great motions are peculiar to it. First, when used as a fin for
progression; Second, when used as a mace in battle; Third, in sweeping;
progression - Fortschreiten, Verlauf, Fortschritt, Vorwrtsbewegun
mace - Muskatblte
Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes.
peaking - (peak) Hchstwert, Pik (Berg), Spitze
First: Being horizontal in its position, the Leviathans tail acts in a
different manner from the tails of all other sea creatures. It never
wriggles. In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority. To the
wriggles - (wriggle) sich winden, schlngeln
whale, his tail is the sole means of propulsion. Scroll-wise coiled
propulsion - Antrieb
forwards beneath the body, and then rapidly sprung backwards, it is
this which gives that singular darting, leaping motion to the monster
when furiously swimming. His side-fins only serve to steer by.
Second: It is a little significant, that while one sperm whale only
fights another sperm whale with his head and jaw, nevertheless, in his
conflicts with man, he chiefly and contemptuously uses his tail. In
conflicts - (conflict) Konflikt, Streit, Gegensatz, Inkompatibilitt
contemptuously - verchtlich, geringschtzig, verachtungsvoll
striking at a boat, he swiftly curves away his flukes from it, and the
blow is only inflicted by the recoil. If it be made in the unobstructed
air, especially if it descend to its mark, the stroke is then simply
irresistible. No ribs of man or boat can withstand it. Your only
salvation lies in eluding it; but if it comes sideways through the
eluding - (elude) entziehen
opposing water, then partly owing to the light buoyancy of the
whale-boat, and the elasticity of its materials, a cracked rib or a
dashed plank or two, a sort of stitch in the side, is generally the
stitch - Stich (Nh-), Stich (Schmerz);nhen, absteppen
most serious result. These submerged side blows are so often received
side blows - Seitenhiebe
in the fishery, that they are accounted mere childs play. Some one
strips off a frock, and the hole is stopped.
strips off - (strip off) abreien (Plakat, Tapete)
Third: I cannot demonstrate it, but it seems to me, that in the whale
demonstrate - demonstrieren, aufzeigen
the sense of touch is concentrated in the tail; for in this respect
there is a delicacy in it only equalled by the daintiness of the
daintiness - Mkelei (im Essen), Zierlichkeit
elephants trunk. This delicacy is chiefly evinced in the action of
sweeping, when in maidenly gentleness the whale with a certain soft
maidenly - mdchenhaft
gentleness - Sanftmut
slowness moves his immense flukes from side to side upon the surface of
slowness - Langsamkeit, Trgheit
the sea; and if he feel but a sailors whisker, woe to that sailor,
whiskers and all. What tenderness there is in that preliminary touch!
tenderness - Zrtlichkeit
Had this tail any prehensile power, I should straightway bethink me of
prehensile - Greif-
Darmonodes elephant that so frequented the flower-market, and with low
salutations presented nosegays to damsels, and then caressed their
nosegays - (nosegay) Biedermeierstruchen, Blumenstruchen
damsels - (damsel) Mdchen, Jungfrau
caressed - (cares) (care for) sich akk um jemanden/etwas kmmern, mgen
zones. On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not
possess this prehensile virtue in his tail; for I have heard of yet
another elephant, that when wounded in the fight, curved round his
trunk and extracted the dart.
Fourth: Stealing unawares upon the whale in the fancied security of the
unawares - (unaware) unwissend, nicht wissend, unaufmerksam, gedankenlo
middle of solitary seas, you find him unbent from the vast corpulence
unbent - (unbend) aufklappen
of his dignity, and kitten-like, he plays on the ocean as if it were a
kitten - Ktzchen, Ktzlein, Katzenbaby,
hearth. But still you see his power in his play. The broad palms of his
tail are flirted high into the air; then smiting the surface, the
smiting - (smite) schlagen
thunderous concussion resounds for miles. You would almost think a
thunderous - donnernd
concussion - Gehirnerschtterung
great gun had been discharged; and if you noticed the light wreath of
wreath - Kranz, Gebinde, Helmwulst
vapor from the spiracle at his other extremity, you would think that
that was the smoke from the touch-hole.
Fifth: As in the ordinary floating posture of the leviathan the flukes
lie considerably below the level of his back, they are then completely
out of sight beneath the surface; but when he is about to plunge into
the deeps, his entire flukes with at least thirty feet of his body are
tossed erect in the air, and so remain vibrating a moment, till they
downwards shoot out of view. Excepting the sublime _breach_"somewhere
breach - Bruch Versto, Bresche, Brechen
else to be described"this peaking of the whales flukes is perhaps the
grandest sight to be seen in all animated nature. Out of the bottomless
grandest - (grand) groartig, prchtig, gro, bedeutend
profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the
highest heaven. So in dreams, have I seen majestic Satan thrusting
Satan - Satan, Teufel
forth his tormented colossal claw from the flame Baltic of Hell. But in
gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the
Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the
Dantean - Danteanisch
archangels. Standing at the mast-head of my ship during a sunrise that
archangels - (archangel) Erzengel
crimsoned sky and sea, I once saw a large herd of whales in the east,
crimsoned - (crimson) Purpur, Purpurrot, Karmesin, purpurn
all heading towards the sun, and for a moment vibrating in concert with
peaked flukes. As it seemed to me at the time, such a grand embodiment
of adoration of the gods was never beheld, even in Persia, the home of
the fire worshippers. As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African
Ptolemy - Ptolemus, Ptolemaios
testified - (testify) bezeugen
elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most
devout of all beings. For according to King Juba, the military
elephants of antiquity often hailed the morning with their trunks
uplifted in the profoundest silence.
The chance comparison in this chapter, between the whale and the
elephant, so far as some aspects of the tail of the one and the trunk
of the other are concerned, should not tend to place those two opposite
organs on an equality, much less the creatures to which they
respectively belong. For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier to
terrier - Terrier; (terry) Terrier
Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathans tail, his trunk is but the
stalk of a lily. The most direful blow from the elephants trunk were
stalk - jdn. belauern;Stiel , Stengel
lily - Lilie
as the playful tap of a fan, compared with the measureless crush and
crash of the sperm whales ponderous flukes, which in repeated
instances have one after the other hurled entire boats with all their
oars and crews into the air, very much as an Indian juggler tosses his
tosses - (toss) Wurf Mnzwurf werfen verwerfen, wegwerfen, vermische
balls.*
*Though all comparison in the way of general bulk between the whale and
the elephant is preposterous, inasmuch as in that particular the
elephant stands in much the same respect to the whale that a dog does
to the elephant; nevertheless, there are not wanting some points of
curious similitude; among these is the spout. It is well known that the
elephant will often draw up water or dust in his trunk, and then
elevating it, jet it forth in a stream.
The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my
deplore - bedauern
inability to express it. At times there are gestures in it, which,
inability - Unfhigkeit, Unvermgen
though they would well grace the hand of man, remain wholly
inexplicable. In an extensive herd, so remarkable, occasionally, are
these mystic gestures, that I have heard hunters who have declared them
akin to Free-Mason signs and symbols; that the whale, indeed, by these
Mason - Maurer
methods intelligently conversed with the world. Nor are there wanting
intelligently - verstndnisvoll, intelligent, vernnftig
other motions of the whale in his general body, full of strangeness,
and unaccountable to his most experienced assailant. Dissect him how I
assailant - Angreifer
Dissect - sezieren zerlegen, analysieren
may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will. But if I
know not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much
more, how comprehend his face, when face he has none? Thou shalt see my
back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen.
But I cannot completely make out his back parts; and hint what he will
about his face, I say again he has no face.
The long and narrow peninsula of Malacca, extending south-eastward from
peninsula - Halbinsel
Malacca - Malakka
the territories of Birmah, forms the most southerly point of all Asia.
territories - (Territory) Territorium Revier
In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of
Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast
mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and
rampart - Festungswall, Bollwerk
dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly studded
studded - (stud) bersen, verzieren, verstreut sein, besetzen;Stehbolze
oriental archipelagoes. This rampart is pierced by several sally-ports
for the convenience of ships and whales; conspicuous among which are
convenience - Bequemlichkeit Annehmlichkeit
the straits of Sunda and Malacca. By the straits of Sunda, chiefly,
vessels bound to China from the west, emerge into the China seas.
Those narrow straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java; and standing
midway in that vast rampart of islands, buttressed by that bold green
buttressed - (buttress) Sttzpfeiler, Strebepfeiler, Gewlbepfeiler
promontory, known to seamen as Java Head; they not a little correspond
to the central gateway opening into some vast walled empire: and
considering the inexhaustible wealth of spices, and silks, and jewels,
inexhaustible - unerschpflich
silks - (silk) Seide
jewels - (jewel) Edelstein, Juwel , Schmuckstck, Kleinod
and gold, and ivory, with which the thousand islands of that oriental
sea are enriched, it seems a significant provision of nature, that such
treasures, by the very formation of the land, should at least bear the
appearance, however ineffectual, of being guarded from the all-grasping
ineffectual - ineffektiv, nutzlos, fruchtlos, vergeblich
western world. The shores of the Straits of Sunda are unsupplied with
those domineering fortresses which guard the entrances to the
fortresses - (fortress) Festung
Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Propontis. Unlike the Danes, these
Orientals do not demand the obsequious homage of lowered top-sails from
Orientals - (Oriental) orientalisch, Orientale, stlich
obsequious - gehorsam, folgsam, unterwrfig, hrig
the endless procession of ships before the wind, which for centuries
past, by night and by day, have passed between the islands of Sumatra
and Java, freighted with the costliest cargoes of the east. But while
cargoes - (cargo) Fracht, Ladung, Cargo
they freely waive a ceremonial like this, they do by no means renounce
waive - verzichten
ceremonial - zeremoniell
renounce - sich distanzieren, sich verleugnen, verzichten;einer Sache abschwren
their claim to more solid tribute.
more solid - solidere
tribute - Tribut
Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among the
low shaded coves and islets of Sumatra, have sallied out upon the
shaded - (shad) Maifisch
coves - (cove) Bucht, Hohlkehle (Profil), Wlbung
islets - (islet) Werder
vessels sailing through the straits, fiercely demanding tribute at the
point of their spears. Though by the repeated bloody chastisements they
chastisements - (chastisement) Strafe
have received at the hands of European cruisers, the audacity of these
audacity - Khnheit, Verwegenheit, Frechheit, Wagemut
corsairs has of late been somewhat repressed; yet, even at the present
corsairs - (corsair) Korsar
repressed - (repress) unterdrcken, verdrngen
day, we occasionally hear of English and American vessels, which, in
those waters, have been remorselessly boarded and pillaged.
remorselessly - unbarmherzige, hartherzig
pillaged - (pillage) plndern Plnderung
With a fair, fresh wind, the Pequod was now drawing nigh to these
straits; Ahab purposing to pass through them into the Javan sea, and
thence, cruising northwards, over waters known to be frequented here
northwards - (northward) nordwrts
and there by the Sperm Whale, sweep inshore by the Philippine Islands,
and gain the far coast of Japan, in time for the great whaling season
there. By these means, the circumnavigating Pequod would sweep almost
all the known Sperm Whale cruising grounds of the world, previous to
descending upon the Line in the Pacific; where Ahab, though everywhere
else foiled in his pursuit, firmly counted upon giving battle to Moby
Dick, in the sea he was most known to frequent; and at a season when he
most known - bekannteste
might most reasonably be presumed to be haunting it.
haunting - qulend, verfolgend; (haunt) spuken verfolgen Treffpunkt
But How now? in this zoned quest, does Ahab touch no land? does his
How now? - Was soll das bedeuten?
zoned - (zone) Bereich, Distrikt, Eingabefeld
crew drink air? Surely, he will stop for water. Nay. For a long time,
now, the circus-running sun has raced within his fiery ring, and needs
circus - Zirkus
no sustenance but whats in himself. So Ahab. Mark this, too, in the
sustenance - Nahrung, Verpflegung
whaler. While other hulls are loaded down with alien stuff, to be
transferred to foreign wharves; the world-wandering whale-ship carries
no cargo but herself and crew, their weapons and their wants. She has a
whole lakes contents bottled in her ample hold. She is ballasted with
utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge. She
utilities - (utility) Ntzlichkeit
unusable - unbenutzbar
carries years water in her. Clear old prime Nantucket water; which,
when three years afloat, the Nantucketer, in the Pacific, prefers to
drink before the brackish fluid, but yesterday rafted off in casks,
brackish - brackig, salzig
rafted - (raft) Flo, Holzflo
from the Peruvian or Indian streams. Hence it is, that, while other
ships may have gone to China from New York, and back again, touching at
a score of ports, the whale-ship, in all that interval, may not have
sighted one grain of soil; her crew having seen no man but floating
seamen like themselves. So that did you carry them the news that
another flood had come; they would only answer"Well, boys, heres the
ark!
Now, as many Sperm Whales had been captured off the western coast of
Java, in the near vicinity of the Straits of Sunda; indeed, as most of
the ground, roundabout, was generally recognised by the fishermen as an
roundabout - umstndlich, verschleiert, allumfassend, bergreifend, universal
excellent spot for cruising; therefore, as the Pequod gained more and
more upon Java Head, the look-outs were repeatedly hailed, and
admonished to keep wide awake. But though the green palmy cliffs of the
admonished - (admonish) ermahnen, warnen
land soon loomed on the starboard bow, and with delighted nostrils the
delighted - (delight) Freude, Entzckung, Wohlgefallen, Lust
fresh cinnamon was snuffed in the air, yet not a single jet was
cinnamon - Zimtbaum Zimt, Kaneel
descried. Almost renouncing all thought of falling in with any game
renouncing - (renounce) sich distanzieren, sich verleugne
hereabouts, the ship had well nigh entered the straits, when the
customary cheering cry was heard from aloft, and ere long a spectacle
of singular magnificence saluted us.
magnificence - Prchtigkeit, Pracht
saluted - (salute) Salut salutieren
But here be it premised, that owing to the unwearied activity with
premised - (premise) Prmisse, Voraussetzung, Lokal, Rumlichkeit
unwearied - unermdlich
which of late they have been hunted over all four oceans, the Sperm
Whales, instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached
companies, as in former times, are now frequently met with in extensive
herds, sometimes embracing so great a multitude, that it would almost
embracing - (embrace) umarmen annehmen, Umarmung
seem as if numerous nations of them had sworn solemn league and
covenant for mutual assistance and protection. To this aggregation of
assistance - Hilfe
aggregation - Aggregation, Ansammlung, Anhufung
the Sperm Whale into such immense caravans, may be imputed the
caravans - (caravan) Karawane Wohnwagen, Caravan
circumstance that even in the best cruising grounds, you may now
sometimes sail for weeks and months together, without being greeted by
a single spout; and then be suddenly saluted by what sometimes seems
thousands on thousands.
Broad on both bows, at the distance of some two or three miles, and
forming a great semicircle, embracing one half of the level horizon, a
semicircle - Halbkreis
continuous chain of whale-jets were up-playing and sparkling in the
noon-day air. Unlike the straight perpendicular twin-jets of the Right
Whale, which, dividing at top, fall over in two branches, like the
fall over - umkippen, umfallen, umstrzen
cleft drooping boughs of a willow, the single forward-slanting spout of
cleft - zerklftet, Kluft, Riss, kleben
willow - Weide, Weidenbaum
the Sperm Whale presents a thick curled bush of white mist, continually
bush - Buchse, Strauch, Busch
rising and falling away to leeward.
Seen from the Pequods deck, then, as she would rise on a high hill of
the sea, this host of vapory spouts, individually curling up into the
individually - individuell, einzeln
curling up - (curl up) verziehen, sich zusammen rollen, sich aufwerfen
air, and beheld through a blending atmosphere of bluish haze, showed
bluish - blulich
like the thousand cheerful chimneys of some dense metropolis, descried
chimneys - (chimney) Kamin, Esse, Schlot, Schornstein, Spalte
metropolis - Metropole, Weltstadt
of a balmy autumnal morning, by some horseman on a height.
balmy - lindernd, mildernd, sanft
autumnal - Herbst
As marching armies approaching an unfriendly defile in the mountains,
unfriendly - unfreundlich, unholde
defile - defilieren
accelerate their march, all eagerness to place that perilous passage in
their rear, and once more expand in comparative security upon the
plain; even so did this vast fleet of whales now seem hurrying forward
through the straits; gradually contracting the wings of their
semicircle, and swimming on, in one solid, but still crescentic centre.
Crowding all sail the Pequod pressed after them; the harpooneers
pressed after - nachgedrngt
handling their weapons, and loudly cheering from the heads of their yet
suspended boats. If the wind only held, little doubt had they, that
chased through these Straits of Sunda, the vast host would only deploy
deploy - aufstellen, formieren, aufmarschieren lassen, stationieren
into the Oriental seas to witness the capture of not a few of their
number. And who could tell whether, in that congregated caravan, Moby
Dick himself might not temporarily be swimming, like the worshipped
white-elephant in the coronation procession of the Siamese! So with
stun-sail piled on stun-sail, we sailed along, driving these leviathans
stun - betuben verblffen
before us; when, of a sudden, the voice of Tashtego was heard, loudly
directing attention to something in our wake.
Corresponding to the crescent in our van, we beheld another in our
crescent - Mondsichel Hrnchen, Croissant,
rear. It seemed formed of detached white vapors, rising and falling
something like the spouts of the whales; only they did not so
completely come and go; for they constantly hovered, without finally
hovered - (hover) rtteln verweilen zgern bewegen
disappearing. Levelling his glass at this sight, Ahab quickly revolved
in his pivot-hole, crying, Aloft there, and rig whips and buckets to
wet the sails;"Malays, sir, and after us!
As if too long lurking behind the headlands, till the Pequod should
fairly have entered the straits, these rascally Asiatics were now in
rascally - gemein, schuftig
hot pursuit, to make up for their over-cautious delay. But when the
hot pursuit - heie Verfolgungsjagd
swift Pequod, with a fresh leading wind, was herself in hot chase; how
very kind of these tawny philanthropists to assist in speeding her on
philanthropists - (philanthropist) Philanthrop, Philanthropin, Menschenfreun
to her own chosen pursuit,"mere riding-whips and rowels to her, that
rowels - (rowel) Spornrdchen
they were. As with glass under arm, Ahab to-and-fro paced the deck; in
his forward turn beholding the monsters he chased, and in the after one
the bloodthirsty pirates chasing _him_; some such fancy as the above
seemed his. And when he glanced upon the green walls of the watery
defile in which the ship was then sailing, and bethought him that
through that gate lay the route to his vengeance, and beheld, how that
through that same gate he was now both chasing and being chased to his
deadly end; and not only that, but a herd of remorseless wild pirates
and inhuman atheistical devils were infernally cheering him on with
atheistical - atheistische
infernally - hllische, hllisch
their curses;"when all these conceits had passed through his brain,
Ahabs brow was left gaunt and ribbed, like the black sand beach after
some stormy tide has been gnawing it, without being able to drag the
gnawing - abnagend, nagend; (gnaw) nagen, kauen, knabbern, verfolgen
firm thing from its place.
But thoughts like these troubled very few of the reckless crew; and
when, after steadily dropping and dropping the pirates astern, the
Pequod at last shot by the vivid green Cockatoo Point on the Sumatra
Cockatoo - Kakadu
side, emerging at last upon the broad waters beyond; then, the
harpooneers seemed more to grieve that the swift whales had been
grieve - weh tun, krnken, bekmmern;sich grmen (ber)
gaining upon the ship, than to rejoice that the ship had so
victoriously gained upon the Malays. But still driving on in the wake
victoriously - siegreich
of the whales, at length they seemed abating their speed; gradually the
ship neared them; and the wind now dying away, word was passed to
dying away - ausklingend
spring to the boats. But no sooner did the herd, by some presumed
wonderful instinct of the Sperm Whale, become notified of the three
notified - (notify) mitteilen, benachrichtigen
keels that were after them,"though as yet a mile in their rear,"than
they rallied again, and forming in close ranks and battalions, so that
rallied - (rally) Zusammenkunft, Rallye;um sich scharen;Sternfahrt;sammeln
close ranks - enger zusammenrcken (fig.)
battalions - (battalion) Bataillon, Sanittsbataillon
their spouts all looked like flashing lines of stacked bayonets, moved
bayonets - (bayonet) Bajonett
on with redoubled velocity.
redoubled - (redouble) verdoppeln
Stripped to our shirts and drawers, we sprang to the white-ash, and
after several hours pulling were almost disposed to renounce the
renounce - sich distanzieren, sich verleugne
chase, when a general pausing commotion among the whales gave animating
animating - (animate) lebendig, beseelt, bewegt, lebhaft, belebt, belebe
token that they were now at last under the influence of that strange
perplexity of inert irresolution, which, when the fishermen perceive it
irresolution - Unschlssigkeit, Unentschlossenheit
in the whale, they say he is gallied. The compact martial columns in
which they had been hitherto rapidly and steadily swimming, were now
broken up in one measureless rout; and like King Porus elephants in
rout - Rotte
the Indian battle with Alexander, they seemed going mad with
going mad - berschnappend
consternation. In all directions expanding in vast irregular circles,
and aimlessly swimming hither and thither, by their short thick
aimlessly - ziellos
spoutings, they plainly betrayed their distraction of panic. This was
distraction - Ablenkung, Ablenkungsmanver, Strung, Zerstreuung, Wahnsinn
still more strangely evinced by those of their number, who, completely
paralysed as it were, helplessly floated like water-logged dismantled
paralysed - (paralyse) lahmlegen;lhmen
logged - (log) Logbuch;Log, Holzklotz, Kloben (Holzklotz);aufzeichne
ships on the sea. Had these Leviathans been but a flock of simple
flock - (to flock together) sich rotten, sich zusammenrotten
sheep, pursued over the pasture by three fierce wolves, they could not
possibly have evinced such excessive dismay. But this occasional
excessive - bermig, exzessiv
timidity is characteristic of almost all herding creatures. Though
characteristic - charakteristisch, bezeichnend, kennzeichnend, typisch, Merkmal
herding - (herd) Herde
banding together in tens of thousands, the lion-maned buffaloes of the
buffaloes - (Buffalo) Bffel, Wisent, Bison, Bffel
West have fled before a solitary horseman. Witness, too, all human
beings, how when herded together in the sheepfold of a theatres pit,
herded - (herd) Herde
they will, at the slightest alarm of fire, rush helter-skelter for the
outlets, crowding, trampling, jamming, and remorselessly dashing each
outlets - (outlet) Ausgang, Auslass, Direktverkauf, Werksverkau
other to death. Best, therefore, withhold any amazement at the
strangely gallied whales before us, for there is no folly of the beasts
folly - Torheit, Narrheit, Dummheit, Tollheit
of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
outdone - (outdo) bertreffen
Though many of the whales, as has been said, were in violent motion,
yet it is to be observed that as a whole the herd neither advanced nor
retreated, but collectively remained in one place. As is customary in
those cases, the boats at once separated, each making for some one lone
whale on the outskirts of the shoal. In about three minutes time,
outskirts - (outskirt) Auenbezirk, Stadtrand, Auenbereich, Vorort
Queequegs harpoon was flung; the stricken fish darted blinding spray
in our faces, and then running away with us like light, steered
straight for the heart of the herd. Though such a movement on the part
of the whale struck under such circumstances, is in no wise
unprecedented; and indeed is almost always more or less anticipated;
anticipated - (anticipate) vorgreifen voraussehen, vorausahnen
yet does it present one of the more perilous vicissitudes of the
fishery. For as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the
frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a
circumspect - vorsichtig, umsichtig
delirious throb.
throb - klopfen, schlagen, pochen, pulsieren, Pochen
As, blind and deaf, the whale plunged forward, as if by sheer power of
speed to rid himself of the iron leech that had fastened to him; as we
thus tore a white gash in the sea, on all sides menaced as we flew, by
menaced - (menace) Landplage, androhen
the crazed creatures to and fro rushing about us; our beset boat was
like a ship mobbed by ice-isles in a tempest, and striving to steer
mobbed - (mob) Meute, Pbel
through their complicated channels and straits, knowing not at what
moment it may be locked in and crushed.
But not a bit daunted, Queequeg steered us manfully; now sheering off
daunted - (daunt) abschrecken, entmutigen, einschchtern, berwltige
manfully - mannhaft, mannhafte
sheering - (sheer) scheren, ausreien, gieren;rein, blan
from this monster directly across our route in advance; now edging away
from that, whose colossal flukes were suspended overhead, while all the
time, Starbuck stood up in the bows, lance in hand, pricking out of our
way whatever whales he could reach by short darts, for there was no
time to make long ones. Nor were the oarsmen quite idle, though their
wonted duty was now altogether dispensed with. They chiefly attended to
wonted - (wont) nicht
dispensed - (dispense) ausgeben, austeilen, verteilen, dosieren, ausstelle
the shouting part of the business. Out of the way, Commodore! cried
one, to a great dromedary that of a sudden rose bodily to the surface,
and for an instant threatened to swamp us. Hard down with your tail,
swamp - Sumpf, Moor, berfluten, berschwemmen
there! cried a second to another, which, close to our gunwale, seemed
calmly cooling himself with his own fan-like extremity.
All whaleboats carry certain curious contrivances, originally invented
by the Nantucket Indians, called druggs. Two thick squares of wood of
druggs - Drogen
equal size are stoutly clenched together, so that they cross each
others grain at right angles; a line of considerable length is then
attached to the middle of this block, and the other end of the line
being looped, it can in a moment be fastened to a harpoon. It is
looped - (loop) Schlaufe, Schleife, Endlosschleife, Stromkrei
chiefly among gallied whales that this drugg is used. For then, more
drugg - Droge
whales are close round you than you can possibly chase at one time. But
sperm whales are not every day encountered; while you may, then, you
must kill all you can. And if you cannot kill them all at once, you
must wing them, so that they can be afterwards killed at your leisure.
Hence it is, that at times like these the drugg, comes into
requisition. Our boat was furnished with three of them. The first and
requisition - requirieren
second were successfully darted, and we saw the whales staggeringly
staggeringly - schwankende
running off, fettered by the enormous sidelong resistance of the towing
fettered - (fetter) Fessel; q
drugg. They were cramped like malefactors with the chain and ball. But
malefactors - (malefactor) beltter, beltterin, Malefaktor
upon flinging the third, in the act of tossing overboard the clumsy
wooden block, it caught under one of the seats of the boat, and in an
instant tore it out and carried it away, dropping the oarsman in the
boats bottom as the seat slid from under him. On both sides the sea
came in at the wounded planks, but we stuffed two or three drawers and
shirts in, and so stopped the leaks for the time.
It had been next to impossible to dart these drugged-harpoons, were it
not that as we advanced into the herd, our whales way greatly
diminished; moreover, that as we went still further and further from
the circumference of commotion, the direful disorders seemed waning. So
disorders - (disorder) Unordnung Unruhen Strung
that when at last the jerking harpoon drew out, and the towing whale
sideways vanished; then, with the tapering force of his parting
vanished - (vanish) verschwinden, vergehen, sich verflchtigen
momentum, we glided between two whales into the innermost heart of the
momentum - Impuls, Bewegungsmenge, Bewegungsgre, Schwung, Wucht
shoal, as if from some mountain torrent we had slid into a serene
valley lake. Here the storms in the roaring glens between the outermost
whales, were heard but not felt. In this central expanse the sea
presented that smooth satin-like surface, called a sleek, produced by
sleek - glatt; q
the subtle moisture thrown off by the whale in his more quiet moods.
more quiet - ruhigere
Yes, we were now in that enchanted calm which they say lurks at the
heart of every commotion. And still in the distracted distance we
beheld the tumults of the outer concentric circles, and saw successive
tumults - (tumult) Tumult, Krach, Lrm, lautes Stimmengewirr
concentric circles - konzentrische Kreise
pods of whales, eight or ten in each, swiftly going round and round,
pods - (pod) Schote, Hlse, Kapsel, Rettungskapsel, Kabine, Schule
going round - umgehend
like multiplied spans of horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to
shoulder, that a Titanic circus-rider might easily have over-arched the
circus rider - (circus-rider) Zirkusreiter
middle ones, and so have gone round on their backs. Owing to the
gone round - umgangen
density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding
the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at
embayed - (embay) eintauchen
present afforded us. We must watch for a breach in the living wall that
hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us
hemmed - (hem) sumen, einfassen, einsumen, einschlieen [Mil.];Saum
up. Keeping at the centre of the lake, we were occasionally visited by
small tame cows and calves; the women and children of this routed host.
calves - (calve) kalben werfen sich lsen
Now, inclusive of the occasional wide intervals between the revolving
inclusive of - inkl. inklusive
outer circles, and inclusive of the spaces between the various pods in
inclusive - vollstndig, vollumfnglich, allumfassend
any one of those circles, the entire area at this juncture, embraced by
the whole multitude, must have contained at least two or three square
miles. At any rate"though indeed such a test at such a time might be
deceptive"spoutings might be discovered from our low boat that seemed
playing up almost from the rim of the horizon. I mention this
circumstance, because, as if the cows and calves had been purposely
locked up in this innermost fold; and as if the wide extent of the herd
had hitherto prevented them from learning the precise cause of its
stopping; or, possibly, being so young, unsophisticated, and every way
innocent and inexperienced; however it may have been, these smaller
inexperienced - unerfahren
whales"now and then visiting our becalmed boat from the margin of the
lake"evinced a wondrous fearlessness and confidence, or else a still
becharmed panic which it was impossible not to marvel at. Like
household dogs they came snuffling round us, right up to our gunwales,
snuffling - schnuppernd, schnffelnd; (snuffle) schnuppernd, schnffelnd
and touching them; till it almost seemed that some spell had suddenly
domesticated them. Queequeg patted their foreheads; Starbuck scratched
domesticated - (domesticate) domestizieren
patted - (pat) Pat
scratched - (scratch) kratzen zerkratzen, verkratzen, Kratzer
their backs with his lance; but fearful of the consequences, for the
time refrained from darting it.
But far beneath this wondrous world upon the surface, another and still
stranger world met our eyes as we gazed over the side. For, suspended
in those watery vaults, floated the forms of the nursing mothers of the
vaults - (vault) sich wlben, berwlben
whales, and those that by their enormous girth seemed shortly to become
mothers. The lake, as I have hinted, was to a considerable depth
exceedingly transparent; and as human infants while suckling will
suckling - Sugling, sugend; (suckle) stillen sugen
calmly and fixedly gaze away from the breast, as if leading two
different lives at the time; and while yet drawing mortal nourishment,
nourishment - Ernhrung Nahrung
be still spiritually feasting upon some unearthly reminiscence;"even so
spiritually - geistig
feasting - schlemmend, ergtzend; (feast) schlemmend, ergtzend
did the young of these whales seem looking up towards us, but not at
us, as if we were but a bit of Gulfweed in their new-born sight.
Gulfweed - Golfgras
Floating on their sides, the mothers also seemed quietly eyeing us. One
of these little infants, that from certain queer tokens seemed hardly a
day old, might have measured some fourteen feet in length, and some six
feet in girth. He was a little frisky; though as yet his body seemed
frisky - lebhaft, energiegeladen, (sexuell) erregt, geil
scarce yet recovered from that irksome position it had so lately
irksome - belastend, verdrielich, ermdend
lately - neulich, krzlich, letztlich
occupied in the maternal reticule; where, tail to head, and all ready
reticule - Gitternetz
for the final spring, the unborn whale lies bent like a Tartars bow.
unborn - ungeboren; (unbear) ungeboren
The delicate side-fins, and the palms of his flukes, still freshly
retained the plaited crumpled appearance of a babys ears newly arrived
crumpled - (crumple) knllen, zerknittern
from foreign parts.
Line! line! cried Queequeg, looking over the gunwale; him fast! him
fast!"Who line him! Who struck?"Two whale; one big, one little!
What ails ye, man? cried Starbuck.
ails - (ail) plagen, krnkeln, krnklich sein
Look-e here, said Queequeg, pointing down.
As when the stricken whale, that from the tub has reeled out hundreds
of fathoms of rope; as, after deep sounding, he floats up again, and
shows the slackened curling line buoyantly rising and spiralling
buoyantly - schwimmend
spiralling - Kurvenflug; (spiral) Spirale Helix
towards the air; so now, Starbuck saw long coils of the umbilical cord
umbilical cord - Nabelschnur
of Madame Leviathan, by which the young cub seemed still tethered to
cub - Tollpatsch, Flegel
tethered - (tether) Strick, Haltegurt, Spannseil, Leine
its dam. Not seldom in the rapid vicissitudes of the chase, this
natural line, with the maternal end loose, becomes entangled with the
entangled - (entangle) verwickeln
hempen one, so that the cub is thereby trapped. Some of the subtlest
subtlest - (subtle) subtil, fast unmerklich, haarfein, dezent
secrets of the seas seemed divulged to us in this enchanted pond. We
saw young Leviathan amours in the deep.*
*The sperm whale, as with all other species of the Leviathan, but
unlike most other fish, breeds indifferently at all seasons; after a
indifferently - gleichgltig, gleichgltige
gestation which may probably be set down at nine months, producing but
gestation - Reifung, Heranreifen
one at a time; though in some few known instances giving birth to an
Esau and Jacob:"a contingency provided for in suckling by two teats,
contingency - Kontingenz, Eventualitt, Zufall, Eventualit
teats - (teat) Brustwarze Sauger
curiously situated, one on each side of the anus; but the breasts
situated - (situate) aufstellen, unterbringen
anus - Anus, After ; (Anu) Anus, After
breasts - (breast) Brust -brust, Entenbrust
themselves extend upwards from that. When by chance these precious
extend - erweitern ausdehnen, ausweiten
pouring milk and blood rivallingly discolour the sea for rods. The milk
rivallingly - rivalisierend
discolour - verfrben
is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well
with strawberries. When overflowing with mutual esteem, the whales
strawberries - (strawberry) Erdbeere Erdbeere
salute _more hominum_.
salute - Salut salutieren
And thus, though surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and
consternations - (consternation) Bestrzung, Fassungslosigkeit
affrights, did these inscrutable creatures at the centre freely and
fearlessly indulge in all peaceful concernments; yea, serenely revelled
indulge - nachgeben, erliegen, frnen, htscheln, verwhnen
concernments - (concernment) Betroffenheit
serenely - klar, heiter
revelled - (revel) feiern, ausgelassen sein
in dalliance and delight. But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of
dalliance - Liebesspiel, Flirt, Tndelei, Trdelei, Zeitverschwendung
tornadoed - von einem Tornado heimgesucht
my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm;
centrally - zentrale
and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down
and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.
bathe - baden
Meanwhile, as we thus lay entranced, the occasional sudden frantic
spectacles in the distance evinced the activity of the other boats,
still engaged in drugging the whales on the frontier of the host; or
frontier - Grenze, Landesgrenze, Staatsgrenze
possibly carrying on the war within the first circle, where abundance
of room and some convenient retreats were afforded them. But the sight
of the enraged drugged whales now and then blindly darting to and fro
across the circles, was nothing to what at last met our eyes. It is
sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful
and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or
hamstring - Hftgelenkextensoren, ischiocrurale Muskulatu
sundering - trennend; (sunder) trennend
maiming his gigantic tail-tendon. It is done by darting a short-handled
maiming - verstmmelnd; (maim) verstmmeln, verschandeln
tendon - Sehne
cutting-spade, to which is attached a rope for hauling it back again. A
whale wounded (as we afterwards learned) in this part, but not
effectually, as it seemed, had broken away from the boat, carrying
along with him half of the harpoon line; and in the extraordinary agony
of the wound, he was now dashing among the revolving circles like the
lone mounted desperado Arnold, at the battle of Saratoga, carrying
dismay wherever he went.
But agonizing as was the wound of this whale, and an appalling
spectacle enough, any way; yet the peculiar horror with which he seemed
to inspire the rest of the herd, was owing to a cause which at first
the intervening distance obscured from us. But at length we perceived
that by one of the unimaginable accidents of the fishery, this whale
had become entangled in the harpoon-line that he towed; he had also run
away with the cutting-spade in him; and while the free end of the rope
attached to that weapon, had permanently caught in the coils of the
harpoon-line round his tail, the cutting-spade itself had worked loose
from his flesh. So that tormented to madness, he was now churning
through the water, violently flailing with his flexible tail, and
flailing - (flail) Flegel, Dreschflegel, Streitflegel, Kriegsflege
tossing the keen spade about him, wounding and murdering his own
wounding - Verwundung; (wound) Verwundung
comrades.
This terrific object seemed to recall the whole herd from their
stationary fright. First, the whales forming the margin of our lake
began to crowd a little, and tumble against each other, as if lifted by
half spent billows from afar; then the lake itself began faintly to
heave and swell; the submarine bridal-chambers and nurseries vanished;
submarine - submarin, unterseeisch, untermeerisch, unterwasser
nurseries - (nursery) Kinderstube, Kinderzimmer, Kindergarten, Kinderzimmer
in more and more contracting orbits the whales in the more central
orbits - (orbit) Umlaufbahn, Orbit, umkreisen, in, umschwirren
more central - zentralere
circles began to swim in thickening clusters. Yes, the long calm was
thickening - Dickwerden Verdickungsmittel ; (thicken) Dickwerden Verdickungsmittel
departing. A low advancing hum was soon heard; and then like to the
departing - abreisend, abfahrend; (depart) verlassen, aufbrechen, abweichen
tumultuous masses of block-ice when the great river Hudson breaks up in
Spring, the entire host of whales came tumbling upon their inner
centre, as if to pile themselves up in one common mountain. Instantly
Starbuck and Queequeg changed places; Starbuck taking the stern.
Oars! Oars! he intensely whispered, seizing the helm"gripe your
oars, and clutch your souls, now! My God, men, stand by! Shove him off,
Shove - schieben
you Queequeg"the whale there!"prick him!"hit him! Stand up"stand up,
and stay so! Spring, men"pull, men; never mind their backs"scrape
them!"scrape away!
The boat was now all but jammed between two vast black bulks, leaving a
bulks - (bulk) Groteil
narrow Dardanelles between their long lengths. But by desperate
endeavor we at last shot into a temporary opening; then giving way
rapidly, and at the same time earnestly watching for another outlet.
outlet - Ausgang, Auslass, Direktverkauf, Werksverkauf, Direktvermarkter
After many similar hair-breadth escapes, we at last swiftly glided into
what had just been one of the outer circles, but now crossed by random
whales, all violently making for one centre. This lucky salvation was
cheaply purchased by the loss of Queequegs hat, who, while standing in
cheaply - billig
the bows to prick the fugitive whales, had his hat taken clean from his
head by the air-eddy made by the sudden tossing of a pair of broad
flukes close by.
Riotous and disordered as the universal commotion now was, it soon
resolved itself into what seemed a systematic movement; for having
clumped together at last in one dense body, they then renewed their
clumped - (clump) Klumpen Bschel Plumps
renewed - (renew) erneuern
onward flight with augmented fleetness. Further pursuit was useless;
onward - vorwrts
augmented - (augment) vergrern, erhhen, vermehren, wachsen, zunehme
but the boats still lingered in their wake to pick up what drugged
whales might be dropped astern, and likewise to secure one which Flask
be dropped - entfallen, wegfallen
had killed and waifed. The waif is a pennoned pole, two or three of
waifed - (waif) verlassenes obdachloses Kind
pennoned - verpfndet
which are carried by every boat; and which, when additional game is at
hand, are inserted upright into the floating body of a dead whale, both
to mark its place on the sea, and also as token of prior possession,
should the boats of any other ship draw near.
draw near - nahen
The result of this lowering was somewhat illustrative of that sagacious
illustrative - erluternd
saying in the Fishery,"the more whales the less fish. Of all the
drugged whales only one was captured. The rest contrived to escape for
the time, but only to be taken, as will hereafter be seen, by some
other craft than the Pequod.
The previous chapter gave account of an immense body or herd of Sperm
Whales, and there was also then given the probable cause inducing those
inducing - (induce) dazu bringen, anstacheln, bewirken, verursache
vast aggregations.
aggregations - (aggregation) Aggregation, Ansammlung, Anhufung
Now, though such great bodies are at times encountered, yet, as must
have been seen, even at the present day, small detached bands are
occasionally observed, embracing from twenty to fifty individuals each.
Such bands are known as schools. They generally are of two sorts; those
composed almost entirely of females, and those mustering none but young
mustering - (muster) (must) Weinmost;musst, Moder, Muss, Most (fr Wein)
vigorous males, or bulls, as they are familiarly designated.
In cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a
cavalier - nachlssig bermtig hochmtig Kavallerist Kavalier
male of full grown magnitude, but not old; who, upon any alarm, evinces
evinces - (evince) bekunden, zeigen, zum Vorschein bringe
his gallantry by falling in the rear and covering the flight of his
ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about
Ottoman - Ottomane, Canap, Couch, Polsterhocker, Sitzkissen
over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by all the solaces and
surroundingly - rundherum
solaces - (solace) Trost trsten
endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his
endearments - (endearment) Zrtlichkeit
harem - Harem
concubines is striking; because, while he is always of the largest
concubines - (concubine) Konkubine
leviathanic proportions, the ladies, even at full growth, are not more
than one-third of the bulk of an average-sized male. They are
comparatively delicate, indeed; I dare say, not to exceed half a dozen
dozen - Dutzend Dutzende (''of'': von)
yards round the waist. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied, that upon the
whole they are hereditarily entitled to _en bon point_.
It is very curious to watch this harem and its lord in their indolent
ramblings. Like fashionables, they are for ever on the move in
ramblings - (rambling) langatmig, weitschweifend, abschweifend, palavern
leisurely search of variety. You meet them on the Line in time for the
full flower of the Equatorial feeding season, having just returned,
perhaps, from spending the summer in the Northern seas, and so cheating
summer of all unpleasant weariness and warmth. By the time they have
lounged up and down the promenade of the Equator awhile, they start for
lounged - (lounge) Lounge, Wartezimmer, Warteraum, Wohnzimmer
promenade - Promenade spazieren gehen
the Oriental waters in anticipation of the cool season there, and so
anticipation - Erwartung, Vorausahnung, Vorahnung, Vorfreud
evade the other excessive temperature of the year.
When serenely advancing on one of these journeys, if any strange
suspicious sights are seen, my lord whale keeps a wary eye on his
wary - achtsam, umsichtig, vorsichtig, wachsam
interesting family. Should any unwarrantably pert young Leviathan
unwarrantably - unverantwortlich
pert - flott, lebhaft, schwungvoll, munter, keck
coming that way, presume to draw confidentially close to one of the
confidentially - im Vertrauen
ladies, with what prodigious fury the Bashaw assails him, and chases
assails - (assail) angreifen
chases - (chas) Chas
him away! High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are
unprincipled - gewissenlos, prinzipienlos, prinzipienfrei
rakes - (rake) harken, stochern;Harke, Rechen
to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do
what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of
Lothario - Don Juan, Schrzenjger
his bed; for, alas! all fish bed in common. As ashore, the ladies often
cause the most terrible duels among their rival admirers; just so with
duels - (duel) Duell, Zweikampf, duellieren
admirers - (admirer) Bewunderer, Bewundrerin, Bewunderin
the whales, who sometimes come to deadly battle, and all for love. They
fence with their long lower jaws, sometimes locking them together, and
so striving for the supremacy like elks that warringly interweave their
elks - (Elk) Elch
warringly - kriegerisch
interweave - verweben, verflechten, durchweben, einweben
antlers. Not a few are captured having the deep scars of these
antlers - (antler) Geweih
scars - (scar) Narbe
encounters,"furrowed heads, broken teeth, scolloped fins; and in some
furrowed - (furrow) Furche
scolloped - (scollop) eintauchen
instances, wrenched and dislocated mouths.
dislocated - (dislocate) auskugeln, ausrenken, verrenken, dislozieren
But supposing the invader of domestic bliss to betake himself away at
invader - Eindringling, Eroberer, Erobererin
the first rush of the harems lord, then is it very diverting to watch
diverting - (divert) umlenken, umleiten, ablenken, unterhalten
that lord. Gently he insinuates his vast bulk among them again and
insinuates - (insinuate) andeuten, unterstellen, insinuieren, einschmeicheln
revels there awhile, still in tantalizing vicinity to young Lothario,
revels - (revel) feiern, ausgelassen sein
like pious Solomon devoutly worshipping among his thousand concubines.
Granting other whales to be in sight, the fishermen will seldom give
chase to one of these Grand Turks; for these Grand Turks are too lavish
lavish - freigiebig, verschwenderisch, berreich, ppig, verschleuder
of their strength, and hence their unctuousness is small. As for the
sons and the daughters they beget, why, those sons and daughters must
take care of themselves; at least, with only the maternal help. For
like certain other omnivorous roving lovers that might be named, my
omnivorous - allfressend
roving - umherschweifend; (rove) umherschweifend
Lord Whale has no taste for the nursery, however much for the bower;
bower - Laube; (bow) Laube
and so, being a great traveller, he leaves his anonymous babies all
over the world; every baby an exotic. In good time, nevertheless, as
exotic - exotisch Exot
the ardour of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; as
dumps - (dump) Kippe, Auszug, Entsorgungsplatz;einen Auszug mache
reflection lends her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude
lassitude - Mattigkeit
overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the
overtakes - (overtake) berholen aufholen
sated - (sate) bersttigen, sttigen
supplants - (supplant) verdrngen, ersetzen, ausstechen
love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant,
maidens - (Maiden) Jungfrau
impotent - impotent
repentant - reumtig
admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to
admonitory - mahnend
forswears - (forswear) abschwren, entschieden bestreiten, strikt ablehne
disbands - (disband) auflsen
an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians
exemplary - vorbildlich, beispielhaft
and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from
parallels - (parallel) parallel parallel zu Parallele Breitengra
his amorous errors.
amorous - amours, verliebt, anzglich, erotisch
Now, as the harem of whales is called by the fishermen a school, so is
the lord and master of that school technically known as the
schoolmaster. It is therefore not in strict character, however
admirably satirical, that after going to school himself, he should then
satirical - satirisch
go abroad inculcating not what he learned there, but the folly of it.
go abroad - ins Ausland gehen
His title, schoolmaster, would very naturally seem derived from the
name bestowed upon the harem itself, but some have surmised that the
man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read
the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a
memoirs - (memoir) Memoiren, Lebenserinnerungen
country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was in his younger days, and
what was the nature of those occult lessons he inculcated into some of
occult - okkult Okkult, Okkultismus
inculcated - (inculcate) einimpfen, einschrfen
his pupils.
pupils - (pupil) Schulkind, Pupille, Schler
The same secludedness and isolation to which the schoolmaster whale
secludedness - Einsamkeit
betakes himself in his advancing years, is true of all aged Sperm
betakes - (betake) begeben sich
Whales. Almost universally, a lone whale"as a solitary Leviathan is
called"proves an ancient one. Like venerable moss-bearded Daniel Boone,
he will have no one near him but Nature herself; and her he takes to
wife in the wilderness of waters, and the best of wives she is, though
she keeps so many moody secrets.
The schools composing none but young and vigorous males, previously
mentioned, offer a strong contrast to the harem schools. For while
those female whales are characteristically timid, the young males, or
characteristically - charakteristisch
forty-barrel-bulls, as they call them, are by far the most pugnacious
most pugnacious - kampflustigste
of all Leviathans, and proverbially the most dangerous to encounter;
proverbially - sprichwrtlich
excepting those wondrous grey-headed, grizzled whales, sometimes met,
and these will fight you like grim fiends exasperated by a penal gout.
penal - strafrechtlich
gout - Gicht
The Forty-barrel-bull schools are larger than the harem schools. Like a
mob of young collegians, they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness,
collegians - (collegian) Student
wickedness - Bosheit
tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no
prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous
underwriter - Versicherer, Versicherungstrger, Versicherungsvertrete
lad at Yale or Harvard. They soon relinquish this turbulence though,
turbulence - Turbulenz
and when about three-fourths grown, break up, and separately go about
in quest of settlements, that is, harems.
settlements - (settlement) Regelung, Regulierung, Erledigung, Ansiedlung
harems - (harem) Harem
Another point of difference between the male and female schools is
still more characteristic of the sexes. Say you strike a
Forty-barrel-bull"poor devil! all his comrades quit him. But strike a
member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with
every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as
themselves to fall a prey.
The allusion to the waif and waif-poles in the last chapter but one,
necessitates some account of the laws and regulations of the whale
regulations - (regulation) Regeln Regelung, Regulativ, Bestimmung, Verordnung
fishery, of which the waif may be deemed the grand symbol and badge.
It frequently happens that when several ships are cruising in company,
a whale may be struck by one vessel, then escape, and be finally killed
and captured by another vessel; and herein are indirectly comprised
comprised - (comprise) bestehen aus beinhalten
many minor contingencies, all partaking of this one grand feature. For
minor - gering, geringfgig, klein, unbedeutend
contingencies - (contingency) Kontingenz, Eventualitt, Zufall, Eventualit
example,"after a weary and perilous chase and capture of a whale, the
body may get loose from the ship by reason of a violent storm; and
drifting far away to leeward, be retaken by a second whaler, who, in a
retaken - (retake) wieder nehmen, von Neuem nehmen, erneut nehme
calm, snugly tows it alongside, without risk of life or line. Thus the
most vexatious and violent disputes would often arise between the
vexatious - lstig
disputes - (dispute) Streit, Disput, Debatte, errtern, bestreiten
arise - sich erheben, aufstehen, entstehen, auftreten, erwachse
fishermen, were there not some written or unwritten, universal,
undisputed law applicable to all cases.
applicable - anwendbar, relevant
Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative
authorized - (authorize) autorisieren, berechtigen, befugen, ermchtigen
legislative - gesetzgeberisch
enactment, was that of Holland. It was decreed by the States-General in
enactment - Verabschiedung, Annahme
decreed - (decree) Erlass, Dekret, Verordnung, Verfgung, Beschluss
A.D. 1695. But though no other nation has ever had any written whaling
law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and
legislators - (legislator) Gesetzgeber, Gesetzgeberin
lawyers in this matter. They have provided a system which for terse
terse - knapp, markig, prgnant, kurz angebunden, wortkarg
comprehensiveness surpasses Justinians Pandects and the By-laws of the
Pandects - (pandect) Pandekten
Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other Peoples
Meddling - (meddle) einmischen
Business. Yes; these laws might be engraven on a Queen Annes farthing,
engraven - (engrave) gravieren, meieln, eingraviere
or the barb of a harpoon, and worn round the neck, so small are they.
barb - Widerhaken
I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it.
II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it.
But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable
masterly - meisterhaft, virtuos
brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to
brevity - Krze Bndigkeit, Knappheit
commentaries - (commentary) Kommentar
expound it.
expound - erlutern, erklren, darlegen, verbreiten
First: What is a Fast-Fish? Alive or dead a fish is technically fast,
when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium at
all controllable by the occupant or occupants,"a mast, an oar, a
controllable - kontrollierbar
occupants - (occupant) Besatzer, Besatzerin, Okkupant, Okkupantin, Bewohner
nine-inch cable, a telegraph wire, or a strand of cobweb, it is all the
cobweb - Spinnengewebe, Spinnwebe, Spinnennetz
same. Likewise a fish is technically fast when it bears a waif, or any
other recognised symbol of possession; so long as the party waifing it
waifing - (waif) verlassenes obdachloses Kind
plainly evince their ability at any time to take it alongside, as well
as their intention so to do.
These are scientific commentaries; but the commentaries of the whalemen
themselves sometimes consist in hard words and harder knocks"the
Coke-upon-Littleton of the fist. True, among the more upright and
Coke - Cola , Coca-Cola
fist - fausten;Faust
honorable whalemen allowances are always made for peculiar cases, where
allowances - (allowance) Erlaubnis
it would be an outrageous moral injustice for one party to claim
possession of a whale previously chased or killed by another party. But
others are by no means so scrupulous.
scrupulous - sorgfltig, grndlich, gewissenhaft
Some fifty years ago there was a curious case of whale-trover litigated
litigated - (litigate) prozessieren
in England, wherein the plaintiffs set forth that after a hard chase of
plaintiffs - (plaintiff) Klger
a whale in the Northern seas; and when indeed they (the plaintiffs) had
succeeded in harpooning the fish; they were at last, through peril of
their lives, obliged to forsake not only their lines, but their boat
forsake - aufgeben
itself. Ultimately the defendants (the crew of another ship) came up
defendants - (defendant) Angeklagte, Beklagter, Angeklagter
with the whale, struck, killed, seized, and finally appropriated it
appropriated - (appropriate) angebracht, angemessen, passend, zugewiese
before the very eyes of the plaintiffs. And when those defendants were
remonstrated with, their captain snapped his fingers in the plaintiffs
remonstrated - (remonstrate) protestieren, missbilligen, einwende
teeth, and assured them that by way of doxology to the deed he had
doxology - Doxologie
done, he would now retain their line, harpoons, and boat, which had
remained attached to the whale at the time of the seizure. Wherefore
seizure - Beschlagnahme Anfall
the plaintiffs now sued for the recovery of the value of their whale,
sued - verklagte; (sue) verklagen
line, harpoons, and boat.
Mr. Erskine was counsel for the defendants; Lord Ellenborough was the
judge. In the course of the defence, the witty Erskine went on to
defence - Verteidigung, Abwehr
witty - witzig, geistreich, originell
illustrate his position, by alluding to a recent crim. con. case,
illustrate - illustrieren
crim - Verbrechen
con - betrgen, verladen (fr dumm verkaufen)
wherein a gentleman, after in vain trying to bridle his wifes
viciousness, had at last abandoned her upon the seas of life; but in
viciousness - Bsartigkeit
the course of years, repenting of that step, he instituted an action to
instituted - (institute) einrichten, grnden;Anstalt, Institut
recover possession of her. Erskine was on the other side; and he then
supported it by saying, that though the gentleman had originally
harpooned the lady, and had once had her fast, and only by reason of
the great stress of her plunging viciousness, had at last abandoned
her; yet abandon her he did, so that she became a loose-fish; and
therefore when a subsequent gentleman re-harpooned her, the lady then
became that subsequent gentlemans property, along with whatever
harpoon might have been found sticking in her.
