Peter - Peter; Petrus; (Der 1./2. Brief des) Petrus, checkPetr
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs.
plucked - gerupft; pflücken, abrupfen, zupfen, schlagen, rupfen, ausrupfen
delightful - reizvoll, entzückend, angenehm
Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
darling - Liebling, Schatz, Schätzchen
Of course they lived at 14 [their house number on their street], and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth.
house number - Hausnummer
chief - Häuptling, Oberhaupt, Chef
mocking - spöttisch; (moc) spöttisch
Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.
puzzling - verwirrend, rätselhaft; (puzzle); Rätsel; Puzzle, Geduldspiel
conspicuous - auffallend; auffällig, augenfällig, offensichtlich, sichtbar
The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her.
simultaneously - gleichzeitig
propose - vorschlagen; einen Heiratsantrag machen; beabsichtigen
cab - Taxi, Fiaker
nipped - gekniffen; kneifen, zwicken; flitzen
He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door.
innermost - innersten; innerst
slamming - zuknallend, zuschlagend; (slam) zuknallend, zuschlagend
Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.
boast - rühmen; stolz sein auf etw
stocks - in Bausch und Bogen, Aktien, Inventar
Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been totting up. They were Mrs. Darling's guesses.
gleefully - fröhlich, vergnügt, händereibend
Brussels - Brüssel
sprout - sprießen; Schössling
cauliflowers - Blumenkohl, qualifier
totting - Töten; (tot) Kerlchen, Knirps; (tot) Töten; (tot) Kerlchen
Wendy came first, then John, then Michael.
For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed. Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling's bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly.
doubtful - zweifelhaft; zweifelnd
frightfully - furchtbar; schrecklich, schreckliche
honourable - ehrenhaft
calculating - kalkulieren, berechnen, ausrechnen, rechnen, kalkulieren
expenses - Ausgaben; Ausgabe, Aufwand, Verlust
imploringly - flehentlich
She wanted to risk it, come what might, but that was not his way; his way was with a pencil and a piece of paper, and if she confused him with suggestions he had to begin at the beginning again.
"Now don't interrupt," he would beg of her.
interrupt - unterbrechen
beg - Männchen machen; etwas erbitten (von jemandem); bitten (um)
"I have one pound seventeen here, and two and six at the office; I can cut off my coffee at the office, say ten shillings, making two nine and six, with your eighteen and three makes three nine seven, with five naught naught in my cheque-book makes eight nine seven-who is that moving?-eight nine seven, dot and carry seven-don't speak, my own-and the pound you lent to that man who came to the door-quiet, child-dot and carry child-there, you've done it!
shillings - Schillinge; Schilling, alte britische Münze im Wert von 5 Pence
naught - nichts; Nichts
cheque - Scheck
dot - stricheln; Punkt
did I say nine nine seven? yes, I said nine nine seven; the question is, can we try it for a year on nine nine seven?"
"Of course we can, George," she cried. But she was prejudiced in Wendy's favour, and he was really the grander character of the two.
George - Georg
prejudiced - Vorurteil
grander - Größer; großartig, prächtig, groß, bedeutend
"Remember mumps," he warned her almost threateningly, and off he went again.
threateningly - bedrohlich
"Mumps one pound, that is what I have put down, but I daresay it will be more like thirty shillings-don't speak-measles one five, German measles half a guinea, makes two fifteen six-don't waggle your finger-whooping-cough, say fifteen shillings"-and so on it went, and it added up differently each time; but at last Wendy just got through, with mumps reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles treated as one.
daresay - wagen Sie es; Ich möchte sagen.., Ich könnte mir denken..
German measles - Röteln
guinea - Guinea
waggle - wackeln, wedeln
whooping - (whoop) schreien; (whoop) (whoop) schreien
cough - husten; Husten
There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a narrower squeak; but both were kept, and soon, you might have seen the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom's Kindergarten school, accompanied by their nurse.
squeak - quieken; Gequieke, Gequietsche, Knarren, Piepsen
Row - Rudern; Reihe, Zeile
Kindergarten - Vorschule, Kindergarten
accompanied - begleitet; begleiten, begleiten, begleiten, begleiten, geleiten
Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse. How thorough she was at bath-time, and up at any moment of the night if one of her charges made the slightest cry. Of course her kennel was in the nursery. She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking around your throat. She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs, and so on.
owing - geschuldet; schulden, schuldig sein, schulden, schuldig sein
prim - steif
Newfoundland - Neufundland
Nana - Oma; Nana
darlings - Lieblinge; Liebling, Schatz, Schätzchen
acquainted - kennengelernt; vertraut machen, in Kenntnis setzen
spare - überflüssig, frei, sparsam, Ersatz; sparsam umgehen
peeping - spähen; (peep hole) Schauloch; (to peep through) durchgucken
perambulators - Messrad, Kinderwagen
nursemaids - Kindermädchen
mistresses - Mätressen; Frau, Meisterin, Herrscherin, Mätresse, Liebhaberin
treasure - Schatz; schätzen
thorough - gründlich
slightest - das Geringste; geringfügig, leicht, gering, unbedeutend, wenig
kennel - Gosse, Zwinger, Hundezwinger
nursery - Kinderstube, Kinderzimmer, Kindergarten, Kinderzimmer
genius - Genie; Genialität
patience - Geduld
stocking - Strumpf; (stock) Strumpf
remedies - Gegenmittel
rhubarb - Rhabarber
contempt - Verachtung; Schande, Blamage, Mißachtung, Beamtenbeleidigung
germs - Keime; Keim, Keim
It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to school, walking sedately by their side when they were well behaved, and butting them back into line if they strayed. On John's footer [in England soccer was called football, "footer" for short] days she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain. There is a room in the basement of Miss Fulsom's school where the nurses wait. They sat on forms, while Nana lay on the floor, but that was the only difference. They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk. She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs. Darling's friends, but if they did come she first whipped off Michael's pinafore and put him into the one with blue braiding, and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash at John's hair.
propriety - Angemessenheit, Richtigkeit, Korrektheit, Ordnungsmäßigkeit
escorting - Eskorte, Geleit
sedately - ruhig
strayed - verirrt; Streuverlust; abirren, vagabundieren, streunen, irren
footer - Fußzeile
basement - Keller, Untergeschoss, Kellergeschoss, Grundgebirge
inferior - untergeordnet, nachgeordnet, unterlegen, tiefer, minderwertig
status - Status; Ansehen; Stand
despised - verachtet; verachten
resented - verübelt; zurückgesandt; verübeln, übelnehmen
whipped - ausgepeitscht; Peitsche, Knute, Zagel, peitschen, auspeitschen
pinafore - Trägerkleid, Kittelschürze, Latzkleid
braiding - Geflecht; flechtend; (braid) Geflecht; flechtend
Dash - Bindestrich, Gedankenstrich, Querstrich, Spurt, Sprint
No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and Mr. Darling knew it, yet he sometimes wondered uneasily whether the neighbours talked.
conducted - durchgeführt; Leitung, Führung, leiten, führen, sich verhalten
uneasily - unbehaglich
He had his position in the city to consider.
Nana also troubled him in another way. He had sometimes a feeling that she did not admire him. "I know she admires you tremendously, George," Mrs. Darling would assure him, and then she would sign to the children to be specially nice to father. Lovely dances followed, in which the only other servant, Liza, was sometimes allowed to join. Such a midget she looked in her long skirt and maid's cap, though she had sworn, when engaged, that she would never see ten again. The gaiety of those romps!
tremendously - ungeheuerlich
assure - sichern; versichern
specially - speziell
midget - Zwerg, Zwergin, Liliputaner, Liliputanerin
maid - Dienstmädchen; Mädchen; Stubenmädchen
sworn - geschworen; schwören
gaiety - Fröhlichkeit; Frohsinn, Glücklichsein
romps - tummelt; raufen, Balgerei, Tollerei, Toben
And gayest of all was Mrs. Darling, who would pirouette so wildly that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had dashed at her you might have got it. There never was a simpler happier family until the coming of Peter Pan.
gayest - am schwulsten; vergnügt, schwul, homosexuell, lustig, heiter
pirouette - eine Pirouette drehen; Pirouette
wildly - wild
dashed - gestrichelt; Bindestrich, Gedankenstrich, Querstrich, Strich
Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children's minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can't) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her.
tidying up - aufräumend
nightly - jede Nacht; nächtlich
rummage in - stöbern
repacking - umpacken
wandered - gewandert; umherstreifen, umherstreichen, herumziehen, stromern
awake - munter, wach; erwachen, aufwachen
It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.
drawers - Schubladen; Zeichner, Schublade, Aussteller
Lingering - nachklingend, verweilend, zögernd; (linger); herumlungern
humorously - humorvoll
Contents - Inhalt; (to be content with) sich mit etwas begnügen
cheek - Frechheit; Backe, ormal, Stirn, Mick, Pumpenmick
kitten - Kätzchen, Kätzlein, Katzenbaby
hurriedly - eilig, hastig, schleuning
stowing - (stow) packen (verstauen); (stow) (stow) packen (verstauen)
naughtiness - Ungezogenheit
evil - böse; Sünde, übel, üblen, Ăśbel
folded up - zusammengeklappt [alt], zusammen geklappt
beautifully - schön
thoughts - Gedanken; Gedanke
I don't know whether you have ever seen a map of a person's mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child's mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time.
intensely - intensiv
going round - umgehend
There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island, for the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose. It would be an easy map if that were all, but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needle-work, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, say ninety-nine, three-pence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so on, and either these are part of the island or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.
zigzag - im Zickzack; Zickzack
astonishing - Erstaunlich; erstaunen
splashes - Spritzer; Spritzen, plätschern, platschen
coral - Korallen; Koralle
reefs - Riffe; Segel reffen; Riff
rakish - rakisch; verwegen, salopp
craft - Handwerk; Schlauheit, Durchtriebenheit, Gerissenheit, Gilde
savages - wild, wild, wüst, unbebaut, unbändig, rasend, wütend, roh
lairs - Verstecke; lagern
gnomes - Zwerge; Gnom
tailors - Schneider, Schneiderin, schneidern, zuschneiden, anpassen
caves - Höhlen; nachgeben, aufgeben; Höhle
hut - Hütte
decay - Verfall, Verwesung, Fäulnis, verfallen, verderben, faulen
hooked - süchtig; Haken, Hookline, Haken, haken, haken, einhaken, haken
pond - Weiher, Teich
hangings - Erhängen; (to hang) hängen, schweben
verbs - Verben; Verb
dative - Dativ
pudding - Blutwurst; Pudding; Pudding (1; 2; 4) checkAuflauf
braces - Hosenträger; Klafter
Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents, but on the whole the Neverlands have a family resemblance, and if they stood still in a row you could say of them that they have each other's nose, and so forth.
vary - variieren; verändern; sich ändern, checkvariieren
instance - Beispiel, Fall, Instanz
flamingoes - Flamingos
lagoons - Lagunen; Lagune
upside - Vorteile; Oberseite; Vorteil, positive Seite, Schokoladenseite
wigwam - Wigwam
deftly - Geschickt; gewandt, flink
sewn - genäht; Nähen
wolf - Wolf, Meister Graubein, herunterschlingen
forsaken - im Stich gelassen; aufgeben
resemblance - Ähnlichkeit
forth - weiter; heraus, hervor
On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles [simple boat]. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
shores - Ufern; Ufer, Stützbalken, Küste, Strebe
surf - Brandung; wellenreiten, surfen
Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very real. That is why there are night-lights.
delectable - köstlich, lecker, Leckerei, Köstlichkeit
snuggest - Kuschelig; wohlig, enganliegend
most compact - kompakteste
sprawly - ausufernd
tedious - ermüdend, langweilig, langwierig, lästig
nicely - nett; gut
crammed - vollgestopft; stopfen, vollpacken, mästen, vollstopfen, büffeln
table-cloth - (table-cloth) Tischdecke
Occasionally in her travels through her children's minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter. She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him.
Occasionally - gelegentlich
perplexing - verwirrend; verwirren
scrawled - Gekritzelt; Sudelarbeit; kritzeln
The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs. Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.
bolder - mutiger; kräftig, kühn, klar, keck, heftig, deutlich, fett
gazed - gestarrt; anstarren
oddly - Seltsam; einzeln, sonderbar
cocky - eingebildet
"Yes, he is rather cocky," Wendy admitted with regret. Her mother had been questioning her.
regret - bedauern, bereuen, leidtun, Reue, Bedauern
"But who is he, my pet?"
"He is Peter Pan, you know, mother."
At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies. There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened. She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person.
thinking back - zurückdenkend
fairies - Fee, Elfe, Feenwesen
be frightened - sich erschrecken (über)
"Besides," she said to Wendy, "he would be grown up by this time."
besides - Außerdem; neben, neben
"Oh no, he isn't grown up," Wendy assured her confidently, "and he is just my size." She meant that he was her size in both mind and body; she didn't know how she knew, she just knew it.
assured - gesichert; beteuerte, versicherte, versichert
confidently - zuversichtlich
Mrs. Darling consulted Mr. Darling, but he smiled pooh-pooh. "Mark my words," he said, "it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; just the sort of idea a dog would have. Leave it alone, and it will blow over."
consulted - konsultiert; Rat halten, beraten, beratschlagen, beraten
nonsense - Blödsinn, Nonsens
But it would not blow over and soon the troublesome boy gave Mrs. Darling quite a shock.
troublesome - lästig
shock - Schock, Betroffenheit, Empörung, Schlag, Stoß
Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them.
For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him. It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation. Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed, and Mrs. Darling was puzzling over them when Wendy said with a tolerant smile:
casual - lässig; zufällig, beiläufig, gelegentlich, gleichgültig
disquieting - beunruhigend; Beunruhigung, Unbehagen
revelation - Enthüllung, Offenbarung, Erkenntnis
"I do believe it is that Peter again!"
"Whatever do you mean, Wendy?"
"It is so naughty of him not to wipe his feet," Wendy said, sighing. She was a tidy child.
naughty - unanständig; ungezogen, unartig, ungehorsam, dreist
wipe - löschen, abstreifen, abwischen, aufreiben, wischen
sighing - Seufzen, Seufzer, Säuseln (Wind); säuseln (Wind)
She explained in quite a matter-of-fact way that she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipes to her. Unfortunately she never woke, so she didn't know how she knew, she just knew.
"What nonsense you talk, precious. No one can get into the house without knocking."
What nonsense - Was für Unsinn!
precious - kostbar, wertvoll, süßlich, kitschig
"I think he comes in by the window," she said.
"My love, it is three floors up."
"Were not the leaves at the foot of the window, mother?"
It was quite true; the leaves had been found very near the window.
Mrs. Darling did not know what to think, for it all seemed so natural to Wendy that you could not dismiss it by saying she had been dreaming.
dismiss - jdn. des Platzes verweisen;aufgeben, feuern (entlassen), vom Amt absetzen
"My child," the mother cried, "why did you not tell me of this before?"
"I forgot," said Wendy lightly. She was in a hurry to get her breakfast.
lightly - leichtfertig; leicht
Oh, surely she must have been dreaming.
But, on the other hand, there were the leaves. Mrs. Darling examined them very carefully; they were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England. She crawled about the floor, peering at it with a candle for marks of a strange foot.
skeleton - Skelett; Not-, Gerippe, provisorisch, Knochengerüst
crawled - gekrabbelt; kriechen
peering - spähen; seinesgleichen, Beaufsichtigende; schielen, starren
candle - Kerze
She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls. She let down a tape from the window to the pavement, and it was a sheer drop of thirty feet, without so much as a spout to climb up by.
rattled - verunsichert; klappern, rasseln, erschüteln, knattern
poker - pokern; Schürhaken
chimney - Kamin, Esse, Schlot, Schornstein, Spalte
tapped - angezapft; Wasserhahn; Schlacke abstechen
pavement - Bürgersteig; Asphalt, Pflaster
sheer - durchsichtig; scheren, ausreißen, gieren; rein, blank
spout - Tülle, Ausguss, Schnabel, Auslauf
Certainly Wendy had been dreaming.
But Wendy had not been dreaming, as the very next night showed, the night on which the extraordinary adventures of these children may be said to have begun.
extraordinary - außerordentlich, außergewöhnlich
On the night we speak of all the children were once more in bed. It happened to be Nana's evening off, and Mrs. Darling had bathed them and sung to them till one by one they had let go her hand and slid away into the land of sleep.
slid - gerutscht; glitt ab
All were looking so safe and cosy that she smiled at her fears now and sat down tranquilly by the fire to sew.
cosy - gemütlich, behaglich, wohlig
tranquilly - ruhig
sew - Nähen
It was something for Michael, who on his birthday was getting into shirts. The fire was warm, however, and the nursery dimly lit by three night-lights, and presently the sewing lay on Mrs. Darling's lap. Then her head nodded, oh, so gracefully. She was asleep. Look at the four of them, Wendy and Michael over there, John here, and Mrs. Darling by the fire. There should have been a fourth night-light.
dimly - undeutlich; trübe
Presently - Gegenwärtig; sogleich
sewing - (to sew) nähen; (sew) (to sew) nähen
lap - Schoß
nodded - abgenickt; nicken, einnicken, Kopfnicken
gracefully - anmutig
While she slept she had a dream. She dreamt that the Neverland had come too near and that a strange boy had broken through from it. He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also. But in her dream he had rent the film that obscures the Neverland, and she saw Wendy and John and Michael peeping through the gap.
broken through - durchgebrochen
obscures - verdunkelt; obskur, dunkel, vernebelt, finster, düster
The dream by itself would have been a trifle, but while she was dreaming the window of the nursery blew open, and a boy did drop on the floor. He was accompanied by a strange light, no bigger than your fist, which darted about the room like a living thing and I think it must have been this light that wakened Mrs. Darling.
trifle - eine Lappalie; Trifle; Kleinigkeit, ein bisschen, ein wenig
fist - fausten; Faust
darted - geworfen; Pfeil, Satz
She started up with a cry, and saw the boy, and somehow she knew at once that he was Peter Pan. If you or I or Wendy had been there we should have seen that he was very like Mrs. Darling's kiss. He was a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees but the most entrancing thing about him was that he had all his first teeth. When he saw she was a grown-up, he gnashed the little pearls at her.
somehow - irgendwie
ooze out - herausströmen, herausquellen
gnashed - geknirscht; knirschen
pearls - Perlen; Perle, Perl
Mrs. Darling screamed, and, as if in answer to a bell, the door opened, and Nana entered, returned from her evening out. She growled and sprang at the boy, who leapt lightly through the window. Again Mrs.
screamed - geschrien; Schrei, schreien
growled - geknurrt; Knurren
leapt - gesprungen
Darling screamed, this time in distress for him, for she thought he was killed, and she ran down into the street to look for his little body, but it was not there; and she looked up, and in the black night she could see nothing but what she thought was a shooting star.
distress - Kummer, Bedrängnis, Drangsal, Bekümmerung, Not
shooting star - Sternschnuppe
She returned to the nursery, and found Nana with something in her mouth, which proved to be the boy's shadow. As he leapt at the window Nana had closed it quickly, too late to catch him, but his shadow had not had time to get out; slam went the window and snapped it off.
slam - zuschlagen, hart anpacken, zuknallen; harte Kritik
snapped - geschnappt; Knacken
You may be sure Mrs. Darling examined the shadow carefully, but it was quite the ordinary kind.
Nana had no doubt of what was the best thing to do with this shadow. She hung it out at the window, meaning "He is sure to come back for it; let us put it where he can get it easily without disturbing the children."
disturbing - beunruhigend; stören
But unfortunately Mrs. Darling could not leave it hanging out at the window, it looked so like the washing and lowered the whole tone of the house. She thought of showing it to Mr. Darling, but he was totting up winter great-coats for John and Michael, with a wet towel around his head to keep his brain clear, and it seemed a shame to trouble him; besides, she knew exactly what he would say: "It all comes of having a dog for a nurse."
lowered - gesenkt; niedriger, niedrigerer
tone - Farbton, Klang, Umgangston, Ton
shame - Schamgefühl; Scham, Schande
She decided to roll the shadow up and put it away carefully in a drawer, until a fitting opportunity came for telling her husband. Ah me!
drawer - Zeichner, Schublade, Aussteller
The opportunity came a week later, on that never-to-be-forgotten Friday. Of course it was a Friday.
"I ought to have been specially careful on a Friday," she used to say afterwards to her husband, while perhaps Nana was on the other side of her, holding her hand.
"No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.
They sat thus night after night recalling that fatal Friday, till every detail of it was stamped on their brains and came through on the other side like the faces on a bad coinage.
thus - also; auf diese Weise, so, demnach, folglich, dieses
recalling - zurückrufen, erinnern
fatal - verhängnisvoll, fatal, tödlich
coinage - Münzprägung
"If only I had not accepted that invitation to dine at 27," Mrs. Darling said.
dine - speisen
"If only I had not poured my medicine into Nana's bowl," said Mr. Darling.
"If only I had pretended to like the medicine," was what Nana's wet eyes said.
"My liking for parties, George."
"My fatal gift of humour, dearest."
humour - Humor; Laune, Stimmung, Körpersaft
"My touchiness about trifles, dear master and mistress."
touchiness - Empfindlichkeit
trifles - Lappalien; Trifle
Master - Haupt.., Grund, Meister, führend, leitend; bewältigen, meistern
Mistress - Frau, Meisterin, Herrscherin, Mätresse, Liebhaberin, Domina
Then one or more of them would break down altogether; Nana at the thought, "It's true, it's true, they ought not to have had a dog for a nurse." Many a time it was Mr. Darling who put the handkerchief to Nana's eyes.
altogether - ganz und gar, ohne Ausnahme, ausnahmslos, insgesamt
handkerchief - Taschentuch
"That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.
fiend - Unhold; Dämon, Dämonin, böser Geist, Teufel, Monster
bark - Bellen
Echo - Echo, Widerhall, Tastaturecho, Bildschirmecho, widerhallen
upbraided - beschimpft; Vorwürfe machen; schimpfen
They would sit there in the empty nursery, recalling fondly every smallest detail of that dreadful evening. It had begun so uneventfully, so precisely like a hundred other evenings, with Nana putting on the water for Michael's bath and carrying him to it on her back.
fondly - lieb, liebevoll, zärtlich, verliebt
dreadful - furchtbar, schrecklich
uneventfully - ereignislos
precisely - genau; präzise
"I won't go to bed," he had shouted, like one who still believed that he had the last word on the subject, "I won't, I won't. Nana, it isn't six o'clock yet. Oh dear, oh dear, I shan't love you any more, Nana. I tell you I won't be bathed, I won't, I won't!"
Then Mrs. Darling had come in, wearing her white evening-gown. She had dressed early because Wendy so loved to see her in her evening-gown, with the necklace George had given her. She was wearing Wendy's bracelet on her arm; she had asked for the loan of it. Wendy loved to lend her bracelet to her mother.
evening-gown - (evening-gown) Abendrobe , Abendkleid
necklace - Halskette, Collier, Halsband
bracelet - Armband
loan - ausleihen; Anleihe, Kredit, Darlehen, Leihe
She had found her two older children playing at being herself and father on the occasion of Wendy's birth, and John was saying:
"I am happy to inform you, Mrs. Darling, that you are now a mother," in just such a tone as Mr. Darling himself may have used on the real occasion.
inform - benachrichtigen, mitteilen, informieren
Wendy had danced with joy, just as the real Mrs. Darling must have done.
joy - Wonne (Freude, Vergnügen); Freude (über)
Then John was born, with the extra pomp that he conceived due to the birth of a male, and Michael came from his bath to ask to be born also, but John said brutally that they did not want any more.
pomp - Pomp
conceived - erdacht; konzipieren, erdenken, ersinnen, empfangen, verstehen
brutally - brutal
Michael had nearly cried. "Nobody wants me," he said, and of course the lady in the evening-dress could not stand that.
evening-dress - (evening-dress) Abendkleid , Abendgarderobe , Abendrobe
"I do," she said, "I so want a third child."
"Boy or girl?" asked Michael, not too hopefully.
hopefully - hoffentlich
"Boy."
Then he had leapt into her arms. Such a little thing for Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana to recall now, but not so little if that was to be Michael's last night in the nursery.
recall - zurückrufen; erinnern
They go on with their recollections.
recollections - Erinnern Sie sich; Erinnerung
"It was then that I rushed in like a tornado, wasn't it?" Mr. Darling would say, scorning himself; and indeed he had been like a tornado.
rushed - überstürzt; stürzen, drängen, hetzen, rasen; Eile, Andrang
tornado - Tornado, Windhose
wasn - Was
scorning - Verachtung; verachtend; (scorn); verachten; verschmähen; verspotten; Verachtung
Perhaps there was some excuse for him. He, too, had been dressing for the party, and all had gone well with him until he came to his tie. It is an astounding thing to have to tell, but this man, though he knew about stocks and shares, had no real mastery of his tie.
Excuse - Wie bitte; entschuldigen, verzeihen, sich entschuldigen
astounding - verblüffend; verblüffen, überraschen
mastery - Beherrschung; Meisterschaft
Sometimes the thing yielded to him without a contest, but there were occasions when it would have been better for the house if he had swallowed his pride and used a made-up tie.
yielded - nachgegeben; hervorbringen, er/sie hat/hatte ergeben, weichen
contest - Auseinandersetzung, Debatte, Wettkampf, Wettbewerb, Wettstreit
swallowed - verschluckt; schlucken, verschlingen, anbeißen, einstecken
pride - Hochmut; Stolz, Trotz, Dünkel, Machtbewusstsein, Rudel
This was such an occasion. He came rushing into the nursery with the crumpled little brute of a tie in his hand.
rushing - hetzend, sausend; (rush) hetzend, sausend
crumpled - zerknittert; knüllen, zerknittern
brute - Tier, brutaler Kerl, brutal, Vieh
"Why, what is the matter, father dear?"
"Matter!" he yelled; he really yelled. "This tie, it will not tie." He became dangerously sarcastic. "Not round my neck! Round the bed-post! Oh yes, twenty times have I made it up round the bed-post, but round my neck, no! Oh dear no! begs to be excused!"
yelled - geschrien; kreischen, schreien
dangerously - Gefährlich
sarcastic - sarkastisch
begs - bittet; Männchen machen; etwas erbitten (von jemandem); bitten (um)
excused - entschuldigt; entschuldigen, verzeihen, sich entschuldigen
He thought Mrs. Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he went on sternly, "I warn you of this, mother, that unless this tie is round my neck we don't go out to dinner to-night, and if I don't go out to dinner to-night, I never go to the office again, and if I don't go to the office again, you and I starve, and our children will be flung into the streets."
sufficiently - ausreichend; hinreichend, genügend, zureichende
impressed - beeindruckt; beeindrucken, prägen
sternly - ernsthaft, streng
starve - verhungern, Hungers sterben, verhungern lassen, aushungern
flung - geschleudert; Affäre (Liebesaffäre)
Even then Mrs. Darling was placid. "Let me try, dear," she said, and indeed that was what he had come to ask her to do, and with her nice cool hands she tied his tie for him, while the children stood around to see their fate decided. Some men would have resented her being able to do it so easily, but Mr.
placid - ruhig, friedlich, sanft
fate - Schicksal, Los, Geschick
Darling had far too fine a nature for that; he thanked her carelessly, at once forgot his rage, and in another moment was dancing round the room with Michael on his back.
carelessly - unachtsam
rage - Wut, Zorn, Raserei, Rage, wüten
"How wildly we romped!" says Mrs. Darling now, recalling it.
romped - getobt; raufen, Balgerei, Tollerei, Toben
"Our last romp!" Mr. Darling groaned.
romp - tummeln; raufen; Balgerei, Tollerei, Toben, Tollen
groaned - gestöhnt; Stöhnen
"O George, do you remember Michael suddenly said to me, 'How did you get to know me, mother?'"
"I remember!"
"They were rather sweet, don't you think, George?"
"And they were ours, ours! and now they are gone."
The romp had ended with the appearance of Nana, and most unluckily Mr. Darling collided against her, covering his trousers with hairs. They were not only new trousers, but they were the first he had ever had with braid on them, and he had had to bite his lip to prevent the tears coming. Of course Mrs. Darling brushed him, but he began to talk again about its being a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
unluckily - unglücklicherweise, unglücklich
collided - zusammengestoßen; kollidieren, zusammenstoßen, plauzen
braid - Litze; flechten; Flechte, Paspel, Zopf
"George, Nana is a treasure."
"No doubt, but I have an uneasy feeling at times that she looks upon the children as puppies."
uneasy - Unbehagen; besorgt, unangenehm, unsicher
puppies - Welpen; Welpe, Hündchen
"Oh no, dear one, I feel sure she knows they have souls."
souls - Seelen; Inbrunst, Seele, Gefühl, Herz
"I wonder," Mr. Darling said thoughtfully, "I wonder." It was an opportunity, his wife felt, for telling him about the boy. At first he pooh-poohed the story, but he became thoughtful when she showed him the shadow.
thoughtfully - nachdenklich, aufmerksam
"It is nobody I know," he said, examining it carefully, "but it does look a scoundrel."
scoundrel - Schurke, Gauner, Gaunerin, Halunke
"We were still discussing it, you remember," says Mr. Darling, "when Nana came in with Michael's medicine. You will never carry the bottle in your mouth again, Nana, and it is all my fault."
fault - Fehler; Schuld; Fehler, Charakterschwäche, Verfehlung
Strong man though he was, there is no doubt that he had behaved rather foolishly over the medicine. If he had a weakness, it was for thinking that all his life he had taken medicine boldly, and so now, when Michael dodged the spoon in Nana's mouth, he had said reprovingly, "Be a man, Michael."
foolishly - töricht; dummerweise (aus Dummheit), albernes
weakness - Schwäche, Faible
boldly - kühn, tapfer
dodged - abgewichen; ausweichen, beiseite springen, ausweichen, umgehen
reprovingly - vorwurfsvoll
"Won't; won't!" Michael cried naughtily. Mrs. Darling left the room to get a chocolate for him, and Mr. Darling thought this showed want of firmness.
naughtily - Ungezogen; unartige
firmness - Stärke, Festigkeit
"Mother, don't pamper him," he called after her. "Michael, when I was your age I took medicine without a murmur. I said, 'Thank you, kind parents, for giving me bottles to make me well.'"
pamper - verhätscheln; verwöhnen, hätscheln
murmur - Rauschen, Murmeln, Gemurmel, Raunen, Herzgeräusch
He really thought this was true, and Wendy, who was now in her night-gown, believed it also, and she said, to encourage Michael, "That medicine you sometimes take, father, is much nastier, isn't it?"
nastier - böser; abscheulich, böse, ekelhaft, scheußlich, schlimm
isn't it? - gell, gelle, gelt?
"Ever so much nastier," Mr. Darling said bravely, "and I would take it now as an example to you, Michael, if I hadn't lost the bottle."
bravely - mutig; tapfer, artig
He had not exactly lost it; he had climbed in the dead of night to the top of the wardrobe and hidden it there. What he did not know was that the faithful Liza had found it, and put it back on his wash-stand.
wardrobe - Garderobe, Kleiderschrank
faithful - treu
"I know where it is, father," Wendy cried, always glad to be of service. "I'll bring it," and she was off before he could stop her. Immediately his spirits sank in the strangest way.
"John," he said, shuddering, "it's most beastly stuff. It's that nasty, sticky, sweet kind."
shuddering - Schütteln; schaudernd; (shudder); Schauder; (wohliger) Schauder; schaudern; zittern
most beastly - saumäßigste
nasty - abscheulich, böse, ekelhaft, scheußlich
sticky - stickig, klebrig
"It will soon be over, father," John said cheerily, and then in rushed Wendy with the medicine in a glass.
cheerily - fröhlich; froh
"I have been as quick as I could," she panted.
panted - keuchte; keuchen, hecheln, schnaufen (i. S. v. keuchen)
"You have been wonderfully quick," her father retorted, with a vindictive politeness that was quite thrown away upon her. "Michael first," he said doggedly.
wonderfully - Wunderbar
retorted - erwiderte; Retorte; erwidern (scharf)
vindictive - rachsüchtig
politeness - Höflichkeit
doggedly - hartnäckig; verbissene
"Father first," said Michael, who was of a suspicious nature.
suspicious - verdächtig; misstrauisch, argwöhnisch
"I shall be sick, you know," Mr. Darling said threateningly.
"Come on, father," said John.
"Hold your tongue, John," his father rapped out.
rapped - gerappt; pochen, schlagen; Geplapper
Wendy was quite puzzled. "I thought you took it quite easily, father."
puzzled - verwirrt; Rätsel
"That is not the point," he retorted. "The point is, that there is more in my glass than in Michael's spoon." His proud heart was nearly bursting. "And it isn't fair: I would say it though it were with my last breath; it isn't fair."
bursting - platzen, zerplatzen, bersten, sprengen, Bersten
"Father, I am waiting," said Michael coldly.
coldly - kalt
"It's all very well to say you are waiting; so am I waiting."
"Father's a cowardly custard."
cowardly - feige
custard - Pudding; Vanillesoße
"So are you a cowardly custard."
"I'm not frightened."
"Neither am I frightened."
"Well, then, take it."
"Well, then, you take it."
Wendy had a splendid idea. "Why not both take it at the same time?"
splendid - glänzend; prächtig; hervorragend
"Certainly," said Mr. Darling. "Are you ready, Michael?"
Wendy gave the words, one, two, three, and Michael took his medicine, but Mr. Darling slipped his behind his back.
slipped - ausgerutscht; Versprecher; Rutschen (geradeaus); Lapsus
There was a yell of rage from Michael, and "O father!" Wendy exclaimed.
yell - kreischen, schreien
exclaimed - ausgerufen; ausrufen
"What do you mean by 'O father'?" Mr. Darling demanded. "Stop that row, Michael. I meant to take mine, but I-I missed it."
demanded - gefordert; Nachfrage, Bedarf, Nachfrage, Anspruch, verlangen
It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him. "Look here, all of you," he said entreatingly, as soon as Nana had gone into the bathroom. "I have just thought of a splendid joke. I shall pour my medicine into Nana's bowl, and she will drink it, thinking it is milk!"
entreatingly - flehend
It was the colour of milk; but the children did not have their father's sense of humour, and they looked at him reproachfully as he poured the medicine into Nana's bowl. "What fun!" he said doubtfully, and they did not dare expose him when Mrs. Darling and Nana returned.
reproachfully - vorwurfsvoll
doubtfully - zweifelhaft; voller Zweifel, zweifelnd
dare - sich getrauen, wagen, jemanden herausfordern
expose - entlarven; aufdecken, offenbaren, entblößen, bloßlegen
"Nana, good dog," he said, patting her, "I have put a little milk into your bowl, Nana."
patting - tätscheln; Pat
Nana wagged her tail, ran to the medicine, and began lapping it. Then she gave Mr. Darling such a look, not an angry look: she showed him the great red tear that makes us so sorry for noble dogs, and crept into her kennel.
wagged - gewackelt; wedeln, schwänzen, Wedeln
lapping - Läppen; Ăśberlappung; (lap) Läppen; Ăśberlappung
noble - edel; Adeliger, Adliger, Adelige, Adlige
crept - gekrochen; kriechen, schleichen, schleichen, kriechen, Kriechen
Mr. Darling was frightfully ashamed of himself, but he would not give in. In a horrid silence Mrs. Darling smelt the bowl. "O George," she said, "it's your medicine!"
ashamed - schämen
horrid - schrecklich; entsetzlich, grässlich, gräulich, grauenvoll
silence - Stille, Schweigen, zum Schweigen bringen, Ruhe
"It was only a joke," he roared, while she comforted her boys, and Wendy hugged Nana. "Much good," he said bitterly, "my wearing myself to the bone trying to be funny in this house."
roared - gebrüllt; brüllen, brüllen, Tosen
comforted - getröstet; Behaglichkeit, Bequemlichkeit, Komfort, Trost
hugged - umarmt; Umarmung, umarmen
bitterly - verbittert; bitterlich
And still Wendy hugged Nana. "that's right," he shouted. "Coddle her! Nobody coddles me. Oh dear no! I am only the breadwinner, why should I be coddled-why, why, why!"
that's right - Das stimmt. Ganz recht.
coddles - Verwöhnt; verhätscheln, verwöhnen, köcheln, überbehüten
breadwinner - Brotverdiener; Broterwerber, Broterwerberin, Geldverdiener
coddled - verhätschelt; verhätscheln, verwöhnen, köcheln, überbehüten
"George," Mrs. Darling entreated him, "not so loud; the servants will hear you." Somehow they had got into the way of calling Liza the servants.
entreated - angefleht; ersuchen
"Let them!" he answered recklessly. "Bring in the whole world. But I refuse to allow that dog to lord it in my nursery for an hour longer."
recklessly - leichtsinnig; rücksichtslos
refuse - Müll; abweisen, verweigern, abschlagen, ablehnen
Lord - Gebieter; Herr; herrschen
The children wept, and Nana ran to him beseechingly, but he waved her back. He felt he was a strong man again. "In vain, in vain," he cried; "the proper place for you is the yard, and there you go to be tied up this instant."
wept - geweint; weinen
beseechingly - anflehend
vain - eitel; unnützlich
instant - sofort; augenblicklich, tafelfertig, Moment
"George, George," Mrs. Darling whispered, "remember what I told you about that boy."
whispered - geflüstert; Geflüster
Alas, he would not listen.
Alas - leider [Gottes]; (ala) leider [Gottes]
He was determined to show who was master in that house, and when commands would not draw Nana from the kennel, he lured her out of it with honeyed words, and seizing her roughly, dragged her from the nursery. He was ashamed of himself, and yet he did it. It was all owing to his too affectionate nature, which craved for admiration. When he had tied her up in the back-yard, the wretched father went and sat in the passage, with his knuckles to his eyes.
commands - Befehl, Kommando
lured - gelockt; Lure
honeyed - mit Honig; Honig
seizing - (to seize) erfassen, ergreifen, anpacken; (seize); ergreifen
roughly - ungefähr; grob; uneben
dragged - geschleppt; Planierschleppe; nachschleppen, schleppen, ziehen
affectionate - zärtlich
craved - begehrt; sehnen
admiration - Bewunderung
wretched - unglücklich; sehr schlecht, miserabel, wertlos
passage - Durchfahrt, Ăśbergang, Gang
knuckles - Fingerknöchel
In the meantime Mrs. Darling had put the children to bed in unwonted silence and lit their night-lights. They could hear Nana barking, and John whimpered, "It is because he is chaining her up in the yard," but Wendy was wiser.
meantime - Inzwischen; unterdessen
unwonted - ungewohnt
barking - Bellen
whimpered - gewimmert; Wimmern
wiser - weiser; klug, vernünftig
"That is not Nana's unhappy bark," she said, little guessing what was about to happen; "that is her bark when she smells danger."
Danger!
"Are you sure, Wendy?"
"Oh, yes."
Mrs. Darling quivered and went to the window. It was securely fastened. She looked out, and the night was peppered with stars. They were crowding round the house, as if curious to see what was to take place there, but she did not notice this, nor that one or two of the smaller ones winked at her. Yet a nameless fear clutched at her heart and made her cry, "Oh, how I wish that I wasn't going to a party to-night!"
quivered - gezittert; zittern
securely - sicher
Curious - neugierig, sonderbar, merkwürdig
winked - gezwinkert; zwinkern, blinzeln, funkeln, zuzwinkern
nameless - namenlos
clutched - umklammert; Vogelgelege; Kupplung (Auto), Gelege
Even Michael, already half asleep, knew that she was perturbed, and he asked, "Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
perturbed - beunruhigt; stören
harm - Schaden
"Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children."
