The Invisible Man, By H. G. Wells
invisible - unsichtbar; versteckt
Chapter - Kapitel, Abschnitt, Verband, Ortsverband, Sektion
strange - seltsam, sonderbar, komisch, verwunderlich, fremd, ausländisch
arrival - Ankunft
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried.
Stranger - Ein Fremder; Fremde, Fremdling
wintry - winterlich
biting - beißend; bissig, beißend; stechend; (bit); beißend; bissig
wind - aufspulen, rollen, blasen, aufwickeln, abspulen
driving snow - Schneetreiben
Last - letzte, zuletzt, letzter, vorig; dauern, andauern
snowfall - Schneefall
railway station - Bahnhof , Eisenbahnstation
portmanteau - Handkoffer
thickly - dick auftragen; dick
gloved - Handschuhe; Handschuh
wrapped up - (wrap up) einwickeln, einpacken, packen (Paket), einhüllen
brim - Krempe; übersprudeln; Rand
soft - sanft, mild, weich
felt hat - Filzhut
hid - versteckt; (hide) verstecken
inch - Zoll (2, 54 cm), Zoll (Längenmaß)
shiny - glänzend; leuchtend, funkelnd, wunderbar
tip - Tipp; Tip
piled - gestapelt; Haufen, Pfahl, Pulk
itself - von selbst, von allein, sich selbst
against - gegen, mit, wider
shoulders - schultern
chest - Kiste, Brustkasten, Brust, Koffer
crest - Wappen; Gipfel; Kamm, Haube, Krone, Helmzier, Zimir
burden - Belastung; Refrain, Last, Möller (Hüttenwesen); belasten
He staggered into the "Coach and Horses" more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down. "A fire," he cried, "in the name of human charity! A room and a fire!" He stamped and shook the snow from off himself in the bar, and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest parlour to strike his bargain. And with that much introduction, that and a couple of sovereigns flung upon the table, he took up his quarters in the inn.
staggered - gestaffelt; Staffelung; abstufen, staffeln, wanken
coach - Kutsche; Wagen; Trainer, Trainerin, Coach, Coachin, Reisebus
dead - tot, gestorben, leblos, bewegungslos, regungslos, erstarrt
alive - lebendig
flung - geschleudert; Affäre (Liebesaffäre)
cried - geweint hat; weinen, schreien, schreien, rufen, Weinen
human - menschlich
charity - Nächstenliebe; Wohltätigkeit; Wohltätigkeitsorganisation
stamped - abgestempelt
shook - geschüttelt; (to shake) erschüttern, schütteln
hall - Flur, Korridor, Diele, Halle, Saal
guest - Gast; gastieren
parlour - Wohnzimmer, Stube; Sprechzimmer
strike - streichen; schlagen; prägen; streiken; scheinen; die Fahne streichen; Strike; Streik; Schlag
bargain - Angebot; Vereinbarung, Abmachung, Schnäppchen, Anschaffung
introduction - Einführung; Vorstellung
couple - Paar; einige, ein paar
sovereigns - Souveräne; souverän, Souverän
upon - auf; mit
Inn - Gasthaus; Herberge
Mrs. Hall lit the fire and left him there while she went to prepare him a meal with her own hands. A guest to stop at Iping in the wintertime was an unheard-of piece of luck, let alone a guest who was no "haggler," and she was resolved to show herself worthy of her good fortune. As soon as the bacon was well under way, and Millie, her lymphatic maid, had been brisked up a bit by a few deftly chosen expressions of contempt, she carried the cloth, plates, and glasses into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost éclat.