Now in the present case Erskine contended that the examples of the
contended - (contend) streiten, sich auseinandersetzen, ringen mi
whale and the lady were reciprocally illustrative of each other.
reciprocally - umgekehrte, wechselseitig
These pleadings, and the counter pleadings, being duly heard, the very
pleadings - (pleading) flehentlich, Verteidigungsschrift, pldierend
learned judge in set terms decided, to wit,"That as for the boat, he
awarded it to the plaintiffs, because they had merely abandoned it to
save their lives; but that with regard to the controverted whale,
controverted - (controvert) bestreiten
harpoons, and line, they belonged to the defendants; the whale, because
it was a Loose-Fish at the time of the final capture; and the harpoons
and line because when the fish made off with them, it (the fish)
made off - davongemacht
acquired a property in those articles; and hence anybody who afterwards
acquired - (acquire) erwerben, akquirieren
took the fish had a right to them. Now the defendants afterwards took
the fish; ergo, the aforesaid articles were theirs.
aforesaid - vorstehend, oben gesagt
A common man looking at this decision of the very learned Judge, might
possibly object to it. But ploughed up to the primary rock of the
ploughed up - umgepflgt
matter, the two great principles laid down in the twin whaling laws
previously quoted, and applied and elucidated by Lord Ellenborough in
the above cited case; these two laws touching Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish,
I say, will, on reflection, be found the fundamentals of all human
fundamentals - (fundamental) Grundlage grundlegend, fundamental, grundstzlich
jurisprudence; for notwithstanding its complicated tracery of
jurisprudence - Rechtswissenschaft
tracery - Mawerk
sculpture, the Temple of the Law, like the Temple of the Philistines,
has but two props to stand on.
props - (prop) Sttze
Is it not a saying in every ones mouth, Possession is half of the law:
that is, regardless of how the thing came into possession? But often
regardless - rcksichtslos trotzdem, dennoch
possession is the whole of the law. What are the sinews and souls of
Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession
serfs - (serf) Leibeigener
Republican - republikanisch Republikaner, Republikanerin
slaves - (slave) Sklave, Sklavin, Sexsklave
is the whole of the law? What to the rapacious landlord is the widows
last mite but a Fast-Fish? What is yonder undetected villains marble
mite - Milbe bisschen, Winzigkeit
undetected - unentdeckt
mansion with a door-plate for a waif; what is that but a Fast-Fish?
What is the ruinous discount which Mordecai, the broker, gets from poor
ruinous - verderblich
broker - Makler
Woebegone, the bankrupt, on a loan to keep Woebegones family from
Woebegone - jammervoll, klglich, erbrmlich, heruntergekommen, wehklagend
loan - ausleihen;Anleihe, Kredit, Darlehen, Leihe
starvation; what is that ruinous discount but a Fast-Fish? What is the
Archbishop of Savesouls income of £100,000 seized from the scant bread
Archbishop - Erzbischof
scant - sprlich, gering, drftig, knapp
and cheese of hundreds of thousands of broken-backed laborers (all sure
of heaven without any of Savesouls help) what is that globular
£100,000 but a Fast-Fish? What are the Duke of Dunders hereditary
Duke - Herzog Groherzog
towns and hamlets but Fast-Fish? What to that redoubted harpooneer,
hamlets - (hamlet) Weiler, Dorf, Hamletbarsche
redoubted - (redoubt) Schanze
John Bull, is poor Ireland, but a Fast-Fish? What to that apostolic
lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast-Fish? And concerning all
lancer - Lancier, Lanzenreiter
these, is not Possession the whole of the law?
But if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable, the
doctrine - Doktrin Lehre
kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so. That is
internationally and universally applicable.
internationally - international
What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, in which Columbus struck the
Spanish standard by way of waifing it for his royal master and
mistress? What was Poland to the Czar? What Greece to the Turk? What
India to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States? All
last will - Testament
Loose-Fish.
What are the Rights of Man and the Liberties of the World but
Liberties - (liberty) Freiheit
Loose-Fish? What all mens minds and opinions but Loose-Fish? What is
the principle of religious belief in them but a Loose-Fish? What to the
ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but
smuggling - Schmuggel ; (smuggle) schmuggeln
thinkers - (thinker) Denker, Denkerin
Loose-Fish? What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish? And what
are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?
De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam.
sufficit - Ausreichend
habeat - habenat
et - (etiquette) Etikett
_Bracton, l. 3, c. 3._
Latin from the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the
taken along - mitgenommen
context, means, that of all whales captured by anybody on the coast of
that land, the King, as Honorary Grand Harpooneer, must have the head,
Honorary - Ehren-, ehrenhalber
and the Queen be respectfully presented with the tail. A division
division - Teilung Teil Division Abteilung
which, in the whale, is much like halving an apple; there is no
halving - (halve) halbieren, hlften
intermediate remainder. Now as this law, under a modified form, is to
intermediate - Zwischenprodukt als Vermittler handeln
this day in force in England; and as it offers in various respects a
strange anomaly touching the general law of Fast and Loose-Fish, it is
anomaly - Anomalie
here treated of in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle
courteous - hflich
that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate
prompts - (prompt) Eingabeaufforderung anleiten, antreiben, anstachel
car, specially reserved for the accommodation of royalty. In the first
place, in curious proof of the fact that the above-mentioned law is
still in force, I proceed to lay before you a circumstance that
happened within the last two years.
It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one
of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and
beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from
the shore. Now the Cinque Ports are partially or somehow under the
jurisdiction of a sort of policeman or beadle, called a Lord Warden.
jurisdiction - Jurisdiktion
Warden - der Direktor / die Direktorin
Holding the office directly from the crown, I believe, all the royal
emoluments incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment
emoluments - (emolument) Vergtung, Honorar, Dit
his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so.
sinecure - Sinekure
Because the Lord Warden is busily employed at times in fobbing his
busily - eifrig, geschftig, beschftigt
fobbing - (fob) Uhrentasche (in der Hose), frei (an Bord);abspeisen
perquisites; which are his chiefly by virtue of that same fobbing of
them.
Now when these poor sun-burnt mariners, bare-footed, and with their
trowsers rolled high up on their eely legs, had wearily hauled their
fat fish high and dry, promising themselves a good £150 from the
precious oil and bone; and in fantasy sipping rare tea with their
fantasy - Fantasie Fantasy
sipping - (sip) Schlckchen nippen
wives, and good ale with their cronies, upon the strength of their
respective shares; up steps a very learned and most Christian and
charitable gentleman, with a copy of Blackstone under his arm; and
laying it upon the whales head, he says"Hands off! this fish, my
masters, is a Fast-Fish. I seize it as the Lord Wardens. Upon this
the poor mariners in their respectful consternation"so truly
respectful - respektvoll
English"knowing not what to say, fall to vigorously scratching their
scratching - sich kratzen, zerkratzen; (scratch) kratzen zerkratze
heads all round; meanwhile ruefully glancing from the whale to the
stranger. But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the
soften - aufweichen
hard heart of the learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone. At
length one of them, after long scratching about for his ideas, made
bold to speak,
Please, sir, who is the Lord Warden?
The Duke.
But the duke had nothing to do with taking this fish?
It is his.
We have been at great trouble, and peril, and some expense, and is all
that to go to the Dukes benefit; we getting nothing at all for our
pains but our blisters?
It is his.
Is the Duke so very poor as to be forced to this desperate mode of
getting a livelihood?
It is his.
I thought to relieve my old bed-ridden mother by part of my share of
this whale.
It is his.
Wont the Duke be content with a quarter or a half?
It is his.
In a word, the whale was seized and sold, and his Grace the Duke of
Wellington received the money. Thinking that viewed in some particular
lights, the case might by a bare possibility in some small degree be
deemed, under the circumstances, a rather hard one, an honest clergyman
clergyman - Pfarrer, Pastor, Kleriker, Geistlicher
of the town respectfully addressed a note to his Grace, begging him to
take the case of those unfortunate mariners into full consideration. To
which my Lord Duke in substance replied (both letters were published)
that he had already done so, and received the money, and would be
obliged to the reverend gentleman if for the future he (the reverend
gentleman) would decline meddling with other peoples business. Is this
the still militant old man, standing at the corners of the three
militant - militant, kmpferisch
kingdoms, on all hands coercing alms of beggars?
kingdoms - (kingdom) Knigreich, Knigtum
coercing - (coerce) erzwingen konvertieren
It will readily be seen that in this case the alleged right of the Duke
to the whale was a delegated one from the Sovereign. We must needs
delegated - (delegate) Delegierter, Abgeordneter, Vertreter, delegieren
inquire then on what principle the Sovereign is originally invested
with that right. The law itself has already been set forth. But Plowdon
gives us the reason for it. Says Plowdon, the whale so caught belongs
to the King and Queen, because of its superior excellence. And by the
soundest commentators this has ever been held a cogent argument in such
matters.
But why should the King have the head, and the Queen the tail? A reason
for that, ye lawyers!
In his treatise on Queen-Gold, or Queen-pinmoney, an old Kings Bench
author, one William Prynne, thus discourseth: Ye tail is ye Queens,
discourseth - redet
that ye Queens wardrobe may be supplied with ye whalebone. Now this
was written at a time when the black limber bone of the Greenland or
Right whale was largely used in ladies bodices. But this same bone is
bodices - (bodice) Mieder
not in the tail; it is in the head, which is a sad mistake for a
sagacious lawyer like Prynne. But is the Queen a mermaid, to be
mermaid - Nixe, Wassernixe, Seejungfrau, Meerjungfrau
presented with a tail? An allegorical meaning may lurk here.
allegorical - allegorisch, sinnbildlich
There are two royal fish so styled by the English law writers"the whale
and the sturgeon; both royal property under certain limitations, and
limitations - (limitation) Limitieren, Limitierung, Begrenzen, Begrenzung
nominally supplying the tenth branch of the crowns ordinary revenue. I
know not that any other author has hinted of the matter; but by
inference it seems to me that the sturgeon must be divided in the same
divided in - eingeteilt
way as the whale, the King receiving the highly dense and elastic head
peculiar to that fish, which, symbolically regarded, may possibly be
symbolically - symbolisch
humorously grounded upon some presumed congeniality. And thus there
congeniality - Gleichgesinntheit, Wesensgleichheit, hnlichkeit
seems a reason in all things, even in law.
In vain it was to rake for Ambergriese in the paunch of this
Leviathan, insufferable fetor denying not inquiry. _Sir T. Browne,
V.E._
It was a week or two after the last whaling scene recounted, and when
recounted - (recount) nachzhlen, erzhlen
we were slowly sailing over a sleepy, vapory, mid-day sea, that the
many noses on the Pequods deck proved more vigilant discoverers than
discoverers - (discoverer) Entdecker
the three pairs of eyes aloft. A peculiar and not very pleasant smell
was smelt in the sea.
I will bet something now, said Stubb, that somewhere hereabouts are
bet - Wetteinsatz, wetten, Wette;riskieren
some of those drugged whales we tickled the other day. I thought they
would keel up before long.
Presently, the vapors in advance slid aside; and there in the distance
lay a ship, whose furled sails betokened that some sort of whale must
furled - (furl) aufrollen, bergen, einrollen
be alongside. As we glided nearer, the stranger showed French colours
from his peak; and by the eddying cloud of vulture sea-fowl that
circled, and hovered, and swooped around him, it was plain that the
whale alongside must be what the fishermen call a blasted whale, that
is, a whale that has died unmolested on the sea, and so floated an
unappropriated corpse. It may well be conceived, what an unsavory odor
unappropriated - herrenlos
odor - Geruch
such a mass must exhale; worse than an Assyrian city in the plague,
exhale - ausatmen
Assyrian - Assyrer, Assyrerin, Assyrier, Assyrierin
when the living are incompetent to bury the departed. So intolerable
indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to
moor alongside of it. Yet are there those who will still do it;
moor - verankern;Moor
notwithstanding the fact that the oil obtained from such subjects is of
a very inferior quality, and by no means of the nature of
attar-of-rose.
attar - Rosenl;Blumenessenz
Coming still nearer with the expiring breeze, we saw that the Frenchman
had a second whale alongside; and this second whale seemed even more of
a nosegay than the first. In truth, it turned out to be one of those
nosegay - Biedermeierstruchen, Blumenstruchen
problematical whales that seem to dry up and die with a sort of
problematical - problematisch
prodigious dyspepsia, or indigestion; leaving their defunct bodies
indigestion - Verdauungsstrung
defunct - gestorben, verstorben, erloschen, gelscht, lnicht
almost entirely bankrupt of anything like oil. Nevertheless, in the
proper place we shall see that no knowing fisherman will ever turn up
his nose at such a whale as this, however much he may shun blasted
whales in general.
The Pequod had now swept so nigh to the stranger, that Stubb vowed he
recognised his cutting spade-pole entangled in the lines that were
knotted round the tail of one of these whales.
Theres a pretty fellow, now, he banteringly laughed, standing in the
banteringly - neckende
ships bows, theres a jackal for ye! I well know that these Crappoes
of Frenchmen are but poor devils in the fishery; sometimes lowering
their boats for breakers, mistaking them for Sperm Whale spouts; yes,
and sometimes sailing from their port with their hold full of boxes of
tallow candles, and cases of snuffers, foreseeing that all the oil they
snuffers - (snuffer) Kerzenlscher
will get wont be enough to dip the Captains wick into; aye, we all
wick - der Docht
know these things; but look ye, heres a Crappo that is content with
our leavings, the drugged whale there, I mean; aye, and is content too
leavings - (leaving) Abgang, Überlassung, verlassend
with scraping the dry bones of that other precious fish he has there.
Poor devil! I say, pass round a hat, some one, and lets make him a
present of a little oil for dear charitys sake. For what oil hell get
from that drugged whale there, wouldnt be fit to burn in a jail; no,
be fit - geeignet sein
not in a condemned cell. And as for the other whale, why, Ill agree to
cell - Zelle, Speicherzelle
get more oil by chopping up and trying out these three masts of ours,
chopping up - zerhackend
than hell get from that bundle of bones; though, now that I think of
it, it may contain something worth a good deal more than oil; yes,
ambergris. I wonder now if our old man has thought of that. Its worth
ambergris - Ambra, Amber
trying. Yes, Im for it; and so saying he started for the
quarter-deck.
By this time the faint air had become a complete calm; so that whether
or no, the Pequod was now fairly entrapped in the smell, with no hope
entrapped - (entrap) verstricken, verleiten
of escaping except by its breezing up again. Issuing from the cabin,
breezing - (breeze) Brise, Hauch
Stubb now called his boats crew, and pulled off for the stranger.
Drawing across her bow, he perceived that in accordance with the
fanciful French taste, the upper part of her stem-piece was carved in
fanciful - phantasievoll, irreal, unrealistisch
the likeness of a huge drooping stalk, was painted green, and for
thorns had copper spikes projecting from it here and there; the whole
terminating in a symmetrical folded bulb of a bright red colour. Upon
bulb - Zwiebel
her head boards, in large gilt letters, he read Bouton de
Rose,"Rose-button, or Rose-bud; and this was the romantic name of this
aromatic ship.
aromatic - aromatisch, wrzig, duftend
Though Stubb did not understand the _Bouton_ part of the inscription,
inscription - Inschrift Aufschrift, Mnzaufschrift, Widmung
yet the word _rose_, and the bulbous figure-head put together,
bulbous - knollenfrmig
sufficiently explained the whole to him.
A wooden rose-bud, eh? he cried with his hand to his nose, that will
do very well; but how like all creation it smells!
Now in order to hold direct communication with the people on deck, he
had to pull round the bows to the starboard side, and thus come close
to the blasted whale; and so talk over it.
talk over - besprechen
Arrived then at this spot, with one hand still to his nose, he
bawled"Bouton-de-Rose, ahoy! are there any of you Bouton-de-Roses that
bawled - (bawl) schreien, brllen, heulen
speak English?
Yes, rejoined a Guernsey-man from the bulwarks, who turned out to be
the chief-mate.
Well, then, my Bouton-de-Rose-bud, have you seen the White Whale?
_What_ whale?
The _White_ Whale"a Sperm Whale"Moby Dick, have ye seen him?
Never heard of such a whale. Cachalot Blanche! White Whale"no.
Very good, then; good bye now, and Ill call again in a minute.
Then rapidly pulling back towards the Pequod, and seeing Ahab leaning
over the quarter-deck rail awaiting his report, he moulded his two
moulded - (mould) Heizform, Form;Gussform, Gieform, Moder;forme
hands into a trumpet and shouted"No, Sir! No! Upon which Ahab
retired, and Stubb returned to the Frenchman.
He now perceived that the Guernsey-man, who had just got into the
chains, and was using a cutting-spade, had slung his nose in a sort of
slung - (sling) Armschlinge
bag.
Whats the matter with your nose, there? said Stubb. Broke it?
I wish it was broken, or that I didnt have any nose at all! answered
the Guernsey-man, who did not seem to relish the job he was at very
much. But what are you holding _yours_ for?
Oh, nothing! Its a wax nose; I have to hold it on. Fine day, aint
it? Air rather gardenny, I should say; throw us a bunch of posies, will
posies - (posy) Blumenstruchen
ye, Bouton-de-Rose?
What in the devils name do you want here? roared the Guernseyman,
flying into a sudden passion.
Oh! keep cool"cool? yes, thats the word! why dont you pack those
whales in ice while youre working at em? But Joking aside, though; do
Joking aside - Scherz beiseite.
you know, Rose-bud, that its all nonsense trying to get any oil out of
such whales? As for that dried up one, there, he hasnt a gill in his
gill - Rippe [techn.], Lamelle am Pilz, Kieme
whole carcase.
I know that well enough; but, dye see, the Captain here wont believe
it; this is his first voyage; he was a Cologne manufacturer before. But
manufacturer - Hersteller, Herstellerin
come aboard, and mayhap hell believe you, if he wont me; and so Ill
get out of this dirty scrape.
Anything to oblige ye, my sweet and pleasant fellow, rejoined Stubb,
and with that he soon mounted to the deck. There a queer scene
presented itself. The sailors, in tasselled caps of red worsted, were
getting the heavy tackles in readiness for the whales. But they worked
rather slow and talked very fast, and seemed in anything but a good
humor. All their noses upwardly projected from their faces like so many
upwardly - aufwrts gerichtet, aufwrts
jib-booms. Now and then pairs of them would drop their work, and run up
booms - (boom) Konjunktur, Ausleger (Kran), Baum;drhnen, boome
to the mast-head to get some fresh air. Some thinking they would catch
the plague, dipped oakum in coal-tar, and at intervals held it to their
nostrils. Others having broken the stems of their pipes almost short
stems - (stem) MINT
off at the bowl, were vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke, so that it
constantly filled their olfactories.
Stubb was struck by a shower of outcries and anathemas proceeding from
outcries - (outcry) Schrei Aufschrei, Sturm der Entrstung
anathemas - (anathema) Bannfluch, Bannstrahl, Kirchenbann, Anathema, Gruel
the Captains round-house abaft; and looking in that direction saw a
fiery face thrust from behind the door, which was held ajar from
ajar - halboffen, einen Spalt offen
within. This was the tormented surgeon, who, after in vain
remonstrating against the proceedings of the day, had betaken himself
remonstrating - (remonstrate) protestieren, missbilligen, einwende
betaken - (betake) begeben sich
to the Captains round-house (_cabinet_ he called it) to avoid the
pest; but still, could not help yelling out his entreaties and
pest - Seuche, Pest, Schdling, Nervensge, Qulgeist
indignations at times.
indignations - (indignation) Emprung, Entrstung
Marking all this, Stubb argued well for his scheme, and turning to the
Guernsey-man had a little chat with him, during which the stranger mate
expressed his detestation of his Captain as a conceited ignoramus, who
detestation - Verabscheuung, Abscheu
conceited - (conceit) Eingebung Einbildung Konzept
ignoramus - Ignorant
had brought them all into so unsavory and unprofitable a pickle.
unprofitable - ohne Profit, unrentabel, unntz
Sounding him carefully, Stubb further perceived that the Guernsey-man
had not the slightest suspicion concerning the ambergris. He therefore
held his peace on that head, but otherwise was quite frank and
frank - freimtig, offen
confidential with him, so that the two quickly concocted a little plan
for both circumventing and satirizing the Captain, without his at all
circumventing - (circumvent) umgehen umlagern ausmanvrieren
satirizing - (satirize) satirisieren, verspotten, verhhne
dreaming of distrusting their sincerity. According to this little plan
of theirs, the Guernsey-man, under cover of an interpreters office,
was to tell the Captain what he pleased, but as coming from Stubb; and
as for Stubb, he was to utter any nonsense that should come uppermost
uppermost - hchst
in him during the interview.
By this time their destined victim appeared from his cabin. He was a
small and dark, but rather delicate looking man for a sea-captain, with
large whiskers and moustache, however; and wore a red cotton velvet
velvet - Samt
vest with watch-seals at his side. To this gentleman, Stubb was now
politely introduced by the Guernsey-man, who at once ostentatiously put
on the aspect of interpreting between them.
interpreting - (interpret) interpretieren dolmetschen, bersetzen
What shall I say to him first? said he.
Why, said Stubb, eyeing the velvet vest and the watch and seals, you
may as well begin by telling him that he looks a sort of babyish to me,
babyish - kindlich
though I dont pretend to be a judge.
He says, Monsieur, said the Guernsey-man, in French, turning to his
captain, that only yesterday his ship spoke a vessel, whose captain
only yesterday - erst gestern
and chief-mate, with six sailors, had all died of a fever caught from a
blasted whale they had brought alongside.
Upon this the captain started, and eagerly desired to know more.
What now? said the Guernsey-man to Stubb.
Why, since he takes it so easy, tell him that now I have eyed him
carefully, Im quite certain that hes no more fit to command a
whale-ship than a St. Jago monkey. In fact, tell him from me hes a
baboon.
baboon - Pavian
He vows and declares, Monsieur, that the other whale, the dried one,
vows - (vow) Gelbde, Schwur, Eid, Gelbnis, schwren
is far more deadly than the blasted one; in fine, Monsieur, he conjures
conjures - (conjure) zaubern herbeirufen hervorrufen, heraufbeschwre
us, as we value our lives, to cut loose from these fish.
Instantly the captain ran forward, and in a loud voice commanded his
crew to desist from hoisting the cutting-tackles, and at once cast
loose the cables and chains confining the whales to the ship.
confining - (confine) beschrnken Begrenzung
What now? said the Guernsey-man, when the Captain had returned to
them.
Why, let me see; yes, you may as well tell him now that"that"in fact,
tell him Ive diddled him, and (aside to himself) perhaps somebody
diddled - (diddle) beschummeln
else.
He says, Monsieur, that hes very happy to have been of any service to
us.
Hearing this, the captain vowed that they were the grateful parties
(meaning himself and mate) and concluded by inviting Stubb down into
his cabin to drink a bottle of Bordeaux.
He wants you to take a glass of wine with him, said the interpreter.
interpreter - Dolmetscher, Dolmetscherin, Dolmetsch , Interpreter
Thank him heartily; but tell him its against my principles to drink
with the man Ive diddled. In fact, tell him I must go.
He says, Monsieur, that his principles wont admit of his drinking;
but that if Monsieur wants to live another day to drink, then Monsieur
had best drop all four boats, and pull the ship away from these whales,
for its so calm they wont drift.
drift - Drift driften, treiben, irren, ziellos ziehen, ziellos wander
By this time Stubb was over the side, and getting into his boat, hailed
the Guernsey-man to this effect,"that having a long tow-line in his
boat, he would do what he could to help them, by pulling out the
lighter whale of the two from the ships side. While the Frenchmans
boats, then, were engaged in towing the ship one way, Stubb
benevolently towed away at his whale the other way, ostentatiously
benevolently - gtige, wohlwollend
slacking out a most unusually long tow-line.
slacking - (slack) Schlupf, flau, schlaff
Presently a breeze sprang up; Stubb feigned to cast off from the whale;
feigned - (feign) vorgeben, vortuschen, vormachen, fingieren, ausdenke
hoisting his boats, the Frenchman soon increased his distance, while
the Pequod slid in between him and Stubbs whale. Whereupon Stubb
quickly pulled to the floating body, and hailing the Pequod to give
notice of his intentions, at once proceeded to reap the fruit of his
reap - erlangen;einheimsen, ernten
unrighteous cunning. Seizing his sharp boat-spade, he commenced an
unrighteous - unredlich, verworfen
excavation in the body, a little behind the side fin. You would almost
excavation - Grabung Ausgrabung g Ausschachtung Aushub Ausgrabung
have thought he was digging a cellar there in the sea; and when at
digging - grabend; (dig) grabend
length his spade struck against the gaunt ribs, it was like turning up
old Roman tiles and pottery buried in fat English loam. His boats crew
pottery - Tpferware, Tongert, Tpfergeschirr, Tpferei
loam - Lehm Formsand einlehmen
were all in high excitement, eagerly helping their chief, and looking
as anxious as gold-hunters.
And all the time numberless fowls were diving, and ducking, and
screaming, and yelling, and fighting around them. Stubb was beginning
to look disappointed, especially as the horrible nosegay increased,
when suddenly from out the very heart of this plague, there stole a
faint stream of perfume, which flowed through the tide of bad smells
perfume - Duft Parfm, Duftstoff, Parfum, parfmieren
without being absorbed by it, as one river will flow into and then
along with another, without at all blending with it for a time.
I have it, I have it, cried Stubb, with delight, striking something
in the subterranean regions, a purse! a purse!
Dropping his spade, he thrust both hands in, and drew out handfuls of
something that looked like ripe Windsor soap, or rich mottled old
mottled - (mottle) marmorieren, sprenkeln
cheese; very unctuous and savory withal. You might easily dent it with
dent - Delle, Kerbe, Vertiefung, Beule
your thumb; it is of a hue between yellow and ash colour. And this,
good friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an ounce to any
druggist. Some six handfuls were obtained; but more was unavoidably
druggist - Apotheker
unavoidably - unvermeidliche, unvermeidlich
lost in the sea, and still more, perhaps, might have been secured were
it not for impatient Ahabs loud command to Stubb to desist, and come
impatient - ungeduldig
on board, else the ship would bid them good bye.
Now this ambergris is a very curious substance, and so important as an
article of commerce, that in 1791 a certain Nantucket-born Captain
Coffin was examined at the bar of the English House of Commons on that
subject. For at that time, and indeed until a comparatively late day,
the precise origin of ambergris remained, like amber itself, a problem
to the learned. Though the word ambergris is but the French compound
compound - zusammensetzen
for grey amber, yet the two substances are quite distinct. For amber,
though at times found on the sea-coast, is also dug up in some far
inland soils, whereas ambergris is never found except upon the sea.
Besides, amber is a hard, transparent, brittle, odorless substance,
odorless - geruchlos
used for mouth-pieces to pipes, for beads and ornaments; but ambergris
beads - (bead) Perle Tropfen
ornaments - (ornament) Verzierung musikalische Verzierung
is soft, waxy, and so highly fragrant and spicy, that it is largely
waxy - wchsern
used in perfumery, in pastiles, precious candles, hair-powders, and
perfumery - Parfmerie
pastiles - Pastillen
pomatum. The Turks use it in cooking, and also carry it to Mecca, for
the same purpose that frankincense is carried to St. Peters in Rome.
frankincense - Weihrauch
Some wine merchants drop a few grains into claret, to flavor it.
merchants - (merchant) Kaufmann, Kauffrau
claret - Rotwein, roter Bordeaux, weinrot, Bordeaux
Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should
regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a
regale - ergtzen festlich bewirten
inglorious - unrhmlich
sick whale! Yet so it is. By some, ambergris is supposed to be the
cause, and by others the effect, of the dyspepsia in the whale. How to
cure such a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering
administering - (administer) darreichen, verabreichen, verwalten, administrieren
three or four boat loads of Brandreths pills, and then running out of
harms way, as laborers do in blasting rocks.
blasting - Übersteuerun
I have forgotten to say that there were found in this ambergris,
certain hard, round, bony plates, which at first Stubb thought might be
sailors trowsers buttons; but it afterwards turned out that they were
nothing more than pieces of small squid bones embalmed in that manner.
Now that the incorruption of this most fragrant ambergris should be
incorruption - Unbestechlichkeit
found in the heart of such decay; is this nothing? Bethink thee of that
saying of St. Paul in Corinthians, about corruption and incorruption;
Corinthians - (Corinthian) Korinther
corruption - Verderbnis , Verdorbenheit, Verkommenheit, Verworfenhei
how that we are sown in dishonor, but raised in glory. And likewise
sown - (sow) Sau;aussen
call to mind that saying of Paracelsus about what it is that maketh the
best musk. Also forget not the strange fact that of all things of
ill-savor, Cologne-water, in its rudimental manufacturing stages, is
manufacturing - Herstellung, Produktion; (manufacture) Produktion, Herstellun
the worst.
I should like to conclude the chapter with the above appeal, but
appeal - Revision, Wirkung, Anziehungskraft;reizen, zusage
cannot, owing to my anxiety to repel a charge often made against
repel - zurckweisen, abweisen, abwehren, zurckdrngen, zurckwerfe
whalemen, and which, in the estimation of some already biased minds,
biased - (bias) Voreingenommenheit, Neigung, Ausrichtung, Vorliebe
might be considered as indirectly substantiated by what has been said
of the Frenchmans two whales. Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous
slanderous - verleumderisch
aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is
aspersion - abfllige Bemerkung
disproved - (disprove) widerlegen
throughout a slatternly, untidy business. But there is another thing to
slatternly - schlampige
untidy - unordentlich
rebut. They hint that all whales always smell bad. Now how did this
rebut - zurckweisen, entkrften
odious stigma originate?
odious - abscheulich, scheulich, abstoend, widerlich
stigma - Brandmal, Schandmal
originate - entwickeln, erzeugen, entstehen, entspringen
I opine, that it is plainly traceable to the first arrival of the
traceable - nachvollziehbar
Greenland whaling ships in London, more than two centuries ago. Because
those whalemen did not then, and do not now, try out their oil at sea
as the Southern ships have always done; but cutting up the fresh
blubber in small bits, thrust it through the bung holes of large casks,
bung - zupfropfen, verstopfen, verspunden;werfen, schmeien;Stpse
and carry it home in that manner; the shortness of the season in those
shortness - Krze
Icy Seas, and the sudden and violent storms to which they are exposed,
forbidding any other course. The consequence is, that upon breaking
into the hold, and unloading one of these whale cemeteries, in the
unloading - Entladen, ausladend; (unload) entladen, ausladen
cemeteries - (cemetery) Friedhof, Gottesacker, Totenacker
Greenland dock, a savor is given forth somewhat similar to that arising
dock - Hafenbecken;docken, andocken;Dock, Anklagebank
from excavating an old city grave-yard, for the foundations of a
excavating - (excavate) ausheben, ausschachten, ausgraben
Lying-in Hospital.
I partly surmise also, that this wicked charge against whalers may be
likewise imputed to the existence on the coast of Greenland, in former
times, of a Dutch village called Schmerenburgh or Smeerenberg, which
latter name is the one used by the learned Fogo Von Slack, in his great
Slack - Schlupf, flau, schlaff
work on Smells, a text-book on that subject. As its name imports
(smeer, fat; berg, to put up), this village was founded in order to
berg - Eisberg
afford a place for the blubber of the Dutch whale fleet to be tried
out, without being taken home to Holland for that purpose. It was a
collection of furnaces, fat-kettles, and oil sheds; and when the works
furnaces - (furnace) Ofen, Hochofen, Schmelzofen, Heizung
sheds - (shed) (to shed) vergieen, abstoen, lsowerden
were in full operation certainly gave forth no very pleasant savor. But
all this is quite different with a South Sea Sperm Whaler; which in a
voyage of four years perhaps, after completely filling her hold with
oil, does not, perhaps, consume fifty days in the business of boiling
out; and in the state that it is casked, the oil is nearly scentless.
casked - (cask) Fass, Tonne
scentless - geruchlos
The truth is, that living or dead, if but decently treated, whales as a
species are by no means creatures of ill odor; nor can whalemen be
recognised, as the people of the middle ages affected to detect a Jew
detect - finden, ermitteln, aufspren, entdecken, erkennen
in the company, by the nose. Nor indeed can the whale possibly be
otherwise than fragrant, when, as a general thing, he enjoys such high
health; taking abundance of exercise; always out of doors; though, it
is true, seldom in the open air. I say, that the motion of a Sperm
Whales flukes above water dispenses a perfume, as when a musk-scented
dispenses - (dispense) ausgeben, austeilen, verteilen, dosieren, ausstelle
scented - (scent) Geruch, Duft, Parfm, Parfum, Fhrte, Geruch (1, 3
lady rustles her dress in a warm parlor. What then shall I liken the
rustles - (rustle) Rascheln, Rauschen, Knistern
liken - vergleichen
Sperm Whale to for fragrance, considering his magnitude? Must it not be
fragrance - Duft, Duftnote
to that famous elephant, with jewelled tusks, and redolent with myrrh,
redolent - duftend
myrrh - Myrrhe
which was led out of an Indian town to do honor to Alexander the Great?
It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most
significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequods crew;
most insignificant - nichtssagendste
an event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes
lamentable - beklagenswert
madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying
prophecy of whatever shattered sequel might prove her own.
sequel - Fortsetzung, Folge
Now, in the whale ship, it is not every one that goes in the boats.
Some few hands are reserved called ship-keepers, whose province it is
to work the vessel while the boats are pursuing the whale. As a general
thing, these ship-keepers are as hardy fellows as the men comprising
the boats crews. But if there happen to be an unduly slender, clumsy,
or timorous wight in the ship, that wight is certain to be made a
timorous - scheu, ngstlich
ship-keeper. It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by
keeper - Hter Wchter, Hter, Torwart, Tormann
Pippin - (pip) Kern
nick-name, Pip by abbreviation. Poor Pip! ye have heard of him before;
abbreviation - Abkrzung, Kurzbezeichnung, Krzel, Kurzform
ye must remember his tambourine on that dramatic midnight, so
gloomy-jolly.
In outer aspect, Pip and Dough-Boy made a match, like a black pony and
pony - Pony (kleines Pferd)
a white one, of equal developments, though of dissimilar colour, driven
in one eccentric span. But while hapless Dough-Boy was by nature dull
eccentric - exzentrisch, elliptisch, eiernd, auermittig, schrulli
span - umfassen;Spanne, Bereich, drehen
and torpid in his intellects, Pip, though over tender-hearted, was at
torpid - betubt
intellects - (intellect) Intellekt
bottom very bright, with that pleasant, genial, jolly brightness
brightness - Funkeln, Glanz , Helligkeit, Aufgewecktheit
peculiar to his tribe; a tribe, which ever enjoy all holidays and
festivities with finer, freer relish than any other race. For blacks,
festivities - (festivity) Fest, Festlichkeit
the years calendar should show naught but three hundred and sixty-five
calendar - Kalender
Fourth of Julys and New Years Days. Nor smile so, while I write that
Julys - Julis
this little black was brilliant, for even blackness has its brilliancy;
brilliancy - Scharfsinn, Glanz, Genialitt
behold yon lustrous ebony, panelled in kings cabinets. But Pip loved
lustrous - glnzend
cabinets - (Cabinet) Schrank, Wandschrank , Kabinett, Rat, Ministerrat
life, and all lifes peaceable securities; so that the panic-striking
business in which he had somehow unaccountably become entrapped, had
unaccountably - unerklrlich
most sadly blurred his brightness; though, as ere long will be seen,
what was thus temporarily subdued in him, in the end was destined to be
luridly illumined by strange wild fires, that fictitiously showed him
luridly - grell, schrecklich
illumined - (illumine) beleuchten
fictitiously - fiktive
off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland
County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a fiddlers frolic on
County - Grafschaft Landkreis, Bezirk,
enlivened - (enliven) beleben, ermuntern
frolic - scherzen Scherz
the green; and at melodious even-tide, with his gay ha-ha! had turned
melodious - melodis, melodisch
the round horizon into one star-belled tambourine. So, though in the
clear air of day, suspended against a blue-veined neck, the
veined - (vein) Vene, Ader, Geder , Goldader
pure-watered diamond drop will healthful glow; yet, when the cunning
healthful - gesund
jeweller would show you the diamond in its most impressive lustre, he
jeweller - Bijouterie, Juwelier
lays it against a gloomy ground, and then lights it up, not by the sun,
but by some unnatural gases. Then come out those fiery effulgences,
effulgences - (effulgence) Glanz
infernally superb; then the evil-blazing diamond, once the divinest
divinest - (divine) gttlich
symbol of the crystal skies, looks like some crown-jewel stolen from
the King of Hell. But let us to the story.
It came to pass, that in the ambergris affair Stubbs after-oarsman
chanced so to sprain his hand, as for a time to become quite maimed;
sprain - verstauchen Verstauchung
and, temporarily, Pip was put into his place.
The first time Stubb lowered with him, Pip evinced much nervousness;
nervousness - Nervositt, Unruhe
but happily, for that time, escaped close contact with the whale; and
therefore came off not altogether discreditably; though Stubb observing
discreditably - entehrend
him, took care, afterwards, to exhort him to cherish his courageousness
exhort - ermahnen, anhalten, bedrngen, verlangen
courageousness - Tapferkeit
to the utmost, for he might often find it needful.
needful - ntig, das Ntige, notwendig
Now upon the second lowering, the boat paddled upon the whale; and as
the fish received the darted iron, it gave its customary rap, which
rap - pochen, schlagen;Geplapper
happened, in this instance, to be right under poor Pips seat. The
involuntary consternation of the moment caused him to leap, paddle in
hand, out of the boat; and in such a way, that part of the slack whale
line coming against his chest, he breasted it overboard with him, so as
breasted - (breast) Brust -brust, Entenbrust
to become entangled in it, when at last plumping into the water. That
plumping - (plump) prall werden, prall machen;drall, vollschlank, molli
instant the stricken whale started on a fierce run, the line swiftly
straightened; and presto! poor Pip came all foaming up to the chocks of
the boat, remorselessly dragged there by the line, which had taken
several turns around his chest and neck.
Tashtego stood in the bows. He was full of the fire of the hunt. He
hated Pip for a poltroon. Snatching the boat-knife from its sheath, he
poltroon - Feigling
suspended its sharp edge over the line, and turning towards Stubb,
exclaimed interrogatively, Cut? Meantime Pips blue, choked face
interrogatively - fragend
plainly looked, Do, for Gods sake! All passed in a flash. In less than
half a minute, this entire thing happened.
Damn him, cut! roared Stubb; and so the whale was lost and Pip was
saved.
So soon as he recovered himself, the poor little negro was assailed by
assailed - (assail) angreifen
yells and execrations from the crew. Tranquilly permitting these
execrations - (execration) Abscheu, Fluch, Verwnschung
irregular cursings to evaporate, Stubb then in a plain, business-like,
cursings - (cursing) verwnschend
evaporate - verdampfen, verdunsten, evaporieren, drren, ausdrre
but still half humorous manner, cursed Pip officially; and that done,
officially - offiziell
unofficially gave him much wholesome advice. The substance was, Never
unofficially - inoffiziell, inoffizielle
jump from a boat, Pip, except"but all the rest was indefinite, as the
soundest advice ever is. Now, in general, _Stick to the boat_, is your
true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when _Leap from
motto - Motto, Wahlspruch
the boat_, is still better. Moreover, as if perceiving at last that if
he should give undiluted conscientious advice to Pip, he would be
undiluted - unverdnnt (unverd.)
leaving him too wide a margin to jump in for the future; Stubb suddenly
dropped all advice, and concluded with a peremptory command, Stick to
the boat, Pip, or by the Lord, I wont pick you up if you jump; mind
that. We cant afford to lose whales by the likes of you; a whale would
sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama. Bear that in
mind, and dont jump any more. Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted,
that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal,
which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
interferes - (interfere) eingreifen, einmischen
benevolence - Gutmtigkeit
But we are all in the hands of the Gods; and Pip jumped again. It was
under very similar circumstances to the first performance; but this
time he did not breast out the line; and hence, when the whale started
to run, Pip was left behind on the sea, like a hurried travellers
trunk. Alas! Stubb was but too true to his word. It was a beautiful,
bounteous, blue day; the spangled sea calm and cool, and flatly
bounteous - grozgig
flatly - kategorisch ausdruckslos, emotionslos
stretching away, all round, to the horizon, like gold-beaters skin
hammered out to the extremest. Bobbing up and down in that sea, Pips
Bobbing - (bob) Troddel;tanzen (Boot);Bob (Frisur)
ebon head showed like a head of cloves. No boat-knife was lifted when
cloves - (clove) Ngelchen (Gewrznelke), Nelke (Gewrz)
he fell so rapidly astern. Stubbs inexorable back was turned upon him;
and the whale was winged. In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless
ocean was between Pip and Stubb. Out from the centre of the sea, poor
Pip turned his crisp, curling, black head to the sun, another lonely
castaway, though the loftiest and the brightest.
Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the
practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful
lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the
lonesomeness - Einsamkeit
concentration - Konzentration
middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it? Mark,
immensity - Unermesslichkeit, Grenzenlosigkeit
how when sailors in a dead calm bathe in the open sea"mark how closely
dead calm - Flaute
they hug their ship and only coast along her sides.
hug - Umarmung umarmen
But had Stubb really abandoned the poor little negro to his fate? No;
he did not mean to, at least. Because there were two boats in his wake,
and he supposed, no doubt, that they would of course come up to Pip
very quickly, and pick him up; though, indeed, such considerations
towards oarsmen jeopardized through their own timidity, is not always
jeopardized - (jeopardize) gefhrden, in Gefahr bringen
manifested by the hunters in all similar instances; and such instances
not unfrequently occur; almost invariably in the fishery, a coward, so
called, is marked with the same ruthless detestation peculiar to
ruthless - unbarmherzig, ruchlos
military navies and armies.
But it so happened, that those boats, without seeing Pip, suddenly
spying whales close to them on one side, turned, and gave chase; and
spying - Spionage; (spy) Spion, Spionin, Spitzel , ausspioniere
Stubbs boat was now so far away, and he and all his crew so intent
upon his fish, that Pips ringed horizon began to expand around him
miserably. By the merest chance the ship itself at last rescued him;
merest - (mere) nur, schier, blo
but from that hour the little negro went about the deck an idiot; such,
at least, they said he was. The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body
jeeringly - hhnisch
finite - endlich
up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though.
Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of
the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes;
unwarped - unbefangen
passive - passiv leidend, leidentlich, passivisch, unterwrfig, Passiv
and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the
miser - Geizhals, Geizkragen, Geiziger, Geizige
hoarded - (hoard) Schatz, Vorrat;horten, sich Vorrte anlegen, hamstern
joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous,
juvenile - jugendlich jung, unreif, kindisch
eternities - (eternity) Ewigkeit
God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters
omnipresent - omniprsent, allgegenwrtig
heaved the colossal orbs. He saw Gods foot upon the treadle of the
orbs - (orb) Himmelskrper, Kugel
treadle - Fuhebel
loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So
mans insanity is heavens sense; and wandering from all mortal reason,
man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is
absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised,
uncompromised - treu geblieben
indifferent as his God.
For the rest, blame not Stubb too hardly. The thing is common in that
fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what
like abandonment befell myself.
That whale of Stubbs, so dearly purchased, was duly brought to the
Pequods side, where all those cutting and hoisting operations
previously detailed, were regularly gone through, even to the baling of
the Heidelburgh Tun, or Case.
While some were occupied with this latter duty, others were employed in
dragging away the larger tubs, so soon as filled with the sperm; and
when the proper time arrived, this same sperm was carefully manipulated
ere going to the try-works, of which anon.
It had cooled and crystallized to such a degree, that when, with
crystallized - (crystallize) kristallisieren
several others, I sat down before a large Constantines bath of it, I
found it strangely concreted into lumps, here and there rolling about
concreted - (concrete) konkret, bestimmt, genau, aus Beton, Beton
lumps - (lump) Klumpen, Klo, Stck (Wrfelzucker )
in the liquid part. It was our business to squeeze these lumps back
into fluid. A sweet and unctuous duty! No wonder that in old times this
sperm was such a favourite cosmetic. Such a clearer! such a sweetener!
sweetener - Sstoff
such a softener! such a delicious molifier! After having my hands in it
softener - Enthrtungsmittel
for only a few minutes, my fingers felt like eels, and began, as it
eels - (eel) Aal, Aalartige
were, to serpentine and spiralise.
serpentine - gewunden, Serpentine
spiralise - spiralisieren
As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the deck; after the bitter
exertion at the windlass; under a blue tranquil sky; the ship under
indolent sail, and gliding so serenely along; as I bathed my hands
among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, woven almost
globules - (globule) Kgelchen
tissues - (tissue) Gewebe Papier, Tuch, oilet paper
within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all
richly - wohlhabend
their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as I snuffed up that
opulence - Reichtum, Wohlstand
uncontaminated aroma,"literally and truly, like the smell of spring
uncontaminated - nicht verunreinigt, undotiert
aroma - Aroma, Duft
violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky
meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible
sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit
the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in
allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely
allaying - lindernd, beschwichtigend; (allay) beruhigen, dmpfe
divinely - gttliche
free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort
ill will - (ill-will) Groll
petulance - Gereiztheit, Launenhaftigkeit, Launigkeit
whatsoever.
Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm
squeezed - (squeeze) drcken, klemmen, pressen, quetschen
till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a
strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly
squeezing my co-laborers hands in it, mistaking their hands for the
squeezing - abquetschend, quetschend; (squeeze) drcken, klemmen, presse
gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving
feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually
squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as
sentimentally - empfindsam, gefhlvoll
much as to say,"Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish
any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come;
acerbities - (acerbity) Sauerkeit Bitterkeit
envy - Neid beneiden
let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into
each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and
sperm of kindness.
Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! For now, since
by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all
cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of
attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the
attainable - erreichbar, verwirklichbar
felicity - Felizitas, Felicitas
fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the
saddle - satteln;Sattel, Sattelflche [math.];Reitsattel
fireside, the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready
to squeeze case eternally. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I
visions - (vision) Sicht, Sehvermgen, Sehkraft, Augenlicht, Trugbild
saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of
spermaceti.
Now, while discoursing of sperm, it behooves to speak of other things
discoursing - (discourse) Diskurs, Abhandlung, Gesprch, reden, Rede halten
behooves - (behoove) obliegen
akin to it, in the business of preparing the sperm whale for the
try-works.
First comes white-horse, so called, which is obtained from the tapering
is tough with congealed tendons"a wad of muscle"but still contains some
oil. After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut
first cut - Anschnitt
into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer. They look much like
portable - portabel, tragbar
oblongs - (oblong) lnglich, lang, quer, breit, rechteckig
mincer - Fleischwolf
blocks of Berkshire marble.
Plum-pudding is the term bestowed upon certain fragmentary parts of the
fragmentary - fragmentarisch
whales flesh, here and there adhering to the blanket of blubber, and
often participating to a considerable degree in its unctuousness. It is
a most refreshing, convivial, beautiful object to behold. As its name
most refreshing - erquicklichste
imports, it is of an exceedingly rich, mottled tint, with a bestreaked
tint - frben, tnen;Farbe, Farbton
snowy and golden ground, dotted with spots of the deepest crimson and
purple. It is plums of rubies, in pictures of citron. Spite of reason,
plums - (plum) Pflaumenbaum;Pflaume, Zwetschke (sterr.)
rubies - (ruby) Stein (einer Uhr), rubinrot, Rubin
citron - Zitrone
it is hard to keep yourself from eating it. I confess, that once I
stole behind the foremast to try it. It tasted something as I should
conceive a royal cutlet from the thigh of Louis le Gros might have
cutlet - Schnitzel, Kotelett
tasted, supposing him to have been killed the first day after the
venison season, and that particular venison season contemporary with an
venison - Rehfleisch; q
unusually fine vintage of the vineyards of Champagne.
vintage - Traubenlese Jahrgang Jahrgang
vineyards - (vineyard) Weinberg, Weingarten
Champagne - Champagne
There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in
the course of this business, but which I feel it to be very puzzling
adequately to describe. It is called slobgollion; an appellation
original with the whalemen, and even so is the nature of the substance.
It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the
ineffably - unaussprechlich, unbeschreibliche
stringy - zh, klebrig, strhnig
tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting. I
decanting - (decant) dekantieren umgieen, umfllen
hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured membranes of the case,
ruptured - (rupture) Bruch Zerreien
membranes - (membrane) Membran, Membrane, Hutchen
coalescing.
coalescing - (coalesce) vereinigen, verschmelzen, zusammenfliee
Gurry, so called, is a term properly belonging to right whalemen, but
Gurry - gurren
sometimes incidentally used by the sperm fishermen. It designates the
designates - (designate) bestimmen, kennzeichnen, markieren, benennen
dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the
glutinous - klebrig
scraped off - abgekratzt
Greenland or right whale, and much of which covers the decks of those
inferior souls who hunt that ignoble Leviathan.
Nippers. Strictly this word is not indigenous to the whales
Nippers - (nipper) Vorderzahn;Stift (ugs., Knirps)
indigenous - indigen, einheimisch, eingeboren, inlndisch, angeboren
vocabulary. But as applied by whalemen, it becomes so. A whalemans
vocabulary - Vokabeln, Wortschatz, Wortliste, Vokabular
nipper is a short firm strip of tendinous stuff cut from the tapering
nipper - Vorderzahn;Stift (ugs., Knirps)
rest, is about the size of the iron part of a hoe. Edgewise moved along
Edgewise - seitlich
the oily deck, it operates like a leathern squilgee; and by nameless
operates - (operate) operieren betreiben, bedienen
blandishments, as of magic, allures along with it all impurities.
allures - (allure) verlocken
impurities - (impurity) Unreinheit, Verunreinigung, Fremdkrper
But to learn all about these recondite matters, your best way is at
recondite - dunkel
once to descend into the blubber-room, and have a long talk with its
inmates. This place has previously been mentioned as the receptacle for
receptacle - Gef, Behlter, Bltenboden, Bltenachse, Steckdose, Buchse
the blanket-pieces, when stript and hoisted from the whale. When the
proper time arrives for cutting up its contents, this apartment is a
scene of terror to all tyros, especially by night. On one side, lit by
tyros - (tyro) Anfnger
a dull lantern, a space has been left clear for the workmen. They
workmen - (workman) Arbeiter
generally go in pairs,"a pike-and-gaffman and a spade-man. The
whaling-pike is similar to a frigates boarding-weapon of the same
name. The gaff is something like a boat-hook. With his gaff, the
gaff - Landungshaken
gaffman hooks on to a sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from
slipping, as the ship pitches and lurches about. Meanwhile, the
lurches - (lurch) torkeln, taumeln
spade-man stands on the sheet itself, perpendicularly chopping it into
the portable horse-pieces. This spade is sharp as hone can make it; the
hone - Schleifstein;honen, verfeinern, verbessern, feinschleifen
spademans feet are shoeless; the thing he stands on will sometimes
shoeless - barfu
irresistibly slide away from him, like a sledge. If he cuts off one of
irresistibly - unwiderstehlich, unwiderstehliche
cuts off - (cut off) wegschneiden, abschneiden, abstellen
his own toes, or one of his assistants, would you be very much
astonished? Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.
Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this
post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the
mortemizing - mortemisieren
strolled - (stroll) Spaziergang, Bummel, spazieren gehen, bummel
windlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small
curiosity a very strange, enigmatical object, which you would have seen
there, lying along lengthwise in the lee scuppers. Not the wondrous
scuppers - (scupper) Speigatt
cistern in the whales huge head; not the prodigy of his unhinged lower
jaw; not the miracle of his symmetrical tail; none of these would so
surprise you, as half a glimpse of that unaccountable cone,"longer than
cone - Kegel, Kegelmantel, Zapfen
a Kentuckian is tall, nigh a foot in diameter at the base, and
Kentuckian - Kentuckianer
jet-black as Yojo, the ebony idol of Queequeg. And an idol, indeed, it
is; or, rather, in old times, its likeness was. Such an idol as that
found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and for
worshipping which, King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the
depose - niederlegen, deponieren, entthronen (monarch only), unte
idol, and burnt it for an abomination at the brook Kedron, as darkly
abomination - Greuel Abscheu Abscheulichkeit
set forth in the 15th chapter of the First Book of Kings.
Look at the sailor, called the mincer, who now comes along, and
assisted by two allies, heavily backs the grandissimus, as the mariners
call it, and with bowed shoulders, staggers off with it as if he were a
grenadier carrying a dead comrade from the field. Extending it upon the
grenadier - Granatier, Granatierer, Grenadier
forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt,
cylindrically - zylindrisches
pelt - Fell (ungegerbt);bombardieren (ugs. bewerfen)
as an African hunter the pelt of a boa. This done he turns the pelt
boa - Boa
inside out, like a pantaloon leg; gives it a good stretching, so as
pantaloon - Hose
almost to double its diameter; and at last hangs it, well spread, in
the rigging, to dry. Ere long, it is taken down; when removing some
three feet of it, towards the pointed extremity, and then cutting two
slits for arm-holes at the other end, he lengthwise slips himself
slits - (slit) Nut, Schlitz, Spalt, Schamritze
bodily into it. The mincer now stands before you invested in the full
canonicals of his calling. Immemorial to all his order, this
canonicals - (canonical) autorisiert, vorschriftsmige, kanonisch
investiture alone will adequately protect him, while employed in the
peculiar functions of his office.
That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the
pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse,
planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath
endwise - aufrecht
it, into which the minced pieces drop, fast as the sheets from a rapt
minced - (mince) Hackfleisch, Gehacktes, Hack, Hackepeter
rapt - hingerissen, gebannt, fasziniert, begeistert
orators desk. Arrayed in decent black; occupying a conspicuous pulpit;
occupying - (occupy) in Anspruch nehmen, belegen, bewohnen, besetze
intent on bible leaves; what a candidate for an archbishopric, what a
archbishopric - Erzbistum
lad for a Pope were this mincer!*
*Bible leaves! Bible leaves! This is the invariable cry from the mates
to the mincer. It enjoins him to be careful, and cut his work into as
enjoins - (enjoin) auferlegen, vorschreiben, anordnen, ermahnen
work into - hineinarbeiten
thin slices as possible, inasmuch as by so doing the business of
boiling out the oil is much accelerated, and its quantity considerably
accelerated - (accelerate) beschleunigen eilen, beeilen
increased, besides perhaps improving it in quality.