She went from bed to bed singing enchantments over them, and little Michael flung his arms round her. "Mother," he cried, "I'm glad of you." They were the last words she was to hear from him for a long time.
enchantments - Verzauberungen; Verzauberung, Bezauberung
No. 27 was only a few yards distant, but there had been a slight fall of snow, and Father and Mother Darling picked their way over it deftly not to soil their shoes. They were already the only persons in the street, and all the stars were watching them. Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.
distant - weit entfernt; abgelegen, abstehend, distanziert, entfernt
Slight - geringfügig, leicht, unbedeutend
glassy - glasig, gläsern, glasartig
seldom - selten
winking - (wink) (mit einem) Augenzwinkern; (wink) (wink) (mit einem) Augenzwinkern
They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out; but they are so fond of fun that they were on his side to-night, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way. So as soon as the door of 27 closed on Mr. and Mrs. Darling there was a commotion in the firmament, and the smallest of all the stars in the Milky Way screamed out:
mischievous - boshaft
fond - (to be fond of sb/sth) jemanden/etwas gerne mögen
anxious - ängstlich, besorgt
commotion - Aufruhr; Aufregung; Spektakel, Theater, Zirkus, Aufstand
firmament - Firmament
Milky - milchig
"Now, Peter!"
For a moment after Mr. and Mrs. Darling left the house the night-lights by the beds of the three children continued to burn clearly. They were awfully nice little night-lights, and one cannot help wishing that they could have kept awake to see Peter; but Wendy's light blinked and gave such a yawn that the other two yawned also, and before they could close their mouths all the three went out.
awfully - furchtbar, entsetzlich
blinked - geblinzelt; blinzeln, lichthupen, aufblenden, blinken, morsen
yawned - gähnte; gähnen, Gähnen
There was another light in the room now, a thousand times brighter than the night-lights, and in the time we have taken to say this, it had been in all the drawers in the nursery, looking for Peter's shadow, rummaged the wardrobe and turned every pocket inside out. It was not really a light; it made this light by flashing about so quickly, but when it came to rest for a second you saw it was a fairy, no longer than your hand, but still growing.
rummaged - durchwühlt; durchwühlen, durchwühlen, wühlen, stöbern
flashing - Witterungsschutz; Blinken, Aufblinken
fairy - Fee, Elfe, Feenwesen, Naturgeister
It was a girl called Tinker Bell exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage. She was slightly inclined to EMBONPOINT. [plump hourglass figure]
tinker - basteln; Kesselflicker, Kesselflickerin, tüfteln, frickeln
exquisitely - exquisit
inclined - geneigt; neigen, neigen, neigen, Neigung, Anstieg, Gefälle
plump - prall werden, prall machen; drall, vollschlank, mollig
hourglass - Sanduhr
A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in. He had carried Tinker Bell part of the way, and his hand was still messy with the fairy dust.
messy - chaotisch, unordentlich
"Tinker Bell," he called softly, after making sure that the children were asleep, "Tink, where are you?" She was in a jug for the moment, and liking it extremely; she had never been in a jug before.
softly - sachte; leise
Tink - Glöckchen; (Tinker) flicken, basteln
jug - Kanne, Krug
"Oh, do come out of that jug, and tell me, do you know where they put my shadow?"
The loveliest tinkle as of golden bells answered him. It is the fairy language. You ordinary children can never hear it, but if you were to hear it you would know that you had heard it once before.
tinkle - klingeln, klimpern, Klingeln, Telefonat, Anruf, Pipi
Golden - golden, goldgelb
Tink said that the shadow was in the big box. She meant the chest of drawers, and Peter jumped at the drawers, scattering their contents to the floor with both hands, as kings toss ha'pence to the crowd. In a moment he had recovered his shadow, and in his delight he forgot that he had shut Tinker Bell up in the drawer.
ha - Das war jetzt aber ernst!
scattering - Streuung, Zerstreuung; (scatter); zerstreuen, verstreuen
toss - zu werfen; Wurf; Münzwurf; werfen; verwerfen, wegwerfen
recovered - erholt; wiederfinden, sich erholen, beikommen
delight - Freude, Entzückung, Wohlgefallen, Lust
If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water, and when they did not he was appalled. He tried to stick it on with soap from the bathroom, but that also failed. A shudder passed through Peter, and he sat on the floor and cried.
appalled - entsetzt; erschrecken, entsetzen
shudder - erschaudern; Schauder; (wohliger) Schauder; schaudern; zittern
His sobs woke Wendy, and she sat up in bed. She was not alarmed to see a stranger crying on the nursery floor; she was only pleasantly interested.
sobs - schluchzt; Huso
pleasantly - angenehme, angenehm
"Boy," she said courteously, "why are you crying?"
courteously - höfliche
Peter could be exceeding polite also, having learned the grand manner at fairy ceremonies, and he rose and bowed to her beautifully. She was much pleased, and bowed beautifully to him from the bed.
exceeding - überschreiten, hinausgehen über, übertreffen, übersteigen
grand - großartig, prächtig, groß, bedeutend
bowed - gebeugt; Verneigung (vor), Verbeugung; Bogen, Bug (Schiff)
"What's your name?" he asked.
What's your name? - Wie heißt du?
"Wendy Moira Angela Darling," she replied with some satisfaction. "What is your name?"
satisfaction - Befriedigung; Zufriedenheit; Satisfaktion, Genugtuung
"Peter Pan."
She was already sure that he must be Peter, but it did seem a comparatively short name.
comparatively - vergleichsweise
"Is that all?"
"Yes," he said rather sharply. He felt for the first time that it was a shortish name.
sharply - scharf, scharfzüngig, spitzzüngig
shortish - kurz
"I'm so sorry," said Wendy Moira Angela.
"It doesn't matter," Peter gulped.
It doesn't matter - Es macht nichts. Das ut nichts. Das schadet ja gar nichts.
gulped - verschluckt; Schluck, schlucken, schlingen, verschlingen
She asked where he lived.
"Second to the right," said Peter, "and then straight on till morning."
straight on - geradeaus
"What a funny address!"
Peter had a sinking. For the first time he felt that perhaps it was a funny address.
"No, it isn't," he said.
"I mean," Wendy said nicely, remembering that she was hostess, "is that what they put on the letters?"
hostess - Gastgeberin, Wirtin, Stewardess, Flugbegleiterin, Hostess
He wished she had not mentioned letters.
"Don't get any letters," he said contemptuously.
contemptuously - verächtlich
"But your mother gets letters?"
"Don't have a mother," he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons. Wendy, however, felt at once that she was in the presence of a tragedy.
desire - begehren; Begehren, Wunsch
presence - Anwesenheit
tragedy - Tragödie
"O Peter, no wonder you were crying," she said, and got out of bed and ran to him.
"I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying."
indignantly - entrüstet
stick on - ankleben
"It has come off?"
"Yes."
Then Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and she was frightfully sorry for Peter. "How awful!" she said, but she could not help smiling when she saw that he had been trying to stick it on with soap. How exactly like a boy!
draggled - gezerrt; beschmutzen
Fortunately she knew at once what to do. "It must be sewn on," she said, just a little patronisingly.
patronisingly - gönnerhaft
"What's sewn?" he asked.
"You're dreadfully ignorant."
dreadfully - furchtbar
ignorant - unwissend; ignorant
"No, I'm not."
But she was exulting in his ignorance. "I shall sew it on for you, my little man," she said, though he was tall as herself, and she got out her housewife [sewing bag], and sewed the shadow on to Peter's foot.
exulting - jubelnd; jubeln, jauchzen
ignorance - Unwissenheit, Unwissen, Nichtwissen
housewife - Hausfrau
sewed - genäht; Nähen
"I daresay it will hurt a little," she warned him.
"Oh, I shan't cry," said Peter, who was already of the opinion that he had never cried in his life. And he clenched his teeth and did not cry, and soon his shadow was behaving properly, though still a little creased.
clenched - geballt; ballen
creased - zerknittert; Falte, Bügelfalte
"Perhaps I should have ironed it," Wendy said thoughtfully, but Peter, boylike, was indifferent to appearances, and he was now jumping about in the wildest glee. Alas, he had already forgotten that he owed his bliss to Wendy. He thought he had attached the shadow himself. "How clever I am!" he crowed rapturously, "oh, the cleverness of me!"
boylike - wie ein Junge
indifferent - gleichgültig
glee - Frohsinn; Fröhlichkeit
bliss - Glückseligkeit, Glück
crowed - überfüllt; Krähe
rapturously - schwärmerisch
cleverness - Klugheit; Pfiffigkeit, Gewandtheit, Raffinesse
It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.
humiliating - demütigend; demütigen, beschämen, erniedrigen
confess - gestehen, bekennen, verraten, beichten
conceit - Eingebung; Einbildung; Konzept
most fascinating - faszinierendste
brutal - brutal
frankness - Offenheit
cockier - übermütiger; eingebildet
But for the moment Wendy was shocked. "You conceit [braggart]," she exclaimed, with frightful sarcasm; "of course I did nothing!"
shocked - schockiert; Schock, Betroffenheit, Empörung, Schlag, Stoß
braggart - Angeber, Angeberin
frightful - schrecklich
sarcasm - Sarkasmus
"You did a little," Peter said carelessly, and continued to dance.
"A little!" she replied with hauteur [pride]; "if I am no use I can at least withdraw," and she sprang in the most dignified way into bed and covered her face with the blankets.
hauteur - Hochmut
withdraw - zurückziehen; annullieren, entziehen, abziehen, ausscheiden
most dignified - gediegenste
blankets - Decke, Wolldecke, Bettdecke, Schicht, Lage, allgemein
To induce her to look up he pretended to be going away, and when this failed he sat on the end of the bed and tapped her gently with his foot. "Wendy," he said, "don't withdraw. I can't help crowing, Wendy, when I'm pleased with myself." Still she would not look up, though she was listening eagerly. "Wendy," he continued, in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys."
induce - einleiten; dazu bringen, anstacheln, bewirken, verursachen
gently - sanft
crowing - krähen; Krähe
eagerly - eifrig
resist - widerstehen, erwehren;gegen etw. bestehen
Now Wendy was every inch a woman, though there were not very many inches, and she peeped out of the bed-clothes.
inches - Zoll (2, 54 cm), Zoll (Längenmaß)
peeped - gepiepst; (peep hole) Schauloch; (to peep through) durchgucken
"Do you really think so, Peter?"
"Yes, I do."
"I think it's perfectly sweet of you," she declared, "and I'll get up again," and she sat with him on the side of the bed. She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.
declared - erklärt; bekanntmachen, bekanntgeben, deklarieren, ausrufen
expectantly - erwartungsvoll
"Surely you know what a kiss is?" she asked, aghast.
aghast - verblüfft; bestürzt, zutiefst erschrocken, fassungslos
"I shall know when you give it to me," he replied stiffly, and not to hurt his feeling she gave him a thimble.
stiffly - steif, kräftig
thimble - Fingerhut; ein Fingerhut voll; Aufnahmedose, Becher, Buchse
"Now," said he, "shall I give you a kiss?" and she replied with a slight primness, "If you please." She made herself rather cheap by inclining her face toward him, but he merely dropped an acorn button into her hand, so she slowly returned her face to where it had been before, and said nicely that she would wear his kiss on the chain around her neck.
primness - Zimperlichkeit; Steifheit
inclining - geneigt; sich neigend, neigend; (incline); neigen; Neigung
toward - zu, in Richtung, nach, auf
merely - bloß, lediglich, nur, schier
acorn - Eichel
It was lucky that she did put it on that chain, for it was afterwards to save her life.
When people in our set are introduced, it is customary for them to ask each other's age, and so Wendy, who always liked to do the correct thing, asked Peter how old he was. It was not really a happy question to ask him; it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
customary - Gewöhnlich; üblich
examination paper - Prüfungsarbeit
Grammar - Grammatik, Sprachlehre, Grammatiktheorie
"I don't know," he replied uneasily, "but I am quite young." He really knew nothing about it, he had merely suspicions, but he said at a venture, "Wendy, I ran away the day I was born."
suspicions - Verdächtigungen; Verdacht, Argwohn, Verdacht, Verdacht, Argwohn
Venture - Wagnis
Wendy was quite surprised, but interested; and she indicated in the charming drawing-room manner, by a touch on her night-gown, that he could sit nearer her.
charming - charmant; (charm); charmant
"It was because I heard father and mother," he explained in a low voice, "talking about what I was to be when I became a man." He was extraordinarily agitated now. "I don't want ever to be a man," he said with passion. "I want always to be a little boy and to have fun. So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies."
extraordinarily - außerordentlich
agitated - aufgewühlt; aufwühlen, aufrühren, rühren, schütteln, umrühren
She gave him a look of the most intense admiration, and he thought it was because he had run away, but it was really because he knew fairies. Wendy had lived such a home life that to know fairies struck her as quite delightful. She poured out questions about them, to his surprise, for they were rather a nuisance to him, getting in his way and so on, and indeed he sometimes had to give them a hiding [spanking].
most intense - intensivste
struck - angeschlagen; streichen, schlagen, prägen, streiken, scheinen
nuisance - Ärgernis, Ärger, Quälgeist, Belästigung
spanking - den Hintern versohlen; Haue; (spank); auf das Gesäß schlagen
Still, he liked them on the whole, and he told her about the beginning of fairies.
"You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
skipping - überspringen, hüpfen, springen; Sprung
Tedious talk this, but being a stay-at-home she liked it.
"And so," he went on good-naturedly, "there ought to be one fairy for every boy and girl."
naturedly - naturgemäß
"Ought to be? Isn't there?"
"No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,'there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
Really, he thought they had now talked enough about fairies, and it struck him that Tinker Bell was keeping very quiet. "I can't think where she has gone to," he said, rising, and he called Tink by name. Wendy's heart went flutter with a sudden thrill.
flutter - flattern; wedeln
thrill - Aufregung; Nervenkitzel; erregen, erschauern, durchdringen
"Peter," she cried, clutching him, "you don't mean to tell me that there is a fairy in this room!"
clutching - Umklammern; Vogelgelege; Kupplung (Auto), Gelege
"She was here just now," he said a little impatiently. "You don't hear her, do you?" and they both listened.
impatiently - Ungeduldig
"The only sound I hear," said Wendy, "is like a tinkle of bells."
"Well, that's Tink, that's the fairy language. I think I hear her too."
The sound came from the chest of drawers, and Peter made a merry face. No one could ever look quite so merry as Peter, and the loveliest of gurgles was his laugh. He had his first laugh still.
merry - fröhlich, heiter
gurgles - gurgelt; gurgeln, gurgeln, Gurgeln
"Wendy," he whispered gleefully, "I do believe I shut her up in the drawer!"
He let poor Tink out of the drawer, and she flew about the nursery screaming with fury. "You shouldn't say such things," Peter retorted. "Of course I'm very sorry, but how could I know you were in the drawer?"
screaming - Schrei, schreien
fury - Wut; Furie
shouldn - sollte
Wendy was not listening to him. "O Peter," she cried, "if she would only stand still and let me see her!"
"They hardly ever stand still," he said, but for one moment Wendy saw the romantic figure come to rest on the cuckoo clock. "O the lovely!" she cried, though Tink's face was still distorted with passion.
cuckoo clock - Kuckucksuhr
distorted - verzerrt; verzerren, verzerren
"Tink," said Peter amiably, "this lady says she wishes you were her fairy."
amiably - liebenswürdige, liebenswürdig
Tinker Bell answered insolently.
insolently - freche, unverschämt
"What does she say, Peter?"
He had to translate. "She is not very polite. She says you are a great [huge] ugly girl, and that she is my fairy."
He tried to argue with Tink. "You know you can't be my fairy, Tink, because I am an gentleman and you are a lady."
To this Tink replied in these words, "You silly ass," and disappeared into the bathroom. "She is quite a common fairy," Peter explained apologetically, "she is called Tinker Bell because she mends the pots and kettles [tinker = tin worker]." [Similar to "cinder" plus "elle" to get Cinderella]
silly ass - Quatschkopf , Knallkopf
apologetically - apologetisch
mends - reparieren, flicken
kettles - Wasserkocher, Kessel
plus - plus; positiv
Cinderella - Aschenputtel
They were together in the armchair by this time, and Wendy plied him with more questions.
armchair - Armsessel, Fauteuil, Polstersessel, Polsterstuhl
plied - geplagt; Windung (Technik), Strähne, Kordlage; handhaben
"If you don't live in Kensington Gardens now-"
"Sometimes I do still."
"But where do you live mostly now?"
"With the lost boys."
"Who are they?"
"They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expenses. I'm captain."
defray - bestreiten, bezahlen, tragen, decken
"What fun it must be!"
"Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship."
cunning - gerissen; schlau, clever, süß, niedlich
companionship - Kameradschaft
"Are none of the others girls?"
"Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams."
prams - Babywagen, Kinderwagen
This flattered Wendy immensely. "I think," she said, "it is perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls; John there just despises us."
flattered - geschmeichelt; schmeicheln
immensely - immens
despises - verachtet; verachten
For reply Peter rose and kicked John out of bed, blankets and all; one kick. This seemed to Wendy rather forward for a first meeting, and she told him with spirit that he was not captain in her house. However, John continued to sleep so placidly on the floor that she allowed him to remain there. "And I know you meant to be kind," she said, relenting, "so you may give me a kiss."
placidly - sanften, friedlichen, sanft
relenting - Einlenken; nachgebend, mitleidig werdend; (relent); nachgeben
For the moment she had forgotten his ignorance about kisses. "I thought you would want it back," he said a little bitterly, and offered to return her the thimble.
offered - angeboten; offerieren, anbieten, bieten, zeigen; Antrag
"Oh dear," said the nice Wendy, "I don't mean a kiss, I mean a thimble."
"What's that?"
"It's like this." She kissed him.
"Funny!" said Peter gravely. "Now shall I give you a thimble?"
gravely - ernsthaft; ernst, ernstlich, schwerlich
"If you wish to," said Wendy, keeping her head erect this time.
erect - aufrecht; stramm (Haltung), steif; errichten
Peter thimbled her, and almost immediately she screeched. "What is it, Wendy?"
thimbled - mit Kauschen; Fingerhut, ein Fingerhut voll, Aufnahmedose
screeched - gekreischt; Kreischen
"It was exactly as if someone were pulling my hair."
"That must have been Tink. I never knew her so naughty before."
And indeed Tink was darting about again, using offensive language.
darting - Pfeil, Satz
offensive - beleidigend; offensiv; Offensive, Angriff
"She says she will do that to you, Wendy, every time I give you a thimble."
"But why?"
"Why, Tink?"
Again Tink replied, "You silly ass." Peter could not understand why, but Wendy understood, and she was just slightly disappointed when he admitted that he came to the nursery window not to see her but to listen to stories.
ass - Arsch, Esel, Dummkopf
"You see, I don't know any stories. None of the lost boys knows any stories."
"How perfectly awful," Wendy said.
"Do you know," Peter asked "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories. O Wendy, your mother was telling you such a lovely story."
swallows - Schwalben; schlucken, verschlingen, anbeißen, einstecken
build in - einbauen
"Which story was it?"
"About the prince who couldn't find the lady who wore the glass slipper."
slipper - Hausschuh, Latschen, Pantoffel, Patschen
"Peter," said Wendy excitedly, "that was Cinderella, and he found her, and they lived happily ever after."
excitedly - aufgeregt
Peter was so glad that he rose from the floor, where they had been sitting, and hurried to the window.
"Where are you going?" she cried with misgiving.
misgiving - Befürchtungen; Zweifel; (misgive) Befürchtungen; Zweifel
"To tell the other boys."
"Don't go Peter," she entreated, "I know such lots of stories."
Those were her precise words, so there can be no denying that it was she who first tempted him.
precise - präzise, genau, exakt, präzisieren
denying - leugnen, bestreiten, dementieren
tempted - in Versuchung; in Versuchung führen, versuchen, locken
He came back, and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ought to have alarmed her, but did not.
greedy - gierig, habgierig, habsüchtig, gefräßig
"Oh, the stories I could tell to the boys!" she cried, and then Peter gripped her and began to draw her toward the window.
gripped - gegriffen; packen, fassen; Griffigkeit, Heft (von Säge, Feile)
"Let me go!" she ordered him.
"Wendy, do come with me and tell the other boys."
Of course she was very pleased to be asked, but she said, "Oh dear, I can't. Think of mummy! Besides, I can't fly."
mummy - Mumie, Mutti; Mama, Mami, Mutti
"I'll teach you."
"Oh, how lovely to fly."
"I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go."
wind - aufspulen, rollen, blasen, aufwickeln, abspulen
"Oo!" she exclaimed rapturously.
"Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars."
"Oo!"
"And, Wendy, there are mermaids."
mermaids - Meerjungfrauen; Nixe, Wassernixe, Seejungfrau, Meerjungfrau
"Mermaids! With tails?"
"Such long tails."
"Oh," cried Wendy, "to see a mermaid!"
mermaid - Nixe, Wassernixe, Seejungfrau, Meerjungfrau
He had become frightfully cunning. "Wendy," he said, "how we should all respect you."
She was wriggling her body in distress. It was quite as if she were trying to remain on the nursery floor.
wriggling - zappelnd; sich winden, sich befreien
But he had no pity for her.
pity - Mitleid; schade; bemitleiden, Mitleid haben mit
"Wendy," he said, the sly one, "you could tuck us in at night."
sly - schlau, gerissen, listig, verschmitzt
tuck - zurückstreifen, einklemmen; Bundfalte
"Oo!"
"None of us has ever been tucked in at night."
tucked - gesteckt; zurückstreifen, einklemmen; Bundfalte
"Oo," and her arms went out to him.
"And you could darn our clothes, and make pockets for us. None of us has any pockets."
darn - verflixt; verfluchen, in Verruf bringen, ausbessern
How could she resist. "Of course it's awfully fascinating!" she cried. "Peter, would you teach John and Michael to fly too?"
resist - widerstreben; widerstehen; widerstreiten; zuwider sein; Deckmittel
"If you like," he said indifferently, and she ran to John and Michael and shook them. "Wake up," she cried, "Peter Pan has come and he is to teach us to fly."
indifferently - gleichgültig
John rubbed his eyes. "Then I shall get up," he said. Of course he was on the floor already. "Hallo," he said, "I am up!"
rubbed - gerieben; reiben, reiben, abreiben, sich abreiben
Michael was up by this time also, looking as sharp as a knife with six blades and a saw, but Peter suddenly signed silence. Their faces assumed the awful craftiness of children listening for sounds from the grown-up world. All was as still as salt. Then everything was right. No, stop! Everything was wrong. Nana, who had been barking distressfully all the evening, was quiet now. It was her silence they had heard.
blades - Klingen; Klinge, Turbinenschaufel, Grashalm, Klinge, Blatt
assumed - angenommen; annehmen, voraussetzen, vermuten, unterstellen
craftiness - Schlauheit; List
distressfully - verzweifelt
"Out with the light! Hide! Quick!" cried John, taking command for the only time throughout the whole adventure. And thus when Liza entered, holding Nana, the nursery seemed quite its old self, very dark, and you would have sworn you heard its three wicked inmates breathing angelically as they slept. They were really doing it artfully from behind the window curtains.
Command - Befehl, Kommando, befehlen, kommandieren, gebieten, beherrschen
self - Selbst
wicked - verrucht; böse; (wick) verrucht; böse
inmates - Häftlinge; Insasse, Bewohner
angelically - engelsgleich
artfully - listige, kunstvoll
Liza was in a bad temper, for she was mixing the Christmas puddings in the kitchen, and had been drawn from them, with a raisin still on her cheek, by Nana's absurd suspicions. She thought the best way of getting a little quiet was to take Nana to the nursery for a moment, but in custody of course.
temper - Gereiztheit, Laune, Temperament, Anlassen, Ausheizen
Christmas - Weihnachten
puddings - Blutwurst, Pudding, Pudding, Pudding (1, 2, 4) de
raisin - Rosine
absurd - absurd
custody - Gewahrsam; Sorgerecht, Obhut, Verwahrung, Aufbewahrung, Haft
"There, you suspicious brute," she said, not sorry that Nana was in disgrace. "They are perfectly safe, aren't they? Every one of the little angels sound asleep in bed. Listen to their gentle breathing."
disgrace - Ungnade, Schande, Schmach
angels - Engeln; Engel
Here Michael, encouraged by his success, breathed so loudly that they were nearly detected. Nana knew that kind of breathing, and she tried to drag herself out of Liza's clutches.
detected - entdeckt; finden, ermitteln, aufspüren, entdecken, erkennen
drag - Planierschleppe; nachschleppen, schleppen, ziehen
clutches - kuppeln; Vogelgelege; Kupplung (Auto), Gelege
But Liza was dense. "No more of it, Nana," she said sternly, pulling her out of the room. "I warn you if you bark again I shall go straight for master and missus and bring them home from the party, and then, oh, won't master whip you, just."
dense - dicht
Missus - Herrin; Frau
whip - Peitsche, Knute, Zagel, peitschen, auspeitschen
She tied the unhappy dog up again, but do you think Nana ceased to bark? Bring master and missus home from the party! Why, that was just what she wanted. Do you think she cared whether she was whipped so long as her charges were safe? Unfortunately Liza returned to her puddings, and Nana, seeing that no help would come from her, strained and strained at the chain until at last she broke it. In another moment she had burst into the dining-room of 27 and flung up her paws to heaven, her most expressive way of making a communication.
ceased - eingestellt; aufhören, aufhören, einstellen
strained - angespannt; Spannung, starke Inanspruchnahme, Zug; anstrengen
burst - geplatzt; platzen, zerplatzen, bersten, sprengen, Bersten
dining - Essen; Lärm, Getöse; dröhnen
paws - Pfoten; Tatze, Pfote, Pranke
Heaven - Der Himmel; Himmel, Firmament, Paradies
most expressive - ausdrucksfähigste
Mr. and Mrs. Darling knew at once that something terrible was happening in their nursery, and without a good-bye to their hostess they rushed into the street.
Good-bye - (Good-bye) Auf Wiedersehen!;adieu, leb wohl, ade, lebewohl, ciao
But it was now ten minutes since three scoundrels had been breathing behind the curtains, and Peter Pan can do a great deal in ten minutes.
scoundrels - Schurken; Schurke, Gauner, Gaunerin, Halunke
We now return to the nursery.
"It's all right," John announced, emerging from his hiding-place. "I say, Peter, can you really fly?"
emerging - entstehen; erscheinen, auftauchen, herauskommen, davonkommen
Instead of troubling to answer him Peter flew around the room, taking the mantelpiece on the way.
mantelpiece - Kaminsims
"How topping!" said John and Michael.
"How sweet!" cried Wendy.
"Yes, I'm sweet, oh, I am sweet!" said Peter, forgetting his manners again.
It looked delightfully easy, and they tried it first from the floor and then from the beds, but they always went down instead of up.
delightfully - entzückend
"I say, how do you do it?" asked John, rubbing his knee. He was quite a practical boy.
rubbing - Reiben, Polieren; (rub); reiben, abreiben, sich abreiben
"You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air."
He showed them again.
"You're so nippy at it," John said, "couldn't you do it very slowly once?"
nippy - spritzig; kühl, frisch, frostig
Peter did it both slowly and quickly. "I've got it now, Wendy!" cried John, but soon he found he had not. Not one of them could fly an inch, though even Michael was in words of two syllables, and Peter did not know A from Z.
I've got it - Ich hab's.
inch - Zoll (2, 54 cm), Zoll (Längenmaß)
syllables - Silben; Silbe
Of course Peter had been trifling with them, for no one can fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him. Fortunately, as we have mentioned, one of his hands was messy with it, and he blew some on each of them, with the most superb results.
trifling - unbedeutend; Leichtfertigkeit
superb - großartig, superb
"Now just wiggle your shoulders this way," he said, "and let go."
wiggle - schlängeln, schwänzeln, wackeln
They were all on their beds, and gallant Michael let go first. He did not quite mean to let go, but he did it, and immediately he was borne across the room.
gallant - Galan (galanter Mann), galant, Verehrer
"I flewed!" he screamed while still in mid-air.
flewed - geflogen
mid - mittler
John let go and met Wendy near the bathroom.
"Oh, lovely!"
"Oh, ripping!"
ripping - zerreißen; Riss; reißen, der Länge nach auftrennen
"Look at me!"
"Look at me!"
"Look at me!"
They were not nearly so elegant as Peter, they could not help kicking a little, but their heads were bobbing against the ceiling, and there is almost nothing so delicious as that. Peter gave Wendy a hand at first, but had to desist, Tink was so indignant.
bobbing - wackeln; Troddel; tanzen (Boot); Bob (Frisur)
desist - unterlassen; aufhören
indignant - entrüstet
Up and down they went, and round and round. Heavenly was Wendy's word.
heavenly - himmlisch
"I say," cried John, "why shouldn't we all go out?"
Of course it was to this that Peter had been luring them.
luring - locken; Lure
Michael was ready: he wanted to see how long it took him to do a billion miles. But Wendy hesitated.
billion - Milliarden; Milliarde; Billion
hesitated - gezögert; zögern, zögern, stammeln
"Mermaids!" said Peter again.
"Oo!"
"And there are pirates."
pirates - Piraten; Pirat, Seeräuber, Korsar, Pirat, Raubkopierer
"Pirates," cried John, seizing his Sunday hat, "let us go at once."
It was just at this moment that Mr. and Mrs. Darling hurried with Nana out of 27. They ran into the middle of the street to look up at the nursery window; and, yes, it was still shut, but the room was ablaze with light, and most heart-gripping sight of all, they could see in shadow on the curtain three little figures in night attire circling round and round, not on the floor but in the air.
ablaze - in Flammen stehen; lodernd; in Flammen
gripping - fesselnd; packen, fassen; Griffigkeit, Heft (von Säge, Feile)
attire - Anzug, Aufzug, Kleidung, Tracht, anziehen
Not three figures, four!
In a tremble they opened the street door. Mr. Darling would have rushed upstairs, but Mrs. Darling signed him to go softly. She even tried to make her heart go softly.
tremble - zittern; Zittern
Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.
sigh - Seufzen, Seufzer, Säuseln (Wind); säuseln (Wind)
relief - Erleichterung, Befreiung, Linderung, Unterstützung
solemnly - feierlich, festlich, ernst
They would have reached the nursery in time had it not been that the little stars were watching them. Once again the stars blew the window open, and that smallest star of all called out:
"Cave, Peter!"
cave - nachgeben, aufgeben; Höhle
Then Peter knew that there was not a moment to lose. "Come," he cried imperiously, and soared out at once into the night, followed by John and Michael and Wendy.
imperiously - gebieterisch
soared - aufgestiegen; schweben, hochfliegen, gleiten, hochschnellen
Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown.
"Second to the right, and straight on till morning."
That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.
consulting - Beratung; Rat halten, beraten, beratschlagen, beraten
windy - windig
At first his companions trusted him implicitly, and so great were the delights of flying that they wasted time circling round church spires or any other tall objects on the way that took their fancy.
Companions - Gefährten; Begleiter, Freund, Liebhaber, Kamerad, Gefährte
trusted - vertrauenswürdig; Vertrauen
implicitly - stillschweigend
delights - Köstlichkeiten; Freude, Entzückung, Wohlgefallen
spires - Türme; Turmspitze, Spitze (Turm-)
John and Michael raced, Michael getting a start.
They recalled with contempt that not so long ago they had thought themselves fine fellows for being able to fly round a room.
recalled - zurückgerufen; zurückrufen, erinnern
fellows - Kameraden; Stipendiat, Typ, Kerl, Bursche; Gefährte, Kerl
fly round - umfliegen
Not long ago. But how long ago? They were flying over the sea before this thought began to disturb Wendy seriously. John thought it was their second sea and their third night.
disturb - stören
Sometimes it was dark and sometimes light, and now they were very cold and again too warm. Did they really feel hungry at times, or were they merely pretending, because Peter had such a jolly new way of feeding them? His way was to pursue birds who had food in their mouths suitable for humans and snatch it from them; then the birds would follow and snatch it back; and they would all go chasing each other gaily for miles, parting at last with mutual expressions of good-will.
jolly - fröhlich; vergnügt, lustig
pursue - verfolgen, beschreiten, nachjagen, nachgehen
snatch - schnappen; klauen, stehlen, Reißen
chasing - ziselierend, jagend; (chas) ziselierend, jagend
gaily - fröhlich; unbekümmert
mutual - wechselseitig, gegenseitig, beiderseitig, gemeinsam
But Wendy noticed with gentle concern that Peter did not seem to know that this was rather an odd way of getting your bread and butter, nor even that there are other ways.
concern - Bedenken; Sorge, Anliegen, Betroffenheit, Besorgnis, Konzern
Certainly they did not pretend to be sleepy, they were sleepy; and that was a danger, for the moment they popped off, down they fell. The awful thing was that Peter thought this funny.
sleepy - schläfrig; verschlafen
"There he goes again!" he would cry gleefully, as Michael suddenly dropped like a stone.
"Save him, save him!" cried Wendy, looking with horror at the cruel sea far below.
Eventually Peter would dive through the air, and catch Michael just before he could strike the sea, and it was lovely the way he did it; but he always waited till the last moment, and you felt it was his cleverness that interested him and not the saving of human life. Also he was fond of variety, and the sport that engrossed him one moment would suddenly cease to engage him, so there was always the possibility that the next time you fell he would let you go.
dive - tauchen
strike - streichen; schlagen; prägen; streiken; scheinen; die Fahne streichen; Strike; Streik; Schlag
engrossed - vertieft; beschlagnahmen, beanspruchen
cease - aufhören, einstellen
engage - engagieren; beschäftigen; anstellen; angreifen, anlegen
He could sleep in the air without falling, by merely lying on his back and floating, but this was, partly at least, because he was so light that if you got behind him and blew he went faster.
floating - schwebend; schwimmend, fließend, gleiten
partly - teilweise, zum Teil
"Do be more polite to him," Wendy whispered to John, when they were playing "Follow my Leader."
more polite - höflichere
polite to - höflich gegen
"Then tell him to stop showing off," said John.
When playing Follow my Leader, Peter would fly close to the water and touch each shark's tail in passing, just as in the street you may run your finger along an iron railing. They could not follow him in this with much success, so perhaps it was rather like showing off, especially as he kept looking behind to see how many tails they missed.
Shark - Haifisch, Hai
railing - Geländer; (rail); Geländer
"You must be nice to him," Wendy impressed on her brothers. "What could we do if he were to leave us!"
"We could go back," Michael said.
"How could we ever find our way back without him?"
"Well, then, we could go on," said John.
"That is the awful thing, John. We should have to go on, for we don't know how to stop."
This was true, Peter had forgotten to show them how to stop.
John said that if the worst came to the worst, all they had to do was to go straight on, for the world was round, and so in time they must come back to their own window.
"And who is to get food for us, John?"
"I nipped a bit out of that eagle's mouth pretty neatly, Wendy."
eagle - Adler, Eagle
neatly - sauber, ordentlich, geschickt
"After the twentieth try," Wendy reminded him. "And even though we became good at picking up food, see how we bump against clouds and things if he is not near to give us a hand."
bump - Anstoß; Schlag, Stoß, Bums
Indeed they were constantly bumping. They could now fly strongly, though they still kicked far too much; but if they saw a cloud in front of them, the more they tried to avoid it, the more certainly did they bump into it. If Nana had been with them, she would have had a bandage round Michael's forehead by this time.
constantly - ständig; regelmäßig; konstant
bumping - Schlag, Stoß, Bums, qualifier
bandage - Pflaster; Verband; bandagieren
forehead - Stirn
Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to say for certain what had been happening.
fearfully - furchtsam, ängstlich
scales - Waagen; Skala, Kesselsteine, Schuppe; ersteigen, erklettern
It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.
irritating - irritierend; reizen, irritieren, ärgern
"And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?"
Indeed, sometimes when he returned he did not remember them, at least not well. Wendy was sure of it. She saw recognition come into his eyes as he was about to pass them the time of day and go on; once even she had to call him by name.
recognition - Erkennen, Wiedererkennen, Erkennung, Anerkennung
"I'm Wendy," she said agitatedly.
agitatedly - aufgewühlt
He was very sorry. "I say, Wendy," he whispered to her, "always if you see me forgetting you, just keep on saying 'I'm Wendy,'and then I'll remember."
Of course this was rather unsatisfactory. However, to make amends he showed them how to lie out flat on a strong wind that was going their way, and this was such a pleasant change that they tried it several times and found that they could sleep thus with security. Indeed they would have slept longer, but Peter tired quickly of sleeping, and soon he would cry in his captain voice, "We get off here.
unsatisfactory - nicht zufriedenstellend
amends - Wiedergutmachung; verbessern, ausbessern, verbessern
So with occasional tiffs, but on the whole rollicking, they drew near the Neverland; for after many moons they did reach it, and, what is more, they had been going pretty straight all the time, not perhaps so much owing to the guidance of Peter or Tink as because the island was looking for them. It is only thus that any one may sight those magic shores.
occasional - gelegentlich, okkasionell
tiffs - Kabbelei
rollicking - ausgelassen, übermütig; (rollick) ausgelassen, übermütig
guidance - Anleitung, Richtungsweisung, Handlungsempfehlung
"There it is," said Peter calmly.
calmly - ruhig
"Where, where?"
"Where all the arrows are pointing."
arrows - Pfeile; Richtungspfeil, Pfeil
Indeed a million golden arrows were pointing it out to the children, all directed by their friend the sun, who wanted them to be sure of their way before leaving them for the night.
Wendy and John and Michael stood on tip-toe in the air to get their first sight of the island. Strange to say, they all recognized it at once, and until fear fell upon them they hailed it, not as something long dreamt of and seen at last, but as a familiar friend to whom they were returning home for the holidays.
hailed - jdm. zujubeln; (Hail to thee!) Wohl dir!, Sei gegrüßt!
"John, there's the lagoon."
lagoon - Lagune
"Wendy, look at the turtles burying their eggs in the sand."
turtles - Schildkröten; Schildkröte
"I say, John, I see your flamingo with the broken leg!"
flamingo - Flamingo
"Look, Michael, there's your cave!"
"John, what's that in the brushwood?"
brushwood - Reisig; Gestrüpp
"It's a wolf with her whelps. Wendy, I do believe that's your little whelp!"
whelp - Welpe
"There's my boat, John, with her sides stove in!"
stove - einschlagen, Küchenherd, abwehren
"No, it isn't. Why, we burned your boat."
"That's her, at any rate. I say, John, I see the smoke of the redskin camp!"
redskin - rothäutig; Indianer
"Where? Show me, and I'll tell you by the way smoke curls whether they are on the war-path."
curls - Locken; Locke
"There, just across the Mysterious River."
mysterious - geheimnisvoll; mysteriös; rätselhaft
"I see now. Yes, they are on the war-path right enough."
Peter was a little annoyed with them for knowing so much, but if he wanted to lord it over them his triumph was at hand, for have I not told you that anon fear fell upon them?
triumph - Sieg, Erfolg
It came as the arrows went, leaving the island in gloom.
gloom - Finsternis; Düsternis, Dunkelheit, Trübnis, Schwermut
In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime. Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and above all, you lost the certainty that you would win.
threatening - bedrohlich; drohend; (threaten); drohen, bedrohen, androhen
bedtime - Schlafenszeit, Zeit zum Schlafengehen, Zeit ins Bett zu gehen
unexplored - unerforscht
patches - notdürftig reparieren, reparieren, einsetzen; Flicken
arose - entstanden ist; sich erheben, aufstehen, entstehen, auftreten
shadows - Schatten, beschatten, beschatten
roar - brüllen; Tosen; Brüllen; Aufheulen
beasts - Biester; Tier
prey - Beute; lauern, auflauern
certainty - Gewissheit
You were quite glad that the night-lights were on. You even liked Nana to say that this was just the mantelpiece over here, and that the Neverland was all make-believe.
make-believe - (make-believe) weismachen
Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days, but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it was getting darker every moment, and where was Nana?
They had been flying apart, but they huddled close to Peter now. His careless manner had gone at last, his eyes were sparkling, and a tingle went through them every time they touched his body.
huddled - zusammengedrängt; wirrer Haufen
sparkling - glitzernd, funkelnd, prickelnd, sprudelnd; (sparkle); glitzernd
tingle - kribbeln, prickeln, Prickeln
They were now over the fearsome island, flying so low that sometimes a tree grazed their feet. Nothing horrid was visible in the air, yet their progress had become slow and laboured, exactly as if they were pushing their way through hostile forces. Sometimes they hung in the air until Peter had beaten on it with his fists.
fearsome - fürchterlich, furchterregend
grazed - abgegrast; Kratzen
visible - sichtbar
laboured - mühsam; Arbeit, Arbeiter-p, gebären, arbeiten
hostile - feindlich, feindselig, gegnerisch, unversöhnlich, antagonistisch
fists - Fäuste; fausten; Faust
"They don't want us to land," he explained.