wintertime - Winterzeit
unheard - ungehört
luck - Glück
alone - allein, einsam, selbst, nur, ausschließlich
haggler - Feilschen; Feilscher, Feilscherin
resolved - geklärt; auflösen, beschließen
worthy - würdig
Fortune - Fortuna; Schicksal, Glück, Vermögen
bacon - Speck
lymphatic - lymphatisch
maid - Dienstmädchen; Mädchen; Stubenmädchen
brisked - beflügelt; lebhaft, rege, vital, lebhaft, vital, anregend
bit - Häppchen, Gebiss, Bit
deftly - Geschickt; gewandt, flink
expressions - Ausdrücke; Ausdruck, Redensart, Ausdruck, Miene, Ausdruck
contempt - Verachtung; Schande, Blamage, Mißachtung, Beamtenbeleidigung
cloth - Stoff, Tuch
plates - Teller; Platte (Druckplatte); Lagerplatte, Lochstein (Uhr)
lay - legen; richten (Tisch)
utmost - äußerst, höchst, Äußerstes, Möglichstes
éclat - Eklat
Although the fire was burning up briskly, she was surprised to see that her visitor still wore his hat and coat, standing with his back to her and staring out of the window at the falling snow in the yard. His gloved hands were clasped behind him, and he seemed to be lost in thought. She noticed that the melting snow that still sprinkled his shoulders dripped upon her carpet. "Can I take your hat and coat, sir?" she said, "and give them a good dry in the kitchen?"
although - obwohl, obschon, trotzdem
burning - Verbrennen; brennend; Verbrennung; (burn) Verbrennen; brennend; Verbrennung
briskly - zügig; forsch
surprised - überrascht; Überraschung, Überraschung
Yard - (der) Yard
clasped - umklammert; Spange, Klammer, Schnalle, Griff, greifen
seemed - schien; scheinen, dünken
be lost - verloren gehen, nicht mehr weiterwissen, sich verirrt haben
noticed - bemerkt; Bekanntmachung, Benachrichtigung, Mitteilung
melting - Schmelzen; (melt); Schmelze; Schmelzwasser; schmelzen
sprinkled - bestreut; sprühen, besprühen, Nieselregen
dripped - getropft; Tropfen; sickern, tröpfeln, träufeln
carpet - Teppich, Teppichboden, auslegen, bedecken
dry - trocken; trocknen, abtrocknen
"No," he said without turning.
She was not sure she had heard him, and was about to repeat her question.
He turned his head and looked at her over his shoulder. "I prefer to keep them on," he said with emphasis, and she noticed that he wore big blue spectacles with sidelights, and had a bush side-whisker over his coat-collar that completely hid his cheeks and face.
emphasis - Nachdruck, Eindringlichkeit, Emphase, Schwerpunkt
spectacles - Brillen; Spektakel
sidelights - Streiflichter; Seitenlicht
bush - Buchse, Strauch, Busch
whisker - Barthaar, Barthaare, Schnurrhaar, Vibrisse, Haaresbreite
collar - Kragen; Halskette; Halsband; Ring
completely - vollständig, völlig, ganz, vollumfänglich
cheeks - Wangen; Backe, qualifierormal, Backe, Stirn, Mick, Pumpenmick
"Very well, sir," she said. "As you like. In a bit the room will be warmer."
He made no answer, and had turned his face away from her again, and Mrs. Hall, feeling that her conversational advances were ill-timed, laid the rest of the table things in a quick staccato and whisked out of the room. When she returned he was still standing there, like a man of stone, his back hunched, his collar turned up, his dripping hat-brim turned down, hiding his face and ears completely.
conversational - Gesprächig
advances - Vorschüsse; erhöhen, erheben, befördern, vorrücken, Fortschritt
ill - krank, siech, übel, schlecht, Übel
laid - gelegt; richten (Tisch)
rest - Ruhe, Stütze, Lehne, ein Ăśbriges; bleiben, ruhen, ausruhen
staccato - Stakkato; abgehackt
whisked - gequirlt; flitzen, wischen
stone - Stein; Edelstein, Schmuckstein, Kern, steinigen
hunched - Hügel, Protuberanz, Buckel, gekrümmte Haltung, krummer Rücken
dripping - tropft; Bratenfett; (drip) tropft; Bratenfett
turned down - umgeklappt
hiding - (to hide) verstecken, verbergen
She put down the eggs and bacon with considerable emphasis, and called rather than said to him, "Your lunch is served, sir."
considerable - erheblich, beträchtlich, beachtlich
served - bedient; Angabe, dienen, servieren, aufschlagen
"Thank you," he said at the same time, and did not stir until she was closing the door. Then he swung round and approached the table with a certain eager quickness.