Besides her hoisted boats, an American whaler is outwardly
outwardly - uerlich
distinguished by her try-works. She presents the curious anomaly of the
most solid masonry joining with oak and hemp in constituting the
most solid - solidste
constituting - (constitute) grnden, begrnden, bilden, einrichten
completed ship. It is as if from the open field a brick-kiln were
kiln - Brennofen
transported to her planks.
The try-works are planted between the foremast and mainmast, the most
roomy part of the deck. The timbers beneath are of a peculiar strength,
roomy - erman: gerumig gloss
fitted to sustain the weight of an almost solid mass of brick and
mortar, some ten feet by eight square, and five in height. The
foundation does not penetrate the deck, but the masonry is firmly
secured to the surface by ponderous knees of iron bracing it on all
sides, and screwing it down to the timbers. On the flanks it is cased
with wood, and at top completely covered by a large, sloping, battened
battened - (batten) gedeihen
hatchway. Removing this hatch we expose the great try-pots, two in
number, and each of several barrels capacity. When not in use, they
are kept remarkably clean. Sometimes they are polished with soapstone
remarkably - bemerkenswert
soapstone - Speckstein
and sand, till they shine within like silver punch-bowls. During the
night-watches some cynical old sailors will crawl into them and coil
cynical - zynisch
themselves away there for a nap. While employed in polishing them"one
polishing - polierend, abschleifend; (polish) polnisch Polnisch
man in each pot, side by side"many confidential communications are
carried on, over the iron lips. It is a place also for profound
mathematical meditation. It was in the left hand try-pot of the Pequod,
with the soapstone diligently circling round me, that I was first
indirectly struck by the remarkable fact, that in geometry all bodies
geometry - Geometrie, Raumlehre
gliding along the cycloid, my soapstone for example, will descend from
cycloid - Zykloide, Radlaufkurve
descend from - herstammen
any point in precisely the same time.
Removing the fire-board from the front of the try-works, the bare
masonry of that side is exposed, penetrated by the two iron mouths of
the furnaces, directly underneath the pots. These mouths are fitted
with heavy doors of iron. The intense heat of the fire is prevented
from communicating itself to the deck, by means of a shallow reservoir
extending under the entire inclosed surface of the works. By a tunnel
tunnel - Tunnel, Stollen
inserted at the rear, this reservoir is kept replenished with water as
fast as it evaporates. There are no external chimneys; they open direct
evaporates - (evaporate) verdampfen, verdunsten, evaporieren, drre
from the rear wall. And here let us go back for a moment.
It was about nine oclock at night that the Pequods try-works were
first started on this present voyage. It belonged to Stubb to oversee
oversee - berblicken beaufsichtigen, berwachen, leiten, managen
the business.
All ready there? Off hatch, then, and start her. You cook, fire the
works. This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting
his shavings into the furnace throughout the passage. Here be it said
that in a whaling voyage the first fire in the try-works has to be fed
for a time with wood. After that no wood is used, except as a means of
quick ignition to the staple fuel. In a word, after being tried out,
ignition - Zndung
the crisp, shrivelled blubber, now called scraps or fritters, still
shrivelled - (shrivel) schrumpeln, verschrumpeln
fritters - (fritter) Kchle, ame of deep-fried ingredient +, prttel
contains considerable of its unctuous properties. These fritters feed
the flames. Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming
plethoric - plethorisch
martyr - Mrtyrer, Mrtyrerin
misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by
misanthrope - Misanthrop, Misanthropin, Menschenhasser, Menschenhasserin
his own body. Would that he consumed his own smoke! for his smoke is
horrible to inhale, and inhale it you must, and not only that, but you
must live in it for the time. It has an unspeakable, wild, Hindoo odor
about it, such as may lurk in the vicinity of funereal pyres. It smells
funereal - Beisetzung
pyres - (pyre) Scheiterhaufen
like the left wing of the day of judgment; it is an argument for the
pit.
By midnight the works were in full operation. We were clear from the
carcase; sail had been made; the wind was freshening; the wild ocean
freshening - (freshen) auffrischen, beleben
darkness was intense. But that darkness was licked up by the fierce
licked - (lick) schlecken, lecken;flitzen
flames, which at intervals forked forth from the sooty flues, and
flues - (flue) Abgaskanal, Flammrohr, Feuerzeug
illuminated every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek
fire. The burning ship drove on, as if remorselessly commissioned to
some vengeful deed. So the pitch and sulphur-freighted brigs of the
bold Hydriote, Canaris, issuing from their midnight harbors, with broad
sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates, and
frigates - (frigate) Fregatte
folded them in conflagrations.
conflagrations - (conflagration) Feuersbrunst, Grobrand, Flchenbrand
The hatch, removed from the top of the works, now afforded a wide
hearth in front of them. Standing on this were the Tartarean shapes of
Tartarean - Tartaran
the pagan harpooneers, always the whale-ships stokers. With huge
stokers - (stoker) Heizer
pronged poles they pitched hissing masses of blubber into the scalding
pronged - (prong) Zinke, Zacke, Zacken, Stift
pots, or stirred up the fires beneath, till the snaky flames darted,
curling, out of the doors to catch them by the feet. The smoke rolled
away in sullen heaps. To every pitch of the ship there was a pitch of
the boiling oil, which seemed all eagerness to leap into their faces.
Opposite the mouth of the works, on the further side of the wide wooden
hearth, was the windlass. This served for a sea-sofa. Here lounged the
watch, when not otherwise employed, looking into the red heat of the
fire, till their eyes felt scorched in their heads. Their tawny
features, now all begrimed with smoke and sweat, their matted beards,
matted - (mat) Matte
and the contrasting barbaric brilliancy of their teeth, all these were
strangely revealed in the capricious emblazonings of the works. As they
emblazonings - Emblazonierungen
narrated to each other their unholy adventures, their tales of terror
told in words of mirth; as their uncivilized laughter forked upwards
out of them, like the flames from the furnace; as to and fro, in their
front, the harpooneers wildly gesticulated with their huge pronged
gesticulated - (gesticulate) gestikulieren
forks and dippers; as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the
dippers - (Dipper) Wasseramsel Kelle, Schpflffel
ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastly shot her red hell further
and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully
scornfully - verachtend
champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on
champed - (champ) kauen
all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden
with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of
darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commanders
soul.
So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently
guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea. Wrapped, for that
interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the
madness, the ghastliness of others. The continual sight of the fiend
ghastliness - Grausamkeit
shapes before me, capering half in smoke and half in fire, these at
last begat kindred visions in my soul, so soon as I began to yield to
that unaccountable drowsiness which ever would come over me at a
drowsiness - Schlfrigkeit
midnight helm.
But that night, in particular, a strange (and ever since inexplicable)
thing occurred to me. Starting from a brief standing sleep, I was
horribly conscious of something fatally wrong. The jaw-bone tiller
fatally - verhngnisvoll, schlimm
jaw bone - (jaw-bone) Kieferknochen
smote my side, which leaned against it; in my ears was the low hum of
sails, just beginning to shake in the wind; I thought my eyes were
open; I was half conscious of putting my fingers to the lids and
lids - (lid) Deckel
mechanically stretching them still further apart. But, spite of all
this, I could see no compass before me to steer by; though it seemed
but a minute since I had been watching the card, by the steady binnacle
lamp illuminating it. Nothing seemed before me but a jet gloom, now and
illuminating - (illuminate) beleuchten, erhellen, illuminieren
then made ghastly by flashes of redness. Uppermost was the impression,
that whatever swift, rushing thing I stood on was not so much bound to
any haven ahead as rushing from all havens astern. A stark, bewildered
bewildered - (bewilder) verwirren, durcheinanderbringen
feeling, as of death, came over me. Convulsively my hands grasped the
tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in
some enchanted way, inverted. My God! what is the matter with me?
thought I. Lo! in my brief sleep I had turned myself about, and was
fronting the ships stern, with my back to her prow and the compass. In
an instant I faced back, just in time to prevent the vessel from flying
up into the wind, and very probably capsizing her. How glad and how
grateful the relief from this unnatural hallucination of the night, and
hallucination - Halluzination, Wahnvorstellung, Sinnestuschung, Illusio
the fatal contingency of being brought by the lee!
Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy
hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first
hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its
hitching - (hitch) Festmacher Anhngerkupplung Haken mit einem Ruck ziehen festmachen
redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun,
the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking
flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the
morn - der Morgen
glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp"all others but liars!
liars - (liar) Lgner, Lgnerin
Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginias Dismal Swamp, nor Romes
accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of
deserts and of griefs beneath the moon. The sun hides not the ocean,
griefs - (grief) Kummer, Gram, Leid
which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this
earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow
in him, that mortal man cannot be true"not true, or undeveloped. With
truest of all books is Solomons, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered
Ecclesiastes - Kohelet, rotestantic
steel of woe. All is vanity. ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold
of unchristian Solomons wisdom yet. But he who dodges hospitals and
unchristian - unchristlich
dodges - (dodge) ausweichen, beiseite springen, umgehen
jails, and walks fast crossing graveyards, and would rather talk of
jails - (jail) Gefngnis
graveyards - (graveyard) Friedhof, Kirchhof, Begrbnisplatz, Gottesacker
operas than hell; calls Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils
operas - (opera) Oper
all of sick men; and throughout a care-free lifetime swears by Rabelais
swears - (swear) schwren
as passing wise, and therefore jolly;"not that man is fitted to sit
down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably
wondrous Solomon.
But even Solomon, he says, the man that wandereth out of the way of
wandereth - wandert
understanding shall remain (_i.e._, even while living) in the
congregation of the dead. Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it
invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom
invert - umkehren, invertieren
deaden - abtten
that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a
Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest
gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny
soar - schweben hochfliegen gleiten hochschnellen, aufstrebe
spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is
in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle
swoop - herabschieen, herabstrzen, Sturzflug
is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.
Had you descended from the Pequods try-works to the Pequods
forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single
moment you would have almost thought you were standing in some
illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsellors. There they lay
canonized - (canonize) heiligsprechen
counsellors - (counsellor) Ratgeber, Ratgeberin, Beirat
in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a
score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes.
In merchantmen, oil for the sailor is more scarce than the milk of
queens. To dress in the dark, and eat in the dark, and stumble in
darkness to his pallet, this is his usual lot. But the whaleman, as he
pallet - Pritsche, Palette;Anker (Relais)
seeks the food of light, so he lives in light. He makes his berth an
Aladdins lamp, and lays him down in it; so that in the pitchiest night
pitchiest - (pitchy) pechartig
the ships black hull still houses an illumination.
illumination - Beleuchtung
See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of
lamps"often but old bottles and vials, though"to the copper cooler at
the try-works, and replenishes them there, as mugs of ale at a vat. He
replenishes - (replenish) wieder auffllen, wieder aufstocken
mugs - (mug) Becher, Visage, Krug
vat - Bottich, Trog, Wanne, Schaff
burns, too, the purest of oil, in its unmanufactured, and, therefore,
unvitiated state; a fluid unknown to solar, lunar, or astral
solar - Sonnen.
lunar - lunar Mond-
astral - sternfrmig
contrivances ashore. It is sweet as early grass butter in April. He
goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and
freshness - Frische
genuineness, even as the traveller on the prairie hunts up his own
genuineness - Aufrichtigkeit, Wahrhaftigkeit, Echtheit, Authentizitt
supper of game.
Already has it been related how the great leviathan is afar off
descried from the mast-head; how he is chased over the watery moors,
moors - (Moor) verankern;Moor
and slaughtered in the valleys of the deep; how he is then towed
alongside and beheaded; and how (on the principle which entitled the
headsman of old to the garments in which the beheaded was killed) his
garments - (garment) Kleidungsstck
great padded surtout becomes the property of his executioner; how, in
executioner - Henker, Scharfrichter, Henkerin, Scharfrichterin
due time, he is condemned to the pots, and, like Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego, his spermaceti, oil, and bone pass unscathed through the
unscathed - unverletzt, unbeschadet, unversehrt
fire;"but now it remains to conclude the last chapter of this part of
the description by rehearsing"singing, if I may"the romantic proceeding
of decanting off his oil into the casks and striking them down into the
hold, where once again leviathan returns to his native profundities,
sliding along beneath the surface as before; but, alas! never more to
rise and blow.
While still warm, the oil, like hot punch, is received into the
six-barrel casks; and while, perhaps, the ship is pitching and rolling
this way and that in the midnight sea, the enormous casks are slewed
round and headed over, end for end, and sometimes perilously scoot
scoot - abhauen (haute ab, abgehauen)
across the slippery deck, like so many land slides, till at last
man-handled and stayed in their course; and all round the hoops, rap,
rap, go as many hammers as can play upon them, for now, _ex officio_,
officio - von Amts wegen
every sailor is a cooper.
At length, when the last pint is casked, and all is cool, then the
great hatchways are unsealed, the bowels of the ship are thrown open,
unsealed - (unseal) entsiegeln
and down go the casks to their final rest in the sea. This done, the
hatches are replaced, and hermetically closed, like a closet walled up.
hermetically - hermetisch
In the sperm fishery, this is perhaps one of the most remarkable
incidents in all the business of whaling. One day the planks stream
incidents - (incident) Vorfall, Begebenheit, Ereignis, Geschehnis
with freshets of blood and oil; on the sacred quarter-deck enormous
freshets - (freshet) Erfrischung
masses of the whales head are profanely piled; great rusty casks lie
about, as in a brewery yard; the smoke from the try-works has besooted
brewery - Brauerei, Brauhaus, Bierbrauerei, Bierbrauerei
besooted - besoffen
all the bulwarks; the mariners go about suffused with unctuousness; the
suffused - (suffuse) berziehen, bedecken, durchfluten, erflle
entire ship seems great leviathan himself; while on all hands the din
is deafening.
deafening - ohrenbetubend, ohrenzerreiend; (deafen) betuben
But a day or two after, you look about you, and prick your ears in this
self-same ship; and were it not for the tell-tale boats and try-works,
you would all but swear you trod some silent merchant vessel, with a
merchant vessel - Kauffahrer
most scrupulously neat commander. The unmanufactured sperm oil
scrupulously - pingelig, ngstlich, bedenkliche
possesses a singularly cleansing virtue. This is the reason why the
possesses - (posses) Schutzpolizeiaufgebote
cleansing - reinigend; (cleans) reinigend
decks never look so white as just after what they call an affair of
oil. Besides, from the ashes of the burned scraps of the whale, a
potent lye is readily made; and whenever any adhesiveness from the back
lye - Beize (zum Gerben), Lauge
adhesiveness - Klebrigkeit
of the whale remains clinging to the side, that lye quickly
exterminates it. Hands go diligently along the bulwarks, and with
exterminates - (exterminate) ausrotten
buckets of water and rags restore them to their full tidiness. The soot
restore - wiederherstellen, restaurieren
tidiness - Ordnung
is brushed from the lower rigging. All the numerous implements which
have been in use are likewise faithfully cleansed and put away. The
cleansed - (cleans) putzt, reinigt
great hatch is scrubbed and placed upon the try-works, completely
scrubbed - (scrub) Unterholz, Gestrpp;auswaschen, scheuern, schrubbe
hiding the pots; every cask is out of sight; all tackles are coiled in
unseen nooks; and when by the combined and simultaneous industry of
simultaneous - gleichzeitig, simultan
almost the entire ships company, the whole of this conscientious duty
is at last concluded, then the crew themselves proceed to their own
ablutions; shift themselves from top to toe; and finally issue to the
immaculate deck, fresh and all aglow, as bridegrooms new-leaped from
aglow - leuchten
bridegrooms - (bridegroom) Brutigam
out the daintiest Holland.
Now, with elated step, they pace the planks in twos and threes, and
humorously discourse of parlors, sofas, carpets, and fine cambrics;
discourse - Diskurs, Abhandlung, Gesprch, reden, Rede halten
parlors - (parlor) Wohnzimmer, Salon, Empfangszimmer, Sprechzimmer
cambrics - (cambric) Batist
propose to mat the deck; think of having hanging to the top; object not
to taking tea by moonlight on the piazza of the forecastle. To hint to
such musked mariners of oil, and bone, and blubber, were little short
musked - (musk) Moschus, Bisam
of audacity. They know not the thing you distantly allude to. Away, and
allude - andeuten, erwhnen
bring us napkins!
But mark: aloft there, at the three mast heads, stand three men intent
on spying out more whales, which, if caught, infallibly will again soil
spying out - (spy out) ausspionieren, aussphen, auskundschaften
the old oaken furniture, and drop at least one small grease-spot
grease spot - Fettfleck
somewhere. Yes; and many is the time, when, after the severest
uninterrupted labors, which know no night; continuing straight through
for ninety-six hours; when from the boat, where they have swelled their
wrists with all day rowing on the Line,"they only step to the deck to
carry vast chains, and heave the heavy windlass, and cut and slash,
slash - Schrgstrich, Schnitt, Schmarre;schlitzen, drastisch krzen
yea, and in their very sweatings to be smoked and burned anew by the
sweatings - (sweating) Schwitzen
combined fires of the equatorial sun and the equatorial try-works;
when, on the heel of all this, they have finally bestirred themselves
to cleanse the ship, and make a spotless dairy room of it; many is the
cleanse - reinigen, subern, Reinigung
time the poor fellows, just buttoning the necks of their clean frocks,
are startled by the cry of There she blows! and away they fly to
fight another whale, and go through the whole weary thing again. Oh! my
friends, but this is man-killing! Yet this is life. For hardly have we
mortals by long toilings extracted from this worlds vast bulk its
toilings - (toiling) schuftend, qulend
small but valuable sperm; and then, with weary patience, cleansed
ourselves from its defilements, and learned to live here in clean
tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when"_There she
tabernacles - (Tabernacle) Tabernakel, Stiftshtte, Mischkan, Laubhtte, Sukk
blows!_"the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to fight some other
world, and go through young lifes old routine again.
Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece, two
metempsychosis - Metempsychose, Seelenwanderung
thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild; I sailed with
thee along the Peruvian coast last voyage"and, foolish as I am, taught
thee, a green simple boy, how to splice a rope!
Ere now it has been related how Ahab was wont to pace his quarter-deck,
taking regular turns at either limit, the binnacle and mainmast; but in
the multiplicity of other things requiring narration it has not been
added how that sometimes in these walks, when most plunged in his mood,
he was wont to pause in turn at each spot, and stand there strangely
eyeing the particular object before him. When he halted before the
halted - (halt) unterbrechen, halten;Halt
binnacle, with his glance fastened on the pointed needle in the
compass, that glance shot like a javelin with the pointed intensity of
his purpose; and when resuming his walk he again paused before the
mainmast, then, as the same riveted glance fastened upon the riveted
gold coin there, he still wore the same aspect of nailed firmness, only
gold coin - Goldmnze
dashed with a certain wild longing, if not hopefulness.
hopefulness - Hoffnungslosigkeit
But one morning, turning to pass the doubloon, he seemed to be newly
attracted by the strange figures and inscriptions stamped on it, as
though now for the first time beginning to interpret for himself in
interpret - interpretieren dolmetschen, bersetzen
some monomaniac way whatever significance might lurk in them. And some
certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little
worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher, except to sell
cipher - Ziffer Verschlsselung Verschlsselungssystem Chiffre
by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass
cartload - Fuhre, Ladung
morass - Morast
in the Milky Way.
Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold, raked somewhere out of
raked - (rake) harken, stochern;Harke, Rechen
the heart of gorgeous hills, whence, east and west, over golden sands,
gorgeous - fantastisch, groartig, herrlich, hinreiend
the head-waters of many a Pactolus flows. And though now nailed amidst
amidst - inmitten
all the rustiness of iron bolts and the verdigris of copper spikes,
rustiness - Rostigkeit
verdigris - Grnspan
yet, untouchable and immaculate to any foulness, it still preserved its
untouchable - unantastbar Unberhrbarer
foulness - Schmutz
Quito glow. Nor, though placed amongst a ruthless crew and every hour
amongst - zwischen, unter
passed by ruthless hands, and through the livelong nights shrouded with
livelong - Langlebig
thick darkness which might cover any pilfering approach, nevertheless
pilfering - Diebstahl, Raub ; (pilfer) klauen, stehlen, stibitzen, mopsen
every sunrise found the doubloon where the sunset left it last. For it
was set apart and sanctified to one awe-striking end; and however
wanton in their sailor ways, one and all, the mariners revered it as
wanton - wild, unkontrolliert, unbeherrscht, unberechenbar, ausgelassen
revered - (revere) ehren
the white whales talisman. Sometimes they talked it over in the weary
talisman - Talisman
watch by night, wondering whose it was to be at last, and whether he
would ever live to spend it.
Now those noble golden coins of South America are as medals of the sun
medals - (medal) Medaille
and tropic token-pieces. Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; suns
alpacas - (alpaca) Alpaka, Alpakahengst, Alpakastute
volcanoes - (volcano) Vulkan, q oetic
disks and stars; ecliptics, horns-of-plenty, and rich banners waving,
disks - (disk) Scheibe, Kreisscheibe, Kreisflche, Bandscheib
ecliptics - (ecliptic) Ekliptik
banners - (banner) Banner, Fahne, Spruchbanner
are in luxuriant profusion stamped; so that the precious gold seems
luxuriant - ppig, geil
profusion - berfluss, berflle, Verschwendung, Vergeudung
almost to derive an added preciousness and enhancing glories, by
preciousness - Kostbarkeit
enhancing - (enhance) erhhen, vergrern, verbessern
passing through those fancy mints, so Spanishly poetic.
mints - (Mint) Mnzanstalt, Minze;ausprgen
Spanishly - Auf Spanisch
It so chanced that the doubloon of the Pequod was a most wealthy
example of these things. On its round border it bore the letters,
REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR: QUITO. So this bright coin came from a country
REPUBLICA - REPUBLIK
planted in the middle of the world, and beneath the great equator, and
named after it; and it had been cast midway up the Andes, in the
unwaning clime that knows no autumn. Zoned by those letters you saw the
clime - Gegend
likeness of three Andes summits; from one a flame; a tower on another;
summits - (summit) Gipfel
on the third a crowing cock; while arching over all was a segment of
crowing - (crow) Krhe
arching - wlbend; (arch) wlbend
the partitioned zodiac, the signs all marked with their usual
partitioned - (partition) Partition, Zerlegung, Klasseneinteilung
cabalistics, and the keystone sun entering the equinoctial point at
cabalistics - Kabalistik
keystone - Schlussstein, Scheitelstein
equinoctial - quinoktial
Libra.
Before this equatorial coin, Ahab, not unobserved by others, was now
pausing.
Theres something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and
all other grand and lofty things; look here,"three peaks as proud as
Lucifer. The firm tower, that is Ahab; the volcano, that is Ahab; the
courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is Ahab; all
undaunted - unverzagt
victorious - siegreich, obsiegend, triumphierend, triumphal, siegesstrahlend
are Ahab; and this round gold is but the image of the rounder globe,
which, like a magicians glass, to each and every man in turn but
mirrors back his own mysterious self. Great pains, small gains for
gains - (gain) Gewinn, Zunahme, Verstrkung;erwerben, gewinnen, erlangen
those who ask the world to solve them; it cannot solve itself. Methinks
now this coined sun wears a ruddy face; but see! aye, he enters the
sign of storms, the equinox! and but six months before he wheeled out
equinox - quinoktium
of a former equinox at Aries! From storm to storm! So be it, then. Born
in throes, tis fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So
be it, then! Heres stout stuff for woe to work on. So be it, then.
No fairy fingers can have pressed the gold, but devils claws must
claws - (claw) zerkratzen;Kralle, Fang (Vogelkralle), Klaue
have left their mouldings there since yesterday, murmured Starbuck to
himself, leaning against the bulwarks. The old man seems to read
Belshazzars awful writing. I have never marked the coin inspectingly.
inspectingly - inspizierend
He goes below; let me read. A dark valley between three mighty,
heaven-abiding peaks, that almost seem the Trinity, in some faint
earthly symbol. So in this vale of Death, God girds us round; and over
vale - Tal
girds - (gird) grten
all our gloom, the sun of Righteousness still shines a beacon and a
Righteousness - Rechtschaffenheit, Gerechtigkeit
beacon - Leuchtfeuer Bake, Orientierungspunkt
hope. If we bend down our eyes, the dark vale shows her mouldy soil;
bend down - sich bcken
but if we lift them, the bright sun meets our glance half way, to
cheer. Yet, oh, the great sun is no fixture; and if, at midnight, we
fixture - Installation, Zubehrteil, festes Inventar, feste Einrichtun
would fain snatch some sweet solace from him, we gaze for him in vain!
This coin speaks wisely, mildly, truly, but still sadly to me. I will
wisely - weise
quit it, lest Truth shake me falsely.
falsely - flschlicherweise, falsch
There nows the old Mogul, soliloquized Stubb by the try-works, hes
been twigging it; and there goes Starbuck from the same, and both with
twigging - (twig) Zweig
faces which I should say might be somewhere within nine fathoms long.
And all from looking at a piece of gold, which did I have it now on
Negro Hill or in Corlaers Hook, Id not look at it very long ere
spending it. Humph! in my poor, insignificant opinion, I regard this as
queer. I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons
of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your
doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold
moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes. What
pistoles - (pistol) Pistole, Faustfeuerwaffe, Zndpistole
joes - (Joe) Joe
then should there be in this doubloon of the Equator that is so killing
wonderful? By Golconda! let me read it once. Halloa! heres signs and
Golconda - Golkonda, Golkanda, Golconda
wonders truly! That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the
Epitome - Verkrperlichung Abriss
zodiac, and what my almanac below calls ditto. Ill get the almanac and
almanac - Almanach
ditto - dito Dublikat, Kopie, Unterfhrungszeichen
as I have heard devils can be raised with Dabolls arithmetic, Ill try
arithmetic - Arithmetik, Rechenkunst, Rechenkunde , arithmetisch
my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the
curvicues - Kurven
Massachusetts calendar. Heres the book. Lets see now. Signs and
wonders; and the sun, hes always among em. Hem, hem, hem; here they
are"here they go"all alive:"Aries, or the Ram; Taurus, or the Bull and
Jimimi! heres Gemini himself, or the Twins. Well; the sun he wheels
among em. Aye, here on the coin hes just crossing the threshold
between two of twelve sitting-rooms all in a ring. Book! you lie there;
sitting rooms - (sitting-rooms) Wohnstuben
the fact is, you books must know your places. Youll do to give us the
bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts. Thats my
small experience, so far as the Massachusetts calendar, and Bowditchs
navigator, and Dabolls arithmetic go. Signs and wonders, eh? Pity if
navigator - Navigator Seefahrer
there is nothing wonderful in signs, and significant in wonders!
Theres a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist"hark! By Jove, I have it!
Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round
Almanack! To begin: theres Aries, or the Ram"lecherous dog, he begets
Almanack - Almanach
lecherous - lstern
begets - (beget) erzeugen, fortpflanzen
us; then, Taurus, or the Bull"he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini,
or the Twins"that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo!
comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue,
Cancer - Krebs
Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path"he gives a few fierce bites and
surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the Virgin! thats
surly - mrrisch, unwirsch, missmutig, verdrielich
dabs - (dab) Klaps, Kliesch
our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes
Libra, or the Scales"happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we
are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the
Scorpio - Skorpion
Scorpion, stings us in the rear; we are curing the wound, when whang
Scorpion - Skorpion
stings - (sting) Stachel, brennender Schmerz, Stich;schmerzlich treffen
curing - (cur) Kter
come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing
Archer - Bogenschtze; (arch) Bogenschtze
himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! heres the
shafts - (shaft) Schaft Strahl Schacht hereinlegen, bervorteile
stand aside - beiseite treten
battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing,
tilt - Schrfedehnung, Hchstleistung
and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Water-bearer, pours
out his whole deluge and drowns us; and to wind up with Pisces, or the
deluge - berschwemmen;starker Regenguss, Sintflut, Flut
drowns - (drown) ertrinken ertrnken berwltigen
Fishes, we sleep. Theres a sermon now, writ in high heaven, and the
sun goes through it every year, and yet comes out of it all alive and
hearty. Jollily he, aloft there, wheels through toil and trouble; and
Jollily - Frhlich
so, alow here, does jolly Stubb. Oh, jollys the word for aye! Adieu,
alow - erlauben
Doubloon! But stop; here comes little King-Post; dodge round the
try-works, now, and lets hear what hell have to say. There; hes
before it; hell out with something presently. So, so; hes beginning.
I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gold, and whoever raises
a certain whale, this round thing belongs to him. So, whats all this
staring been about? It is worth sixteen dollars, thats true; and at
two cents the cigar, thats nine hundred and sixty cigars. I wont
cigars - (cigar) Zigarre; Glimmstngel
smoke dirty pipes like Stubb, but I like cigars, and heres nine
hundred and sixty of them; so here goes Flask aloft to spy em out.
Shall I call that wise or foolish, now; if it be really wise it has a
foolish look to it; yet, if it be really foolish, then has it a sort of
wiseish look to it. But, avast; here comes our old Manxman"the old
wiseish - weise
hearse-driver, he must have been, that is, before he took to the sea.
He luffs up before the doubloon; halloa, and goes round on the other
luffs - (luff) Luv, Windseite
goes round - umgeht
side of the mast; why, theres a horse-shoe nailed on that side; and
nailed on - angenagelt
now hes back again; what does that mean? Hark! hes muttering"voice
like an old worn-out coffee-mill. Prick ears, and listen!
If the White Whale be raised, it must be in a month and a day, when
the sun stands in some one of these signs. Ive studied signs, and know
their marks; they were taught me two score years ago, by the old witch
old witch - alte Hexe
in Copenhagen. Now, in what sign will the sun then be? The horse-shoe
sign; for there it is, right opposite the gold. And whats the
horse-shoe sign? The lion is the horse-shoe sign"the roaring and
devouring lion. Ship, old ship! my old head shakes to think of thee.
Theres another rendering now; but still one text. All sorts of men in
one kind of world, you see. Dodge again! here comes Queequeg"all
tattooing"looks like the signs of the Zodiac himself. What says the
Cannibal? As I live hes comparing notes; looking at his thigh bone;
thinks the sun is in the thigh, or in the calf, or in the bowels, I
calf - Wade (Bein), Kalb
suppose, as the old women talk Surgeons Astronomy in the back country.
Astronomy - Astronomie, Sternkunde, Himmelskunde
And by Jove, hes found something there in the vicinity of his thigh"I
guess its Sagittarius, or the Archer. No: he dont know what to make
of the doubloon; he takes it for an old button off some kings
trowsers. But, aside again! here comes that ghost-devil, Fedallah; tail
coiled out of sight as usual, oakum in the toes of his pumps as usual.
What does he say, with that look of his? Ah, only makes a sign to the
sign and bows himself; there is a sun on the coin"fire worshipper,
depend upon it. Ho! more and more. This way comes Pip"poor boy! would
he had died, or I; hes half horrible to me. He too has been watching
all of these interpreters"myself included"and look now, he comes to
interpreters - (interpreter) Dolmetscher, Dolmetscherin, Dolmetsch
read, with that unearthly idiot face. Stand away again and hear him.
Hark!
I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look.
Upon my soul, hes been studying Murrays Grammar! Improving his mind,
Grammar - Grammatik, Sprachlehre, Grammatiktheorie
poor fellow! But whats that he says now"hist!
I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look.
Why, hes getting it by heart"hist! again.
I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look.
Well, thats funny.
And I, you, and he; and we, ye, and they, are all bats; and Im a
bats - (bat) Fledermaus
crow, especially when I stand atop of this pine tree here. Caw! caw!
Caw - Gekrchze, Krchzen
caw! caw! caw! caw! Aint I a crow? And wheres the scare-crow? There
he stands; two bones stuck into a pair of old trowsers, and two more
poked into the sleeves of an old jacket.
poked - (poke) stoen, stecken, stbern
Wonder if he means me?"complimentary!"poor lad!"I could go hang
complimentary - schmeichelnd kostenlos, gratis
myself. Any way, for the present, Ill quit Pips vicinity. I can stand
the rest, for they have plain wits; but hes too crazy-witty for my
wits - (wit) nmlich, und zwar
sanity. So, so, I leave him muttering.
Heres the ships navel, this doubloon here, and they are all on fire
navel - Bauchnabel
to unscrew it. But, unscrew your navel, and whats the consequence?
unscrew - abschrauben, losschrauben
Then again, if it stays here, that is ugly, too, for when aughts
nailed to the mast its a sign that things grow desperate. Ha, ha! old
Ahab! the White Whale; hell nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father,
in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver
ring grown over in it; some old darkeys wedding ring. How did it get
there? And so theyll say in the resurrection, when they come to fish
up this old mast, and find a doubloon lodged in it, with bedded oysters
for the shaggy bark. Oh, the gold! the precious, precious, gold! the
green miserll hoard ye soon! Hish! hish! God goes mong the worlds
hoard - Schatz, Vorrat;horten, sich Vorrte anlegen, hamstern
blackberrying. Cook! ho, cook! and cook us! Jenny! hey, hey, hey, hey,
blackberrying - (blackberry) Brombeerstrauch Brombeere
hey, Jenny, Jenny! and get your hoe-cake done!
The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London.
Ship, ahoy! Hast seen the White Whale?
So cried Ahab, once more hailing a ship showing English colours,
bearing down under the stern. Trumpet to mouth, the old man was
standing in his hoisted quarter-boat, his ivory leg plainly revealed to
the stranger captain, who was carelessly reclining in his own boats
bow. He was a darkly-tanned, burly, good-natured, fine-looking man, of
tanned - (tan) gerben
sixty or thereabouts, dressed in a spacious roundabout, that hung round
thereabouts - (thereabout) daherum, dortherum, in der Gegend, um die Ecke
him in festoons of blue pilot-cloth; and one empty arm of this jacket
festoons - (festoon) Feston, Girlande, Lichterkette
streamed behind him like the broidered arm of a hussars surcoat.
broidered - (broider) besticken
surcoat - Wappenrock
Hast seen the White Whale?
See you this? and withdrawing it from the folds that had hidden it,
he held up a white arm of sperm whale bone, terminating in a wooden
head like a mallet.
mallet - Holzhammer, Klopfholz; q
Man my boat! cried Ahab, impetuously, and tossing about the oars near
him"Stand by to lower!
In less than a minute, without quitting his little craft, he and his
crew were dropped to the water, and were soon alongside of the
stranger. But here a curious difficulty presented itself. In the
excitement of the moment, Ahab had forgotten that since the loss of his
leg he had never once stepped on board of any vessel at sea but his
own, and then it was always by an ingenious and very handy mechanical
contrivance peculiar to the Pequod, and a thing not to be rigged and
shipped in any other vessel at a moments warning. Now, it is no very
easy matter for anybody"except those who are almost hourly used to it,
hourly - stndlich, allstndlich
like whalemen"to clamber up a ships side from a boat on the open sea;
clamber - klettern, erklimmen, kraxeln, herumturnen
for the great swells now lift the boat high up towards the bulwarks,
and then instantaneously drop it half way down to the kelson. So,
instantaneously - augenblicklich, im Nu
deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether
deprived - (deprive) berauben
unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly
abjectly - verwerfliche
reduced to a clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain
changeful height he could hardly hope to attain.
changeful - wechselvoll
It has before been hinted, perhaps, that every little untoward
circumstance that befell him, and which indirectly sprang from his
luckless mishap, almost invariably irritated or exasperated Ahab. And
mishap - Unfall, Malheur, Unglck, Panne
in the present instance, all this was heightened by the sight of the
two officers of the strange ship, leaning over the side, by the
perpendicular ladder of nailed cleets there, and swinging towards him a
pair of tastefully-ornamented man-ropes; for at first they did not seem
tastefully - geschmackvoll, geschmackvolle
to bethink them that a one-legged man must be too much of a cripple to
use their sea bannisters. But this awkwardness only lasted a minute,
awkwardness - Unbeholfenheit, Umstndlichkeit, Ungeschicklichkeit, Plumphei
because the strange captain, observing at a glance how affairs stood,
cried out, I see, I see!"avast heaving there! Jump, boys, and swing
over the cutting-tackle.
As good luck would have it, they had had a whale alongside a day or two
previous, and the great tackles were still aloft, and the massive
curved blubber-hook, now clean and dry, was still attached to the end.
This was quickly lowered to Ahab, who at once comprehending it all,
slid his solitary thigh into the curve of the hook (it was like sitting
curve - Kurve Linie Kurven biegen, verbiegen
in the fluke of an anchor, or the crotch of an apple tree), and then
giving the word, held himself fast, and at the same time also helped to
hoist his own weight, by pulling hand-over-hand upon one of the running
own weight - Eigengewicht
bulwarks, and gently landed upon the capstan head. With his ivory arm
frankly thrust forth in welcome, the other captain advanced, and Ahab,
putting out his ivory leg, and crossing the ivory arm (like two
sword-fish blades) cried out in his walrus way, Aye, aye, hearty! let
us shake bones together!"an arm and a leg!"an arm that never can
shrink, dye see; and a leg that never can run. Where didst thou see
the White Whale?"how long ago?
The White Whale, said the Englishman, pointing his ivory arm towards
the East, and taking a rueful sight along it, as if it had been a
rueful - reuig, reumtig, klglich
telescope; there I saw him, on the Line, last season.
And he took that arm off, did he? asked Ahab, now sliding down from
the capstan, and resting on the Englishmans shoulder, as he did so.
Aye, he was the cause of it, at least; and that leg, too?
Spin me the yarn, said Ahab; how was it?
It was the first time in my life that I ever cruised on the Line,
cruised - (cruise) Seereise, Kreuzfahrt;eine Seereise mache
began the Englishman. I was ignorant of the White Whale at that time.
Well, one day we lowered for a pod of four or five whales, and my boat
fastened to one of them; a regular circus horse he was, too, that went
circus horse - Zirkuspferd
milling and milling round so, that my boats crew could only trim dish,
milling - Frsen, mahlend; (mil) Strich, artillerischer Strich
trim - krzen, nachschneiden, stutzen
by sitting all their sterns on the outer gunwale. Presently up breaches
from the bottom of the sea a bouncing great whale, with a milky-white
bouncing - (bounce) abprallen hpfen, auf und ab hpfen, platzen, Bounce
head and hump, all crows feet and wrinkles.
It was he, it was he! cried Ahab, suddenly letting out his suspended
letting out - durchlassend
breath.
And harpoons sticking in near his starboard fin.
Aye, aye"they were mine"_my_ irons, cried Ahab, exultingly"but on!
exultingly - jubelnd
Give me a chance, then, said the Englishman, good-humoredly. Well,
humoredly - auf humorvolle Weise
this old great-grandfather, with the white head and hump, runs all
great grandfather - (great-grandfather) Urgrovater
afoam into the pod, and goes to snapping furiously at my fast-line!
afoam - Schaumstoff
Aye, I see!"wanted to part it; free the fast-fish"an old trick"I know
him.
How it was exactly, continued the one-armed commander, I do not
know; but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there
somehow; but we didnt know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled
on the line, bounce we came plump on to his hump! instead of the other
whales; that went off to windward, all fluking. Seeing how matters
fluking - (fluke) der Dusel
stood, and what a noble great whale it was"the noblest and biggest I
ever saw, sir, in my life"I resolved to capture him, spite of the
boiling rage he seemed to be in. And thinking the hap-hazard line would
get loose, or the tooth it was tangled to might draw (for I have a
tangled - (tangle) Wirrwarr, Gewir
devil of a boats crew for a pull on a whale-line); seeing all this, I
say, I jumped into my first mates boat"Mr. Mounttops here (by the
way, Captain"Mounttop; Mounttop"the captain);"as I was saying, I jumped
into Mounttops boat, which, dye see, was gunwale and gunwale with
mine, then; and snatching the first harpoon, let this old
great-grandfather have it. But, Lord, look you, sir"hearts and souls
alive, man"the next instant, in a jiff, I was blind as a bat"both eyes
bat - Fledermaus
out"all befogged and bedeadened with black foam"the whales tail
befogged - (befog) umnebeln
looming straight up out of it, perpendicular in the air, like a marble
looming - (loom) Webstuhl;undeutlich sichtbar werde
steeple. No use sterning all, then; but as I was groping at midday,
steeple - Kirchturm
midday - Mittag, mittgig
with a blinding sun, all crown-jewels; as I was groping, I say, after
the second iron, to toss it overboard"down comes the tail like a Lima
tower, cutting my boat in two, leaving each half in splinters; and,
flukes first, the white hump backed through the wreck, as though it was
all chips. We all struck out. To escape his terrible flailings, I
flailings - Dreschen
seized hold of my harpoon-pole sticking in him, and for a moment clung
to that like a sucking fish. But a combing sea dashed me off, and at
the same instant, the fish, taking one good dart forwards, went down
like a flash; and the barb of that cursed second iron towing along near
me caught me here (clapping his hand just below his shoulder); yes,
caught me just here, I say, and bore me down to Hells flames, I was
thinking; when, when, all of a sudden, thank the good God, the barb
ript its way along the flesh"clear along the whole length of my
arm"came out nigh my wrist, and up I floated;"and that gentleman there
will tell you the rest (by the way, captain"Dr. Bunger, ships surgeon:
Bunger - (bung) zupfropfen, verstopfen, verspunden;werfe
Bunger, my lad,"the captain). Now, Bunger boy, spin your part of the
spin - durchdrehen, spinnen
yarn.
The professional gentleman thus familiarly pointed out, had been all
the time standing near them, with nothing specific visible, to denote
his gentlemanly rank on board. His face was an exceedingly round but
rank - (sozialer) Stand, Rang, Dienstgrad
sober one; he was dressed in a faded blue woollen frock or shirt, and
patched trowsers; and had thus far been dividing his attention between
a marlingspike he held in one hand, and a pill-box held in the other,
pill - Medikament, Pille, Tablette;Fluse
occasionally casting a critical glance at the ivory limbs of the two
crippled captains. But, at his superiors introduction of him to Ahab,
he politely bowed, and straightway went on to do his captains bidding.
It was a shocking bad wound, began the whale-surgeon; and, taking my
advice, Captain Boomer here, stood our old Sammy"
Samuel Enderby is the name of my ship, interrupted the one-armed
captain, addressing Ahab; go on, boy.
Stood our old Sammy off to the northward, to get out of the blazing
hot weather there on the Line. But it was no use"I did all I could; sat
up with him nights; was very severe with him in the matter of diet"
severe - streng
Oh, very severe! chimed in the patient himself; then suddenly
chimed - (chime) Ton;luten
altering his voice, Drinking hot rum toddies with me every night, till
rum - Rum
toddies - (toddy) Grog
he couldnt see to put on the bandages; and sending me to bed, half
bandages - (bandage) Verband bandagieren
seas over, about three oclock in the morning. Oh, ye stars! he sat up
with me indeed, and was very severe in my diet. Oh! a great watcher,
watcher - (watch) bewachen, beobachten, aufpassen, gucken (kucken)
and very dietetically severe, is Dr. Bunger. (Bunger, you dog, laugh
dietetically - ditisch
out! why dont ye? You know youre a precious jolly rascal.) But, heave
ahead, boy, Id rather be killed by you than kept alive by any other
man.
My captain, you must have ere this perceived, respected sir"said the
imperturbable godly-looking Bunger, slightly bowing to Ahab"is apt to
be facetious at times; he spins us many clever things of that sort. But
spins - (spin) durchdrehen, spinnen
I may as well say"en passant, as the French remark"that I myself"that
is to say, Jack Bunger, late of the reverend clergy"am a strict total
abstinence man; I never drink"
abstinence - Enthaltsamkeit, Abstinenz, Keuschheit
Water! cried the captain; he never drinks it; its a sort of fits to
him; fresh water throws him into the hydrophobia; but go on"go on with
hydrophobia - Tollwut Wasserscheu
the arm story.
Yes, I may as well, said the surgeon, coolly. I was about observing,
sir, before Captain Boomers facetious interruption, that spite of my
best and severest endeavors, the wound kept getting worse and worse;
the truth was, sir, it was as ugly gaping wound as surgeon ever saw;
more than two feet and several inches long. I measured it with the lead
line. In short, it grew black; I knew what was threatened, and off it
came. But I had no hand in shipping that ivory arm there; that thing is
against all rule"pointing at it with the marlingspike"that is the
captains work, not mine; he ordered the carpenter to make it; he had
that club-hammer there put to the end, to knock some ones brains out
with, I suppose, as he tried mine once. He flies into diabolical
passions sometimes. Do ye see this dent, sir"removing his hat, and
brushing aside his hair, and exposing a bowl-like cavity in his skull,
brushing aside - (brush aside) beiseite schieben
but which bore not the slightest scarry trace, or any token of ever
scarry - erschrecken
having been a wound"Well, the captain there will tell you how that
came here; he knows.
No, I dont, said the captain, but his mother did; he was born with
it. Oh, you solemn rogue, you"you Bunger! was there ever such another
rogue - Schurke Lmmel, Strolch, Vagabund, Landstreicher, checkSchelm
Bunger in the watery world? Bunger, when you die, you ought to die in
pickle, you dog; you should be preserved to future ages, you rascal.
What became of the White Whale? now cried Ahab, who thus far had been
impatiently listening to this by-play between the two Englishmen.
Oh! cried the one-armed captain, oh, yes! Well; after he sounded, we
didnt see him again for some time; in fact, as I before hinted, I
didnt then know what whale it was that had served me such a trick,
till some time afterwards, when coming back to the Line, we heard about
Moby Dick"as some call him"and then I knew it was he.
Didst thou cross his wake again?
Twice.
But could not fasten?
Didnt want to try to: aint one limb enough? What should I do without
this other arm? And Im thinking Moby Dick doesnt bite so much as he
swallows.
Well, then, interrupted Bunger, give him your left arm for bait to
bait - Kder, Luder, Fischkder
get the right. Do you know, gentlemen"very gravely and mathematically
mathematically - mathematisch
bowing to each Captain in succession"Do you know, gentlemen, that the
digestive organs of the whale are so inscrutably constructed by Divine
digestive - digestiv
inscrutably - unerforschlich
Providence, that it is quite impossible for him to completely digest
digest - digerieren, verdauen;Übersicht; (dig) digeriere
even a mans arm? And he knows it too. So that what you take for the
White Whales malice is only his awkwardness. For he never means to
swallow a single limb; he only thinks to terrify by feints. But
feints - (feint) Finte, Verstellung
sometimes he is like the old juggling fellow, formerly a patient of
formerly - frher, ehemals
mine in Ceylon, that making believe swallow jack-knives, once upon a
Ceylon - Ceylon; ''also:'' Zeylon, Ceylan
making believe - weismachend
time let one drop into him in good earnest, and there it stayed for a
twelvemonth or more; when I gave him an emetic, and he heaved it up in
emetic - emetisch Emetikum, Brechmittel
small tacks, dye see. No possible way for him to digest that
tacks - (tack) Stift;heften, kreuzen;anheften (schweien)
jack-knife, and fully incorporate it into his general bodily system.
Yes, Captain Boomer, if you are quick enough about it, and have a mind
to pawn one arm for the sake of the privilege of giving decent burial
pawn - verpfnden;Bauer (Schach), Pfand
to the other, why in that case the arm is yours; only let the whale
have another chance at you shortly, thats all.
No, thank ye, Bunger, said the English Captain, hes welcome to the
arm he has, since I cant help it, and didnt know him then; but not to
another one. No more White Whales for me; Ive lowered for him once,
and that has satisfied me. There would be great glory in killing him, I
know that; and there is a ship-load of precious sperm in him, but, hark
ye, hes best let alone; dont you think so, Captain?"glancing at the
ivory leg.
He is. But he will still be hunted, for all that. What is best let
alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures. Hes all a
magnet! How long since thou sawst him last? Which way heading?
Bless my soul, and curse the foul fiends, cried Bunger, stoopingly
curse - verfluchen, fluchen, verdammen;Fluch
stoopingly - gebckt
walking round Ahab, and like a dog, strangely snuffing; this mans
blood"bring the thermometer!"its at the boiling point!"his pulse makes
thermometer - Thermometer , Wrmemesser, Temperaturmesser
boiling point - Siedepunkt , Siedegrad
pulse - pulsieren;Impuls, Puls
these planks beat!"sir!"taking a lancet from his pocket, and drawing
lancet - Lanzette
near to Ahabs arm.
Avast! roared Ahab, dashing him against the bulwarks"Man the boat!
Which way heading?
Good God! cried the English Captain, to whom the question was put.
Whats the matter? He was heading east, I think."Is your Captain
crazy? whispering Fedallah.
But Fedallah, putting a finger on his lip, slid over the bulwarks to
take the boats steering oar, and Ahab, swinging the cutting-tackle
towards him, commanded the ships sailors to stand by to lower.
In a moment he was standing in the boats stern, and the Manilla men
were springing to their oars. In vain the English Captain hailed him.
With back to the stranger ship, and face set like a flint to his own,
Ahab stood upright till alongside of the Pequod.
Ere the English ship fades from sight, be it set down here, that she
fades - (fad) Mode, Trend, Modeerscheinung, Fimmel
hailed from London, and was named after the late Samuel Enderby,
merchant of that city, the original of the famous whaling house of
Enderby & Sons; a house which in my poor whalemans opinion, comes not
far behind the united royal houses of the Tudors and Bourbons, in point
Tudors - (Tudor) Tudor
Bourbons - (Bourbon) Bourbon
of real historical interest. How long, prior to the year of our Lord
1775, this great whaling house was in existence, my numerous
fish-documents do not make plain; but in that year (1775) it fitted out
the first English ships that ever regularly hunted the Sperm Whale;
though for some score of years previous (ever since 1726) our valiant
Coffins and Maceys of Nantucket and the Vineyard had in large fleets
pursued that Leviathan, but only in the North and South Atlantic: not
elsewhere. Be it distinctly recorded here, that the Nantucketers were
the first among mankind to harpoon with civilized steel the great Sperm
Whale; and that for half a century they were the only people of the
whole globe who so harpooned him.
In 1778, a fine ship, the Amelia, fitted out for the express purpose,
and at the sole charge of the vigorous Enderbys, boldly rounded Cape
Horn, and was the first among the nations to lower a whale-boat of any
sort in the great South Sea. The voyage was a skilful and lucky one;
and returning to her berth with her hold full of the precious sperm,
the Amelias example was soon followed by other ships, English and
American, and thus the vast Sperm Whale grounds of the Pacific were
thrown open. But not content with this good deed, the indefatigable
good deed - Wohltat
house again bestirred itself: Samuel and all his Sons"how many, their
mother only knows"and under their immediate auspices, and partly, I
think, at their expense, the British government was induced to send the
sloop-of-war Rattler on a whaling voyage of discovery into the South
Rattler - Schwtzer
Sea. Commanded by a naval Post-Captain, the Rattler made a rattling
voyage of it, and did some service; how much does not appear. But this
is not all. In 1819, the same house fitted out a discovery whale ship
of their own, to go on a tasting cruise to the remote waters of Japan.
That ship"well called the Syren"made a noble experimental cruise; and
experimental - experimentell
it was thus that the great Japanese Whaling Ground first became
generally known. The Syren in this famous voyage was commanded by a
Captain Coffin, a Nantucketer.
All honor to the Enderbies, therefore, whose house, I think, exists to
the present day; though doubtless the original Samuel must long ago
have slipped his cable for the great South Sea of the other world.
The ship named after him was worthy of the honor, being a very fast
sailer and a noble craft every way. I boarded her once at midnight
sailer - Segler
somewhere off the Patagonian coast, and drank good flip down in the
flip - wenden, umdrehen;schnellen, schnipsen;Salto (Sport), Schnipse
forecastle. It was a fine gam we had, and they were all trumps"every
trumps - (trump) Trumpf
soul on board. A short life to them, and a jolly death. And that fine
gam I had"long, very long after old Ahab touched her planks with his
ivory heel"it minds me of the noble, solid, Saxon hospitality of that
ship; and may my parson forget me, and the devil remember me, if I ever
lose sight of it. Flip? Did I say we had flip? Yes, and we flipped it
flipped - (flip) wenden, umdrehen;schnellen, schnipsen;Salto (Sport
at the rate of ten gallons the hour; and when the squall came (for its
squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands"visitors and all"were
squally - strmisch
called to reef topsails, we were so top-heavy that we had to swing each
other aloft in bowlines; and we ignorantly furled the skirts of our
jackets into the sails, so that we hung there, reefed fast in the
reefed - (reef) Segel reffen;Riff
howling gale, a warning example to all drunken tars. However, the masts
tars - (tar) teeren;Teer
did not go overboard; and by and by we scrambled down, so sober, that
scrambled - (scramble) krabbeln drngeln verrhren, verquirlen, verwrfel
we had to pass the flip again, though the savage salt spray bursting
down the forecastle scuttle, rather too much diluted and pickled it to
diluted - (dilute) verdnnen verwssern, abschwchen, verdnnt, verwssert
pickled - (pickle) Essiggurke, Metallbeize;beizen
my taste.
The beef was fine"tough, but with body in it. They said it was
bull-beef; others, that it was dromedary beef; but I do not know, for
certain, how that was. They had dumplings too; small, but substantial,
symmetrically globular, and indestructible dumplings. I fancied that
symmetrically - symmetrisches
you could feel them, and roll them about in you after they were
swallowed. If you stooped over too far forward, you risked their
pitching out of you like billiard-balls. The bread"but that couldnt be
helped; besides, it was an anti-scorbutic; in short, the bread
scorbutic - skorbutisch
contained the only fresh fare they had. But the forecastle was not very
light, and it was very easy to step over into a dark corner when you
ate it. But all in all, taking her from truck to helm, considering the
dimensions of the cooks boilers, including his own live parchment
boilers; fore and aft, I say, the Samuel Enderby was a jolly ship; of
good fare and plenty; fine flip and strong; crack fellows all, and
capital from boot heels to hat-band.