"Who are they?" Wendy whispered, shuddering.
But he could not or would not say. Tinker Bell had been asleep on his shoulder, but now he wakened her and sent her on in front.
Sometimes he poised himself in the air, listening intently, with his hand to his ear, and again he would stare down with eyes so bright that they seemed to bore two holes to earth. Having done these things, he went on again.
poised - bereit; Gleichgewicht
intently - angespannt, aufmerksam, konzentriert
stare - starren, anstarren
His courage was almost appalling. "Would you like an adventure now," he said casually to John, "or would you like to have your tea first?"
courage - Courage, Herz, Mut, Tapferkeit
appalling - entsetzlich, erschreckend; (appal); entsetzlich, erschreckend
casually - beiläufig; gelegentlich
Wendy said "tea first" quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude, but the braver John hesitated.
gratitude - Dankbarkeit
"What kind of adventure?" he asked cautiously.
cautiously - behutsam; vorsichtig
"There's a pirate asleep in the pampas just beneath us," Peter told him. "If you like, we'll go down and kill him."
pirate - Pirat, Seeräuber, Korsar, Raubkopierer, raubkopieren
Pampas - Pampa
beneath - unter
"I don't see him," John said after a long pause.
pause - Eine Pause; pausieren, innehalten, Pause
"I do."
"Suppose," John said, a little huskily, "he were to wake up."
huskily - heiser, hülsig
Peter spoke indignantly. "You don't think I would kill him while he was sleeping! I would wake him first, and then kill him. That's the way I always do."
"I say! Do you kill many?"
"Tons."
tons - Tonnen; Tonne (Massemaß)
John said "How ripping," but decided to have tea first. He asked if there were many pirates on the island just now, and Peter said he had never known so many.
have tea - zu Abend essen, Tee trinken, Abendbrot essen
"Who is captain now?"
"Hook," answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said that hated word.
Hook - Haken; Hookline; einhaken
stern - ernst, Heck
"Jas. Hook?"
"Ay."
Then indeed Michael began to cry, and even John could speak in gulps only, for they knew Hook's reputation.
gulps - schluckt; Schluck, schlucken, schlingen, verschlingen
reputation - Ansehen, Ruf, Klang, Bekanntheit
"He was Blackbeard's bo'sun," John whispered huskily. "He is the worst of them all. He is the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid."
Blackbeard - Blackbeard
Barbecue - Grill, Barbecue, Grillen, Grillplatte
"That's him," said Peter.
"What is he like? Is he big?"
"He is not so big as he was."
"How do you mean?"
"I cut off a bit of him."
"You!"
"Yes, me," said Peter sharply.
"I wasn't meaning to be disrespectful."
disrespectful - respektlos
"Oh, all right."
"But, I say, what bit?"
"His right hand."
"Then he can't fight now?"
"Oh, can't he just!"
"Left-hander?"
hander - händer
"He has an iron hook instead of a right hand, and he claws with it."
claws - Krallen; zerkratzen; Kralle, Fang (Vogelkralle), Klaue
"Claws!"
"I say, John," said Peter.
"Yes."
"Say, 'Ay, ay, sir.'"
"Ay, ay, sir."
"There is one thing," Peter continued, "that every boy who serves under me has to promise, and so must you."
John paled.
"It is this, if we meet Hook in open fight, you must leave him to me."
"I promise," John said loyally.
loyally - loyal, treu
For the moment they were feeling less eerie, because Tink was flying with them, and in her light they could distinguish each other. Unfortunately she could not fly so slowly as they, and so she had to go round and round them in a circle in which they moved as in a halo. Wendy quite liked it, until Peter pointed out the drawbacks.
eerie - unheimlich
distinguish - unterscheiden; erkennen; auszeichnen
go round - umgehen, umrunden, kursieren
halo - Halo; Heiligenschein; Nimbus
drawbacks - Nachteile; Nachteil, Minuspunkt, Schattenseite, Haken
"She tells me," he said, "that the pirates sighted us before the darkness came, and got Long Tom out."
darkness - Dunkelheit, Finsternis
"The big gun?"
"Yes. And of course they must see her light, and if they guess we are near it they are sure to let fly."
"Wendy!"
"John!"
"Michael!"
"Tell her to go away at once, Peter," the three cried simultaneously, but he refused.
refused - abgelehnt; Müll; abweisen, verweigern, abschlagen, ablehnen
"She thinks we have lost the way," he replied stiffly, "and she is rather frightened. You don't think I would send her away all by herself when she is frightened!"
For a moment the circle of light was broken, and something gave Peter a loving little pinch.
pinch - kneifen, zwicken, schnappen, erwischen, Messerspitze, Prise
"Then tell her," Wendy begged, "to put out her light."
begged - gebettelt; Männchen machen; etwas erbitten (von jemandem); bitten (um)
"She can't put it out. That is about the only thing fairies can't do. It just goes out of itself when she falls asleep, same as the stars."
falls asleep - (fall asleep) ich/er/sie schlief ein, einschlafen
"Then tell her to sleep at once," John almost ordered.
"She can't sleep except when she's sleepy. It is the only other thing fairies can't do."
"Seems to me," growled John, "these are the only two things worth doing."
Here he got a pinch, but not a loving one.
"If only one of us had a pocket," Peter said, "we could carry her in it." However, they had set off in such a hurry that there was not a pocket between the four of them.
He had a happy idea. John's hat!
Tink agreed to travel by hat if it was carried in the hand. John carried it, though she had hoped to be carried by Peter. Presently Wendy took the hat, because John said it struck against his knee as he flew; and this, as we shall see, led to mischief, for Tinker Bell hated to be under an obligation to Wendy.
mischief - Unfug, Unheil, Querulantentum
obligation - Verpflichtung, Pflicht
In the black topper the light was completely hidden, and they flew on in silence. It was the stillest silence they had ever known, broken once by a distant lapping, which Peter explained was the wild beasts drinking at the ford, and again by a rasping sound that might have been the branches of trees rubbing together, but he said it was the redskins sharpening their knives.
ford - Furt; durchqueren
rasping - kratzend, raspelnd; (rasp) kratzend, raspelnd
redskins - Rothäute; Indianer
sharpening - schärfen
Even these noises ceased. To Michael the loneliness was dreadful. "If only something would make a sound!" he cried.
loneliness - Einsamkeit
As if in answer to his request, the air was rent by the most tremendous crash he had ever heard. The pirates had fired Long Tom at them.
tremendous - ungeheuerlich
crash - Absturz; Zusammenstoß, Krach, Zusammenbruch; zusammenbrechen
The roar of it echoed through the mountains, and the echoes seemed to cry savagely, "Where are they, where are they, where are they?"
echoed - widerhallt; Echo
Echoes - Echos; Echo
savagely - brutal
Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
terrified - verängstigt; erschrecken
When at last the heavens were steady again, John and Michael found themselves alone in the darkness. John was treading the air mechanically, and Michael without knowing how to float was floating.
heavens - Himmel, Firmament
steady - beständig; stetig; stabilisieren
treading - Trittbrettfahren; (tread on) treten; (tread) Trittbrettfahren; (tread on) treten
mechanically - mechanisch
float - treiben, schwimmen, schweben, gleiten
"Are you shot?" John whispered tremulously.
tremulously - bebend
"I haven't tried [myself out] yet," Michael whispered back.
We know now that no one had been hit. Peter, however, had been carried by the wind of the shot far out to sea, while Wendy was blown upwards with no companion but Tinker Bell.
upwards - nach oben; ansteigend, aufwärts
companion - Begleiter, Freund, Liebhaber, Kamerad
It would have been well for Wendy if at that moment she had dropped the hat.
I don't know whether the idea came suddenly to Tink, or whether she had planned it on the way, but she at once popped out of the hat and began to lure Wendy to her destruction.
lure - locken; ködern; Köder
destruction - Zerstörung, Vernichtung
Tink was not all bad; or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change. At present she was full of jealousy of Wendy. What she said in her lovely tinkle Wendy could not of course understand, and I believe some of it was bad words, but it sounded kind, and she flew back and forward, plainly meaning "Follow me, and all will be well.
jealousy - Eifersucht, Missgunst, Neid
plainly - klar und deutlich; klar
What else could poor Wendy do? She called to Peter and John and Michael, and got only mocking echoes in reply. She did not yet know that Tink hated her with the fierce hatred of a very woman. And so, bewildered, and now staggering in her flight, she followed Tink to her doom.
fierce - wild, heftig, bedrohlich
hatred - Hass
bewildered - verwirrt; verwirren, durcheinanderbringen
staggering - taumelnd, wankend, torkelnd; (stagger); taumelnd, wankend
doom - Bann; Urteil, Verbannung, Strafe, Untergang, Tod, Schicksal
Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
pluperfect - Pluperfekt; Plusquamperfekt
In his absence things are usually quiet on the island. The fairies take an hour longer in the morning, the beasts attend to their young, the redskins feed heavily for six days and nights, and when pirates and lost boys meet they merely bite their thumbs at each other. But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are under way again: if you put your ear to the ground now, you would hear the whole island seething with life.
absence - Abwesenheit, Absenz, Fehlen, Absence
thumbs - Daumen, durchblättern
lethargy - Trägheit, Lethargie, Teilnahmslosigkeit, Interesselosigkeit
seething - kochen; wütend; (seethe); kochen, sieden, schäumen, sprudeln
On this evening the chief forces of the island were disposed as follows. The lost boys were out looking for Peter, the pirates were out looking for the lost boys, the redskins were out looking for the pirates, and the beasts were out looking for the redskins. They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
disposed - entsorgt; beseitigen, entsorgen, ordnen
All wanted blood except the boys, who liked it as a rule, but to-night were out to greet their captain. The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out; but at this time there were six of them, counting the twins as two.
Let us pretend to lie here among the sugar-cane and watch them as they steal by in single file, each with his hand on his dagger.
sugar-cane - (sugar-cane) Zuckerrohr
dagger - Dolch
They are forbidden by Peter to look in the least like him, and they wear the skins of the bears slain by themselves, in which they are so round and furry that when they fall they roll. They have therefore become very sure-footed.
forbidden - Verboten; verbieten, untersagen, verweigern, vorenthalten
slain - erschlagen
furry - pelzig, Pelz-, Furry
The first to pass is Tootles, not the least brave but the most unfortunate of all that gallant band. He had been in fewer adventures than any of them, because the big things constantly happened just when he had stepped round the corner; all would be quiet, he would take the opportunity of going off to gather a few sticks for firewood, and then when he returned the others would be sweeping up the blood. This ill-luck had given a gentle melancholy to his countenance, but instead of souring his nature had sweetened it, so that he was quite the humblest of the boys.
most unfortunate - unseligste
firewood - Brennholz, Feuerholz
sweeping - erman:; Fegen, Kehren; (sweep); fegen, kehren, rauschen
melancholy - Melancholie, Schwermut, Wehmut
countenance - Antlitz, Gesichtsausdruck, Miene, Unterstützung, Fassung
souring - Säuern, Aussäuern, Säuerung, Aussäuerung; (sour); sauer, herb
sweetened - gesüßt; süßen, versüßen, süß werden
humblest - am bescheidensten; demütig, ergeben
Poor kind Tootles, there is danger in the air for you to-night. Take care lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe. Tootles, the fairy Tink, who is bent on mischief this night is looking for a tool [for doing her mischief], and she thinks you are the most easily tricked of the boys. 'Ware Tinker Bell.
plunge - stürzen; eintauchen, tauchen
woe - wehe; Weh, Jammer, Kummer, Leid
Would that he could hear us, but we are not really on the island, and he passes by, biting his knuckles.
passes by - (pass by) vorüberziehen, sterben, vorbeigehen
Next comes Nibs, the gay and debonair, followed by Slightly, who cuts whistles out of the trees and dances ecstatically to his own tunes. Slightly is the most conceited of the boys. He thinks he remembers the days before he was lost, with their manners and customs, and this has given his nose an offensive tilt. Curly is fourth; he is a pickle, [a person who gets in pickles-predicaments] and so often has he had to deliver up his person when Peter said sternly, "Stand forth the one who did this thing," that now at the command he stands forth automatically whether he has done it or not.
Nibs - Schreibfedern; Federspitze
gay - vergnügt, schwul, homosexuell, lustig, heiter
whistles - pfeift; Pfeife, Trillerpfeife, Flöte, Pfeifen
ecstatically - ekstatisch
tunes - Melodien; Melodie, stimmen
conceited - Eingebildet; Eingebung, Einbildung, Konzept
tilt - neigen; Schärfedehnung, Höchstleistung
pickles - Essiggurken; Essiggurke, Metallbeize; beizen
predicaments - Dilemmas; Kategorie, Lage (''missliche ~; unglückliche ~'')
automatically - automatisch
Last come the Twins, who cannot be described because we should be sure to be describing the wrong one. Peter never quite knew what twins were, and his band were not allowed to know anything he did not know, so these two were always vague about themselves, and did their best to give satisfaction by keeping close together in an apologetic sort of way.
vague - vage; nebelhaft, schwach, unklar, undeutlich
apologetic - entschuldigend, apologetisch, reumütig
The boys vanish in the gloom, and after a pause, but not a long pause, for things go briskly on the island, come the pirates on their track. We hear them before they are seen, and it is always the same dreadful song:
vanish - verschwinden, vergehen, sich verflüchtigen
briskly - zügig; forsch
"Avast belay, yo ho, heave to,
belay - Sichern; festmachen
heave to - beidrehen
A-pirating we go,
pirating - Pirat, Seeräuber, Korsar, Pirat, Raubkopierer, raubkopieren
And if we're parted by a shot
We're sure to meet below!"
A more villainous-looking lot never hung in a row on Execution dock. Here, a little in advance, ever and again with his head to the ground listening, his great arms bare, pieces of eight in his ears as ornaments, is the handsome Italian Cecco, who cut his name in letters of blood on the back of the governor of the prison at Gao. That gigantic black behind him has had many names since he dropped the one with which dusky mothers still terrify their children on the banks of the Guadjo-mo.
villainous - schurkisch
execution - Ausführung; Hinrichtung
Dock - Hafenbecken; docken, andocken; Dock, Anklagebank
advance - erhöhen, erheben, befördern, vorrücken, Fortschritt, Vorschuss
bare - knapp, kahl, nackt, bloß; entblößen, abnehmen, freimachen
ornaments - Ornamente; Verzierung, musikalische Verzierung
handsome - gut aussehend; hübsch, stattlich, gutaussehend, ansehnlich
governor - Gouverneur, Gouverneurin, Regler
gigantic - gigantisch, kolossal
dusky - düster
mo - US-Bundesstaat
terrify - erschrecken
Here is Bill Jukes, every inch of him tattooed, the same Bill Jukes who got six dozen on the WALRUS from Flint before he would drop the bag of moidores [Portuguese gold pieces]; and Cookson, said to be Black Murphy's brother (but this was never proved), and Gentleman Starkey, once an usher in a public school and still dainty in his ways of killing; and Skylights (Morgan's Skylights); and the Irish bo'sun Smee, an oddly genial man who stabbed, so to speak, without offence, and was the only Non-conformist in Hook's crew; and Noodler, whose hands were fixed on backwards; and Robt. Mullins and Alf Mason and many another ruffian long known and feared on the Spanish Main.
tattooed - tätowiert; tätowieren
dozen - Dutzend; Dutzende (''of'': von)
walrus - Walross
Flint - Feuerstein; q
Portuguese - portugiesisch; Portugiese, Portugiesin, Portugiesisch
usher - Platzanweiser; Gerichtsdiener; zuweisen, anweisen, führen
dainty - Delikatesse; fein, zart, zierlich
Skylights - Oberlichter; Dachluke, Dachfenster
Irish - Irisch
genial - großartig
stabbed - erstochen; Stich (Messer-); erstechen
offence - Vergehen; Angriff, Verstoß (gegen), Beleidigung
non - nicht..
conformist - Konformist; konformistisch
crew - Mannschaft, Crew
Mason - Maurer
ruffian - Grobian; Raubein
Spanish - spanisch; Spanisch; Spanier
In the midst of them, the blackest and largest in that dark setting, reclined James Hook, or as he wrote himself, Jas. Hook, of whom it is said he was the only man that the Sea-Cook feared. He lay at his ease in a rough chariot drawn and propelled by his men, and instead of a right hand he had the iron hook with which ever and anon he encouraged them to increase their pace. As dogs this terrible man treated and addressed them, and as dogs they obeyed him. In person he was cadaverous [dead looking] and blackavized [dark faced], and his hair was dressed in long curls, which at a little distance looked like black candles, and gave a singularly threatening expression to his handsome countenance. His eyes were of the blue of the forget-me-not, and of a profound melancholy, save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit them up horribly. In manner, something of the grand seigneur still clung to him, so that he even ripped you up with an air, and I have been told that he was a RACONTEUR [storyteller] of repute.
midst - mittendrin; Mitten, Mitte, inmitten
reclined - zurückgelehnt; zurücklehnen, hinlegen, anlehnen
James - Jakobus, Jakobus, Jakob
ease - Leichtigkeit, Mühelosigkeit, Behaglichkeit, Bequemlichkeit
chariot - Streitwagen; Triumphwagen
propelled - angetrieben; antreiben
pace - Tempo, Stufe, Schritt
obeyed - gehorcht; gehorchen, befolgen
cadaverous - leichenhaft
candles - Kerzen; Kerze
singularly - singulär; singularisch
profound - tiefgründig; tiefgehend, profund
plunging - eintauchen; tauchend; (plunge) eintauchen; tauchend
hook into - einhaken
horribly - furchtbar; fürchterlich
seigneur - Feudalherr
clung - geklammert; anschmiegen
ripped - gerissen; Riss; reißen, der Länge nach auftrennen
Raconteur - Geschichtenerzähler
storyteller - Erzähler, Erzählerin, Geschichtenerzähler, Geschichtenerzählerin
repute - Leumund; Ruf
He was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding; and the elegance of his diction, even when he was swearing, no less than the distinction of his demeanour, showed him one of a different cast from his crew. A man of indomitable courage, it was said that the only thing he shied at was the sight of his own blood, which was thick and of an unusual colour. In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and in his mouth he had a holder of his own contrivance which enabled him to smoke two cigars at once. But undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw.
sinister - unheimlich
most polite - höflichste
breeding - Aufzucht, Vermehrung (biol.), züchtend; (breed); aufziehen
elegance - Eleganz
diction - Ausdrucksweise, Diktion
swearing - schwörend, Fluchen; (swear) schwörend, Fluchen
distinction - Unterscheidung; Unterschied; Auszeichnung
demeanour - Auftreten; Benehmen, Verhalten
cast - werfen; wegwerfen, hinwerfen, gießen, Cast, Besetzung, Ensemble
indomitable - unbezwingbar
somewhat - etwas, einigermaßen
aped - nachgeahmt; nachäffen, Affe
associated - verbunden; Weggefährte, vereinigen
Charles - Karl
Stuarts - Stuart
holder - Halter, Ständer, Halterung, Halter, Besitzer
contrivance - Einfallsreichtum; Vorrichtung, Maschinerie, Apparat, Behelf
enabled - aktiviert; berechtigen, befähigen, ermöglichen, anordnen
cigars - Zigarren; Zigarre; Glimmstängel
Undoubtedly - Zweifelsohne; zweifellos
grimmest - am grimmigsten; makaber, grimmig
claw - zerkratzen; Kralle, Fang (Vogelkralle), Klaue
Let us now kill a pirate, to show Hook's method. Skylights will do. As they pass, Skylights lurches clumsily against him, ruffling his lace collar; the hook shoots forth, there is a tearing sound and one screech, then the body is kicked aside, and the pirates pass on. He has not even taken the cigars from his mouth.
lurches - taumelt; torkeln, taumeln
clumsily - unbeholfen; plump
ruffling - kräuseln; sträubend; (ruffle); Rüsche, Krause
lace - schnüren, Spitze (Gewebe)
collar - Kragen; Halskette; Halsband; Ring
screech - Kreischen, Quietschen, Kreischen, Aufschreien
aside - beiseite, zur Seite
Such is the terrible man against whom Peter Pan is pitted. Which will win?
pitted - entsteint; Fallgrube, Schachtgrube, Box (Sport)
On the trail of the pirates, stealing noiselessly down the war-path, which is not visible to inexperienced eyes, come the redskins, every one of them with his eyes peeled. They carry tomahawks and knives, and their naked bodies gleam with paint and oil. Strung around them are scalps, of boys as well as of pirates, for these are the Piccaninny tribe, and not to be confused with the softer-hearted Delawares or the Hurons. In the van, on all fours, is Great Big Little Panther, a brave of so many scalps that in his present position they somewhat impede his progress. Bringing up the rear, the place of greatest danger, comes Tiger Lily, proudly erect, a princess in her own right.
trail - Pfad; folgen, verfolgen, nachstellen, nacheilen
noiselessly - geräuschlos
inexperienced - unerfahren
peeled - geschält; schälen; Schale
tomahawks - Tomahawk
naked - nackt, kahl, bloß
gleam - Schimmer; durchschimmern, glänzen
scalps - Skalps; Oberkopf, Kopfhaut, Skalp
tribe - Stamm, Volksstamm, Sippe, Volk
Delawares - Delaware, Delaware-Fluss, Delawarfluss, Delaware-Fluß
Hurons - Huronen; Hurone
Panther - Panther, Panter
impede - behindern, erschweren, hemmen
rear - hinten; Hinter.., hinterster, Heck, Rück..
tiger - Tiger
Lily - Lilie
proudly - stolze, stolz
She is the most beautiful of dusky Dianas [Diana = goddess of the woods] and the belle of the Piccaninnies, coquettish [flirting], cold and amorous [loving] by turns; there is not a brave who would not have the wayward thing to wife, but she staves off the altar with a hatchet. Observe how they pass over fallen twigs without making the slightest noise. The only sound to be heard is their somewhat heavy breathing. The fact is that they are all a little fat just now after the heavy gorging, but in time they will work this off. For the moment, however, it constitutes their chief danger.
Dianas - Diana, Diana
goddess - Göttin, weibliche Gottheit, weiblicher Gott
belle - Schönheit, Schöne
coquettish - kokett
flirting - flirtend; (flirt); Flirt; flirten, anbaggern, anmachen
amorous - amourös
wayward - eigenwillig, eigensinnig, launisch, widerspenstig
staves - Dauben; Daube, Sprosse, Strophe, Vers, Notenlinien-p
altar - Altar
hatchet - Beile; Beil
observe - beobachten; beachten, halten, bemerken
pass over - übertreten
twigs - Zweige; Zweig
gorging - Schlucht, Kehle; ich/er/sie fräße, fressen, ich/er/sie fraß
constitutes - ausmacht; gründen, begründen, bilden, einrichten
The redskins disappear as they have come like shadows, and soon their place is taken by the beasts, a great and motley procession: lions, tigers, bears, and the innumerable smaller savage things that flee from them, for every kind of beast, and, more particularly, all the man-eaters, live cheek by jowl on the favoured island. Their tongues are hanging out, they are hungry to-night.
motley - kunterbunt; zusammengewürfelt, bunt zusammengeworfen
procession - Prozession, Umzug
tigers - Tiger
innumerable - Unzählige
savage - Wilde; wild, wüst, unbebaut, unbändig, rasend
flee - fliehen, flüchten, entfliehen
beast - Tier, Bestie, Unmensch, Biest
eaters - Esser
jowl - Kinnlade; Wange
When they have passed, comes the last figure of all, a gigantic crocodile. We shall see for whom she is looking presently.
crocodile - Krokodil
The crocodile passes, but soon the boys appear again, for the procession must continue indefinitely until one of the parties stops or changes its pace. Then quickly they will be on top of each other.
indefinitely - auf unbestimmte Zeit
All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind. This shows how real the island was.
suspects - vermuten, misstrauen, verdächtigen, einen Verdacht haben
creeping - schleichend; kriechen, schleichen, schleichen, kriechen
The first to fall out of the moving circle was the boys. They flung themselves down on the sward [turf], close to their underground home.
sward - Grasnarbe
turf - Grasnarbe; Rasen; Grassode
"I do wish Peter would come back," every one of them said nervously, though in height and still more in breadth they were all larger than their captain.
nervously - nervös, erregbar, gereizt, hektisch
breadth - Weite; Breite
"I am the only one who is not afraid of the pirates," Slightly said, in the tone that prevented his being a general favourite; but perhaps some distant sound disturbed him, for he added hastily, "but I wish he would come back, and tell us whether he has heard anything more about Cinderella."
disturbed - beunruhigt; stören
hastily - hastig
They talked of Cinderella, and Tootles was confident that his mother must have been very like her.
It was only in Peter's absence that they could speak of mothers, the subject being forbidden by him as silly.
"All I remember about my mother," Nibs told them, "is that she often said to my father, 'Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own!'I don't know what a cheque-book is, but I should just love to give my mother one."
While they talked they heard a distant sound. You or I, not being wild things of the woods, would have heard nothing, but they heard it, and it was the grim song:
grim - makaber, grimmig
"Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate life,
The flag o'skull and bones,
skull - Totenschädel, Totenkopf, Schädel
A merry hour, a hempen rope,
hempen - hanfen
And hey for Davy Jones."
At once the lost boys-but where are they? They are no longer there. Rabbits could not have disappeared more quickly.
rabbits - Kaninchen, Hase
I will tell you where they are. With the exception of Nibs, who has darted away to reconnoitre [look around], they are already in their home under the ground, a very delightful residence of which we shall see a good deal presently. But how have they reached it? for there is no entrance to be seen, not so much as a large stone, which if rolled away, would disclose the mouth of a cave.
exception - Ausnahme, Ausnahmebedingung, Exception
reconnoitre - aufklären; rekognoszieren; erkunden
residence - Wohnsitz, Wohnort, Wohnhaus, Firmensitz
disclose - offenlegen; enthüllen; veröffentlichen, bekanntgeben
Look closely, however, and you may note that there are here seven large trees, each with a hole in its hollow trunk as large as a boy. These are the seven entrances to the home under the ground, for which Hook has been searching in vain these many moons. Will he find it tonight?
closely - dicht, eng, nah, nahe
hollow - hohl, dumpf
trunk - Kofferraum; Stamm, Baumstamm, Koffer, Truhe, Schrankkoffer
As the pirates advanced, the quick eye of Starkey sighted Nibs disappearing through the wood, and at once his pistol flashed out. But an iron claw gripped his shoulder.
pistol - Pistole, Faustfeuerwaffe, Zündpistole
flashed - geflasht; aufleuchten, blitzen, aufflammen
"Captain, let go!" he cried, writhing.
writhing - sich winden; gekrümmt; (writhe); winden, krümmen
Now for the first time we hear the voice of Hook. It was a black voice. "Put back that pistol first," it said threateningly.
"It was one of those boys you hate. I could have shot him dead."
"Ay, and the sound would have brought Tiger Lily's redskins upon us. Do you want to lose your scalp?"
scalp - Oberkopf; Kopfhaut; Skalp
"Shall I after him, Captain," asked pathetic Smee, "and tickle him with Johnny Corkscrew?" Smee had pleasant names for everything, and his cutlass was Johnny Corkscrew, because he wiggled it in the wound. One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
pathetic - erbärmlich
tickle - Kitzeln
Johnny - Hans, Hänsel
corkscrew - Korkenzieher
cutlass - Entermesser
wiggled - gewackelt; schlängeln, schwänzeln, wackeln
wound - anschießen, verwunden
lovable - liebenswert, reizend
traits - Eigenschaften; Eigenschaft, Zug
spectacles - Brillen; Spektakel
wiped - abgewischt; löschen, abstreifen, abwischen, aufreiben, wischen
"Johnny's a silent fellow," he reminded Hook.
fellow - Stipendiat, Typ, Kerl, Bursche; Gefährte, Kerl
"Not now, Smee," Hook said darkly. "He is only one, and I want to mischief all the seven. Scatter and look for them."
darkly - düster; dunkle, dunkel
Scatter - zerstreuen, verstreuen, ausstreuen; (scat); zerstreuen
The pirates disappeared among the trees, and in a moment their Captain and Smee were alone. Hook heaved a heavy sigh, and I know not why it was, perhaps it was because of the soft beauty of the evening, but there came over him a desire to confide to his faithful bo'sun the story of his life. He spoke long and earnestly, but what it was all about Smee, who was rather stupid, did not know in the least.
heaved - geworfen; heben, hieven, werfen, wuchten, schleudern
confide - anvertrauen; vertrauen; einweihen, ins Vertrauen ziehen
earnestly - ernsthaft
Anon [later] he caught the word Peter.
"Most of all," Hook was saying passionately, "I want their captain, Peter Pan. 'Twas he cut off my arm." He brandished the hook threateningly. "I've waited long to shake his hand with this. Oh, I'll tear him!"
passionately - leidenschaftlich
Twas - Das war; Zeitarbeitsunternehmen
brandished - gebrandmarkt; schwingen, schwenken, hantieren, führen
"And yet," said Smee, "I have often heard you say that hook was worth a score of hands, for combing the hair and other homely uses."
combing - kämmend; (comb) kämmend
homely - gemütlich; heimisch
"Ay," the captain answered, "if I was a mother I would pray to have my children born with this instead of that," and he cast a look of pride upon his iron hand and one of scorn upon the other. Then again he frowned.
scorn - verachten; verschmähen; verspotten; Verachtung
frowned - die Stirn gerunzelt; die Stirn runzeln
"Peter flung my arm," he said, wincing, "to a crocodile that happened to be passing by."
wincing - (wince) zurückschrecken, zusammenzucken
"I have often," said Smee, "noticed your strange dread of crocodiles."
dread - schaudern, grauen, gruseln, grausen
crocodiles - Krokodile; Krokodil
"Not of crocodiles," Hook corrected him, "but of that one crocodile." He lowered his voice. "It liked my arm so much, Smee, that it has followed me ever since, from sea to sea and from land to land, licking its lips for the rest of me."
licking - lecken; Licken; (lick) lecken; Licken
"In a way," said Smee, "it's sort of a compliment."
compliment - Kompliment, Lob, Anerkennung, Achtungsbezeugung
"I want no such compliments," Hook barked petulantly. "I want Peter Pan, who first gave the brute its taste for me."
compliments - Komplimente; Kompliment
barked - gebellt; Bellen
petulantly - bockig
He sat down on a large mushroom, and now there was a quiver in his voice. "Smee," he said huskily, "that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock which goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can reach me I hear the tick and bolt." He laughed, but in a hollow way.
mushroom - Pilz, Schwamm, wuchern, Pilze ernten, Pilze sammeln
quiver - Köcher; zittern
lucky chance - Glücksfall
the tick - pünktlich (auf die Sekunde)
bolt - Riegel, Ballen, Blitz, Bolzen; durchgehen (Pferd), sausen
"Some day," said Smee, "the clock will run down, and then he'll get you."
Hook wetted his dry lips. "Ay," he said, "that's the fear that haunts me."
haunts - Geister; spuken, verfolgen, Treffpunkt
Since sitting down he had felt curiously warm. "Smee," he said, "this seat is hot." He jumped up. "Odds bobs, hammer and tongs I'm burning."
curiously - neugierige
bobs - Troddel; tanzen (Boot); Bob (Frisur)
hammer - Hammer; Schlagstück, Hahn, Schlaghebel, tMalleus
tongs - Zangen; Tong
They examined the mushroom, which was of a size and solidity unknown on the mainland; they tried to pull it up, and it came away at once in their hands, for it had no root. Stranger still, smoke began at once to ascend. The pirates looked at each other. "A chimney!" they both exclaimed.
solidity - Festigkeit
unknown - unbekannt; Unbekannte; Unbekannter
mainland - Festland, Kontinent
root - wurzeln; Haupt, Wurzel, Nullstelle [math.]
ascend - steigen, aufsteigen
They had indeed discovered the chimney of the home under the ground. It was the custom of the boys to stop it with a mushroom when enemies were in the neighbourhood.
Not only smoke came out of it. There came also children's voices, for so safe did the boys feel in their hiding-place that they were gaily chattering. The pirates listened grimly, and then replaced the mushroom. They looked around them and noted the holes in the seven trees.
chattering - Geplapper; plappernd
grimly - grimmig
"Did you hear them say Peter Pan's from home?" Smee whispered, fidgeting with Johnny Corkscrew.
fidgeting with - herumfuchtelnd
Hook nodded. He stood for a long time lost in thought, and at last a curdling smile lit up his swarthy face. Smee had been waiting for it. "Unrip your plan, captain," he cried eagerly.
curdling - Gerinnung; gerinnend; (curdle); gerinnen
swarthy - dunkelhäutig; dunkeln
"To return to the ship," Hook replied slowly through his teeth, "and cook a large rich cake of a jolly thickness with green sugar on it. There can be but one room below, for there is but one chimney. The silly moles had not the sense to see that they did not need a door apiece. That shows they have no mother. We will leave the cake on the shore of the Mermaids'Lagoon.
thickness - Dicke
moles - Maulwürfe; Spion; Leberfleck, Maulwurf, Mol
apiece - jedes einzelne, je Stück, pro Stück
shore - Ufer, Stützbalken, Küste, Strebe
These boys are always swimming about there, playing with the mermaids. They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don't know how dangerous 'tis to eat rich damp cake." He burst into laughter, not hollow laughter now, but honest laughter. "Aha, they will die."
gobble - verschlingen, hinunterschlingen
Tis - (it is) es ist; (Ti) (it is) es ist
damp - feucht; Feuchtigkeit; ersticken, dämpfen
Aha - aha
Smee had listened with growing admiration.
"It's the wickedest, prettiest policy ever I heard of!" he cried, and in their exultation they danced and sang:
wickedest - am verruchtesten; böse
exultation - Jubel
"Avast, belay, when I appear,
By fear they're overtook;
overtook - überholt; überholen, aufholen, überholen
Nought's left upon your bones when you
nought - nichts; null
Have shaken claws with Hook."
They began the verse, but they never finished it, for another sound broke in and stilled them. There was at first such a tiny sound that a leaf might have fallen on it and smothered it, but as it came nearer it was more distinct.
verse - Strophe
smothered - erdrückt; ersticken
distinct - deutlich
Tick tick tick tick!
tick - ticken, normal (gut) laufen; Ticken, Zeichen, Zecke, Augenblick
Hook stood shuddering, one foot in the air.
"The crocodile!" he gasped, and bounded away, followed by his bo'sun.
gasped - keuchte; keuchen, japsen, prusten, keuchen, Atemzug, Luftholen
bounded - begrenzt; Sprung
It was indeed the crocodile. It had passed the redskins, who were now on the trail of the other pirates. It oozed on after Hook.
oozed - gesickert; sickern, strotzen vor/von; Schlamm
Once more the boys emerged into the open; but the dangers of the night were not yet over, for presently Nibs rushed breathless into their midst, pursued by a pack of wolves. The tongues of the pursuers were hanging out; the baying of them was horrible.
emerged - aufgetaucht; erscheinen, auftauchen, herauskommen, davonkommen
breathless - atemlos
pursued - Verfolgt; verfolgen, folgen, beschreiten, nachjagen, nachgehen
wolves - Wölfe; Wolf, Meister Graubein, herunterschlingen
pursuers - Verfolger, Verfolgerin
baying - Gebell; Erker, Bucht, Gestell, Bellen
"Save me, save me!" cried Nibs, falling on the ground.
"But what can we do, what can we do?"
It was a high compliment to Peter that at that dire moment their thoughts turned to him.
dire - schrecklich; düster, böse, fatal, verzweifelt, händeringend
"What would Peter do?" they cried simultaneously.
Almost in the same breath they cried, "Peter would look at them through his legs."
And then, "Let us do what Peter would do."
It is quite the most successful way of defying wolves, and as one boy they bent and looked through their legs. The next moment is the long one, but victory came quickly, for as the boys advanced upon them in the terrible attitude, the wolves dropped their tails and fled.
defying - herausfordern, die Stirn bieten, herausfordern, trotzen
victory - Sieg
fled - geflohen; fliehen, flüchten, fliehen, entfliehen, flüchten
Now Nibs rose from the ground, and the others thought that his staring eyes still saw the wolves. But it was not wolves he saw.
"I have seen a wonderfuller thing," he cried, as they gathered round him eagerly. "A great white bird. It is flying this way."
wonderfuller - wunderbarer
"What kind of a bird, do you think?"
"I don't know," Nibs said, awestruck, "but it looks so weary, and as it flies it moans, 'Poor Wendy.'"
awestruck - ehrfürchtig
weary - müde
moans - stöhnt; Stöhnen
"Poor Wendy?"
"I remember," said Slightly instantly, "there are birds called Wendies."
instantly - sofort; unmittelbar
"See, it comes!" cried Curly, pointing to Wendy in the heavens.
Wendy was now almost overhead, and they could hear her plaintive cry. But more distinct came the shrill voice of Tinker Bell. The jealous fairy had now cast off all disguise of friendship, and was darting at her victim from every direction, pinching savagely each time she touched.
overhead - von oben, darüber, Überkopf-
plaintive - traurig, wehleidig, klagend, Klage
shrill - schrill; scharf
jealous - eifersüchtig; eifrig, eifernd, neidisch
disguise - Verkleidung; Tarnung; verstellen
pinching - zwickend, kneifend; (pinch); kneifen, zwicken, schnappen
"Hullo, Tink," cried the wondering boys.
Hullo - Hallo!
Tink's reply rang out: "Peter wants you to shoot the Wendy."
It was not in their nature to question when Peter ordered. "Let us do what Peter wishes!" cried the simple boys. "Quick, bows and arrows!"
bows - Bücklinge, Bögen; (bow) Bücklinge, Bögen
All but Tootles popped down their trees. He had a bow and arrow with him, and Tink noted it, and rubbed her little hands.
bow - verbeugen; Verneigung (vor), Verbeugung; Bogen, Bug (Schiff)
arrow - Richtungspfeil, Pfeil
"Quick, Tootles, quick," she screamed. "Peter will be so pleased."
Tootles excitedly fitted the arrow to his bow. "Out of the way, Tink," he shouted, and then he fired, and Wendy fluttered to the ground with an arrow in her breast.
fluttered - geflattert; flattern, wedeln
breast - Brust; -brust, Entenbrust
Foolish Tootles was standing like a conqueror over Wendy's body when the other boys sprang, armed, from their trees.
foolish - dumm, närrisch, töricht
Conqueror - Eroberer, Erobererin, Bezwinger, Bezwingerin
"You are too late," he cried proudly, "I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased with me."
Overhead Tinker Bell shouted "Silly ass!" and darted into hiding. The others did not hear her. They had crowded round Wendy, and as they looked a terrible silence fell upon the wood. If Wendy's heart had been beating they would all have heard it.
Slightly was the first to speak. "This is no bird," he said in a scared voice. "I think this must be a lady."
"A lady?" said Tootles, and fell a-trembling.
trembling - Zittern, Beben; (tremble); zittern; Zittern
"And we have killed her," Nibs said hoarsely.
hoarsely - heiser
They all whipped off their caps.
"Now I see," Curly said: "Peter was bringing her to us." He threw himself sorrowfully on the ground.
sorrowfully - bedauernd
"A lady to take care of us at last," said one of the twins, "and you have killed her!"
They were sorry for him, but sorrier for themselves, and when he took a step nearer them they turned from him.
Tootles'face was very white, but there was a dignity about him now that had never been there before.
dignity - Würde; Förmlichkeit; Amt
"I did it," he said, reflecting. "When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.'But when at last she really came, I shot her."
He moved slowly away.
"Don't go," they called in pity.
"I must," he answered, shaking; "I am so afraid of Peter."
It was at this tragic moment that they heard a sound which made the heart of every one of them rise to his mouth. They heard Peter crow.
tragic - tragisch
crow - Krähe
"Peter!" they cried, for it was always thus that he signalled his return.
"Hide her," they whispered, and gathered hastily around Wendy. But Tootles stood aloof.
aloof - unnahbar; (ein Stück) entfernt, auf (etwas) Abstand
Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greetings, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence.
ringing - klingeln; kraftvoll, klar; (ring) klingeln; kraftvoll, klar
greetings - Grüße; Gruß, Begrüßung
saluted - gegrüßt; Salut, salutieren
He frowned.