stir - erschüttern, bewegen, sich rühren, verrühren; Aufregung
swung - geschwungen; schwingen, schaukeln, schwanken, schaukeln
round - runden; Kontrollgang, Runde, Rundgang, rund
approached - angesprochen; sich nähern, nahekommen, ähnlich sein
Certain - gewiss, sicher, irgendein, bestimmt
eager - eifrig, erwartungsvoll, begierig
quickness - Schnelligkeit
As she went behind the bar to the kitchen she heard a sound repeated at regular intervals. Chirk, chirk, chirk, it went, the sound of a spoon being rapidly whisked round a basin. "That girl!" she said. "There! I clean forgot it. It's her being so long!" And while she herself finished mixing the mustard, she gave Millie a few verbal stabs for her excessive slowness. She had cooked the ham and eggs, laid the table, and done everything, while Millie (help indeed!
bar - Takt; Schankstube; Latte (Sport); Balken, Leiste, Stange, Strich
regular - regulär, regelmäßig, Gleichmäßig, normal, gewöhnlich, Stammgast
intervals - Intervalle; Abstand, Zwischenraum, Intervall
spoon - Löffelchen schlafen; Löffel
rapidly - schnell
basin - Becken
mixing - verrühren, mischen, mixen, vermischen, versetzen
mustard - Senf; senffarben
verbal - wörtlich, verbal, mündlich, zeitwörtlich
stabs - Stiche; Stich (Messer-); erstechen
excessive - übertrieben; übermäßig, exzessiv
slowness - Langsamkeit, Trägheit
Ham - Schinken
indeed - tatsächlich; in der Tat, genau, allerdings, checkgewiss
had only succeeded in delaying the mustard. And him a new guest and wanting to stay! Then she filled the mustard pot, and, putting it with a certain stateliness upon a gold and black tea-tray, carried it into the parlour.
succeeded - erfolgreich; nachfolgen, gelingen, geraten, nachfolgen
delaying - verzögern; Verspätung, Verzögerung, Verzug
mustard pot - Senftopf
stateliness - Stattlichkeit
gold - Gold
tea-tray - (tea-tray) Teebrett
She rapped and entered promptly. As she did so her visitor moved quickly, so that she got but a glimpse of a white object disappearing behind the table. It would seem he was picking something from the floor. She rapped down the mustard pot on the table, and then she noticed the overcoat and hat had been taken off and put over a chair in front of the fire, and a pair of wet boots threatened rust to her steel fender.
rapped - gerappt; pochen, schlagen; Geplapper
entered - eingegeben; reingehen, hineingehen, hereingehen, eintreten
promptly - unverzüglich; bereit
Glimpse - Ein Blick; Blick; Aufblitzen, Aufleuchten, Schimmer, entdecken
disappearing - verschwinden, entschwinden, zum Verschwinden bringen
Seem - scheinen, dünken
picking - Kommissionierung; pflücken; (pic) Kommissionierung; pflücken
pot - Blumentopf
overcoat - Mantel
taken off - abgeflogen
put over - gestülpt
wet - nass, feucht, befeuchten, durchnässen, nass machen
threatened - bedroht; drohen, bedrohen, bedrohen, androhen
rust - rosten, verrosten, einrosten; Rost (Eisen)
steel - verstählen; Stahl
Fender - Kotflügel; Schutzblech; Fender
She went to these things resolutely. "I suppose I may have them to dry now," she said in a voice that brooked no denial.
resolutely - Entschlossenheit
suppose - annehmen, vermuten, vermeinen
voice - Stimme; äußern
brooked - gebrochen; Bach
denial - Verweigerung; Leugnung, Dementi, Bestreitung, Abstreitung
"Leave the hat," said her visitor, in a muffled voice, and turning she saw he had raised his head and was sitting and looking at her.
muffled - gedämpft; umhüllen, einhüllen
raised - angehoben; Gehaltszulage; aufsteigen, anheben, erhöhen
For a moment she stood gaping at him, too surprised to speak.
gaping at - angaffend
He held a white cloth-it was a serviette he had brought with him-over the lower part of his face, so that his mouth and jaws were completely hidden, and that was the reason of his muffled voice. But it was not that which startled Mrs. Hall. It was the fact that all his forehead above his blue glasses was covered by a white bandage, and that another covered his ears, leaving not a scrap of his face exposed excepting only his pink, peaked nose.