But why was it, think ye, that the Samuel Enderby, and some other
English whalers I know of"not all though"were such famous, hospitable
ships; that passed round the beef, and the bread, and the can, and the
joke; and were not soon weary of eating, and drinking, and laughing? I
will tell you. The abounding good cheer of these English whalers is
matter for historical research. Nor have I been at all sparing of
historical research - Geschichtsforschung
historical whale research, when it has seemed needed.
The English were preceded in the whale fishery by the Hollanders,
Hollanders - (Hollander) Hollnder
Zealanders, and Danes; from whom they derived many terms still extant
Zealanders - (Zealander) Seelnder
in the fishery; and what is yet more, their fat old fashions, touching
plenty to eat and drink. For, as a general thing, the English
merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English whaler. Hence,
scrimps - (scrimp) bemessen
in the English, this thing of whaling good cheer is not normal and
natural, but incidental and particular; and, therefore, must have some
incidental - zugehrig, beilufig, anfallend, folgend
special origin, which is here pointed out, and will be still further
elucidated.
During my researches in the Leviathanic histories, I stumbled upon an
stumbled - (stumble) Stolpern, Fehltritt, Fehler, Schnitzer, Ausrutscher
ancient Dutch volume, which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew
musty - miefig, muffig
must be about whalers. The title was, Dan Coopman, wherefore I
concluded that this must be the invaluable memoirs of some Amsterdam
cooper in the fishery, as every whale ship must carry its cooper. I was
reinforced in this opinion by seeing that it was the production of one
reinforced - (reinforce) verstrken, aussteifen, versteifen, festige
Fitz Swackhammer. But my friend Dr. Snodhead, a very learned man,
professor of Low Dutch and High German in the college of Santa Claus
High German - hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch
and St. Potts, to whom I handed the work for translation, giving him a
box of sperm candles for his trouble"this same Dr. Snodhead, so soon as
he spied the book, assured me that Dan Coopman did not mean The
spied - (spy) Spion, Spionin, Spitzel , ausspionieren, ersphen
Cooper, but The Merchant. In short, this ancient and learned Low
Dutch book treated of the commerce of Holland; and, among other
subjects, contained a very interesting account of its whale fishery.
And in this chapter it was, headed, Smeer, or Fat, that I found a
long detailed list of the outfits for the larders and cellars of 180
larders - (larder) Khlraum, Speisekammer
cellars - (cellar) Keller
sail of Dutch whalemen; from which list, as translated by Dr. Snodhead,
I transcribe the following:
transcribe - transkribieren
400,000 lbs. of beef. 60,000 lbs. Friesland pork. 150,000 lbs. of stock
lbs - (lb) Pfund (Masseeinheit);Pfund (Gewicht)
fish. 550,000 lbs. of biscuit. 72,000 lbs. of soft bread. 2,800 firkins
firkins - (firkin) Fsschen
of butter. 20,000 lbs. Texel & Leyden cheese. 144,000 lbs. cheese
(probably an inferior article). 550 ankers of Geneva. 10,800 barrels of
ankers - (anker) Anker
beer.
Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in
statistical - statistisch
parchingly - durchdringend
the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole
pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.
quarts - (quart) Quart
At the time, I devoted three days to the studious digesting of all this
devoted - (devot) widmen
studious - besonnen fleiig, lernbegierig
beer, beef, and bread, during which many profound thoughts were
incidentally suggested to me, capable of a transcendental and Platonic
transcendental - transzendent
Platonic - platonisch
application; and, furthermore, I compiled supplementary tables of my
compiled - (compile) zusammenstellen kompilieren
own, touching the probable quantity of stock-fish, etc., consumed by
every Low Dutch harpooneer in that ancient Greenland and Spitzbergen
whale fishery. In the first place, the amount of butter, and Texel and
Leyden cheese consumed, seems amazing. I impute it, though, to their
naturally unctuous natures, being rendered still more unctuous by the
rendered - (render) leisten, wiedergeben
nature of their vocation, and especially by their pursuing their game
in those frigid Polar Seas, on the very coasts of that Esquimaux
country where the convivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of
bumpers - (bumper) Stostange
train oil.
The quantity of beer, too, is very large, 10,800 barrels. Now, as those
polar fisheries could only be prosecuted in the short summer of that
prosecuted - (prosecute) gerichtlich belangen
climate, so that the whole cruise of one of these Dutch whalemen,
including the short voyage to and from the Spitzbergen sea, did not
much exceed three months, say, and reckoning 30 men to each of their
fleet of 180 sail, we have 5,400 Low Dutch seamen in all; therefore, I
say, we have precisely two barrels of beer per man, for a twelve weeks
allowance, exclusive of his fair proportion of that 550 ankers of gin.
exclusive - ausschlielich exklusiv
Now, whether these gin and beer harpooneers, so fuddled as one might
fuddled - (fuddle) trinken, saufen, sich betrinken, bettern
fancy them to have been, were the right sort of men to stand up in a
boats head, and take good aim at flying whales; this would seem
somewhat improbable. Yet they did aim at them, and hit them too. But
improbable - unwahrscheinlich
this was very far North, be it remembered, where beer agrees well with
the constitution; upon the Equator, in our southern fishery, beer would
be apt to make the harpooneer sleepy at the mast-head and boozy in his
boozy - versoffene
boat; and grievous loss might ensue to Nantucket and New Bedford.
grievous - schmerzlich ernst, ernsthaft, schwerwiegend
But no more; enough has been said to show that the old Dutch whalers of
two or three centuries ago were high livers; and that the English
whalers have not neglected so excellent an example. For, say they, when
cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the
world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. And this empties the
decanter.
Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly
descriptively - beschreibend, beschreibende
dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail
dwelt - (dwell) leben, verbleiben, wohnen, verweilen
upon some few interior structural features. But to a large and thorough
structural - konstruktiv baulich
sweeping comprehension of him, it behooves me now to unbutton him still
unbutton - aufknpfen
further, and untagging the points of his hose, unbuckling his garters,
hose - Schlauch jemanden angreifen und tten
unbuckling - (unbuckle) abschnallen
garters - (Garter) Strumpfband
and casting loose the hooks and the eyes of the joints of his innermost
bones, set him before you in his ultimatum; that is to say, in his
ultimatum - Ultimatum
unconditional skeleton.
But how now, Ishmael? How is it, that you, a mere oarsman in the
fishery, pretend to know aught about the subterranean parts of the
whale? Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures
on the anatomy of the Cetacea; and by help of the windlass, hold up a
specimen rib for exhibition? Explain thyself, Ishmael. Can you land a
full-grown whale on your deck for examination, as a cook dishes a
examination - Prfung, Untersuchung, Test, berprfung
roast-pig? Surely not. A veritable witness have you hitherto been,
Ishmael; but have a care how you seize the privilege of Jonah alone;
the privilege of discoursing upon the joists and beams; the rafters,
rafters - (rafter) Dachsparren, Fler, Sparren
ridge-pole, sleepers, and under-pinnings, making up the frame-work of
pinnings - (pinning) anheftend, aufsteckend
leviathan; and belike of the tallow-vats, dairy-rooms, butteries, and
vats - (VAT) Bottich, Trog, Wanne, Schaff
butteries - (buttery) plumper Schmeichler
cheeseries in his bowels.
cheeseries - Ksereien
I confess, that since Jonah, few whalemen have penetrated very far
beneath the skin of the adult whale; nevertheless, I have been blessed
with an opportunity to dissect him in miniature. In a ship I belonged
to, a small cub Sperm Whale was once bodily hoisted to the deck for his
poke or bag, to make sheaths for the barbs of the harpoons, and for the
sheaths - (sheath) Futteral
heads of the lances. Think you I let that chance go, without using my
boat-hatchet and jack-knife, and breaking the seal and reading all the
contents of that young cub?
And as for my exact knowledge of the bones of the leviathan in their
gigantic, full grown development, for that rare knowledge I am indebted
indebted - verschuldet
to my late royal friend Tranquo, king of Tranque, one of the Arsacides.
For being at Tranque, years ago, when attached to the trading-ship Dey
of Algiers, I was invited to spend part of the Arsacidean holidays with
Arsacidean - Arsazidisch
the lord of Tranque, at his retired palm villa at Pupella; a sea-side
villa - Villa, Anwesen, Landhaus, Herrenhaus
sea side - Seeseite
glen not very far distant from what our sailors called Bamboo-Town, his
glen - Tobel
capital.
Among many other fine qualities, my royal friend Tranquo, being gifted
with a devout love for all matters of barbaric vertu, had brought
together in Pupella whatever rare things the more ingenious of his
more ingenious - originellere
people could invent; chiefly carved woods of wonderful devices,
chiselled shells, inlaid spears, costly paddles, aromatic canoes; and
all these distributed among whatever natural wonders, the
wonder-freighted, tribute-rendering waves had cast upon his shores.
Chief among these latter was a great Sperm Whale, which, after an
unusually long raging gale, had been found dead and stranded, with his
head against a cocoa-nut tree, whose plumage-like, tufted droopings
droopings - Durchhnger
seemed his verdant jet. When the vast body had at last been stripped of
its fathom-deep enfoldings, and the bones become dust dry in the sun,
enfoldings - Entfaltungen
then the skeleton was carefully transported up the Pupella glen, where
a grand temple of lordly palms now sheltered it.
sheltered - (shelter) Zuflucht, Obdach, Zufluchtsort, Schutzraum
The ribs were hung with trophies; the vertebræ were carved with
Arsacidean annals, in strange hieroglyphics; in the skull, the priests
kept up an unextinguished aromatic flame, so that the mystic head again
unextinguished - ungelscht
sent forth its vapory spout; while, suspended from a bough, the
bough - Ast
terrific lower jaw vibrated over all the devotees, like the hair-hung
devotees - (devotee) Bewunderer, Enthusiast, Fan, Anhnger
sword that so affrighted Damocles.
It was a wondrous sight. The wood was green as mosses of the Icy Glen;
the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap; the
sap - Trottel, Saft
industrious earth beneath was as a weavers loom, with a gorgeous
industrious - fleiig, arbeitsam, eifrig
carpet on it, whereof the ground-vine tendrils formed the warp and
tendrils - (tendril) Ranke
woof, and the living flowers the figures. All the trees, with all their
laden branches; all the shrubs, and ferns, and grasses; the
shrubs - (shrub) Busch, Strauch, Staude
ferns - (fern) Farn, Farnkraut
message-carrying air; all these unceasingly were active. Through the
lacings of the leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving
lacings - (lacing) schnrend, Schnrung
the unwearied verdure. Oh, busy weaver! unseen weaver!"pause!"one
weaver - Weber, Weberin, Webervogel
word!"whither flows the fabric? what palace may it deck? wherefore all
these ceaseless toilings? Speak, weaver!"stay thy hand!"but one single
word with thee! Nay"the shuttle flies"the figures float from forth the
loom; the freshet-rushing carpet for ever slides away. The weaver-god,
he weaves; and by that weaving is he deafened, that he hears no mortal
weaves - (weave) ich/er/sie wbe, ich/er/sie wob, webte, weben
deafened - (deafen) betuben
voice; and by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened;
and only when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak
through it. For even so it is in all material factories. The spoken
words that are inaudible among the flying spindles; those same words
spindles - (spindle) Spindel Spindelstrauch
are plainly heard without the walls, bursting from the opened
casements. Thereby have villainies been detected. Ah, mortal! then, be
villainies - (villainy) Schurkerei
detected - (detect) finden, ermitteln, aufspren, entdecken, erkennen
heedful; for so, in all this din of the great worlds loom, thy
subtlest thinkings may be overheard afar.
thinkings - (thinking) denkend
Now, amid the green, life-restless loom of that Arsacidean wood, the
great, white, worshipped skeleton lay lounging"a gigantic idler! Yet,
idler - unttiger Mitarbeiter, unttige Mitarbeiterin, Faulpel
as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around
intermixed - (intermix) vermischen
hummed - (hum) Summen
him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over
with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure; but
vines - (vine) Kletterpflanze, Ranke
himself a skeleton. Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim
trellised - (trellis) Gatter, Schmuckgitter, Ziergitter, Klettergers
god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
wived - (wive) Ehefrau
youthful - jugendlich, jung
Now, when with royal Tranquo I visited this wondrous whale, and saw the
skull an altar, and the artificial smoke ascending from where the real
jet had issued, I marvelled that the king should regard a chapel as an
object of vertu. He laughed. But more I marvelled that the priests
should swear that smoky jet of his was genuine. To and fro I paced
before this skeleton"brushed the vines aside"broke through the ribs"and
with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid its many
wandered - (wander) umherstreifen, umherstreichen, herumziehen, stromern
eddied - (eddy) Strudel
winding, shaded colonnades and arbours. But soon my line was out; and
arbours - (arbour) Gartenlaube, Laube
following it back, I emerged from the opening where I entered. I saw no
living thing within; naught was there but bones.
Cutting me a green measuring-rod, I once more dived within the
skeleton. From their arrow-slit in the skull, the priests perceived me
taking the altitude of the final rib, How now! they shouted; Darst
thou measure this our god! Thats for us. Aye, priests"well, how long
do ye make him, then? But hereupon a fierce contest rose among them,
concerning feet and inches; they cracked each others sconces with
sconces - (sconce) Wandleuchter
their yard-sticks"the great skull echoed"and seizing that lucky chance,
echoed - (echo) Echo, Widerhall, Tastaturecho, Bildschirmech
lucky chance - Glcksfall
I quickly concluded my own admeasurements.
admeasurements - (admeasurement) Vermessung
These admeasurements I now propose to set before you. But first, be it
recorded, that, in this matter, I am not free to utter any fancied
measurement I please. Because there are skeleton authorities you can
refer to, to test my accuracy. There is a Leviathanic Museum, they tell
me, in Hull, England, one of the whaling ports of that country, where
they have some fine specimens of fin-backs and other whales. Likewise,
I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they
have what the proprietors call the only perfect specimen of a
Greenland or River Whale in the United States. Moreover, at a place in
Yorkshire, England, Burton Constable by name, a certain Sir Clifford
Yorkshire - Yorkshire
Constable - Schutzmann, Polizist;Herr Wachtmeister
Constable has in his possession the skeleton of a Sperm Whale, but of
moderate size, by no means of the full-grown magnitude of my friend
King Tranquos.
In both cases, the stranded whales to which these two skeletons
skeletons - (skeleton) Not-, Gerippe, provisorisch, Knochengerst
belonged, were originally claimed by their proprietors upon similar
grounds. King Tranquo seizing his because he wanted it; and Sir
Clifford, because he was lord of the seignories of those parts. Sir
seignories - (seignory) seignoriert
Cliffords whale has been articulated throughout; so that, like a great
chest of drawers, you can open and shut him, in all his bony
cavities"spread out his ribs like a gigantic fan"and swing all day upon
cavities - (cavity) Hohlraum, Gravur, Aushhlung, Loch, Hhle
his lower jaw. Locks are to be put upon some of his trap-doors and
shutters; and a footman will show round future visitors with a bunch of
shutters - (shutter) Verschlieender, Verschlieer, Fensterladen; q
footman - Lakai
keys at his side. Sir Clifford thinks of charging twopence for a peep
twopence - zwei Pence
at the whispering gallery in the spinal column; threepence to hear the
spinal column - Wirbelsule , Rckgrat
threepence - drei Pence
echo in the hollow of his cerebellum; and sixpence for the unrivalled
view from his forehead.
The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down are copied
verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed; as in my wild
verbatim - wortgetreu, wortwrtlich, Wort fr Wort
wanderings at that period, there was no other secure way of preserving
wanderings - (wandering) (wander) irren, wandern, umherschweifen
such valuable statistics. But as I was crowded for space, and wished
the other parts of my body to remain a blank page for a poem I was then
composing"at least, what untattooed parts might remain"I did not
untattooed - unttowiert
trouble myself with the odd inches; nor, indeed, should inches at all
enter into a congenial admeasurement of the whale.
admeasurement - Vermessung
In the first place, I wish to lay before you a particular, plain
statement, touching the living bulk of this leviathan, whose skeleton
we are briefly to exhibit. Such a statement may prove useful here.
briefly - kurz
exhibit - zeigen, zur Schau stellen, ausstellen, vorzeigen
According to a careful calculation I have made, and which I partly base
calculation - Berechnung
upon Captain Scoresbys estimate, of seventy tons for the largest sized
Greenland whale of sixty feet in length; according to my careful
calculation, I say, a Sperm Whale of the largest magnitude, between
eighty-five and ninety feet in length, and something less than forty
feet in its fullest circumference, such a whale will weigh at least
ninety tons; so that, reckoning thirteen men to a ton, he would
considerably outweigh the combined population of a whole village of one
outweigh - berwiegen berragen, bertreffen, bersteigen
thousand one hundred inhabitants.
Think you not then that brains, like yoked cattle, should be put to
this leviathan, to make him at all budge to any landsmans imagination?
Having already in various ways put before you his skull, spout-hole,
jaw, teeth, tail, forehead, fins, and divers other parts, I shall now
simply point out what is most interesting in the general bulk of his
unobstructed bones. But as the colossal skull embraces so very large a
proportion of the entire extent of the skeleton; as it is by far the
most complicated part; and as nothing is to be repeated concerning it
most complicated - komplizierteste
in this chapter, you must not fail to carry it in your mind, or under
your arm, as we proceed, otherwise you will not gain a complete notion
of the general structure we are about to view.
In length, the Sperm Whales skeleton at Tranque measured seventy-two
feet; so that when fully invested and extended in life, he must have
been ninety feet long; for in the whale, the skeleton loses about one
fifth in length compared with the living body. Of this seventy-two
feet, his skull and jaw comprised some twenty feet, leaving some fifty
feet of plain back-bone. Attached to this back-bone, for something less
than a third of its length, was the mighty circular basket of ribs
basket - Korb
which once enclosed his vitals.
enclosed - (enclose) beifgen einschliessen
vitals - (vital) Leben
To me this vast ivory-ribbed chest, with the long, unrelieved spine,
extending far away from it in a straight line, not a little resembled
the hull of a great ship new-laid upon the stocks, when only some
twenty of her naked bow-ribs are inserted, and the keel is otherwise,
for the time, but a long, disconnected timber.
disconnected - (disconnect) trennen, unterbrechen, Unterbrechung, Unterbruch
The ribs were ten on a side. The first, to begin from the neck, was
nearly six feet long; the second, third, and fourth were each
successively longer, till you came to the climax of the fifth, or one
successively - sukzessive, nacheinander, hintereinander
climax - Hhepunkt, Orgasmus
of the middle ribs, which measured eight feet and some inches. From
that part, the remaining ribs diminished, till the tenth and last only
spanned five feet and some inches. In general thickness, they all bore
spanned - (span) umfassen;Spanne, Bereich, drehen
a seemly correspondence to their length. The middle ribs were the most
seemly - schicklich, anstndig, gesittet, passend
correspondence - Briefwechsel, Korrespondenz
arched. In some of the Arsacides they are used for beams whereon to lay
footpath bridges over small streams.
footpath - Fuweg, Fupfad
In considering these ribs, I could not but be struck anew with the
circumstance, so variously repeated in this book, that the skeleton of
the whale is by no means the mould of his invested form. The largest of
the Tranque ribs, one of the middle ones, occupied that part of the
fish which, in life, is greatest in depth. Now, the greatest depth of
the invested body of this particular whale must have been at least
sixteen feet; whereas, the corresponding rib measured but little more
than eight feet. So that this rib only conveyed half of the true notion
of the living magnitude of that part. Besides, for some way, where I
now saw but a naked spine, all that had been once wrapped round with
tons of added bulk in flesh, muscle, blood, and bowels. Still more, for
the ample fins, I here saw but a few disordered joints; and in place of
the weighty and majestic, but boneless flukes, an utter blank!
How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try
to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his
dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood. No. Only in
attenuated - (attenuate) verringern, vermindern, abschwchen, reduzieren
the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his
eddyings - Wirbelstrme
angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully
invested whale be truly and livingly found out.
But the spine. For that, the best way we can consider it is, with a
crane, to pile its bones high up on end. No speedy enterprise. But now
its done, it looks much like Pompeys Pillar.
There are forty and odd vertebræ in all, which in the skeleton are not
locked together. They mostly lie like the great knobbed blocks on a
knobbed - knorrig
Gothic spire, forming solid courses of heavy masonry. The largest, a
middle one, is in width something less than three feet, and in depth
more than four. The smallest, where the spine tapers away into the
tail, is only two inches in width, and looks something like a white
billiard-ball. I was told that there were still smaller ones, but they
billiard-ball - (billiard ball) Billardkugel
had been lost by some little cannibal urchins, the priests children,
urchins - (urchin) Bengel, Lmmel, Lausbube, Racker
who had stolen them to play marbles with. Thus we see how that the
spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into
simple childs play.
From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon
to enlarge, amplify, and generally expatiate. Would you, you could not
amplify - erman: verstrken gloss ore intense; vergrern gloss
compress him. By good rights he should only be treated of in imperial
compress - komprimieren;Kompresse, Umschlag [med.]
folio. Not to tell over again his furlongs from spiracle to tail, and
the yards he measures about the waist; only think of the gigantic
involutions of his intestines, where they lie in him like great cables
involutions - (involution) Involution
intestines - (intestine) Darm
and hawsers coiled away in the subterranean orlop-deck of a
hawsers - (hawser) Trosse, Tau
line-of-battle-ship.
Since I have undertaken to manhandle this Leviathan, it behooves me to
approve myself omnisciently exhaustive in the enterprise; not
approve - billigen, genehmigen, zusagen
omnisciently - allwissende, allwissend
exhaustive - vollstndig, erschpfend, abschlieend
overlooking the minutest seminal germs of his blood, and spinning him
seminal - Saat
germs - (germ) Keim
out to the uttermost coil of his bowels. Having already described him
in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now
habitatory - Lebensraum
remains to magnify him in an archæological, fossiliferous, and
magnify - vergrern
fossiliferous - fossilfhrend, fossilienhaltig
antediluvian point of view. Applied to any other creature than the
Leviathan"to an ant or a flea"such portly terms might justly be deemed
flea - Floh
unwarrantably grandiloquent. But when Leviathan is the text, the case
grandiloquent - hochtrabend
is altered. Fain am I to stagger to this emprise under the weightiest
weightiest - (weighty) wichtig schwergewichtig
words of the dictionary. And here be it said, that whenever it has been
convenient to consult one in the course of these dissertations, I have
consult - Rat halten beraten, beratschlagen, um Rat frage
dissertations - (dissertation) Doktorarbeit, Dissertation
invariably used a huge quarto edition of Johnson, expressly purchased
expressly - ausdrcklich
for that purpose; because that famous lexicographers uncommon personal
bulk more fitted him to compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author
compile - zusammenstellen kompilieren
like me.
One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject,
though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of
this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard
chirography - Chirographie
placard - Plakat
capitals. Give me a condors quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an
inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my
inkstand - Schreibzeug, Tintenzeug
thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their
outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole
outreaching - (outreach) Handreichung Reichweite ffentlichkeitsarbei
circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and
mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas
mastodons - (mastodon) Mastodon
panoramas - (panorama) Panorama, Rundblick
of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding
excluding - (exclude) ausschlieen
its suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and
suburbs - (suburb) Vorstadt, Vorort, Stadtteil, Bezirk, Stadtbezirk
liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you
must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be
written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
Ere entering upon the subject of Fossil Whales, I present my
credentials as a geologist, by stating that in my miscellaneous time I
geologist - Geologe, Geologin
have been a stone-mason, and also a great digger of ditches, canals and
digger - Grabwerkzeug Grber, Grberin ; (dig) Grabwerkzeug Grbe
ditches - (ditch) Straengraben, Wassergrabe
wells, wine-vaults, cellars, and cisterns of all sorts. Likewise, by
cisterns - (cistern) Zisterne Splkasten
way of preliminary, I desire to remind the reader, that while in the
earlier geological strata there are found the fossils of monsters now
fossils - (fossil) Fossil
almost completely extinct; the subsequent relics discovered in what are
called the Tertiary formations seem the connecting, or at any rate
Tertiary - tertir
formations - (formation) Bildung
intercepted links, between the antichronical creatures, and those whose
intercepted - (intercept) abfangen Achsenabschnitt
antichronical - antichronisch
remote posterity are said to have entered the Ark; all the Fossil
Whales hitherto discovered belong to the Tertiary period, which is the
last preceding the superficial formations. And though none of them
precisely answer to any known species of the present time, they are yet
sufficiently akin to them in general respects, to justify their taking
justify - rechtfertigen ausrichten, justieren
rank as Cetacean fossils.
Detached broken fossils of pre-adamite whales, fragments of their bones
adamite - Adamit
and skeletons, have within thirty years past, at various intervals,
been found at the base of the Alps, in Lombardy, in France, in England,
in Scotland, and in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Among the more curious of such remains is part of a skull, which in the
year 1779 was disinterred in the Rue Dauphine in Paris, a short street
disinterred - (disinter) exhumieren
Rue - bereuen
opening almost directly upon the palace of the Tuileries; and bones
disinterred in excavating the great docks of Antwerp, in Napoleons
time. Cuvier pronounced these fragments to have belonged to some
utterly unknown Leviathanic species.
But by far the most wonderful of all Cetacean relics was the almost
complete vast skeleton of an extinct monster, found in the year 1842,
on the plantation of Judge Creagh, in Alabama. The awe-stricken
credulous slaves in the vicinity took it for the bones of one of the
fallen angels. The Alabama doctors declared it a huge reptile, and
bestowed upon it the name of Basilosaurus. But some specimen bones of
it being taken across the sea to Owen, the English Anatomist, it turned
Anatomist - Anatom
out that this alleged reptile was a whale, though of a departed
species. A significant illustration of the fact, again and again
repeated in this book, that the skeleton of the whale furnishes but
little clue to the shape of his fully invested body. So Owen
rechristened the monster Zeuglodon; and in his paper read before the
rechristened - (rechristen) Wiedertufer
London Geological Society, pronounced it, in substance, one of the most
extraordinary creatures which the mutations of the globe have blotted
mutations - (mutation) Mutation
blotted - (blot) Fleck, Klecks, Schandfleck, beflecken, klecker
out of existence.
When I stand among these mighty Leviathan skeletons, skulls, tusks,
jaws, ribs, and vertebræ, all characterized by partial resemblances to
characterized - (characterize) charakterisieren
partial - teilweise, partiell, parteiisch
resemblances - (resemblance) hnlichkeit
the existing breeds of sea-monsters; but at the same time bearing on
the other hand similar affinities to the annihilated antichronical
affinities - (affinity) Affinitt Verwandtschaft, Schwgerschaft
Leviathans, their incalculable seniors; I am, by a flood, borne back to
seniors - (Senior) lter
that wondrous period, ere time itself can be said to have begun; for
time began with man. Here Saturns grey chaos rolls over me, and I
obtain dim, shuddering glimpses into those Polar eternities; when
wedged bastions of ice pressed hard upon what are now the Tropics; and
bastions - (bastion) Bastion, Bollwerk, Bastei
in all the 25,000 miles of this worlds circumference, not an
inhabitable hands breadth of land was visible. Then the whole world
inhabitable - bewohnbar
was the whales; and, king of creation, he left his wake along the
present lines of the Andes and the Himmalehs. Who can show a pedigree
pedigree - Ahnentafel
like Leviathan? Ahabs harpoon had shed older blood than the Pharaohs.
Methuselah seems a school-boy. I look round to shake hands with Shem. I
Methuselah - Methusalem
look round - umschauen
am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the
antemosaic - Antemosaik
unsourced - ohne Quellenangabe
unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time,
must needs exist after all humane ages are over.
But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the
stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his
stereotype - Stereotyp, Klischee, sych., Stereotypie, Stereotyp
limestone - Kalkstein, Calciumcarbonat, Kalk, Kalk
marl - mergeln;Mergel
bequeathed - (bequeath) hinterlassen, vererben, vermachen, aussetzen
ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, whose antiquity seems to claim
for them an almost fossiliferous character, we find the unmistakable
print of his fin. In an apartment of the great temple of Denderah, some
fifty years ago, there was discovered upon the granite ceiling a
sculptured and painted planisphere, abounding in centaurs, griffins,
planisphere - Planisphre
griffins - (griffin) Greif
and dolphins, similar to the grotesque figures on the celestial globe
grotesque - grotesk
of the moderns. Gliding among them, old Leviathan swam as of yore; was
there swimming in that planisphere, centuries before Solomon was
cradled.
cradled - (cradle) Wiege wiegen
Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity
attestation - Besttigung, Beweis, Beleg, Zeugnis
of the whale, in his own osseous post-diluvian reality, as set down by
osseous - knchern, Knochen
diluvian - sintflutartig
the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.
Not far from the Sea-side, they have a Temple, the Rafters and Beams
of which are made of Whale-Bones; for Whales of a monstrous size are
oftentimes cast up dead upon that shore. The Common People imagine,
that by a secret Power bestowed by God upon the Temple, no Whale can
pass it without immediate death. But the truth of the Matter is, that
on either side of the Temple, there are Rocks that shoot two Miles into
the Sea, and wound the Whales when they light upon em. They keep a
Whales Rib of an incredible length for a Miracle, which lying upon the
Ground with its convex part uppermost, makes an Arch, the Head of which
cannot be reached by a Man upon a Camels Back. This Rib (says John
Leo) is said to have layn there a hundred Years before I saw it. Their
Historians affirm, that a Prophet who prophesyd of Mahomet, came from
affirm - zustimmen, bejahen, besttigen, untersttzen
this Temple, and some do not stand to assert, that the Prophet Jonas
was cast forth by the Whale at the Base of the Temple.
In this Afric Temple of the Whale I leave you, reader, and if you be a
Nantucketer, and a whaleman, you will silently worship there.
Inasmuch, then, as this Leviathan comes floundering down upon us from
the head-waters of the Eternities, it may be fitly inquired, whether,
inquired - (inquire) erkundigen
in the long course of his generations, he has not degenerated from the
degenerated - (degenerate) entartet widernatrlich, dekadent, degenerier
original bulk of his sires.
But upon investigation we find, that not only are the whales of the
investigation - Untersuchung
present day superior in magnitude to those whose fossil remains are
found in the Tertiary system (embracing a distinct geological period
prior to man), but of the whales found in that Tertiary system, those
belonging to its latter formations exceed in size those of its earlier
ones.
Of all the pre-adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the
exhumed - (exhume) exhumieren
Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, and that was less than
seventy feet in length in the skeleton. Whereas, we have already seen,
that the tape-measure gives seventy-two feet for the skeleton of a
tape measure - (tape-measure) Messband , Maband , Bandma
large sized modern whale. And I have heard, on whalemens authority,
that Sperm Whales have been captured near a hundred feet long at the
time of capture.
But may it not be, that while the whales of the present hour are an
advance in magnitude upon those of all previous geological periods; may
it not be, that since Adams time they have degenerated?
Assuredly, we must conclude so, if we are to credit the accounts of
Assuredly - sicher
such gentlemen as Pliny, and the ancient naturalists generally. For
Pliny tells us of whales that embraced acres of living bulk, and
Aldrovandus of others which measured eight hundred feet in length"Rope
Walks and Thames Tunnels of Whales! And even in the days of Banks and
Tunnels - (tunnel) Tunnel, Stollen
Solander, Cookes naturalists, we find a Danish member of the Academy
Academy - Akademie, akademische Einrichtung
of Sciences setting down certain Iceland Whales (reydan-siskur, or
Wrinkled Bellies) at one hundred and twenty yards; that is, three
hundred and sixty feet. And Lacépède, the French naturalist, in his
elaborate history of whales, in the very beginning of his work (page
3), sets down the Right Whale at one hundred metres, three hundred and
twenty-eight feet. And this work was published so late as A.D. 1825.
But will any whaleman believe these stories? No. The whale of to-day is
as big as his ancestors in Plinys time. And if ever I go where Pliny
ancestors - (ancestor) Vorfahr, Vorfahrin, Ahn, Ahne
is, I, a whaleman (more than he was), will make bold to tell him so.
Because I cannot understand how it is, that while the Egyptian mummies
that were buried thousands of years before even Pliny was born, do not
measure so much in their coffins as a modern Kentuckian in his socks;
and while the cattle and other animals sculptured on the oldest
Egyptian and Nineveh tablets, by the relative proportions in which they
are drawn, just as plainly prove that the high-bred, stall-fed, prize
stall - Strmungsabriss, Überziehen (Flugmechanik);Marktstand;abwrge
cattle of Smithfield, not only equal, but far exceed in magnitude the
fattest of Pharaohs fat kine; in the face of all this, I will not
admit that of all animals the whale alone should have degenerated.
But still another inquiry remains; one often agitated by the more
recondite Nantucketers. Whether owing to the almost omniscient
omniscient - allwissend
look-outs at the mast-heads of the whale-ships, now penetrating even
penetrating - (penetrate) eindringen, penetrieren
through Behrings straits, and into the remotest secret drawers and
lockers of the world; and the thousand harpoons and lances darted along
all continental coasts; the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long
endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not
at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the
exterminated - (exterminate) ausrotten
last man, smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final
puff.
Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo,
which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the
overspread - verbreiten
prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and
manes - (mane) Mhne
scowled with their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous
scowled - (scowl) mrrischer Gesichtsausdruck;finster blicken
river-capitals, where now the polite broker sells you land at a dollar
an inch; in such a comparison an irresistible argument would seem
furnished, to show that the hunted whale cannot now escape speedy
extinction.
extinction - Aussterben
But you must look at this matter in every light. Though so short a
period ago"not a good lifetime"the census of the buffalo in Illinois
exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the present day
not one horn or hoof of them remains in all that region; and though the
cause of this wondrous extermination was the spear of man; yet the far
extermination - Ausrottung, Vernichtung
different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily forbids so inglorious
forbids - (forbid) verbieten, untersagen, verweigern, vorenthalten
an end to the Leviathan. Forty men in one ship hunting the Sperm Whales
for forty-eight months think they have done extremely well, and thank
God, if at last they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the
days of the old Canadian and Indian hunters and trappers of the West,
Canadian - kanadische, Kanadier;Kanadier (Boot)
when the far west (in whose sunset suns still rise) was a wilderness
and a virgin, the same number of moccasined men, for the same number of
moccasined - mit Mokassins
months, mounted on horse instead of sailing in ships, would have slain
not forty, but forty thousand and more buffaloes; a fact that, if need
were, could be statistically stated.
statistically - statistisch gesehen
Nor, considered aright, does it seem any argument in favour of the
gradual extinction of the Sperm Whale, for example, that in former
gradual - allmhlich, graduell, schrittweise zunehmend
years (the latter part of the last century, say) these Leviathans, in
small pods, were encountered much oftener than at present, and, in
consequence, the voyages were not so prolonged, and were also much more
remunerative. Because, as has been elsewhere noticed, those whales,
remunerative - lohnend
influenced by some views to safety, now swim the seas in immense
caravans, so that to a large degree the scattered solitaries, yokes,
yokes - (yoke) das Joch
and pods, and schools of other days are now aggregated into vast but
widely separated, unfrequent armies. That is all. And equally
fallacious seems the conceit, that because the so-called whale-bone
fallacious - irrefhrend, trgerisch
whales no longer haunt many grounds in former years abounding with
haunt - spuken verfolgen Treffpunkt
them, hence that species also is declining. For they are only being
declining - (decline) Sinken, Fall, Geflle, Abnahme, Rckgang, Schwchun
driven from promontory to cape; and if one coast is no longer enlivened
with their jets, then, be sure, some other and remoter strand has been
very recently startled by the unfamiliar spectacle.
unfamiliar - unbekannt, unvertraut
Furthermore: concerning these last mentioned Leviathans, they have two
firm fortresses, which, in all human probability, will for ever remain
impregnable. And as upon the invasion of their valleys, the frosty
invasion - Invasion, berfall, Einfall, Einmarsch
Swiss have retreated to their mountains; so, hunted from the savannas
Swiss - schweizerisch,
savannas - (savanna) Savanne
and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at last resort
to their Polar citadels, and diving under the ultimate glassy barriers
citadels - (citadel) Zitadelle
barriers - (Barrier) Sperre, Schranke,
and walls there, come up among icy fields and floes; and in a charmed
floes - (floe) Eisscholle, Packeis
circle of everlasting December, bid defiance to all pursuit from man.
defiance - Trotz, Auflehnung, Widerstand, offener Ungehorsam, Widersetzun
But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one
cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this
positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions.
But though for some time past a number of these whales, not less than
13,000, have been annually slain on the nor west coast by the
annually - jhrlich
Americans alone; yet there are considerations which render even this
circumstance of little or no account as an opposing argument in this
matter.
Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness
populousness - Bevlkerungsdichte
of the more enormous creatures of the globe, yet what shall we say to
more enormous - enormere
Harto, the historian of Goa, when he tells us that at one hunting the
King of Siam took 4,000 elephants; that in those regions elephants are
numerous as droves of cattle in the temperate climes. And there seems
droves - (drove) fuhr, gefahren
no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted
for thousands of years, by Semiramis, by Porus, by Hannibal, and by all
the successive monarchs of the East"if they still survive there in
great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since
outlast - berdauern, berleben
he has a pasture to expatiate in, which is precisely twice as large as
all Asia, both Americas, Europe and Africa, New Holland, and all the
Isles of the sea combined.
Moreover: we are to consider, that from the presumed great longevity of
longevity - Langlebigkeit, llange
whales, their probably attaining the age of a century and more,
therefore at any one period of time, several distinct adult generations
must be contemporary. And what that is, we may soon gain some idea of,
by imagining all the grave-yards, cemeteries, and family vaults of
creation yielding up the live bodies of all the men, women, and
children who were alive seventy-five years ago; and adding this
countless host to the present human population of the globe.
Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his
species, however perishable in his individuality. He swam the seas
perishable - verderblich, leichtverderblich, Vergngliches, Verderbliche
before the continents broke water; he once swam over the site of the
Tuileries, and Windsor Castle, and the Kremlin. In Noahs flood he
Kremlin - Kreml
despised Noahs Ark; and if ever the world is to be again flooded, like
despised - (despise) verachten
the Netherlands, to kill off its rats, then the eternal whale will
rats - (rat) Ratte
still survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial
crest - Gipfel Kamm, Haube, Krone, Helmzier, Zimir
flood, spout his frothed defiance to the skies.
frothed - (froth) Schaum aufschumen
The precipitating manner in which Captain Ahab had quitted the Samuel
precipitating - (precipitate) Niederschlag;ausscheiden, strzen, flle
Enderby of London, had not been unattended with some small violence to
his own person. He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his
thwart - durchkreuzen, entgegenwirken, vereiteln, konterkariere
boat that his ivory leg had received a half-splintering shock. And when
splintering - (splinter) Span, Splitter
after gaining his own deck, and his own pivot-hole there, he so
vehemently wheeled round with an urgent command to the steersman (it
urgent - dringend, dringlich, eilig
was, as ever, something about his not steering inflexibly enough);
inflexibly - unbiegsam, unerbittlich
then, the already shaken ivory received such an additional twist and
wrench, that though it still remained entire, and to all appearances
wrench - reien
lusty, yet Ahab did not deem it entirely trustworthy.
lusty - rstig, krftig
trustworthy - vertrauenswrdig, glaubwrdig
And, indeed, it seemed small matter for wonder, that for all his
pervading, mad recklessness, Ahab did at times give careful heed to the
condition of that dead bone upon which he partly stood. For it had not
been very long prior to the Pequods sailing from Nantucket, that he
had been found one night lying prone upon the ground, and insensible;
prone - in Bauchlage schrg anfllig, geneigt
insensible - bewusstlos, nicht wahrnehmbar, gefhllos
by some unknown, and seemingly inexplicable, unimaginable casualty, his
ivory limb having been so violently displaced, that it had stake-wise
displaced - (displace) umsiedeln, vertreiben, verschieben, verlager
smitten, and all but pierced his groin; nor was it without extreme
groin - Leiste
difficulty that the agonizing wound was entirely cured.
cured - (cur) Kter
Nor, at the time, had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, that all
the anguish of that then present suffering was but the direct issue of
a former woe; and he too plainly seemed to see, that as the most
poisonous reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as
marsh - Marsch, Moor, Sumpf, Sumpfgebiet
perpetuates - (perpetuate) verewigen perpetuieren
the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity,
songster - Snger
all miserable events do naturally beget their like. Yea, more than
equally, thought Ahab; since both the ancestry and posterity of Grief
ancestry - Vorfahren Vorvter, Ahnen
go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. For, not to hint of
this: that it is an inference from certain canonic teachings, that
canonic - vorschriftsmig
while some natural enjoyments here shall have no children born to them
enjoyments - (enjoyment) Genuss, Vergngen
for the other world, but, on the contrary, shall be followed by the
joy-childlessness of all hells despair; whereas, some guilty mortal
childlessness - Kinderlosigkeit
miseries shall still fertilely beget to themselves an eternally
fertilely - fruchtbar
progressive progeny of griefs beyond the grave; not at all to hint of
progressive - fortschrittlich, progressiv
this, there still seems an inequality in the deeper analysis of the
inequality - Ungleichheit Ungleichung
thing. For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities
felicities - (felicity) Felizitas, Felicitas
ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at
unsignifying - unsignifikant
pettiness - Geringfgigkeit
bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an
archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the
archangelic - erzengelhaft
tracings - (tracing) Nebeneintragungsvermerk, Ablaufverfolgung
belie - lgen;etw. falsch darstellen, ber etw. hinwegtuschen
obvious deduction. To trail the genealogies of these high mortal
deduction - Abzug Ableitung Schlussfolgerung
miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless primogenitures of the
sourceless - quellenlos
primogenitures - (primogeniture) Erstgeborenheit Erstgeburtsrecht, Primogenitur
gods; so that, in the face of all the glad, hay-making suns, and soft
cymballing, round harvest-moons, we must needs give in to this: that
the gods themselves are not for ever glad. The ineffaceable, sad
ineffaceable - unauslschlich
birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the
signers.
signers - (signer) Unterzeichner
Unwittingly here a secret has been divulged, which perhaps might more
properly, in set way, have been disclosed before. With many other
why it was, that for a certain period, both before and after the
sailing of the Pequod, he had hidden himself away with such
Grand-Lama-like exclusiveness; and, for that one interval, sought
exclusiveness - Exklusivitt
speechless refuge, as it were, among the marble senate of the dead.
Captain Pelegs bruited reason for this thing appeared by no means
adequate; though, indeed, as touching all Ahabs deeper part, every
revelation partook more of significant darkness than of explanatory
revelation - Enthllung, Offenbarung, Erkenntnis
partook - (partake) teilnehmen, mitmachen, mitessen
explanatory - erklrend
light. But, in the end, it all came out; this one matter did, at least.
That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness. And
recluseness - Zurckgezogenheit
not only this, but to that ever-contracting, dropping circle ashore,
who, for any reason, possessed the privilege of a less banned approach
to him; to that timid circle the above hinted casualty"remaining, as it
did, moodily unaccounted for by Ahab"invested itself with terrors, not
moodily - launisch, launische
unaccounted - unerklrt
entirely underived from the land of spirits and of wails. So that,
underived - unterbewertet
wails - (wail) jammern, wehklagen, klagen
through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as in them
conspired - (conspire) verschren
lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it
muffle - umhllen, einhllen
was, that not till a considerable interval had elapsed, did it
transpire upon the Pequods decks.
transpire - sich ereignen, geschehen;schwitzen
But be all this as it may; let the unseen, ambiguous synod in the air,
synod - Synode
or the vindictive princes and potentates of fire, have to do or not
potentates - (potentate) Potentat, Potentatin
with earthly Ahab, yet, in this present matter of his leg, he took
plain practical procedures;"he called the carpenter.
procedures - (procedure) Verfahren, Verfahrensweis
And when that functionary appeared before him, he bade him without
functionary - Funktionr, Funktionrin
delay set about making a new leg, and directed the mates to see him
supplied with all the studs and joists of jaw-ivory (Sperm Whale) which
studs - (stud) bersen, verzieren, verstreut sein, besetzen;Stehbolze
had thus far been accumulated on the voyage, in order that a careful
selection of the stoutest, clearest-grained stuff might be secured.
This done, the carpenter received orders to have the leg completed that
night; and to provide all the fittings for it, independent of those
fittings - (fitting) passend, geeignet, recht, gebhrend
pertaining to the distrusted one in use. Moreover, the ships forge was
forge - sich Bahn brechen, formen, erfinden, flschen;Schmiede
ordered to be hoisted out of its temporary idleness in the hold; and,
to accelerate the affair, the blacksmith was commanded to proceed at
blacksmith - Eisenschmied, Eisenschmiedin, Grobschmied, Grobschmiedi
once to the forging of whatever iron contrivances might be needed.
forging - Urkundenflschung, Schmiedestck; (forge) Urkundenflschun
Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high
sultanically - sultanisch
abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But
abstracted - (abstract) Auszug, Zusammenfassung, abstrakt, trennen, entziehe
from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they
seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
duplicates - (duplicate) dupliziert, verdoppelt, vervielfltigen, kopiere
But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an example of
the high, humane abstraction; the Pequods carpenter was no duplicate;
abstraction - Abstraktion
hence, he now comes in person on this stage.
Like all sea-going ship carpenters, and more especially those belonging
to whaling vessels, he was, to a certain off-handed, practical extent,
alike experienced in numerous trades and callings collateral to his
callings - (calling) Aufruf, Berufung, Anwhlen
own; the carpenters pursuit being the ancient and outbranching trunk
outbranching - Verzweigung
of all those numerous handicrafts which more or less have to do with
handicrafts - (handicraft) Handarbeit, Handwerk, Kunsthandwer
wood as an auxiliary material. But, besides the application to him of
auxiliary material - Hilfsstoffe
the generic remark above, this carpenter of the Pequod was singularly
efficient in those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually
efficient - effizient
recurring in a large ship, upon a three or four years voyage, in
uncivilized and far-distant seas. For not to speak of his readiness in
ordinary duties:"repairing stove boats, sprung spars, reforming the
reforming - (reform) Reform reformieren
shape of clumsy-bladed oars, inserting bulls eyes in the deck, or new
tree-nails in the side planks, and other miscellaneous matters more
directly pertaining to his special business; he was moreover
unhesitatingly expert in all manner of conflicting aptitudes, both
unhesitatingly - unverzgliche
conflicting - (conflict) Konflikt, Streit, Gegensatz, Inkompatibilitt
aptitudes - (aptitude) Begabung Eignung
useful and capricious.
The one grand stage where he enacted all his various parts so manifold,
enacted - (enact) spielen ausfhren
was his vice-bench; a long rude ponderous table furnished with several
vices, of different sizes, and both of iron and of wood. At all times
except when whales were alongside, this bench was securely lashed
athwartships against the rear of the Try-works.
athwartships - (athwartship) Sportlichkeit
A belaying pin is found too large to be easily inserted into its hole:
belaying pin - Belegnagel
the carpenter claps it into one of his ever-ready vices, and
straightway files it smaller. A lost land-bird of strange plumage
strays on board, and is made a captive: out of clean shaved rods of
strays - (stray) verirrt;Streuverlust;abirren, vagabundieren, streune
right-whale bone, and cross-beams of sperm whale ivory, the carpenter
makes a pagoda-looking cage for it. An oarsman sprains his wrist: the
sprains - (sprain) verstauchen Verstauchung
carpenter concocts a soothing lotion. Stubb longed for vermillion stars
concocts - (concoct) zusammenbrauen, zusammenmischen, zusammenrhre
lotion - Lotion
vermillion - Zinnoberrot
to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his
big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the
constellation. A sailor takes a fancy to wear shark-bone ear-rings: the
carpenter drills his ears. Another has the toothache: the carpenter out
drills - (drill) einexerzieren, abrichten, drillen;Bohrer, Bohrmaschin
pincers, and clapping one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there;
pincers - (pincer) Zange
bids - (bid) Angebot, reizen, Gebot, Bieten, bieten
but the poor fellow unmanageably winces under the unconcluded
unmanageably - widerspenstig, unhandliche
winces - (wince) Zusammenzucken
unconcluded - nicht eingeschlossen
operation; whirling round the handle of his wooden vice, the carpenter
signs him to clap his jaw in that, if he would have him draw the tooth.
Thus, this carpenter was prepared at all points, and alike indifferent
and without respect in all. Teeth he accounted bits of ivory; heads he
deemed but top-blocks; men themselves he lightly held for capstans. But
capstans - (capstan) Spill, Gangspill, q or anchor also, Capsta
while now upon so wide a field thus variously accomplished and with
such liveliness of expertness in him, too; all this would seem to argue
expertness - Gewandtheit
some uncommon vivacity of intelligence. But not precisely so. For
vivacity - Lebendigkeit
nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal
more remarkable - beachtenswertere
impersonal - unpersnlich
stolidity as it were; impersonal, I say; for it so shaded off into the
stolidity - sture
surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general
stolidity discernible in the whole visible world; which while
pauselessly active in uncounted modes, still eternally holds its peace,
pauselessly - ohne Unterbrechung
and ignores you, though you dig foundations for cathedrals. Yet was
this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an
all-ramifying heartlessness;"yet was it oddly dashed at times, with an
ramifying - (ramify) ramifizieren, verzweigen, versteln
heartlessness - Herzlosigkeit
oddly - einzeln, sonderbar
old, crutch-like, antediluvian, wheezing humorousness, not unstreaked
wheezing - (wheeze) keuchen, schnaufen; (wheeze) keuchen, rchel
unstreaked - ungestreift
now and then with a certain grizzled wittiness; such as might have
wittiness - Witzigkeit
served to pass the time during the midnight watch on the bearded
forecastle of Noahs ark. Was it that this old carpenter had been a
life-long wanderer, whose much rolling, to and fro, not only had
wanderer - Wanderer
gathered no moss; but what is more, had rubbed off whatever small
rubbed off - abgerieben
outward clingings might have originally pertained to him? He was a
clingings - Anhaftungen
pertained - (pertain) gehren, verbunden, betreffen, sich beziehen auf
stript abstract; an unfractioned integral; uncompromised as a new-born
abstract - Auszug, Zusammenfassung, abstrakt, trennen, entziehe
unfractioned - unfraktioniert
babe; living without premeditated reference to this world or the next.
babe - Puppe
premeditated - (premeditate) vorstzlich planen, vorher berlege
You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him
uncompromisedness - Kompromisslosigkeit
involved a sort of unintelligence; for in his numerous trades, he did
unintelligence - Unintelligenz
not seem to work so much by reason or by instinct, or simply because he
had been tutored to it, or by any intermixture of all these, even or
intermixture - Mischung, Vermischung
uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb, spontaneous literal
uneven - uneben
spontaneous - spontan
literal - wrtlich, buchstblich
process. He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one,
manipulator - Drahtzieher
must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers. He was
oozed - (ooze) sickern, strotzen vor/von;Schlamm
like one of those unreasoning but still highly useful, _multum in
parvo_, Sheffield contrivances, assuming the exterior"though a little
swelled"of a common pocket knife; but containing, not only blades of
pocket knife - Taschenmesser
various sizes, but also screw-drivers, cork-screws, tweezers, awls,
screws - (screw) Schraube, Schiffsschraube, Wchter, Aufpasser, Wrter
tweezers - (tweezer) Pinzette
awls - (awl) Pfriem, Ahle
pens, rulers, nail-filers, countersinkers. So, if his superiors wanted
rulers - (ruler) Lineal Herrscher
filers - (filer) Aktenordner
countersinkers - Senkern
superiors - (superior) berlegen, hher, hherstehend, bergeordne
to use the carpenter for a screw-driver, all they had to do was to open
that part of him, and the screw was fast: or if for tweezers, take him
up by the legs, and there they were.
Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter,
omnitooled - omnitoolled
was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton. If he did not have a
automaton - Automat
common soul in him, he had a subtle something that somehow anomalously
did its duty. What that was, whether essence of quicksilver, or a few
quicksilver - Quecksilber quecksilbrig
drops of hartshorn, there is no telling. But there it was; and there it
had abided for now some sixty years or more. And this it was, this same
abided - (abide) aushalten ausstehen, ertragen, zahlen, verbleibe
unaccountable, cunning life-principle in him; this it was, that kept
him a great part of the time soliloquizing; but only like an
soliloquizing - (soliloquize) ein Selbstgesprch fhren, mit sich selber rede
unreasoning wheel, which also hummingly soliloquizes; or rather, his
hummingly - brummend
soliloquizes - (soliloquize) ein Selbstgesprch fhren, mit sich selber rede
body was a sentry-box and this soliloquizer on guard there, and talking
soliloquizer - Selbstgesprchsredner
all the time to keep himself awake.
The Deck"First Night Watch.
(_Carpenter standing before his vice-bench, and by the light of two
lanterns busily filing the ivory joist for the leg, which joist is
firmly fixed in the vice. Slabs of ivory, leather straps, pads, screws,
and various tools of all sorts lying about the bench. Forward, the red
flame of the forge is seen, where the blacksmith is at work._)
Drat the file, and drat the bone! That is hard which should be soft,
Drat - menno
and that is soft which should be hard. So we go, who file old jaws and
shinbones. Lets try another. Aye, now, this works better (_sneezes_).
sneezes - (sneeze) niesen Niesen
Halloa, this bone dust is (_sneezes_)"why its (_sneezes_)"yes its
(_sneezes_)"bless my soul, it wont let me speak! This is what an old
fellow gets now for working in dead lumber. Saw a live tree, and you
dont get this dust; amputate a live bone, and you dont get it
amputate - amputieren
(_sneezes_). Come, come, you old Smut, there, bear a hand, and lets
Smut - Brand
have that ferule and buckle-screw; Ill be ready for them presently.