"I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?"
hotly - heiß; erregt, hitzig
cheer - anfeuern, jauchzen, aufmuntern, jubeln
They opened their mouths, but the cheers would not come. He overlooked it in his haste to tell the glorious tidings.
Cheers - prost, zum Wohl, tschüss, danke; (cheer); prost, zum Wohl
overlooked - Übersicht, Überblick, bemerken
haste - Eile, Hast
glorious - ruhmvoll, glorreich, herrlich, prachtvoll
tidings - Nachrichten; Kunde; q
"Great news, boys," he cried, "I have brought at last a mother for you all."
Still no sound, except a little thud from Tootles as he dropped on his knees.
thud - Aufprall; Bollern; dumpfer Knall, stampfen, dumpf knallen
"Have you not seen her?" asked Peter, becoming troubled. "She flew this way."
"Ah me!" one voice said, and another said, "Oh, mournful day."
mournful - schwermütig; traurig, melancholisch, trübsinnig
Tootles rose. "Peter," he said quietly, "I will show her to you," and when the others would still have hidden her he said, "Back, twins, let Peter see."
So they all stood back, and let him see, and after he had looked for a little time he did not know what to do next.
stood back - zurückgestanden
"She is dead," he said uncomfortably. "Perhaps she is frightened at being dead."
uncomfortably - ungemütlich
He thought of hopping off in a comic sort of way till he was out of sight of her, and then never going near the spot any more. They would all have been glad to follow if he had done this.
hopping - hüpfen; Schwoofen (ugs. Tanzen); Ausfederung; (hop) hüpfen; Schwoofen (ugs. Tanzen); Ausfederung
comic - komisch; Komiker; Bildergeschichte, Comic, Strip
been glad - gefreut
But there was the arrow. He took it from her heart and faced his band.
"Whose arrow?" he demanded sternly.
"Mine, Peter," said Tootles on his knees.
"Oh, dastard hand," Peter said, and he raised the arrow to use it as a dagger.
dastard - Feigling, Heimtücker, hinterhältig, heimtückisch
Tootles did not flinch. He bared his breast. "Strike, Peter," he said firmly, "strike true."
flinch - zusammenzucken; zurückweichen
firmly - sicher, fest
Twice did Peter raise the arrow, and twice did his hand fall. "I cannot strike," he said with awe, "there is something stays my hand."
awe - Ehrfurcht; Staunen; einschüchtern
All looked at him in wonder, save Nibs, who fortunately looked at Wendy.
"It is she," he cried, "the Wendy lady, see, her arm!"
Wonderful to relate [tell], Wendy had raised her arm. Nibs bent over her and listened reverently. "I think she said, 'Poor Tootles,'" he whispered.
reverently - ehrfürchtig
"She lives," Peter said briefly.
briefly - kurz
Slightly cried instantly, "The Wendy lady lives."
Then Peter knelt beside her and found his button. You remember she had put it on a chain that she wore round her neck.
knelt - kniete; knien
beside - daneben; neben
"See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life."
"I remember kisses," Slightly interposed quickly, "let me see it. Ay, that's a kiss."
interposed - zwischengeschaltet; zwischenschalten, dazwischenstellen
Peter did not hear him. He was begging Wendy to get better quickly, so that he could show her the mermaids. Of course she could not answer yet, being still in a frightful faint; but from overhead came a wailing note.
begging - bittend, bettelnd; (beg) bittend, bettelnd
faint - leise, schwach, undeutlich, ohnmächtig werden
wailing - (to wail) jammern, wehklagen, klagen; (wail) (to wail) jammern
"Listen to Tink," said Curly, "she is crying because the Wendy lives."
Then they had to tell Peter of Tink's crime, and almost never had they seen him look so stern.
"Listen, Tinker Bell," he cried, "I am your friend no more. Begone from me for ever."
begone - verschwinden; fort
She flew on to his shoulder and pleaded, but he brushed her off. Not until Wendy again raised her arm did he relent sufficiently to say, "Well, not for ever, but for a whole week."
pleaded - plädiert; plädieren, bekennen, (dringend) bitten, anflehen
relent - einlenken; nachgeben; (relend) einlenken; nachgeben
Do you think Tinker Bell was grateful to Wendy for raising her arm? Oh dear no, never wanted to pinch her so much. Fairies indeed are strange, and Peter, who understood them best, often cuffed [slapped] them.
cuffed - mit Handschellen; Manschette; Hosenaufschlag
slapped - geohrfeigt; Klaps, Schlag, Makeup
But what to do with Wendy in her present delicate state of health?
delicate - empfindlich, heikel, schwierig, feingliedrig, filigran
"Let us carry her down into the house," Curly suggested.
"Ay," said Slightly, "that is what one does with ladies."
"No, no," Peter said, "you must not touch her. It would not be sufficiently respectful."
respectful - respektvoll
"That," said Slightly, "is what I was thinking."
"But if she lies there," Tootles said, "she will die."
"Ay, she will die," Slightly admitted, "but there is no way out."
"Yes, there is," cried Peter. "Let us build a little house round her."
They were all delighted. "Quick," he ordered them, "bring me each of you the best of what we have. Gut our house. Be sharp."
delighted - erfreut; Freude, Entzückung, Wohlgefallen
Gut - Darm, Eingeweide, Bauch, Ranzen, Darm, Darmsaite, ausnehmen
In a moment they were as busy as tailors the night before a wedding. They skurried this way and that, down for bedding, up for firewood, and while they were at it, who should appear but John and Michael. As they dragged along the ground they fell asleep standing, stopped, woke up, moved another step and slept again.
skurried - skuril
"John, John," Michael would cry, "wake up! Where is Nana, John, and mother?"
And then John would rub his eyes and mutter, "It is true, we did fly."
Rub - reiben, abreiben, sich abreiben, sich abscheuern, sich ablaufen
mutter - murmeln; (mut) murmeln
You may be sure they were very relieved to find Peter.
relieved - Erleichtert; erleichtern, lindern, entlasten, ablösen
"Hullo, Peter," they said.
"Hullo," replied Peter amicably, though he had quite forgotten them. He was very busy at the moment measuring Wendy with his feet to see how large a house she would need. Of course he meant to leave room for chairs and a table. John and Michael watched him.
amicably - gütlich
"Is Wendy asleep?" they asked.
"Yes."
"John," Michael proposed, "let us wake her and get her to make supper for us," but as he said it some of the other boys rushed on carrying branches for the building of the house. "Look at them!" he cried.
proposed - vorgeschlagen; vorschlagen, einen Heiratsantrag machen
supper - Abendbrot; Abendessen
"Curly," said Peter in his most captainy voice, "see that these boys help in the building of the house."
captainy - Kapitän
"Ay, ay, sir."
"Build a house?" exclaimed John.
"For the Wendy," said Curly.
"For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!"
"That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants."
"You? Wendy's servants!"
"Yes," said Peter, "and you also. Away with them."
The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hew and carry. "Chairs and a fender [fireplace] first," Peter ordered. "Then we shall build a house round them."
astounded - verblüfft; verblüffen, überraschen
hack - hacken; Hacke, Hieb, Hack
hew - hä; hauen
Fender - Kotflügel; Schutzblech; Fender
fireplace - Kamin, Feuerstelle, Herd
"Ay," said Slightly, "that is how a house is built; it all comes back to me."
Peter thought of everything. "Slightly," he cried, "fetch a doctor."
fetch - holen, einfangen, abrufen, apportieren
"Ay, ay," said Slightly at once, and disappeared, scratching his head. But he knew Peter must be obeyed, and he returned in a moment, wearing John's hat and looking solemn.
scratching - sich kratzen, zerkratzen; (scratch); kratzen; zerkratzen
solemn - feierlich; ernst
"Please, sir," said Peter, going to him, "are you a doctor?"
The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to him make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.
If they broke down in their make-believe he rapped them on the knuckles.
"Yes, my little man," Slightly anxiously replied, who had chapped knuckles.
anxiously - ängstlich; besorgt, bang, unruhig
chapped - rissig; Bursche, Riss (in der Haut)
"Please, sir," Peter explained, "a lady lies very ill."
She was lying at their feet, but Slightly had the sense not to see her.
"Tut, tut, tut," he said, "where does she lie?"
"In yonder glade."
yonder - dort drüben
glade - Glücklich; Lichtung
"I will put a glass thing in her mouth," said Slightly, and he made-believe to do it, while Peter waited. It was an anxious moment when the glass thing was withdrawn.
withdrawn - zurückgezogen; annullieren, entziehen, abziehen, ausscheiden
"How is she?" inquired Peter.
inquired - nachgefragt; erkundigen
"Tut, tut, tut," said Slightly, "this has cured her."
cured - geheilt; Köter, Köter
"I am glad!" Peter cried.
"I will call again in the evening," Slightly said; "give her beef tea out of a cup with a spout to it;" but after he had returned the hat to John he blew big breaths, which was his habit on escaping from a difficulty.
beef tea - Kraftbrühe
In the meantime the wood had been alive with the sound of axes; almost everything needed for a cosy dwelling already lay at Wendy's feet.
axes - Äxte; mit der Axt niederschlagen
dwelling - Wohnung, Behausung; (dwell); leben, verbleiben, wohnen
"If only we knew," said one, "the kind of house she likes best."
"Peter," shouted another, "she is moving in her sleep."
"Her mouth opens," cried a third, looking respectfully into it. "Oh, lovely!"
respectfully - respektvoll
"Perhaps she is going to sing in her sleep," said Peter. "Wendy, sing the kind of house you would like to have."
Immediately, without opening her eyes, Wendy began to sing:
"I wish I had a pretty house,
The littlest ever seen,
With funny little red walls
And roof of mossy green."
mossy - moosig
They gurgled with joy at this, for by the greatest good luck the branches they had brought were sticky with red sap, and all the ground was carpeted with moss. As they rattled up the little house they broke into song themselves:
gurgled - gurgelte; gurgeln, gurgeln, Gurgeln
Sap - Trottel, Saft
moss - Moos; bemoosen
"We've built the little walls and roof
And made a lovely door,
So tell us, mother Wendy,
What are you wanting more?"
To this she answered greedily:
greedily - gierig
"Oh, really next I think I'll have
Gay windows all about,
With roses peeping in, you know,
roses - Rosen; Rosa
And babies peeping out."
With a blow of their fists they made windows, and large yellow leaves were the blinds. But roses-?
blinds - Jalousien; blind, blind, unkritisch, ignorant, blind, Jalousie
"Roses," cried Peter sternly.
Quickly they made-believe to grow the loveliest roses up the walls.
Babies?
To prevent Peter ordering babies they hurried into song again:
"We've made the roses peeping out,
The babes are at the door,
babes - Puppe
We cannot make ourselves, you know,
'cos we've been made before."
cos - denn; (because) weil; (CO) denn; (because) weil
Peter, seeing this to be a good idea, at once pretended that it was his own. The house was quite beautiful, and no doubt Wendy was very cosy within, though, of course, they could no longer see her. Peter strode up and down, ordering finishing touches. Nothing escaped his eagle eyes. Just when it seemed absolutely finished:
strode - schritt; schreiten
"There's no knocker on the door," he said.
knocker - Klopfer
They were very ashamed, but Tootles gave the sole of his shoe, and it made an excellent knocker.
sole - Seezunge, Sohle, einzig
Absolutely finished now, they thought.
Not of bit of it. "There's no chimney," Peter said; "we must have a chimney."
"It certainly does need a chimney," said John importantly. This gave Peter an idea. He snatched the hat off John's head, knocked out the bottom [top], and put the hat on the roof. The little house was so pleased to have such a capital chimney that, as if to say thank you, smoke immediately began to come out of the hat.
importantly - wichtig
snatched - geschnappt; klauen, stehlen, Reißen
Now really and truly it was finished. Nothing remained to do but to knock.
truly - wirklich, wahrhaft, ehrlich, echt
"All look your best," Peter warned them; "first impressions are awfully important."
He was glad no one asked him what first impressions are; they were all too busy looking their best.
He knocked politely, and now the wood was as still as the children, not a sound to be heard except from Tinker Bell, who was watching from a branch and openly sneering.
politely - höflich
openly - offen, öffentlich
sneering - spöttisch; höhnisch, grinsend
What the boys were wondering was, would any one answer the knock? If a lady, what would she be like?
The door opened and a lady came out. It was Wendy. They all whipped off their hats.
She looked properly surprised, and this was just how they had hoped she would look.
"Where am I?" she said.
Of course Slightly was the first to get his word in. "Wendy lady," he said rapidly, "for you we built this house."
rapidly - schnell
"Oh, say you're pleased," cried Nibs.
"Lovely, darling house," Wendy said, and they were the very words they had hoped she would say.
"And we are your children," cried the twins.
Then all went on their knees, and holding out their arms cried, "O Wendy lady, be our mother."
"Ought I?" Wendy said, all shining. "Of course it's frightfully fascinating, but you see I am only a little girl. I have no real experience."
"That doesn't matter," said Peter, as if he were the only person present who knew all about it, though he was really the one who knew least. "What we need is just a nice motherly person."
That doesn't matter - Das macht nichts.
motherly - mütterlich
"Oh dear!" Wendy said, "you see, I feel that is exactly what I am."
"It is, it is," they all cried; "we saw it at once."
"Very well," she said, "I will do my best. Come inside at once, you naughty children; I am sure your feet are damp. And before I put you to bed I have just time to finish the story of Cinderella."
In they went; I don't know how there was room for them, but you can squeeze very tight in the Neverland. And that was the first of the many joyous evenings they had with Wendy. By and by she tucked them up in the great bed in the home under the trees, but she herself slept that night in the little house, and Peter kept watch outside with drawn sword, for the pirates could be heard carousing far away and the wolves were on the prowl.
squeeze - drücken, klemmen, pressen, quetschen
joyous - freudig
sword - Schwert; Schwertkämpfer, Schwertkämpferin
carousing - Zechgelage; Gelage abhalten, eine Gasterei veranstalten, zechen
prowl - umherstreifen; durchstreifen, herumstreifen
The little house looked so cosy and safe in the darkness, with a bright light showing through its blinds, and the chimney smoking beautifully, and Peter standing on guard. After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy. Any of the other boys obstructing the fairy path at night they would have mischiefed, but they just tweaked Peter's nose and passed on.
unsteady - wackelig; unstet
orgy - Orgie
obstructing - behindern, versperren
mischiefed - Unfug gemacht; Unfug, Unheil
tweaked - gezwickt; zwicken, kneifen, retuschieren, anpassen, korrigieren
One of the first things Peter did next day was to measure Wendy and John and Michael for hollow trees. Hook, you remember, had sneered at the boys for thinking they needed a tree apiece, but this was ignorance, for unless your tree fitted you it was difficult to go up and down, and no two of the boys were quite the same size.
sneered - spöttisch; Spott; grinsen, spötteln
Once you fitted, you drew in [let out] your breath at the top, and down you went at exactly the right speed, while to ascend you drew in and let out alternately, and so wriggled up. Of course, when you have mastered the action you are able to do these things without thinking of them, and nothing can be more graceful.
alternately - abwechselnd
wriggled - gezappelt; sich winden, schlängeln
mastered - gemeistert; Haupt.., Grund, Meister, führend
graceful - anmutig, ansprechend, elegant, graziös
But you simply must fit, and Peter measures you for your tree as carefully as for a suit of clothes: the only difference being that the clothes are made to fit you, while you have to be made to fit the tree. Usually it is done quite easily, as by your wearing too many garments or too few, but if you are bumpy in awkward places or the only available tree is an odd shape, Peter does some things to you, and after that you fit.
garments - Kleidungsstücke; Kleidungsstück
bumpy - holprig, uneben
awkward - peinlich; ungeschickt, unbeholfen, umständlich, tollpatschig
Once you fit, great care must be taken to go on fitting, and this, as Wendy was to discover to her delight, keeps a whole family in perfect condition.
Wendy and Michael fitted their trees at the first try, but John had to be altered a little.
altered - Verändert; verändern, ändern, wandeln, modifizieren, abändern
After a few days'practice they could go up and down as gaily as buckets in a well. And how ardently they grew to love their home under the ground; especially Wendy. It consisted of one large room, as all houses should do, with a floor in which you could dig [for worms] if you wanted to go fishing, and in this floor grew stout mushrooms of a charming colour, which were used as stools. A Never tree tried hard to grow in the centre of the room, but every morning they sawed the trunk through, level with the floor. By tea-time it was always about two feet high, and then they put a door on top of it, the whole thus becoming a table; as soon as they cleared away, they sawed off the trunk again, and thus there was more room to play.
buckets - Eimer, ein Eimer voll, Schaufel
ardently - inbrünstig; feurige, heiß
dig - graben; Stoß, Puff, Seitenhieb
worms - Wurm, elender Wurm
go fishing - angeln gehen
stout - beleibt
mushrooms - Pilz, Schwamm, Pilz, wuchern, Pilze ernten, Pilze sammeln
stools - Stuhl, Kot, Hocker
cleared away - weggeräumt
sawed off - abgesägt
There was an enormous fireplace which was in almost any part of the room where you cared to light it, and across this Wendy stretched strings, made of fibre, from which she suspended her washing. The bed was tilted against the wall by day, and let down at 6:30, when it filled nearly half the room; and all the boys slept in it, except Michael, lying like sardines in a tin. There was a strict rule against turning round until one gave the signal, when all turned at once. Michael should have used it also, but Wendy would have [desired] a baby, and he was the littlest, and you know what women are, and the short and long of it is that he was hung up in a basket.
stretched - gestreckt; strecken, dehnen, langziehen, dehnen
fibre - Faser
suspended - ausgesetzt; suspendieren, aufhängen, suspendieren, aufheben
tilted - gekippt; Schärfedehnung, Höchstleistung
sardines - Sardinen; Sardine
strict - streng
turning round - umlenkend
desired - gewünscht; begehren, begehren, Begehren
basket - Korb
It was rough and simple, and not unlike what baby bears would have made of an underground house in the same circumstances. But there was one recess in the wall, no larger than a bird-cage, which was the private apartment of Tinker Bell. It could be shut off from the rest of the house by a tiny curtain, which Tink, who was most fastidious [particular], always kept drawn when dressing or undressing.
circumstances - Umstände; Umstand, Umstand
recess - Pause; Vertiefung, Winkel, Aushöhlung
cage - Käfig
fastidious - Anspruchsvoll; pedantisch, manisch
undressing - entkleidende, auskleidend
No woman, however large, could have had a more exquisite boudoir [dressing room] and bed-chamber combined. The couch, as she always called it, was a genuine Queen Mab, with club legs; and she varied the bedspreads according to what fruit-blossom was in season. Her mirror was a Puss-in-Boots, of which there are now only three, unchipped, known to fairy dealers; the washstand was Pie-crust and reversible, the chest of drawers an authentic Charming the Sixth, and the carpet and rugs the best (the early) period of Margery and Robin. There was a chandelier from Tiddlywinks for the look of the thing, but of course she lit the residence herself. Tink was very contemptuous of the rest of the house, as indeed was perhaps inevitable, and her chamber, though beautiful, looked rather conceited, having the appearance of a nose permanently turned up.
more exquisite - auserlesenere
chamber - Raum, Schlafzimmer, Kammer
couch - Liege
genuine - echt, original, genuin
varied - abwechslungsreich; variieren, verändern, sich ändern, de
bedspreads - Bettüberwürfe; Bettdecke
blossom - Blüte; Blütezeit; blühen, erblühen, aufblühen
Puss - Kater; Miezchen, Mieze
unchipped - ohne Chip
dealers - Händler, Geber
washstand - Waschtisch
pie - Kuchen
crust - Kruste, Rinde
reversible - umkehrbar; reversibel; wendbar, doppelseitig
authentic - authentisch
rugs - Teppiche; Teppich, Brücke
robin - Rotkehlchen
chandelier - Kronleuchter
contemptuous - verächtlich; respektlos
inevitable - unvermeidlich, unabwendbar, zwangsläufig
permanently - dauerhaft; stetig, für immer
I suppose it was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do. Really there were whole weeks when, except perhaps with a stocking in the evening, she was never above ground. The cooking, I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, and even if there was nothing in it, even if there was no pot, she had to keep watching that it came aboil just the same. You never exactly knew whether there would be a real meal or just a make-believe, it all depended upon Peter's whim: he could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge [cram down the food] just to feel stodgy [stuffed with food], which is what most children like better than anything else; the next best thing being to talk about it.
rampagious - ausufernd
aboil - ölig
whim - Laune
stodge - Pampe (Essen) [ugs.]
cram - stopfen, vollpacken, mästen, vollstopfen, büffeln, pauken
stodgy - schwerfällig
Make-believe was so real to him that during a meal of it you could see him getting rounder. Of course it was trying, but you simply had to follow his lead, and if you could prove to him that you were getting loose for your tree he let you stodge.
loose - verlassen, lose, locker
Wendy's favourite time for sewing and darning was after they had all gone to bed. Then, as she expressed it, she had a breathing time for herself; and she occupied it in making new things for them, and putting double pieces on the knees, for they were all most frightfully hard on their knees.
darning - stopfend, ausbessernd; (darn) stopfend, ausbessernd
breathing time - Atempause
occupied - besetzt; in Anspruch nehmen, belegen, bewohnen, besetzen
When she sat down to a basketful of their stockings, every heel with a hole in it, she would fling up her arms and exclaim, "Oh dear, I am sure I sometimes think spinsters are to be envied!"
basketful - einen Korb voll
stockings - Strümpfe; Strumpf
heel - Hinterende des Hobels, Ferse, Absatz; flitzen; Brotkanten
fling - Seitensprung; Affäre (Liebesaffäre)
exclaim - ausrufen
spinsters - Junggesellen; alte Jungfer, Junggesellin, unverheiratete Frau
envied - beneidet; Neid, beneiden
Her face beamed when she exclaimed this.
beamed - gebeamt; Balken, Balken, Breite, Pflugbaum, Grindel, Strahl
You remember about her pet wolf. Well, it very soon discovered that she had come to the island and it found her out, and they just ran into each other's arms. After that it followed her about everywhere.
As time wore on did she think much about the beloved parents she had left behind her? This is a difficult question, because it is quite impossible to say how time does wear on in the Neverland, where it is calculated by moons and suns, and there are ever so many more of them than on the mainland. But I am afraid that Wendy did not really worry about her father and mother; she was absolutely confident that they would always keep the window open for her to fly back by, and this gave her complete ease of mind. What did disturb her at times was that John remembered his parents vaguely only, as people he had once known, while Michael was quite willing to believe that she was really his mother. These things scared her a little, and nobly anxious to do her duty, she tried to fix the old life in their minds by setting them examination papers on it, as like as possible to the ones she used to do at school.
beloved - beliebt, geliebt, Liebe, Liebchen, Liebling; (belove); beliebt
wear on - voranschreiten
calculated - berechnet; kalkulieren, berechnen, ausrechnen, rechnen
vaguely - undeutlich
nobly - großmütig, edel
examination - Prüfung, Untersuchung, Test, Überprüfung
The other boys thought this awfully interesting, and insisted on joining, and they made slates for themselves, and sat round the table, writing and thinking hard about the questions she had written on another slate and passed round. They were the most ordinary questions-"What was the colour of Mother's eyes? Which was taller, Father or Mother? Was Mother blonde or brunette? Answer all three questions if possible." "(A) Write an essay of not less than 40 words on How I spent my last Holidays, or The Characters of Father and Mother compared. Only one of these to be attempted." Or "(1) Describe Mother's laugh; (2) Describe Father's laugh; (3) Describe Mother's Party Dress; (4) Describe the Kennel and its Inmate."
insisted - darauf bestanden; auf , bestehen
slates - Schiefertafeln; Schiefer, Dachschindel
most ordinary - gewöhnlichste
brunette - brünett; Brünette
attempted - Versucht; versuchen, Versuch, Bestreben
inmate - Häftling; Insasse; Bewohner
They were just everyday questions like these, and when you could not answer them you were told to make a cross; and it was really dreadful what a number of crosses even John made. Of course the only boy who replied to every question was Slightly, and no one could have been more hopeful of coming out first, but his answers were perfectly ridiculous, and he really came out last: a melancholy thing.
more hopeful - hoffnungsvollere
ridiculous - lächerlich
Peter did not compete. For one thing he despised all mothers except Wendy, and for another he was the only boy on the island who could neither write nor spell; not the smallest word. He was above all that sort of thing.
By the way, the questions were all written in the past tense. What was the colour of Mother's eyes, and so on. Wendy, you see, had been forgetting, too.
tense - angespannt; verkrampft, gespannt, nervös; spannen
Adventures, of course, as we shall see, were of daily occurrence; but about this time Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures, in doing the sort of thing John and Michael had been doing all their lives, sitting on stools flinging balls in the air, pushing each other, going out for walks and coming back without having killed so much as a grizzly.
Occurrence - Vorkommen; Vorfall
fascinated - fasziniert; faszinieren, faszinieren, faszinieren, bezaubern
enormously - enorm
flinging - Schleudern; Affäre (Liebesaffäre)
grizzly - Graubär, gräulich
To see Peter doing nothing on a stool was a great sight; he could not help looking solemn at such times, to sit still seemed to him such a comic thing to do. He boasted that he had gone walking for the good of his health. For several suns these were the most novel of all adventures to him; and John and Michael had to pretend to be delighted also; otherwise he would have treated them severely.
stool - Stuhl, Kot, Hocker
boasted - geprahlt; stolz sein auf etw
otherwise - sonst
severely - ernsthaft
He often went out alone, and when he came back you were never absolutely certain whether he had had an adventure or not. He might have forgotten it so completely that he said nothing about it; and then when you went out you found the body; and, on the other hand, he might say a great deal about it, and yet you could not find the body. Sometimes he came home with his head bandaged, and then Wendy cooed over him and bathed it in lukewarm water, while he told a dazzling tale. But she was never quite sure, you know. There were, however, many adventures which she knew to be true because she was in them herself, and there were still more that were at least partly true, for the other boys were in them and said they were wholly true. To describe them all would require a book as large as an English-Latin, Latin-English Dictionary, and the most we can do is to give one as a specimen of an average hour on the island. The difficulty is which one to choose.
absolutely certain - zweifelsfrei {adj}
bandaged - bandagiert; Verband, bandagieren
cooed - gurrt; (to coo) gurren
lukewarm - lauwarm
dazzling - schillernd; blendend, grell, umwerfend, betörend
Tale - Geschichte, Erzählung, Fabel
wholly - ganz
Latin - lateinisch, Latein
specimen - Exemplar, Muster, Spezimen, Probe
Should we take the brush with the redskins at Slightly Gulch? It was a sanguinary affair, and especially interesting as showing one of Peter's peculiarities, which was that in the middle of a fight he would suddenly change sides. At the Gulch, when victory was still in the balance, sometimes leaning this way and sometimes that, he called out, "I'm redskin to-day; what are you, Tootles?" And Tootles answered, "Redskin; what are you, Nibs?" and Nibs said, "Redskin; what are you Twin?" and so on; and they were all redskins; and of course this would have ended the fight had not the real redskins fascinated by Peter's methods, agreed to be lost boys for that once, and so at it they all went again, more fiercely than ever.
Gulch - (tiefe) Schlucht
sanguinary - blutig
affair - Angelegenheit; Scharmützel; Ding; Beziehung, Affäre
peculiarities - Eigentümlichkeiten; Singularität, Einzigartigkeit, Besonderheit
change sides - umschwenken
leaning - (to lean) sich an etwas lehnen
fiercely - heftig, wütend
The extraordinary upshot of this adventure was-but we have not decided yet that this is the adventure we are to narrate. Perhaps a better one would be the night attack by the redskins on the house under the ground, when several of them stuck in the hollow trees and had to be pulled out like corks. Or we might tell how Peter saved Tiger Lily's life in the Mermaids'Lagoon, and so made her his ally.
upshot - Das Ergebnis; Ergebnis, Endergebnis, Schlussergebnis
narrate - erzählen; berichten
corks - Korken; Cork, Cork
ally - Verbündeten; vereinigen, verbinden; Bündnispartner, Verbündete
Or we could tell of that cake the pirates cooked so that the boys might eat it and perish; and how they placed it in one cunning spot after another; but always Wendy snatched it from the hands of her children, so that in time it lost its succulence, and became as hard as a stone, and was used as a missile, and Hook fell over it in the dark.
perish - untergehen; verderben, schlecht werden, umkommen
succulence - Sukkulenz; Saftigkeit
missile - Rakete; Geschoss, Fluggeschoss, Lenkflugkörper, Lenkwaffe
Or suppose we tell of the birds that were Peter's friends, particularly of the Never bird that built in a tree overhanging the lagoon, and how the nest fell into the water, and still the bird sat on her eggs, and Peter gave orders that she was not to be disturbed. That is a pretty story, and the end shows how grateful a bird can be; but if we tell it we must also tell the whole adventure of the lagoon, which would of course be telling two adventures rather than just one. A shorter adventure, and quite as exciting, was Tinker Bell's attempt, with the help of some street fairies, to have the sleeping Wendy conveyed on a great floating leaf to the mainland.
overhanging - überhängend; überhängen, Ăśberhang; hervorstehen
nest - Nest
attempt - versuchen; Versuch, Bestreben, Bestrebung, Anschlag, Attentat
conveyed - übermittelt; befördern, transportieren, verfrachten, befördern
Fortunately the leaf gave way and Wendy woke, thinking it was bath-time, and swam back. Or again, we might choose Peter's defiance of the lions, when he drew a circle round him on the ground with an arrow and dared them to cross it; and though he waited for hours, with the other boys and Wendy looking on breathlessly from trees, not one of them dared to accept his challenge.
defiance - Trotzigkeit; Trotz, Auflehnung, Widerstand, offener Ungehorsam
dared - gewagt; sich getrauen, wagen, jemanden herausfordern
breathlessly - atemlose
Which of these adventures shall we choose? The best way will be to toss for it.
I have tossed, and the lagoon has won. This almost makes one wish that the gulch or the cake or Tink's leaf had won. Of course I could do it again, and make it best out of three; however, perhaps fairest to stick to the lagoon.
tossed - geworfen; Wurf, Münzwurf, werfen, werfen, verwerfen, wegwerfen
Chapter 8 THE MERMAIDS'LAGOON
If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.
shapeless - unförmig; formlos
take shape - sich ausprägen, Gestalt annehmen, sich formen
vivid - lebendig, lebhaft, anschaulich
But just before they go on fire you see the lagoon. This is the nearest you ever get to it on the mainland, just one heavenly moment; if there could be two moments you might see the surf and hear the mermaids singing.
The children often spent long summer days on this lagoon, swimming or floating most of the time, playing the mermaid games in the water, and so forth. You must not think from this that the mermaids were on friendly terms with them: on the contrary, it was among Wendy's lasting regrets that all the time she was on the island she never had a civil word from one of them.
contrary - entgegengesetzt, gegenläufig, entgegenstehend, ungünstig
regrets - bedauern, bereuen, leidtun, Reue, Bedauern
civil - zivil, bürgerlich, zivilisiert
When she stole softly to the edge of the lagoon she might see them by the score, especially on Marooners'Rock, where they loved to bask, combing out their hair in a lazy way that quite irritated her; or she might even swim, on tiptoe as it were, to within a yard of them, but then they saw her and dived, probably splashing her with their tails, not by accident, but intentionally.
bask - genießen
irritated - gereizt; reizen, irritieren, ärgern
on tiptoe - auf Zehenspitzen
dived - getaucht; tauchen
splashing - anspritzend, platschend
intentionally - absichtlich
They treated all the boys in the same way, except of course Peter, who chatted with them on Marooners'Rock by the hour, and sat on their tails when they got cheeky. He gave Wendy one of their combs.
cheeky - frech
combs - Kämme; Kamm
The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals then, and until the evening of which we have now to tell, Wendy had never seen the lagoon by moonlight, less from fear, for of course Peter would have accompanied her, than because she had strict rules about every one being in bed by seven. She was often at the lagoon, however, on sunny days after rain, when the mermaids come up in extraordinary numbers to play with their bubbles.
haunting - spuken; quälend
utter - Äußerlich; äußerst
mortals - sterblich, tödlich, Sterblicher, Sterbliche
moonlight - Mondlicht, Mondschein, Mondenschein
sunny - sonnig, heiter
The bubbles of many colours made in rainbow water they treat as balls, hitting them gaily from one to another with their tails, and trying to keep them in the rainbow till they burst. The goals are at each end of the rainbow, and the keepers only are allowed to use their hands. Sometimes a dozen of these games will be going on in the lagoon at a time, and it is quite a pretty sight.
rainbow - Regenbogen; bunt, vielfarbig
keepers - Hüter, Wächter, Hüter, Torwart, Tormann
But the moment the children tried to join in they had to play by themselves, for the mermaids immediately disappeared. Nevertheless we have proof that they secretly watched the interlopers, and were not above taking an idea from them; for John introduced a new way of hitting the bubble, with the head instead of the hand, and the mermaids adopted it. This is the one mark that John has left on the Neverland.
nevertheless - nichtsdestoweniger, trotzdem, lauch wenn, dennoch
Proof - Beweise; Beweis; polierte Platte; aufgehen lassen
secretly - heimlich, insgeheim
interlopers - Eindringlinge; Eindringling
adopted - angenommen; adoptieren, annehmen, übernehmen
It must also have been rather pretty to see the children resting on a rock for half an hour after their mid-day meal. Wendy insisted on their doing this, and it had to be a real rest even though the meal was make-believe. So they lay there in the sun, and their bodies glistened in it, while she sat beside them and looked important.
glistened - glitzerte; glitzern, glänzen, gleißen
It was one such day, and they were all on Marooners'Rock. The rock was not much larger than their great bed, but of course they all knew how not to take up much room, and they were dozing, or at least lying with their eyes shut, and pinching occasionally when they thought Wendy was not looking. She was very busy, stitching.
dozing - dösend; eindösen, einnicken; (doze) dösend; eindösen, einnicken
stitching - absteppend, nähend; (stitch) absteppend, nähend
While she stitched a change came to the lagoon. Little shivers ran over it, and the sun went away and shadows stole across the water, turning it cold. Wendy could no longer see to thread her needle, and when she looked up, the lagoon that had always hitherto been such a laughing place seemed formidable and unfriendly.
stitched - genäht; Stich (Näh-), Stich (Schmerz); nähen, absteppen
shivers - zittert; Schauder, Schauer, zittern, frösteln
thread - Thema; Faden, Garn, Zwirn, Nähgarn
hitherto - bis zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt, bis jetzt, bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt
formidable - Beeindruckend; respekteinflößend, furchteinflößend
unfriendly - unfreundlich, unholde
It was not, she knew, that night had come, but something as dark as night had come. No, worse than that. It had not come, but it had sent that shiver through the sea to say that it was coming. What was it?
shiver - Schauder, Schauer, zittern, frösteln
There crowded upon her all the stories she had been told of Marooners'Rock, so called because evil captains put sailors on it and leave them there to drown. They drown when the tide rises, for then it is submerged.
drown - ertrinken; ertränken; überwältigen
tide - Gezeiten, Ebbe
submerged - untergetaucht; abtauchen, versinken, untertauchen
Of course she should have roused the children at once; not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, but because it was no longer good for them to sleep on a rock grown chilly. But she was a young mother and she did not know this; she thought you simply must stick to your rule about half an hour after the mid-day meal.
roused - geweckt; wachrufen, wecken
stalking - stelzend; (stalk) stelzend
chilly - frostig, kalt, kühl
So, though fear was upon her, and she longed to hear male voices, she would not waken them. Even when she heard the sound of muffled oars, though her heart was in her mouth, she did not waken them. She stood over them to let them have their sleep out. Was it not brave of Wendy?
waken - wecken
muffled - gedämpft; umhüllen, einhüllen
oars - Ruder
It was well for those boys then that there was one among them who could sniff danger even in his sleep. Peter sprang erect, as wide awake at once as a dog, and with one warning cry he roused the others.
sniff - schnüffeln, züngeln (for reptiles)
He stood motionless, one hand to his ear.
motionless - unbeweglich, reglos, bewegungslos
"Pirates!" he cried. The others came closer to him. A strange smile was playing about his face, and Wendy saw it and shuddered. While that smile was on his face no one dared address him; all they could do was to stand ready to obey. The order came sharp and incisive.
shuddered - geschaudert; Schauder, (wohliger) Schauder, schaudern, zittern
obey - gehorchen; befolgen
incisive - prägnant
"Dive!"
There was a gleam of legs, and instantly the lagoon seemed deserted. Marooners'Rock stood alone in the forbidding waters as if it were itself marooned.
forbidding - verbieten; abstoßend, widerwärtig, furchteinflößend
marooned - im Stich gelassen; kastanienbraun; im Stich lassen
The boat drew nearer. It was the pirate dinghy, with three figures in her, Smee and Starkey, and the third a captive, no other than Tiger Lily. Her hands and ankles were tied, and she knew what was to be her fate. She was to be left on the rock to perish, an end to one of her race more terrible than death by fire or torture, for is it not written in the book of the tribe that there is no path through water to the happy hunting-ground?
dinghy - Beiboot; Dingi, Jolle, Schlauchboot, Floßsack, Gummiboot
captive - Gefangener, Gefangene
more terrible - furchtbarere
torture - Folter; Tortur; foltern
hunting-ground - (hunting-ground) Jagdrevier
Yet her face was impassive; she was the daughter of a chief, she must die as a chief's daughter, it is enough.
impassive - teilnahmslos
They had caught her boarding the pirate ship with a knife in her mouth. No watch was kept on the ship, it being Hook's boast that the wind of his name guarded the ship for a mile around. Now her fate would help to guard it also. One more wail would go the round in that wind by night.
wail - heulen; jammern, wehklagen, klagen
In the gloom that they brought with them the two pirates did not see the rock till they crashed into it.
crashed - abgestürzt; Zusammenstoß, Krach, Zusammenbruch; zusammenbrechen
"Luff, you lubber," cried an Irish voice that was Smee's; "here's the rock. Now, then, what we have to do is to hoist the redskin on to it and leave her here to drown."
Luff - Luv, Windseite
lubber - Schmiermittel
Hoist - hochziehen, hissen, Hebezeug
It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance.
resistance - Widerstand
Quite near the rock, but out of sight, two heads were bobbing up and down, Peter's and Wendy's. Wendy was crying, for it was the first tragedy she had seen. Peter had seen many tragedies, but he had forgotten them all. He was less sorry than Wendy for Tiger Lily: it was two against one that angered him, and he meant to save her. An easy way would have been to wait until the pirates had gone, but he was never one to choose the easy way.
tragedies - Tragödien; Tragödie, Tragödie, Tragödie
angered - verärgert; Ärger, Zorn, Wut, Groll, Ingrimm, Grimm, Furor
There was almost nothing he could not do, and he now imitated the voice of Hook.
imitated - nachgeahmt; imitieren
"Ahoy there, you lubbers!" he called. It was a marvellous imitation.
Ahoy - ahoi; Ahoi
marvellous - fabelhaft
imitation - Imitation, Nachahmung, Kopie, Imitat
"The captain!" said the pirates, staring at each other in surprise.
"He must be swimming out to us," Starkey said, when they had looked for him in vain.
"We are putting the redskin on the rock," Smee called out.
"Set her free," came the astonishing answer.
"Free!"
"Yes, cut her bonds and let her go."
Bonds - Anleihen; Bindung, Obligation, Pfandbrief; binden
"But, captain-"
"At once, d'ye hear," cried Peter, "or I'll plunge my hook in you."
ye - ja; euch, ihr, dir, du
"This is queer!" Smee gasped.
queer - seltsam; unwohl; schwul, lesbisch, queer, Queers, Homosexueller
"Better do what the captain orders," said Starkey nervously.
"Ay, ay," Smee said, and he cut Tiger Lily's cords. At once like an eel she slid between Starkey's legs into the water.
cords - Schnüre; Schnur, Kordel, Strick, Kabel
eel - Aal, Aalartige
Of course Wendy was very elated over Peter's cleverness; but she knew that he would be elated also and very likely crow and thus betray himself, so at once her hand went out to cover his mouth. But it was stayed even in the act, for "Boat ahoy!" rang over the lagoon in Hook's voice, and this time it was not Peter who had spoken.
elated - hocherfreut; beschwingen, ermutigen
betray - verraten; im Stich lassen, von etwas zeugen, verleiten
Peter may have been about to crow, but his face puckered in a whistle of surprise instead.
puckered - gekräuselt; Runzel
whistle - Pfeife, Trillerpfeife, Flöte, Pfeifen, Pfiff
"Boat ahoy!" again came the voice.