held - gehalten; innehaben
serviette - die Serviette
lower part - Unterteil
jaws - Kiefer, Maul
hidden - versteckt; verbergen, verheimlichen, verstecken, verdecken
startled - erschrocken; aufschrecken, scheuen, erschrecken
forehead - Stirn
covered - abgedeckt; Deckel, Abdeckung, Deckung, Versteck
bandage - Pflaster; Verband; bandagieren
scrap - ausrangieren; Abfallholz, Teil, Schrott
exposed - ausgesetzt; aufdecken, offenbaren, entblößen, bloßlegen
excepting - ausnehmen, ausklammern, ausschließen, widersprechen, außer
peaked - einen Höhepunkt erreicht; Höchstwert, Pik (Berg), Spitze
It was bright, pink, and shiny just as it had been at first. He wore a dark-brown velvet jacket with a high, black, linen-lined collar turned up about his neck. The thick black hair, escaping as it could below and between the cross bandages, projected in curious tails and horns, giving him the strangest appearance conceivable. This muffled and bandaged head was so unlike what she had anticipated, that for a moment she was rigid.
bright - fröhlich, aufgeweckt, leuchtend, klar, hell
dark-brown - (dark-brown) dunkelbraun
velvet - Samt
linen - Wäsche; Leinen; Heimtextilien
neck - knutschen; Genick, Zapfen (Wellenhals), Nacken
thick - dick; dicht; plump; mitten in
escaping - fliehen; entgehen, entgehen, ausweichen, davonkommen, Flucht
Cross - Kreuz; Kreuzzeichen; Kreuzung; Cross; Flanke; quer; entgegengesetzt
bandages - Verbände; Verband, bandagieren
Curious - neugierig, sonderbar, merkwürdig
tails - Schwänze; Zipfel
horns - Hörner; Horn
Strangest - seltsam, sonderbar, komisch, verwunderlich, fremd, seltsam
appearance - Erscheinen, Auftritt, Aussehen
conceivable - denkbar
bandaged - bandagiert; Verband, bandagieren
unlike - im Gegensatz zu; ungleichartig, anders, ungleich
anticipated - vorweggenommen; vorgreifen, voraussehen, vorausahnen
rigid - steif, starr, rigide
He did not remove the serviette, but remained holding it, as she saw now, with a brown gloved hand, and regarding her with his inscrutable blue glasses. "Leave the hat," he said, speaking very distinctly through the white cloth.
remove - entfernen; beseitigen; verdrängen; umziehen
remained - geblieben; Überrest (2), de
holding - haltend; (hold) haltend
regarding - bezüglich; schätzen, betrachten, berücksichtigen
inscrutable - undurchschaubar
distinctly - deutlich
Her nerves began to recover from the shock they had received. She placed the hat on the chair again by the fire. "I didn't know, sir," she began, "that-" and she stopped embarrassed.
nerves - Nerven; Nerv, Nerv, Nerv, Nerv, Nerv
recover from - abjagen
shock - Schock, Betroffenheit, Empörung, Schlag, Stoß
received - bekommen, erhalten, empfangen, kriegen, empfangen
embarrassed - peinlich; verlegen machen, demütigen, kränken
"Thank you," he said drily, glancing from her to the door and then at her again.
drily - trocken
glancing - blickend; (glance); blicken; Blick, Streifblick, Glanz
"I'll have them nicely dried, sir, at once," she said, and carried his clothes out of the room. She glanced at his white-swathed head and blue goggles again as she was going out of the door; but his napkin was still in front of his face. She shivered a little as she closed the door behind her, and her face was eloquent of her surprise and perplexity.
nicely - nett; gut
dried - getrocknet; trocken, trocken, trocknen, trocknen, t+abtrocknen
glanced - geschaut; blicken, Blick, Streifblick, Glanz, Steinkohle
swathed - ummantelt; einwickeln
goggles - Schutzbrille; glotzen
napkin - Serviette, Mundtuch
shivered - gezittert; Schauder, Schauer, zittern, frösteln
eloquent - wortgewandt
surprise - Überraschung; Überraschung
perplexity - Verwirrung; Perplexität
"I never," she whispered. "There!" She went quite softly to the kitchen, and was too preoccupied to ask Millie what she was messing about with now, when she got there.