Lucky now (_sneezes_) theres no knee-joint to make; that might puzzle
a little; but a mere shinbone"why its easy as making hop-poles; only I
shinbone - Schienbein
should like to put a good finish on. Time, time; if I but only had the
time, I could turn him out as neat a leg now as ever (_sneezes_)
scraped to a lady in a parlor. Those buckskin legs and calves of legs
scraped - (scrap) ausrangieren;Abfallholz, Teil, Schrott
Ive seen in shop windows wouldnt compare at all. They soak water,
shop windows - Schaufenster
soak - durchnssen trnken, einweichen, durchziehen, Einweichen
they do; and of course get rheumatic, and have to be doctored
(_sneezes_) with washes and lotions, just like live legs. There; before
lotions - (lotion) Lotion
I saw it off, now, I must call his old Mogulship, and see whether the
Mogulship - Mogulschaft
length will be all right; too short, if anything, I guess. Ha! thats
the heel; we are in luck; here he comes, or its somebody else, thats
certain.
AHAB (_advancing_). (_During the ensuing scene, the carpenter continues
sneezing at times._)
sneezing - niesen; (sneeze) niesen Niesen
Well, manmaker!
manmaker - Menschenmacher
Just in time, sir. If the captain pleases, I will now mark the length.
Let me measure, sir.
Measured for a leg! good. Well, its not the first time. About it!
There; keep thy finger on it. This is a cogent vice thou hast here,
carpenter; let me feel its grip once. So, so; it does pinch some.
grip - packen, fassen;Griffigkeit, Heft (von Sge, Feile)
pinch - kneifen, zwicken, schnappen, erwischen, Messerspitze, Prise
Oh, sir, it will break bones"beware, beware!
No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery
world that can hold, man. Whats Prometheus about there?"the
blacksmith, I mean"whats he about?
He must be forging the buckle-screw, sir, now.
Right. Its a partnership; he supplies the muscle part. He makes a
partnership - Partnerschaft Personengesellschaft
fierce red flame there!
Aye, sir; he must have the white heat for this kind of fine work.
Um-m. So he must. I do deem it now a most meaning thing, that that old
Greek, Prometheus, who made men, they say, should have been a
blacksmith, and animated them with fire; for whats made in fire must
properly belong to fire; and so hells probable. How the soot flies!
This must be the remainder the Greek made the Africans of. Carpenter,
when hes through with that buckle, tell him to forge a pair of steel
shoulder-blades; theres a pedlar aboard with a crushing pack.
pedlar - Hausierer
crushing - (crush) Schwarm zerdrcken
Sir?
Hold; while Prometheus is about it, Ill order a complete man after a
desirable pattern. Imprimis, fifty feet high in his socks; then, chest
modelled after the Thames Tunnel; then, legs with roots to em, to stay
in one place; then, arms three feet through the wrist; no heart at all,
brass forehead, and about a quarter of an acre of fine brains; and let
me see"shall I order eyes to see outwards? No, but put a sky-light on
outwards - (outward) uerlich, auswrts
top of his head to illuminate inwards. There, take the order, and away.
Now, whats he speaking about, and whos he speaking to, I should like
to know? Shall I keep standing here? (_aside_).
Tis but indifferent architecture to make a blind dome; heres one. No,
no, no; I must have a lantern.
Ho, ho! Thats it, hey? Here are two, sir; one will serve my turn.
What art thou thrusting that thief-catcher into my face for, man?
catcher - Fnger Catcher, Catcherin, Fngerin
Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.
Thrusted - (thrust) Sto, Stich, Vorsto, Schub, Schubkraft
I thought, sir, that you spoke to carpenter.
Carpenter? why thats"but no;"a very tidy, and, I may say, an extremely
gentlemanlike sort of business thou art in here, carpenter;"or wouldst
thou rather work in clay?
Sir?"Clay? clay, sir? Thats mud; we leave clay to ditchers, sir.
ditchers - (ditcher) Graben
The fellows impious! What art thou sneezing about?
Bone is rather dusty, sir.
Take the hint, then; and when thou art dead, never bury thyself under
living peoples noses.
Sir?"oh! ah!"I guess so;"yes"oh, dear!
Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest thyself a right good
callest - (call) Aufruf, Ruf
workmanlike workman, eh? Well, then, will it speak thoroughly well for
workman - Arbeiter
thy work, if, when I come to mount this leg thou makest, I shall
nevertheless feel another leg in the same identical place with it; that
is, carpenter, my old lost leg; the flesh and blood one, I mean. Canst
thou not drive that old Adam away?
Truly, sir, I begin to understand somewhat now. Yes, I have heard
something curious on that score, sir; how that a dismasted man never
entirely loses the feeling of his old spar, but it will be still
pricking him at times. May I humbly ask if it be really so, sir?
humbly - demtig
It is, man. Look, put thy live leg here in the place where mine once
was; so, now, here is only one distinct leg to the eye, yet two to the
soul. Where thou feelest tingling life; there, exactly there, there to
feelest - fhlen
a hair, do I. Ist a riddle?
riddle - Rtsel
I should humbly call it a poser, sir.
poser - knifflige Frage, harte Nuss, Fragender, Frager, Fragestelle
Hist, then. How dost thou know that some entire, living, thinking thing
may not be invisibly and uninterpenetratingly standing precisely where
uninterpenetratingly - undurchdringlich
thou now standest; aye, and standing there in thy spite? In thy most
standest - (stand) Messestand, Stand, Tribne
solitary hours, then, dost thou not fear eavesdroppers? Hold, dont
eavesdroppers - (eavesdropper) Lauscher
speak! And if I still feel the smart of my crushed leg, though it be
now so long dissolved; then, why mayst not thou, carpenter, feel the
dissolved - (dissolve) auflsen auflsen
fiery pains of hell for ever, and without a body? Hah!
Good Lord! Truly, sir, if it comes to that, I must calculate over
again; I think I didnt carry a small figure, sir.
Look ye, pudding-heads should never grant premises."How long before the
leg is done?
Perhaps an hour, sir.
Bungle away at it then, and bring it to me (_turns to go_). Oh, Life!
Bungle - vergeigen
Here I am, proud as Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this
debtor - Schuldner, Schuldnerin
blockhead for a bone to stand on! Cursed be that mortal
blockhead - Dummkopf
inter-indebtedness which will not do away with ledgers. I would be free
inter - begraben
indebtedness - Verschuldung, Verbindlichkeit, Verpflichtung, Pflicht, Schul
ledgers - (ledger) Notizbuch Hauptbuch, Konto, Kontobuch, Kontoblatt
as air; and Im down in the whole worlds books. I am so rich, I could
have given bid for bid with the wealthiest Prætorians at the auction of
wealthiest - (wealthy) wohlhabend, reich
auction - Versteigerung, Auktion, versteigern
the Roman empire (which was the worlds); and yet I owe for the flesh
owe - schulden, schuldig sein
in the tongue I brag with. By heavens! Ill get a crucible, and into
crucible - Tiegel, Schmelztiegel, Feuerprobe
it, and dissolve myself down to one small, compendious vertebra. So.
dissolve - auflsen auflsen
compendious - zusammen gefasst, zusammengefasst
CARPENTER (_resuming his work_).
Well, well, well! Stubb knows him best of all, and Stubb always says
hes queer; says nothing but that one sufficient little word queer;
hes queer, says Stubb; hes queer"queer, queer; and keeps dinning it
dinning - (din) Lrm, Getse;drhnen
into Mr. Starbuck all the time"queer"sir"queer, queer, very queer. And
heres his leg! Yes, now that I think of it, heres his bedfellow! has
a stick of whales jaw-bone for a wife! And this is his leg; hell
stand on this. What was that now about one leg standing in three
places, and all three places standing in one hell"how was that? Oh! I
dont wonder he looked so scornful at me! Im a sort of
strange-thoughted sometimes, they say; but thats only haphazard-like.
thoughted - gedacht
haphazard - planlos, willkrlich
Then, a short, little old body like me, should never undertake to wade
undertake - unternehmen, ausfhren, verpflichten
out into deep waters with tall, heron-built captains; the water chucks
heron - Reiher
chucks - (chuck) Spannfutter, Ansaugvorrichtung;erbrechen, einspannen
you under the chin pretty quick, and theres a great cry for
life-boats. And heres the herons leg! long and slim, sure enough!
slim - schlank, schmal, dnn
Now, for most folks one pair of legs lasts a lifetime, and that must be
because they use them mercifully, as a tender-hearted old lady uses her
roly-poly old coach-horses. But Ahab; oh hes a hard driver. Look,
driven one leg to death, and spavined the other for life, and now wears
out bone legs by the cord. Halloa, there, you Smut! bear a hand there
with those screws, and lets finish it before the resurrection fellow
comes a-calling with his horn for all legs, true or false, as
brewery-men go round collecting old beer barrels, to fill em up again.
go round - umgehen, umrunden, kursieren
beer barrels - Bierfsser
What a leg this is! It looks like a real live leg, filed down to
nothing but the core; hell be standing on this to-morrow; hell be
core - Reaktorkern (Kerntechnik);Kernstck, Mark, Mittelstck, Kern
taking altitudes on it. Halloa! I almost forgot the little oval slate,
oval - Oval
slate - Schiefer, Dachschindel
smoothed ivory, where he figures up the latitude. So, so; chisel, file,
and sand-paper, now!
According to usage they were pumping the ship next morning; and lo! no
inconsiderable oil came up with the water; the casks below must have
sprung a bad leak. Much concern was shown; and Starbuck went down into
the cabin to report this unfavourable affair.*
unfavourable - ungnstig
*In Sperm-whalemen with any considerable quantity of oil on board, it
is a regular semi-weekly duty to conduct a hose into the hold, and
drench the casks with sea-water; which afterwards, at varying
drench - Regenguss
intervals, is removed by the ships pumps. Hereby the casks are sought
to be kept damply tight; while by the changed character of the
damply - feucht, feuchte
withdrawn water, the mariners readily detect any serious leakage in the
leakage - Leck
precious cargo.
Now, from the South and West the Pequod was drawing nigh to Formosa and
the Bashee Isles, between which lies one of the tropical outlets from
the China waters into the Pacific. And so Starbuck found Ahab with a
general chart of the oriental archipelagoes spread before him; and
another separate one representing the long eastern coasts of the
Japanese islands"Niphon, Matsmai, and Sikoke. With his snow-white new
ivory leg braced against the screwed leg of his table, and with a long
braced - (brace) Klafter , Armspanne, Klammer, Spange, Klemme
pruning-hook of a jack-knife in his hand, the wondrous old man, with
pruning - reduzieren; (prune) reduzieren
his back to the gangway door, was wrinkling his brow, and tracing his
wrinkling - (wrinkle) sich runzeln, runzlig (runzelig) werden, knittern
old courses again.
Whos there? hearing the footstep at the door, but not turning round
footstep - Fuabdruck Schritt
to it. On deck! Begone!
Captain Ahab mistakes; it is I. The oil in the hold is leaking, sir.
We must up Burtons and break out.
Burtons - (Burton) Burton
Up Burtons and break out? Now that we are nearing Japan; heave-to here
for a week to tinker a parcel of old hoops?
Either do that, sir, or waste in one day more oil than we may make
good in a year. What we come twenty thousand miles to get is worth
saving, sir.
So it is, so it is; if we get it.
I was speaking of the oil in the hold, sir.
And I was not speaking or thinking of that at all. Begone! Let it
leak! Im all aleak myself. Aye! leaks in leaks! not only full of leaky
casks, but those leaky casks are in a leaky ship; and thats a far
worse plight than the Pequods, man. Yet I dont stop to plug my leak;
for who can find it in the deep-loaded hull; or how hope to plug it,
even if found, in this lifes howling gale? Starbuck! Ill not have the
Burtons hoisted.
What will the owners say, sir?
Let the owners stand on Nantucket beach and outyell the Typhoons. What
cares Ahab? Owners, owners? Thou art always prating to me, Starbuck,
prating - schwatzhaft, schwtzend; (prat) schwatzhaft, schwtzend
about those miserly owners, as if the owners were my conscience. But
miserly - geizig, knauserig, knausrig, gierig
look ye, the only real owner of anything is its commander; and hark ye,
my conscience is in this ships keel."On deck!
Captain Ahab, said the reddening mate, moving further into the cabin,
with a daring so strangely respectful and cautious that it almost
seemed not only every way seeking to avoid the slightest outward
manifestation of itself, but within also seemed more than half
manifestation - Manifestation, Erscheinung
distrustful of itself; A better man than I might well pass over in
pass over - bertreten
thee what he would quickly enough resent in a younger man; aye, and in
resent - zurckgesandt;verbel
a happier, Captain Ahab.
Devils! Dost thou then so much as dare to critically think of me?"On
critically - kritische
deck!
Nay, sir, not yet; I do entreat. And I do dare, sir"to be forbearing!
forbearing - (forbear) Vorfahr
Shall we not understand each other better than hitherto, Captain Ahab?
Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most
musket - Muskete
South-Sea-mens cabin furniture), and pointing it towards Starbuck,
exclaimed: There is one God that is Lord over the earth, and one
Captain that is lord over the Pequod."On deck!
For an instant in the flashing eyes of the mate, and his fiery cheeks,
you would have almost thought that he had really received the blaze of
the levelled tube. But, mastering his emotion, he half calmly rose, and
mastering - Bewltigung, Meisterung ; (master) Bewltigung, Meisterung
as he quitted the cabin, paused for an instant and said: Thou hast
outraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware
outraged - (outrage) Untat, Grueltat, (emprendes) Verbrechen, Beleidigun
of Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but let Ahab beware of Ahab;
beware of thyself, old man.
He waxes brave, but nevertheless obeys; most careful bravery that!
waxes - (wax) das Wachs
obeys - (obey) gehorchen befolgen
murmured Ahab, as Starbuck disappeared. Whats that he said"Ahab
beware of Ahab"theres something there! Then unconsciously using the
musket for a staff, with an iron brow he paced to and fro in the little
cabin; but presently the thick plaits of his forehead relaxed, and
plaits - (plait) Falte
returning the gun to the rack, he went to the deck.
Thou art but too good a fellow, Starbuck, he said lowly to the mate;
then raising his voice to the crew: Furl the tgallant-sails, and
close-reef the top-sails, fore and aft; back the main-yard; up Burton,
and break out in the main-hold.
It were perhaps vain to surmise exactly why it was, that as respecting
Starbuck, Ahab thus acted. It may have been a flash of honesty in him;
honesty - Ehrlichkeit Mondviole, Silberblatt
or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, imperiously
imperiously - gebieterisch, herrische
forbade the slightest symptom of open disaffection, however transient,
disaffection - Unzufriedenheit
in the important chief officer of his ship. However it was, his orders
were executed; and the Burtons were hoisted.
Upon searching, it was found that the casks last struck into the hold
were perfectly sound, and that the leak must be further off. So, it
being calm weather, they broke out deeper and deeper, disturbing the
slumbers of the huge ground-tier butts; and from that black midnight
sending those gigantic moles into the daylight above. So deep did they
moles - (mole) Spion;Leberfleck, Maulwurf, Mol
go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost
lowermost - niedrigst
puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone
cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted
placards, vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood.
placards - (placard) Plakat
Tierce after tierce, too, of water, and bread, and beef, and shooks of
shooks - (shook) (to shake) erschttern, schtteln, zittern
staves, and iron bundles of hoops, were hoisted out, till at last the
bundles - (bundle) Bndel
piled decks were hard to get about; and the hollow hull echoed under
foot, as if you were treading over empty catacombs, and reeled and
treading - (tread on) treten; (tread) (tread on) treten
catacombs - (catacomb) Katakombe
rolled in the sea like an air-freighted demijohn. Top-heavy was the
demijohn - Glasballon, Korbflasche
ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head. Well was
dinnerless - ohne Abendessen
it that the Typhoons did not visit them then.
Now, at this time it was that my poor pagan companion, and fast
companion - Begleiter, Freund, Liebhaber, Kamerad
bosom-friend, Queequeg, was seized with a fever, which brought him nigh
to his endless end.
Be it said, that in this vocation of whaling, sinecures are unknown;
sinecures - (sinecure) Sinekure
dignity and danger go hand in hand; till you get to be Captain, the
higher you rise the harder you toil. So with poor Queequeg, who, as
harpooneer, must not only face all the rage of the living whale, but"as
we have elsewhere seen"mount his dead back in a rolling sea; and
finally descend into the gloom of the hold, and bitterly sweating all
day in that subterraneous confinement, resolutely manhandle the
clumsiest casks and see to their stowage. To be short, among whalemen,
clumsiest - (clumsy) tollpatschig, ungeschickt, unbeholfen, schwerfllig
stowage - Ladung, Stauung
the harpooneers are the holders, so called.
holders - (holder) Halter, Stnder, Halterung, Halter, Besitzer
Poor Queequeg! when the ship was about half disembowelled, you should
disembowelled - (disembowel) ausweiden
have stooped over the hatchway, and peered down upon him there; where,
stripped to his woollen drawers, the tattooed savage was crawling about
amid that dampness and slime, like a green spotted lizard at the bottom
dampness - Feuchtigkeit
lizard - Eidechse
of a well. And a well, or an ice-house, it somehow proved to him, poor
pagan; where, strange to say, for all the heat of his sweatings, he
caught a terrible chill which lapsed into a fever; and at last, after
chill - Mutlosigkeit, Frostgefh
lapsed - (laps) Runden
some days suffering, laid him in his hammock, close to the very sill
of the door of death. How he wasted and wasted away in those few
long-lingering days, till there seemed but little left of him but his
frame and tattooing. But as all else in him thinned, and his
cheek-bones grew sharper, his eyes, nevertheless, seemed growing fuller
and fuller; they became of a strange softness of lustre; and mildly but
softness - Weichheit
deeply looked out at you there from his sickness, a wondrous testimony
sickness - Krankheit belkeit
to that immortal health in him which could not die, or be weakened. And
like circles on the water, which, as they grow fainter, expand; so his
fainter - (faint) schwach, matt, Ohnmacht; (faint) (faint) schwach, mat
eyes seemed rounding and rounding, like the rings of Eternity. An awe
that cannot be named would steal over you as you sat by the side of
this waning savage, and saw as strange things in his face, as any
beheld who were bystanders when Zoroaster died. For whatever is truly
bystanders - (bystander) Zuschauer, Schaulustiger
Zoroaster - Zarathustra
wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. And
the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all
impresses - (impress) beeindrucken prgen
with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could
adequately tell. So that"let us say it again"no dying Chaldee or Greek
had higher and holier thoughts than those, whose mysterious shades you
holier - (holey) lchrig
saw creeping over the face of poor Queequeg, as he quietly lay in his
swaying hammock, and the rolling sea seemed gently rocking him to his
final rest, and the oceans invisible flood-tide lifted him higher and
higher towards his destined heaven.
Not a man of the crew but gave him up; and, as for Queequeg himself,
what he thought of his case was forcibly shown by a curious favour he
asked. He called one to him in the grey morning watch, when the day was
just breaking, and taking his hand, said that while in Nantucket he had
chanced to see certain little canoes of dark wood, like the rich
war-wood of his native isle; and upon inquiry, he had learned that all
whalemen who died in Nantucket, were laid in those same dark canoes,
laid in - eingekellert
and that the fancy of being so laid had much pleased him; for it was
not unlike the custom of his own race, who, after embalming a dead
embalming - Einbalsamierung ; (embalm) einbalsamieren
warrior, stretched him out in his canoe, and so left him to be floated
away to the starry archipelagoes; for not only do they believe that the
stars are isles, but that far beyond all visible horizons, their own
horizons - (horizon) Horizont
mild, uncontinented seas, interflow with the blue heavens; and so form
uncontinented - unkontinuierlich
the white breakers of the milky way. He added, that he shuddered at the
thought of being buried in his hammock, according to the usual
sea-custom, tossed like something vile to the death-devouring sharks.
No: he desired a canoe like those of Nantucket, all the more congenial
to him, being a whaleman, that like a whale-boat these coffin-canoes
were without a keel; though that involved but uncertain steering, and
much lee-way adown the dim ages.
adown - nach unten
Now, when this strange circumstance was made known aft, the carpenter
was at once commanded to do Queequegs bidding, whatever it might
include. There was some heathenish, coffin-coloured old lumber aboard,
which, upon a long previous voyage, had been cut from the aboriginal
groves of the Lackaday islands, and from these dark planks the coffin
was recommended to be made. No sooner was the carpenter apprised of the
order, than taking his rule, he forthwith with all the indifferent
promptitude of his character, proceeded into the forecastle and took
promptitude - Pnktlichkeit
Queequegs measure with great accuracy, regularly chalking Queequegs
chalking - (chalk) Kreide Magnesiapulver
person as he shifted the rule.
Ah! poor fellow! hell have to die now, ejaculated the Long Island
ejaculated - (ejaculate) ejakulieren Ejakulat
sailor.
Going to his vice-bench, the carpenter for convenience sake and general
reference, now transferringly measured on it the exact length the
transferringly - bertragbar
coffin was to be, and then made the transfer permanent by cutting two
notches at its extremities. This done, he marshalled the planks and his
extremities - (extremity) Extremitt, uerstes Ende, uerste, Extremste
tools, and to work.
When the last nail was driven, and the lid duly planed and fitted, he
lightly shouldered the coffin and went forward with it, inquiring
whether they were ready for it yet in that direction.
Overhearing the indignant but half-humorous cries with which the people
Overhearing - (overhear) zufllig mit anhren
on deck began to drive the coffin away, Queequeg, to every ones
consternation, commanded that the thing should be instantly brought to
him, nor was there any denying him; seeing that, of all mortals, some
dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will
tyrannical - tyrannisch
shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be
indulged.
indulged - (indulge) nachgeben, erliegen, frnen, htscheln, verwhnen
Leaning over in his hammock, Queequeg long regarded the coffin with an
attentive eye. He then called for his harpoon, had the wooden stock
attentive - aufmerksam
drawn from it, and then had the iron part placed in the coffin along
with one of the paddles of his boat. All by his own request, also,
biscuits were then ranged round the sides within: a flask of fresh
water was placed at the head, and a small bag of woody earth scraped up
woody - holzig
in the hold at the foot; and a piece of sail-cloth being rolled up for
a pillow, Queequeg now entreated to be lifted into his final bed, that
entreated - (entreat) ersuchen
he might make trial of its comforts, if any it had. He lay without
comforts - (comfort) Behaglichkeit, Bequemlichkeit, Komfort, Tros
moving a few minutes, then told one to go to his bag and bring out his
little god, Yojo. Then crossing his arms on his breast with Yojo
between, he called for the coffin lid (hatch he called it) to be placed
coffin lid - Sargdeckel
over him. The head part turned over with a leather hinge, and there lay
Queequeg in his coffin with little but his composed countenance in
view. Rarmai (it will do; it is easy), he murmured at last, and
signed to be replaced in his hammock.
But ere this was done, Pip, who had been slily hovering near by all
this while, drew nigh to him where he lay, and with soft sobbings, took
sobbings - (sobbing) Schluchzen
him by the hand; in the other, holding his tambourine.
Poor rover! will ye never have done with all this weary roving? where
rover - Wandernde
go ye now? But if the currents carry ye to those sweet Antilles where
Antilles - Antillen
the beaches are only beat with water-lilies, will ye do one little
errand for me? Seek out one Pip, whos now been missing long: I think
hes in those far Antilles. If ye find him, then comfort him; for he
must be very sad; for look! hes left his tambourine behind;"I found
it. Rig-a-dig, dig, dig! Now, Queequeg, die; and Ill beat ye your
dying march.
I have heard, murmured Starbuck, gazing down the scuttle, that in
violent fevers, men, all ignorance, have talked in ancient tongues; and
that when the mystery is probed, it turns out always that in their
probed - (probe) Untersuchung Sonde untersuchen
wholly forgotten childhood those ancient tongues had been really spoken
in their hearing by some lofty scholars. So, to my fond faith, poor
Pip, in this strange sweetness of his lunacy, brings heavenly vouchers
sweetness - Sigkeit Se
vouchers - (voucher) Gutschein
of all our heavenly homes. Where learned he that, but there?"Hark! he
speaks again: but more wildly now.
Form two and two! Lets make a General of him! Ho, wheres his
harpoon? Lay it across here."Rig-a-dig, dig, dig! huzza! Oh for a game
cock now to sit upon his head and crow! Queequeg dies game!"mind ye
that; Queequeg dies game!"take ye good heed of that; Queequeg dies
game! I say; game, game, game! but base little Pip, he died a coward;
died all ashiver;"out upon Pip! Hark ye; if ye find Pip, tell all the
Antilles hes a runaway; a coward, a coward, a coward! Tell them he
runaway - Ausreier, Entflohener, Entlaufener, davongelaufen
jumped from a whale-boat! Id never beat my tambourine over base Pip,
and hail him General, if he were once more dying here. No, no! shame
shame - Schamgefhl;Scham, Schande
upon all cowards"shame upon them! Let em go drown like Pip, that
cowards - (coward) Feigling,
jumped from a whale-boat. Shame! shame!
During all this, Queequeg lay with closed eyes, as if in a dream. Pip
was led away, and the sick man was replaced in his hammock.
But now that he had apparently made every preparation for death; now
that his coffin was proved a good fit, Queequeg suddenly rallied; soon
there seemed no need of the carpenters box: and thereupon, when some
thereupon - darauf
expressed their delighted surprise, he, in substance, said, that the
cause of his sudden convalescence was this;"at a critical moment, he
convalescence - Erholung, Genesung, Gesundung, Konvaleszenz
had just recalled a little duty ashore, which he was leaving undone;
and therefore had changed his mind about dying: he could not die yet,
he averred. They asked him, then, whether to live or die was a matter
of his own sovereign will and pleasure. He answered, certainly. In a
word, it was Queequegs conceit, that if a man made up his mind to
live, mere sickness could not kill him: nothing but a whale, or a gale,
or some violent, ungovernable, unintelligent destroyer of that sort.
ungovernable - zgellos, unbndig
destroyer - Zerstrer, Zerstrerin, Vernichter, Vernichterin
Now, there is this noteworthy difference between savage and civilized;
that while a sick, civilized man may be six months convalescing,
convalescing - (convalesce) genesen
generally speaking, a sick savage is almost half-well again in a day.
So, in good time my Queequeg gained strength; and at length after
sitting on the windlass for a few indolent days (but eating with a
vigorous appetite) he suddenly leaped to his feet, threw out his arms
and legs, gave himself a good stretching, yawned a little bit, and then
springing into the head of his hoisted boat, and poising a harpoon,
pronounced himself fit for a fight.
With a wild whimsiness, he now used his coffin for a sea-chest; and
whimsiness - Launenhaftigkeit
emptying into it his canvas bag of clothes, set them in order there.
Many spare hours he spent, in carving the lid with all manner of
grotesque figures and drawings; and it seemed that hereby he was
striving, in his rude way, to copy parts of the twisted tattooing on
his body. And this tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet
and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written
out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a
mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in
his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one
unfold - entfalten, ausbreiten, entfalten
live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore
destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon
moulder - zerfallen;Gieer
they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. And this thought
inscribed - (inscribe) beschriften
unsolved - ungelst, unaufgeklrt
it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his,
when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg"Oh,
devilish tantalization of the gods!
tantalization - Qulen
When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great
South Sea; were it not for other things, I could have greeted my dear
Pacific with uncounted thanks, for now the long supplication of my
supplication - Flehen, Bitte
youth was answered; that serene ocean rolled eastwards from me a
eastwards - (eastward) ostwrts
thousand leagues of blue.
There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently
awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath; like those
stirrings - (stirring) ergreifend, bewegend, aufwhlend
fabled undulations of the Ephesian sod over the buried Evangelist St.
Ephesian - Ephesisch
sod - Rasenstck; (seethe) kochen, sieden, schumen, sprudeln
John. And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide-rolling watery
prairies and Potters Fields of all four continents, the waves should
rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of
ebb - Ebbe ebben, abebben
mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all
somnambulisms - (somnambulism) Schlafwandeln, Somnambulismus, Somnambulie
that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing
like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by
slumberers - (slumberer) Slumbewohner
their restlessness.
restlessness - Ruhelosigkeit, Unruhe
To any meditative Magian rover, this serene Pacific, once beheld, must
ever after be the sea of his adoption. It rolls the midmost waters of
adoption - Adoption
midmost - innerst, mittelste
the world, the Indian ocean and Atlantic being but its arms. The same
waves wash the moles of the new-built Californian towns, but yesterday
Californian - kalifornisch Kalifornier, Kalifornierin
planted by the recentest race of men, and lave the faded but still
lave - waschen
gorgeous skirts of Asiatic lands, older than Abraham; while all between
float milky-ways of coral isles, and low-lying, endless, unknown
low lying - (low-lying) tiefliegend
Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans. Thus this mysterious, divine
Pacific zones the worlds whole bulk about; makes all coasts one bay to
it; seems the tide-beating heart of earth. Lifted by those eternal
swells, you needs must own the seductive god, bowing your head to Pan.
But few thoughts of Pan stirred Ahabs brain, as standing like an iron
statue at his accustomed place beside the mizen rigging, with one
nostril he unthinkingly snuffed the sugary musk from the Bashee isles
sugary - zuckerhaltig
(in whose sweet woods mild lovers must be walking), and with the other
consciously inhaled the salt breath of the new found sea; that sea in
consciously - bewusst, wissentlich
which the hated White Whale must even then be swimming. Launched at
length upon these almost final waters, and gliding towards the Japanese
cruising-ground, the old mans purpose intensified itself. His firm
lips met like the lips of a vice; the Delta of his foreheads veins
Delta - Delta
swelled like overladen brooks; in his very sleep, his ringing cry ran
through the vaulted hull, Stern all! the White Whale spouts thick
blood!
Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in
Availing - (avail) ausnutzen helfen, ntzen, Erfolg
these latitudes, and in preparation for the peculiarly active pursuits
shortly to be anticipated, Perth, the begrimed, blistered old
blistered - (blister) Blase kritisieren Blasen werfen
blacksmith, had not removed his portable forge to the hold again, after
concluding his contributory work for Ahabs leg, but still retained it
contributory - beisteuernde
on deck, fast lashed to ringbolts by the foremast; being now almost
incessantly invoked by the headsmen, and harpooneers, and bowsmen to do
bowsmen - Bogenschtzen
some little job for them; altering, or repairing, or new shaping their
various weapons and boat furniture. Often he would be surrounded by an
eager circle, all waiting to be served; holding boat-spades,
pike-heads, harpoons, and lances, and jealously watching his every
jealously - die Eifersucht
sooty movement, as he toiled. Nevertheless, this old mans was a
patient hammer wielded by a patient arm. No murmur, no impatience, no
murmur - Rauschen, Murmeln , Gemurmel, Raunen, Herzgerusch
petulance did come from him. Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over
still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil
chronically - chronische
were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating
of his heart. And so it was."most miserable!
most miserable - jmmerlichste
A peculiar walk in this old man, a certain slight but painful appearing
yawing in his gait, had at an early period of the voyage excited the
yawing - (yaw) gieren, vom Kurs abweichen
gait - Gang, Gangart (eines Pferdes)
curiosity of the mariners. And to the importunity of their persisted
importunity - Aufdringlichkeit, stndiges Bedrngen, Ungelegenhei
questionings he had finally given in; and so it came to pass that every
questionings - (questioning) Befragung
one now knew the shameful story of his wretched fate.
Belated, and not innocently, one bitter winters midnight, on the road
Belated - (belate) versptet
innocently - unschuldig, unschuldige
running between two country towns, the blacksmith half-stupidly felt
stupidly - dummerweise, blderweise
the deadly numbness stealing over him, and sought refuge in a leaning,
numbness - Benommenheit
dilapidated barn. The issue was, the loss of the extremities of both
feet. Out of this revelation, part by part, at last came out the four
uncatastrophied - unkatastrophiert
fifth act of the grief of his lifes drama.
He was an old man, who, at the age of nearly sixty, had postponedly
postponedly - aufgeschoben
encountered that thing in sorrows technicals called ruin. He had been
an artisan of famed excellence, and with plenty to do; owned a house
artisan - Handwerker, Handwerkerin
and garden; embraced a youthful, daughter-like, loving wife, and three
blithe, ruddy children; every Sunday went to a cheerful-looking church,
blithe - unbeschwert, heiter, froh
planted in a grove. But one night, under cover of darkness, and further
concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into
most cunning - listigste
disguisement - Verkleidung
his happy home, and robbed them all of everything. And darker yet to
tell, the blacksmith himself did ignorantly conduct this burglar into
his familys heart. It was the Bottle Conjuror! Upon the opening of
Conjuror - Beschwrer
that fatal cork, forth flew the fiend, and shrivelled up his home. Now,
for prudent, most wise, and economic reasons, the blacksmiths shop was
in the basement of his dwelling, but with a separate entrance to it; so
basement - Keller, Untergeschoss, Kellergeschoss, Grundgebirge
that always had the young and loving healthy wife listened with no
unhappy nervousness, but with vigorous pleasure, to the stout ringing
of her young-armed old husbands hammer; whose reverberations, muffled
reverberations - (reverberation) Zurckschlagen Hall, Nachhall, Widerhal
by passing through the floors and walls, came up to her, not unsweetly,
by passing - Umgehung
unsweetly - ungest
in her nursery; and so, to stout Labors iron lullaby, the blacksmiths
lullaby - Schlaflied, Wiegenlied
infants were rocked to slumber.
Oh, woe on woe! Oh, Death, why canst thou not sometimes be timely?
Hadst thou taken this old blacksmith to thyself ere his full ruin came
upon him, then had the young widow had a delicious grief, and her
orphans a truly venerable, legendary sire to dream of in their after
years; and all of them a care-killing competency. But Death plucked
competency - Befhigung
down some virtuous elder brother, on whose whistling daily toil solely
virtuous - zchtig, tugendhaft, tugendsam
hung the responsibilities of some other family, and left the worse than
useless old man standing, till the hideous rot of life should make him
easier to harvest.
Why tell the whole? The blows of the basement hammer every day grew
more and more between; and each blow every day grew fainter than the
last; the wife sat frozen at the window, with tearless eyes,
glitteringly gazing into the weeping faces of her children; the bellows
glitteringly - glitzernd
bellows - (bellow) brllen, rhren, grlen
fell; the forge choked up with cinders; the house was sold; the mother
cinders - (cinder) Asche Schlacke, Zunder, verkohlen, verschwele
dived down into the long church-yard grass; her children twice followed
her thither; and the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a
houseless - obdachlos
familyless - familienlos
vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to
crape - Krepp
unreverenced - nicht revidiert
flaxen curls!
curls - (curl) Locke
Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this; but Death
is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but
Untried - unversucht
the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the
Wild, the Watery, the Unshored; therefore, to the death-longing eyes of
such men, who still have left in them some interior compunctions
compunctions - (compunction) Gewissensbisse, Reue
against suicide, does the all-contributed and all-receptive ocean
suicide - Suizid , Freitod , Selbstmrder, Selbstmrderin, Suizidant
contributed - (contribute) beisteuern, beitragen
receptive - rezeptiv, empfangsbereit, aufnahmefhig, empfnglich
alluringly spread forth his whole plain of unimaginable, taking
alluringly - verlockend
terrors, and wonderful, new-life adventures; and from the hearts of
infinite Pacifics, the thousand mermaids sing to them"Come hither,
mermaids - (mermaid) Nixe, Wassernixe, Seejungfrau, Meerjungfrau
broken-hearted; here is another life without the guilt of intermediate
guilt - Schuld
death; here are wonders supernatural, without dying for them. Come
hither! bury thyself in a life which, to your now equally abhorred and
abhorring, landed world, is more oblivious than death. Come hither! put
abhorring - (abhor) verabscheuen
oblivious - selbstvergessen, unaufmerksam, nicht bewusst, unbedacht
up _thy_ gravestone, too, within the churchyard, and come hither, till
gravestone - Grabstein
we marry thee!
Hearkening to these voices, East and West, by early sunrise, and by
Hearkening - (hearken) horchen, hren, lauschen
fall of eve, the blacksmiths soul responded, Aye, I come! And so Perth
went a-whaling.
With matted beard, and swathed in a bristling shark-skin apron, about
swathed - (swath) Schneise, Schwade, Schwaden, Schwung , Landstric
bristling - (bristle) Borste
apron - Schrze Vorfeld Fusack
mid-day, Perth was standing between his forge and anvil, the latter
placed upon an iron-wood log, with one hand holding a pike-head in the
coals, and with the other at his forges lungs, when Captain Ahab came
along, carrying in his hand a small rusty-looking leathern bag. While
yet a little distance from the forge, moody Ahab paused; till at last,
Perth, withdrawing his iron from the fire, began hammering it upon the
hammering - hmmernd; (hammer) Hammer Schlagstck, Hahn, Schlaghebe
anvil"the red mass sending off the sparks in thick hovering flights,
some of which flew close to Ahab.
Are these thy Mother Careys chickens, Perth? they are always flying
in thy wake; birds of good omen, too, but not to all;"look here, they
burn; but thou"thou livst among them without a scorch.
scorch - verbrennen rasen
Because I am scorched all over, Captain Ahab, answered Perth, resting
for a moment on his hammer; I am past scorching; not easily canst
thou scorch a scar.
Well, well; no more. Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful
shrunk - (shrink) schrumpfen, abnehmen, drcken
woeful - bedauernswert
to me. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others
that is not mad. Thou shouldst go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou
go mad - berschnappen
not go mad? How canst thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens
yet hate thee, that thou canst not go mad?"What wert thou making
there?
Welding an old pike-head, sir; there were seams and dents in it.
seams - (seam) sumen, schrammen, zerschrammen, durchfurchen;Nutzschich
And canst thou make it all smooth again, blacksmith, after such hard
usage as it had?
I think so, sir.
And I suppose thou canst smoothe almost any seams and dents; never
smoothe - gltten
mind how hard the metal, blacksmith?
Aye, sir, I think I can; all seams and dents but one.
Look ye here, then, cried Ahab, passionately advancing, and leaning
passionately - leidenschaftlich
with both hands on Perths shoulders; look ye here"_here_"can ye
smoothe out a seam like this, blacksmith, sweeping one hand across his
ribbed brow; if thou couldst, blacksmith, glad enough would I lay my
head upon thy anvil, and feel thy heaviest hammer between my eyes.
Answer! Canst thou smoothe this seam?
Oh! that is the one, sir! Said I not all seams and dents but one?
Aye, blacksmith, it is the one; aye, man, it is unsmoothable; for
unsmoothable - nicht geglttet werden
though thou only seest it here in my flesh, it has worked down into
the bone of my skull"_that_ is all wrinkles! But, away with childs
play; no more gaffs and pikes to-day. Look ye here! jingling the
gaffs - (gaff) Landungshaken
leathern bag, as if it were full of gold coins. I, too, want a harpoon
made; one that a thousand yoke of fiends could not part, Perth;
something that will stick in a whale like his own fin-bone. Theres the
stuff, flinging the pouch upon the anvil. Look ye, blacksmith, these
are the gathered nail-stubbs of the steel shoes of racing horses.
Horse-shoe stubbs, sir? Why, Captain Ahab, thou hast here, then, the
best and stubbornest stuff we blacksmiths ever work.
stubbornest - (stubborn) stur, dickkpfig
I know it, old man; these stubbs will weld together like glue from the
weld together - zusammen schweien, zusammenschweien [alt]
glue - Klebstoff, Leim, Kleber, leimen, kleben
melted bones of murderers. Quick! forge me the harpoon. And forge me
first, twelve rods for its shank; then wind, and twist, and hammer
shank - Unterschenkel Beinstck, Hachse
these twelve together like the yarns and strands of a tow-line. Quick!
Ill blow the fire.
When at last the twelve rods were made, Ahab tried them, one by one, by
spiralling them, with his own hand, round a long, heavy iron bolt. A
flaw! rejecting the last one. Work that over again, Perth.
This done, Perth was about to begin welding the twelve into one, when
welding - Schweien ; (weld) Schweien
Ahab stayed his hand, and said he would weld his own iron. As, then,
weld - schweien
with regular, gasping hems, he hammered on the anvil, Perth passing to
hems - (hem) sumen, einfassen, einsumen, einschlieen [Mil.];Saum
him the glowing rods, one after the other, and the hard pressed forge
shooting up its intense straight flame, the Parsee passed silently, and
bowing over his head towards the fire, seemed invoking some curse or
some blessing on the toil. But, as Ahab looked up, he slid aside.
blessing - Segen, Segnung, Segnen, Segnen ; (bless) Segen, Segnung, Segne
Whats that bunch of lucifers dodging about there for? muttered
lucifers - (Lucifer) Luzifer
Stubb, looking on from the forecastle. That Parsee smells fire like a
fusee; and smells of it himself, like a hot muskets powder-pan.
fusee - Warnungssignal
At last the shank, in one complete rod, received its final heat; and as
Perth, to temper it, plunged it all hissing into the cask of water near
temper - Gereiztheit, Laune, Temperament, Anlassen, Ausheize
by, the scalding steam shot up into Ahabs bent face.
Wouldst thou brand me, Perth? wincing for a moment with the pain;
wincing - (wince) zurckschrecken, zusammenzucke
have I been but forging my own branding-iron, then?
Pray God, not that; yet I fear something, Captain Ahab. Is not this
harpoon for the White Whale?
For the white fiend! But now for the barbs; thou must make them
thyself, man. Here are my razors"the best of steel; here, and make the
razors - (razor) Rasiermesser, Rasierapparat, Rasierer
barbs sharp as the needle-sleet of the Icy Sea.
For a moment, the old blacksmith eyed the razors as though he would
fain not use them.
Take them, man, I have no need for them; for I now neither shave, sup,
sup - Was ist los?;schlrfen
nor pray till"but here"to work!
Fashioned at last into an arrowy shape, and welded by Perth to the
arrowy - pfeilartig
shank, the steel soon pointed the end of the iron; and as the
blacksmith was about giving the barbs their final heat, prior to
tempering them, he cried to Ahab to place the water-cask near.
tempering - temperierend, Anlassen, migend; (temper) Gereiztheit, Laun
No, no"no water for that; I want it of the true death-temper. Ahoy,
there! Tashtego, Queequeg, Daggoo! What say ye, pagans! Will ye give me
as much blood as will cover this barb? holding it high up. A cluster
of dark nods replied, Yes. Three punctures were made in the heathen
punctures - (puncture) Einstich, Reifenpanne , durchstechen, punktieren
flesh, and the White Whales barbs were then tempered.
Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!
te - (to) nach, zu, auf, z. zu, zum, zur, an
deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the
scorchingly - brennend
baptismal blood.
baptismal - Taufen
Now, mustering the spare poles from below, and selecting one of
hickory, with the bark still investing it, Ahab fitted the end to the
hickory - Hickorynussbaum
socket of the iron. A coil of new tow-line was then unwound, and some
unwound - (unwind) abwickeln, loswickeln, abspulen, abdocken, entwirre
fathoms of it taken to the windlass, and stretched to a great tension.
Pressing his foot upon it, till the rope hummed like a harp-string,
harp - Harfe auf (etwas) herumreiten
then eagerly bending over it, and seeing no strandings, Ahab exclaimed,
strandings - Gestrandete
Good! and now for the seizings.
At one extremity the rope was unstranded, and the separate spread yarns
were all braided and woven round the socket of the harpoon; the pole
was then driven hard up into the socket; from the lower end the rope
was traced half-way along the poles length, and firmly secured so,
with intertwistings of twine. This done, pole, iron, and rope"like the
intertwistings - Verflechtungen
Three Fates"remained inseparable, and Ahab moodily stalked away with
the weapon; the sound of his ivory leg, and the sound of the hickory
pole, both hollowly ringing along every plank. But ere he entered his
hollowly - hohl
cabin, light, unnatural, half-bantering, yet most piteous sound was
heard. Oh, Pip! thy wretched laugh, thy idle but unresting eye; all thy
strange mummeries not unmeaningly blended with the black tragedy of the
mummeries - (mummery) Mummerei
unmeaningly - nichtssagend
melancholy ship, and mocked it!
Penetrating further and further into the heart of the Japanese cruising
ground, the Pequod was soon all astir in the fishery. Often, in mild,
pleasant weather, for twelve, fifteen, eighteen, and twenty hours on
the stretch, they were engaged in the boats, steadily pulling, or
sailing, or paddling after the whales, or for an interlude of sixty or
paddling - paddelnd; (paddle) paddelnd
seventy minutes calmly awaiting their uprising; though with but small
success for their pains.
At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow
heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so
birch - Birke
sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone
cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy
purr - schnurren Schnurren
quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the
oceans skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and
would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a
conceals - (conceal) verbergen, verheimlichen, verschleiern, verschweigen
remorseless fang.
fang - Fang, Fangzahn
These are the times, when in his whale-boat the rover softly feels a
certain filial, confident, land-like feeling towards the sea; that he
filial - shnlich
regards it as so much flowery earth; and the distant ship revealing
only the tops of her masts, seems struggling forward, not through high
rolling waves, but through the tall grass of a rolling prairie: as when
the western emigrants horses only show their erected ears, while their
hidden bodies widely wade through the amazing verdure.
The long-drawn virgin vales; the mild blue hill-sides; as over these
vales - (vale) Tal
there steals the hush, the hum; you almost swear that play-wearied
children lie sleeping in these solitudes, in some glad May-time, when
the flowers of the woods are plucked. And all this mixes with your most
mystic mood; so that fact and fancy, half-way meeting, interpenetrate,
interpenetrate - vllig durchdringen
and form one seamless whole.
seamless - fugenlos, nahtfrei, nahtlos, makellos
Nor did such soothing scenes, however temporary, fail of at least as
temporary an effect on Ahab. But if these secret golden keys did seem
to open in him his own secret golden treasuries, yet did his breath
treasuries - (Treasury) Schatzkammer
upon them prove but tarnishing.
tarnishing - (tarnish) Anlaufen, Mattieren, Beschlagen, matt werden
Oh, grassy glades! oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in
landscapes - (landscape) Landschaft Querformat
ye,"though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life,"in ye,
parched - (parch) ausdrren rsten
earthy - erdig
men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some
clover - Klee
few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them.
dew - tauen;Tau
Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling
threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a
storm for every calm. There is no steady unretracing progress in this
unretracing - nicht zurckverfolgen
life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one
gradations - (gradation) Abstufung
pause:"through infancys unconscious spell, boyhoods thoughtless
thoughtless - gedankenlos rcksichtslos
faith, adolescence doubt (the common doom), then scepticism, then
disbelief, resting at last in manhoods pondering repose of If. But
disbelief - Unglaube
once gone through, we trace the round again; and are infants, boys, and
men, and Ifs eternally. Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor
no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will
ether - ther
weariest - (weary) mde
never weary? Where is the foundlings father hidden? Our souls are like
those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of
unwedded - unvermhlt
our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.
paternity - Vaterschaft
And that same day, too, gazing far down from his boats side into that
same golden sea, Starbuck lowly murmured:"
Loveliness unfathomable, as ever lover saw in his young brides
lover - Geliebte, Liebhaber, Liebhaberin
eye!"Tell me not of thy teeth-tiered sharks, and thy kidnapping
tiered - (tier) Rang, Reihe, Etage
cannibal ways. Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep
oust - verdrngen, vertreiben, schassen
down and do believe.
And Stubb, fish-like, with sparkling scales, leaped up in that same
golden light:"
I am Stubb, and Stubb has his history; but here Stubb takes oaths that
he has always been jolly!
And jolly enough were the sights and the sounds that came bearing down
before the wind, some few weeks after Ahabs harpoon had been welded.
It was a Nantucket ship, the Bachelor, which had just wedged in her
last cask of oil, and bolted down her bursting hatches; and now, in
glad holiday apparel, was joyously, though somewhat vain-gloriously,
apparel - Kleidung
gloriously - herrlich, glorreiche
sailing round among the widely-separated ships on the ground, previous
sailing round - umschiffend
to pointing her prow for home.
The three men at her mast-head wore long streamers of narrow red
streamers - (streamer) Luftschlange, Magnetbandstation
bunting at their hats; from the stern, a whale-boat was suspended,
bunting - Wimpel, stoend, Fahnentuch; (bunt) Wimpel, stoend, Fahnentuch
bottom down; and hanging captive from the bowsprit was seen the long
lower jaw of the last whale they had slain. Signals, ensigns, and jacks
of all colours were flying from her rigging, on every side. Sideways
lashed in each of her three basketed tops were two barrels of sperm;
basketed - gekorbelt
above which, in her top-mast cross-trees, you saw slender breakers of
the same precious fluid; and nailed to her main truck was a brazen
brazen - messingen, aus Messing, Messing-, metallisch, metallen
lamp.
As was afterwards learned, the Bachelor had met with the most
surprising success; all the more wonderful, for that while cruising in
the same seas numerous other vessels had gone entire months without
securing a single fish. Not only had barrels of beef and bread been
given away to make room for the far more valuable sperm, but additional
supplemental casks had been bartered for, from the ships she had met;
bartered - (barter) Tauschhandel, Tauschgeschft, Tauschware, tauschen
and these were stowed along the deck, and in the captains and
officers state-rooms. Even the cabin table itself had been knocked
into kindling-wood; and the cabin mess dined off the broad head of an
kindling - Anmachholz, Anzndholz, Kleinholz ; (kindle) Anmachhol
oil-butt, lashed down to the floor for a centrepiece. In the
centrepiece - Herzstck, Kernstck, Kern
forecastle, the sailors had actually caulked and pitched their chests,
caulked - (caulk) kalfatern
and filled them; it was humorously added, that the cook had clapped a
head on his largest boiler, and filled it; that the steward had plugged
plugged - (plug) Stecker Stpsel, Stopfen, Pfropfen, Pfropf
his spare coffee-pot and filled it; that the harpooneers had headed the
sockets of their irons and filled them; that indeed everything was
filled with sperm, except the captains pantaloons pockets, and those
he reserved to thrust his hands into, in self-complacent testimony of
complacent - selbstgefllig, selbstzufrieden
his entire satisfaction.
As this glad ship of good luck bore down upon the moody Pequod, the
barbarian sound of enormous drums came from her forecastle; and drawing
barbarian - barbarisch Barbar, Barbarin
still nearer, a crowd of her men were seen standing round her huge
try-pots, which, covered with the parchment-like _poke_ or stomach skin
of the black fish, gave forth a loud roar to every stroke of the
clenched hands of the crew. On the quarter-deck, the mates and
harpooneers were dancing with the olive-hued girls who had eloped with
hued - (hue) Farbe, Tnung, Geschrei, Farbton
eloped - (elope) durchbrennen ausreien, weglaufen
them from the Polynesian Isles; while suspended in an ornamented boat,
firmly secured aloft between the foremast and mainmast, three Long
Island negroes, with glittering fiddle-bows of whale ivory, were
negroes - (Negro) schwarz Neger
presiding over the hilarious jig. Meanwhile, others of the ships
company were tumultuously busy at the masonry of the try-works, from
which the huge pots had been removed. You would have almost thought
they were pulling down the cursed Bastille, such wild cries they
pulling down - herunterreiend
raised, as the now useless brick and mortar were being hurled into the
sea.
Lord and master over all this scene, the captain stood erect on the
ships elevated quarter-deck, so that the whole rejoicing drama was
full before him, and seemed merely contrived for his own individual
diversion.
And Ahab, he too was standing on his quarter-deck, shaggy and black,
with a stubborn gloom; and as the two ships crossed each others
wakes"one all jubilations for things passed, the other all forebodings
jubilations - (jubilation) Jubel
forebodings - (foreboding) Ahnung, Vorahnung, bange Ahnung
as to things to come"their two captains in themselves impersonated the
impersonated - (impersonate) sich ausgeben als, nachahmen, verkrpern
whole striking contrast of the scene.
Come aboard, come aboard! cried the gay Bachelors commander, lifting
a glass and a bottle in the air.
Hast seen the White Whale? gritted Ahab in reply.
No; only heard of him; but dont believe in him at all, said the
other good-humoredly. Come aboard!
Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on. Hast lost any men?
Not enough to speak of"two islanders, thats all;"but come aboard, old
hearty, come along. Ill soon take that black from your brow. Come
along, will ye (merrys the play); a full ship and homeward-bound.
How wondrous familiar is a fool! muttered Ahab; then aloud, Thou art
aloud - laut,
a full ship and homeward bound, thou sayst; well, then, call me an
sayst - sagt
empty ship, and outward-bound. So go thy ways, and I will mine. Forward
there! Set all sail, and keep her to the wind!
And thus, while the one ship went cheerily before the breeze, the other
stubbornly fought against it; and so the two vessels parted; the crew
of the Pequod looking with grave, lingering glances towards the
receding Bachelor; but the Bachelors men never heeding their gaze for
receding - (recede) zurcktreten
the lively revelry they were in. And as Ahab, leaning over the
taffrail, eyed the homeward-bound craft, he took from his pocket a
small vial of sand, and then looking from the ship to the vial, seemed
thereby bringing two remote associations together, for that vial was
filled with Nantucket soundings.
Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortunes favourites
sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the
rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out. So seemed
it with the Pequod. For next day after encountering the gay Bachelor,
whales were seen and four were slain; and one of them by Ahab.
It was far down the afternoon; and when all the spearings of the
spearings - Spiee
crimson fight were done: and floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky,
sun and whale both stilly died together; then, such a sweetness and
stilly - ruhig
such plaintiveness, such inwreathing orisons curled up in that rosy
plaintiveness - Klglichkeit
inwreathing - (inwreathe) einkrnzen
orisons - (orison) Gebet
air, that it almost seemed as if far over from the deep green convent
convent - Kloster
valleys of the Manilla isles, the Spanish land-breeze, wantonly turned
wantonly - mutwillig
sailor, had gone to sea, freighted with these vesper hymns.
hymns - (hymn) Hymne (''now rare in this sense'') Hymnus, Kirchenlie
Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned
sterned - (stern) ernst, Heck
off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the
wanings - (waning) (wane) abnehmen, abflauen, schwinden
now tranquil boat. For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm
whales dying"the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring"that
sunwards - (sunward) sonnenwrts
strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab
placid - ruhig, friedlich, sanft
conveyed a wondrousness unknown before.
wondrousness - Wundersamkeit
He turns and turns him to it,"how slowly, but how steadfastly, his
homage-rendering and invoking brow, with his last dying motions. He too
worships fire; most faithful, broad, baronial vassal of the sun!"Oh
most faithful - treueste
vassal - Vasall, Lehnsmann, Gefolgsmann, Gefolgsleute
that these too-favouring eyes should see these too-favouring sights.