Now Wendy understood. The real Hook was also in the water.
He was swimming to the boat, and as his men showed a light to guide him he had soon reached them. In the light of the lantern Wendy saw his hook grip the boat's side; she saw his evil swarthy face as he rose dripping from the water, and, quaking, she would have liked to swim away, but Peter would not budge.
lantern - Laterne
grip - packen, fassen; Griffigkeit, Heft (von Säge, Feile)
dripping - tropft; Bratenfett; (drip) tropft; Bratenfett
quaking - bebend; (quake); Beben
budge - nachgeben; bewegen, rühren
He was tingling with life and also top-heavy with conceit. "Am I not a wonder, oh, I am a wonder!" he whispered to her, and though she thought so also, she was really glad for the sake of his reputation that no one heard him except herself.
tingling - Kribbeln; prickelnd, klingend; (tingle); kribbeln, prickeln
sake - (for your sake) deinetwegen, euretwegen, Ihretwegen, dir zuliebe
He signed to her to listen.
The two pirates were very curious to know what had brought their captain to them, but he sat with his head on his hook in a position of profound melancholy.
"Captain, is all well?" they asked timidly, but he answered with a hollow moan.
timidly - ängstlich, schüchtern, scheu
moan - Stöhnen, Ächzen, klagen, beklagen, wehklagen
"He sighs," said Smee.
sighs - seufzt; Seufzen, Seufzer, Säuseln (Wind); säuseln (Wind)
"He sighs again," said Starkey.
"And yet a third time he sighs," said Smee.
Then at last he spoke passionately.
"The game's up," he cried, "those boys have found a mother."
Affrighted though she was, Wendy swelled with pride.
swelled - angeschwollen; Schwellen
"O evil day!" cried Starkey.
"What's a mother?" asked the ignorant Smee.
Wendy was so shocked that she exclaimed. "He doesn't know!" and always after this she felt that if you could have a pet pirate Smee would be her one.
Peter pulled her beneath the water, for Hook had started up, crying, "What was that?"
"I heard nothing," said Starkey, raising the lantern over the waters, and as the pirates looked they saw a strange sight. It was the nest I have told you of, floating on the lagoon, and the Never bird was sitting on it.
"See," said Hook in answer to Smee's question, "that is a mother. What a lesson! The nest must have fallen into the water, but would the mother desert her eggs? No."
There was a break in his voice, as if for a moment he recalled innocent days when-but he brushed away this weakness with his hook.
Smee, much impressed, gazed at the bird as the nest was borne past, but the more suspicious Starkey said, "If she is a mother, perhaps she is hanging about here to help Peter."
more suspicious - argwöhnischere
hanging about - herumdrückend
Hook winced. "Ay," he said, "that is the fear that haunts me."
winced - gezuckt; Zusammenzucken
He was roused from this dejection by Smee's eager voice.
dejection - Kotentleerung, Niedergeschlagenheit
eager - eifrig, erwartungsvoll, begierig
"Captain," said Smee, "could we not kidnap these boys'mother and make her our mother?"
kidnap - entführen; Entführung, Menschenraub, Kinderraub
"It is a princely scheme," cried Hook, and at once it took practical shape in his great brain. "We will seize the children and carry them to the boat: the boys we will make walk the plank, and Wendy shall be our mother."
princely - fürstlich
scheme - Schema; Programm, Plan, Projekt, Intrige, Komplott
seize - ergreifen, fassen, packen, beschlagnahmen, erfassen
plank - ein Brett; Planke; Schwerpunkt
Again Wendy forgot herself.
"Never!" she cried, and bobbed.
bobbed - wippt; Troddel; tanzen (Boot); Bob (Frisur)
"What was that?"
But they could see nothing. They thought it must have been a leaf in the wind. "Do you agree, my bullies?" asked Hook.
bullies - Tyrannen; Rabauke, Bully, Tyrann, Schikaneur, einschüchtern
"There is my hand on it," they both said.
"And there is my hook. Swear."
swear - schwören
They all swore. By this time they were on the rock, and suddenly Hook remembered Tiger Lily.
swore - geschworen; schwören
"Where is the redskin?" he demanded abruptly.
abruptly - abrupt, plötzlich, unerwartet, abgerissen, abschüssig
He had a playful humour at moments, and they thought this was one of the moments.
playful - spielerisch; verspielt
"That is all right, captain," Smee answered complacently; "we let her go."
complacently - selbstgefällig
"Let her go!" cried Hook.
"'Twas your own orders," the bo'sun faltered.
faltered - Wanken
"You called over the water to us to let her go," said Starkey.
called over - hergerufen
"Brimstone and gall," thundered Hook, "what cozening [cheating] is going on here!" His face had gone black with rage, but he saw that they believed their words, and he was startled. "Lads," he said, shaking a little, "I gave no such order."
Brimstone - Schwefel; Zitronenfalter
gall - Galle
thundered - gewittert; Donner, Donnern
cozening - kuscheln; (arch) Gewölbe, Bogen, Fußrücken
startled - erschrocken; aufschrecken, scheuen, erschrecken
lads - Jungs; Junge, Knabe, Bube, Bursche, junger Mann, Stallbursche
"It is passing queer," Smee said, and they all fidgeted uncomfortably. Hook raised his voice, but there was a quiver in it.
fidgeted - Gezappelt; zappeln, herumzappeln, Zappelphilipp
"Spirit that haunts this dark lagoon to-night," he cried, "dost hear me?"
Of course Peter should have kept quiet, but of course he did not. He immediately answered in Hook's voice:
"Odds, bobs, hammer and tongs, I hear you."
In that supreme moment Hook did not blanch, even at the gills, but Smee and Starkey clung to each other in terror.
supreme - übergeordnet; höchster, oberster
blanch - blanchieren; bleichen
gills - Kiemen; Rippe [techn.], Lamelle am Pilz, Kieme
terror - Schrecken, Grauen, schreckliche Furcht, Terror
"Who are you, stranger? Speak!" Hook demanded.
"I am James Hook," replied the voice, "captain of the Jolly Roger."
Jolly Roger - Piratenflagge , Totenkopfflagge
"You are not; you are not," Hook cried hoarsely.
"Brimstone and gall," the voice retorted, "say that again, and I'll cast anchor in you."
anchor - Anker
Hook tried a more ingratiating manner. "If you are Hook," he said almost humbly, "come tell me, who am I?"
ingratiating - einschmeichelnd; einschmeicheln, sich beliebt machen
humbly - demütig
"A codfish," replied the voice, "only a codfish."
codfish - Dorsch, Kabeljau
"A codfish!" Hook echoed blankly, and it was then, but not till then, that his proud spirit broke. He saw his men draw back from him.
blankly - ausdruckslos; leer
not till - nicht vor, erst wenn, erst als
till then - bis dahin, bis nachher
"Have we been captained all this time by a codfish!" they muttered. "It is lowering to our pride."
muttered - gemurmelt; murmeln
lowering - Senken; Abbau (von Kosten)
They were his dogs snapping at him, but, tragic figure though he had become, he scarcely heeded them. Against such fearful evidence it was not their belief in him that he needed, it was his own. He felt his ego slipping from him. "Don't desert me, bully," he whispered hoarsely to it.
Snapping - schnappend, knipsend, Ermittlung; (snap); Knacken, Knallen
scarcely - knapp, kaum, wohl nicht, gerade erst
heeded - beachtet; beherzigen, beachten
fearful - furchtbar; furchtsam, ängstlich, verängstigt
ego - Ich, Ego
slipping - Ausrutschen; Versprecher; Rutschen (geradeaus); Lapsus
bully - Raufbold ;jdn. unter Druck setzen;einschüchtern, schikanieren, nötigen
In his dark nature there was a touch of the feminine, as in all the great pirates, and it sometimes gave him intuitions. Suddenly he tried the guessing game.
feminine - feminin, weiblich
intuitions - Intuitionen; Ahnung, Anschauung, Eingebung, Einfühlungsvermögen
"Hook," he called, "have you another voice?"
Now Peter could never resist a game, and he answered blithely in his own voice, "I have."
blithely - fröhlich; ungerührt, unbekümmert
"And another name?"
"Ay, ay."
"Vegetable?" asked Hook.
"No."
"Mineral?"
mineral - Mineral
"No."
"Animal?"
"Yes."
"Man?"
"No!" This answer rang out scornfully.
scornfully - verächtlich; verachtend
"Boy?"
"Yes."
"Ordinary boy?"
"No!"
"Wonderful boy?"
To Wendy's pain the answer that rang out this time was "Yes."
"Are you in England?"
"No."
"Are you here?"
"Yes."
Hook was completely puzzled. "You ask him some questions," he said to the others, wiping his damp brow.
wiping - (wipe) löschen, abstreifen, abwischen, aufreiben
brow - Stirn; Braue, Augenbraue
Smee reflected. "I can't think of a thing," he said regretfully.
regretfully - bedauernd
"Can't guess, can't guess!" crowed Peter. "Do you give it up?"
Of course in his pride he was carrying the game too far, and the miscreants [villains] saw their chance.
miscreants - Bösewichte; gewissenloser Mensch, Übeltäter, Schurke
villains - Schurken; Schurke, Gauner, Halunke, Bösewicht, qualifieram
"Yes, yes," they answered eagerly.
"Well, then," he cried, "I am Peter Pan."
Pan!
In a moment Hook was himself again, and Smee and Starkey were his faithful henchmen.
henchmen - Gefolgsleute; Handlanger, Handlangerin, Scherge, Anhänger
"Now we have him," Hook shouted. "Into the water, Smee. Starkey, mind the boat. Take him dead or alive!"
He leaped as he spoke, and simultaneously came the gay voice of Peter.
leaped - gesprungen; hervorspringen, hüpfen, überspringen
"Are you ready, boys?"
"Ay, ay," from various parts of the lagoon.
"Then lam into the pirates."
lam - verdreschen
The fight was short and sharp. First to draw blood was John, who gallantly climbed into the boat and held Starkey. There was fierce struggle, in which the cutlass was torn from the pirate's grasp. He wriggled overboard and John leapt after him. The dinghy drifted away.
gallantly - galante
Struggle - Kämpfen; Kampf, Gefecht, sich durchbeißen, sich schwer tun
grasp - greifen, erfassen, begreifen, verstehen, Griff, Verständnis
overboard - über Bord
drifted - abgetrieben; Drift, driften, treiben, irren, ziellos ziehen
Here and there a head bobbed up in the water, and there was a flash of steel followed by a cry or a whoop. In the confusion some struck at their own side. The corkscrew of Smee got Tootles in the fourth rib, but he was himself pinked [nicked] in turn by Curly. Farther from the rock Starkey was pressing Slightly and the twins hard.
flash - Blitzlicht; aufleuchten, blitzen, aufflammen
steel - verstählen; Stahl
whoop - hoppla; schreien
confusion - Verwirrung, Durcheinander, Konfusion, Verwechslung
rib - Rippe (Profil); Drehschiene, Spant, Rippe, Lamelle
nicked - eingekerbt; Kerbe; einschneiden
Where all this time was Peter? He was seeking bigger game.
seeking - suchen
The others were all brave boys, and they must not be blamed for backing from the pirate captain. His iron claw made a circle of dead water round him, from which they fled like affrighted fishes.
blamed - beschuldigt; jemadem die Schuld zuweisen
dead water - Totraum (geol.), Totwasser (Kielwasser)
But there was one who did not fear him: there was one prepared to enter that circle.
Strangely, it was not in the water that they met. Hook rose to the rock to breathe, and at the same moment Peter scaled it on the opposite side. The rock was slippery as a ball, and they had to crawl rather than climb. Neither knew that the other was coming. Each feeling for a grip met the other's arm: in surprise they raised their heads; their faces were almost touching; so they met.
strangely - seltsame, merkwürdige
scaled - skaliert; Skala, Kesselsteine, Schuppe; ersteigen, erklettern
slippery - schlüpfrig; rutschig, glitschig, aalglatt
crawl - krabbeln; kriechen
Some of the greatest heroes have confessed that just before they fell to [began combat] they had a sinking [feeling in the stomach]. Had it been so with Peter at that moment I would admit it. After all, he was the only man that the Sea-Cook had feared. But Peter had no sinking, he had one feeling only, gladness; and he gnashed his pretty teeth with joy.
confessed - gestanden; gestehen, bekennen, verraten, beichten
combat - Kampf, Schlacht, Gefecht, kämpfen (gegen, mit), bekämpfen
gladness - Fröhlichkeit, Freude
Quick as thought he snatched a knife from Hook's belt and was about to drive it home, when he saw that he was higher up the rock than his foe. It would not have been fighting fair. He gave the pirate a hand to help him up.
foe - Feind
It was then that Hook bit him.
Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be quite the same boy.
unfairness - Ungerechtigkeit, Unrecht
dazed - Benommenheit, betäuben
helpless - hilflos
horrified - entsetzt; entsetzen, erschrecken, schockieren
unfairly - zu Unrecht; unfair
No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter. He often met it, but he always forgot it. I suppose that was the real difference between him and all the rest.
gets over - verschmerzt
So when he met it now it was like the first time; and he could just stare, helpless. Twice the iron hand clawed him.
clawed - zerkratzt; zerkratzen; Kralle, Fang (Vogelkralle), Klaue
A few moments afterwards the other boys saw Hook in the water striking wildly for the ship; no elation on the pestilent face now, only white fear, for the crocodile was in dogged pursuit of him. On ordinary occasions the boys would have swum alongside cheering; but now they were uneasy, for they had lost both Peter and Wendy, and were scouring the lagoon for them, calling them by name.
striking - auffällig; (strike); streichen; schlagen; prägen; streiken; scheinen; die Fahne streichen; Strike; Streik; Schlag
elation - Euphorie, Hochgefühl, Begeisterung, Jubelstimmung
pursuit - Verfolgung
alongside - nebenher, entlang, an der Seite
cheering - anfeuern, jauchzen, aufmuntern, jubeln
scouring - Durchspülen; reinigend
They found the dinghy and went home in it, shouting "Peter, Wendy" as they went, but no answer came save mocking laughter from the mermaids. "They must be swimming back or flying," the boys concluded. They were not very anxious, because they had such faith in Peter. They chuckled, boylike, because they would be late for bed; and it was all mother Wendy's fault!
Faith - Glaube; Vertrauen
chuckled - gekichert; leises Lachen, Glucksen, glucken (Henne); glucksen
When their voices died away there came cold silence over the lagoon, and then a feeble cry.
feeble - kraftlos, schwach, dürftig
"Help, help!"
Two small figures were beating against the rock; the girl had fainted and lay on the boy's arm. With a last effort Peter pulled her up the rock and then lay down beside her. Even as he also fainted he saw that the water was rising. He knew that they would soon be drowned, but he could do no more.
fainted - in Ohnmacht gefallen; leise, schwach, undeutlich
be drowned - ertrinken
As they lay side by side a mermaid caught Wendy by the feet, and began pulling her softly into the water. Peter, feeling her slip from him, woke with a start, and was just in time to draw her back. But he had to tell her the truth.
slip - Ausrutscher; Versprecher; Rutschen (geradeaus); Lapsus
"We are on the rock, Wendy," he said, "but it is growing smaller. Soon the water will be over it."
She did not understand even now.
"We must go," she said, almost brightly.
brightly - leuchtend; strahlend, hell
"Yes," he answered faintly.
faintly - kaum, schwach, entfernt, leicht
"Shall we swim or fly, Peter?"
He had to tell her.
"Do you think you could swim or fly as far as the island, Wendy, without my help?"
She had to admit that she was too tired.
He moaned.
moaned - gestöhnt; Stöhnen
"What is it?" she asked, anxious about him at once.
"I can't help you, Wendy. Hook wounded me. I can neither fly nor swim."
wounded - verwundet; anschießen, verwunden
"Do you mean we shall both be drowned?"
drowned - ertrunken; ertrinken, ertränken, überwältigen
"Look how the water is rising."
They put their hands over their eyes to shut out the sight. They thought they would soon be no more. As they sat thus something brushed against Peter as light as a kiss, and stayed there, as if saying timidly, "Can I be of any use?"
It was the tail of a kite, which Michael had made some days before. It had torn itself out of his hand and floated away.
kite - flitzen; Drachen, Milan
floated - getrieben; treiben, schwimmen, schweben, schwimmen, treiben
"Michael's kite," Peter said without interest, but next moment he had seized the tail, and was pulling the kite toward him.
seized - beschlagnahmt; ergreifen, fassen, greifen, packen, ergreifen
"It lifted Michael off the ground," he cried; "why should it not carry you?"
"Both of us!"
"It can't lift two; Michael and Curly tried."
"Let us draw lots," Wendy said bravely.
"And you a lady; never." Already he had tied the tail round her. She clung to him; she refused to go without him; but with a "Good-bye, Wendy," he pushed her from the rock; and in a few minutes she was borne out of his sight. Peter was alone on the lagoon.
The rock was very small now; soon it would be submerged. Pale rays of light tiptoed across the waters; and by and by there was to be heard a sound at once the most musical and the most melancholy in the world: the mermaids calling to the moon.
rays - Schimmer, Strahl; ausstrahlen
tiptoed - auf Zehenspitzen gegangen; Zehenspitze
most musical - musikalischste
Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure."
tremour - Zittern
passing over - übertretend
The last sound Peter heard before he was quite alone were the mermaids retiring one by one to their bedchambers under the sea. He was too far away to hear their doors shut; but every door in the coral caves where they live rings a tiny bell when it opens or closes (as in all the nicest houses on the mainland), and he heard the bells.
rings - Ringe; Ring, Kreis
Steadily the waters rose till they were nibbling at his feet; and to pass the time until they made their final gulp, he watched the only thing on the lagoon. He thought it was a piece of floating paper, perhaps part of the kite, and wondered idly how long it would take to drift ashore.
steadily - beständig; stetige, stet, zuverlässig
nibbling - knabbern, anbeißen; (nibble) knabbern, anbeißen
gulp - Schluck; schlucken; schlingen, verschlingen
idly - untätig, träge
drift - Drift; driften, treiben, irren, ziellos ziehen, ziellos wandern
ashore - an Land; zu Lande, am Land, an die Küste
Presently he noticed as an odd thing that it was undoubtedly out upon the lagoon with some definite purpose, for it was fighting the tide, and sometimes winning; and when it won, Peter, always sympathetic to the weaker side, could not help clapping; it was such a gallant piece of paper.
odd thing - Merkwürdigkeit
sympathetic - sympathisch; mitfühlend
clapping - Klatschen; (clap); Klatschen
It was not really a piece of paper; it was the Never bird, making desperate efforts to reach Peter on the nest. By working her wings, in a way she had learned since the nest fell into the water, she was able to some extent to guide her strange craft, but by the time Peter recognised her she was very exhausted. She had come to save him, to give him her nest, though there were eggs in it. I rather wonder at the bird, for though he had been nice to her, he had also sometimes tormented her. I can suppose only that, like Mrs.
desperate - verzweifelt bemüht, sehnsuchtsvoll verlangend, aussichtslos
extent - Umfang, Ausdehnung, Ausmaß, Größe
recognised - anerkannt; anerkennen
exhausted - erschöpft; erschöpfen, dezimieren, erschöpfen, Auspuff, Abgas
tormented - gequält; Qual, quälen, peinigen
Darling and the rest of them, she was melted because he had all his first teeth.
melted - geschmolzen; Schmelze, Schmelzwasser
She called out to him what she had come for, and he called out to her what she was doing there; but of course neither of them understood the other's language.
In fanciful stories people can talk to the birds freely, and I wish for the moment I could pretend that this were such a story, and say that Peter replied intelligently to the Never bird; but truth is best, and I want to tell you only what really happened. Well, not only could they not understand each other, but they forgot their manners.
fanciful - phantasievoll
freely - frei
intelligently - intelligent
"I-want-you-to-get-into-the-nest," the bird called, speaking as slowly and distinctly as possible, "and-then-you-can-drift-ashore, but-I-am-too-tired-to-bring-it-any-nearer-so-you-must-try to-swim-to-it."
distinctly - deutlich
"What are you quacking about?" Peter answered. "Why don't you let the nest drift as usual?"
quacking - Quacksalber, Kurpfuscher, quaken; plappern
"I-want-you-" the bird said, and repeated it all over.
Then Peter tried slow and distinct.
"What-are-you-quacking-about?" and so on.
The Never bird became irritated; they have very short tempers.
tempers - Temperamente; Gereiztheit, Laune, Temperament
"You dunderheaded little jay!" she screamed, "Why don't you do as I tell you?"
dunderheaded - Schwachköpfe
jay - Eichelhäher; Tölpel
Peter felt that she was calling him names, and at a venture he retorted hotly:
"So are you!"
Then rather curiously they both snapped out the same remark:
remark - bemerken; Anmerkung, Bemerkung
"Shut up!"
"Shut up!"
Nevertheless the bird was determined to save him if she could, and by one last mighty effort she propelled the nest against the rock. Then up she flew; deserting her eggs, so as to make her meaning clear.
mighty - gewaltig, mächtig
Then at last he understood, and clutched the nest and waved his thanks to the bird as she fluttered overhead. It was not to receive his thanks, however, that she hung there in the sky; it was not even to watch him get into the nest; it was to see what he did with her eggs.
There were two large white eggs, and Peter lifted them up and reflected. The bird covered her face with her wings, so as not to see the last of them; but she could not help peeping between the feathers.
feathers - Federn; Feder, Vogelfeder, befiedern
I forget whether I have told you that there was a stave on the rock, driven into it by some buccaneers of long ago to mark the site of buried treasure. The children had discovered the glittering hoard, and when in a mischievous mood used to fling showers of moidores, diamonds, pearls and pieces of eight to the gulls, who pounced upon them for food, and then flew away, raging at the scurvy trick that had been played upon them.
stave - Daube; Sprosse; Strophe, Vers, Notenlinien, Notensystem
driven into - eingefahren
buccaneers - Freibeuter; Seeräuber
glittering - glitzernd, funkelnd; (glitter); Glitter; glitzern
hoard - Schatz, Vorrat; horten, sich Vorräte anlegen, hamstern
gulls - Möwen; Möwe
pounced - aufgesprungen; zuschlagen; bimsen
flew away - verflog
raging - wütend; Wut, Zorn, Raserei, Rage, wüten, rasen, toben, toben
scurvy - Skorbut, Scharbock
The stave was still there, and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a deep tarpaulin, watertight, with a broad brim. Peter put the eggs into this hat and set it on the lagoon. It floated beautifully.
tarpaulin - Persenning, Plane, Plane
watertight - wasserdicht
broad - breit, deutliche, großräumig
brim - Krempe; übersprudeln; Rand
The Never bird saw at once what he was up to, and screamed her admiration of him; and, alas, Peter crowed his agreement with her. Then he got into the nest, reared the stave in it as a mast, and hung up his shirt for a sail. At the same moment the bird fluttered down upon the hat and once more sat snugly on her eggs. She drifted in one direction, and he was borne off in another, both cheering.
reared - aufgezogen; Hinter.., hinterster, Heck, Rück..
mast - Mast
snugly - behaglich, gemütlich, mollig
Of course when Peter landed he beached his barque [small ship, actually the Never Bird's nest in this particular case in point] in a place where the bird would easily find it; but the hat was such a great success that she abandoned the nest. It drifted about till it went to pieces, and often Starkey came to the shore of the lagoon, and with many bitter feelings watched the bird sitting on his hat.
barque - Barke
abandoned - im Stich lassen, preisgeben, verlassen, abbrechen
Bitter - herb, rau, bitter
feelings - Gefühle; Gefühl, Eindruck
As we shall not see her again, it may be worth mentioning here that all Never birds now build in that shape of nest, with a broad brim on which the youngsters take an airing.
Great were the rejoicings when Peter reached the home under the ground almost as soon as Wendy, who had been carried hither and thither by the kite. Every boy had adventures to tell; but perhaps the biggest adventure of all was that they were several hours late for bed. This so inflated them that they did various dodgy things to get staying up still longer, such as demanding bandages; but Wendy, though glorying in having them all home again safe and sound, was scandalised by the lateness of the hour, and cried, "To bed, to bed," in a voice that had to be obeyed.
rejoicings - Jubel; frohlockend, sich freuend
thither - dorthin, dahin
inflated - aufgeblasen; aufblasen, aufpumpen, aufblähen, aufblasen
dodgy - Fragwürdig; ausweichend; unzuverlässig; unehrlich; riskant
staying up - (stay up) aufbleiben
demanding - anspruchsvoll; Nachfrage, Bedarf, Nachfrage, Anspruch
bandages - Verbände; Verband, bandagieren
glorying - Pracht, Herrlichkeit, Prunk, Gepränge
lateness - Verspätung
Next day, however, she was awfully tender, and gave out bandages to every one, and they played till bed-time at limping about and carrying their arms in slings.
tender - zärtlich; empfindlich, Ausschreibung, Angebot, zart; andienen
bed-time - (bed-time) Schlafenszeit
limping - lahmend, hinkend; (limp) lahmend, hinkend
slings - Schleudern; Armschlinge
They called Peter the Great White Father, prostrating themselves [lying down] before him; and he liked this tremendously, so that it was not really good for him.
prostrating - Niederwerfend; niedergestreckt, niederwerfen, erniedrigen
"The great white father," he would say to them in a very lordly manner, as they grovelled at his feet, "is glad to see the Piccaninny warriors protecting his wigwam from the pirates."
lordly - herrschaftlich; fürstlich, adelig, einem Lord gemäß, vornehm
grovelled - zu Kreuze gekrochen; kriechen, kriechen, katzbuckeln
is glad - freut
warriors - Kriegern; Krieger, Kriegerin
"Me Tiger Lily," that lovely creature would reply. "Peter Pan save me, me his velly nice friend. Me no let pirates hurt him."
creature - Wesen, Lebewesen, Fabelwesen
She was far too pretty to cringe in this way, but Peter thought it his due, and he would answer condescendingly, "It is good. Peter Pan has spoken."
cringe - erschaudern, kriechen, sich ducken, zurückschrecken
condescendingly - herablassend
Always when he said, "Peter Pan has spoken," it meant that they must now shut up, and they accepted it humbly in that spirit; but they were by no means so respectful to the other boys, whom they looked upon as just ordinary braves. They said "How-do?" to them, and things like that; and what annoyed the boys was that Peter seemed to think this all right.
Secretly Wendy sympathised with them a little, but she was far too loyal a housewife to listen to any complaints against father. "Father knows best," she always said, whatever her private opinion must be. Her private opinion was that the redskins should not call her a squaw.
loyal - loyal, treu
squaw - Indianerin
"Silence," cried Wendy when for the twentieth time she had told them that they were not all to speak at once. "Is your mug empty, Slightly darling?"
mug - Becher, Visage, Krug
"Not quite empty, mummy," Slightly said, after looking into an imaginary mug.
"He hasn't even begun to drink his milk," Nibs interposed.
This was telling, and Slightly seized his chance.
"I complain of Nibs," he cried promptly.
promptly - unverzüglich; bereit
John, however, had held up his hand first.
"Well, John?"
"May I sit in Peter's chair, as he is not here?"
"Sit in father's chair, John!" Wendy was scandalised. "Certainly not."
"He is not really our father," John answered. "He didn't even know how a father does till I showed him."
This was grumbling. "We complain of John," cried the twins.
grumbling - Grummeln; murrend; (grumble); Gegrummel, Grummeln, Knurren
Tootles held up his hand. He was so much the humblest of them, indeed he was the only humble one, that Wendy was specially gentle with him.
humble - bescheiden; demütig, ergeben
"I don't suppose," Tootles said diffidently [bashfully or timidly], "that I could be father."
diffidently - schüchtern
bashfully - verschämte, schüchtern
"No, Tootles."
Once Tootles began, which was not very often, he had a silly way of going on.
"As I can't be father," he said heavily, "I don't suppose, Michael, you would let me be baby?"
"No, I won't," Michael rapped out. He was already in his basket.
"As I can't be baby," Tootles said, getting heavier and heavier and heavier, "do you think I could be a twin?"
"No, indeed," replied the twins; "it's awfully difficult to be a twin."
"As I can't be anything important," said Tootles, "would any of you like to see me do a trick?"
"No," they all replied.
Then at last he stopped. "I hadn't really any hope," he said.
The hateful telling broke out again.
hateful - hasserfüllt
"Slightly is coughing on the table."
coughing - hustend; (cough); husten; Husten
"The twins began with cheese-cakes."
"Curly is taking both butter and honey."
honey - Schatz; Honig
"Nibs is speaking with his mouth full."
"I complain of the twins."
"I complain of Curly."
"I complain of Nibs."
"Oh dear, oh dear," cried Wendy, "I'm sure I sometimes think that spinsters are to be envied."
She told them to clear away, and sat down to her work-basket, a heavy load of stockings and every knee with a hole in it as usual.
clear away - wegräumen
load - Last, Beschickung (Ladung), Belastung; beladen, ich lüde
"Wendy," remonstrated [scolded] Michael, "I'm too big for a cradle."
remonstrated - remonstriert; protestieren, missbilligen, einwenden
scolded - gescholten; Beißzange, Xanthippe, beschimpfen, schelten, tadeln
cradle - Wiege; wiegen
"I must have somebody in a cradle," she said almost tartly, "and you are the littlest. A cradle is such a nice homely thing to have about a house."
tartly - säuerlich; sauer, herb
While she sewed they played around her; such a group of happy faces and dancing limbs lit up by that romantic fire. It had become a very familiar scene, this, in the home under the ground, but we are looking on it for the last time.
limbs - Gliedmaßen; Schenkel (geol. Falte), Glied
There was a step above, and Wendy, you may be sure, was the first to recognize it.
"Children, I hear your father's step. He likes you to meet him at the door."
Above, the redskins crouched before Peter.
crouched - gehockt; sich ducken (vor), kriechen; kauern, hocken
"Watch well, braves. I have spoken."
And then, as so often before, the gay children dragged him from his tree. As so often before, but never again.
He had brought nuts for the boys as well as the correct time for Wendy.
"Peter, you just spoil them, you know," Wendy simpered [exaggerated a smile].
spoil - plündern; ruinieren, verderben, kaputtmachen, verwöhnen
simpered - gesimst; verschmitzt lachen
exaggerated - Übertrieben; übertreiben
"Ah, old lady," said Peter, hanging up his gun.
"It was me told him mothers are called old lady," Michael whispered to Curly.
"I complain of Michael," said Curly instantly.
The first twin came to Peter. "Father, we want to dance."
"Dance away, my little man," said Peter, who was in high good humour.
"But we want you to dance."
Peter was really the best dancer among them, but he pretended to be scandalised.
"Me! My old bones would rattle!"
rattle - klappern, rasseln, erschüteln, knattern
"And mummy too."
"What," cried Wendy, "the mother of such an armful, dance!"
armful - Armvoll
"But on a Saturday night," Slightly insinuated.
insinuated - angedeutet; andeuten, unterstellen, insinuieren, einschmeicheln
It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if they wanted to do anything special they said this was Saturday night, and then they did it.
"Of course it is Saturday night, Peter," Wendy said, relenting.
"People of our figure, Wendy!"
"But it is only among our own progeny [children]."
progeny - Nachkommen, Nachfahren, Nachkommenschaft, Werk, Schaffen
"True, true."
So they were told they could dance, but they must put on their nighties first.
nighties - Nachthemden; Nachthemd
"Ah, old lady," Peter said aside to Wendy, warming himself by the fire and looking down at her as she sat turning a heel, "there is nothing more pleasant of an evening for you and me when the day's toil is over than to rest by the fire with the little ones near by."
more pleasant - angenehmer
toil - Mühe; schuften, sich plagen, sich quälen, roboten
near by - dabei, in der Nähe
"It is sweet, Peter, isn't it?" Wendy said, frightfully gratified. "Peter, I think Curly has your nose."
gratified - befriedigt; befriedigen, erfreuen
"Michael takes after you."
takes after - (take after) geraten nach
She went to him and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Dear Peter," she said, "with such a large family, of course, I have now passed my best, but you don't want to [ex]change me, do you?"
"No, Wendy."
Certainly he did not want a change, but he looked at her uncomfortably, blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.
blinking - blinzeln, lichthupen, aufblenden, blinken, morsen, blinken
"Peter, what is it?"
"I was just thinking," he said, a little scared. "It is only make-believe, isn't it, that I am their father?"
"Oh yes," Wendy said primly [formally and properly].
primly - zimperlich
formally - förmlich; ausdrücklich, formell
"You see," he continued apologetically, "it would make me seem so old to be their real father."
"But they are ours, Peter, yours and mine."
"But not really, Wendy?" he asked anxiously.
"Not if you don't wish it," she replied; and she distinctly heard his sigh of relief. "Peter," she asked, trying to speak firmly, "what are your exact feelings to [about] me?"
"Those of a devoted son, Wendy."
devoted - hingebungsvoll; widmen
"I thought so," she said, and went and sat by herself at the extreme end of the room.
"You are so queer," he said, frankly puzzled, "and Tiger Lily is just the same. There is something she wants to be to me, but she says it is not my mother."
frankly - offen gesagt; ehrlich gesagt, um ehrlich zu sein
"No, indeed, it is not," Wendy replied with frightful emphasis. Now we know why she was prejudiced against the redskins.
emphasis - Nachdruck, Eindringlichkeit, Emphase, Schwerpunkt
"Then what is it?"
"It isn't for a lady to tell."
"Oh, very well," Peter said, a little nettled. "Perhaps Tinker Bell will tell me."
nettled - genervt; Nessel, Brennnessel
"Oh yes, Tinker Bell will tell you," Wendy retorted scornfully. "She is an abandoned little creature."
Here Tink, who was in her bedroom, eavesdropping, squeaked out something impudent.
eavesdropping - Lauschangriff; belauschen, horchen, lauschen, abhören, zuhören
squeaked - gequietscht; Gequieke
impudent - unverschämt
"She says she glories in being abandoned," Peter interpreted.
glories - Pracht, Herrlichkeit, Prunk, Gepränge
interpreted - gedeutet; interpretieren, interpretieren, dolmetschen
He had a sudden idea. "Perhaps Tink wants to be my mother?"
"You silly ass!" cried Tinker Bell in a passion.
She had said it so often that Wendy needed no translation.
"I almost agree with her," Wendy snapped. Fancy Wendy snapping! But she had been much tried, and she little knew what was to happen before the night was out. If she had known she would not have snapped.
much tried - vielgeprüft
None of them knew. Perhaps it was best not to know. Their ignorance gave them one more glad hour; and as it was to be their last hour on the island, let us rejoice that there were sixty glad minutes in it. They sang and danced in their night-gowns. Such a deliciously creepy song it was, in which they pretended to be frightened at their own shadows, little witting that so soon shadows would close in upon them, from whom they would shrink in real fear. So uproariously gay was the dance, and how they buffeted each other on the bed and out of it!
rejoice - freuen
deliciously - köstlich
creepy - kriechend; gruselig, schaurig, schauerlich, unheimlich
witting - wissend; (wit) nämlich, und zwar; (wit) wissend; (wit) nämlich
shrink - Psychiater; schrumpfen, abnehmen, drücken
uproariously - aufrüttelnd
buffeted - geschlagen; Puff, Buffet, Schlag; hin und herwerfen
It was a pillow fight rather than a dance, and when it was finished, the pillows insisted on one bout more, like partners who know that they may never meet again. The stories they told, before it was time for Wendy's good-night story! Even Slightly tried to tell a story that night, but the beginning was so fearfully dull that it appalled not only the others but himself, and he said happily:
pillows - Kopfkissen
bout - Runde
dull - stumpf; fad, langweilig, matt, blöd, blöde
appalled - entsetzt; entsetzen, abstoßen
"Yes, it is a dull beginning. I say, let us pretend that it is the end."
And then at last they all got into bed for Wendy's story, the story they loved best, the story Peter hated. Usually when she began to tell this story he left the room or put his hands over his ears; and possibly if he had done either of those things this time they might all still be on the island. But to-night he remained on his stool; and we shall see what happened.
"Listen, then," said Wendy, settling down to her story, with Michael at her feet and seven boys in the bed. "There was once a gentleman-"
settling down - einnistend
"I had rather he had been a lady," Curly said.
"I wish he had been a white rat," said Nibs.
rat - Ratte
"Quiet," their mother admonished [cautioned] them. "There was a lady also, and-"
admonished - ermahnt; ermahnen, warnen, warnen
cautioned - gewarnt; Warnung, Vorsicht, Vorsicht, Achtsamkeit, Behutsamkeit
"Oh, mummy," cried the first twin, "you mean that there is a lady also, don't you? She is not dead, is she?"
"Oh, no."
"I am awfully glad she isn't dead," said Tootles. "Are you glad, John?"
"Of course I am."
"Are you glad, Nibs?"
"Rather."
"Are you glad, Twins?"
"We are glad."
are glad - freust
"Oh dear," sighed Wendy.
sighed - geseufzt; Seufzen, Seufzer, Säuseln (Wind); säuseln (Wind)
"Little less noise there," Peter called out, determined that she should have fair play, however beastly a story it might be in his opinion.
fair play - ehrliches Spiel
beastly - bestialisch; garstig
"The gentleman's name," Wendy continued, "was Mr. Darling, and her name was Mrs. Darling."
"I knew them," John said, to annoy the others.
"I think I knew them," said Michael rather doubtfully.
"They were married, you know," explained Wendy, "and what do you think they had?"
"White rats," cried Nibs, inspired.
rats - Ratten; Ratte
inspired - inspiriert; inspirieren, inspirieren, beatmen, einhauchen
"No."
"It's awfully puzzling," said Tootles, who knew the story by heart.
"Quiet, Tootles. They had three descendants."
descendants - Nachkommen; Nachkomme, Nachkommin, Deszendent, Deszendentin
"What is descendants?"
"Well, you are one, Twin."
"Did you hear that, John? I am a descendant."
descendant - Nachkomme, Nachkommin, Deszendent, Deszendentin
"Descendants are only children," said John.
"Oh dear, oh dear," sighed Wendy. "Now these three children had a faithful nurse called Nana; but Mr. Darling was angry with her and chained her up in the yard, and so all the children flew away."
"It's an awfully good story," said Nibs.
"They flew away," Wendy continued, "to the Neverland, where the lost children are."
"I just thought they did," Curly broke in excitedly. "I don't know how it is, but I just thought they did!"
"O Wendy," cried Tootles, "was one of the lost children called Tootles?"
"Yes, he was."
"I am in a story. Hurrah, I am in a story, Nibs."
"Hush. Now I want you to consider the feelings of the unhappy parents with all their children flown away."
Hush - Pst; verstummen, still werden, zum Schweigen bringen, Stille
flown away - verflogene
"Oo!" they all moaned, though they were not really considering the feelings of the unhappy parents one jot.
jot - kritzeln; schnell hinschreiben
"Think of the empty beds!"
"Oo!"
"It's awfully sad," the first twin said cheerfully.
cheerfully - fröhlich, vergnügt, heiter
"I don't see how it can have a happy ending," said the second twin. "Do you, Nibs?"
"I'm frightfully anxious."
"If you knew how great is a mother's love," Wendy told them triumphantly, "you would have no fear." She had now come to the part that Peter hated.
triumphantly - triumphierend
"I do like a mother's love," said Tootles, hitting Nibs with a pillow. "Do you like a mother's love, Nibs?"
pillow - Kopfkissen, Kissen; Ruhekissen
"I do just," said Nibs, hitting back.
"You see," Wendy said complacently, "our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time."
heroine - Heldin, Heroine
"Did they ever go back?"