whispered - geflüstert; Geflüster
softly - sachte; leise
preoccupied - besorgt; erfüllen
messing about - (mess about) Fisimatenten machen
The visitor sat and listened to her retreating feet. He glanced inquiringly at the window before he removed his serviette, and resumed his meal. He took a mouthful, glanced suspiciously at the window, took another mouthful, then rose and, taking the serviette in his hand, walked across the room and pulled the blind down to the top of the white muslin that obscured the lower panes.
retreating - den Rückzug antreten; Rückzug
inquiringly - neugierig
removed - entfernt; entfernen, beseitigen, verdrängen, umziehen
resumed - wiederaufgenommen; weiter; Lebenslauf; fortsetzen
mouthful - mundvoll
rose - Rosa; (rise); Rosa
pulled - gezogen; ziehen, ziehen
blind - blind, unkritisch, ignorant, Jalousie, Blind, Blinder, Blinde
top - oben; Oberteil, Spitze, Gipfel, Deckel, Kappe, Oberteil, Topp
muslin - Musselin
obscured - verdunkelt; obskur, dunkel, vernebelt, finster, düster
lower - niedriger, niedrigerer, ausfahren (Fahrgestell); abdämpfen
panes - Scheiben; Scheibe, Fensterscheibe
This left the room in a twilight. This done, he returned with an easier air to the table and his meal.
twilight - Dämmerung, Zwielicht, Halbdunkel
"The poor soul's had an accident or an op'ration or somethin'," said Mrs. Hall. "What a turn them bandages did give me, to be sure!"
soul - Inbrunst, Seele, Gefühl, Herz
accident - Unfall; Zufall
op - Teesorte
ration - Ration; rationieren
somethin - irgendetwas
She put on some more coal, unfolded the clothes-horse, and extended the traveller's coat upon this. "And they goggles! Why, he looked more like a divin'helmet than a human man!" She hung his muffler on a corner of the horse. "And holding that handkerchief over his mouth all the time. Talkin'through it! ... Perhaps his mouth was hurt too-maybe."
coal - Kohle, Steinkohle
unfolded - entfaltet; entfalten, ausbreiten, entfalten
extended - erweitert; erweitern, ausdehnen, erweitern, ausdehnen, ausweiten
helmet - Helm
hung - aufgehängt; hängen
muffler - Schalldämpfer
corner - Ecke, Winkel, in die Enge treiben
handkerchief - Taschentuch
talkin - Reden
Perhaps - vielleicht, wohl
hurt - weh tun, schmerzen, verletzen, quälen, verletzt
She turned round, as one who suddenly remembers. "Bless my soul alive!" she said, going off at a tangent; "ain't you done them taters yet, Millie?"
suddenly - plötzlich, urplötzlich
bless - segnen; selig preisen
tangent - tangiert; Tangente; Tangens; Nebensache
taters - Kartoffeln; Kartoffel
When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips.
clear away - wegräumen
disfigured - verunstaltet; entstellen, verunstalten
supposed - angenommen; annehmen, vermuten, vermeinen, vermuten, annehmen
suffered - gelitten; leiden, leiden, erleiden
confirmed - bestätigt; bestätigen, bestätigen, bekräftigen
smoking - rauchen; (smoke) rauchen
pipe - Flöte; Orgelpfeife; Rohr; senkrechter Strich
loosened - gelockert; lösen, lockern
silk - Seide
wrapped - eingewickelt; einhüllen, einwickeln, wickeln, einpacken, hüllen
mouthpiece - Sprechmuschel, Sprechkapsel, Mundstück, Sprachrohr
lips - Lippen; Lippe, Auslauf, Überlauf, Schnaupe, Ansatz
Yet it was not forgetfulness, for she saw he glanced at it as it smouldered out. He sat in the corner with his back to the window-blind and spoke now, having eaten and drunk and being comfortably warmed through, with less aggressive brevity than before. The reflection of the fire lent a kind of red animation to his big spectacles they had lacked hitherto.