Look! here, far water-locked; beyond all hum of human weal or woe; in
these most candid and impartial seas; where to traditions no rocks
candid - unvoreingenommen, vorurteilsfrei, unparteiisch, freimti
furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still
rolled on speechless and unspoken to, as stars that shine upon the
Nigers unknown source; here, too, life dies sunwards full of faith;
but see! no sooner dead, than death whirls round the corpse, and it
whirls - (whirl) wirbeln, lschnell, Wirbeln, Wirbel, Trube
heads some other way.
Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded
thy separate throne somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas;
unverdured - unbertroffen
thou art an infidel, thou queen, and too truly speakest to me in the
speakest - (speak) sprich!, ich/er/sie sprach, ich/er/sie sprche
wide-slaughtering Typhoon, and the hushed burial of its after calm. Nor
slaughtering - (slaughter) Schlachtung, rituelles Schlachten, Schchte
has this thy whale sunwards turned his dying head, and then gone round
again, without a lesson to me.
Oh, trebly hooped and welded hip of power! Oh, high aspiring,
trebly - hoch, dreifach
hooped - (hoop) Reifen
aspiring - (aspire) streben, hoffen
rainbowed jet!"that one strivest, this one jettest all in vain! In
rainbowed - mit Regenbogen
strivest - am strebsamsten
jettest - (jet) Dsenflugzeug, Strahl, Dse;ausstoen
vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening
intercedings - Frbitten
sun, that only calls forth life, but gives it not again. Yet dost thou,
darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith. All thy
unnamable imminglings float beneath me here; I am buoyed by breaths of
unnamable - unbenennbar
imminglings - Immigranten
once living things, exhaled as air, but water now.
Then hail, for ever hail, O sea, in whose eternal tossings the wild
fowl finds his only rest. Born of earth, yet suckled by the sea; though
suckled - (suckle) stillen sugen
hill and valley mothered me, ye billows are my foster-brothers!
foster - aufziehen, pflegen
The four whales slain that evening had died wide apart; one, far to
windward; one, less distant, to leeward; one ahead; one astern. These
last three were brought alongside ere nightfall; but the windward one
nightfall - Einbruch der Nacht, Einbruch der Dunkelheit, Zwielicht
could not be reached till morning; and the boat that had killed it lay
by its side all night; and that boat was Ahabs.
The waif-pole was thrust upright into the dead whales spout-hole; and
the lantern hanging from its top, cast a troubled flickering glare upon
flickering - (flicker) flimmern, flattern, flackern
the black, glossy back, and far out upon the midnight waves, which
gently chafed the whales broad flank, like soft surf upon a beach.
chafed - (chafe) Reibungswrme Schrfwunde, Verschlei, Abnutzung, rge
Ahab and all his boats crew seemed asleep but the Parsee; who
crouching in the bow, sat watching the sharks, that spectrally played
spectrally - gespenstisch, geisterhafte
round the whale, and tapped the light cedar planks with their tails. A
sound like the moaning in squadrons over Asphaltites of unforgiven
moaning - (moan) Sthnen, chzen, klagen, beklagen, wehklagen
squadrons - (squadron) Schwadron Geschwader Staffel
Asphaltites - (asphaltite) Asphaltite
ghosts of Gomorrah, ran shuddering through the air.
Started from his slumbers, Ahab, face to face, saw the Parsee; and
hooped round by the gloom of the night they seemed the last men in a
flooded world. I have dreamed it again, said he.
Of the hearses? Have I not said, old man, that neither hearse nor
hearses - (hears) vernimmt, hrt
coffin can be thine?
And who are hearsed that die on the sea?
But I said, old man, that ere thou couldst die on this voyage, two
couldst - knnte
hearses must verily be seen by thee on the sea; the first not made by
mortal hands; and the visible wood of the last one must be grown in
America.
Aye, aye! a strange sight that, Parsee:"a hearse and its plumes
plumes - (plume) Schadstofffahne, Abwasserfahne
floating over the ocean with the waves for the pall-bearers. Ha! Such a
pall - bersttigen, schal werden, langweilen;Sargtuch, Bahrtuch
sight we shall not soon see.
Believe it or not, thou canst not die till it be seen, old man.
And what was that saying about thyself?
Though it come to the last, I shall still go before thee thy pilot.
And when thou art so gone before"if that ever befall"then ere I can
befall - befallen, zustoen, hereinbrechen, widerfahren
follow, thou must still appear to me, to pilot me still?"Was it not so?
Well, then, did I believe all ye say, oh my pilot! I have here two
pledges that I shall yet slay Moby Dick and survive it.
pledges - (pledge) zusichern, versprechen, geloben, zusagen, verpfnde
Take another pledge, old man, said the Parsee, as his eyes lighted up
like fire-flies in the gloom"Hemp only can kill thee.
The gallows, ye mean."I am immortal then, on land and on sea, cried
Ahab, with a laugh of derision;"Immortal on land and on sea!
derision - Hohn, Spott, Verhhnung, Verspottung
Both were silent again, as one man. The grey dawn came on, and the
slumbering crew arose from the boats bottom, and ere noon the dead
arose from - entsprang
whale was brought to the ship.
The season for the Line at length drew near; and every day when Ahab,
coming from his cabin, cast his eyes aloft, the vigilant helmsman would
ostentatiously handle his spokes, and the eager mariners quickly run to
the braces, and would stand there with all their eyes centrally fixed
on the nailed doubloon; impatient for the order to point the ships
prow for the equator. In good time the order came. It was hard upon
high noon; and Ahab, seated in the bows of his high-hoisted boat, was
about taking his wonted daily observation of the sun to determine his
latitude.
Now, in that Japanese sea, the days in summer are as freshets of
effulgences. That unblinkingly vivid Japanese sun seems the blazing
unblinkingly - ohne Scheuklappen
focus of the glassy oceans immeasurable burning-glass. The sky looks
immeasurable - nicht messbar, unmessbar,
lacquered; clouds there are none; the horizon floats; and this
nakedness of unrelieved radiance is as the insufferable splendors of
splendors - (splendor) Pracht
Gods throne. Well that Ahabs quadrant was furnished with coloured
glasses, through which to take sight of that solar fire. So, swinging
his seated form to the roll of the ship, and with his
astrological-looking instrument placed to his eye, he remained in that
astrological - astrologisch
posture for some moments to catch the precise instant when the sun
should gain its precise meridian. Meantime while his whole attention
was absorbed, the Parsee was kneeling beneath him on the ships deck,
and with face thrown up like Ahabs, was eyeing the same sun with him;
only the lids of his eyes half hooded their orbs, and his wild face was
subdued to an earthly passionlessness. At length the desired
passionlessness - Leidenschaftslosigkeit
observation was taken; and with his pencil upon his ivory leg, Ahab
soon calculated what his latitude must be at that precise instant. Then
falling into a moments revery, he again looked up towards the sun and
revery - Erholung
murmured to himself: Thou sea-mark! thou high and mighty Pilot! thou
tellest me truly where I _am_"but canst thou cast the least hint where
I _shall_ be? Or canst thou tell where some other thing besides me is
this moment living? Where is Moby Dick? This instant thou must be
eyeing him. These eyes of mine look into the very eye that is even now
beholding him; aye, and into the eye that is even now equally beholding
the objects on the unknown, thither side of thee, thou sun!
Then gazing at his quadrant, and handling, one after the other, its
numerous cabalistical contrivances, he pondered again, and muttered:
cabalistical - kabalistisch
Foolish toy! babies plaything of haughty Admirals, and Commodores,
plaything - Spielzeug
and Captains; the world brags of thee, of thy cunning and might; but
brags - (brag) angeben, prahlen
what after all canst thou do, but tell the poor, pitiful point, where
thou thyself happenest to be on this wide planet, and the hand that
happenest - geschehen
holds thee: no! not one jot more! Thou canst not tell where one drop of
water or one grain of sand will be to-morrow noon; and yet with thy
impotence thou insultest the sun! Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy;
impotence - Machtlosigkeit Impotenz, Zeugungsunfhigkeit
insultest - am beleidigendsten
and cursed be all the things that cast mans eyes aloft to that heaven,
whose live vividness but scorches him, as these old eyes are even now
vividness - Lebendigkeit
scorches - (scorch) verbrennen rasen
scorched with thy light, O sun! Level by nature to this earths horizon
are the glances of mans eyes; not shot from the crown of his head, as
if God had meant him to gaze on his firmament. Curse thee, thou
quadrant! dashing it to the deck, no longer will I guide my earthly
way by thee; the level ships compass, and the level dead-reckoning, by
log and by line; _these_ shall conduct me, and show me my place on the
sea. Aye, lighting from the boat to the deck, thus I trample on thee,
trample on - (auf Gefhlen) herumtrampeln
thou paltry thing that feebly pointest on high; thus I split and
feebly - schwach
pointest - am sinnvollsten
destroy thee!
As the frantic old man thus spoke and thus trampled with his live and
trampled - (trample) trampeln, zertrampeln, herumtrampel
dead feet, a sneering triumph that seemed meant for Ahab, and a
sneering - hhnisch, grinsend, spttelnd; (sneer) hhnisch, grinsen
fatalistic despair that seemed meant for himself"these passed over the
fatalistic - fatalistisch schicksalsergeben
mute, motionless Parsees face. Unobserved he rose and glided away;
while, awestruck by the aspect of their commander, the seamen clustered
awestruck - ehrfrchtig
clustered - (cluster) Anhufung, Bschel, Gruppe, Haufen
together on the forecastle, till Ahab, troubledly pacing the deck,
troubledly - beunruhigt
shouted out"To the braces! Up helm!"square in!
In an instant the yards swung round; and as the ship half-wheeled upon
her heel, her three firm-seated graceful masts erectly poised upon her
erectly - aufgerichtet
long, ribbed hull, seemed as the three Horatii pirouetting on one
pirouetting - (pirouette) Pirouette
sufficient steed.
Standing between the knight-heads, Starbuck watched the Pequods
tumultuous way, and Ahabs also, as he went lurching along the deck.
lurching - (lurch) torkeln, taumeln
I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full
of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down,
down, to dumbest dust. Old man of oceans! of all this fiery life of
dumbest - (dumb) stumm, sprachlos, bld, doof
thine, what will at length remain but one little heap of ashes!
Aye, cried Stubb, but sea-coal ashes"mind ye that, Mr.
Starbuck"sea-coal, not your common charcoal. Well, well; I heard Ahab
charcoal - Holzkohle
mutter, Here some one thrusts these cards into these old hands of
mine; swears that I must play them, and no others. And damn me, Ahab,
but thou actest right; live in the game, and die in it!
Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal
crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most
crouches - (crouch) sich ducken (vor), kriechen;kauern, hocke
effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows
tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands. So, too, it is, that in
these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of
all storms, the Typhoon. It will sometimes burst from out that
cloudless sky, like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town.
cloudless - wolkenlos
dazed - (daze) Benommenheit betuben
Towards evening of that day, the Pequod was torn of her canvas, and
bare-poled was left to fight a Typhoon which had struck her directly
ahead. When darkness came on, sky and sea roared and split with the
thunder, and blazed with the lightning, that showed the disabled masts
blazed - (blaze) Lohe, Brand, Grobrand, brenne, Glut
disabled - (disable) auerstand setzen, auerstande setze
fluttering here and there with the rags which the first fury of the
fluttering - (flutter) flattern wedeln
tempest had left for its after sport.
Holding by a shroud, Starbuck was standing on the quarter-deck; at
every flash of the lightning glancing aloft, to see what additional
disaster might have befallen the intricate hamper there; while Stubb
and Flask were directing the men in the higher hoisting and firmer
firmer - fester, krftiger; (firm) fester, krftiger
lashing of the boats. But all their pains seemed naught. Though lifted
to the very top of the cranes, the windward quarter boat (Ahabs) did
not escape. A great rolling sea, dashing high up against the reeling
ships high teetering side, stove in the boats bottom at the stern,
teetering - (teeter) schwanken, wankeln, sich winden, taumeln
and left it again, all dripping through like a sieve.
sieve - Sieb sieben, durchsieben
Bad work, bad work! Mr. Starbuck, said Stubb, regarding the wreck,
but the sea will have its way. Stubb, for one, cant fight it. You
see, Mr. Starbuck, a wave has such a great long start before it leaps,
all round the world it runs, and then comes the spring! But as for me,
all the start I have to meet it, is just across the deck here. But
never mind; its all in fun: so the old song says;"(_sings_.)
Oh! jolly is the gale, And a joker is the whale, A flourishin his
tail," Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the
sporty - sportlich
gamy - mutig
jesty - scherzhaft
joky - scherzhaft
poky - winzig, eng, lahm, trge
Ocean, oh!
The scud all a flyin, Thats his flip only foamin; When he stirs in
the spicin," Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad,
is the Ocean, oh!
Thunder splits the ships, But he only smacks his lips, A tastin of
splits - (split) gespalten Riss, Spalt, Spaltung, Spagat
smacks - (smack) riechen nach, schmecken nach;Geschmack, Knal
this flip," Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad,
is the Ocean, oh!
Avast Stubb, cried Starbuck, let the Typhoon sing, and strike his
harp here in our rigging; but if thou art a brave man thou wilt hold
thy peace.
But I am not a brave man; never said I was a brave man; I am a coward;
and I sing to keep up my spirits. And I tell you what it is, Mr.
Starbuck, theres no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my
throat. And when thats done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a
wind-up.
Madman! look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
What! how can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never
mind how foolish?
Here! cried Starbuck, seizing Stubb by the shoulder, and pointing his
hand towards the weather bow, markest thou not that the gale comes
from the eastward, the very course Ahab is to run for Moby Dick? the
very course he swung to this day noon? now mark his boat there; where
is that stove? In the stern-sheets, man; where he is wont to stand"his
stand-point is stove, man! Now jump overboard, and sing away, if thou
must!
I dont half understand ye: whats in the wind?
Yes, yes, round the Cape of Good Hope is the shortest way to
Nantucket, soliloquized Starbuck suddenly, heedless of Stubbs
question. The gale that now hammers at us to stave us, we can turn it
into a fair wind that will drive us towards home. Yonder, to windward,
all is blackness of doom; but to leeward, homeward"I see it lightens up
lightens - (lighten) erleuchten, erhellen
there; but not with the lightning.
At that moment in one of the intervals of profound darkness, following
the flashes, a voice was heard at his side; and almost at the same
instant a volley of thunder peals rolled overhead.
volley - Salve Volley
peals - (peal) luten;Gelut
Whos there?
Old Thunder! said Ahab, groping his way along the bulwarks to his
pivot-hole; but suddenly finding his path made plain to him by elbowed
lances of fire.
Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore is intended to carry off
lightning rod - Blitzableiter
the perilous fluid into the soil; so the kindred rod which at sea some
ships carry to each mast, is intended to conduct it into the water. But
as this conductor must descend to considerable depth, that its end may
conductor - Dirigent, Dirigentin, Schaffner, Leiter
avoid all contact with the hull; and as moreover, if kept constantly
towing there, it would be liable to many mishaps, besides interfering
mishaps - (mishap) Unfall, Malheur, Unglck, Panne
interfering - (interfere) eingreifen, einmischen
not a little with some of the rigging, and more or less impeding the
impeding - (imped) vereitelt
vessels way in the water; because of all this, the lower parts of a
ships lightning-rods are not always overboard; but are generally made
in long slender links, so as to be the more readily hauled up into the
chains outside, or thrown down into the sea, as occasion may require.
thrown down - hingeworfen
The rods! the rods! cried Starbuck to the crew, suddenly admonished
to vigilance by the vivid lightning that had just been darting
flambeaux, to light Ahab to his post. Are they overboard? drop them
flambeaux - Leuchter
over, fore and aft. Quick!
Avast! cried Ahab; lets have fair play here, though we be the
weaker side. Yet Ill contribute to raise rods on the Himmalehs and
Andes, that all the world may be secured; but out on privileges! Let
them be, sir.
Look aloft! cried Starbuck. The corpusants! the corpusants!
All the yard-arms were tipped with a pallid fire; and touched at each
tri-pointed lightning-rod-end with three tapering white flames, each of
the three tall masts was silently burning in that sulphurous air, like
sulphurous - schwefelig
three gigantic wax tapers before an altar.
Blast the boat! let it go! cried Stubb at this instant, as a swashing
sea heaved up under his own little craft, so that its gunwale violently
jammed his hand, as he was passing a lashing. Blast it!"but slipping
backward on the deck, his uplifted eyes caught the flames; and
immediately shifting his tone he cried"The corpusants have mercy on us
all!
To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of
the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses
from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething
teeter - schwanken, wankeln, sich winden, taumeln
sea; but in all my voyagings, seldom have I heard a common oath when
Gods burning finger has been laid on the ship; when His Mene, Mene,
Tekel Upharsin has been woven into the shrouds and the cordage.
While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the
pallidness - Blsse
enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all
their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a far away
gleaming - durchschimmernd, schimmernd, glnzend; (gleam) durchschimmern
phosphorescence - Nachleuchten, Phosphoreszenz
constellation of stars. Relieved against the ghostly light, the
gigantic jet negro, Daggoo, loomed up to thrice his real stature, and
seemed the black cloud from which the thunder had come. The parted
mouth of Tashtego revealed his shark-white teeth, which strangely
gleamed as if they too had been tipped by corpusants; while lit up by
the preternatural light, Queequegs tattooing burned like Satanic blue
Satanic - satanisch
flames on his body.
The tableau all waned at last with the pallidness aloft; and once more
tableau - lebendes Bild, Bild
the Pequod and every soul on her decks were wrapped in a pall. A moment
or two passed, when Starbuck, going forward, pushed against some one.
It was Stubb. What thinkest thou now, man; I heard thy cry; it was not
thinkest - (think) ich/er/sie dachte, denken, ich/er/sie dchte
the same in the song.
No, no, it wasnt; I said the corpusants have mercy on us all; and I
hope they will, still. But do they only have mercy on long faces?"have
they no bowels for a laugh? And look ye, Mr. Starbuck"but its too dark
to look. Hear me, then: I take that mast-head flame we saw for a sign
of good luck; for those masts are rooted in a hold that is going to be
chock a block with sperm-oil, dye see; and so, all that sperm will
chock - festkeilen
work up into the masts, like sap in a tree. Yes, our three masts will
yet be as three spermaceti candles"thats the good promise we saw.
At that moment Starbuck caught sight of Stubbs face slowly beginning
to glimmer into sight. Glancing upwards, he cried: See! see! and once
more the high tapering flames were beheld with what seemed redoubled
supernaturalness in their pallor.
supernaturalness - bernatrlichkeit
The corpusants have mercy on us all, cried Stubb, again.
At the base of the mainmast, full beneath the doubloon and the flame,
the Parsee was kneeling in Ahabs front, but with his head bowed away
from him; while near by, from the arched and overhanging rigging, where
they had just been engaged securing a spar, a number of the seamen,
arrested by the glare, now cohered together, and hung pendulous, like a
cohered - (cohere) aneinanderhaften, aneinanderkleben, binde
knot of numbed wasps from a drooping, orchard twig. In various
numbed - (numb) taub, benommen, betubt, gefhllos
wasps - (WASP) die Wespe
enchanted attitudes, like the standing, or stepping, or running
skeletons in Herculaneum, others remained rooted to the deck; but all
their eyes upcast.
Aye, aye, men! cried Ahab. Look up at it; mark it well; the white
flame but lights the way to the White Whale! Hand me those mainmast
links there; I would fain feel this pulse, and let mine beat against
it; blood against fire! So.
Then turning"the last link held fast in his left hand, he put his foot
upon the Parsee; and with fixed upward eye, and high-flung right arm,
he stood erect before the lofty tri-pointed trinity of flames.
Oh! thou clear spirit of clear fire, whom on these seas I as Persian
once did worship, till in the sacramental act so burned by thee, that
sacramental - Sakramentale
to this hour I bear the scar; I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I
now know that thy right worship is defiance. To neither love nor
reverence wilt thou be kind; and een for hate thou canst but kill; and
all are killed. No fearless fool now fronts thee. I own thy speechless,
placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will
placeless - ortlos
dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me. In the midst of
dispute - Streit, Disput, Debatte, errtern, bestreiten
unintegral - nicht integrierbar
mastery - Meisterschaft
the personified impersonal, a personality stands here. Though but a
point at best; whencesoeer I came; wheresoeer I go; yet while I
earthly live, the queenly personality lives in me, and feels her royal
queenly - kniglich
rights. But war is pain, and hate is woe. Come in thy lowest form of
love, and I will kneel and kiss thee; but at thy highest, come as mere
supernal power; and though thou launchest navies of full-freighted
supernal - himmlisch, berirdisch, berzogen, exaltiert
launchest - Barkasse
worlds, theres that in here that still remains indifferent. Oh, thou
clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of
madest - wahnsinnigste
fire, I breathe it back to thee.
[_Sudden, repeated flashes of lightning; the nine flames leap
lengthwise to thrice their previous height; Ahab, with the rest, closes
his eyes, his right hand pressed hard upon them._]
I own thy speechless, placeless power; said I not so? Nor was it wrung
wrung - (wring) abbringen, erzwingen
from me; nor do I now drop these links. Thou canst blind; but I can
then grope. Thou canst consume; but I can then be ashes. Take the
homage of these poor eyes, and shutter-hands. I would not take it. The
shutter - Verschlieender, Verschlieer, Fensterladen; q
lightning flashes through my skull; mine eye-balls ache and ache; my
whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning
stunning - (stun) betuben verblffen
ground. Oh, oh! Yet blindfold, yet will I talk to thee. Light though
blindfold - Augenbinde die Augen verbinden blind machen
thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of
light, leaping out of thee! The javelins cease; open eyes; see, or not?
There burn the flames! Oh, thou magnanimous! now I do glory in my
genealogy. But thou art but my fiery father; my sweet mother, I know
genealogy - Abstammung Ahnentafel Ahnenforschung, Genealogie
not. Oh, cruel! what hast thou done with her? There lies my puzzle; but
thine is greater. Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest thyself
unbegotten; certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself
unbegotten - Ungezeugt
unbegun. I know that of me, which thou knowest not of thyself, oh, thou
unbegun - unbegonnen
omnipotent. There is some unsuffusing thing beyond thee, thou clear
unsuffusing - nicht verwirrend
spirit, to whom all thy eternity is but time, all thy creativeness
creativeness - Schaffenskraft
mechanical. Through thee, thy flaming self, my scorched eyes do dimly
see it. Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast
foundling - Findelkind
thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief. Here again with
unparticipated - unbeteiligt
haughty agony, I read my sire. Leap! leap up, and lick the sky! I leap
with thee; I burn with thee; would fain be welded with thee; defyingly
I worship thee!
The boat! the boat! cried Starbuck, look at thy boat, old man!
Ahabs harpoon, the one forged at Perths fire, remained firmly lashed
in its conspicuous crotch, so that it projected beyond his whale-boats
bow; but the sea that had stove its bottom had caused the loose leather
sheath to drop off; and from the keen steel barb there now came a
levelled flame of pale, forked fire. As the silent harpoon burned there
like a serpents tongue, Starbuck grasped Ahab by the arm"God, God is
against thee, old man; forbear! tis an ill voyage! ill begun, ill
continued; let me square the yards, while we may, old man, and make a
fair wind of it homewards, to go on a better voyage than this.
Overhearing Starbuck, the panic-stricken crew instantly ran to the
braces"though not a sail was left aloft. For the moment all the aghast
mates thoughts seemed theirs; they raised a half mutinous cry. But
dashing the rattling lightning links to the deck, and snatching the
burning harpoon, Ahab waved it like a torch among them; swearing to
torch - Fackel anznden
transfix with it the first sailor that but cast loose a ropes end.
transfix - durchstechen, durchbohren
Petrified by his aspect, and still more shrinking from the fiery dart
that he held, the men fell back in dismay, and Ahab again spoke:"
All your oaths to hunt the White Whale are as binding as mine; and
binding - verbindlich Bindung ; (bind) binden verbinden, konnektieren
heart, soul, and body, lungs and life, old Ahab is bound. And that ye
may know to what tune this heart beats; look ye here; thus I blow out
blow out - ausblasen, auslschen
the last fear! And with one blast of his breath he extinguished the
flame.
As in the hurricane that sweeps the plain, men fly the neighborhood of
sweeps - (sweep) fegen, kehren, rauschen, auf den Kopf stellen, fahren
neighborhood - Nachbarschaft, Umgebung, Kiez, Viertel
some lone, gigantic elm, whose very height and strength but render it
elm - Ulme
so much the more unsafe, because so much the more a mark for
thunderbolts; so at those last words of Ahabs many of the mariners did
run from him in a terror of dismay.
_Ahab standing by the helm. Starbuck approaching him._
We must send down the main-top-sail yard, sir. The band is working
loose and the lee lift is half-stranded. Shall I strike it, sir?
Strike nothing; lash it. If I had sky-sail poles, Id sway them up
now.
Sir!"in Gods name!"sir?
Well.
The anchors are working, sir. Shall I get them inboard?
Strike nothing, and stir nothing, but lash everything. The wind rises,
but it has not got up to my table-lands yet. Quick, and see to it."By
masts and keels! he takes me for the hunch-backed skipper of some
coasting smack. Send down my main-top-sail yard! Ho, gluepots! Loftiest
trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now
sails amid the cloud-scud. Shall I strike that? Oh, none but cowards
send down their brain-trucks in tempest time. What a hooroosh aloft
there! I would een take it for sublime, did I not know that the colic
colic - Kolik
is a noisy malady. Oh, take medicine, take medicine!
malady - Krankheit, bel
_Stubb and Flask mounted on them, and passing additional lashings over
lashings - (lashing) Tauwerk, peitschend, Geielung
the anchors there hanging._
No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but
you will never pound into me what you were just now saying. And how
long ago is it since you said the very contrary? Didnt you once say
that whatever ship Ahab sails in, that ship should pay something extra
on its insurance policy, just as though it were loaded with powder
barrels aft and boxes of lucifers forward? Stop, now; didnt you say
so?
Well, suppose I did? What then? Ive part changed my flesh since that
time, why not my mind? Besides, supposing we _are_ loaded with powder
barrels aft and lucifers forward; how the devil could the lucifers get
afire in this drenching spray here? Why, my little man, you have pretty
afire - Flammen in Brand Feuer und Flamme sein, begeistert sein
drenching - (drench) Regenguss
red hair, but you couldnt get afire now. Shake yourself; youre
Aquarius, or the water-bearer, Flask; might fill pitchers at your coat
pitchers - (pitcher) Werfer, Krug
collar. Dont you see, then, that for these extra risks the Marine
Insurance companies have extra guarantees? Here are hydrants, Flask.
guarantees - (guarantee) Garantie Garant garantieren, versichern
hydrants - (hydrant) hydrant
But hark, again, and Ill answer ye the other thing. First take your
leg off from the crown of the anchor here, though, so I can pass the
rope; now listen. Whats the mighty difference between holding a masts
lightning-rod in the storm, and standing close by a mast that hasnt
got any lightning-rod at all in a storm? Dont you see, you
timber-head, that no harm can come to the holder of the rod, unless the
mast is first struck? What are you talking about, then? Not one ship in
a hundred carries rods, and Ahab,"aye, man, and all of us,"were in no
more danger then, in my poor opinion, than all the crews in ten
thousand ships now sailing the seas. Why, you King-Post, you, I suppose
you would have every man in the world go about with a small
lightning-rod running up the corner of his hat, like a militia
militia - Miliz; qual
officers skewered feather, and trailing behind like his sash. Why
skewered - (skewer) Spie
trailing - (trail) folgen, verfolgen, nachstellen, nacheilen
sash - Schieberahmen, Schrpe
dont ye be sensible, Flask? its easy to be sensible; why dont ye,
then? any man with half an eye can be sensible.
I dont know that, Stubb. You sometimes find it rather hard.
Yes, when a fellows soaked through, its hard to be sensible, thats
a fact. And I am about drenched with this spray. Never mind; catch the
turn there, and pass it. Seems to me we are lashing down these anchors
now as if they were never going to be used again. Tying these two
anchors here, Flask, seems like tying a mans hands behind him. And
what big generous hands they are, to be sure. These are your iron
fists, hey? What a hold they have, too! I wonder, Flask, whether the
fists - (fist) fausten;Faust
world is anchored anywhere; if she is, she swings with an uncommon long
cable, though. There, hammer that knot down, and weve done. So; next
to touching land, lighting on deck is the most satisfactory. I say,
just wring out my jacket skirts, will ye? Thank ye. They laugh at
wring - abbringen, erzwingen
long-togs so, Flask; but seems to me, a long tailed coat ought always
togs - (tog) anziehen
to be worn in all storms afloat. The tails tapering down that way,
serve to carry off the water, dye see. Same with cocked hats; the
cocked - (cock) Vogelmnnchen;Gockel, Hahn;erigierter Penis (vulg.
cocks form gable-end eave-troughs, Flask. No more monkey-jackets and
gable end - (gable-end) Brandgiebel , Giebelseite , Giebelwand
eave - Traufe
troughs - (trough) Trog, Futtertrog, Mulde , Graben, Rinne, Dachrinn
tarpaulins for me; I must mount a swallow-tail, and drive down a
beaver; so. Halloa! whew! there goes my tarpaulin overboard; Lord,
Lord, that the winds that come from heaven should be so unmannerly!
This is a nasty night, lad.
nasty - abscheulich, bse, ekelhaft, scheulich
_The main-top-sail yard_."_Tashtego passing new lashings around it_.
Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. Whats
the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We dont want thunder; we want rum;
give us a glass of rum. Um, um, um!
During the most violent shocks of the Typhoon, the man at the Pequods
jaw-bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled to the deck by
reelingly - taumelnd
its spasmodic motions, even though preventer tackles had been attached
preventer - Vorbeugung
to it"for they were slack"because some play to the tiller was
indispensable.
In a severe gale like this, while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock
shuttlecock - Federball
to the blast, it is by no means uncommon to see the needles in the
compasses, at intervals, go round and round. It was thus with the
Pequods; at almost every shock the helmsman had not failed to notice
the whirling velocity with which they revolved upon the cards; it is a
sight that hardly anyone can behold without some sort of unwonted
emotion.
Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the
strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb"one engaged forward and the
strenuous - anstrengend
exertions - (exertion) Anstrengung, Kraftanstrengung, Anspannung, Ausbung
other aft"the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails
were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like
the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds
when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.
The three corresponding new sails were now bent and reefed, and a
storm-trysail was set further aft; so that the ship soon went through
the water with some precision again; and the course"for the present,
East-south-east"which he was to steer, if practicable, was once more
given to the helmsman. For during the violence of the gale, he had only
steered according to its vicissitudes. But as he was now bringing the
ship as near her course as possible, watching the compass meanwhile,
lo! a good sign! the wind seemed coming round astern; aye, the foul
breeze became fair!
Instantly the yards were squared, to the lively song of _Ho! the fair
wind! oh-ye-ho, cheerly men!_ the crew singing for joy, that so
cheerly - frhlich
promising an event should so soon have falsified the evil portents
falsified - (falsify) falsifizieren, widerlegen
preceding it.
In compliance with the standing order of his commander"to report
compliance - Einwilligung, Fgsamkeit, Konformitt, Compliance, Regeltreu
standing order - Dauerauftrag
immediately, and at any one of the twenty-four hours, any decided
change in the affairs of the deck,"Starbuck had no sooner trimmed the
trimmed - (trim) krzen, nachschneiden, stutzen
yards to the breeze"however reluctantly and gloomily,"than he
reluctantly - ungern
mechanically went below to apprise Captain Ahab of the circumstance.
apprise - benachrichtigen
Ere knocking at his state-room, he involuntarily paused before it a
knocking at - anklopfend
moment. The cabin lamp"taking long swings this way and that"was burning
fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old mans bolted door,"a
fitfully - unbestndige, ruckartig
thin one, with fixed blinds inserted, in place of upper panels. The
panels - (panel) Verkleidung, Platte, Tafel, Paneel
isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming silence
subterraneousness - Verschlagenheit
to reign there, though it was hooped round by all the roar of the
elements. The loaded muskets in the rack were shiningly revealed, as
shiningly - glnzend
they stood upright against the forward bulkhead. Starbuck was an
honest, upright man; but out of Starbucks heart, at that instant when
he saw the muskets, there strangely evolved an evil thought; but so
evolved - (evolve) andauern, fortdauern, verndern, entwickeln, freisetzen
blent with its neutral or good accompaniments that for the instant he
hardly knew it for itself.
He would have shot me once, he murmured, yes, theres the very
musket that he pointed at me;"that one with the studded stock; let me
touch it"lift it. Strange, that I, who have handled so many deadly
lances, strange, that I should shake so now. Loaded? I must see. Aye,
aye; and powder in the pan;"thats not good. Best spill it?"wait. Ill
spill - verschtten, erman: sich ergieen
cure myself of this. Ill hold the musket boldly while I think."I come
to report a fair wind to him. But how fair? Fair for death and
doom,"_thats_ fair for Moby Dick. Its a fair wind thats only fair
for that accursed fish."The very tube he pointed at me!"the very one;
_this_ one"I hold it here; he would have killed me with the very thing
I handle now."Aye and he would fain kill all his crew. Does he not say
he will not strike his spars to any gale? Has he not dashed his
heavenly quadrant? and in these same perilous seas, gropes he not his
gropes - (grope) tasten tappen, herumtasten, begrapschen
way by mere dead reckoning of the error-abounding log? and in this very
Typhoon, did he not swear that he would have no lightning-rods? But
shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ships
company down to doom with him?"Yes, it would make him the wilful
murderer of thirty men and more, if this ship come to any deadly harm;
and come to deadly harm, my soul swears this ship will, if Ahab have
his way. If, then, he were this instant"put aside, that crime would not
be his. Ha! is he muttering in his sleep? Yes, just there,"in there,
hes sleeping. Sleeping? aye, but still alive, and soon awake again. I
cant withstand thee, then, old man. Not reasoning; not remonstrance;
remonstrance - Protest, Einspruch, Beschwerde
not entreaty wilt thou hearken to; all this thou scornest. Flat
scornest - am meisten verachten
obedience to thy own flat commands, this is all thou breathest. Aye,
breathest - am meisten atmen
and sayst the men have vowd thy vow; sayst all of us are Ahabs.
Ahabs - (Ahab) Ahab
Great God forbid!"But is there no other way? no lawful way?"Make him a
forbid - verbieten, untersagen, verweigern, vorenthalten
lawful - gesetzlich, legal, rechtsmig
prisoner to be taken home? What! hope to wrest this old mans living
power from his own living hands? Only a fool would try it. Say he were
pinioned even; knotted all over with ropes and hawsers; chained down to
ring-bolts on this cabin floor; he would be more hideous than a caged
caged - (cage) Kfig
tiger, then. I could not endure the sight; could not possibly fly his
howlings; all comfort, sleep itself, inestimable reason would leave me
howlings - (howl) heulen, flennen
on the long intolerable voyage. What, then, remains? The land is
hundreds of leagues away, and locked Japan the nearest. I stand alone
stand alone - einzig dastehen, einzigartig sein
here upon an open sea, with two oceans and a whole continent between me
and law."Aye, aye, tis so."Is heaven a murderer when its lightning
strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin
together?"And would I be a murderer, then, if"and slowly, stealthily,
stealthily - heimlich, verstohlen
and half sideways looking, he placed the loaded muskets end against
the door.
On this level, Ahabs hammock swings within; his head this way. A
touch, and Starbuck may survive to hug his wife and child again."Oh
Mary! Mary!"boy! boy! boy!"But if I wake thee not to death, old man,
who can tell to what unsounded deeps Starbucks body this day week may
sink, with all the crew! Great God, where art Thou? Shall I? shall
I?"The wind has gone down and shifted, sir; the fore and main topsails
are reefed and set; she heads her course.
Stern all! Oh Moby Dick, I clutch thy heart at last!
Such were the sounds that now came hurtling from out the old mans
tormented sleep, as if Starbucks voice had caused the long dumb dream
to speak.
The yet levelled musket shook like a drunkards arm against the panel;
panel - Verkleidung, Platte, Tafel, Paneel
Starbuck seemed wrestling with an angel; but turning from the door, he
wrestling - Ringkampf, Ringen ; (wrestle) ringen
placed the death-tube in its rack, and left the place.
Hes too sound asleep, Mr. Stubb; go thou down, and wake him, and tell
him. I must see to the deck here. Thou knowst what to say.
Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of
mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequods gurgling track, pushed her on
like giants palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded
outspread - ausgebreitet
unstaggering - unaufgeregt
abounded - (abound) in
so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world
outbellying - Ausreier
boomed before the wind. Muffled in the full morning light, the
boomed - (boom) Konjunktur, Ausleger (Kran), Baum;drhnen, boome
invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place;
where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks. Emblazonings, as of crowned
Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything. The sea was as a
Babylonian - babylonisch Babylonier, Babylonierin, Babylonisch
crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.
molten - geschmolzen; (melt) Schmelze Schmelzwasser schmelze
bubblingly - sprudelnd
Long maintaining an enchanted silence, Ahab stood apart; and every time
the tetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to
loweringly - finster
eye the bright suns rays produced ahead; and when she profoundly
settled by the stern, he turned behind, and saw the suns rearward
rearward - hinter, rckwrtig
place, and how the same yellow rays were blending with his undeviating
wake.
Ha, ha, my ship! thou mightest well be taken now for the sea-chariot
of the sun. Ho, ho! all ye nations before my prow, I bring the sun to
ye! Yoke on the further billows; hallo! a tandem, I drive the sea!
But suddenly reined back by some counter thought, he hurried towards
reined - (rein) Zgel
the helm, huskily demanding how the ship was heading.
huskily - heiser, hlsig
East-sou-east, sir, said the frightened steersman.
Thou liest! smiting him with his clenched fist. Heading East at this
hour in the morning, and the sun astern?
Upon this every soul was confounded; for the phenomenon just then
observed by Ahab had unaccountably escaped every one else; but its very
blinding palpableness must have been the cause.
palpableness - Greifbarkeit
Thrusting his head half way into the binnacle, Ahab caught one glimpse
of the compasses; his uplifted arm slowly fell; for a moment he almost
seemed to stagger. Standing behind him Starbuck looked, and lo! the two
compasses pointed East, and the Pequod was as infallibly going West.
But ere the first wild alarm could get out abroad among the crew, the
old man with a rigid laugh exclaimed, I have it! It has happened
before. Mr. Starbuck, last nights thunder turned our compasses"thats
all. Thou hast before now heard of such a thing, I take it.
Aye; but never before has it happened to me, sir, said the pale mate,
gloomily.
Here, it must needs be said, that accidents like this have in more than
one case occurred to ships in violent storms. The magnetic energy, as
developed in the mariners needle, is, as all know, essentially one
with the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much
marvelled at, that such things should be. Instances where the lightning
has actually struck the vessel, so as to smite down some of the spars
and rigging, the effect upon the needle has at times been still more
fatal; all its loadstone virtue being annihilated, so that the before
loadstone - Laststein
magnetic steel was of no more use than an old wifes knitting needle.
knitting needle - Stricknadel
But in either case, the needle never again, of itself, recovers the
recovers - (recover) wiederfinden, sich erholen, beikommen
original virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be
affected, the same fate reaches all the others that may be in the ship;
even were the lowermost one inserted into the kelson.
Deliberately standing before the binnacle, and eyeing the transpointed
transpointed - transponiert
compasses, the old man, with the sharp of his extended hand, now took
the precise bearing of the sun, and satisfied that the needles were
exactly inverted, shouted out his orders for the ships course to be
changed accordingly. The yards were hard up; and once more the Pequod
were hard up - (be hard up) in groer Not sein
thrust her undaunted bows into the opposing wind, for the supposed fair
one had only been juggling her.
Meanwhile, whatever were his own secret thoughts, Starbuck said
nothing, but quietly he issued all requisite orders; while Stubb and
Flask"who in some small degree seemed then to be sharing his
feelings"likewise unmurmuringly acquiesced. As for the men, though some
unmurmuringly - murmelnd
acquiesced - (acquiesce) hinnehmen, einwilligen, dulden
of them lowly rumbled, their fear of Ahab was greater than their fear
rumbled - (rumble) Poltern, Rumpeln, hunder, Schlgerei, rumpeln;
of Fate. But as ever before, the pagan harpooneers remained almost
wholly unimpressed; or if impressed, it was only with a certain
unimpressed - unbeeindruckt
magnetism shot into their congenial hearts from inflexible Ahabs.
magnetism - Magnetismus Anziehungskraft
For a space the old man walked the deck in rolling reveries. But
chancing to slip with his ivory heel, he saw the crushed copper
sight-tubes of the quadrant he had the day before dashed to the deck.
Thou poor, proud heaven-gazer and suns pilot! yesterday I wrecked
thee, and to-day the compasses would fain have wrecked me. So, so. But
Ahab is lord over the level loadstone yet. Mr. Starbuck"a lance without
a pole; a top-maul, and the smallest of the sail-makers needles.
Quick!
Accessory, perhaps, to the impulse dictating the thing he was now about
dictating - (dictate) Diktat, Gebot, diktieren, bestimmen, vorschreiben
to do, were certain prudential motives, whose object might have been to
revive the spirits of his crew by a stroke of his subtile skill, in a
matter so wondrous as that of the inverted compasses. Besides, the old
man well knew that to steer by transpointed needles, though clumsily
clumsily - plump
practicable, was not a thing to be passed over by superstitious
sailors, without some shudderings and evil portents.
shudderings - (shuddering) schaudernd
Men, said he, steadily turning upon the crew, as the mate handed him
the things he had demanded, my men, the thunder turned old Ahabs
needles; but out of this bit of steel Ahab can make one of his own,
that will point as true as any.
Abashed glances of servile wonder were exchanged by the sailors, as
servile - sklavisch, unterwrfig, servil, hndisch
this was said; and with fascinated eyes they awaited whatever magic
might follow. But Starbuck looked away.
With a blow from the top-maul Ahab knocked off the steel head of the
lance, and then handing to the mate the long iron rod remaining, bade
iron rod - Eisenstange
him hold it upright, without its touching the deck. Then, with the
maul, after repeatedly smiting the upper end of this iron rod, he
placed the blunted needle endwise on the top of it, and less strongly
blunted - (blunt) schonungslos, offen, ungehobel
hammered that, several times, the mate still holding the rod as before.
Then going through some small strange motions with it"whether
indispensable to the magnetizing of the steel, or merely intended to
magnetizing - (magnetize) magnetisieren
augment the awe of the crew, is uncertain"he called for linen thread;
and moving to the binnacle, slipped out the two reversed needles there,
and horizontally suspended the sail-needle by its middle, over one of
the compass-cards. At first, the steel went round and round, quivering
and vibrating at either end; but at last it settled to its place, when
Ahab, who had been intently watching for this result, stepped frankly
back from the binnacle, and pointing his stretched arm towards it,
exclaimed,"Look ye, for yourselves, if Ahab be not lord of the level
loadstone! The sun is East, and that compass swears it!
One after another they peered in, for nothing but their own eyes could
persuade such ignorance as theirs, and one after another they slunk
slunk - (slink) schleichen Frhgeburt
away.
In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his
fatal pride.
While now the fated Pequod had been so long afloat this voyage, the log
and line had but very seldom been in use. Owing to a confident reliance
reliance - Verlass, Vertrauen, Abhngigkeit, Vertrauende, Abhngige
upon other means of determining the vessels place, some merchantmen,
and many whalemen, especially when cruising, wholly neglect to heave
neglect - vernachlssigen, verabsumen, versumen, missachten
the log; though at the same time, and frequently more for forms sake
than anything else, regularly putting down upon the customary slate the
course steered by the ship, as well as the presumed average rate of
average rate - Durchschnittssatz
progression every hour. It had been thus with the Pequod. The wooden
reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just beneath the
railing of the after bulwarks. Rains and spray had damped it; sun and
railing - Gelnder ; (rail) Gelnder
damped - (damp) feucht Feuchtigkeit ersticken, dmpfen
wind had warped it; all the elements had combined to rot a thing that
warped - (warp) verzerren (Tatsache), verwinden (Tragflchen)
hung so idly. But heedless of all this, his mood seized Ahab, as he
happened to glance upon the reel, not many hours after the magnet
scene, and he remembered how his quadrant was no more, and recalled his
frantic oath about the level log and line. The ship was sailing
plungingly; astern the billows rolled in riots.
plungingly - eintauchend
Forward, there! Heave the log!
Two seamen came. The golden-hued Tahitian and the grizzly Manxman.
Tahitian - Tahitianer, Tahitier, Tahitianerin, Tahitierin, Tahitisc
grizzly - Graubr, grulich
Take the reel, one of ye, Ill heave.
They went towards the extreme stern, on the ships lee side, where the
deck, with the oblique energy of the wind, was now almost dipping into
dipping into - eintauchend
the creamy, sidelong-rushing sea.
The Manxman took the reel, and holding it high up, by the projecting
handle-ends of the spindle, round which the spool of line revolved, so
spindle - Spindel Spindelstrauch
spool - Bandspule;aufspulen, spulen
stood with the angular log hanging downwards, till Ahab advanced to
him.
Ahab stood before him, and was lightly unwinding some thirty or forty
unwinding - (unwind) abwickeln, loswickeln, abspulen, abdocken, entwirre
turns to form a preliminary hand-coil to toss overboard, when the old
Manxman, who was intently eyeing both him and the line, made bold to
speak.
Sir, I mistrust it; this line looks far gone, long heat and wet have
mistrust - Misstrauen
spoiled it.
Twill hold, old gentleman. Long heat and wet, have they spoiled thee?
Thou seemst to hold. Or, truer perhaps, life holds thee; not thou it.
I hold the spool, sir. But just as my captain says. With these grey
hairs of mine tis not worth while disputing, specially with a
superior, wholl neer confess.
Whats that? There nows a patched professor in Queen Natures
granite-founded College; but methinks hes too subservient. Where wert
subservient - dienstbar
thou born?
In the little rocky Isle of Man, sir.
Excellent! Thoust hit the world by that.
I know not, sir, but I was born there.
In the Isle of Man, hey? Well, the other way, its good. Heres a man
from Man; a man born in once independent Man, and now unmanned of Man;
unmanned - (unman) entmutigen, entmannen
which is sucked in"by what? Up with the reel! The dead, blind wall
butts all inquiring heads at last. Up with it! So.
The log was heaved. The loose coils rapidly straightened out in a long
dragging line astern, and then, instantly, the reel began to whirl. In
turn, jerkingly raised and lowered by the rolling billows, the towing
jerkingly - ruckartig
resistance of the log caused the old reelman to stagger strangely.
Hold hard!
Snap! the overstrained line sagged down in one long festoon; the
overstrained - (overstrain) beranstrengen
sagged - (sag) Senkung;absinken (Kurve), sacken
tugging log was gone.
tugging - zerrend; (tug) zerren schleppen Ruck
I crush the quadrant, the thunder turns the needles, and now the mad
sea parts the log-line. But Ahab can mend all. Haul in here, Tahitian;
reel up, Manxman. And look ye, let the carpenter make another log, and
mend thou the line. See to it.
There he goes now; to him nothings happened; but to me, the skewer
seems loosening out of the middle of the world. Haul in, haul in,
loosening - (loosen) lsen, lockern
Tahitian! These lines run whole, and whirling out: come in broken, and
dragging slow. Ha, Pip? come to help; eh, Pip?
Pip? whom call ye Pip? Pip jumped from the whale-boat. Pips missing.
Lets see now if ye havent fished him up here, fisherman. It drags
hard; I guess hes holding on. Jerk him, Tahiti! Jerk him off; we haul
in no cowards here. Ho! theres his arm just breaking water. A hatchet!
a hatchet! cut it off"we haul in no cowards here. Captain Ahab! sir,
sir! heres Pip, trying to get on board again.
Peace, thou crazy loon, cried the Manxman, seizing him by the arm.
loon - Seetaucher, Haubentaucher
Away from the quarter-deck!
The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser, muttered Ahab, advancing.
scolds - (scold) Beizange, Xanthippe, beschimpfen, schelten, tadeln
Hands off from that holiness! Where sayest thou Pip was, boy?
holiness - Heiligkeit
Astern there, sir, astern! Lo! lo!
And who art thou, boy? I see not my reflection in the vacant pupils of
thy eyes. Oh God! that man should be a thing for immortal souls to
sieve through! Who art thou, boy?
Bell-boy, sir; ships-crier; ding, dong, ding! Pip! Pip! Pip! One
dong - (ding dong) bim bam, kling klang
hundred pounds of clay reward for Pip; five feet high"looks
cowardly"quickest known by that! Ding, dong, ding! Whos seen Pip the
cowardly - feige
coward?
There can be no hearts above the snow-line. Oh, ye frozen heavens!
look down here. Ye did beget this luckless child, and have abandoned
him, ye creative libertines. Here, boy; Ahabs cabin shall be Pips
libertines - (libertine) Wstling
home henceforth, while Ahab lives. Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy;
touchest - berhren
thou art tied to me by cords woven of my heart-strings. Come, lets
down.
Whats this? heres velvet shark-skin, intently gazing at Ahabs
hand, and feeling it. Ah, now, had poor Pip but felt so kind a thing
as this, perhaps he had neer been lost! This seems to me, sir, as a
man-rope; something that weak souls may hold by. Oh, sir, let old Perth
now come and rivet these two hands together; the black one with the
rivet - Niet vernieten Aufmerksamkeit richten auf, Blick heften auf
white, for I will not let this go.
Oh, boy, nor will I thee, unless I should thereby drag thee to worse
horrors than are here. Come, then, to my cabin. Lo! ye believers in
believers - (believer) Glubiger, Glubige
gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods
oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not
idiotic - idiotisch, bld
what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude. Come!
gratitude - Dankbarkeit
I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an
Emperors!
There go two daft ones now, muttered the old Manxman. One daft with
daft - albern verrckt bld, bescheuert, doof
strength, the other daft with weakness. But heres the end of the
rotten line"all dripping, too. Mend it, eh? I think we had best have a
rotten - faul, faulig, verfault, morsch
new line altogether. Ill see Mr. Stubb about it.
Steering now south-eastward by Ahabs levelled steel, and her progress
solely determined by Ahabs level log and line; the Pequod held on her
path towards the Equator. Making so long a passage through such
unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways
unfrequented - unbesucht
impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all
monotonously - monotone, eintnig
these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and
desperate scene.
At last, when the ship drew near to the outskirts, as it were, of the
Equatorial fishing-ground, and in the deep darkness that goes before
the dawn, was sailing by a cluster of rocky islets; the watch"then
headed by Flask"was startled by a cry so plaintively wild and
plaintively - traurig, traurige
unearthly"like half-articulated wailings of the ghosts of all Herods
wailings - (wailing) (to wail) jammern, wehklagen, klagen
murdered Innocents"that one and all, they started from their reveries,
and for the space of some moments stood, or sat, or leaned all
transfixedly listening, like the carved Roman slave, while that wild
transfixedly - fest entschlossen
cry remained within hearing. The Christian or civilized part of the
crew said it was mermaids, and shuddered; but the pagan harpooneers
remained unappalled. Yet the grey Manxman"the oldest mariner of
all"declared that the wild thrilling sounds that were heard, were the
voices of newly drowned men in the sea.
Below in his hammock, Ahab did not hear of this till grey dawn, when he
came to the deck; it was then recounted to him by Flask, not
unaccompanied with hinted dark meanings. He hollowly laughed, and thus
explained the wonder.
Those rocky islands the ship had passed were the resort of great
numbers of seals, and some young seals that had lost their dams, or
dams - (dam) stauen;Staudamm, Muttertier, Damm
some dams that had lost their cubs, must have risen nigh the ship and
kept company with her, crying and sobbing with their human sort of
sobbing - Schluchzen ; (sob) Huso
wail. But this only the more affected some of them, because most
more affected - affektierterem
mariners cherish a very superstitious feeling about seals, arising not
only from their peculiar tones when in distress, but also from the
human look of their round heads and semi-intelligent faces, seen
peeringly uprising from the water alongside. In the sea, under certain
peeringly - sphend
circumstances, seals have more than once been mistaken for men.
But the bodings of the crew were destined to receive a most plausible
bodings - (boding) prophezeiend
most plausible - glaubhafteste
confirmation in the fate of one of their number that morning. At
confirmation - Besttigung Firmung
sun-rise this man went from his hammock to his mast-head at the fore;
and whether it was that he was not yet half waked from his sleep (for
sailors sometimes go aloft in a transition state), whether it was thus
with the man, there is now no telling; but, be that as it may, he had
not been long at his perch, when a cry was heard"a cry and a
rushing"and looking up, they saw a falling phantom in the air; and
looking down, a little tossed heap of white bubbles in the blue of the
sea.
The life-buoy"a long slender cask"was dropped from the stern, where it
always hung obedient to a cunning spring; but no hand rose to seize it,
and the sun having long beat upon this cask it had shrunken, so that it
shrunken - eingefallen, geschrumpft; (shrink) schrumpfen, abnehmen, drcken
slowly filled, and that parched wood also filled at its every pore; and
pore - Pore
the studded iron-bound cask followed the sailor to the bottom, as if to
yield him his pillow, though in sooth but a hard one.
sooth - Wahrheit
And thus the first man of the Pequod that mounted the mast to look out
for the White Whale, on the White Whales own peculiar ground; that man
was swallowed up in the deep. But few, perhaps, thought of that at the
time. Indeed, in some sort, they were not grieved at this event, at
least as a portent; for they regarded it, not as a foreshadowing of
portent - Omen, (bses) Vorzeichen
foreshadowing - Vorahnung ; (foreshadow) Vorahnung
evil in the future, but as the fulfilment of an evil already presaged.
fulfilment - Erfllung
presaged - (presage) Prophezeiung, Anzeichen;ahnen
They declared that now they knew the reason of those wild shrieks they
had heard the night before. But again the old Manxman said nay.