"Let us now," said Wendy, bracing herself up for her finest effort, "take a peep into the future;" and they all gave themselves the twist that makes peeps into the future easier. "Years have rolled by, and who is this elegant lady of uncertain age alighting at London Station?"
bracing - Verspannung; erfrischend, anregend; (brace); Klafter, Armspanne
twist - Zwirn; Biegung; Wendung; Twist; verziehen, drehen, wickeln
peeps - (peep hole) Schauloch; (to peep through) durchgucken
uncertain - unsicher
alighting - aussteigen; landen
"O Wendy, who is she?" cried Nibs, every bit as excited as if he didn't know.
"Can it be-yes-no-it is-the fair Wendy!"
"Oh!"
"And who are the two noble portly figures accompanying her, now grown to man's estate? Can they be John and Michael? They are!"
portly - korpulent, vollschlank, beleibt, stattlich
accompanying - begleiten, begleiten, begleiten, begleiten, geleiten, beiliegen
estate - Nachlass; Stand; Gut, Landgut
"Oh!"
"'See, dear brothers,'says Wendy pointing upwards, 'there is the window still standing open. Ah, now we are rewarded for our sublime faith in a mother's love.'So up they flew to their mummy and daddy, and pen cannot describe the happy scene, over which we draw a veil."
standing open - offenstehend
rewarded - belohnt; Belohnung, Lohn
sublime - sublimierens, erhaben
daddy - Vati, Papa, Papi
veil - Vorhang; Schleier; verschleiern, verhüllen
That was the story, and they were as pleased with it as the fair narrator herself. Everything just as it should be, you see. Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.
narrator - Erzähler, Erzählerin
skip - überspringen, hüpfen, springen; Sprung
most heartless - herzloseste
entirely - vollständig; ganz, total, entirely
Selfish - egoistisch, selbstsüchtig, egozentrisch, checkegoistisch
smacked - angeschlagen; riechen nach, schmecken nach; Geschmack, Knall
So great indeed was their faith in a mother's love that they felt they could afford to be callous for a bit longer.
callous - gefühllos, verhärtet, abgestumpft, herzlos, schwielig
But there was one there who knew better, and when Wendy finished he uttered a hollow groan.
uttered - geäußert; äußerst
groan - Stöhnen; Seufzen, Ächzen, Knarren
"What is it, Peter?" she cried, running to him, thinking he was ill. She felt him solicitously, lower down than his chest. "Where is it, Peter?"
solicitously - fürsorglich
"It isn't that kind of pain," Peter replied darkly.
"Then what kind is it?"
"Wendy, you are wrong about mothers."
They all gathered round him in affright, so alarming was his agitation; and with a fine candour he told them what he had hitherto concealed.
affright - erschrecken
agitation - Aufregung; Aufwühlung, Agitation
candour - Offenheit, Aufrichtigkeit
concealed - versteckt; verbergen, verheimlichen, verschleiern, verschweigen
"Long ago," he said, "I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me, so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and then flew back; but the window was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and there was another little boy sleeping in my bed."
I am not sure that this was true, but Peter thought it was true; and it scared them.
"Are you sure mothers are like that?"
"Yes."
So this was the truth about mothers. The toads!
toads - Kröten; Kröte
Still it is best to be careful; and no one knows so quickly as a child when he should give in. "Wendy, let us [let's] go home," cried John and Michael together.
"Yes," she said, clutching them.
"Not to-night?" asked the lost boys bewildered. They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.
"At once," Wendy replied resolutely, for the horrible thought had come to her: "Perhaps mother is in half mourning by this time."
resolutely - Entschlossenheit
mourning - trauern; Trauer; Trauerkleidung
This dread made her forgetful of what must be Peter's feelings, and she said to him rather sharply, "Peter, will you make the necessary arrangements?"
forgetful - vergesslich
"If you wish it," he replied, as coolly as if she had asked him to pass the nuts.
coolly - kühl; gelassen
Not so much as a sorry-to-lose-you between them! If she did not mind the parting, he was going to show her, was Peter, that neither did he.
But of course he cared very much; and he was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who, as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland that, every time you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them off vindictively as fast as possible.
wrath - Zorn, Wut, Ärger, Ingrimm, Vergeltung
spoiling - plündern, ruinieren, verderben, kaputtmachen, verwöhnen
vindictively - Rachsüchtig
Then having given the necessary instructions to the redskins he returned to the home, where an unworthy scene had been enacted in his absence. Panic-stricken at the thought of losing Wendy the lost boys had advanced upon her threateningly.
unworthy - unwürdig
enacted - verordnet; spielen, ausführen
panic - Panik, panisch
stricken - angeschlagen; ergriffen, heimgesucht, betroffen
"It will be worse than before she came," they cried.
"We shan't let her go."
"Let's keep her prisoner."
"Ay, chain her up."
In her extremity an instinct told her to which of them to turn.
extremity - Extremität, äußerstes Ende, Äußerste, Extremste
instinct - Instinkt
"Tootles," she cried, "I appeal to you."
appeal - Berufung; Revision, Wirkung, Anziehungskraft; reizen, zusagen
Was it not strange? She appealed to Tootles, quite the silliest one.
appealed - appelliert; Revision, Wirkung, Anziehungskraft; reizen, zusagen
Grandly, however, did Tootles respond. For that one moment he dropped his silliness and spoke with dignity.
grandly - großartig, großartige
silliness - Dummheit, Albernheit
"I am just Tootles," he said, "and nobody minds me. But the first who does not behave to Wendy like an English gentleman I will blood him severely."
He drew back his hanger; and for that instant his sun was at noon. The others held back uneasily. Then Peter returned, and they saw at once that they would get no support from him. He would keep no girl in the Neverland against her will.
hanger - Aufhänger, Anhänger, Kleiderbügel
noon - Mittag
"Wendy," he said, striding up and down, "I have asked the redskins to guide you through the wood, as flying tires you so."
striding - schreitend; schreiten
tires - Reifen, Pneu (schweiz.); ermüden
"Thank you, Peter."
"Then," he continued, in the short sharp voice of one accustomed to be obeyed, "Tinker Bell will take you across the sea. Wake her, Nibs."
accustomed - Gewöhnt; gewöhnen, gewöhnen
Nibs had to knock twice before he got an answer, though Tink had really been sitting up in bed listening for some time.
"Who are you? How dare you? Go away," she cried.
"You are to get up, Tink," Nibs called, "and take Wendy on a journey."
Of course Tink had been delighted to hear that Wendy was going; but she was jolly well determined not to be her courier, and she said so in still more offensive language. Then she pretended to be asleep again.
courier - Reiseführer; Kurier; Kurierdienst
more offensive - anzüglichere
"She says she won't!" Nibs exclaimed, aghast at such insubordination, whereupon Peter went sternly toward the young lady's chamber.
she won't - sie wird nicht
insubordination - Ungehorsamkeit, Befehlsverweigerung, Insubordination
"Tink," he rapped out, "if you don't get up and dress at once I will open the curtains, and then we shall all see you in your negligee [nightgown]."
negligee - Negligé; Neglige
nightgown - Nachthemd
This made her leap to the floor. "Who said I wasn't getting up?" she cried.
leap - hervorspringen, hüpfen, überspringen
In the meantime the boys were gazing very forlornly at Wendy, now equipped with John and Michael for the journey. By this time they were dejected, not merely because they were about to lose her, but also because they felt that she was going off to something nice to which they had not been invited. Novelty was beckoning to them as usual.
gazing - starrt; anstarren
forlornly - verzweifelt; verlassene
equipped - ausgestattet; ausrüsten, ausstatten, anlegen, ausrüsten
dejected - niedergeschlagen; entmutigen
novelty - Neuheit, Neuartigkeit, neues Produkt, Krimskrams
beckoning - heranwinken, herbeiwinken, winken, zuwinken, einladen
Crediting them with a nobler feeling Wendy melted.
nobler - edler; Adeliger, Adliger, Adelige, Adlige, Aristokrat
"Dear ones," she said, "if you will all come with me I feel almost sure I can get my father and mother to adopt you."
adopt - adoptieren; annehmen, übernehmen
The invitation was meant specially for Peter, but each of the boys was thinking exclusively of himself, and at once they jumped with joy.
exclusively - ausschließlich, exklusiv, allein, alleinig
"But won't they think us rather a handful?" Nibs asked in the middle of his jump.
handful - Handvoll; Handbreite
"Oh no," said Wendy, rapidly thinking it out, "it will only mean having a few beds in the drawing-room; they can be hidden behind the screens on first Thursdays."
"Peter, can we go?" they all cried imploringly. They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.
granted - gewährt; gewähren, erteilen, bewilligen
"All right," Peter replied with a bitter smile, and immediately they rushed to get their things.
"And now, Peter," Wendy said, thinking she had put everything right, "I am going to give you your medicine before you go." She loved to give them medicine, and undoubtedly gave them too much. Of course it was only water, but it was out of a bottle, and she always shook the bottle and counted the drops, which gave it a certain medicinal quality.
medicinal - medikamentös, medizinal, medizinisch, Arznei
On this occasion, however, she did not give Peter his draught [portion], for just as she had prepared it, she saw a look on his face that made her heart sink.
draught - Tiefgang; Spielstein
portion - Anteil; Teil
"Get your things, Peter," she cried, shaking.
"No," he answered, pretending indifference, "I am not going with you, Wendy."
indifference - Gleichgültigkeit
"Yes, Peter."
"No."
To show that her departure would leave him unmoved, he skipped up and down the room, playing gaily on his heartless pipes. She had to run about after him, though it was rather undignified.
unmoved - ungerührt, unbewegt
skipped - übersprungen; überspringen, hüpfen, springen; Sprung
heartless - herzlos
"To find your mother," she coaxed.
coaxed - beschwatzt; schmeicheln, gut zureden; Koaxialkabel
Now, if Peter had ever quite had a mother, he no longer missed her. He could do very well without one. He had thought them out, and remembered only their bad points.
"No, no," he told Wendy decisively; "perhaps she would say I was old, and I just want always to be a little boy and to have fun."
decisively - Entscheidend
"But, Peter-"
"No."
And so the others had to be told.
"Peter isn't coming."
Peter not coming! They gazed blankly at him, their sticks over their backs, and on each stick a bundle. Their first thought was that if Peter was not going he had probably changed his mind about letting them go.
bundle - Bündel
But he was far too proud for that. "If you find your mothers," he said darkly, "I hope you will like them."
The awful cynicism of this made an uncomfortable impression, and most of them began to look rather doubtful. After all, their faces said, were they not noodles to want to go?
cynicism - Zynismus
noodles - Nudeln; Nudel
"now then," cried Peter, "no fuss, no blubbering; good-bye, Wendy;" and he held out his hand cheerily, quite as if they must really go now, for he had something important to do.
now then - nun also
fuss - Aufregung; Lärm, Wirbel, Aufstand, Gehabe
blubbering - Geflenne; Speck, Blubber, Walspeck, Blubber
She had to take his hand, and there was no indication that he would prefer a thimble.
indication - Anzeichen, Anzeige, Hinweis, Indiz
"You will remember about changing your flannels, Peter?" she said, lingering over him. She was always so particular about their flannels.
flannels - Flanelle; Flanell
"Yes."
"And you will take your medicine?"
"Yes."
That seemed to be everything, and an awkward pause followed. Peter, however, was not the kind that breaks down before other people. "Are you ready, Tinker Bell?" he called out.
"Ay, ay."
"Then lead the way."
Tink darted up the nearest tree; but no one followed her, for it was at this moment that the pirates made their dreadful attack upon the redskins. Above, where all had been so still, the air was rent with shrieks and the clash of steel. Below, there was dead silence. Mouths opened and remained open. Wendy fell on her knees, but her arms were extended toward Peter.
shrieks - Schreie; Kreischen
clash - zusammenstoßen; Scheppern, Geschepper, Zusammenstoß
extended - erweitert; erweitern, ausdehnen, erweitern, ausdehnen, ausweiten
All arms were extended to him, as if suddenly blown in his direction; they were beseeching him mutely not to desert them. As for Peter, he seized his sword, the same he thought he had slain Barbecue with, and the lust of battle was in his eye.
beseeching - anflehend; (to beseech) ersuchen, anflehen
mutely - stumm
lust - Wollust, Begehren, Verlangen, Freude
The pirate attack had been a complete surprise: a sure proof that the unscrupulous Hook had conducted it improperly, for to surprise redskins fairly is beyond the wit of the white man.
unscrupulous - ohne Skrupel
improperly - unsachgemäß
beyond - darüber hinaus; jenseits
wit - Witz; nämlich, und zwar
By all the unwritten laws of savage warfare it is always the redskin who attacks, and with the wiliness of his race he does it just before the dawn, at which time he knows the courage of the whites to be at its lowest ebb. The white men have in the meantime made a rude stockade on the summit of yonder undulating ground, at the foot of which a stream runs, for it is destruction to be too far from water. There they await the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching their revolvers and treading on twigs, but the old hands sleeping tranquilly until just before the dawn. Through the long black night the savage scouts wriggle, snake-like, among the grass without stirring a blade.
warfare - Kriegsführung
wiliness - Eigensinn
dawn - dämmern; Morgendämmerung, Morgengrauen
Ebb - Ebbe; ebben, abebben
stockade - Einfriedung aus Palisaden, Palisadeneinfriedung, Palisadenmauer
summit - Gipfel
undulating - wogen, schwingen, wellenförmig bewegen, wellen, ondulieren
stream - Bach; Strom; Datenstrom; strömen; streamen
await - abwarten; erwarten, harren, warten
onslaught - Angriff, Ansturm, Strum
revolvers - Revolver
scouts - Pfadfinder; Späher, Kundschafter, Aufklärer
wriggle - sich winden, schlängeln
stirring - rührend; ergreifend, bewegend
blade - Klinge; Turbinenschaufel; Grashalm; Blatt
The brushwood closes behind them, as silently as sand into which a mole has dived. not a sound is to be heard, save when they give vent to a wonderful imitation of the lonely call of the coyote. The cry is answered by other braves; and some of them do it even better than the coyotes, who are not very good at it. So the chill hours wear on, and the long suspense is horribly trying to the paleface who has to live through it for the first time; but to the trained hand those ghastly calls and still ghastlier silences are but an intimation of how the night is marching.
silently - leise; schweigend, still
mole - Spion; Leberfleck, Maulwurf, Mol
not a sound is to be heard - es herrscht Totenstille
vent - Entlüftung; entlüften
coyotes - Kojoten; Kojote, Präriewolf, Steppenwolf
chill - chillen; Mutlosigkeit, Frostgefühl
suspense - Hängen; Spannung, Anspannung
paleface - Bleichgesicht
ghastly - geisterhaft; grässlich, gespenstisch, haarsträubend
ghastlier - grässlicher; geisterhaft, grässlich, gespenstisch
silences - Stille, Schweigen
intimation - Andeutung
That this was the usual procedure was so well known to Hook that in disregarding it he cannot be excused on the plea of ignorance.
procedure - Verfahren, Verfahrensweise, [medizinischer] Eingriff, Prozess
disregarding - Gleichgültigkeit, Nichtbeachten
plea - Plädoyer; Ersuchen, Flehen, Bitte, Appell, Entschuldigung
The Piccaninnies, on their part, trusted implicitly to his honour, and their whole action of the night stands out in marked contrast to his. They left nothing undone that was consistent with the reputation of their tribe. With that alertness of the senses which is at once the marvel and despair of civilised peoples, they knew that the pirates were on the island from the moment one of them trod on a dry stick; and in an incredibly short space of time the coyote cries began. Every foot of ground between the spot where Hook had landed his forces and the home under the trees was stealthily examined by braves wearing their mocassins with the heels in front.
honour - Ehrung, Ehre; ehren; beehren, akzeptieren, annehmen, honorieren
undone - ungeschehen machen; öffnen, aufmachen, etwas rückgängig machen
consistent - konsequent
alertness - Wachsamkeit
marvel - bewundern; wundern
despair - verzweifeln; Verzweiflung
civilised - zivilisiert; zivilisieren
trod - getreten; schritt, zertrat, trat; (tread) getreten; schritt
coyote - Kojote, Präriewolf, Steppenwolf
stealthily - heimlich, verstohlen
heels - Absätze; Hinterende des Hobels, Ferse
They found only one hillock with a stream at its base, so that Hook had no choice; here he must establish himself and wait for just before the dawn. Everything being thus mapped out with almost diabolical cunning, the main body of the redskins folded their blankets around them, and in the phlegmatic manner that is to them, the pearl of manhood squatted above the children's home, awaiting the cold moment when they should deal pale death.
hillock - kleiner Hügel, Ätzhügel, Hügelchen
establish - feststellen, etablieren, eröffnen, gründen, niederlassen
diabolical - teuflisch
main body - Baukörper
phlegmatic - phlegmatisch
pearl - Perle
manhood - Menschentum, Menschsein, Menschheit, Männlichkeit, Mannsein
squatted - hockte; hocken, kauern; Achsdruckentlastung
children's home - Kinderheim
awaiting - erwarten, harren, warten
Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which they were to put him at break of day, those confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook. From the accounts afterwards supplied by such of the scouts as escaped the carnage, he does not seem even to have paused at the rising ground, though it is certain that in that grey light he must have seen it: no thought of waiting to be attacked appears from first to last to have visited his subtle mind; he would not even hold off till the night was nearly spent; on he pounded with no policy but to fall to [get into combat].
exquisite - exquisit, köstlich, auserlesen
tortures - foltert; Folter, Tortur, foltern
confiding - vertrauensvoll; vertrauen, einweihen, ins Vertrauen ziehen
treacherous - verräterisch
carnage - Gemetzel, Abschlachtung
paused - innegehalten; pausieren, innehalten, pausieren, Pause
subtle - subtil, fast unmerklich, haarfein, dezent
What could the bewildered scouts do, masters as they were of every war-like artifice save this one, but trot helplessly after him, exposing themselves fatally to view, while they gave pathetic utterance to the coyote cry.
masters - Haupt.., Grund, Meister, führend, leitend; bewältigen, meistern
artifice - Kunstgriff
trot - trotten, laufen, traben
helplessly - hilflose
exposing - entlarven; aufdecken, offenbaren, entblößen, bloßlegen
fatally - tödlich; verhängnisvoll, schlimm
utterance - Äußerung
Around the brave Tiger Lily were a dozen of her stoutest warriors, and they suddenly saw the perfidious pirates bearing down upon them. Fell from their eyes then the film through which they had looked at victory. No more would they torture at the stake. For them the happy hunting-grounds was now. They knew it; but as their father's sons they acquitted themselves. Even then they had time to gather in a phalanx [dense formation] that would have been hard to break had they risen quickly, but this they were forbidden to do by the traditions of their race.
stoutest - am dicksten; beleibt
perfidious - Perfide
bearing down - (bear down) lasten auf, sich schnell nähern, sich stürzen auf
stake - Pfahl, Pflock, Marterpfahl, Scheiterhaufen, Anteil, Einsatz
acquitted - freigesprochen; freisprechen, für unschuldig erklären, befreien
phalanx - Phalanx; Fingerglied, oe bone
formation - Bildung
It is written that the noble savage must never express surprise in the presence of the white. Thus terrible as the sudden appearance of the pirates must have been to them, they remained stationary for a moment, not a muscle moving; as if the foe had come by invitation. Then, indeed, the tradition gallantly upheld, they seized their weapons, and the air was torn with the war-cry; but it was now too late.
stationary - stationär, unbeweglich, ortsgebunden, standortgebunden
upheld - hochheben, hochhalten, hochhalten, aufrecht halten
It is no part of ours to describe what was a massacre rather than a fight. Thus perished many of the flower of the Piccaninny tribe. Not all unavenged did they die, for with Lean Wolf fell Alf Mason, to disturb the Spanish Main no more, and among others who bit the dust were Geo.
massacre - Massaker; massakrieren
perished - umgekommen; verderben, schlecht werden, umkommen
unavenged - ungerächt
lean - knapp, schlank, hager, mager
Scourie, Chas. Turley, and the Alsatian Foggerty. Turley fell to the tomahawk of the terrible Panther, who ultimately cut a way through the pirates with Tiger Lily and a small remnant of the tribe.
Alsatian - elsässisch; Elsässer, Elsässerin, Elsässisch
tomahawk - Tomahawk
ultimately - letztendlich
remnant - Rest, Überbleibsel, Relikt, Überrest, Restposten
To what extent Hook is to blame for his tactics on this occasion is for the historian to decide. Had he waited on the rising ground till the proper hour he and his men would probably have been butchered; and in judging him it is only fair to take this into account. What he should perhaps have done was to acquaint his opponents that he proposed to follow a new method. On the other hand, this, as destroying the element of surprise, would have made his strategy of no avail, so that the whole question is beset with difficulties.
blame - jemadem die Schuld zuweisen
tactics - Taktik, Taktik
historian - Historiker, Historikerin, Geschichtsschreiber
butchered - geschlachtet; niedermetzeln, niedermachen; Metzger, Schlächter
acquaint - kennen; vertraut machen; in Kenntnis setzen
opponents - Gegner, Gegnerin, Gegner (1, 2, 3), Gegenspieler
avail - zur Verfügung; ausnutzen; helfen, nützen, Erfolg
beset - bedrängt; befallen, bedrängen
One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme, and the fell [deadly] genius with which it was carried out.
withhold - zurückhalten, einbehalten, vorenthalten
reluctant - zögernd
bold - kräftig, kühn, klar, keck, heftig, deutlich, fett
deadly - tödlich
What were his own feelings about himself at that triumphant moment? Fain [gladly] would his dogs have known, as breathing heavily and wiping their cutlasses, they gathered at a discreet distance from his hook, and squinted through their ferret eyes at this extraordinary man. Elation must have been in his heart, but his face did not reflect it: ever a dark and solitary enigma, he stood aloof from his followers in spirit as in substance.
triumphant - triumphieren
fain - zögern; gern
gladly - gerne; gern
cutlasses - Entermesser
discreet - diskret
squinted - blinzeln, schielen, schielen, Schielen
ferret - Frettchen; aufspüren
solitary - einsam, einzeln
enigma - rätselhaft; Rätsel, Mysterium, Knobelei, Rateaufgabe
followers - Mitläufer; Nachfolger, Nachfolgerin, Anhänger, Follower
The night's work was not yet over, for it was not the redskins he had come out to destroy; they were but the bees to be smoked, so that he should get at the honey. It was Pan he wanted, Pan and Wendy and their band, but chiefly Pan.
chiefly - hauptsächlich
Peter was such a small boy that one tends to wonder at the man's hatred of him. True he had flung Hook's arm to the crocodile, but even this and the increased insecurity of life to which it led, owing to the crocodile's pertinacity [persistance], hardly account for a vindictiveness so relentless and malignant. The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy.
insecurity - Verunsicherung; Unsicherheit; Unsicherheit
pertinacity - Hartnäckigkeit
persistance - Beharrlichkeit
vindictiveness - Rachsucht
relentless - unnachgiebig, unbarmherzig, unnachsichtig, unerbittlich
malignant - bösartig, malign
goaded - angetrieben; Stachelstock, anstacheln, antreiben, anspornen
frenzy - Raserei; Wahn, Rausch, Wut
It was not his courage, it was not his engaging appearance, it was not-. There is no beating about the bush, for we know quite well what it was, and have got to tell. It was Peter's cockiness.
engaging - engagieren; beschäftigen, anstellen, angreifen, anlegen
bush - Buchse, Strauch, Busch
cockiness - Übermut; Keckheit, Ăśbermut, Dreistigkeit
This had got on Hook's nerves; it made his iron claw twitch, and at night it disturbed him like an insect. While Peter lived, the tortured man felt that he was a lion in a cage into which a sparrow had come.
nerves - Nerven; Nerv, Nerv, Nerv, Nerv, Nerv
twitch - zucken; zupfen
tortured - gefoltert; Folter, Tortur, foltern
sparrow - Sperling, Spatz
The question now was how to get down the trees, or how to get his dogs down? He ran his greedy eyes over them, searching for the thinnest ones. They wriggled uncomfortably, for they knew he would not scruple [hesitate] to ram them down with poles.
scruple - Skrupel
hesitate - zögern, stammeln
ram - RAM
poles - Stangen; (North Pole) Nordpol
In the meantime, what of the boys? We have seen them at the first clang of the weapons, turned as it were into stone figures, open-mouthed, all appealing with outstretched arms to Peter; and we return to them as their mouths close, and their arms fall to their sides. The pandemonium above has ceased almost as suddenly as it arose, passed like a fierce gust of wind; but they know that in the passing it has determined their fate.
clang - Klirren; schallen
appealing - ansprechend; Revision, Wirkung, Anziehungskraft; reizen
outstretched - ausgestreckt; ausstrecken
Pandemonium - Pandämonium; Tohuwabohu, Tumult, Anarchie, Hexensabbat, Aufruhr
gust - Böe; Windstoß, Bö
Which side had won?
The pirates, listening avidly at the mouths of the trees, heard the question put by every boy, and alas, they also heard Peter's answer.
avidly - eifrig, leidenschaftlich, begeistert, enthusiastisch
"If the redskins have won," he said, "they will beat the tom-tom; it is always their sign of victory."
Now Smee had found the tom-tom, and was at that moment sitting on it. "You will never hear the tom-tom again," he muttered, but inaudibly of course, for strict silence had been enjoined [urged]. To his amazement Hook signed him to beat the tom-tom, and slowly there came to Smee an understanding of the dreadful wickedness of the order. Never, probably, had this simple man admired Hook so much.
inaudibly - unhörbar
enjoined - auferlegt; auferlegen, vorschreiben, anordnen, ermahnen, mahnen
urged - gedrängt; Drang, drängen, mahnen, treiben, anspornen
amazement - Erstaunen; Staunen, Verwunderung
wickedness - Bösartigkeit; Bosheit
Twice Smee beat upon the instrument, and then stopped to listen gleefully.
"The tom-tom," the miscreants heard Peter cry; "an Indian victory!"
Indian - indisch, indianisch, Inder, Inderin, Indianer, Indianerin
The doomed children answered with a cheer that was music to the black hearts above, and almost immediately they repeated their good-byes to Peter. This puzzled the pirates, but all their other feelings were swallowed by a base delight that the enemy were about to come up the trees.
doomed - dem Untergang geweiht; Bann, Urteil
They smirked at each other and rubbed their hands. Rapidly and silently Hook gave his orders: one man to each tree, and the others to arrange themselves in a line two yards apart.
smirked - geschmunzelt; Geschmunzel
The more quickly this horror is disposed of the better. The first to emerge from his tree was Curly.
emerge - erscheinen, auftauchen, herauskommen, davonkommen
He rose out of it into the arms of Cecco, who flung him to Smee, who flung him to Starkey, who flung him to Bill Jukes, who flung him to Noodler, and so he was tossed from one to another till he fell at the feet of the black pirate. All the boys were plucked from their trees in this ruthless manner; and several of them were in the air at a time, like bales of goods flung from hand to hand.
ruthless - rücksichtslos; unbarmherzig, ruchlos
bales - bündeln; Ballen, Pack, Bündel
A different treatment was accorded to Wendy, who came last. With ironical politeness Hook raised his hat to her, and, offering her his arm, escorted her to the spot where the others were being gagged. He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully DISTINGUE [imposingly distinguished], that she was too fascinated to cry out. She was only a little girl.
accorded - zugestanden; Übereinstimmung, Einvernehmen
ironical - ironisch
offering - Angebot, Anerbieten, Opfer, Opfergabe; (offer); Angebot
escorted - Eskortiert; Eskorte, Geleit
gagged - geknebelt; Knebel, Maulkorberlass, Witz, Gag, würgen, knebeln
imposingly - imposant
distinguished - ausgezeichnet; unterscheiden, erkennen, auszeichnen
They were tied to prevent their flying away, doubled up with their knees close to their ears; and for the trussing of them the black pirate had cut a rope into nine equal pieces. All went well until Slightly's turn came, when he was found to be like those irritating parcels that use up all the string in going round and leave no tags [ends] with which to tie a knot. The pirates kicked him in their rage, just as you kick the parcel (though in fairness you should kick the string); and strange to say it was Hook who told them to belay their violence. His lip was curled with malicious triumph. While his dogs were merely sweating because every time they tried to pack the unhappy lad tight in one part he bulged out in another, Hook's master mind had gone far beneath Slightly's surface, probing not for effects but for causes; and his exultation showed that he had found them.
flying away - (fly away) verfliegen
trussing - Dachstuhl; bindend; (truss); Bruchband; Fachwerkträger
parcels - Pakete; Paket
use up - aufzehren, verzehren, aufbrauchen, verfeuern
tags - markieren, kennzeichnen; Anhänger, Kennzeichen, Marke
knot - Knoten, Knäuel
fairness - Fairness, Kulanz
violence - Gewalt, Gewalttaten, Gewalttätigkeiten
curled - gelockt; Locke
malicious - bösartig
sweating - Schwitzen; (sweat); Schwitzen
lad - Junge, Knabe, Bube, Bursche, junger Mann, Stallbursche
bulged - ausgebeult; Ausbuchtung, Beule, Delle, Wölbung, hervorstechen
probing - Sondierung; Untersuchung, Sonde, untersuchen
Slightly, white to the gills, knew that Hook had surprised [discovered] his secret, which was this, that no boy so blown out could use a tree wherein an average man need stick. Poor Slightly, most wretched of all the children now, for he was in a panic about Peter, bitterly regretted what he had done. Madly addicted to the drinking of water when he was hot, he had swelled in consequence to his present girth, and instead of reducing himself to fit his tree he had, unknown to the others, whittled his tree to make it fit him.
wherein - worin
regretted - bedauert; bedauern, bereuen, leidtun, Reue, Bedauern
madly - wahnsinnig; irr, verrückt
addicted - Süchtiger, Narkomane, süchtig machen
girth - Sattelgurt; Umfang
whittled - geschnibbelt; (zurecht)schnitzen
Sufficient of this Hook guessed to persuade him that Peter at last lay at his mercy, but no word of the dark design that now formed in the subterranean caverns of his mind crossed his lips; he merely signed that the captives were to be conveyed to the ship, and that he would be alone.
sufficient - genügend, ausreichend, hinreichend
mercy - Barmherzigkeit, Erbarmen, Gnade, Mitleid
subterranean - unterirdisch
caverns - Kavernen; große, Kaverne
captives - Gefangener, Gefangene, Gefangener, gefangen
How to convey them? Hunched up in their ropes they might indeed be rolled down hill like barrels, but most of the way lay through a morass. Again Hook's genius surmounted difficulties.
convey - vermitteln; befördern, transportieren, verfrachten, übermitteln
hunched - Hügel, Protuberanz, Buckel, gekrümmte Haltung, krummer Rücken
barrels - Fässer; Fass
morass - Morast
surmounted - Überwunden; überwinden
He indicated that the little house must be used as a conveyance. The children were flung into it, four stout pirates raised it on their shoulders, the others fell in behind, and singing the hateful pirate chorus the strange procession set off through the wood. I don't know whether any of the children were crying; if so, the singing drowned the sound; but as the little house disappeared in the forest, a brave though tiny jet of smoke issued from its chimney as if defying Hook.
Conveyance - Beförderung; Transport, Übertragung, Transportmittel
chorus - Chor; Refrain, Kehrreim, Chorus
jet - Düsenflugzeug, Strahl, Düse; ausstoßen
Hook saw it, and it did Peter a bad service. It dried up any trickle of pity for him that may have remained in the pirate's infuriated breast.
trickle - Rinnsal; Tröpfeln, Getröpfel, träufeln, rieseln
infuriated - wütend machen, zur Weißglut bringen
The first thing he did on finding himself alone in the fast falling night was to tiptoe to Slightly's tree, and make sure that it provided him with a passage. Then for long he remained brooding; his hat of ill omen on the sward, so that any gentle breeze which had arisen might play refreshingly through his hair. Dark as were his thoughts his blue eyes were as soft as the periwinkle.
tiptoe - auf Zehenspitzen gehen; Zehenspitze; auf den Zehenspitzen gehen
brooding - grüblerisch, grübelnd; (brood); Brut; brüten, grübeln
omen - Omen
gentle breeze - Lufthauch
arisen - entstanden ist; sich erheben, aufstehen, entstehen, auftreten
refreshingly - erfrischend
periwinkle - Immergrüner; Uferschnecke, Immergrün
Intently he listened for any sound from the nether world, but all was as silent below as above; the house under the ground seemed to be but one more empty tenement in the void. Was that boy asleep, or did he stand waiting at the foot of Slightly's tree, with his dagger in his hand?
nether - Unter.., unter
tenement - Mietshaus; Mietskaserne, Wohnungsblock; q
void - nichtig
There was no way of knowing, save by going down. Hook let his cloak slip softly to the ground, and then biting his lips till a lewd blood stood on them, he stepped into the tree. He was a brave man, but for a moment he had to stop there and wipe his brow, which was dripping like a candle. Then, silently, he let himself go into the unknown.
cloak - Umhang, Pelerine, Deckmantel, verhüllen
lewd - unanständig; unzüchtig, liederlich
He arrived unmolested at the foot of the shaft, and stood still again, biting at his breath, which had almost left him. As his eyes became accustomed to the dim light various objects in the home under the trees took shape; but the only one on which his greedy gaze rested, long sought for and found at last, was the great bed. On the bed lay Peter fast asleep.
unmolested - unbehelligt
shaft - Welle; Schaft; Strahl; Schacht; hereinlegen, übervorteilen
dim - schummrig; trüb; dämmerig, dunkel
gaze - Blicken; anstarren
sought - gesucht; suchen
Unaware of the tragedy being enacted above, Peter had continued, for a little time after the children left, to play gaily on his pipes: no doubt rather a forlorn attempt to prove to himself that he did not care. Then he decided not to take his medicine, so as to grieve Wendy. Then he lay down on the bed outside the coverlet, to vex her still more; for she had always tucked them inside it, because you never know that you may not grow chilly at the turn of the night.
unaware - ahnungslos; unwissend, nicht wissend, unaufmerksam, gedankenlos
forlorn - verloren; verlassen; aussichtslos, hoffnungslos
grieve - trauern; weh tun, kränken, bekümmern; sich grämen (über)
coverlet - Bettdecke; Tagesdecke
vex - ärgern, verärgern, reizen, irritieren, beunruhigen
Then he nearly cried; but it struck him how indignant she would be if he laughed instead; so he laughed a haughty laugh and fell asleep in the middle of it.
haughty - hochmütig, stolz, überheblich, arrogant
Sometimes, though not often, he had dreams, and they were more painful than the dreams of other boys. For hours he could not be separated from these dreams, though he wailed piteously in them. They had to do, I think, with the riddle of his existence. At such times it had been Wendy's custom to take him out of bed and sit with him on her lap, soothing him in dear ways of her own invention, and when he grew calmer to put him back to bed before he quite woke up, so that he should not know of the indignity to which she had subjected him.
more painful - qualvollere
wailed - geweint; jammern, wehklagen, klagen
piteously - Mitleid erregend; kläglich, erbärmlich
riddle - Rätsel
existence - Existenz, Dasein
soothing - erleichternd, lindernd, beruhigend; (sooth); Wahrheit
indignity - Demütigung; Entwürdigung
But on this occasion he had fallen at once into a dreamless sleep. One arm dropped over the edge of the bed, one leg was arched, and the unfinished part of his laugh was stranded on his mouth, which was open, showing the little pearls.
dreamless - traumlos
arched - gewölbt; Bogen
unfinished - unvollendet
stranded - gestrandet; Strand, Ader, Faden, Strähne; auf den Strand setzen
Thus defenceless Hook found him. He stood silent at the foot of the tree looking across the chamber at his enemy. Did no feeling of compassion disturb his sombre breast? The man was not wholly evil; he loved flowers (I have been told) and sweet music (he was himself no mean performer on the harpsichord); and, let it be frankly admitted, the idyllic nature of the scene stirred him profoundly.
defenceless - schutzlos, wehrlos
compassion - Mitleid, Erbarmen, Mitgefühl
sombre - dunkel, düster, finster, trübe, matt
performer - Darsteller; Interpret, Interpretin
harpsichord - Spinett, Cembalo
idyllic - idyllisch
stirred - gerührt; erschüttern, bewegen, sich rühren
profoundly - zutiefst; tief
Mastered by his better self he would have returned reluctantly up the tree, but for one thing.
reluctantly - widerstrebend
What stayed him was Peter's impertinent appearance as he slept. The open mouth, the drooping arm, the arched knee: they were such a personification of cockiness as, taken together, will never again, one may hope, be presented to eyes so sensitive to their offensiveness. They steeled Hook's heart. If his rage had broken him into a hundred pieces every one of them would have disregarded the incident, and leapt at the sleeper.
impertinent - unverschämt, impertinent, irrelevant, unwichtig
drooping - hängend; durchhängen, herabhängen, herunterhängen, herabsinken
personification - Personifizierung; Personbildung, Personendichtung
sensitive - empfindlich, sensibel
offensiveness - Anstößigkeit, Anzüglichkeit
steeled - gestärkt; verstählen; Stahl
disregarded - nicht beachtet; Gleichgültigkeit, Nichtbeachten
incident - Vorfall, Begebenheit, Ereignis, Geschehnis
sleeper - Schwelle (Gleis), Schläfer
Though a light from the one lamp shone dimly on the bed, Hook stood in darkness himself, and at the first stealthy step forward he discovered an obstacle, the door of Slightly's tree. It did not entirely fill the aperture, and he had been looking over it. Feeling for the catch, he found to his fury that it was low down, beyond his reach. To his disordered brain it seemed then that the irritating quality in Peter's face and figure visibly increased, and he rattled the door and flung himself against it.
stealthy - geheim, heimlich, verstohlen
obstacle - Hindernis, Hürde
aperture - Öffnung; Blende; Blendenzahl
disordered - gestört; Unordnung, Unruhen-p, Störung
visibly - sichtbar
Was his enemy to escape him after all?
But what was that? The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter's medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach. He fathomed what it was straightaway, and immediately knew that the sleeper was in his power.
ledge - Leiste; Felsvorsprung
easy reach - gute Verkehrsanbindung
fathomed - ausgelotet; ergründen, Faden, Klafter (Längenmaß)
straightaway - sofort; auf Anhieb, stracks
Lest he should be taken alive, Hook always carried about his person a dreadful drug, blended by himself of all the death-dealing rings that had come into his possession. These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid quite unknown to science, which was probably the most virulent poison in existence.
blended - gemischt; Mischung, mischen, mixen, vermischen
boiled down - eingekocht
most virulent - virulenteste
Five drops of this he now added to Peter's cup. His hand shook, but it was in exultation rather than in shame. As he did it he avoided glancing at the sleeper, but not lest pity should unnerve him; merely to avoid spilling. Then one long gloating look he cast upon his victim, and turning, wormed his way with difficulty up the tree. As he emerged at the top he looked the very spirit of evil breaking from its hole.
glancing - blickend; (glance); blicken; Blick, Streifblick, Glanz
unnerve - verunsichern; entnerven
spilling - umschüttend, verschüttend; (spill); verschütten
gloating - schadenfroh; hämisch freuen, sich weiden, sich diebisch freuen
wormed - entwurmt; Wurm, elender Wurm
Donning his hat at its most rakish angle, he wound his cloak around him, holding one end in front as if to conceal his person from the night, of which it was the blackest part, and muttering strangely to himself, stole away through the trees.
angle - Winkel; Angel
conceal - verbergen, verheimlichen, verschleiern, verschweigen
muttering - Gemurmel; murmeln, brummeln; (mutter) Gemurmel; murmeln
stole away - (steal away) davonschleichen
Peter slept on. The light guttered [burned to edges] and went out, leaving the tenement in darkness; but still he slept. It must have been not less than ten o'clock by the crocodile, when he suddenly sat up in his bed, wakened by he knew not what. It was a soft cautious tapping on the door of his tree.
guttered - entmutigt; Regenrinne, Rinnstein, Gosse
cautious - zurückhaltend; vorsichtig, zaghaft, behutsam
tapping - anzapfend, klopfend, steppend; (tap) anzapfend, klopfend
Soft and cautious, but in that stillness it was sinister. Peter felt for his dagger till his hand gripped it. Then he spoke.
stillness - Stille
"Who is that?"
For long there was no answer: then again the knock.
"Who are you?"
No answer.
He was thrilled, and he loved being thrilled. In two strides he reached the door. Unlike Slightly's door, it filled the aperture [opening], so that he could not see beyond it, nor could the one knocking see him.
thrilled - aufgeregt; Nervenkitzel; erregen, erschauern, durchdringen
strides - schritte; schreiten
"I won't open unless you speak," Peter cried.