forgetfulness - Vergesslichkeit; Vergessen, Vergessenheit
smouldered - geschwärmt; glimmen, schwelen
comfortably - bequem, komfortabel
aggressive - aggressiv
brevity - Kürze; Bündigkeit, Knappheit
reflection - Reflexion, Abbild, Reflektion, Abwägung
lent - verliehen; lieh
animation - Belebung, Vitalisierung, Animation
lacked - gefehlt; Gummilack
hitherto - bis zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt, bis jetzt, bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt
"I have some luggage," he said, "at Bramblehurst station," and he asked her how he could have it sent. He bowed his bandaged head quite politely in acknowledgment of her explanation. "To-morrow?" he said. "There is no speedier delivery?" and seemed quite disappointed when she answered, "No." Was she quite sure? No man with a trap who would go over?
luggage - Gepäck, Gepäckstück, Reisegepäck, etaphorical
bowed - gebeugt; Verneigung (vor), Verbeugung; Bogen, Bug (Schiff)
politely - höflich
acknowledgment - Anerkennung, Bestätigung, Anerkenntnis, Danksagung, Quittung
explanation - Erläuterung, Erklärung, Ausführung
morrow - morgen; Morgen
speedier - schneller; schnell
delivery - Lieferung; Entbindung, Geburt
disappointed - enttäuscht; enttäuschen, vorenthalten, berauben
trap - eine Falle; Fallgrube, Falle, Fahrt (im Bergwerk); einfangen
Mrs. Hall, nothing loath, answered his questions and developed a conversation. "It's a steep road by the down, sir," she said in answer to the question about a trap; and then, snatching at an opening, said, "It was there a carriage was upsettled, a year ago and more. A gentleman killed, besides his coachman. Accidents, sir, happen in a moment, don't they?"
loath - verabscheuen; abgeneigt
developed - entwickelt; entwickeln, entwickeln, entwickeln, entwickeln
steep - steil; einweichen, abschüssig
snatching - Schnappen; klauen, stehlen, Reißen
carriage - Kutsche; Gang, Haltung, Wagen, Frachtgeld, Fracht, Fuhrlohn
upsettled - aufgewühlt
gentleman - Herr; Herr, meine Herren
killed - getötet; vernichten, totmachen, löschen, zerstören, töten
besides - Außerdem; neben, neben
coachman - Kutscher
accidents - Unfälle; Unfall, Zufall, Unfall, Unfall, Unfall
But the visitor was not to be drawn so easily. "They do," he said through his muffler, eyeing her quietly through his impenetrable glasses.
easily - leicht
quietly - ruhig, leise
impenetrable - undurchdringlich; undurchlässig
"But they take long enough to get well, don't they? ... There was my sister's son, Tom, jest cut his arm with a scythe, tumbled on it in the 'ayfield, and, bless me! he was three months tied up sir. You'd hardly believe it. It's regular given me a dread of a scythe, sir."
jest - scherzen
scythe - Sense; Sichel; sensen, mähen
tumbled - getrommelt; Sturz, Fall, Überschlag, Absturz, Purzelbaum, Rolle
tied - gebunden; zusammenbinden
hardly - hart, rau, kaum
dread - schaudern, grauen, gruseln, grausen
"I can quite understand that," said the visitor.
"He was afraid, one time, that he'd have to have an op'ration-he was that bad, sir."
The visitor laughed abruptly, a bark of a laugh that he seemed to bite and kill in his mouth. "Was he?" he said.
abruptly - abrupt, plötzlich, unerwartet, abgerissen, abschüssig
bark - Bellen
bite - beißen; Biss; Stich; Bissen
kill - vernichten, totmachen, löschen, zerstören, töten
"He was, sir. And no laughing matter to them as had the doing for him, as I had-my sister being took up with her little ones so much. There was bandages to do, sir, and bandages to undo. So that if I may make so bold as to say it, sir-"
matter - Materie; Masse, Substanz, Stoff, Angelegenheit, Anlass
undo - öffnen, aufmachen, etwas rückgängig machen, annulieren
bold - kräftig, kühn, klar, keck, heftig, deutlich, fett
"Will you get me some matches?" said the visitor, quite abruptly. "My pipe is out."
matches - Streichhölzer; Wettkampf, Kampf (Sport)
Mrs. Hall was pulled up suddenly. It was certainly rude of him, after telling him all she had done. She gasped at him for a moment, and remembered the two sovereigns. She went for the matches.