The lost life-buoy was now to be replaced; Starbuck was directed to see
to it; but as no cask of sufficient lightness could be found, and as in
lightness - Leichtigkeit
the feverish eagerness of what seemed the approaching crisis of the
feverish - fiebrig, febril, fieberhaft
voyage, all hands were impatient of any toil but what was directly
connected with its final end, whatever that might prove to be;
therefore, they were going to leave the ships stern unprovided with a
buoy, when by certain strange signs and inuendoes Queequeg hinted a
inuendoes - Anspielungen
hint concerning his coffin.
A life-buoy of a coffin! cried Starbuck, starting.
Rather queer, that, I should say, said Stubb.
It will make a good enough one, said Flask, the carpenter here can
arrange it easily.
Bring it up; theres nothing else for it, said Starbuck, after a
melancholy pause. Rig it, carpenter; do not look at me so"the coffin,
I mean. Dost thou hear me? Rig it.
And shall I nail down the lid, sir? moving his hand as with a hammer.
Aye.
And shall I caulk the seams, sir? moving his hand as with a
caulk - kalfatern
caulking-iron.
caulking - abdichtend; (caulk) kalfatern
Aye.
And shall I then pay over the same with pitch, sir? moving his hand
as with a pitch-pot.
Away! what possesses thee to this? Make a life-buoy of the coffin, and
no more."Mr. Stubb, Mr. Flask, come forward with me.
He goes off in a huff. The whole he can endure; at the parts he
huff - schnauben, heftig schnaufen, aufquellen, aufgehen, aufblase
baulks. Now I dont like this. I make a leg for Captain Ahab, and he
baulks - (baulk) Hindernis, Hemmnis, Hauptbalken
wears it like a gentleman; but I make a bandbox for Queequeg, and he
bandbox - Hutschachtel
wont put his head into it. Are all my pains to go for nothing with
that coffin? And now Im ordered to make a life-buoy of it. Its like
turning an old coat; going to bring the flesh on the other side now. I
dont like this cobbling sort of business"I dont like it at all; its
cobbling - flickend, schusternd; (cobble) schustern
undignified; its not my place. Let tinkers brats do tinkerings; we
undignified - (undignify) wrdelos
brats - (brat) Range
tinkerings - (tinkering) flickend, bastelnd
are their betters. I like to take in hand none but clean, virgin,
fair-and-square mathematical jobs, something that regularly begins at
the beginning, and is at the middle when midway, and comes to an end at
the conclusion; not a cobblers job, thats at an end in the middle,
and at the beginning at the end. Its the old womans tricks to be
giving cobbling jobs. Lord! what an affection all old women have for
tinkers. I know an old woman of sixty-five who ran away with a
tinkers - (tinker) Kesselflicker, Kesselflickerin, tfteln, frickeln
bald-headed young tinker once. And thats the reason I never would work
for lonely widow old women ashore, when I kept my job-shop in the
Vineyard; they might have taken it into their lonely old heads to run
off with me. But heigh-ho! there are no caps at sea but snow-caps. Let
me see. Nail down the lid; caulk the seams; pay over the same with
pitch; batten them down tight, and hang it with the snap-spring over
batten - gedeihen
the ships stern. Were ever such things done before with a coffin? Some
superstitious old carpenters, now, would be tied up in the rigging, ere
they would do the job. But Im made of knotty Aroostook hemlock; I
knotty - knotig
hemlock - Schierling,
dont budge. Cruppered with a coffin! Sailing about with a grave-yard
Cruppered - Gekrpft
tray! But never mind. We workers in woods make bridal-bedsteads and
tray - Tablett, Servierbrett
workers - (worker) Arbeiter, Arbeiterin, Angestellter, Angestellte
bedsteads - (bedstead) Bettgestell, Bettrahmen
card-tables, as well as coffins and hearses. We work by the month, or
by the job, or by the profit; not for us to ask the why and wherefore
of our work, unless it be too confounded cobbling, and then we stash it
if we can. Hem! Ill do the job, now, tenderly. Ill have me"lets
see"how many in the ships company, all told? But Ive forgotten. Any
way, Ill have me thirty separate, Turks-headed life-lines, each three
feet long hanging all round to the coffin. Then, if the hull go down,
therell be thirty lively fellows all fighting for one coffin, a sight
not seen very often beneath the sun! Come hammer, caulking-iron,
pitch-pot, and marling-spike! Lets to it.
_The coffin laid upon two line-tubs, between the vice-bench and the
open hatchway; the Carpenter caulking its seams; the string of twisted
oakum slowly unwinding from a large roll of it placed in the bosom of
his frock."Ahab comes slowly from the cabin-gangway, and hears Pip
following him._
Back, lad; I will be with ye again presently. He goes! Not this hand
complies with my humor more genially than that boy."Middle aisle of a
complies - (comply) einwilligen, sich fgen
genially - freundlich, heiter
aisle - Seitenschiff Gang, Durchgang
church! Whats here?
Life-buoy, sir. Mr. Starbucks orders. Oh, look, sir! Beware the
hatchway!
Thank ye, man. Thy coffin lies handy to the vault.
Sir? The hatchway? oh! So it does, sir, so it does.
Art not thou the leg-maker? Look, did not this stump come from thy
shop?
I believe it did, sir; does the ferrule stand, sir?
ferrule - Zwinge
Well enough. But art thou not also the undertaker?
Aye, sir; I patched up this thing here as a coffin for Queequeg; but
patched up - ausgeflickt
theyve set me now to turning it into something else.
Then tell me; art thou not an arrant, all-grasping, intermeddling,
arrant - vllig
intermeddling - (intermeddle) einmischen
monopolising, heathenish old scamp, to be one day making legs, and the
scamp - pfuschen, Schuft
next day coffins to clap them in, and yet again life-buoys out of those
same coffins? Thou art as unprincipled as the gods, and as much of a
jack-of-all-trades.
But I do not mean anything, sir. I do as I do.
The gods again. Hark ye, dost thou not ever sing working about a
coffin? The Titans, they say, hummed snatches when chipping out the
Titans - (Titan) Titan
craters for volcanoes; and the grave-digger in the play sings, spade in
craters - (Crater) Becher
hand. Dost thou never?
Sing, sir? Do I sing? Oh, Im indifferent enough, sir, for that; but
the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there
made music - musizierte
was none in his spade, sir. But the caulking mallet is full of it. Hark
to it.
Aye, and thats because the lid theres a sounding-board; and what in
all things makes the sounding-board is this"theres naught beneath. And
yet, a coffin with a body in it rings pretty much the same, Carpenter.
Hast thou ever helped carry a bier, and heard the coffin knock against
the churchyard gate, going in?
Faith, sir, Ive""
Faith? Whats that?
Why, faith, sir, its only a sort of exclamation-like"thats all,
sir.
Um, um; go on.
I was about to say, sir, that""
Art thou a silk-worm? Dost thou spin thy own shroud out of thyself?
Look at thy bosom! Despatch! and get these traps out of sight.
Despatch - Ttung
He goes aft. That was sudden, now; but squalls come sudden in hot
latitudes. Ive heard that the Isle of Albemarle, one of the
Gallipagos, is cut by the Equator right in the middle. Seems to me some
sort of Equator cuts yon old man, too, right in his middle. Hes always
under the Line"fiery hot, I tell ye! Hes looking this way"come, oakum;
quick. Here we go again. This wooden mallet is the cork, and Im the
professor of musical glasses"tap, tap!
(_Ahab to himself_.)
Theres a sight! Theres a sound! The greyheaded woodpecker tapping
greyheaded - graukpfig
woodpecker - Specht
the hollow tree! Blind and dumb might well be envied now. See! that
envied - (envy) Neid beneiden
thing rests on two line-tubs, full of tow-lines. A most malicious wag,
that fellow. Rat-tat! So mans seconds tick! Oh! how immaterial are all
tick - ticken, normal (gut) laufen;Ticken, Zeichen, Zecke, Augenblick
immaterial - immateriell unwesentlich
materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts? Here
imponderable - unwgbar, unberechenbar, unkalkulierbar
nows the very dreaded symbol of grim death, by a mere hap, made the
expressive sign of the help and hope of most endangered life. A
life-buoy of a coffin! Does it go further? Can it be that in some
spiritual sense the coffin is, after all, but an immortality-preserver!
Ill think of that. But no. So far gone am I in the dark side of earth,
that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain
twilight to me. Will ye never have done, Carpenter, with that accursed
sound? I go below; let me not see that thing here when I return again.
Now, then, Pip, well talk this over; I do suck most wondrous
suck - saugen lutschen mies sein, zum Kotzen sein, Scheie sein
philosophies from thee! Some unknown conduits from the unknown worlds
philosophies - (philosophy) Philosophie
conduits - (conduit) Kanal, Leitung, Leitungsrohr
must empty into thee!
Next day, a large ship, the Rachel, was descried, bearing directly down
upon the Pequod, all her spars thickly clustering with men. At the time
clustering - (cluster) Anhufung, Bschel, Gruppe, Haufen
the Pequod was making Good speed through the water; but as the
Good speed - Viel Erfolg!
broad-winged windward stranger shot nigh to her, the boastful sails all
boastful - prahlerisch, stolz
fell together as blank bladders that are burst, and all life fled from
bladders - (bladder) Blase
the smitten hull.
Bad news; she brings bad news, muttered the old Manxman. But ere her
commander, who, with trumpet to mouth, stood up in his boat; ere he
could hopefully hail, Ahabs voice was heard.
Hast seen the White Whale?
Aye, yesterday. Have ye seen a whale-boat adrift?
Throttling his joy, Ahab negatively answered this unexpected question;
Throttling - erdrosselnd, drosselnd, abdrosselnd; (throttle) erdrosseln
negatively - negative
and would then have fain boarded the stranger, when the stranger
captain himself, having stopped his vessels way, was seen descending
her side. A few keen pulls, and his boat-hook soon clinched the
Pequods main-chains, and he sprang to the deck. Immediately he was
recognised by Ahab for a Nantucketer he knew. But no formal salutation
was exchanged.
Where was he?"not killed!"not killed! cried Ahab, closely advancing.
How was it?
It seemed that somewhat late on the afternoon of the day previous,
while three of the strangers boats were engaged with a shoal of
whales, which had led them some four or five miles from the ship; and
while they were yet in swift chase to windward, the white hump and head
of Moby Dick had suddenly loomed up out of the water, not very far to
leeward; whereupon, the fourth rigged boat"a reserved one"had been
instantly lowered in chase. After a keen sail before the wind, this
fourth boat"the swiftest keeled of all"seemed to have succeeded in
swiftest - (swift) schnell Segler Garnwinde
fastening"at least, as well as the man at the mast-head could tell
anything about it. In the distance he saw the diminished dotted boat;
and then a swift gleam of bubbling white water; and after that nothing
gleam - Schimmer;durchschimmern, glnzen
more; whence it was concluded that the stricken whale must have
indefinitely run away with his pursuers, as often happens. There was
some apprehension, but no positive alarm, as yet. The recall signals
were placed in the rigging; darkness came on; and forced to pick up her
three far to windward boats"ere going in quest of the fourth one in the
precisely opposite direction"the ship had not only been necessitated to
leave that boat to its fate till near midnight, but, for the time, to
increase her distance from it. But the rest of her crew being at last
safe aboard, she crowded all sail"stunsail on stunsail"after the
missing boat; kindling a fire in her try-pots for a beacon; and every
other man aloft on the look-out. But though when she had thus sailed a
sufficient distance to gain the presumed place of the absent ones when
last seen; though she then paused to lower her spare boats to pull all
around her; and not finding anything, had again dashed on; again
paused, and lowered her boats; and though she had thus continued doing
till daylight; yet not the least glimpse of the missing keel had been
seen.
The story told, the stranger Captain immediately went on to reveal his
object in boarding the Pequod. He desired that ship to unite with his
own in the search; by sailing over the sea some four or five miles
apart, on parallel lines, and so sweeping a double horizon, as it were.
I will wager something now, whispered Stubb to Flask, that some one
in that missing boat wore off that Captains best coat; mayhap, his
wore off - (wear off) abnutzen, abklingen (Wirkung)
watch"hes so cursed anxious to get it back. Who ever heard of two
pious whale-ships cruising after one missing whale-boat in the height
of the whaling season? See, Flask, only see how pale he looks"pale in
the very buttons of his eyes"look"it wasnt the coat"it must have been
the"
My boy, my own boy is among them. For Gods sake"I beg, I
conjure"here exclaimed the stranger Captain to Ahab, who thus far had
but icily received his petition. For eight-and-forty hours let me
icily - eisige, eisig
petition - Petition, Eingabe
charter your ship"I will gladly pay for it, and roundly pay for it"if
charter - Charta
roundly - rund
there be no other way"for eight-and-forty hours only"only that"you
must, oh, you must, and you _shall_ do this thing.
His son! cried Stubb, oh, its his son hes lost! I take back the
coat and watch"what says Ahab? We must save that boy.
Hes drowned with the rest on em, last night, said the old Manx
sailor standing behind them; I heard; all of ye heard their spirits.
Now, as it shortly turned out, what made this incident of the Rachels
the more melancholy, was the circumstance, that not only was one of the
Captains sons among the number of the missing boats crew; but among
the number of the other boats crews, at the same time, but on the
other hand, separated from the ship during the dark vicissitudes of the
chase, there had been still another son; as that for a time, the
wretched father was plunged to the bottom of the cruellest perplexity;
which was only solved for him by his chief mates instinctively
adopting the ordinary procedure of a whale-ship in such emergencies,
adopting - (adopt) adoptieren annehmen, bernehmen
that is, when placed between jeopardized but divided boats, always to
pick up the majority first. But the captain, for some unknown
constitutional reason, had refrained from mentioning all this, and not
till forced to it by Ahabs iciness did he allude to his one yet
iciness - Klte
missing boy; a little lad, but twelve years old, whose father with the
earnest but unmisgiving hardihood of a Nantucketers paternal love, had
unmisgiving - unvershnlich
hardihood - Khnheit
paternal love - Vaterliebe
thus early sought to initiate him in the perils and wonders of a
initiate - Eingeweihter, Eingeweihte, Initiierter, Initiierte
vocation almost immemorially the destiny of all his race. Nor does it
unfrequently occur, that Nantucket captains will send a son of such
tender age away from them, for a protracted three or four years voyage
in some other ship than their own; so that their first knowledge of a
whalemans career shall be unenervated by any chance display of a
unenervated - nicht entnervt
display - Vorfhrung, Vorstellung, Display, Monitor, Bildschirm
fathers natural but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and
partiality - Parteilichkeit, Befangenheit
undue - bertrieben unangemessen
concern.
Meantime, now the stranger was still beseeching his poor boon of Ahab;
boon - Segen, Wohltat
and Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without
the least quivering of his own.
I will not go, said the stranger, till you say _aye_ to me. Do to me
as you would have me do to you in the like case. For _you_ too have a
boy, Captain Ahab"though but a child, and nestling safely at home now"a
nestling - kuschelnd, Nesthkche
child of your old age too"Yes, yes, you relent; I see it"run, run, men,
relent - nachgeben; (relend) nachgeben
now, and stand by to square in the yards.
Avast, cried Ahab"touch not a rope-yarn; then in a voice that
prolongingly moulded every word"Captain Gardiner, I will not do it.
prolongingly - in die Lnge gezogen
Even now I lose time. Good-bye, good-bye. God bless ye, man, and may I
forgive myself, but I must go. Mr. Starbuck, look at the binnacle
forgive - vergeben, verzeihen, entschuldigen
watch, and in three minutes from this present instant warn off all
strangers: then brace forward again, and let the ship sail as before.
Hurriedly turning, with averted face, he descended into his cabin,
leaving the strange captain transfixed at this unconditional and utter
transfixed - (transfix) durchstechen, durchbohren
rejection of his so earnest suit. But starting from his enchantment,
rejection - Ablehnung
enchantment - Verzauberung, Bezauberung
Gardiner silently hurried to the side; more fell than stepped into his
boat, and returned to his ship.
Soon the two ships diverged their wakes; and long as the strange vessel
was in view, she was seen to yaw hither and thither at every dark spot,
however small, on the sea. This way and that her yards were swung
round; starboard and larboard, she continued to tack; now she beat
tack - Stift;heften, kreuzen;anheften (schweien)
against a head sea; and again it pushed her before it; while all the
while, her masts and yards were thickly clustered with men, as three
tall cherry trees, when the boys are cherrying among the boughs.
cherry - Kirsche Kirschbaum, Kirschenbaum, Kirschenholz
But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly
saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without
wept - (weep) weinen
comfort. She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were
not.
(_Ahab moving to go on deck; Pip catches him by the hand to follow._)
Lad, lad, I tell thee thou must not follow Ahab now. The hour is
coming when Ahab would not scare thee from him, yet would not have thee
by him. There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my
malady. Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady becomes my most
cures - (cur) Kter
desired health. Do thou abide below here, where they shall serve thee,
as if thou wert the captain. Aye, lad, thou shalt sit here in my own
screwed chair; another screw to it, thou must be.
No, no, no! ye have not a whole body, sir; do ye but use poor me for
your one lost leg; only tread upon me, sir; I ask no more, so I remain
a part of ye.
Oh! spite of million villains, this makes me a bigot in the fadeless
bigot - intoleranter Fanatiker intolerante Fanatikerin often with a strongly pejorative noun such as Hornochse or Idiot instead of "Mensch": engstirniger intoleranter Mensc
fadeless - farbecht
fidelity of man!"and a black! and crazy!"but methinks like-cures-like
applies to him too; he grows so sane again.
They tell me, sir, that Stubb did once desert poor little Pip, whose
drowned bones now show white, for all the blackness of his living skin.
But I will never desert ye, sir, as Stubb did him. Sir, I must go with
ye.
If thou speakest thus to me much more, Ahabs purpose keels up in him.
I tell thee no; it cannot be.
Oh good master, master, master!
Weep so, and I will murder thee! have a care, for Ahab too is mad.
Listen, and thou wilt often hear my ivory foot upon the deck, and still
know that I am there. And now I quit thee. Thy hand!"Met! True art
thou, lad, as the circumference to its centre. So: God for ever bless
thee; and if it come to that,"God for ever save thee, let what will
befall.
(_Ahab goes; Pip steps one step forward._)
Here he this instant stood; I stand in his air,"but Im alone. Now
were even poor Pip here I could endure it, but hes missing. Pip! Pip!
Ding, dong, ding! Whos seen Pip? He must be up here; lets try the
door. What? neither lock, nor bolt, nor bar; and yet theres no opening
it. It must be the spell; he told me to stay here: Aye, and told me
this screwed chair was mine. Here, then, Ill seat me, against the
transom, in the ships full middle, all her keel and her three masts
before me. Here, our old sailors say, in their black seventy-fours
great admirals sometimes sit at table, and lord it over rows of
captains and lieutenants. Ha! whats this? epaulets! epaulets! the
lieutenants - (lieutenant) Leutnant, Leutnantin, Gehilfe, Stellvertreter
epaulets - (epaulet) Achselstck
epaulets all come crowding! Pass round the decanters; glad to see ye;
fill up, monsieurs! What an odd feeling, now, when a black boys host
to white men with gold lace upon their coats!"Monsieurs, have ye seen
one Pip?"a little negro lad, five feet high, hang-dog look, and
cowardly! Jumped from a whale-boat once;"seen him? No! Well then, fill
up again, captains, and lets drink shame upon all cowards! I name no
names. Shame upon them! Put one foot upon the table. Shame upon all
cowards."Hist! above there, I hear ivory"Oh, master! master! I am
indeed down-hearted when you walk over me. But here Ill stay, though
this stern strikes rocks; and they bulge through; and oysters come to
bulge - Ausbuchtung, Beule, Delle, Wlbung, hervorstechen
join me.
And now that at the proper time and place, after so long and wide a
preliminary cruise, Ahab,"all other whaling waters swept"seemed to have
chased his foe into an ocean-fold, to slay him the more securely there;
now, that he found himself hard by the very latitude and longitude
where his tormenting wound had been inflicted; now that a vessel had
been spoken which on the very day preceding had actually encountered
Moby Dick;"and now that all his successive meetings with various ships
contrastingly concurred to show the demoniac indifference with which
contrastingly - im Gegensatz dazu
concurred - (concur) bereinstimmen, zustimmen, zusammentreffe
the white whale tore his hunters, whether sinning or sinned against;
sinning - (sin) Snde, sndigen;eine Snde begehen
sinned - (sin) Snde, sndigen;eine Snde begehen
now it was that there lurked a something in the old mans eyes, which
it was hardly sufferable for feeble souls to see. As the unsetting
unsetting - (unset) nicht eingestellt
polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months night
polar star - Polarstern
sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so Ahabs purpose now
sustains - (sustain) unterhalten, aufrechterhalten, versorgen
fixedly gleamed down upon the constant midnight of the gloomy crew. It
domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings,
domineered - (domineer) tyrannisieren
fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a
single spear or leaf.
In this foreshadowing interval too, all humor, forced or natural,
vanished. Stubb no more strove to raise a smile; Starbuck no more
strove to check one. Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemed
ground to finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped
clamped - (clamp) Zwinge;klammern, halten, einklemmen, klemme
mortar of Ahabs iron soul. Like machines, they dumbly moved about the
deck, ever conscious that the old mans despot eye was on them.
despot - Despot, Despotin
But did you deeply scan him in his more secret confidential hours; when
more secret - geheimere
he thought no glance but one was on him; then you would have seen that
even as Ahabs eyes so awed the crews, the inscrutable Parsees glance
awed - (awe) Ehrfurcht Staunen einschchtern
awed his; or somehow, at least, in some wild way, at times affected it.
Such an added, gliding strangeness began to invest the thin Fedallah
now; such ceaseless shudderings shook him; that the men looked dubious
at him; half uncertain, as it seemed, whether indeed he were a mortal
substance, or else a tremulous shadow cast upon the deck by some unseen
beings body. And that shadow was always hovering there. For not by
night, even, had Fedallah ever certainly been known to slumber, or go
below. He would stand still for hours: but never sat or leaned; his wan
wan - Groraumnetzwerk
but wondrous eyes did plainly say"We two watchmen never rest.
watchmen - (watchman) Wchter
Nor, at any time, by night or day could the mariners now step upon the
deck, unless Ahab was before them; either standing in his pivot-hole,
or exactly pacing the planks between two undeviating limits,"the
main-mast and the mizen; or else they saw him standing in the
cabin-scuttle,"his living foot advanced upon the deck, as if to step;
his hat slouched heavily over his eyes; so that however motionless he
stood, however the days and nights were added on, that he had not swung
in his hammock; yet hidden beneath that slouching hat, they could never
slouching - (slouch) herumlungern, herumhngen, Durchhnger, Schlafmtz
tell unerringly whether, for all this, his eyes were really closed at
times; or whether he was still intently scanning them; no matter,
though he stood so in the scuttle for a whole hour on the stretch, and
the unheeded night-damp gathered in beads of dew upon that stone-carved
coat and hat. The clothes that the night had wet, the next days
sunshine dried upon him; and so, day after day, and night after night;
sunshine - Sonnenschein
he went no more beneath the planks; whatever he wanted from the cabin
that thing he sent for.
He ate in the same open air; that is, his two only meals,"breakfast and
dinner: supper he never touched; nor reaped his beard; which darkly
grew all gnarled, as unearthed roots of trees blown over, which still
gnarled - (gnarl) Knorren
unearthed - (unearth) aufdecken ausgraben
grow idly on at naked base, though perished in the upper verdure. But
though his whole life was now become one watch on deck; and though the
Parsees mystic watch was without intermission as his own; yet these
intermission - Unterbrechung, Pause
two never seemed to speak"one man to the other"unless at long intervals
some passing unmomentous matter made it necessary. Though such a potent
unmomentous - unaufmerksam
spell seemed secretly to join the twain; openly, and to the awe-struck
crew, they seemed pole-like asunder. If by day they chanced to speak
asunder - in Stcke, entzwei, auseinander
one word; by night, dumb men were both, so far as concerned the
slightest verbal interchange. At times, for longest hours, without a
single hail, they stood far parted in the starlight; Ahab in his
scuttle, the Parsee by the mainmast; but still fixedly gazing upon each
other; as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forethrown shadow, in Ahab the
forethrown - vorgeworfen werden
Parsee his abandoned substance.
And yet, somehow, did Ahab"in his own proper self, as daily, hourly,
and every instant, commandingly revealed to his subordinates,"Ahab
commandingly - herrschend
subordinates - (subordinate) untergeordnet, nachgeordnet, Untergeben
seemed an independent lord; the Parsee but his slave. Still again both
seemed yoked together, and an unseen tyrant driving them; the lean
tyrant - Tyrann, Tyrannin, checkTyrannin
shade siding the solid rib. For be this Parsee what he may, all rib and
keel was solid Ahab.
At the first faintest glimmering of the dawn, his iron voice was heard
glimmering - schimmernd, flimmernd; (glimmer) Schimmer glimmern
from aft,"Man the mast-heads!"and all through the day, till after
sunset and after twilight, the same voice every hour, at the striking
of the helmsmans bell, was heard"What dye see?"sharp! sharp!
But when three or four days had slided by, after meeting the
slided - (slid) glitt ab, abgeglitten
children-seeking Rachel; and no spout had yet been seen; the monomaniac
old man seemed distrustful of his crews fidelity; at least, of nearly
all except the Pagan harpooneers; he seemed to doubt, even, whether
Stubb and Flask might not willingly overlook the sight he sought. But
if these suspicions were really his, he sagaciously refrained from
verbally expressing them, however his actions might seem to hint them.
I will have the first sight of the whale myself,"he said. Aye! Ahab
must have the doubloon! and with his own hands he rigged a nest of
basketed bowlines; and sending a hand aloft, with a single sheaved
block, to secure to the main-mast head, he received the two ends of the
downward-reeved rope; and attaching one to his basket prepared a pin
reeved - (reeve) Vogt
for the other end, in order to fasten it at the rail. This done, with
that end yet in his hand and standing beside the pin, he looked round
upon his crew, sweeping from one to the other; pausing his glance long
upon Daggoo, Queequeg, Tashtego; but shunning Fedallah; and then
shunning - (shun) aus dem Weg gehen, ausweichen, meiden, scheuen
settling his firm relying eye upon the chief mate, said,"Take the
settling - (settle) sich beruhigen, sich lege
relying - (rely) sich verlassen (auf)
rope, sir"I give it into thy hands, Starbuck. Then arranging his
person in the basket, he gave the word for them to hoist him to his
perch, Starbuck being the one who secured the rope at last; and
afterwards stood near it. And thus, with one hand clinging round the
royal mast, Ahab gazed abroad upon the sea for miles and miles,"ahead,
astern, this side, and that,"within the wide expanded circle commanded
at so great a height.
When in working with his hands at some lofty almost isolated place in
the rigging, which chances to afford no foothold, the sailor at sea is
foothold - Halt, fester Stand
hoisted up to that spot, and sustained there by the rope; under these
circumstances, its fastened end on deck is always given in strict
charge to some one man who has the special watch of it. Because in such
a wilderness of running rigging, whose various different relations
aloft cannot always be infallibly discerned by what is seen of them at
discerned - (discern) erkennen, wahrnehmen, bemerken, feststellen
the deck; and when the deck-ends of these ropes are being every few
minutes cast down from the fastenings, it would be but a natural
fastenings - (fastening) befestigend, anbindend
fatality, if, unprovided with a constant watchman, the hoisted sailor
watchman - Wchter
should by some carelessness of the crew be cast adrift and fall all
carelessness - Unvorsichtigkeit, Leichtsinn
swooping to the sea. So Ahabs proceedings in this matter were not
swooping - (swoop) herabschieen, herabstrzen, Sturzflug
unusual; the only strange thing about them seemed to be, that Starbuck,
almost the one only man who had ever ventured to oppose him with
ventured - (venture) Wagnis
anything in the slightest degree approaching to decision"one of those
too, whose faithfulness on the look-out he had seemed to doubt
somewhat;"it was strange, that this was the very man he should select
select - auswhlen
for his watchman; freely giving his whole life into such an otherwise
distrusted persons hands.
Now, the first time Ahab was perched aloft; ere he had been there ten
minutes; one of those red-billed savage sea-hawks which so often fly
incommodiously close round the manned mast-heads of whalemen in these
incommodiously - lstig
latitudes; one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his
head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings. Then it darted a
untrackably - unauffindbar
thousand feet straight up into the air; then spiralized downwards, and
spiralized - spiralisiert
went eddying again round his head.
But with his gaze fixed upon the dim and distant horizon, Ahab seemed
not to mark this wild bird; nor, indeed, would any one else have marked
it much, it being no uncommon circumstance; only now almost the least
heedful eye seemed to see some sort of cunning meaning in almost every
sight.
Your hat, your hat, sir! suddenly cried the Sicilian seaman, who
being posted at the mizen-mast-head, stood directly behind Ahab, though
somewhat lower than his level, and with a deep gulf of air dividing
them.
But already the sable wing was before the old mans eyes; the long
hooked bill at his head: with a scream, the black hawk darted away with
scream - Schrei schreien
hawk - Falke, Habicht;auf der Strae verkaufen, beizen (Jagd
his prize.
An eagle flew thrice round Tarquins head, removing his cap to replace
it, and thereupon Tanaquil, his wife, declared that Tarquin would be
king of Rome. But only by the replacing of the cap was that omen
accounted good. Ahabs hat was never restored; the wild hawk flew on
and on with it; far in advance of the prow: and at last disappeared;
while from the point of that disappearance, a minute black spot was
disappearance - Verschwinden
black spot - blauer Fleck, hufige Unglcksstelle
dimly discerned, falling from that vast height into the sea.
The intense Pequod sailed on; the rolling waves and days went by; the
life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung; and another ship, most miserably
misnamed the Delight, was descried. As she drew nigh, all eyes were
misnamed - (misname) falsch benennen
fixed upon her broad beams, called shears, which, in some
shears - (shear) abschneiden, scheren, Scherkraft
whaling-ships, cross the quarter-deck at the height of eight or nine
feet; serving to carry the spare, unrigged, or disabled boats.
unrigged - (unrig) abmontieren
Upon the strangers shears were beheld the shattered, white ribs, and
some few splintered planks, of what had once been a whale-boat; but you
now saw through this wreck, as plainly as you see through the peeled,
saw through - (see through) durchschauen
half-unhinged, and bleaching skeleton of a horse.
bleaching - bleichend, Bleiche, ausbleichend; (bleach) bleichend, Bleich
Hast seen the White Whale?
Look! replied the hollow-cheeked captain from his taffrail; and with
his trumpet he pointed to the wreck.
Hast killed him?
The harpoon is not yet forged that ever will do that, answered the
other, sadly glancing upon a rounded hammock on the deck, whose
gathered sides some noiseless sailors were busy in sewing together.
sewing - (to sew) nhen; (sew) (to sew) nhen
Not forged! and snatching Perths levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab
held it out, exclaiming"Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold
his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these
barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the
triply - dreifache, dreifach
hot place - Kochplatte
fin, where the White Whale most feels his accursed life!
Then God keep thee, old man"seest thou that"pointing to the
hammock"I bury but one of five stout men, who were alive only
yesterday; but were dead ere night. Only _that_ one I bury; the rest
were buried before they died; you sail upon their tomb. Then turning
to his crew"Are ye ready there? place the plank then on the rail, and
lift the body; so, then"Oh! God"advancing towards the hammock with
uplifted hands"may the resurrection and the life""
Brace forward! Up helm! cried Ahab like lightning to his men.
But the suddenly started Pequod was not quick enough to escape the
sound of the splash that the corpse soon made as it struck the sea; not
so quick, indeed, but that some of the flying bubbles might have
sprinkled her hull with their ghostly baptism.
baptism - Taufe
As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy
dejected - (deject) entmutigen
hanging at the Pequods stern came into conspicuous relief.
Ha! yonder! look yonder, men! cried a foreboding voice in her wake.
In vain, oh, ye strangers, ye fly our sad burial; ye but turn us your
taffrail to show us your coffin!
It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were
firmaments - (firmament) Firmament
hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was
separable - separabel, trennbar, separierbar
pensive - nachdenklich, gedankenvoll, gedankenverlore
transparently pure and soft, with a womans look, and the robust and
transparently - offensichtlich, durchsichtig
man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samsons
chest in his sleep.
Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small,
unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air;
unspeckled - ungesprenkelt
but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed
mighty leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong,
troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.
masculine - mnnlich, maskulin, Maskulinum; maskulines Genu
But though thus contrasting within, the contrast was only in shades and
shadows without; those two seemed one; it was only the sex, as it were,
that distinguished them.
Aloft, like a royal czar and king, the sun seemed giving this gentle
air to this bold and rolling sea; even as bride to groom. And at the
groom - Stallmeister, Stallknecht;loipen, prparieren (Skipiste
girdling line of the horizon, a soft and tremulous motion"most seen
here at the equator"denoted the fond, throbbing trust, the loving
alarms, with which the poor bride gave her bosom away.
Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm
haggardly - wilde, verstrt
and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the
unyielding - unbiegsam, unnachgiebig
ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the
untottering - untottern
clearness - Übersichtlichkeit, Deutlichkeit
morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girls
forehead of heaven.
Oh, immortal infancy, and innocency of the azure! Invisible winged
innocency - Unschuld
creatures that frolic all round us! Sweet childhood of air and sky! how
oblivious were ye of old Ahabs close-coiled woe! But so have I seen
little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around
elves - (elf) Elfe, Elf, Elb, Elbe
heedlessly - achtlose
gambol - herumtollen, herumhpfen, herumspringen, Tollerei
their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on
singed - (singe) versengen
the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.
marge - Margarine
burnt out - (burnt-out) ausgebrannt
Slowly crossing the deck from the scuttle, Ahab leaned over the side
and watched how his shadow in the water sank and sank to his gaze, the
more and the more that he strove to pierce the profundity. But the
lovely aromas in that enchanted air did at last seem to dispel, for a
aromas - (aroma) Aroma, Duft
dispel - zerstreuen
moment, the cankerous thing in his soul. That glad, happy air, that
cankerous - fressend
winsome sky, did at last stroke and caress him; the step-mother world,
caress - Liebkosung, Umarmung, Streicheln, liebkosen
so long cruel"forbidding"now threw affectionate arms round his stubborn
neck, and did seem to joyously sob over him, as if over one, that
however wilful and erring, she could yet find it in her heart to save
erring - irrend; (err) irrend
and to bless. From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into
the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee
wee - Pipi machen
drop.
Starbuck saw the old man; saw him, how he heavily leaned over the side;
and he seemed to hear in his own true heart the measureless sobbing
that stole out of the centre of the serenity around. Careful not to
touch him, or be noticed by him, he yet drew near to him, and stood
there.
Ahab turned.
Starbuck!
Sir.
Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such
a day"very much such a sweetness as this"I struck my first whale"a
boy-harpooneer of eighteen! Forty"forty"forty years ago!"ago! Forty
years of continual whaling! forty years of privation, and peril, and
privation - Entbehrung, Einschrnkung, Mangel, Armut, Not
storm-time! forty years on the pitiless sea! for forty years has Ahab
forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors
forsaken - (forsake) aufgeben
of the deep! Aye and yes, Starbuck, out of those forty years I have not
spent three ashore. When I think of this life I have led; the
desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a
Captains exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any
sympathy from the green country without"oh, weariness! heaviness!
heaviness - Schwere
Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!"when I think of all this;
slavery - Sklaverei, Knechtschaft
only half-suspected, not so keenly known to me before"and how for forty
years I have fed upon dry salted fare"fit emblem of the dry nourishment
of my soil!"when the poorest landsman has had fresh fruit to his daily
hand, and broken the worlds fresh bread to my mouldy crusts"away,
crusts - (crust) Kruste, Rinde
whole oceans away, from that young girl-wife I wedded past fifty, and
sailed for Cape Horn the next day, leaving but one dent in my marriage
pillow"wife? wife?"rather a widow with her husband alive! Aye, I
widowed that poor girl when I married her, Starbuck; and then, the
madness, the frenzy, the boiling blood and the smoking brow, with
frenzy - Wahn, Rausch, Wut
which, for a thousand lowerings old Ahab has furiously, foamingly
foamingly - schaumige
chased his prey"more a demon than a man!"aye, aye! what a forty years
fool"fool"old fool, has old Ahab been! Why this strife of the chase?
why weary, and palsy the arm at the oar, and the iron, and the lance?
how the richer or better is Ahab now? Behold. Oh, Starbuck! is it not
hard, that with this weary load I bear, one poor leg should have been
snatched from under me? Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me,
that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some
ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel
deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering
beneath the piled centuries since Paradise. God! God! God!"crack my
heart!"stave my brain!"mockery! mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey
mockery - Verspottung, Verhhnung, Gesptt, Lachnummer , Farce, Posse
hairs, have I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus
intolerably old? Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a
human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to
gaze upon God. By the green land; by the bright hearth-stone! this is
the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no;
stay on board, on board!"lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives
chase to Moby Dick. That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with
the far away home I see in that eye!
Oh, my Captain! my Captain! noble soul! grand old heart, after all!
why should any one give chase to that hated fish! Away with me! let us
fly these deadly waters! let us home! Wife and child, too, are
Starbucks"wife and child of his brotherly, sisterly, play-fellow
sisterly - schwesterlich, geschwisterlich
youth; even as thine, sir, are the wife and child of thy loving,
longing, paternal old age! Away! let us away!"this instant let me alter
paternal - vterlich
the course! How cheerily, how hilariously, O my Captain, would we bowl
on our way to see old Nantucket again! I think, sir, they have some
such mild blue days, even as this, in Nantucket.
They have, they have. I have seen them"some summer days in the
morning. About this time"yes, it is his noon nap now"the boy
vivaciously wakes; sits up in bed; and his mother tells him of me, of
cannibal old me; how I am abroad upon the deep, but will yet come back
to dance him again.
Tis my Mary, my Mary herself! She promised that my boy, every
morning, should be carried to the hill to catch the first glimpse of
his fathers sail! Yes, yes! no more! it is done! we head for
Nantucket! Come, my Captain, study out the course, and let us away!
See, see! the boys face from the window! the boys hand on the hill!
But Ahabs glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and
blighted - (blight) Braunfule Geiel, Seuche, Plage, Heimsuchung
fruit tree - Obstbaum
cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.
cindered - (cinder) Asche Schlacke, Zunder, verkohlen, verschwele
What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what
cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor
commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so keep
lovings - (loving) liebend
longings - (longing) sehnschtig, Sehnsucht, sehnend
pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly
making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not
so much as dare? Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this
arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy
in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible
power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain
think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does
that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round
in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike. And all
the time, lo! that smiling sky, and this unsounded sea! Look! see yon
Albicore! who put it into him to chase and fang that flying-fish? Where
do murderers go, man! Whos to doom, when the judge himself is dragged
to the bar? But it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky; and
the air smells now, as if it blew from a far-away meadow; they have
been making hay somewhere under the slopes of the Andes, Starbuck, and
the mowers are sleeping among the new-mown hay. Sleeping? Aye, toil we
how we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust
amid greenness; as last years scythes flung down, and left in the
half-cut swaths"Starbuck!
But blanched to a corpses hue with despair, the Mate had stolen away.
blanched - (blanch) bleichen
stolen away - davongeschlichen
Ahab crossed the deck to gaze over on the other side; but started at
two reflected, fixed eyes in the water there. Fedallah was motionlessly
motionlessly - bewegungslos, bewegungslose
leaning over the same rail.
That night, in the mid-watch, when the old man"as his wont at
intervals"stepped forth from the scuttle in which he leaned, and went
to his pivot-hole, he suddenly thrust out his face fiercely, snuffing
up the sea air as a sagacious ships dog will, in drawing nigh to some
barbarous isle. He declared that a whale must be near. Soon that
peculiar odor, sometimes to a great distance given forth by the living
sperm whale, was palpable to all the watch; nor was any mariner
surprised when, after inspecting the compass, and then the dog-vane,
inspecting - (inspect) begutachten, untersuchen, inspizieren, prfen
vane - Flgel, Schaufel, Drehflgel, Fahne, Federfahne
and then ascertaining the precise bearing of the odor as nearly as
ascertaining - (ascertain) feststellen
possible, Ahab rapidly ordered the ships course to be slightly
altered, and the sail to be shortened.
shortened - (shorten) verkrzen krzer werden
The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated
acute - scharf spitz akut
vindicated - (vindicate) rechtfertigen, verteidigen, reinwasche
at daybreak, by the sight of a long sleek on the sea directly and
lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling in the pleated watery
wrinkles bordering it, the polished metallic-like marks of some swift
metallic - metallisch
tide-rip, at the mouth of a deep, rapid stream.
rip - Riss;reien, der Lnge nach auftrennen
Man the mast-heads! Call all hands!
Thundering with the butts of three clubbed handspikes on the forecastle
deck, Daggoo roused the sleepers with such judgment claps that they
seemed to exhale from the scuttle, so instantaneously did they appear
with their clothes in their hands.
What dye see? cried Ahab, flattening his face to the sky.
flattening - (flatten) pltten, flachmachen, planieren, plattmachen
Nothing, nothing sir! was the sound hailing down in reply.
Tgallant sails!"stunsails! alow and aloft, and on both sides!
All sail being set, he now cast loose the life-line, reserved for
swaying him to the main royal-mast head; and in a few moments they were
hoisting him thither, when, while but two thirds of the way aloft, and
while peering ahead through the horizontal vacancy between the
main-top-sail and top-gallant-sail, he raised a gull-like cry in the
air. There she blows!"there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is
Moby Dick!
Fired by the cry which seemed simultaneously taken up by the three
look-outs, the men on deck rushed to the rigging to behold the famous
whale they had so long been pursuing. Ahab had now gained his final
perch, some feet above the other look-outs, Tashtego standing just
beneath him on the cap of the top-gallant-mast, so that the Indians
head was almost on a level with Ahabs heel. From this height the whale
was now seen some mile or so ahead, at every roll of the sea revealing
his high sparkling hump, and regularly jetting his silent spout into
jetting - (jet) Dsenflugzeug, Strahl, Dse;ausstoen
the air. To the credulous mariners it seemed the same silent spout they
had so long ago beheld in the moonlit Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
moonlit - im Mondlicht, vom Mond beschienen; (moonlight) Mondlich
And did none of ye see it before? cried Ahab, hailing the perched men
all around him.
I saw him almost that same instant, sir, that Captain Ahab did, and I
cried out, said Tashtego.
Not the same instant; not the same"no, the doubloon is mine, Fate
reserved the doubloon for me. _I_ only; none of ye could have raised
the White Whale first. There she blows!"there she blows!"there she
blows! There again!"there again! he cried, in long-drawn, lingering,
methodic tones, attuned to the gradual prolongings of the whales
methodic - planmig, methodisch
attuned - (attune) abstimmen, sich einstellen, stimmen
prolongings - Verlngerungen
visible jets. Hes going to sound! In stunsails! Down
top-gallant-sails! Stand by three boats. Mr. Starbuck, remember, stay
on board, and keep the ship. Helm there! Luff, luff a point! So;
Luff - Luv, Windseite
steady, man, steady! There go flukes! No, no; only black water! All
ready the boats there? Stand by, stand by! Lower me, Mr. Starbuck;
lower, lower,"quick, quicker! and he slid through the air to the deck.
He is heading straight to leeward, sir, cried Stubb, right away from
us; cannot have seen the ship yet.
Be dumb, man! Stand by the braces! Hard down the helm!"brace up!
brace up - zusammennehmen [alt], (seinen Mut) zusammen nehmen
Shiver her!"shiver her!"So; well that! Boats, boats!
Soon all the boats but Starbucks were dropped; all the boat-sails
set"all the paddles plying; with rippling swiftness, shooting to
leeward; and Ahab heading the onset. A pale, death-glimmer lit up
Fedallahs sunken eyes; a hideous motion gnawed his mouth.
Like noiseless nautilus shells, their light prows sped through the sea;
nautilus - Nautilus, Perlboot
but only slowly they neared the foe. As they neared him, the ocean grew
still more smooth; seemed drawing a carpet over its waves; seemed a
noon-meadow, so serenely it spread. At length the breathless hunter
came so nigh his seemingly unsuspecting prey, that his entire dazzling
unsuspecting - ahnungslos, arglos
hump was distinctly visible, sliding along the sea as if an isolated
thing, and continually set in a revolving ring of finest, fleecy,
greenish foam. He saw the vast, involved wrinkles of the slightly
projecting head beyond. Before it, far out on the soft Turkish-rugged
rugged - robust, schroff; (rug) Teppich, Brcke
waters, went the glistening white shadow from his broad, milky
forehead, a musical rippling playfully accompanying the shade; and
behind, the blue waters interchangeably flowed over into the moving
interchangeably - synonym, austauschbar
valley of his steady wake; and on either hand bright bubbles arose and
danced by his side. But these were broken again by the light toes of
hundreds of gay fowl softly feathering the sea, alternate with their
feathering - Gratbildung, Gefieder; (feather) Feder, Vogelfeder, befiedern
alternate - alternierend, wechselnd, abwechselnd, Wechsel-, jeweils anderer
fitful flight; and like to some flag-staff rising from the painted hull
fitful - unregelmig
of an argosy, the tall but shattered pole of a recent lance projected
from the white whales back; and at intervals one of the cloud of
soft-toed fowls hovering, and to and fro skimming like a canopy over
skimming - ber das Wasser hpfen lassen; (skim) springen lassen; hpfen lassen; q orthern and central Germany abprallen berfliegen abschpfe
the fish, silently perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail
feathers streaming like pennons.
streaming - strmend; (stream) Bach Strom Datenstrom strmen streamen
pennons - (pennon) Wimpel
A gentle joyousness"a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested
joyousness - Freude
the gliding whale. Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with
ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering
ravished - (ravish) entfhren, rauben, entzcken
eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness,
bewitching - (bewitch) verhexen
rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that
nuptial - hochzeitlich
great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so
surpass - bersteigen, bertreffen, berschreiten, berbieten
divinely swam.
On each soft side"coincident with the parted swell, that but once
coincident - gleichzeitig
leaving him, then flowed so wide away"on each bright side, the whale
shed off enticings. No wonder there had been some among the hunters who
enticings - (enticing) berredend, abwerbend, lockend
namelessly transported and allured by all this serenity, had ventured
namelessly - namenlose
to assail it; but had fatally found that quietude but the vesture of
assail - angreifen
tornadoes. Yet calm, enticing calm, oh, whale! thou glidest on, to all
enticing - berredend, abwerbend, lockend; (entice) locken, verfhren
glidest - am glattesten
who for the first time eye thee, no matter how many in that same way
thou mayst have bejuggled and destroyed before.
bejuggled - jongliert werden
And thus, through the serene tranquillities of the tropical sea, among
tranquillities - (tranquillity) Ruhe, Stille
waves whose hand-clappings were suspended by exceeding rapture, Moby
clappings - (clapping) Klatschen
rapture - Ekstase, Taumel, Verzckung, Entzcken
Dick moved on, still withholding from sight the full terrors of his
withholding - Quellensteuer ; (withhold) zurckhalten, einbehalte
submerged trunk, entirely hiding the wrenched hideousness of his jaw.
But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water; for an
instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginias
marbleized - (marbleize) marmorieren
Natural Bridge, and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air,
warningly - warnend
bannered - (banner) Banner, Fahne, Spruchbanner
the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight.
Hoveringly halting, and dipping on the wing, the white sea-fowls
Hoveringly - Schwebend
longingly lingered over the agitated pool that he left.
With oars apeak, and paddles down, the sheets of their sails adrift,
the three boats now stilly floated, awaiting Moby Dicks reappearance.
An hour, said Ahab, standing rooted in his boats stern; and he gazed
beyond the whales place, towards the dim blue spaces and wide wooing
wooing - (woo) jemanden umwerben, werbe
vacancies to leeward. It was only an instant; for again his eyes seemed
whirling round in his head as he swept the watery circle. The breeze
now freshened; the sea began to swell.
freshened - (freshen) auffrischen, beleben
The birds!"the birds! cried Tashtego.
In long Indian file, as when herons take wing, the white birds were now
herons - (heron) Reiher
all flying towards Ahabs boat; and when within a few yards began
fluttering over the water there, wheeling round and round, with joyous,
expectant cries. Their vision was keener than mans; Ahab could
expectant - erwartend, erwartungsvoll, schwanger, guter Hoffnung
discover no sign in the sea. But suddenly as he peered down and down
into its depths, he profoundly saw a white living spot no bigger than a
white weasel, with wonderful celerity uprising, and magnifying as it
weasel - Wiesel, Mauswiesel, Zwergwiesel, Kleinwiesel
rose, till it turned, and then there were plainly revealed two long
crooked rows of white, glistening teeth, floating up from the
undiscoverable bottom. It was Moby Dicks open mouth and scrolled jaw;
undiscoverable - unauffindbar
scrolled - (scroll) Schriftrolle, Buchrolle, Volute, Schnrkel
his vast, shadowed bulk still half blending with the blue of the sea.
The glittering mouth yawned beneath the boat like an open-doored marble
tomb; and giving one sidelong sweep with his steering oar, Ahab whirled
the craft aside from this tremendous apparition. Then, calling upon
Fedallah to change places with him, went forward to the bows, and
seizing Perths harpoon, commanded his crew to grasp their oars and
stand by to stern.
Now, by reason of this timely spinning round the boat upon its axis,
spinning round - umspinnend
its bow, by anticipation, was made to face the whales head while yet
under water. But as if perceiving this stratagem, Moby Dick, with that
stratagem - Kriegslist, Strategem
malicious intelligence ascribed to him, sidelingly transplanted
sidelingly - zur Seite
himself, as it were, in an instant, shooting his pleated head
lengthwise beneath the boat.
Through and through; through every plank and each rib, it thrilled for
thrilled - (thrill) Nervenkitzel;erregen, erschauern, durchdringen
an instant, the whale obliquely lying on his back, in the manner of a
biting shark, slowly and feelingly taking its bows full within his
mouth, so that the long, narrow, scrolled lower jaw curled high up into
the open air, and one of the teeth caught in a row-lock. The bluish
pearl-white of the inside of the jaw was within six inches of Ahabs
head, and reached higher than that. In this attitude the White Whale
now shook the slight cedar as a mildly cruel cat her mouse. With
unastonished eyes Fedallah gazed, and crossed his arms; but the
unastonished - ungeschmht
tiger-yellow crew were tumbling over each others heads to gain the
uttermost stern.
And now, while both elastic gunwales were springing in and out, as the
whale dallied with the doomed craft in this devilish way; and from his
dallied - (dally) trdeln
body being submerged beneath the boat, he could not be darted at from
the bows, for the bows were almost inside of him, as it were; and while
the other boats involuntarily paused, as before a quick crisis
impossible to withstand, then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with
this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and
helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized
frenzied - (frenzy) Wahn, Rausch, Wut
the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from
its gripe. As now he thus vainly strove, the jaw slipped from him; the
gripe - Griff;ergreifen
frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an
frail - zerbrechlich, schwchliche, gebrechlich
enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in
twain, and locked themselves fast again in the sea, midway between the
two floating wrecks. These floated aside, the broken ends drooping, the
crew at the stern-wreck clinging to the gunwales, and striving to hold
fast to the oars to lash them across.
At that preluding moment, ere the boat was yet snapped, Ahab, the first
to perceive the whales intent, by the crafty upraising of his head, a
crafty - geschickt gerissen, schlau, listig
upraising - (upraise) erheben
movement that loosed his hold for the time; at that moment his hand had
loosed - (loos) Klos
made one final effort to push the boat out of the bite. But only
slipping further into the whales mouth, and tilting over sideways as
tilting - kippend; (tilt) kippend
it slipped, the boat had shaken off his hold on the jaw; spilled him
shaken off - abgeschttelt
out of it, as he leaned to the push; and so he fell flat-faced upon the
sea.
Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little
Ripplingly - Kruselnd
distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the
billows; and at the same time slowly revolving his whole spindled body;
spindled - (spindle) Spindel Spindelstrauch
so that when his vast wrinkled forehead rose"some twenty or more feet
out of the water"the now rising swells, with all their confluent waves,
dazzlingly broke against it; vindictively tossing their shivered spray
vindictively - Rachschtig
still higher into the air.* So, in a gale, the but half baffled Channel
billows only recoil from the base of the Eddystone, triumphantly to
overleap its summit with their scud.
overleap - berspringen
*This motion is peculiar to the sperm whale. It receives its
designation (pitchpoling) from its being likened to that preliminary
designation - Benennung
up-and-down poise of the whale-lance, in the exercise called
poise - Gleichgewicht, Fassung, Gelassenheit, Haltung, Ausdruck, Poise
pitchpoling, previously described. By this motion the whale must best
and most comprehensively view whatever objects may be encircling him.
comprehensively - umfassende
But soon resuming his horizontal attitude, Moby Dick swam swiftly round
and round the wrecked crew; sideways churning the water in his vengeful
wake, as if lashing himself up to still another and more deadly
assault. The sight of the splintered boat seemed to madden him, as the
madden - rasend machen
blood of grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochuss elephants in the
mulberries - (mulberry) Maulbeerbaum Maulbeere
whales insolent tail, and too much of a cripple to swim,"though he
insolent - beleidigend, verletzend, anmaend, berheblich, frech
could still keep afloat, even in the heart of such a whirlpool as that;
helpless Ahabs head was seen, like a tossed bubble which the least
chance shock might burst. From the boats fragmentary stern, Fedallah
incuriously and mildly eyed him; the clinging crew, at the other
incuriously - gleichgltig
drifting end, could not succor him; more than enough was it for them to
look to themselves. For so revolvingly appalling was the White Whales
revolvingly - drehend
aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made,
planetarily - planetarisch
that he seemed horizontally swooping upon them. And though the other
boats, unharmed, still hovered hard by; still they dared not pull into
the eddy to strike, lest that should be the signal for the instant
destruction of the jeopardized castaways, Ahab and all; nor in that
case could they themselves hope to escape. With straining eyes, then,
they remained on the outer edge of the direful zone, whose centre had
now become the old mans head.