Then at last the visitor spoke, in a lovely bell-like voice.
"Let me in, Peter."
It was Tink, and quickly he unbarred to her. She flew in excitedly, her face flushed and her dress stained with mud.
unbarred - ungesperrt; (unbarred) riegelte auf
flushed - gespült; Wasserspülung, Wallung, Schwall; spülen
stained - gefärbt; Fleck, Schandfleck, Fleck, beflecken, beizen
"What is it?"
"Oh, you could never guess!" she cried, and offered him three guesses. "Out with it!" he shouted, and in one ungrammatical sentence, as long as the ribbons that conjurers [magicians] pull from their mouths, she told of the capture of Wendy and the boys.
ungrammatical - ungrammatisch
ribbons - Bändchen; Band
conjurers - Zauberkünstler; Zauberer
Magicians - Magier, Zauberer, Zaubrer, Magierin, Zauberin, Zaubrerin
capture - erfassen; Fang, Festnahme, Gefangennahme, Erfassung
Peter's heart bobbed up and down as he listened. Wendy bound, and on the pirate ship; she who loved everything to be just so!
bound - gebunden; Sprung; (bind); binden; verbinden, konnektieren
"I'll rescue her!" he cried, leaping at his weapons. As he leapt he thought of something he could do to please her. He could take his medicine.
rescue - retten; Rettung
leaping - hervorspringen, hüpfen, überspringen
His hand closed on the fatal draught.
"No!" shrieked Tinker Bell, who had heard Hook mutter about his deed as he sped through the forest.
shrieked - geschrien; Kreischen
deed - Tat, Akt, Werk, Urkunde, urkundlich übertragen; (dee); Tat, Akt
"Why not?"
"It is poisoned."
"Poisoned? Who could have poisoned it?"
"Hook."
"Don't be silly. How could Hook have got down here?"
Alas, Tinker Bell could not explain this, for even she did not know the dark secret of Slightly's tree. Nevertheless Hook's words had left no room for doubt. The cup was poisoned.
"Besides," said Peter, quite believing himself, "I never fell asleep."
He raised the cup. No time for words now; time for deeds; and with one of her lightning movements Tink got between his lips and the draught, and drained it to the dregs.
deeds - Taten; Tat, Akt, Werk
lightning - Blitzschlag; Blitz; Entladung
drained - entwässert; Abfluss, entwässern, abfließen lassen, ablassen
dregs - Abschaum; Sediment
"Why, Tink, how dare you drink my medicine?"
But she did not answer. Already she was reeling in the air.
Reeling - Taumeln; Taumel; (reel); Spule; Haspel; Demoband; aufrollen; drehen
"What is the matter with you?" cried Peter, suddenly afraid.
"It was poisoned, Peter," she told him softly; "and now I am going to be dead."
"O Tink, did you drink it to save me?"
"Yes."
"But why, Tink?"
Her wings would scarcely carry her now, but in reply she alighted on his shoulder and gave his nose a loving bite. She whispered in his ear "You silly ass," and then, tottering to her chamber, lay down on the bed.
alighted - Ausgestiegen; landen
Tottering - Taumelnd; wackelnd, schwankend; (totter); schwanken, taumeln
His head almost filled the fourth wall of her little room as he knelt near her in distress. Every moment her light was growing fainter; and he knew that if it went out she would be no more. She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it.
fainter - schwächer; (faint) schwach, matt
Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.
Peter flung out his arms. There were no children there, and it was night time; but he addressed all who might be dreaming of the Neverland, and who were therefore nearer to him than you think: boys and girls in their nighties, and naked papooses in their baskets hung from trees.
nighties - Nachthemden; das Nachthemd
papooses - Papoose; kleines Kind
baskets - Körbe; Korb
"Do you believe?" he cried.
Tink sat up in bed almost briskly to listen to her fate.
She fancied she heard answers in the affirmative, and then again she wasn't sure.
affirmative - Bejaht; affirmativ; affirmativer Satz
"What do you think?" she asked Peter.
"If you believe," he shouted to them, "clap your hands; don't let Tink die."
clap - Tripper, Beifall; klatschen
Many clapped.
clapped - geklatscht; Tripper, Beifall; klatschen
Some didn't.
A few beasts hissed.
The clapping stopped suddenly; as if countless mothers had rushed to their nurseries to see what on earth was happening; but already Tink was saved. First her voice grew strong, then she popped out of bed, then she was flashing through the room more merry and impudent than ever. She never thought of thanking those who believed, but she would have liked to get at the ones who had hissed.
countless - unzählige; unzählig, unzählbar, zahllos
nurseries - Kindergärten; Kinderstube, Kinderzimmer, Kindergarten
"And now to rescue Wendy!"
The moon was riding in a cloudy heaven when Peter rose from his tree, begirt [belted] with weapons and wearing little else, to set out upon his perilous quest. It was not such a night as he would have chosen.
cloudy - bewölkt, wolkig, trüb
perilous - lebensgefährlich; gefährlich, gefahrvoll
quest - Frage, Suche
He had hoped to fly, keeping not far from the ground so that nothing unwonted should escape his eyes; but in that fitful light to have flown low would have meant trailing his shadow through the trees, thus disturbing birds and acquainting a watchful foe that he was astir.
fitful - unruhig; unregelmäßig
trailing - Rückstand; folgen, verfolgen, nachstellen, nacheilen
acquainting - kennenlernen; vertraut machen, in Kenntnis setzen
watchful - wachsam
astir - rege
He regretted now that he had given the birds of the island such strange names that they are very wild and difficult of approach.
approach - sich nähern, nahekommen, ähnlich sein
There was no other course but to press forward in redskin fashion, at which happily he was an adept [expert]. But in what direction, for he could not be sure that the children had been taken to the ship? A light fall of snow had obliterated all footmarks; and a deathly silence pervaded the island, as if for a space Nature stood still in horror of the recent carnage. He had taught the children something of the forest lore that he had himself learned from Tiger Lily and Tinker Bell, and knew that in their dire hour they were not likely to forget it. Slightly, if he had an opportunity, would blaze [cut a mark in] the trees, for instance, Curly would drop seeds, and Wendy would leave her handkerchief at some important place.
press forward - vordrängen
adept - versiert; geschickt, fähig, geübt, befähigt
obliterated - ausgelöscht; auslöschen, verwischen
deathly silence - Totenstille
pervaded - durchdrungen; durchziehen
lore - Überlieferungen; Kunde, überliefertes Wissen
blaze - lodern; Lohe, Brand, Großbrand, brenne, Glut
The morning was needed to search for such guidance, and he could not wait. The upper world had called him, but would give no help.
The crocodile passed him, but not another living thing, not a sound, not a movement; and yet he knew well that sudden death might be at the next tree, or stalking him from behind.
sudden death - K.o.-System
He swore this terrible oath: "Hook or me this time."
oath - Eid, Schwur, Fluch, erman:
Now he crawled forward like a snake, and again erect, he darted across a space on which the moonlight played, one finger on his lip and his dagger at the ready. He was frightfully happy.
One green light squinting over Kidd's Creek, which is near the mouth of the pirate river, marked where the brig, the JOLLY ROGER, lay, low in the water; a rakish-looking [speedy-looking] craft foul to the hull, every beam in her detestable, like ground strewn with mangled feathers. She was the cannibal of the seas, and scarce needed that watchful eye, for she floated immune in the horror of her name.
squinting - Blinzeln; schielend; (squint); blinzeln; schielen; Schielen; Strabismus
Creek - Bucht; Bach
Roger - Rutger, Rüdiger
speedy - zügig; schnell
foul - schmutzig
hull - Rumpf; Hülse, Schale, Hülle
beam - Balken; Breite; Pflugbaum, Grindel, Strahl, strahlen, beamen
detestable - verabscheuungswürdig
strewn - verstreut; bestreuen, streuen, gestreut
mangled - verstümmelt; zerfleischen, verstümmeln
cannibal - Kannibale, emale
scarce - rar; spärlich
immune - immun
She was wrapped in the blanket of night, through which no sound from her could have reached the shore. There was little sound, and none agreeable save the whir of the ship's sewing machine at which Smee sat, ever industrious and obliging, the essence of the commonplace, pathetic Smee. I know not why he was so infinitely pathetic, unless it were because he was so pathetically unaware of it; but even strong men had to turn hastily from looking at him, and more than once on summer evenings he had touched the fount of Hook's tears and made it flow.
wrapped - eingewickelt; einhüllen, einwickeln, wickeln, einpacken, hüllen
blanket - Decke, Wolldecke, Bettdecke, Schicht, Lage, allgemein
agreeable - angenehm; verträglich, liebenswürdig, gefällig
whir - schwirren, surren
sewing machine - Nähmaschine ;Anlagetisch
industrious - fleißig
obliging - zuvorkommend; verpflichten, einen Gefallen tun
essence - Wesen; Essenz, Extrakt, Parfüm
commonplace - alltäglich, banal, gang und gäbe, gewöhnlich, Gemeinplatz
infinitely - unendlich
pathetically - erbärmlich
fount - Quelle
Of this, as of almost everything else, Smee was quite unconscious.
unconscious - bewusstlos; spontan, unbewusst, unterbewusst, Unbewusstes
A few of the pirates leant over the bulwarks, drinking in the miasma [putrid mist] of the night; others sprawled by barrels over games of dice and cards; and the exhausted four who had carried the little house lay prone on the deck, where even in their sleep they rolled skillfully to this side or that out of Hook's reach, lest he should claw them mechanically in passing.
leant - angelehnt; knapp, schlank, hager, mager
bulwarks - Bollwerk
miasma - Miasma
putrid - verfault, verdorben, übelriechend, faulig
mist - Nebel
sprawled - Ausgestreckt; ausspreizen, grätschen, sich ausbreiten, Wuchern
games of dice - Würfelspiele
prone - in Bauchlage; schräg; anfällig, geneigt
deck - Verdeck ;jdm. eine knallen
skillfully - gekonnt; geschickt
Hook trod the deck in thought. O man unfathomable. It was his hour of triumph. Peter had been removed for ever from his path, and all the other boys were in the brig, about to walk the plank. It was his grimmest deed since the days when he had brought Barbecue to heel; and knowing as we do how vain a tabernacle is man, could we be surprised had he now paced the deck unsteadily, bellied out by the winds of his success?
deck - Verdeck; jdm. eine knallen
unfathomable - undurchschaubar
tabernacle - Tabernakel, Stiftshütte, Mischkan, Laubhütte, Sukka, Tabernakel
paced - schrittweise; Tempo, Stufe, Schritt
unsteadily - wackelig
bellied - bauchig; Bauch, Magen
winds - Winde; aufspulen, rollen, blasen, aufwickeln, abspulen
But there was no elation in his gait, which kept pace with the action of his sombre mind. Hook was profoundly dejected.
gait - Gang, Gangart (eines Pferdes)
He was often thus when communing with himself on board ship in the quietude of the night. It was because he was so terribly alone. This inscrutable man never felt more alone than when surrounded by his dogs. They were socially inferior to him.
communing - kommunizierend; (commune) kommunizierend
quietude - Ruhe, Friede
Terribly - Schrecklich; furchtbar
inscrutable - undurchschaubar
surrounded - umgeben, umringen, umzingeln, umringen
socially - gesellschaftliche
Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze; but as those who read between the lines must already have guessed, he had been at a famous public school; and its traditions still clung to him like garments, with which indeed they are largely concerned.
reveal - enthüllen; offenbaren
largely - groß, weitgehend, große
concerned - besorgt; Sorge, Anliegen
Thus it was offensive to him even now to board a ship in the same dress in which he grappled [attacked] her, and he still adhered in his walk to the school's distinguished slouch. But above all he retained the passion for good form.
grappled - gepackt; packen, erbeuten, anpacken; Handgemenge
adhered - eingehalten werden; kleben, halten, halten
slouch - nachlässig; herumlungern, herumhängen, Durchhänger, Schlafmütze
retained - zurückgehalten; behalten, festhalten
Good form! However much he may have degenerated, he still knew that this is all that really matters.
degenerated - entartet, widernatürlich, dekadent, degeneriert, entartet
From far within him he heard a creaking as of rusty portals, and through them came a stern tap-tap-tap, like hammering in the night when one cannot sleep. "Have you been good form to-day?" was their eternal question.
creaking - Knarren
rusty - rostig, verrostet
portals - Portale; Portal
tap - Wasserhahn; Schlacke abstechen
hammering - hämmernd; (hammer); Hammer; Schlagstück, Hahn, Schlaghebel
eternal - ewig
"Fame, fame, that glittering bauble, it is mine," he cried.
fame - Ruhm, Berühmtheit, Bekanntheit
bauble - Modeschmuck, Schnickschnack, Christbaumkugel
"Is it quite good form to be distinguished at anything?" the tap-tap from his school replied.
"I am the only man whom Barbecue feared," he urged, "and Flint feared Barbecue."
"Barbecue, Flint-what house?" came the cutting retort.
retort - Retorte; erwidern (scharf)
Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?
reflection - Reflexion, Abbild, Reflektion, Abwägung
His vitals were tortured by this problem. It was a claw within him sharper than the iron one; and as it tore him, the perspiration dripped down his tallow [waxy] countenance and streaked his doublet. Ofttimes he drew his sleeve across his face, but there was no damming that trickle.
vitals - Vitalwerte; Leben
tore - gerissen; (to tear) zerreißen, reißen
perspiration - Schwitzen
dripped - getropft; Tropfen; sickern, tröpfeln, träufeln
tallow - Talg
waxy - wächsern
streaked - gestreift; Schliere, Später Ginsterspanner, schlieren, flitzen
doublet - Dublette; Zweibiteinheit, Dipol
sleeve - Ärmel; Hülse, Schutzhülle, Tülle, Köcher
damming - eindämmen; stauen; Staudamm, Muttertier, Damm
Ah, envy not Hook.
envy - Neid; beneiden
There came to him a presentiment of his early dissolution [death]. It was as if Peter's terrible oath had boarded the ship. Hook felt a gloomy desire to make his dying speech, lest presently there should be no time for it.
presentiment - Vorahnung
dissolution - Auflösung
gloomy - düster, finster, trübe, dunkel
dying - (to die) sterben, umkommen; (dye) (to die) sterben, umkommen
"Better for Hook," he cried, "if he had had less ambition!" It was in his darkest hours only that he referred to himself in the third person.
"No little children to love me!"
Strange that he should think of this, which had never troubled him before; perhaps the sewing machine brought it to his mind. For long he muttered to himself, staring at Smee, who was hemming placidly, under the conviction that all children feared him.
hemming - säumen, einfassen, einsäumen, einschließen [Mil.]; Saum
conviction - Überzeugung; Verurteilung
Feared him! Feared Smee! There was not a child on board the brig that night who did not already love him. He had said horrid things to them and hit them with the palm of his hand, because he could not hit with his fist, but they had only clung to him the more. Michael had tried on his spectacles.
palm - Handfläche; Palme, Schaufel (am Geweih)
tried on - anprobiert
To tell poor Smee that they thought him lovable! Hook itched to do it, but it seemed too brutal. Instead, he revolved this mystery in his mind: why do they find Smee lovable? He pursued the problem like the sleuth-hound that he was. If Smee was lovable, what was it that made him so? A terrible answer suddenly presented itself-"Good form?"
itched - gejuckt; jucken, Juckreiz
revolved - drehte; drehen
sleuth - Spürhund
hound - Hund, Jagdhund, Laufhund
Had the bo'sun good form without knowing it, which is the best form of all?
best form - Bestform
He remembered that you have to prove you don't know you have it before you are eligible for Pop [an elite social club at Eton].
eligible - förderfähig; berechtigt, infrage kommend, geeignet, zulässig
elite - elitär, Elite-, Eliten-, Auslese-, Elite
With a cry of rage he raised his iron hand over Smee's head; but he did not tear. What arrested him was this reflection:
"To claw a man because he is good form, what would that be?"
"Bad form!"
The unhappy Hook was as impotent [powerless] as he was damp, and he fell forward like a cut flower.
impotent - impotent
powerless - kraftlos; machtlos
His dogs thinking him out of the way for a time, discipline instantly relaxed; and they broke into a bacchanalian [drunken] dance, which brought him to his feet at once, all traces of human weakness gone, as if a bucket of water had passed over him.
discipline - Disziplin; Strafe, Bestrafung, disziplinieren
bacchanalian - bacchanalisch; bacchantisch
drunken - betrunken, trunken
traces - Spuren; Zeichen, Spur
bucket - Eimer; ein Eimer voll; Schaufel
"Quiet, you scugs," he cried, "or I'll cast anchor in you;" and at once the din was hushed. "Are all the children chained, so that they cannot fly away?"
din - Lärm, Getöse; dröhnen
hushed - totgeschwiegen; verstummen, still werden, zum Schweigen bringen
"Ay, ay."
"Then hoist them up."
The wretched prisoners were dragged from the hold, all except Wendy, and ranged in line in front of him. For a time he seemed unconscious of their presence. He lolled at his ease, humming, not unmelodiously, snatches of a rude song, and fingering a pack of cards. Ever and anon the light from his cigar gave a touch of colour to his face.
ranged in - eingeordnet
lolled - geräkelt; räkeln
humming - Brummen; (to hum) summen, murmeln; (hum); Summen
unmelodiously - unmelodiös
snatches - Fetzen; klauen, stehlen, Reißen
cigar - Zigarre; Glimmstängel
"Now then, bullies," he said briskly, "six of you walk the plank to-night, but I have room for two cabin boys. Which of you is it to be?"
cabin - Hütte, Blockhütte, Kabine, Kajüte
So Tootles explained prudently, "You see, sir, I don't think my mother would like me to be a pirate. Would your mother like you to be a pirate, Slightly?"
prudently - mit Bedacht; klug, kluge
He winked at Slightly, who said mournfully, "I don't think so," as if he wished things had been otherwise. "Would your mother like you to be a pirate, Twin?"
mournfully - trauernd; traurig, klagend, trübsinnig
I don't think so - Ich glaube nicht.
"I don't think so," said the first twin, as clever as the others. "Nibs, would-"
"Stow this gab," roared Hook, and the spokesmen were dragged back. "You, boy," he said, addressing John, "you look as if you had a little pluck in you. Didst never want to be a pirate, my hearty?"
Stow - packen (verstauen)
gab - quatschen
spokesmen - Sprecher, Sprecherin, Wortführer, Wortführerin
pluck - pflücken, abrupfen, zupfen, schlagen, ausrupfen
hearty - herzlich, herzhaft, deftig
Now John had sometimes experienced this hankering at maths. prep.; and he was struck by Hook's picking him out.
hankering - Sehnsucht; sich sehnend, Verlangen; (hanker); verlangen
prep - vorbereiten; Schularbeit
"I once thought of calling myself Red-handed Jack," he said diffidently.
Jack - Hans, Hanns, Hannes, Hänsel
"And a good name too. We'll call you that here, bully, if you join."
Bully - Rabauke, Bully, Tyrann, Schikaneur, einschüchtern
"What do you think, Michael?" asked John.
"What would you call me if I join?" Michael demanded.
"Blackbeard Joe."
Michael was naturally impressed. "What do you think, John?" He wanted John to decide, and John wanted him to decide.
"Shall we still be respectful subjects of the King?" John inquired.
Through Hook's teeth came the answer: "You would have to swear, 'Down with the King.'"
Perhaps John had not behaved very well so far, but he shone out now.
"Then I refuse," he cried, banging the barrel in front of Hook.
banging - Klopfen; Schlag, Knall; knallen (derb koitieren), schlagen
barrel - Fass, Tonne, Gebinde, Barrel, Trommel, Hohlzylinder
"And I refuse," cried Michael.
"Rule Britannia!" squeaked Curly.
Britannia - Britannien
The infuriated pirates buffeted them in the mouth; and Hook roared out, "That seals your doom. Bring up their mother. Get the plank ready."
Seals - versiegeln; Siegel, Stempel, Seehund
They were only boys, and they went white as they saw Jukes and Cecco preparing the fatal plank. But they tried to look brave when Wendy was brought up.
No words of mine can tell you how Wendy despised those pirates. To the boys there was at least some glamour in the pirate calling; but all that she saw was that the ship had not been tidied for years. There was not a porthole on the grimy glass of which you might not have written with your finger "Dirty pig"; and she had already written it on several. But as the boys gathered round her she had no thought, of course, save for them.
glamour - Glamour
porthole - Bullauge
grimy - schmuddelig, schmierig, schmutzig
"So, my beauty," said Hook, as if he spoke in syrup, "you are to see your children walk the plank."
syrup - Sirup
Fine gentlemen though he was, the intensity of his communings had soiled his ruff, and suddenly he knew that she was gazing at it. With a hasty gesture he tried to hide it, but he was too late.
intensity - Intensität
communings - Kommunikationen; kommunizierend
ruff - zerzaust; Krause; Kampfläufer (Vogel)
hasty - voreilig; hastig, eilig
gesture - Geste, Gebärde, gestikulieren, erman: (jemandem etwas) bedeuten
"Are they to die?" asked Wendy, with a look of such frightful contempt that he nearly fainted.
"They are," he snarled. "Silence all," he called gloatingly, "for a mother's last words to her children."
snarled - geknurrt; anschnauzen, wütend knurren, knurren
gloatingly - schadenfroh
At this moment Wendy was grand. "These are my last words, dear boys," she said firmly. "I feel that I have a message to you from your real mothers, and it is this: 'We hope our sons will die like English gentlemen.'"
Even the pirates were awed, and Tootles cried out hysterically, "I am going to do what my mother hopes. What are you to do, Nibs?"
awed - ehrfürchtig; Ehrfurcht, Staunen
hysterically - hysterisch
"What my mother hopes. What are you to do, Twin?"
"What my mother hopes. John, what are-"
But Hook had found his voice again.
"Tie her up!" he shouted.
It was Smee who tied her to the mast. "See here, honey," he whispered, "I'll save you if you promise to be my mother."
But not even for Smee would she make such a promise. "I would almost rather have no children at all," she said disdainfully [scornfully].
disdainfully - verächtlich
It is sad to know that not a boy was looking at her as Smee tied her to the mast; the eyes of all were on the plank: that last little walk they were about to take. They were no longer able to hope that they would walk it manfully, for the capacity to think had gone from them; they could stare and shiver only.
manfully - mannhaft, mannhafte
capacity - Kapazität; Befugnis
Hook smiled on them with his teeth closed, and took a step toward Wendy. His intention was to turn her face so that she should see the boys walking the plank one by one. But he never reached her, he never heard the cry of anguish he hoped to wring from her. He heard something else instead.
anguish - Ängste; Pein, Angst, Qual
wring from - abnötigen
It was the terrible tick-tick of the crocodile.
They all heard it-pirates, boys, Wendy; and immediately every head was blown in one direction; not to the water whence the sound proceeded, but toward Hook. All knew that what was about to happen concerned him alone, and that from being actors they were suddenly become spectators.
whence - woher; von daher
proceeded - fortgefahren; vorgehen
spectators - Zuschauer, Zuschauerin, Schaulustiger
Very frightful was it to see the change that came over him. It was as if he had been clipped at every joint. He fell in a little heap.
clipped - Ausgeschnitten; scheren, stutzen, kürzen, kappen
joint - Gelenk; gemeinschaftlich, gemeinsam, gemeinsame, gemeinsamer
heap - Menschenmenge, Masse, Haufen, Haufe, Heap
The sound came steadily nearer; and in advance of it came this ghastly thought, "The crocodile is about to board the ship!"
Even the iron claw hung inactive; as if knowing that it was no intrinsic part of what the attacking force wanted. Left so fearfully alone, any other man would have lain with his eyes shut where he fell: but the gigantic brain of Hook was still working, and under its guidance he crawled on the knees along the deck as far from the sound as he could go.
inactive - untätig
intrinsic - intrinsisch
The pirates respectfully cleared a passage for him, and it was only when he brought up against the bulwarks that he spoke.
"Hide me!" he cried hoarsely.
They gathered round him, all eyes averted from the thing that was coming aboard. They had no thought of fighting it. It was Fate.
averted - abgewehrt; abwenden, abwenden, verhindern
aboard - an Bord
Only when Hook was hidden from them did curiosity loosen the limbs of the boys so that they could rush to the ship's side to see the crocodile climbing it. Then they got the strangest surprise of the Night of Nights; for it was no crocodile that was coming to their aid. It was Peter.
curiosity - Neugier, Neugierde, Kuriosität, Kuriosum
loosen - lösen, lockern
rush - stürzen, drängen, hetzen, rasen; Eile, Andrang
aid - Hilfsmittel, Hilfe, Mithilfe; helfen, beispringen
He signed to them not to give vent to any cry of admiration that might rouse suspicion. Then he went on ticking.
rouse - aufrütteln; wachrufen, wecken
suspicion - Verdacht, Argwohn, Verdächtigung
ticking - Inlett, Inlettstoff, Drell, tickend; (tic); Tic, Zucken
Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened. Thus, to take an instance, we suddenly discover that we have been deaf in one ear for we don't know how long, but, say, half an hour. Now such an experience had come that night to Peter. When last we saw him he was stealing across the island with one finger to his lips and his dagger at the ready.
deaf - taub, gehörlos, die gehörlos
He had seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything peculiar about it, but by and by he remembered that it had not been ticking. At first he thought this eerie, but soon concluded rightly that the clock had run down.
peculiar - eigentümlich; merkwürdig, seltsam
rightly - zurecht, zu Recht, richtig
Peter reached the shore without mishap, and went straight on, his legs encountering the water as if quite unaware that they had entered a new element. Thus many animals pass from land to water, but no other human of whom I know. As he swam he had but one thought: "Hook or me this time.
mishap - Missgeschick; Unfall, Malheur, Unglück, Panne
encountering - begegnet; treffen, begegnen, Begegnung, Treffen
He had ticked so long that he now went on ticking without knowing that he was doing it. Had he known he would have stopped, for to board the brig by help of the tick, though an ingenious idea, had not occurred to him.
ticked - angekreuzt; ticken, normal (gut) laufen; Ticken, Zeichen, Zecke
ingenious - ingeniös, genial, findig
On the contrary, he thought he had scaled her side as noiseless as a mouse; and he was amazed to see the pirates cowering from him, with Hook in their midst as abject as if he had heard the crocodile.
noiseless - geräuschlos
cowering - Duckmäuser; hocken, kauern
abject - unterwürfig; verächtlich, demütig, jämmerlich, bitter (Armut)
The crocodile! No sooner did Peter remember it than he heard the ticking. At first he thought the sound did come from the crocodile, and he looked behind him swiftly. Then he realised that he was doing it himself, and in a flash he understood the situation. "How clever of me!" he thought at once, and signed to the boys not to burst into applause.
Swiftly - Zügig; schnell, flink, behände
realised - realisiert; erfassen, (Gewinn) erzielen, zu Geld machen
applause - Applaus, Beifall
It was at this moment that Ed Teynte the quartermaster emerged from the forecastle and came along the deck. Now, reader, time what happened by your watch. Peter struck true and deep. John clapped his hands on the ill-fated pirate's mouth to stifle the dying groan.
quartermaster - Quartiermeister, Steuermannsmaat
forecastle - Vorschiff, Bugkastell
stifle - abwürgen; ersticken
He fell forward. Four boys caught him to prevent the thud. Peter gave the signal, and the carrion was cast overboard. There was a splash, and then silence. How long has it taken?
carrion - Aas, Kadaver
splash - Spritzen; plätschern, platschen
"One!" (Slightly had begun to count.)
None too soon, Peter, every inch of him on tiptoe, vanished into the cabin; for more than one pirate was screwing up his courage to look round. They could hear each other's distressed breathing now, which showed them that the more terrible sound had passed.
vanished - verschwunden; verschwinden, vergehen, sich verflüchtigen
screwing up - (screw up) vermasseln, etwas versauen
look round - umschauen
distressed - verzweifelt; Kummer, Bedrängnis, Drangsal, Bekümmerung, Not
"It's gone, captain," Smee said, wiping off his spectacles. "All's still again."
Slowly Hook let his head emerge from his ruff, and listened so intently that he could have caught the echo of the tick. There was not a sound, and he drew himself up firmly to his full height.
"Then here's to Johnny Plank!" he cried brazenly, hating the boys more than ever because they had seen him unbend. He broke into the villainous ditty:
brazenly - schamlos; unverschämterweise
unbend - aufklappen
ditty - Liedchen
"Yo ho, yo ho, the frisky plank,
frisky - munter; lebhaft, energiegeladen, (sexuell) erregt, geil
You walks along it so,
Till it goes down and you goes down
To Davy Jones below!"
To terrorize the prisoners the more, though with a certain loss of dignity, he danced along an imaginary plank, grimacing at them as he sang; and when he finished he cried, "Do you want a touch of the cat [o'nine tails] before you walk the plank?"
terrorize - terrorisieren
grimacing - Grimasse, Grimassen schneiden
At that they fell on their knees. "No, no!" they cried so piteously that every pirate smiled.
"Fetch the cat, Jukes," said Hook; "it's in the cabin."
The cabin! Peter was in the cabin! The children gazed at each other.
"Ay, ay," said Jukes blithely, and he strode into the cabin. They followed him with their eyes; they scarce knew that Hook had resumed his song, his dogs joining in with him:
resumed - wiederaufgenommen; weiter; Lebenslauf; fortsetzen
joining in - (join in) mitreden, sich beteiligen, mitmachen
"Yo ho, yo ho, the scratching cat,
Its tails are nine, you know,
And when they're writ upon your back-"
What was the last line will never be known, for of a sudden the song was stayed by a dreadful screech from the cabin. It wailed through the ship, and died away. Then was heard a crowing sound which was well understood by the boys, but to the pirates was almost more eerie than the screech.
"What was that?" cried Hook.
"Two," said Slightly solemnly.
The Italian Cecco hesitated for a moment and then swung into the cabin. He tottered out, haggard.
swung - geschwungen; schwingen, schaukeln, schwanken, schaukeln
tottered - getorkelt; schwanken, taumeln, torkeln, Schwanken
haggard - verstört, abgezehrt, wild, abgehärmt
"What's the matter with Bill Jukes, you dog?" hissed Hook, towering over him.
"The matter wi'him is he's dead, stabbed," replied Cecco in a hollow voice.
"Bill Jukes dead!" cried the startled pirates.
"The cabin's as black as a pit," Cecco said, almost gibbering, "but there is something terrible in there: the thing you heard crowing."
pit - Fallgrube, Schachtgrube, Box (Sport)
gibbering - Kauderwelsch sprechen
The exultation of the boys, the lowering looks of the pirates, both were seen by Hook.
"Cecco," he said in his most steely voice, "go back and fetch me out that doodle-doo."
steely - stahlig (Wein), stahlhart, stählern
doodle - Männchen malen, kritzeln
Cecco, bravest of the brave, cowered before his captain, crying "No, no"; but Hook was purring to his claw.
cowered - geduckt; hocken, kauern
purring - schnurren, surren, summen; (pur) schnurren, surren, summen
"Did you say you would go, Cecco?" he said musingly.
musingly - nachdenklich; sinnende
Cecco went, first flinging his arms despairingly. There was no more singing, all listened now; and again came a death-screech and again a crow.
despairingly - verzweifelt
No one spoke except Slightly. "Three," he said.
Hook rallied his dogs with a gesture. "'S'death and odds fish," he thundered, "who is to bring me that doodle-doo?"
rallied - versammelt; Zusammenkunft
"Wait till Cecco comes out," growled Starkey, and the others took up the cry.
"I think I heard you volunteer, Starkey," said Hook, purring again.
"No, by thunder!" Starkey cried.
thunder - Donner; Donnern
"My hook thinks you did," said Hook, crossing to him. "I wonder if it would not be advisable, Starkey, to humour the hook?"
advisable - ratsam
"I'll swing before I go in there," replied Starkey doggedly, and again he had the support of the crew.
swing - schwingen, schaukeln, schwanken, baumeln, Schaukel, Hutsche
"Is this mutiny?" asked Hook more pleasantly than ever. "Starkey's ringleader!"
mutiny - Meuterei
ringleader - Anführer, Anführerin, Rädelsführer, Rädelsführerin
"Captain, mercy!" Starkey whimpered, all of a tremble now.
"Shake hands, Starkey," said Hook, proffering his claw.
proffering - anbieten
Starkey looked round for help, but all deserted him. As he backed up Hook advanced, and now the red spark was in his eye. With a despairing scream the pirate leapt upon Long Tom and precipitated himself into the sea.
spark - Funken; Funke; aufkeimen lassen, entfachen
despairing - verzweifelt; verzweifeln, Verzweiflung
scream - Schrei; schreien
precipitated - ausgefallen; Niederschlag; ausscheiden, stürzen, fällen
"Four," said Slightly.
"And now," Hook said courteously, "did any other gentlemen say mutiny?" Seizing a lantern and raising his claw with a menacing gesture, "I'll bring out that doodle-doo myself," he said, and sped into the cabin.
menacing - bedrohlich; Landplage, androhen
"Five." How Slightly longed to say it. He wetted his lips to be ready, but Hook came staggering out, without his lantern.
"Something blew out the light," he said a little unsteadily.
"Something!" echoed Mullins.
"What of Cecco?" demanded Noodler.
"He's as dead as Jukes," said Hook shortly.
shortly - in Kürze; bald
His reluctance to return to the cabin impressed them all unfavourably, and the mutinous sounds again broke forth. All pirates are superstitious, and Cookson cried, "They do say the surest sign a ship's accurst is when there's one on board more than can be accounted for."
reluctance - Widerstreben, Widerwillen, Widerwille, Zögern, Zaudern
unfavourably - ungünstig
mutinous - meutern
superstitious - abergläubisch
accurst - verfluchten
"I've heard," muttered Mullins, "he always boards the pirate craft last. Had he a tail, captain?"
"They say," said another, looking viciously at Hook, "that when he comes it's in the likeness of the wickedest man aboard."
viciously - bösartig
likeness - Ähnlichkeit; Gestalt; Abbild
"Had he a hook, captain?" asked Cookson insolently; and one after another took up the cry, "The ship's doomed!" At this the children could not resist raising a cheer. Hook had well-nigh forgotten his prisoners, but as he swung round on them now his face lit up again.
nigh - naht; nahe, nah bei, beinahe, nahezu
"Lads," he cried to his crew, "now here's a notion. Open the cabin door and drive them in. Let them fight the doodle-doo for their lives. If they kill him, we're so much the better; if he kills them, we're none the worse."
notion - Ahnung, Ansicht, Auffassung, Begriff
For the last time his dogs admired Hook, and devotedly they did his bidding. The boys, pretending to struggle, were pushed into the cabin and the door was closed on them.
devotedly - hingebungsvoll
bidding - (to bid) befehlen, bieten, bitten; (bid) (to bid) befehlen
"Now, listen!" cried Hook, and all listened. But not one dared to face the door. Yes, one, Wendy, who all this time had been bound to the mast. It was for neither a scream nor a crow that she was watching, it was for the reappearance of Peter.
reappearance - Wiedererscheinen; Wiedererscheinung
She had not long to wait. In the cabin he had found the thing for which he had gone in search: the key that would free the children of their manacles, and now they all stole forth, armed with such weapons as they could find. First signing them to hide, Peter cut Wendy's bonds, and then nothing could have been easier than for them all to fly off together; but one thing barred the way, an oath, "Hook or me this time.
manacles - Fesseln; Handschellen
So when he had freed Wendy, he whispered for her to conceal herself with the others, and himself took her place by the mast, her cloak around him so that he should pass for her. Then he took a great breath and crowed.
To the pirates it was a voice crying that all the boys lay slain in the cabin; and they were panic-stricken. Hook tried to hearten them; but like the dogs he had made them they showed him their fangs, and he knew that if he took his eyes off them now they would leap at him.
hearten - ermutigen
fangs - Reißzähne; Fang, Fangzahn
"Lads," he said, ready to cajole or strike as need be, but never quailing for an instant, "I've thought it out. There's a Jonah aboard."
cajole - beschwatzen
quailing - Wimmern; (quail) Wachtel; (quail) Wimmern; (quail) Wachtel
Jonah - Jonas, Jona, Buch Jona
"Ay," they snarled, "a man wi'a hook."
"No, lads, no, it's the girl. Never was luck on a pirate ship wi'a woman on board. We'll right the ship when she's gone."
Some of them remembered that this had been a saying of Flint's. "It's worth trying," they said doubtfully.
"Fling the girl overboard," cried Hook; and they made a rush at the figure in the cloak.
"There's none can save you now, missy," Mullins hissed jeeringly.
missy - kleines Fräulein
jeeringly - höhnisch
"There's one," replied the figure.
"Who's that?"
"Peter Pan the avenger!" came the terrible answer; and as he spoke Peter flung off his cloak. Then they all knew who 'twas that had been undoing them in the cabin, and twice Hook essayed to speak and twice he failed. In that frightful moment I think his fierce heart broke.
avenger - Rächer, Rächerin
undoing - Verderben; Annullieren
At last he cried, "Cleave him to the brisket!" but without conviction.
cleave - spalten
brisket - Rinderbrust; Brust; Bruststück
"Down, boys, and at them!" Peter's voice rang out; and in another moment the clash of arms was resounding through the ship. Had the pirates kept together it is certain that they would have won; but the onset came when they were still unstrung, and they ran hither and thither, striking wildly, each thinking himself the last survivor of the crew. Man to man they were the stronger; but they fought on the defensive only, which enabled the boys to hunt in pairs and choose their quarry. Some of the miscreants leapt into the sea; others hid in dark recesses, where they were found by Slightly, who did not fight, but ran about with a lantern which he flashed in their faces, so that they were half blinded and fell as an easy prey to the reeking swords of the other boys.
resounding - durchschlagend; widerhallen
onset - Ausbruch; Angriff, Ansturm, checkAnschlag, Anzeichen
hither - her, hierher, hierhin
survivor - Überlebender, Überlebende, Überlebenskünstler, harter Knochen
defensive - Verteidigungs-, Abwehr-, defensiv, zurückhaltend, abwehrend
quarry - Steinbruch; stöbern; Beute, Jagdbeute, verfolgtes Wild
recesses - Pausen; Vertiefung, Winkel, Aushöhlung, qualifier
blinded - geblendet; blind, blind, unkritisch, ignorant, blind, Jalousie
reeking - stinken; Gestank, Rauch
swords - Schwerter; Schwert
There was little sound to be heard but the clang of weapons, an occasional screech or splash, and Slightly monotonously counting-five-six-seven eight-nine-ten-eleven.
monotonously - monoton
I think all were gone when a group of savage boys surrounded Hook, who seemed to have a charmed life, as he kept them at bay in that circle of fire. They had done for his dogs, but this man alone seemed to be a match for them all. Again and again they closed upon him, and again and again he hewed a clear space.
charmed - verzaubert; Talisman; Charme, Zauberformel
bay - Erker, Bucht, Gestell, Bellen
hewed - gehauen; hauen
He had lifted up one boy with his hook, and was using him as a buckler [shield], when another, who had just passed his sword through Mullins, sprang into the fray.
buckler - Faustschild, Tartsche
shield - Schild, abgeschirmt, Abschirmung; abschirmen
fray - Gefecht (auch fig.), Schlägerei; ausfransen
"Put up your swords, boys," cried the newcomer, "this man is mine."
newcomer - Neuankömmling; Neuling
Thus suddenly Hook found himself face to face with Peter. The others drew back and formed a ring around them.
ring - Ring, Kreis
For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face.
"So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing."
"Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing."
"Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom."
insolent - unverschämt; beleidigend, verletzend, anmaßend, überheblich
thy - deine; dein
"Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee."
thee - dich, dir
Without more words they fell to, and for a space there was no advantage to either blade. Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defence, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home. Hook, scarcely his inferior in brilliancy, but not quite so nimble in wrist play, forced him back by the weight of his onset, hoping suddenly to end all with a favourite thrust, taught him long ago by Barbecue at Rio; but to his astonishment he found this thrust turned aside again and again.
swordsman - Schwertkämpfer; Fechter
parried - pariert; parieren, abwehren
rapidity - Schnelligkeit
feint - eine Finte; Finte, Verstellung
lunge - Longieren; Ausfall; Ausfallschritt; losstürzen, ausfallen
defence - Verteidigung, Abwehr
stead - Stelle
brilliancy - Brillanz; Scharfsinn, Glanz, Genialität
nimble - wendig; schnell, gelenkig, behänd, flink
wrist - Handgelenk
thrust - Stoß, Stich, Vorstoß, Schub, Schubkraft
astonishment - Staunen, Erstaunen, Verwunderung
Then he sought to close and give the quietus with his iron hook, which all this time had been pawing the air; but Peter doubled under it and, lunging fiercely, pierced him in the ribs. At the sight of his own blood, whose peculiar colour, you remember, was offensive to him, the sword fell from Hook's hand, and he was at Peter's mercy.
quietus - Ende
pawing - betatschen; Tatze, Pfote, Pranke
lunging - Longieren; Lunge
pierced - gepierct; lochen, durchbohren
ribs - Rippen; Rippe (Profil); Drehschiene, Spant, Rippe, Lamelle
"Now!" cried all the boys, but with a magnificent gesture Peter invited his opponent to pick up his sword. Hook did so instantly, but with a tragic feeling that Peter was showing good form.
magnificent - großartig; prächtig; ausgezeichnet
opponent - Gegner, Gegnerin, Gegner (1, 3), Gegenspieler
Hitherto he had thought it was some fiend fighting him, but darker suspicions assailed him now.
assailed - angegriffen; angreifen
"Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.
thou - du
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
little bird - Vögelchen , Vöglein
broken out - ausgebrochen
This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form.
pinnacle - Gipfel; Felsnadel, Felsturm, Höhepunkt, Pinakel, Fiale
"To't again," he cried despairingly.
He fought now like a human flail, and every sweep of that terrible sword would have severed in twain any man or boy who obstructed it; but Peter fluttered round him as if the very wind it made blew him out of the danger zone. And again and again he darted in and pricked.
flail - Flegel, Dreschflegel, Streitflegel, Kriegsflegel
sweep - fegen, kehren, rauschen, auf den Kopf stellen, fahren
severed - abgetrennt; abtrennen, durchtrennen, abbrechen, trennen
twain - zwei
obstructed - behindert; behindern, versperren
danger zone - Gefahrenzone
pricked - gestochen; spitzer Gegenstand, Stich
Hook was fighting now without hope. That passionate breast no longer asked for life; but for one boon it craved: to see Peter show bad form before it was cold forever.
passionate - leidenschaftlich
boon - Segen, Wohltat
Abandoning the fight he rushed into the powder magazine and fired it.
Abandoning - Aufgeben; im Stich lassen, preisgeben, verlassen, abbrechen
"In two minutes," he cried, "the ship will be blown to pieces."
Now, now, he thought, true form will show.
But Peter issued from the powder magazine with the shell in his hands, and calmly flung it overboard.
What sort of form was Hook himself showing? Misguided man though he was, we may be glad, without sympathising with him, that in the end he was true to the traditions of his race. The other boys were flying around him now, flouting, scornful; and he staggered about the deck striking up at them impotently, his mind was no longer with them; it was slouching in the playing fields of long ago, or being sent up [to the headmaster] for good, or watching the wall-game from a famous wall.
Misguided - Irregeleitet; irreleiten, verleiten
flouting - Missachtung; sich hinwegsetzen über, missachten, pfeifen auf
scornful - verächtlich
staggered - gestaffelt; Staffelung; abstufen, staffeln, wanken
impotently - impotent
slouching - lümmeln; herumlungern, herumhängen, Durchhänger, Schlafmütze
headmaster - Schulleiter
And his shoes were right, and his waistcoat was right, and his tie was right, and his socks were right.
waistcoat - Weste
James Hook, thou not wholly unheroic figure, farewell.
unheroic - unheroisch
Farewell - Abschied nehmen; Lebewohl, Adieu, Abschied, Lebewohl sagen
For we have come to his last moment.
Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea. He did not know that the crocodile was waiting for him; for we purposely stopped the clock that this knowledge might be spared him: a little mark of respect from us at the end.
advancing - fortschreitend; erhöhen, erheben, befördern, vorrücken
purposely - absichtlich
be spared - von etw. verschont bleiben
He had one last triumph, which I think we need not grudge him. As he stood on the bulwark looking over his shoulder at Peter gliding through the air, he invited him with a gesture to use his foot. It made Peter kick instead of stab.
grudge - Groll, Neid, missgönnen
bulwark - Bollwerk; Schanzkleid
gliding - Segelfliegen; Segelflug
stab - Stich (Messer-); erstechen
At last Hook had got the boon for which he craved.
"Bad form," he cried jeeringly, and went content to the crocodile.
content - Inhalt; (to be content with) sich mit etwas begnügen
Thus perished James Hook.
"Seventeen," Slightly sang out; but he was not quite correct in his figures. Fifteen paid the penalty for their crimes that night; but two reached the shore: Starkey to be captured by the redskins, who made him nurse for all their papooses, a melancholy come-down for a pirate; and Smee, who henceforth wandered about the world in his spectacles, making a precarious living by saying he was the only man that Jas. Hook had feared.
penalty - Strafe
captured - gefangen genommen; Fang, Festnahme, Gefangennahme, Erfassung
precarious - prekär
Wendy, of course, had stood by taking no part in the fight, though watching Peter with glistening eyes; but now that all was over she became prominent again. She praised them equally, and shuddered delightfully when Michael showed her the place where he had killed one; and then she took them into Hook's cabin and pointed to his watch which was hanging on a nail. It said "half-past one!"
glistening - glitzern, glänzen, gleißen
Praised - Gelobt; Lob
The lateness of the hour was almost the biggest thing of all. She got them to bed in the pirates'bunks pretty quickly, you may be sure; all but Peter, who strutted up and down on the deck, until at last he fell asleep by the side of Long Tom. He had one of his dreams that night, and cried in his sleep for a long time, and Wendy held him tightly.
bunks - Kojen; türmen; Quatsch, Koje
strutted - stolziert; Stütze (Bauwesen), Strebebalken; stolzieren
tightly - eng
By three bells that morning they were all stirring their stumps [legs]; for there was a big sea running; and Tootles, the bo'sun, was among them, with a rope's end in his hand and chewing tobacco. They all donned pirate clothes cut off at the knee, shaved smartly, and tumbled up, with the true nautical roll and hitching their trousers.
stumps - Stümpfe; Stumpf, Estompe, ratlos sein, verblüfft sein
chewing tobacco - Kautabak
smartly - klug; schlau, elegant
tumbled - getrommelt; Sturz, Fall, Überschlag, Absturz, Purzelbaum, Rolle
nautical - nautisch
hitching - per Anhalter fahren; Festmacher, Anhängerkupplung, Haken
It need not be said who was the captain. Nibs and John were first and second mate. There was a woman aboard. The rest were tars [sailors] before the mast, and lived in the fo'c'sle. Peter had already lashed himself to the wheel; but he piped all hands and delivered a short address to them; said he hoped they would do their duty like gallant hearties, but that he knew they were the scum of Rio and the Gold Coast, and if they snapped at him he would tear them.
mate - Kumpel; schachmatt, Kamerad, Kameradin, verbinden; anpassen
tars - teeren; Teer
sle - (sleep) Schlaf, Nachtruhe
lashed - festgezurrt; Peitsche, Wimper; anbinden
hearties - Herzchen; herzlich, herzhaft, herzhaft, deftig
scum - Abschaum; q
The bluff strident words struck the note sailors understood, and they cheered him lustily. Then a few sharp orders were given, and they turned the ship round, and nosed her for the mainland.
bluff - bluffen; täuschen; Bluff
strident - schrill; gellend
cheered - bejubelt; anfeuern, jauchzen, aufmuntern, jubeln
lustily - lüstern; geil
Captain Pan calculated, after consulting the ship's chart, that if this weather lasted they should strike the Azores about the 21st of June, after which it would save time to fly.
after consulting - nach Rücksprache mit
Azores - Azoren
Some of them wanted it to be an honest ship and others were in favour of keeping it a pirate; but the captain treated them as dogs, and they dared not express their wishes to him even in a round robin [one person after another, as they had to Cpt. Hook]. Instant obedience was the only safe thing. Slightly got a dozen for looking perplexed when told to take soundings. The general feeling was that Peter was honest just now to lull Wendy's suspicions, but that there might be a change when the new suit was ready, which, against her will, she was making for him out of some of Hook's wickedest garments.
obedience - Gehorsam, Folgsamkeit, Gehorsamkeit
perplexed - perplex; verwirren
soundings - Sondierungen; erklingend, tönend, sondierend
lull - Flaute; Windstille
It was afterwards whispered among them that on the first night he wore this suit he sat long in the cabin with Hook's cigar-holder in his mouth and one hand clenched, all but for the forefinger, which he bent and held threateningly aloft like a hook.
forefinger - Zeigefinger
aloft - in der Luft; oben, droben
Instead of watching the ship, however, we must now return to that desolate home from which three of our characters had taken heartless flight so long ago. It seems a shame to have neglected No. 14 all this time; and yet we may be sure that Mrs. Darling does not blame us. If we had returned sooner to look with sorrowful sympathy at her, she would probably have cried, "Don't be silly; what do I matter?
desolate - verzweifelt; verlassen; verlassen
neglected - vernachlässigt; vernachlässigen, verabsäumen, versäumen
sorrowful - Traurig
sympathy - Mitleid, Mitgefühl, Empathie, Einfühlungsvermögen, Sympathie
Do go back and keep an eye on the children." So long as mothers are like this their children will take advantage of them; and they may lay to [bet on] that.
bet - Wetteinsatz, wetten, Wette; riskieren
Even now we venture into that familiar nursery only because its lawful occupants are on their way home; we are merely hurrying on in advance of them to see that their beds are properly aired and that Mr. and Mrs. Darling do not go out for the evening. We are no more than servants. Why on earth should their beds be properly aired, seeing that they left them in such a thankless hurry? Would it not serve them jolly well right if they came back and found that their parents were spending the week-end in the country?
lawful - rechtmäßig; gesetzlich, legal, rechtsmäßig
occupants - Insassen; Besatzer, Besatzerin, Okkupant, Okkupantin, Bewohner
thankless - undankbar
It would be the moral lesson they have been in need of ever since we met them; but if we contrived things in this way Mrs. Darling would never forgive us.
moral - moralisch, sittlich, Moral
contrived - ausgeklügelt; ersinnen, entwerfen, bewerkstelligen
forgive - vergeben, verzeihen, entschuldigen
One thing I should like to do immensely, and that is to tell her, in the way authors have, that the children are coming back, that indeed they will be here on Thursday week. This would spoil so completely the surprise to which Wendy and John and Michael are looking forward. They have been planning it out on the ship: mother's rapture, father's shout of joy, Nana's leap through the air to embrace them first, when what they ought to be prepared for is a good hiding.
rapture - Entrückung; Ekstase, Taumel, Verzückung, Entzücken
Embrace - umarmen; annehmen, Umarmung
How delicious to spoil it all by breaking the news in advance; so that when they enter grandly Mrs. Darling may not even offer Wendy her mouth, and Mr. Darling may exclaim pettishly, "Dash it all, here are those boys again." However, we should get no thanks even for this. We are beginning to know Mrs. Darling by this time, and may be sure that she would upbraid us for depriving the children of their little pleasure.
pettishly - kleinlich; empfindliche, launisch
upbraid - Vorwürfe machen; schimpfen
depriving - Entbehren; berauben
"But, my dear madam, it is ten days till Thursday week; so that by telling you what's what, we can save you ten days of unhappiness."
madam - gnädige Frau; Frau, Fräulein ''(traditionally
unhappiness - unglücklich; Traurigkeit, Unglück
"Yes, but at what a cost! By depriving the children of ten minutes of delight."
"Oh, if you look at it in that way!"
"What other way is there in which to look at it?"
You see, the woman had no proper spirit. I had meant to say extraordinarily nice things about her; but I despise her, and not one of them will I say now. She does not really need to be told to have things ready, for they are ready. All the beds are aired, and she never leaves the house, and observe, the window is open.
despise - verachten
For all the use we are to her, we might well go back to the ship. However, as we are here we may as well stay and look on. That is all we are, lookers-on. Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.
lookers - Gucker; (look) Blick, siehe
jaggy - zackig
The only change to be seen in the night-nursery is that between nine and six the kennel is no longer there. When the children flew away, Mr. Darling felt in his bones that all the blame was his for having chained Nana up, and that from first to last she had been wiser than he. Of course, as we have seen, he was quite a simple man; indeed he might have passed for a boy again if he had been able to take his baldness off; but he had also a noble sense of justice and a lion's courage to do what seemed right to him; and having thought the matter out with anxious care after the flight of the children, he went down on all fours and crawled into the kennel.
baldness - Glatze, Glatzköpfigkeit, Haarlosigkeit, Haarlossein
justice - Gerechtigkeit, Genugtuung, Justiz
To all Mrs. Darling's dear invitations to him to come out he replied sadly but firmly:
"No, my own one, this is the place for me."
In the bitterness of his remorse he swore that he would never leave the kennel until his children came back. Of course this was a pity; but whatever Mr. Darling did he had to do in excess, otherwise he soon gave up doing it. And there never was a more humble man than the once proud George Darling, as he sat in the kennel of an evening talking with his wife of their children and all their pretty ways.
bitterness - Bitterkeit, Bitternis
remorse - Reue, Gewissensbisse
excess - Exzess; Überfluss; Überschuss, Übermaß, Völlerei
more humble - devotere
Very touching was his deference to Nana. He would not let her come into the kennel, but on all other matters he followed her wishes implicitly.
deference - Ehrerbietung, Respekt, Achtung
Every morning the kennel was carried with Mr. Darling in it to a cab, which conveyed him to his office, and he returned home in the same way at six. Something of the strength of character of the man will be seen if we remember how sensitive he was to the opinion of neighbours: this man whose every movement now attracted surprised attention.
Inwardly he must have suffered torture; but he preserved a calm exterior even when the young criticised his little home, and he always lifted his hat courteously to any lady who looked inside.
inwardly - innerlich
preserved - Konserve, Eingemachtes
exterior - Außen-; Äußeres, Außenseite
criticised - kritisiert; kritisieren, bemängeln, monieren, mäkeln
It may have been Quixotic, but it was magnificent. Soon the inward meaning of it leaked out, and the great heart of the public was touched. Crowds followed the cab, cheering it lustily; charming girls scaled it to get his autograph; interviews appeared in the better class of papers, and society invited him to dinner and added, "Do come in the kennel."
inward - innere; innen
leaked out - aufgeflogen
autograph - Autogramm, Unterschrift
On that eventful Thursday week, Mrs. Darling was in the night-nursery awaiting George's return home; a very sad-eyed woman. Now that we look at her closely and remember the gaiety of her in the old days, all gone now just because she has lost her babes, I find I won't be able to say nasty things about her after all. If she was too fond of her rubbishy children, she couldn't help it. Look at her in her chair, where she has fallen asleep.
eventful - ereignisreich
rubbishy - schuttbedeckt
The corner of her mouth, where one looks first, is almost withered up. Her hand moves restlessly on her breast as if she had a pain there. Some like Peter best, and some like Wendy best, but I like her best. Suppose, to make her happy, we whisper to her in her sleep that the brats are coming back. They are really within two miles of the window now, and flying strong, but all we need whisper is that they are on the way. Let's.
withered - verwelkt; welken, verblühen, verdorren
restlessly - rastlose
whisper to - zuflüstern
brats - Gören; Range
It is a pity we did it, for she has started up, calling their names; and there is no one in the room but Nana.
"O Nana, I dreamt my dear ones had come back."
Nana had filmy eyes, but all she could do was put her paw gently on her mistress's lap; and they were sitting together thus when the kennel was brought back. As Mr. Darling puts his head out to kiss his wife, we see that his face is more worn than of yore, but has a softer expression.
filmy - filmisch; duftig, hauchdünn
paw - Tatze, Pfote, Pranke
yore - früher; lange zurückliegend
He gave his hat to Liza, who took it scornfully; for she had no imagination, and was quite incapable of understanding the motives of such a man. Outside, the crowd who had accompanied the cab home were still cheering, and he was naturally not unmoved.
imagination - Phantasie; Vorstellungskraft, Imagination, Einbildungskraft
incapable - nicht fähig; unfähig
motives - Motiven; Motiv
"Listen to them," he said; "it is very gratifying."
gratifying - befriedigend; befriedigen, erfreuen
"Lots of little boys," sneered Liza.
"There were several adults to-day," he assured her with a faint flush; but when she tossed her head he had not a word of reproof for her. Social success had not spoilt him; it had made him sweeter. For some time he sat with his head out of the kennel, talking with Mrs. Darling of this success, and pressing her hand reassuringly when she said she hoped his head would not be turned by it.
flush - Wasserspülung, Wallung, Schwall; spülen, ausspülen; rot werden
reproof - Verweis, Vorwurf, Tadel
spoilt - verdorben; verwöhnt, verzogen; (spoil); plündern; ruinieren
reassuringly - Beruhigend
"But if I had been a weak man," he said. "Good heavens, if I had been a weak man!"
Good heavens - Um Himmels willen!
"And, George," she said timidly, "you are as full of remorse as ever, aren't you?"
"Full of remorse as ever, dearest! See my punishment: living in a kennel."
"But it is punishment, isn't it, George? You are sure you are not enjoying it?"
"My love!"
You may be sure she begged his pardon; and then, feeling drowsy, he curled round in the kennel.
drowsy - schläfrig; einschläfernd; müde, langweilig, verschlafen, dösig
"Won't you play me to sleep," he asked, "on the nursery piano?" and as she was crossing to the day-nursery he added thoughtlessly, "And shut that window. I feel a draught."
day-nursery - (day-nursery) Kinderhort
thoughtlessly - gedankenlos
"O George, never ask me to do that. The window must always be left open for them, always, always."
left open - aufgelassen
Now it was his turn to beg her pardon; and she went into the day-nursery and played, and soon he was asleep; and while he slept, Wendy and John and Michael flew into the room.
Oh no. We have written it so, because that was the charming arrangement planned by them before we left the ship; but something must have happened since then, for it is not they who have flown in, it is Peter and Tinker Bell.
Peter's first words tell all.
"Quick Tink," he whispered, "close the window; bar it! That's right. Now you and I must get away by the door; and when Wendy comes she will think her mother has barred her out; and she will have to go back with me."
Now I understand what had hitherto puzzled me, why when Peter had exterminated the pirates he did not return to the island and leave Tink to escort the children to the mainland. This trick had been in his head all the time.
exterminated - ausgerottet; ausrotten, ausrotten
escort - Eskorte, Geleit, Begleitperson, eskortieren
Instead of feeling that he was behaving badly he danced with glee; then he peeped into the day-nursery to see who was playing. He whispered to Tink, "It's Wendy's mother! She is a pretty lady, but not so pretty as my mother. Her mouth is full of thimbles, but not so full as my mother's was."
thimbles - Fingerhüte; Fingerhut, ein Fingerhut voll, Aufnahmedose, Becher
Of course he knew nothing whatever about his mother; but he sometimes bragged about her.
bragged - geprahlt; angeben, prahlen
He did not know the tune, which was "Home, Sweet Home," but he knew it was saying, "Come back, Wendy, Wendy, Wendy"; and he cried exultantly, "You will never see Wendy again, lady, for the window is barred!"
tune - Melodie; stimmen
exultantly - jubelnd
He peeped in again to see why the music had stopped, and now he saw that Mrs. Darling had laid her head on the box, and that two tears were sitting on her eyes.
"She wants me to unbar the window," thought Peter, "but I won't, not I!"
unbar - (unbarred) riegelte auf
He peeped again, and the tears were still there, or another two had taken their place.
"She's awfully fond of Wendy," he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy.
The reason was so simple: "I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady."
But the lady would not make the best of it, and he was unhappy. He ceased to look at her, but even then she would not let go of him. He skipped about and made funny faces, but when he stopped it was just as if she were inside him, knocking.
"Oh, all right," he said at last, and gulped. Then he unbarred the window. "Come on, Tink," he cried, with a frightful sneer at the laws of nature; "we don't want any silly mothers;" and he flew away.
sneer - spotten; Spott; grinsen, spötteln
Thus Wendy and John and Michael found the window open for them after all, which of course was more than they deserved. They alighted on the floor, quite unashamed of themselves, and the youngest one had already forgotten his home.
deserved - Verdient; verdienen
unashamed - ohne Scham
"John," he said, looking around him doubtfully, "I think I have been here before."
"Of course you have, you silly. There is your old bed."
"So it is," Michael said, but not with much conviction.
"I say," cried John, "the kennel!" and he dashed across to look into it.
"Perhaps Nana is inside it," Wendy said.
But John whistled. "Hullo," he said, "there's a man inside it."
whistled - gepfiffen; Pfeife, Trillerpfeife, Flöte, Pfeifen
"It's father!" exclaimed Wendy.
"Let me see father," Michael begged eagerly, and he took a good look. "He is not so big as the pirate I killed," he said with such frank disappointment that I am glad Mr. Darling was asleep; it would have been sad if those had been the first words he heard his little Michael say.
frank - freimütig, offen
disappointment - Enttäuschung, Verdruss, Misserfolg, Fehlschlag, Reinfall
Wendy and John had been taken aback somewhat at finding their father in the kennel.
aback - abgelehnt; rückwärts
"Surely," said John, like one who had lost faith in his memory, "he used not to sleep in the kennel?"
"John," Wendy said falteringly, "perhaps we don't remember the old life as well as we thought we did."
falteringly - zögernd
A chill fell upon them; and serve them right.
"It is very careless of mother," said that young scoundrel John, "not to be here when we come back."
It was then that Mrs. Darling began playing again.
"It's mother!" cried Wendy, peeping.
"So it is!" said John.
"Then are you not really our mother, Wendy?" asked Michael, who was surely sleepy.
"Oh dear!" exclaimed Wendy, with her first real twinge of remorse [for having gone], "it was quite time we came back."
twinge - Stechen, stechender Schmerz, Stich
"Let us creep in," John suggested, "and put our hands over her eyes."
creep in - unterlaufen, einschleichen
But Wendy, who saw that they must break the joyous news more gently, had a better plan.
"Let us all slip into our beds, and be there when she comes in, just as if we had never been away."
And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. The children waited for her cry of joy, but it did not come. She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still.
She sat down in the chair by the fire, where in the old days she had nursed them.
They could not understand this, and a cold fear fell upon all the three of them.
"Mother!" Wendy cried.
"That's Wendy," she said, but still she was sure it was the dream.
"Mother!"
"That's John," she said.
"Mother!" cried Michael. He knew her now.
"That's Michael," she said, and she stretched out her arms for the three little selfish children they would never envelop again. Yes, they did, they went round Wendy and John and Michael, who had slipped out of bed and run to her.
envelop - Umschlag; einhüllen, umhüllen
"George, George!" she cried when she could speak; and Mr. Darling woke to share her bliss, and Nana came rushing in. There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.
ecstasies - Ekstasen; Ekstase, Ekstase, Ekstase, Ecstasy, Teile, Pillen
I hope you want to know what became of the other boys. They were waiting below to give Wendy time to explain about them; and when they had counted five hundred they went up. They went up by the stair, because they thought this would make a better impression.
They stood in a row in front of Mrs. Darling, with their hats off, and wishing they were not wearing their pirate clothes. They said nothing, but their eyes asked her to have them. They ought to have looked at Mr. Darling also, but they forgot about him.
Of course Mrs. Darling said at once that she would have them; but Mr. Darling was curiously depressed, and they saw that he considered six a rather large number.
depressed - deprimiert; deprimieren
"I must say," he said to Wendy, "that you don't do things by halves," a grudging remark which the twins thought was pointed at them.
grudging - widerwillig; (grudge); Groll, Neid, missgönnen
The first twin was the proud one, and he asked, flushing, "Do you think we should be too much of a handful, sir? Because, if so, we can go away."
flushing - Wasserspülung (Vorgang); Spülung, durchflutend
"Father!" Wendy cried, shocked; but still the cloud was on him. He knew he was behaving unworthily, but he could not help it.
unworthily - unwürdig
"We could lie doubled up," said Nibs.
"I always cut their hair myself," said Wendy.
"George!" Mrs. Darling exclaimed, pained to see her dear one showing himself in such an unfavourable light.
unfavourable - ungünstig
Then he burst into tears, and the truth came out. He was as glad to have them as she was, he said, but he thought they should have asked his consent as well as hers, instead of treating him as a cypher [zero] in his own house.
consent - zustimmen, einwilligen, Zustimmung, Konsens, Einverständnis
cypher - Chiffre
"I don't think he is a cypher," Tootles cried instantly. "Do you think he is a cypher, Curly?"
"No, I don't. Do you think he is a cypher, Slightly?"
"Rather not. Twin, what do you think?"
It turned out that not one of them thought him a cypher; and he was absurdly gratified, and said he would find space for them all in the drawing-room if they fitted in.
absurdly - absurd; sinnwidrig
"We'll fit in, sir," they assured him.
"Then follow the leader," he cried gaily. "Mind you, I am not sure that we have a drawing-room, but we pretend we have, and it's all the same. Hoop la!"
Hoop - Reifen
la - US-Bundesstaat
He went off dancing through the house, and they all cried "Hoop la!" and danced after him, searching for the drawing-room; and I forget whether they found it, but at any rate they found corners, and they all fitted in.
As for Peter, he saw Wendy once again before he flew away. He did not exactly come to the window, but he brushed against it in passing so that she could open it if she liked and call to him. That is what she did.
"Hullo, Wendy, good-bye," he said.
"Oh dear, are you going away?"
"Yes."
"You don't feel, Peter," she said falteringly, "that you would like to say anything to my parents about a very sweet subject?"
"No."
"About me, Peter?"
"No."
Mrs. Darling came to the window, for at present she was keeping a sharp eye on Wendy. She told Peter that she had adopted all the other boys, and would like to adopt him also.
sharp eye - Scharfblick
"Would you send me to school?" he inquired craftily.
craftily - schlau; listige
"Yes."
"And then to an office?"
"I suppose so."
"Soon I would be a man?"
"Very soon."
"I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things," he told her passionately. "I don't want to be a man. O Wendy's mother, if I was to wake up and feel there was a beard!"
beard - Bart; Alibifreundin
"Peter," said Wendy the comforter, "I should love you in a beard;" and Mrs. Darling stretched out her arms to him, but he repulsed her.
comforter - Trostspender; Tröster; Bettdecke, Plumeau, Plümo
repulsed - abgewehrt; zurückschlagen, abweisen
"Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man."
"But where are you going to live?"
"With Tink in the house we built for Wendy. The fairies are to put it high up among the tree tops where they sleep at nights."
"How lovely," cried Wendy so longingly that Mrs. Darling tightened her grip.
longingly - sehnsüchtige
tightened - verschärft; anziehen
"I thought all the fairies were dead," Mrs. Darling said.
"There are always a lot of young ones," explained Wendy, who was now quite an authority, "because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are."
nests - Nester; Nest
mauve - fliederfarben; blasslila; q airly uncommon also
"I shall have such fun," said Peter, with eye on Wendy.
"It will be rather lonely in the evening," she said, "sitting by the fire."
"I shall have Tink."
"Tink can't go a twentieth part of the way round," she reminded him a little tartly.
twentieth part - zwanzigstel
"Sneaky tell-tale!" Tink called out from somewhere round the corner.
Sneaky - raffiniert; duckmäuserig, hinterhältig
"It doesn't matter," Peter said.
"O Peter, you know it matters."
"Well, then, come with me to the little house."
"May I, mummy?"
"Certainly not. I have got you home again, and I mean to keep you."
"But he does so need a mother."
"So do you, my love."
"Oh, all right," Peter said, as if he had asked her from politeness merely; but Mrs. Darling saw his mouth twitch, and she made this handsome offer: to let Wendy go to him for a week every year to do his spring cleaning. Wendy would have preferred a more permanent arrangement; and it seemed to her that spring would be long in coming; but this promise sent Peter away quite gay again.
more permanent - parmanenteres
He had no sense of time, and was so full of adventures that all I have told you about him is only a halfpenny-worth of them. I suppose it was because Wendy knew this that her last words to him were these rather plaintive ones:
halfpenny - einen halben Penny
"You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring cleaning time comes?"
Of course Peter promised; and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else, Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemed satisfied.
satisfied - befriedigen, zufriedenstellen
Of course all the boys went to school; and most of them got into Class III, but Slightly was put first into Class IV and then into Class V. Class I is the top class. Before they had attended school a week they saw what goats they had been not to remain on the island; but it was too late now, and soon they settled down to being as ordinary as you or me or Jenkins minor [the younger Jenkins]. It is sad to have to say that the power to fly gradually left them. At first Nana tied their feet to the bed-posts so that they should not fly away in the night; and one of their diversions by day was to pretend to fall off buses [the English double-deckers]; but by and by they ceased to tug at their bonds in bed, and found that they hurt themselves when they let go of the bus.
top class - Spitzenklasse
goats - Ziegen; Ziege, Geiß, Bock
settled - erledigt; abklären
minor - minderjährig; gering, geringfügig, klein, unbedeutend
gradually - nach und nach, allmählich, stufenweise, schrittweise
diversions - Ablenkungen; Ablenkung, Ablenkungsmanöver
deckers - Decker
tug - zerren; schleppen; Ruck
In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.
Michael believed longer than the other boys, though they jeered at him; so he was with Wendy when Peter came for her at the end of the first year. She flew away with Peter in the frock she had woven from leaves and berries in the Neverland, and her one fear was that he might notice how short it had become; but he never noticed, he had so much to say about himself.
jeered - verhöhnt; (to jeer) spotten, verhöhnen, sticheln
frock - Kleid, Kutte
woven - gewebt; gewoben; (weave) gewebt; gewoben
berries - Beeren; Beere
She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new adventures had crowded the old ones from his mind.
thrilling - aufregend; Nervenkitzel; erregen, erschauern, durchdringen
"Who is Captain Hook?" he asked with interest when she spoke of the arch enemy.
arch - Bogen
"Don't you remember," she asked, amazed, "how you killed him and saved all our lives?"
"I forget them after I kill them," he replied carelessly.
When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her he said, "Who is Tinker Bell?"
"O Peter," she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
"There are such a lot of them," he said. "I expect she is no more."
I expect he was right, for fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
Wendy was pained too to find that the past year was but as yesterday to Peter; it had seemed such a long year of waiting to her. But he was exactly as fascinating as ever, and they had a lovely spring cleaning in the little house on the tree tops.
Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet; but he never came.
"Perhaps he is ill," Michael said.
"You know he is never ill."
Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.
Peter came next spring cleaning; and the strange thing was that he never knew he had missed a year.
That was the last time the girl Wendy ever saw him. For a little longer she tried for his sake not to have growing pains; and she felt she was untrue to him when she got a prize for general knowledge. But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys. Wendy was grown up. You need not be sorry for her.
untrue - unwahr
general knowledge - Allgemeinwissen , Sachkunde
met again - wiedergesehen
She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than other girls.
All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine-driver [train engineer]. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord.
engine-driver - (engine-driver) Maschinist
You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once John.
wig - Perücke
bearded - bärtig; Bart, Alibifreundin
Wendy was married in white with a pink sash. It is strange to think that Peter did not alight in the church and forbid the banns [formal announcement of a marriage].
sash - Schieberahmen, Schärpe
alight - aussteigen; landen
forbid - verbieten, untersagen, verweigern, vorenthalten
banns - Aufgebot
Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
ink - Tinte
She was called Jane, and always had an odd inquiring look, as if from the moment she arrived on the mainland she wanted to ask questions. When she was old enough to ask them they were mostly about Peter Pan. She loved to hear of Peter, and Wendy told her all she could remember in the very nursery from which the famous flight had taken place.
Jane - Johanna
inquiring - Erkundigen Sie sich; erkundigen
It was Jane's nursery now, for her father had bought it at the three per cents [mortgage rate] from Wendy's father, who was no longer fond of stairs. Mrs. Darling was now dead and forgotten.
mortgage - Hypothek; verpfänden, eine Hypothek aufnehmen
There were only two beds in the nursery now, Jane's and her nurse's; and there was no kennel, for Nana also had passed away. She died of old age, and at the end she had been rather difficult to get on with; being very firmly convinced that no one knew how to look after children except herself.
Once a week Jane's nurse had her evening off; and then it was Wendy's part to put Jane to bed. That was the time for stories. It was Jane's invention to raise the sheet over her mother's head and her own, thus making a tent, and in the awful darkness to whisper:
whisper - Geflüster, Flüstern, Wispern
"What do we see now?"
"I don't think I see anything to-night," says Wendy, with a feeling that if Nana were here she would object to further conversation.
"Yes, you do," says Jane, "you see when you were a little girl."
"That is a long time ago, sweetheart," says Wendy. "Ah me, how time flies!"
sweetheart - Schätzchen; Schatz, herzensguter Mensch, Seele von Mensch
time flies - die Zeit vergeht im Fluge
"Does it fly," asks the artful child, "the way you flew when you were a little girl?"
artful - kunstvoll; geschickt, trickreich
"The way I flew? Do you know, Jane, I sometimes wonder whether I ever did really fly."
"Yes, you did."
"The dear old days when I could fly!"
"Why can't you fly now, mother?"
"Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way."
"Why do they forget the way?"
"Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly."
"What is gay and innocent and heartless? I do wish I were gay and innocent and heartless."
Or perhaps Wendy admits she does see something.
"I do believe," she says, "that it is this nursery."
"I do believe it is," says Jane. "Go on."
They are now embarked on the great adventure of the night when Peter flew in looking for his shadow.
embarked - eingeschifft; einschiffen, an Bord gehen, beginnen, antreten
"The foolish fellow," says Wendy, "tried to stick it on with soap, and when he could not he cried, and that woke me, and I sewed it on for him."
"You have missed a bit," interrupts Jane, who now knows the story better than her mother. "When you saw him sitting on the floor crying, what did you say?"
interrupts - unterbricht; unterbrechen
"I sat up in bed and I said, 'Boy, why are you crying?'"
"Yes, that was it," says Jane, with a big breath.
"And then he flew us all away to the Neverland and the fairies and the pirates and the redskins and the mermaids'lagoon, and the home under the ground, and the little house."
"Yes! which did you like best of all?"
"I think I liked the home under the ground best of all."
"Yes, so do I. What was the last thing Peter ever said to you?"
"The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.'"
"Yes."
"But, alas, he forgot all about me," Wendy said it with a smile. She was as grown up as that.
"What did his crow sound like?" Jane asked one evening.
"It was like this," Wendy said, trying to imitate Peter's crow.
imitate - imitieren
"No, it wasn't," Jane said gravely, "it was like this;" and she did it ever so much better than her mother.
Wendy was a little startled. "My darling, how can you know?"
"I often hear it when I am sleeping," Jane said.
"Ah yes, many girls hear it when they are sleeping, but I was the only one who heard it awake."
"Lucky you," said Jane.
And then one night came the tragedy. It was the spring of the year, and the story had been told for the night, and Jane was now asleep in her bed. Wendy was sitting on the floor, very close to the fire, so as to see to darn, for there was no other light in the nursery; and while she sat darning she heard a crow. Then the window blew open as of old, and Peter dropped in on the floor.
He was exactly the same as ever, and Wendy saw at once that he still had all his first teeth.
He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
daring - gewagt; mutig; Wagemut, Kühnheit; (dare) gewagt; mutig; Wagemut
"Hullo, Wendy," he said, not noticing any difference, for he was thinking chiefly of himself; and in the dim light her white dress might have been the nightgown in which he had seen her first.
"Hullo, Peter," she replied faintly, squeezing herself as small as possible. Something inside her was crying "Woman, Woman, let go of me."
squeezing - abquetschend, quetschend; (squeeze); drücken, klemmen, pressen
"Hullo, where is John?" he asked, suddenly missing the third bed.
"John is not here now," she gasped.
"Is Michael asleep?" he asked, with a careless glance at Jane.
glance - blicken; Blick, Streifblick, Glanz, Steinkohle
"Yes," she answered; and now she felt that she was untrue to Jane as well as to Peter.
"That is not Michael," she said quickly, lest a judgment should fall on her.
judgment - Urteil; Urteilsvermögen; Beurteilung; Richtspruch
Peter looked. "Hullo, is it a new one?"
"Yes."
"Boy or girl?"
"Girl."
Now surely he would understand; but not a bit of it.
"Peter," she said, faltering, "are you expecting me to fly away with you?"
faltering - ins Stocken geraten; schwankend; (falter); Wanken, wackeln
"Of course; that is why I have come." He added a little sternly, "Have you forgotten that this is spring cleaning time?"
She knew it was useless to say that he had let many spring cleaning times pass.
useless - nutzlos, unnützlich, wertlos
"I can't come," she said apologetically, "I have forgotten how to fly."
"I'll soon teach you again."
"O Peter, don't waste the fairy dust on me."
She had risen; and now at last a fear assailed him. "What is it?" he cried, shrinking.
shrinking - schrumpfen, schrumpfen, abnehmen, drücken
"I will turn up the light," she said, "and then you can see for yourself."
For almost the only time in his life that I know of, Peter was afraid. "Don't turn up the light," he cried.
She let her hands play in the hair of the tragic boy. She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet-eyed smiles.
Then she turned up the light, and Peter saw. He gave a cry of pain; and when the tall beautiful creature stooped to lift him in her arms he drew back sharply.
stooped - gekrümmt; Buckel, sich beugen
"What is it?" he cried again.
She had to tell him.
"I am old, Peter. I am ever so much more than twenty. I grew up long ago."
"You promised not to!"
"I couldn't help it. I am a married woman, Peter."
"No, you're not."
"Yes, and the little girl in the bed is my baby."
"No, she's not."
But he supposed she was; and he took a step towards the sleeping child with his dagger upraised. Of course he did not strike. He sat down on the floor instead and sobbed; and Wendy did not know how to comfort him, though she could have done it so easily once. She was only a woman now, and she ran out of the room to try to think.
upraised - hochgezogen; erheben
sobbed - geschluchzt; Huso
comfort - Behaglichkeit, Bequemlichkeit, Komfort, Trost, Tröstung
Peter continued to cry, and soon his sobs woke Jane. She sat up in bed, and was interested at once.
"Boy," she said, "why are you crying?"
Peter rose and bowed to her, and she bowed to him from the bed.
"Hullo," he said.
"Hullo," said Jane.
"My name is Peter Pan," he told her.
"Yes, I know."
"I came back for my mother," he explained, "to take her to the Neverland."
"Yes, I know," Jane said, "I have been waiting for you."
When Wendy returned diffidently she found Peter sitting on the bed-post crowing gloriously, while Jane in her nighty was flying round the room in solemn ecstasy.
gloriously - herrlich, glorreiche
nighty - Nachthemd
flying round - umfliegend
ecstasy - Ekstase; Ecstasy, Teile, Pillen
"She is my mother," Peter explained; and Jane descended and stood by his side, with the look in her face that he liked to see on ladies when they gazed at him.
descended - abstammen; absteigen, niedergehen, herunterkommen, herabsteigen
"He does so need a mother," Jane said.
"Yes, I know," Wendy admitted rather forlornly; "no one knows it so well as I."
"Good-bye," said Peter to Wendy; and he rose in the air, and the shameless Jane rose with him; it was already her easiest way of moving about.
shameless - schamlos, unverschämt
Wendy rushed to the window.
"No, no," she cried.
"It is just for spring cleaning time," Jane said, "he wants me always to do his spring cleaning."
"If only I could go with you," Wendy sighed.
"You see you can't fly," said Jane.
Of course in the end Wendy let them fly away together. Our last glimpse of her shows her at the window, watching them receding into the sky until they were as small as stars.
Glimpse - Ein Blick; Blick; Aufblitzen, Aufleuchten, Schimmer, entdecken
receding - zurückgehen; zurücktreten
As you look at Wendy, you may see her hair becoming white, and her figure little again, for all this happened long ago. Jane is now a common grown-up, with a daughter called Margaret; and every spring cleaning time, except when he forgets, Peter comes for Margaret and takes her to the Neverland, where she tells him stories about himself, to which he listens eagerly.
When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter's mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
THE END