Certainly - sicherlich, zweifellos, gewiss, freilich
rude - grob, unhöflich, frech, unverschämt
gasped - keuchte; keuchen, japsen, prusten, keuchen, Atemzug, Luftholen
"Thanks," he said concisely, as she put them down, and turned his shoulder upon her and stared out of the window again. It was altogether too discouraging. Evidently he was sensitive on the topic of operations and bandages. She did not "make so bold as to say," however, after all. But his snubbing way had irritated her, and Millie had a hot time of it that afternoon.
concisely - prägnant
altogether - ganz und gar, ohne Ausnahme, ausnahmslos, insgesamt
discouraging - entmutigend; entmutigen, abschrecken, abraten, abraten von
evidently - offensichtlich
sensitive - empfindlich, sensibel
operations - Operationen; Betrieb, Betrieb, Operation, Operation, Operation
snubbing - Brüskierung; anfahrend; (snub) Brüskierung; anfahrend
irritated - gereizt; reizen, irritieren, ärgern
The visitor remained in the parlour until four o'clock, without giving the ghost of an excuse for an intrusion. For the most part he was quite still during that time; it would seem he sat in the growing darkness smoking in the firelight-perhaps dozing.
ghost - Gespenst, Geist, Phantom, Spuk
Excuse - Wie bitte; entschuldigen, verzeihen, sich entschuldigen
intrusion - Einmischung; Intrusion, Eindringen
darkness - Dunkelheit, Finsternis
firelight - Feuerschein
dozing - dösend; eindösen, einnicken; (doze) dösend; eindösen, einnicken
Once or twice a curious listener might have heard him at the coals, and for the space of five minutes he was audible pacing the room. He seemed to be talking to himself. Then the armchair creaked as he sat down again.
listener - Zuhörer, Zuhörerin, Beobachter
coals - Kohlen; Kohle, Steinkohle, Kohle, Kohle, Kohle
audible - hörbar
pacing - Taktung; Tempo, Stufe, Schritt
armchair - Armsessel, Fauteuil, Polstersessel, Polsterstuhl
creaked - knarrte; Knarren
Mr - Herr
Teddy - Teddybär
impressions - Eindrücke; Abdruck, Eindruck, Impression, Werbeeinblendung
At four o'clock, when it was fairly dark and Mrs. Hall was screwing up her courage to go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, Teddy Henfrey, the clock-jobber, came into the bar. "My sakes! Mrs. Hall," said he, "but this is terrible weather for thin boots!" The snow outside was falling faster.
fairly - gerecht
screwing up - (screw up) vermasseln, etwas versauen
courage - Courage, Herz, Mut, Tapferkeit
jobber - Arbeiter, Gelegenheitsarbeiter
sakes - (for your sake) deinetwegen, euretwegen, Ihretwegen, dir zuliebe
Mrs. Hall agreed, and then noticed he had his bag with him. "Now you're here, Mr. Teddy," said she, "I'd be glad if you'd give th'old clock in the parlour a bit of a look. 'Tis going, and it strikes well and hearty; but the hour-hand won't do nuthin'but point at six."
be glad - sich freuen
Tis - (it is) es ist; (Ti) (it is) es ist
strikes - Streiks; streichen, schlagen, prägen, streiken, scheinen
hearty - herzlich, herzhaft, deftig
nuthin - gar nichts
point at - zeigen auf;weist
And leading the way, she went across to the parlour door and rapped and entered.
leading - führend; führen; (lead) führend; führen
Her visitor, she saw as she opened the door, was seated in the armchair before the fire, dozing it would seem, with his bandaged head drooping on one side. The only light in the room was the red glow from the fire-which lit his eyes like adverse railway signals, but left his downcast face in darkness-and the scanty vestiges of the day that came in through the open door. Everything was ruddy, shadowy, and indistinct to her, the more so since she had just been lighting the bar lamp, and her eyes were dazzled. But for a second it seemed to her that the man she looked at had an enormous mouth wide open-a vast and incredible mouth that swallowed the whole of the lower portion of his face.