Meantime, from the beginning all this had been descried from the ships
mast heads; and squaring her yards, she had borne down upon the scene;
and was now so nigh, that Ahab in the water hailed her!"Sail on
the"but that moment a breaking sea dashed on him from Moby Dick, and
whelmed him for the time. But struggling out of it again, and chancing
to rise on a towering crest, he shouted,"Sail on the whale!"Drive him
off!
The Pequods prows were pointed; and breaking up the charmed circle,
she effectually parted the white whale from his victim. As he sullenly
swam off, the boats flew to the rescue.
Dragged into Stubbs boat with blood-shot, blinded eyes, the white
brine caking in his wrinkles; the long tension of Ahabs bodily
strength did crack, and helplessly he yielded to his bodys doom: for a
time, lying all crushed in the bottom of Stubbs boat, like one trodden
trodden - (tread) (to tread) betreten, schreiten
under foot of herds of elephants. Far inland, nameless wails came from
him, as desolate sounds from out ravines.
ravines - (ravine) Klamm, Schlucht
But this intensity of his physical prostration did but so much the more
prostration - Kniefall, Niederwerfung
abbreviate it. In an instants compass, great hearts sometimes condense
abbreviate - verkrzen, krzen, abkrzen
to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused
pang - Stechen, Schmerz
sum total - Gesamtsumme
through feebler mens whole lives. And so, such hearts, though summary
feebler - (feeble) kraftlos, schwach, drftig
in each one suffering; still, if the gods decree it, in their life-time
decree - Erlass, Dekret, Verordnung, Verfgung, Beschluss
aggregate a whole age of woe, wholly made up of instantaneous
intensities; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures
intensities - (intensity) Intensitt
pointless - stumpf gegenstandslos, irrelevant, sinnlos, witzlos, zwecklos
contain the entire circumferences of inferior souls.
circumferences - (circumference) Umfang, Kreisumfang
The harpoon, said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on
draggingly - schleppend
one bended arm"is it safe?
Aye, sir, for it was not darted; this is it, said Stubb, showing it.
Lay it before me;"any missing men?
One, two, three, four, five;"there were five oars, sir, and here are
five men.
Thats good."Help me, man; I wish to stand. So, so, I see him! there!
there! going to leeward still; what a leaping spout!"Hands off from me!
The eternal sap runs up in Ahabs bones again! Set the sail; out oars;
runs up - (run up) hochfahren, hissen
the helm!
It is often the case that when a boat is stove, its crew, being picked
up by another boat, help to work that second boat; and the chase is
thus continued with what is called double-banked oars. It was thus now.
But the added power of the boat did not equal the added power of the
whale, for he seemed to have treble-banked his every fin; swimming with
treble - verdreifachen;Stbchen (beim Hkeln), dreifach
a velocity which plainly showed, that if now, under these
circumstances, pushed on, the chase would prove an indefinitely
prolonged, if not a hopeless one; nor could any crew endure for so long
a period, such an unintermitted, intense straining at the oar; a thing
barely tolerable only in some one brief vicissitude. The ship itself,
vicissitude - Unbestndigkeit, Wandel, Wechsel, Vernderung
then, as it sometimes happens, offered the most promising intermediate
means of overtaking the chase. Accordingly, the boats now made for her,
overtaking - (overtake) berholen aufholen
and were soon swayed up to their cranes"the two parts of the wrecked
boat having been previously secured by her"and then hoisting everything
to her side, and stacking her canvas high up, and sideways
stacking - Ablage, Keller
outstretching it with stun-sails, like the double-jointed wings of an
outstretching - (outstretch) ausstrecken
jointed - (joint) gemeinschaftlich, gemeinsam, gemeinsame, gemeinsamer
albatross; the Pequod bore down in the leeward wake of Moby-Dick. At
the well known, methodic intervals, the whales glittering spout was
regularly announced from the manned mast-heads; and when he would be
reported as just gone down, Ahab would take the time, and then pacing
the deck, binnacle-watch in hand, so soon as the last second of the
allotted hour expired, his voice was heard."Whose is the doubloon now?
allotted - (allot) verteilen, zuteilen, austeilen
Dye see him? and if the reply was, No, sir! straightway he commanded
them to lift him to his perch. In this way the day wore on; Ahab, now
aloft and motionless; anon, unrestingly pacing the planks.
As he was thus walking, uttering no sound, except to hail the men
aloft, or to bid them hoist a sail still higher, or to spread one to a
still greater breadth"thus to and fro pacing, beneath his slouched hat,
at every turn he passed his own wrecked boat, which had been dropped
upon the quarter-deck, and lay there reversed; broken bow to shattered
stern. At last he paused before it; and as in an already over-clouded
sky fresh troops of clouds will sometimes sail across, so over the old
mans face there now stole some such added gloom as this.
Stubb saw him pause; and perhaps intending, not vainly, though, to
evince his own unabated fortitude, and thus keep up a valiant place in
his Captains mind, he advanced, and eyeing the wreck exclaimed"The
thistle the ass refused; it pricked his mouth too keenly, sir; ha! ha!
thistle - Distel
pricked - (prick) spitzer Gegenstand, Stich, Stachel;Schwanz;prickel
What soulless thing is this that laughs before a wreck? Man, man! did
soulless - seelenlos, entseelt
I not know thee brave as fearless fire (and as mechanical) I could
swear thou wert a poltroon. Groan nor laugh should be heard before a
wreck.
Aye, sir, said Starbuck drawing near, tis a solemn sight; an omen,
and an ill one.
Omen? omen?"the dictionary! If the gods think to speak outright to
man, they will honorably speak outright; not shake their heads, and
honorably - ehrenwerte
give an old wives darkling hint."Begone! Ye two are the opposite poles
darkling - Dunkelheit; (darkle) Dunkelheit
of one thing; Starbuck is Stubb reversed, and Stubb is Starbuck; and ye
two are all mankind; and Ahab stands alone among the millions of the
peopled earth, nor gods nor men his neighbors! Cold, cold"I shiver!"How
now? Aloft there! Dye see him? Sing out for every spout, though he
spout ten times a second!
The day was nearly done; only the hem of his golden robe was rustling.
rustling - (rustle) rascheln; (rustle) Rascheln, Rauschen, Knistern
Soon, it was almost dark, but the look-out men still remained unset.
unset - nicht eingestellt
Cant see the spout now, sir;"too dark"cried a voice from the air.
How heading when last seen?
As before, sir,"straight to leeward.
Good! he will travel slower now tis night. Down royals and
top-gallant stun-sails, Mr. Starbuck. We must not run over him before
morning; hes making a passage now, and may heave-to a while. Helm
there! keep her full before the wind!"Aloft! come down!"Mr. Stubb, send
a fresh hand to the fore-mast head, and see it manned till
morning."Then advancing towards the doubloon in the main-mast"Men,
this gold is mine, for I earned it; but I shall let it abide here till
the White Whale is dead; and then, whosoever of ye first raises him,
upon the day he shall be killed, this gold is that mans; and if on
that day I shall again raise him, then, ten times its sum shall be
divided among all of ye! Away now!"the deck is thine, sir!
And so saying, he placed himself half way within the scuttle, and
slouching his hat, stood there till dawn, except when at intervals
rousing himself to see how the night wore on.
rousing - (rouse) wachrufen, wecken
At day-break, the three mast-heads were punctually manned afresh.
punctually - pnktliche, pnktlich
Dye see him? cried Ahab after allowing a little space for the light
to spread.
See nothing, sir.
Turn up all hands and make sail! he travels faster than I thought
for;"the top-gallant sails!"aye, they should have been kept on her all
night. But no matter"tis but resting for the rush.
Here be it said, that this pertinacious pursuit of one particular
pertinacious - durchhaltend, hartnckig
whale, continued through day into night, and through night into day, is
a thing by no means unprecedented in the South sea fishery. For such is
the wonderful skill, prescience of experience, and invincible
prescience - Vorherwissen
confidence acquired by some great natural geniuses among the Nantucket
geniuses - (genius) Genie
commanders; that from the simple observation of a whale when last
descried, they will, under certain given circumstances, pretty
accurately foretell both the direction in which he will continue to
foretell - vorhersagen
swim for a time, while out of sight, as well as his probable rate of
progression during that period. And, in these cases, somewhat as a
pilot, when about losing sight of a coast, whose general trending he
well knows, and which he desires shortly to return to again, but at
some further point; like as this pilot stands by his compass, and takes
stands by - (stand by) dabei stehen, beispringen, dabeistehen [alt]
the precise bearing of the cape at present visible, in order the more
certainly to hit aright the remote, unseen headland, eventually to be
visited: so does the fisherman, at his compass, with the whale; for
after being chased, and diligently marked, through several hours of
daylight, then, when night obscures the fish, the creatures future
obscures - (obscure) obskur, dunkel, vernebelt, finster
wake through the darkness is almost as established to the sagacious
mind of the hunter, as the pilots coast is to him. So that to this
hunters wondrous skill, the proverbial evanescence of a thing writ in
proverbial - sprichwrtlich, proverbial
evanescence - Dahinschwinden, Schwinden
water, a wake, is to all desired purposes well nigh as reliable as the
steadfast land. And as the mighty iron Leviathan of the modern railway
is so familiarly known in its every pace, that, with watches in their
hands, men time his rate as doctors that of a babys pulse; and lightly
say of it, the up train or the down train will reach such or such a
spot, at such or such an hour; even so, almost, there are occasions
when these Nantucketers time that other Leviathan of the deep,
according to the observed humor of his speed; and say to themselves, so
many hours hence this whale will have gone two hundred miles, will have
about reached this or that degree of latitude or longitude. But to
render this acuteness at all successful in the end, the wind and the
acuteness - Akuitt
sea must be the whalemans allies; for of what present avail to the
becalmed or windbound mariner is the skill that assures him he is
windbound - windgebunden
exactly ninety-three leagues and a quarter from his port? Inferable
Inferable - ableitbar
from these statements, are many collateral subtile matters touching the
chase of whales.
The ship tore on; leaving such a furrow in the sea as when a
furrow - Furche
cannon-ball, missent, becomes a plough-share and turns up the level
missent - (missend) fehlleiten
plough - Pflug pflgen ficken
field.
By salt and hemp! cried Stubb, but this swift motion of the deck
creeps up ones legs and tingles at the heart. This ship and I are two
creeps - (creep) kriechen schleichen Knilch, Widerling
tingles - (tingle) kribbeln, prickeln, Prickeln
brave fellows!"Ha, ha! Some one take me up, and launch me, spine-wise,
launch - Markteinfhrung;anstoen, starten (Rakete), abschieen, grnden
on the sea,"for by live-oaks! my spines a keel. Ha, ha! we go the gait
that leaves no dust behind!
There she blows"she blows!"she blows!"right ahead! was now the
mast-head cry.
Aye, aye! cried Stubb, I knew it"ye cant escape"blow on and split
your spout, O whale! the mad fiend himself is after ye! blow your
trump"blister your lungs!"Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller
blister - Blase kritisieren Blasen werfen
miller - Mueller, Mller
shuts his watergate upon the stream!
watergate - Watergate, Watergate-Affre, Watergate-Skandal
And Stubb did but speak out for well nigh all that crew. The frenzies
frenzies - (frenzy) Wahn, Rausch, Wut
of the chase had by this time worked them bubblingly up, like old wine
worked anew. Whatever pale fears and forebodings some of them might
have felt before; these were not only now kept out of sight through the
growing awe of Ahab, but they were broken up, and on all sides routed,
as timid prairie hares that scatter before the bounding bison. The hand
hares - (hare) Hase
bounding - (bound) Sprung
of Fate had snatched all their souls; and by the stirring perils of the
previous day; the rack of the past nights suspense; the fixed,
previous day - vorheriger Tag
suspense - Hngen Spannung, Anspannung
unfearing, blind, reckless way in which their wild craft went plunging
towards its flying mark; by all these things, their hearts were bowled
along. The wind that made great bellies of their sails, and rushed the
vessel on by arms invisible as irresistible; this seemed the symbol of
that unseen agency which so enslaved them to the race.
enslaved - (enslave) versklaven
They were one man, not thirty. For as the one ship that held them all;
though it was put together of all contrasting things"oak, and maple,
maple - Ahorn
and pine wood; iron, and pitch, and hemp"yet all these ran into each
other in the one concrete hull, which shot on its way, both balanced
and directed by the long central keel; even so, all the individualities
individualities - (individuality) Individualitt
of the crew, this mans valor, that mans fear; guilt and guiltiness,
guiltiness - Schuld
all varieties were welded into oneness, and were all directed to that
oneness - Einheit
fatal goal which Ahab their one lord and keel did point to.
The rigging lived. The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were
outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs. Clinging to a spar with one
outspreadingly - ausbreitend
hand, some reached forth the other with impatient wavings; others,
wavings - (waving) (wave) wehen, winken mit, flattern
shading their eyes from the vivid sunlight, sat far out on the rocking
shading - Schraffierung, Dunkeltnung, schattierend; (shad) Maifisch
yards; all the spars in full bearing of mortals, ready and ripe for
their fate. Ah! how they still strove through that infinite blueness to
blueness - Blue
seek out the thing that might destroy them!
Why sing ye not out for him, if ye see him? cried Ahab, when, after
the lapse of some minutes since the first cry, no more had been heard.
Sway me up, men; ye have been deceived; not Moby Dick casts one odd
jet that way, and then disappears.
It was even so; in their headlong eagerness, the men had mistaken some
other thing for the whale-spout, as the event itself soon proved; for
hardly had Ahab reached his perch; hardly was the rope belayed to its
belayed - (belay) festmachen
pin on deck, when he struck the key-note to an orchestra, that made the
orchestra - Orchester Orchestergraben
air vibrate as with the combined discharges of rifles. The triumphant
vibrate - vibrieren Vibration
discharges - (discharge) entladen entlassen Ablauf Befreiung Entladung Entlassun
rifles - (rifle) Gewehr, Karabiner
halloo of thirty buckskin lungs was heard, as"much nearer to the ship
than the place of the imaginary jet, less than a mile ahead"Moby Dick
bodily burst into view! For not by any calm and indolent spoutings; not
by the peaceable gush of that mystic fountain in his head, did the
White Whale now reveal his vicinity; but by the far more wondrous
more wondrous - wundersamere
phenomenon of breaching. Rising with his utmost velocity from the
breaching - (breach) Bruch Versto, Bresche, Brechen
furthest depths, the Sperm Whale thus booms his entire bulk into the
pure element of air, and piling up a mountain of dazzling foam, shows
his place to the distance of seven miles and more. In those moments,
the torn, enraged waves he shakes off, seem his mane; in some cases,
shakes off - (shake off) abschtteln
this breaching is his act of defiance.
There she breaches! there she breaches! was the cry, as in his
immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to
bravadoes - (bravado) Angeberei, Draufgngertum, Gehab
salmon - Lachs, Salm, lachsfarben, lachsfarbig, lachsrot
Heaven. So suddenly seen in the blue plain of the sea, and relieved
against the still bluer margin of the sky, the spray that he raised,
for the moment, intolerably glittered and glared like a glacier; and
glittered - (glitter) Glitter glitzern
stood there gradually fading and fading away from its first sparkling
fading - (fade away) schwinden, verblassen, zerinne
intensity, to the dim mistiness of an advancing shower in a vale.
mistiness - Nebligkeit
Aye, breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick! cried Ahab, thy hour
and thy harpoon are at hand!"Down! down all of ye, but one man at the
fore. The boats!"stand by!
Unmindful of the tedious rope-ladders of the shrouds, the men, like
ladders - (ladder) Leiter Laufmasche
shooting stars, slid to the deck, by the isolated backstays and
halyards; while Ahab, less dartingly, but still rapidly was dropped
dartingly - waghalsig
from his perch.
Lower away, he cried, so soon as he had reached his boat"a spare one,
rigged the afternoon previous. Mr. Starbuck, the ship is thine"keep
away from the boats, but keep near them. Lower, all!
As if to strike a quick terror into them, by this time being the first
assailant himself, Moby Dick had turned, and was now coming for the
three crews. Ahabs boat was central; and cheering his men, he told
them he would take the whale head-and-head,"that is, pull straight up
to his forehead,"a not uncommon thing; for when within a certain limit,
such a course excludes the coming onset from the whales sidelong
excludes - (exclude) ausschlieen
vision. But ere that close limit was gained, and while yet all three
boats were plain as the ships three masts to his eye; the White Whale
churning himself into furious speed, almost in an instant as it were,
rushing among the boats with open jaws, and a lashing tail, offered
appalling battle on every side; and heedless of the irons darted at him
from every boat, seemed only intent on annihilating each separate plank
annihilating - (annihilate) vernichten
of which those boats were made. But skilfully man"uvred, incessantly
wheeling like trained chargers in the field; the boats for a while
chargers - (charger) Ladegert
eluded him; though, at times, but by a planks breadth; while all the
time, Ahabs unearthly slogan tore every other cry but his to shreds.
slogan - Devise, Leitspruch, Losung, Motto
But at last in his untraceable evolutions, the White Whale so crossed
untraceable - unauffindbar
evolutions - (evolution) Evolution
and recrossed, and in a thousand ways entangled the slack of the three
recrossed - (recross) erneut berqueren
lines now fast to him, that they foreshortened, and, of themselves,
foreshortened - (foreshorten) perspektivisch zeichnen
warped the devoted boats towards the planted irons in him; though now
for a moment the whale drew aside a little, as if to rally for a more
tremendous charge. Seizing that opportunity, Ahab first paid out more
line: and then was rapidly hauling and jerking in upon it again"hoping
that way to disencumber it of some snarls"when lo!"a sight more savage
disencumber - entlasten
snarls - (snarl) anschnauzen, wtend knurren, knurren
than the embattled teeth of sharks!
Caught and twisted"corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons
corkscrewed - (corkscrew) Korkenzieher
and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing
and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahabs boat. Only one
thing could be done. Seizing the boat-knife, he critically reached
within"through"and then, without"the rays of steel; dragged in the line
beyond, passed it, inboard, to the bowsman, and then, twice sundering
inboard - Innen.
the rope near the chocks"dropped the intercepted fagot of steel into
fagot - Reisigbndel;Holzbndel
the sea; and was all fast again. That instant, the White Whale made a
sudden rush among the remaining tangles of the other lines; by so
tangles - (tangle) Wirrwarr, Gewir
doing, irresistibly dragged the more involved boats of Stubb and Flask
towards his flukes; dashed them together like two rolling husks on a
husks - (husk) schlen, ausschoten, enthlsen;Schale, Hlse, Schot
surf-beaten beach, and then, diving down into the sea, disappeared in a
boiling maelstrom, in which, for a space, the odorous cedar chips of
the wrecks danced round and round, like the grated nutmeg in a swiftly
grated - (grate) Gitter, Feuerrost, Rost;(Kse) reiben, raster
nutmeg - Muskatbaum, Muskatenbaum, Muskat, Muskatnuss, Tunnel, Beinschus
stirred bowl of punch.
While the two crews were yet circling in the waters, reaching out after
the revolving line-tubs, oars, and other floating furniture, while
aslope little Flask bobbed up and down like an empty vial, twitching
aslope - Schrglage
bobbed - (bob) Troddel;tanzen (Boot);Bob (Frisur)
twitching - zupfend, zupfen; (twitch) zupfend, zupfen
his legs upwards to escape the dreaded jaws of sharks; and Stubb was
lustily singing out for some one to ladle him up; and while the old
lustily - geil
mans line"now parting"admitted of his pulling into the creamy pool to
rescue whom he could;"in that wild simultaneousness of a thousand
concreted perils,"Ahabs yet unstricken boat seemed drawn up towards
unstricken - ungeschlagen
Heaven by invisible wires,"as, arrow-like, shooting perpendicularly
from the sea, the White Whale dashed his broad forehead against its
bottom, and sent it, turning over and over, into the air; till it fell
again"gunwale downwards"and Ahab and his men struggled out from under
struggled - (struggle) Kampf, Gefecht, sich durchbeien, sich schwer tun
it, like seals from a sea-side cave.
The first uprising momentum of the whale"modifying its direction as he
modifying - (modify) ndern, abndern, modifizieren
struck the surface"involuntarily launched him along it, to a little
distance from the centre of the destruction he had made; and with his
back to it, he now lay for a moment slowly feeling with his flukes from
side to side; and whenever a stray oar, bit of plank, the least chip or
crumb of the boats touched his skin, his tail swiftly drew back, and
crumb - Krmel,
came sideways smiting the sea. But soon, as if satisfied that his work
for that time was done, he pushed his pleated forehead through the
ocean, and trailing after him the intertangled lines, continued his
intertangled - (intertangle) Verflechtung
leeward way at a travellers methodic pace.
As before, the attentive ship having descried the whole fight, again
came bearing down to the rescue, and dropping a boat, picked up the
floating mariners, tubs, oars, and whatever else could be caught at,
and safely landed them on her decks. Some sprained shoulders, wrists,
and ankles; livid contusions; wrenched harpoons and lances;
contusions - (contusion) Prellung
inextricable intricacies of rope; shattered oars and planks; all these
inextricable - unentwirrbar, unablsbar, unlsbar, unentrinnbar
were there; but no fatal or even serious ill seemed to have befallen
any one. As with Fedallah the day before, so Ahab was now found grimly
clinging to his boats broken half, which afforded a comparatively easy
float; nor did it so exhaust him as the previous days mishap.
But when he was helped to the deck, all eyes were fastened upon him; as
instead of standing by himself he still half-hung upon the shoulder of
Starbuck, who had thus far been the foremost to assist him. His ivory
leg had been snapped off, leaving but one short sharp splinter.
snapped off - abgeknickt
splinter - Span, Splitter
Aye, aye, Starbuck, tis sweet to lean sometimes, be the leaner who he
leaner - hagerer; (lean) hagerer
will; and would old Ahab had leaned oftener than he has.
The ferrule has not stood, sir, said the carpenter, now coming up; I
put good work into that leg.
But no bones broken, sir, I hope, said Stubb with true concern.
Aye! and all splintered to pieces, Stubb!"dye see it."But even with a
broken bone, old Ahab is untouched; and I account no living bone of
mine one jot more me, than this dead one thats lost. Nor white whale,
nor man, nor fiend, can so much as graze old Ahab in his own proper and
inaccessible being. Can any lead touch yonder floor, any mast scrape
yonder roof?"Aloft there! which way?
Dead to leeward, sir.
Up helm, then; pile on the sail again, ship keepers! down the rest of
the spare boats and rig them"Mr. Starbuck away, and muster the boats
crews.
Let me first help thee towards the bulwarks, sir.
Oh, oh, oh! how this splinter gores me now! Accursed fate! that the
unconquerable captain in the soul should have such a craven mate!
Sir?
My body, man, not thee. Give me something for a cane"there, that
shivered lance will do. Muster the men. Surely I have not seen him yet.
By heaven it cannot be!"missing?"quick! call them all.
The old mans hinted thought was true. Upon mustering the company, the
Parsee was not there.
The Parsee! cried Stubb"he must have been caught in""
The black vomit wrench thee!"run all of ye above, alow, cabin,
forecastle"find him"not gone"not gone!
But quickly they returned to him with the tidings that the Parsee was
nowhere to be found.
Aye, sir, said Stubb"caught among the tangles of your line"I thought
I saw him dragging under.
_My_ line! _my_ line? Gone?"gone? What means that little word?"What
death-knell rings in it, that old Ahab shakes as if he were the belfry.
death-knell - (death knell) Totenglocke
The harpoon, too!"toss over the litter there,"dye see it?"the forged
iron, men, the white whales"no, no, no,"blistered fool! this hand did
dart it!"tis in the fish!"Aloft there! Keep him nailed"Quick!"all
hands to the rigging of the boats"collect the oars"harpooneers! the
irons, the irons!"hoist the royals higher"a pull on all the
sheets!"helm there! steady, steady for your life! Ill ten times girdle
the unmeasured globe; yea and dive straight through it, but Ill slay
unmeasured - unermesslich, ungemessen
him yet!
Great God! but for one single instant show thyself, cried Starbuck;
never, never wilt thou capture him, old man"In Jesus name no more of
this, thats worse than devils madness. Two days chased; twice stove
to splinters; thy very leg once more snatched from under thee; thy evil
shadow gone"all good angels mobbing thee with warnings:"what more
mobbing - (mob) Meute, Pbel
wouldst thou have?"Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish till he
swamps the last man? Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the
sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world? Oh, oh,"Impiety
Impiety - Piettlosigkeit
and blasphemy to hunt him more!
Starbuck, of late Ive felt strangely moved to thee; ever since that
hour we both saw"thou knowst what, in one anothers eyes. But in this
matter of the whale, be the front of thy face to me as the palm of this
hand"a lipless, unfeatured blank. Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This
lipless - lippenlos
unfeatured - unvollstndig
whole acts immutably decreed. Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion
immutably - unvernderliches, unvernderlich
billion - Milliarde Billion
years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates lieutenant; I act
under orders. Look thou, underling! that thou obeyest mine."Stand round
underling - Untergebener, Untertan, Unterling
obeyest - gehorchen
me, men. Ye see an old man cut down to the stump; leaning on a shivered
lance; propped up on a lonely foot. Tis Ahab"his bodys part; but
propped - (prop) Sttze
Ahabs souls a centipede, that moves upon a hundred legs. I feel
centipede - Tausendfler, Tausendfer
strained, half stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a
gale; and I may look so. But ere I break, yell hear me crack; and till
ye hear _that_, know that Ahabs hawser tows his purpose yet. Believe
ye, men, in the things called omens? Then laugh aloud, and cry encore!
omens - (omen) Omen
encore - Zugabe Zugabe!, da capo!
For ere they drown, drowning things will twice rise to the surface;
then rise again, to sink for evermore. So with Moby Dick"two days hes
floated"tomorrow will be the third. Aye, men, hell rise once more,"but
only to spout his last! Dye feel brave men, brave?
As fearless fire, cried Stubb.
And as mechanical, muttered Ahab. Then as the men went forward, he
muttered on: The things called omens! And yesterday I talked the same
to Starbuck there, concerning my broken boat. Oh! how valiantly I seek
to drive out of others hearts whats clinched so fast in mine!"The
Parsee"the Parsee!"gone, gone? and he was to go before:"but still was
to be seen again ere I could perish"Hows that?"Theres a riddle now
might baffle all the lawyers backed by the ghosts of the whole line of
baffle - verblffen, verdutzen, verwirren, ratlos machen
judges:"like a hawks beak it pecks my brain. _Ill_, _Ill_ solve it,
though!
When dusk descended, the whale was still in sight to leeward.
So once more the sail was shortened, and everything passed nearly as on
the previous night; only, the sound of hammers, and the hum of the
grindstone was heard till nearly daylight, as the men toiled by
lanterns in the complete and careful rigging of the spare boats and
sharpening their fresh weapons for the morrow. Meantime, of the broken
keel of Ahabs wrecked craft the carpenter made him another leg; while
still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his
scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its
heliotrope - Heliotrop, Vanilleblume, Sonnenwende, Blauviolett, Heliotrop
dial; sat due eastward for the earliest sun.
The morning of the third day dawned fair and fresh, and once more the
dawned - (dawn) dmmern Morgendmmerung, Morgengrauen
solitary night-man at the fore-mast-head was relieved by crowds of the
daylight look-outs, who dotted every mast and almost every spar.
Dye see him? cried Ahab; but the whale was not yet in sight.
In his infallible wake, though; but follow that wake, thats all. Helm
there; steady, as thou goest, and hast been going. What a lovely day
again! were it a new-made world, and made for a summer-house to the
summer house - (summer-house) Gartenhaus
angels, and this morning the first of its throwing open to them, a
fairer day could not dawn upon that world. Heres food for thought, had
Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels;
_thats_ tingling enough for mortal man! to thinks audacity. God only
has that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness
and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too
much for that. And yet, Ive sometimes thought my brain was very
calm"frozen calm, this old skull cracks so, like a glass in which the
contents turned to ice, and shiver it. And still this hair is growing
now; this moment growing, and heat must breed it; but no, its like
that sort of common grass that will grow anywhere, between the earthy
clefts of Greenland ice or in Vesuvius lava. How the wild winds blow
clefts - (cleft) zerklftet, Kluft, Riss, kleben
Vesuvius - Vesuv
lava - Lava
it; they whip it about me as the torn shreds of split sails lash the
tossed ship they cling to. A vile wind that has no doubt blown ere this
through prison corridors and cells, and wards of hospitals, and
corridors - (corridor) Korridor, Gang, Durchgang, Flur
ventilated them, and now comes blowing hither as innocent as fleeces.
ventilated - (ventilate) lften belften, ventilieren, beatmen
fleeces - (fleece) Vlies Fell Fleece Fleecejacke abziehen, ausnehme
Out upon it!"its tainted. Were I the wind, Id blow no more on such a
tainted - (taint) verderben
wicked, miserable world. Id crawl somewhere to a cave, and slink
slink - schleichen Frhgeburt
there. And yet, tis a noble and heroic thing, the wind! who ever
conquered it? In every fight it has the last and bitterest blow. Run
tilting at it, and you but run through it. Ha! a coward wind that
strikes stark naked men, but will not stand to receive a single blow.
stark naked - splitterfasernackt, splitternackt
Even Ahab is a braver thing"a nobler thing than _that_. Would now the
wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate and
exasperate - verrgern, aufbringen, auf die Palme bringen
outrage mortal man, all these things are bodiless, but only bodiless as
bodiless - krperlos
objects, not as agents. Theres a most special, a most cunning, oh, a
most malicious difference! And yet, I say again, and swear it now, that
theres something all glorious and gracious in the wind. These warm
Trade Winds, at least, that in the clear heavens blow straight on, in
straight on - geradeaus
strong and steadfast, vigorous mildness; and veer not from their mark,
veer - drehen, umspringen
however the baser currents of the sea may turn and tack, and mightiest
Mississippies of the land swift and swerve about, uncertain where to go
Mississippies - Mississippi
swerve about - in Schlangenlinien fahren
at last. And by the eternal Poles! these same Trades that so directly
blow my good ship on; these Trades, or something like them"something so
unchangeable, and full as strong, blow my keeled soul along! To it!
unchangeable - unvernderlich
Aloft there! What dye see?
Nothing, sir.
Nothing! and noon at hand! The doubloon goes a-begging! See the sun!
Aye, aye, it must be so. Ive oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye,
oversailed - (oversail) bersegeln
hes chasing _me_ now; not I, _him_"thats bad; I might have known it,
too. Fool! the lines"the harpoons hes towing. Aye, aye, I have run him
by last night. About! about! Come down, all of ye, but the regular look
outs! Man the braces!
Steering as she had done, the wind had been somewhat on the Pequods
quarter, so that now being pointed in the reverse direction, the braced
reverse direction - Rckwrts-Richtung
ship sailed hard upon the breeze as she rechurned the cream in her own
rechurned - umgedreht
white wake.
Against the wind he now steers for the open jaw, murmured Starbuck to
himself, as he coiled the new-hauled main-brace upon the rail. God
keep us, but already my bones feel damp within me, and from the inside
wet my flesh. I misdoubt me that I disobey my God in obeying him!
misdoubt - Misstrauen
disobey - missachten nicht gehorchen
Stand by to sway me up! cried Ahab, advancing to the hempen basket.
We should meet him soon.
Aye, aye, sir, and straightway Starbuck did Ahabs bidding, and once
more Ahab swung on high.
A whole hour now passed; gold-beaten out to ages. Time itself now held
long breaths with keen suspense. But at last, some three points off the
weather bow, Ahab descried the spout again, and instantly from the
three mast-heads three shrieks went up as if the tongues of fire had
voiced it.
Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick! On deck
there!"brace sharper up; crowd her into the winds eye. Hes too far
off to lower yet, Mr. Starbuck. The sails shake! Stand over that
helmsman with a top-maul! So, so; he travels fast, and I must down. But
let me have one more good round look aloft here at the sea; theres
time for that. An old, old sight, and yet somehow so young; aye, and
not changed a wink since I first saw it, a boy, from the sand-hills of
wink - zwinkern, blinzeln, funkeln, zuzwinkern
Nantucket! The same!"the same!"the same to Noah as to me. Theres a
soft shower to leeward. Such lovely leewardings! They must lead
leewardings - Leewrts
somewhere"to something else than common land, more palmy than the
palms. Leeward! the white whale goes that way; look to windward, then;
the better if the bitterer quarter. But good bye, good bye, old
bitterer - (bitter) herb, rau, bitter
mast-head! Whats this?"green? aye, tiny mosses in these warped cracks.
No such green weather stains on Ahabs head! Theres the difference now
between mans old age and matters. But aye, old mast, we both grow old
together; sound in our hulls, though, are we not, my ship? Aye, minus a
leg, thats all. By heaven this dead wood has the better of my live
flesh every way. I cant compare with it; and Ive known some ships
made of dead trees outlast the lives of men made of the most vital
stuff of vital fathers. Whats that he said? he should still go before
me, my pilot; and yet to be seen again? But where? Will I have eyes at
the bottom of the sea, supposing I descend those endless stairs? and
all night Ive been sailing from him, wherever he did sink to. Aye,
aye, like many more thou toldst direful truth as touching thyself, O
Parsee; but, Ahab, there thy shot fell short. Good-bye, mast-head"keep
a good eye upon the whale, the while Im gone. Well talk to-morrow,
nay, to-night, when the white whale lies down there, tied by head and
tail.
He gave the word; and still gazing round him, was steadily lowered
through the cloven blue air to the deck.
In due time the boats were lowered; but as standing in his shallops
stern, Ahab just hovered upon the point of the descent, he waved to the
mate,"who held one of the tackle-ropes on deck"and bade him pause.
Starbuck!
Sir?
For the third time my souls ship starts upon this voyage, Starbuck.
Aye, sir, thou wilt have it so.
Some ships sail from their ports, and ever afterwards are missing,
Starbuck!
Truth, sir: saddest truth.
Some men die at ebb tide; some at low water; some at the full of the
flood;"and I feel now like a billow thats all one crested comb,
Starbuck. I am old;"shake hands with me, man.
Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbucks tears the glue.
Oh, my captain, my captain!"noble heart"go not"go not!"see, its a
brave man that weeps; how great the agony of the persuasion then!
weeps - (weep) weinen
persuasion - berredung berzeugung berredungskunst
Lower away!"cried Ahab, tossing the mates arm from him. Stand by
the crew!
In an instant the boat was pulling round close under the stern.
The sharks! the sharks! cried a voice from the low cabin-window
there; O master, my master, come back!
But Ahab heard nothing; for his own voice was high-lifted then; and the
boat leaped on.
Yet the voice spake true; for scarce had he pushed from the ship, when
numbers of sharks, seemingly rising from out the dark waters beneath
the hull, maliciously snapped at the blades of the oars, every time
maliciously - bswillig
they dipped in the water; and in this way accompanied the boat with
dipped in - gestippt
their bites. It is a thing not uncommonly happening to the whale-boats
in those swarming seas; the sharks at times apparently following them
in the same prescient way that vultures hover over the banners of
prescient - hellsichtig, vorausschauend, vorausahnend, vorherwissend
marching regiments in the east. But these were the first sharks that
regiments - (regiment) Regiment
had been observed by the Pequod since the White Whale had been first
descried; and whether it was that Ahabs crew were all such
tiger-yellow barbarians, and therefore their flesh more musky to the
senses of the sharks"a matter sometimes well known to affect
them,"however it was, they seemed to follow that one boat without
molesting the others.
molesting - (molest) belstigen
Heart of wrought steel! murmured Starbuck gazing over the side, and
following with his eyes the receding boat"canst thou yet ring boldly
to that sight?"lowering thy keel among ravening sharks, and followed by
ravening - verschlingend, gefrig; (raven) verschlingend, gefrig
them, open-mouthed to the chase; and this the critical third day?"For
when three days flow together in one continuous intense pursuit; be
flow together - zusammen flieen, zusammenflieen [alt]
sure the first is the morning, the second the noon, and the third the
evening and the end of that thing"be that end what it may. Oh! my God!
what is this that shoots through me, and leaves me so deadly calm, yet
expectant,"fixed at the top of a shudder! Future things swim before me,
as in empty outlines and skeletons; all the past is somehow grown dim.
Mary, girl! thou fadest in pale glories behind me; boy! I seem to see
fadest - am modischsten
but thy eyes grown wondrous blue. Strangest problems of life seem
clearing; but clouds sweep between"Is my journeys end coming? My legs
feel faint; like his who has footed it all day. Feel thy heart,"beats
feel faint - sich der Ohnmacht nahe fhlen
it yet? Stir thyself, Starbuck!"stave it off"move, move! speak
aloud!"Mast-head there! See ye my boys hand on the hill?"Crazed;"aloft
there!"keep thy keenest eye upon the boats:"mark well the whale!"Ho!
again!"drive off that hawk! see! he pecks"he tears the vane"pointing
to the red flag flying at the main-truck"Ha! he soars away with
soars - (soar) schweben hochfliegen gleiten hochschnellen, aufstrebe
it!"Wheres the old man now? seest thou that sight, oh Ahab!"shudder,
shudder!
The boats had not gone very far, when by a signal from the mast-heads"a
downward pointed arm, Ahab knew that the whale had sounded; but
intending to be near him at the next rising, he held on his way a
little sideways from the vessel; the becharmed crew maintaining the
profoundest silence, as the head-beat waves hammered and hammered
against the opposing bow.
Drive, drive in your nails, oh ye waves! to their uttermost heads
drive them in! ye but strike a thing without a lid; and no coffin and
no hearse can be mine:"and hemp only can kill me! Ha! ha!
Suddenly the waters around them slowly swelled in broad circles; then
quickly upheaved, as if sideways sliding from a submerged berg of ice,
upheaved - (upheave) emporheben
swiftly rising to the surface. A low rumbling sound was heard; a
subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with
bedraggled - (bedraggle) durchnssen
trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise,
but obliquely from the sea. Shrouded in a thin drooping veil of mist,
it hovered for a moment in the rainbowed air; and then fell swamping
swamping - (swamp) Sumpf, Moor, berfluten, berschwemmen
back into the deep. Crushed thirty feet upwards, the waters flashed for
an instant like heaps of fountains, then brokenly sank in a shower of
brokenly - gebrochen
flakes, leaving the circling surface creamed like new milk round the
marble trunk of the whale.
Give way! cried Ahab to the oarsmen, and the boats darted forward to
the attack; but maddened by yesterdays fresh irons that corroded in
him, Moby Dick seemed combinedly possessed by all the angels that fell
combinedly - zusammen
from heaven. The wide tiers of welded tendons overspreading his broad
tiers - (tier) Rang, Reihe, Etage
overspreading - (overspread) verbreiten
white forehead, beneath the transparent skin, looked knitted together;
knitted - (knit) stricken
as head on, he came churning his tail among the boats; and once more
flailed them apart; spilling out the irons and lances from the two
flailed - (flail) Flegel, Dreschflegel, Streitflegel, Kriegsflege
mates boats, and dashing in one side of the upper part of their bows,
but leaving Ahabs almost without a scar.
While Daggoo and Queequeg were stopping the strained planks; and as the
whale swimming out from them, turned, and showed one entire flank as he
shot by them again; at that moment a quick cry went up. Lashed round
and round to the fishs back; pinioned in the turns upon turns in
which, during the past night, the whale had reeled the involutions of
the lines around him, the half torn body of the Parsee was seen; his
sable raiment frayed to shreds; his distended eyes turned full upon old
frayed - (fray) Gefecht (auch fig.), Schlgerei;ausfransen
Ahab.
The harpoon dropped from his hand.
Befooled, befooled!"drawing in a long lean breath"Aye, Parsee! I see
thee again."Aye, and thou goest before; and this, _this_ then is the
hearse that thou didst promise. But I hold thee to the last letter of
thy word. Where is the second hearse? Away, mates, to the ship! those
boats are useless now; repair them if ye can in time, and return to me;
if not, Ahab is enough to die"Down, men! the first thing that but
offers to jump from this boat I stand in, that thing I harpoon. Ye are
not other men, but my arms and my legs; and so obey me."Wheres the
whale? gone down again?
But he looked too nigh the boat; for as if bent upon escaping with the
corpse he bore, and as if the particular place of the last encounter
had been but a stage in his leeward voyage, Moby Dick was now again
steadily swimming forward; and had almost passed the ship,"which thus
far had been sailing in the contrary direction to him, though for the
present her headway had been stopped. He seemed swimming with his
utmost velocity, and now only intent upon pursuing his own straight
path in the sea.
Oh! Ahab, cried Starbuck, not too late is it, even now, the third
day, to desist. See! Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that
madly seekest him!
seekest - sucht
Setting sail to the rising wind, the lonely boat was swiftly impelled
to leeward, by both oars and canvas. And at last when Ahab was sliding
by the vessel, so near as plainly to distinguish Starbucks face as he
leaned over the rail, he hailed him to turn the vessel about, and
follow him, not too swiftly, at a judicious interval. Glancing upwards,
judicious - verstndig, urteilsfhig
he saw Tashtego, Queequeg, and Daggoo, eagerly mounting to the three
mast-heads; while the oarsmen were rocking in the two staved boats
staved - (stave) Daube Sprosse Strophe, Vers, Notenlinien, Notensystem
which had but just been hoisted to the side, and were busily at work in
repairing them. One after the other, through the port-holes, as he
sped, he also caught flying glimpses of Stubb and Flask, busying
themselves on deck among bundles of new irons and lances. As he saw all
this; as he heard the hammers in the broken boats; far other hammers
seemed driving a nail into his heart. But he rallied. And now marking
that the vane or flag was gone from the main-mast-head, he shouted to
Tashtego, who had just gained that perch, to descend again for another
flag, and a hammer and nails, and so nail it to the mast.
Whether fagged by the three days running chase, and the resistance to
his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some
latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White
Whales way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly
abate - vermindern, verzehren (Rauch), verringern
nearing him once more; though indeed the whales last start had not
been so long a one as before. And still as Ahab glided over the waves
the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to
pertinaciously - hartnckige, hartnckig
the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades
became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at
almost every dip.
Heed them not! those teeth but give new rowlocks to your oars. Pull
rowlocks - (rowlock) Dolle
on! tis the better rest, the sharks jaw than the yielding water.
But at every bite, sir, the thin blades grow smaller and smaller!
They will last long enough! pull on!"But who can tell"he
muttered"whether these sharks swim to feast on the whale or on
Ahab?"But pull on! Aye, all alive, now"we near him. The helm! take the
helm! let me pass,"and so saying two of the oarsmen helped him forward
to the bows of the still flying boat.
At length as the craft was cast to one side, and ran ranging along with
the White Whales flank, he seemed strangely oblivious of its
advance"as the whale sometimes will"and Ahab was fairly within the
smoky mountain mist, which, thrown off from the whales spout, curled
round his great, Monadnock hump; he was even thus close to him; when,
with body arched back, and both arms lengthwise high-lifted to the
poise, he darted his fierce iron, and his far fiercer curse into the
fiercer - (fierce) wild, heftig, bedrohlich
hated whale. As both steel and curse sank to the socket, as if sucked
into a morass, Moby Dick sideways writhed; spasmodically rolled his
writhed - (writhe) winden, krmmen
nigh flank against the bow, and, without staving a hole in it, so
suddenly canted the boat over, that had it not been for the elevated
been tossed into the sea. As it was, three of the oarsmen"who foreknew
foreknew - (foreknow) voraussehen
not the precise instant of the dart, and were therefore unprepared for
unprepared - (unprepare) unvorbereitet
its effects"these were flung out; but so fell, that, in an instant two
of them clutched the gunwale again, and rising to its level on a
combing wave, hurled themselves bodily inboard again; the third man
helplessly dropping astern, but still afloat and swimming.
Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated,
ungraduated - ohne Abschluss
instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering
sea. But when Ahab cried out to the steersman to take new turns with
the line, and hold it so; and commanded the crew to turn round on their
seats, and tow the boat up to the mark; the moment the treacherous line
felt that double strain and tug, it snapped in the empty air!
tug - zerren schleppen Ruck
What breaks in me? Some sinew cracks!"tis whole again; oars! oars!
sinew - Sehne
burst in upon him!
burst in - hereinplatzen;hereingeplatzt
Hearing the tremendous rush of the sea-crashing boat, the whale wheeled
crashing - (crash) Zusammensto, Krach, Zusammenbruch;zusammenbreche
round to present his blank forehead at bay; but in that evolution,
evolution - Evolution
catching sight of the nearing black hull of the ship; seemingly seeing
in it the source of all his persecutions; bethinking it"it may be"a
persecutions - (persecution) Verfolgung, Schikane, Drangsalierung, Plage
larger and nobler foe; of a sudden, he bore down upon its advancing
prow, smiting his jaws amid fiery showers of foam.
Ahab staggered; his hand smote his forehead. I grow blind; hands!
stretch out before me that I may yet grope my way. Ist night?
The whale! The ship! cried the cringing oarsmen.
Oars! oars! Slope downwards to thy depths, O sea, that ere it be for
ever too late, Ahab may slide this last, last time upon his mark! I
see: the ship! the ship! Dash on, my men! Will ye not save my ship?
But as the oarsmen violently forced their boat through the
sledge-hammering seas, the before whale-smitten bow-ends of two planks
burst through, and in an instant almost, the temporarily disabled boat
lay nearly level with the waves; its half-wading, splashing crew,
splashing - anspritzend, platschen
trying hard to stop the gap and bale out the pouring water.
Meantime, for that one beholding instant, Tashtegos mast-head hammer
remained suspended in his hand; and the red flag, half-wrapping him as
with a plaid, then streamed itself straight out from him, as his own
plaid - schottisches Plaidtuch, kariert, Schottenstoff
forward-flowing heart; while Starbuck and Stubb, standing upon the
bowsprit beneath, caught sight of the down-coming monster just as soon
as he.
The whale, the whale! Up helm, up helm! Oh, all ye sweet powers of
air, now hug me close! Let not Starbuck die, if die he must, in a
womans fainting fit. Up helm, I say"ye fools, the jaw! the jaw! Is
this the end of all my bursting prayers? all my life-long fidelities?
fidelities - (fidelity) Redlichkeit Genauigkeit Treue Wiedergabetreu
Oh, Ahab, Ahab, lo, thy work. Steady! helmsman, steady. Nay, nay! Up
helm again! He turns to meet us! Oh, his unappeasable brow drives on
unappeasable - unanfechtbare, unstillbar
towards one, whose duty tells him he cannot depart. My God, stand by me
now!
Stand not by me, but stand under me, whoever you are that will now
help Stubb; for Stubb, too, sticks here. I grin at thee, thou grinning
whale! Who ever helped Stubb, or kept Stubb awake, but Stubbs own
unwinking eye? And now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattrass that is
unwinking - ohne zu zwinkern
all too soft; would it were stuffed with brushwood! I grin at thee,
brushwood - Reisig Gestrpp
thou grinning whale! Look ye, sun, moon, and stars! I call ye assassins
assassins - (Assassin) Assassine Attentter, Attentterin, Mrder, Mrderi
of as good a fellow as ever spouted up his ghost. For all that, I would
yet ring glasses with ye, would ye but hand the cup! Oh, oh! oh, oh!
thou grinning whale, but therell be plenty of gulping soon! Why fly ye
gulping - (gulp) Schluck schlucken schlingen, verschlingen
not, O Ahab! For me, off shoes and jacket to it; let Stubb die in his
drawers! A most mouldy and over salted death, though;"cherries!
cherries - (cherry) Kirsche Kirschbaum, Kirschenbaum, Kirschenholz
cherries! cherries! Oh, Flask, for one red cherry ere we die!
Cherries? I only wish that we were where they grow. Oh, Stubb, I hope
my poor mothers drawn my part-pay ere this; if not, few coppers will
coppers - (copper) Kupfer
now come to her, for the voyage is up.
From the ships bows, nearly all the seamen now hung inactive; hammers,
inactive - inaktiv, unttig
bits of plank, lances, and harpoons, mechanically retained in their
hands, just as they had darted from their various employments; all
their enchanted eyes intent upon the whale, which from side to side
strangely vibrating his predestinating head, sent a broad band of
predestinating - (predestinate) vorherbestimmen
overspreading semicircular foam before him as he rushed. Retribution,
swift vengeance, eternal malice were in his whole aspect, and spite of
all that mortal man could do, the solid white buttress of his forehead
buttress - Sttzpfeiler, Strebepfeiler, Gewlbepfeiler
smote the ships starboard bow, till men and timbers reeled. Some fell
flat upon their faces. Like dislodged trucks, the heads of the
dislodged - (dislodge) herauslsen; auer Position bringen
harpooneers aloft shook on their bull-like necks. Through the breach,
they heard the waters pour, as mountain torrents down a flume.
torrents - (torrent) Sturzbach, Sturzflut
flume - Fluder
The ship! The hearse!"the second hearse! cried Ahab from the boat;
its wood could only be American!
Diving beneath the settling ship, the whale ran quivering along its
keel; but turning under water, swiftly shot to the surface again, far
off the other bow, but within a few yards of Ahabs boat, where, for a
time, he lay quiescent.
I turn my body from the sun. What ho, Tashtego! let me hear thy
hammer. Oh! ye three unsurrendered spires of mine; thou uncracked keel;
unsurrendered - unaufgefordert
uncracked - ungeknackt
and only god-bullied hull; thou firm deck, and haughty helm, and
bullied - (bully) Rabauke, Bully, Tyrann, Schikaneur, einschchtern
Pole-pointed prow,"death-glorious ship! must ye then perish, and
without me? Am I cut off from the last fond pride of meanest
shipwrecked captains? Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel
my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. Ho, ho! from all your
furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone
foregone - (forego) vorhergehen
life, and top this one piled comber of my death! Towards thee I roll,
comber - Kmmmaschine
thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with
unconquering - unbesiegt
grapple - packen, erbeuten, anpacken;Handgemenge
thee; from hells heart I stab at thee; for hates sake I spit my last
breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool!
and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still
chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! _Thus_, I give up
the spear!
The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting
velocity the line ran through the grooves;"ran foul. Ahab stooped to
clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turn caught him round the
neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was
voicelessly - stimmlos
mutes - (mute) sprachlos;abdmpfen, dmpfen
bowstring - Bogensehne
shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew he was gone. Next instant, the
heavy eye-splice in the ropes final end flew out of the stark-empty
flew out - (fly out) ausfliegen
tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its
depths.
For an instant, the tranced boats crew stood still; then turned. The
ship? Great God, where is the ship? Soon they through dim, bewildering
bewildering - (bewilder) verwirren, durcheinanderbringen
mediums saw her sidelong fading phantom, as in the gaseous Fata
mediums - (medium) durchschnittlich, Medium, mittel.
gaseous - gasfrmig gashaltig, kohlensurehaltig
Morgana; only the uppermost masts out of water; while fixed by
infatuation, or fidelity, or fate, to their once lofty perches, the
infatuation - Vernarrtheit, besinnungslose Verliebtheit, Betrung, Verblendun
pagan harpooneers still maintained their sinking lookouts on the sea.
lookouts - (lookout) Ausguck
And now, concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its
crew, and each floating oar, and every lance-pole, and spinning,
animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex, carried the
inanimate - unbelebt, leblos
vortex - Wirbel Strudel
smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight.
But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the
intermixingly - durchmischend
sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the
erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag,
which calmly undulated, with ironical coincidings, over the destroying
ironical - ironisch
coincidings - Zuflle
billows they almost touched;"at that instant, a red arm and a hammer
hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, in the act of nailing the
backwardly - rckstndig
flag faster and yet faster to the subsiding spar. A sky-hawk that
tauntingly had followed the main-truck downwards from its natural home
tauntingly - verhhnend
among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there;
incommoding - (incommode) belstigen, stren
this bird now chanced to intercept its broad fluttering wing between
intercept - abfangen Achsenabschnitt
the hammer and the wood; and simultaneously feeling that etherial
etherial - therisch
thrill, the submerged savage beneath, in his death-gasp, kept his
thrill - Nervenkitzel;erregen, erschauern, durchdringen
hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic
shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive
form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like
Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of
heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it.
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen
white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the
great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Epilogue
Epilogue - Epilog, Nachwort
AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE Job.
The dramas done. Why then here does any one step forth?"Because one
did survive the wreck.
It so chanced, that after the Parsees disappearance, I was he whom the
Fates ordained to take the place of Ahabs bowsman, when that bowsman
assumed the vacant post; the same, who, when on the last day the three
men were tossed from out of the rocking boat, was dropped astern. So,
floating on the margin of the ensuing scene, and in full sight of it,
when the halfspent suction of the sunk ship reached me, I was then, but
halfspent - halb ausgegeben
suction - Saugwirkung lutschen
slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had
subsided to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting
towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly
wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve. Till, gaining that
Ixion - Ixion
vital centre, the black bubble upward burst; and now, liberated by
liberated - (liberate) befreien
reason of its cunning spring, and, owing to its great buoyancy, rising
with great force, the coffin life-buoy shot lengthwise from the sea,
fell over, and floated by my side. Buoyed up by that coffin, for almost
one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirgelike main. The
unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths;
padlocks - (padlock) Vorhngeschloss mit einem Vorhngeschloss verschlieen
the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks. On the second day, a
sheathed - (sheath) Futteral
sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the
devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing
retracing - (retrace) nachvollziehen, zurckverfolgen
search after - durchsuchen, suchen, forschen nach
children, only found another orphan.
orphan - Waise,