seated - sitzend; Sitz, Sitzplatz, Sitzgelegenheit, Stuhl, Sitzmöbel
drooping - hängend; durchhängen, herabhängen, herunterhängen, herabsinken
side - Seite; Flanke, Rand, Mannschaft, Team
glow - glühen; abstrahlen; leuchten; Glühen
adverse - nachteilig; widrig; gegnerisch
Railway - Eisenbahnlinie, Gleis, Eisenbahn
signals - Signale; Signal
downcast - niedergeschlagen, geknickt, entmutigt
scanty - spärlich; dürftig, kärglich, knapp
vestiges - Überreste; Spur, Überrest, Überbleibsel
ruddy - rot, rötlich, verdammt, verflixt
shadowy - schattenhaft; schattig
indistinct - undeutlich
Since - Seit wann; seitdem, seither, weil, da
dazzled - geblendet; blenden, verblüffen, faszinieren, bezaubern, betören
enormous - enorm, riesig
wide - breit, weit
vast - riesig; beträchtlich, weit, ausgedehnt, enorm
swallowed - verschluckt; schlucken, verschlingen, anbeißen, einstecken
portion - Anteil; Teil
It was the sensation of a moment: the white-bound head, the monstrous goggle eyes, and this huge yawn below it. Then he stirred, started up in his chair, put up his hand. She opened the door wide, so that the room was lighter, and she saw him more clearly, with the muffler held up to his face just as she had seen him hold the serviette before. The shadows, she fancied, had tricked her.
sensation - Gefühl, Empfindung, Sensation
bound - gebunden; Sprung; (bind); binden; verbinden, konnektieren
monstrous - ungeheuerlich, monströs, grotesk, monsterhaft, monsterartig
goggle - Brillengläser; glotzen
huge - riesig
yawn - gähnen; Gähnen
stirred - gerührt; erschüttern, bewegen, sich rühren
started up - aufgefahren
Clearly - Eindeutig; klar, deutlich
hold - halten; innehaben
shadows - Schatten, beschatten, beschatten
fancied - Lust gehabt; extravagant, originell
tricked - ausgetrickst; List, Falle, Finte, Trick, Trick, Kunststück
"Would you mind, sir, this man a-coming to look at the clock, sir?" she said, recovering from the momentary shock.
mind - Verstand, Geist, Sinn, Bewusstsein, Gedächtnis, Gedanken
recovering from - abjagend
momentary - Momentan
"Look at the clock?" he said, staring round in a drowsy manner, and speaking over his hand, and then, getting more fully awake, "certainly."
drowsy - schläfrig; einschläfernd; müde, langweilig, verschlafen, dösig
manner - Art und Weise; Weise, Manier
fully - vollständig; völlig
awake - munter, wach; erwachen, aufwachen
Mrs. Hall went away to get a lamp, and he rose and stretched himself. Then came the light, and Mr. Teddy Henfrey, entering, was confronted by this bandaged person. He was, he says, "taken aback."
went away - (go away) fortgehen, weichen, verreisen
stretched - gestreckt; strecken, dehnen, langziehen, dehnen
entering - eintreten; eingegeben; (enter); reingehen, hineingehen
confronted - konfrontiert; konfrontieren, entgegentreten, Sache
taken aback - verblüfft, sprachlos, erstaunt, bestürzt
"Good afternoon," said the stranger, regarding him-as Mr. Henfrey says, with a vivid sense of the dark spectacles-"like a lobster."
Good afternoon - Guten Tag!
vivid - lebendig, lebhaft, anschaulich
sense - Sinn; Gefühl, Verstand, Bedeutung, wahrnehmen, empfinden
Lobster - Hummer
"I hope," said Mr. Henfrey, "that it's no intrusion."
"None whatever," said the stranger. "Though, I understand," he said turning to Mrs. Hall, "that this room is really to be mine for my own private use."
none - kein, nichts, keines, keine, keiner, gar nicht
whatever - Jacke wie Hose; was immer, was auch immer, egal, naja, nebbich
though - aber; trotzdem, doch, allerdings, obwohl, obgleich
mine - mein, meiner
private use - Privatnutzung
"I thought, sir," said Mrs. Hall, "you'd prefer the clock-"
"Certainly," said the stranger, "certainly-but, as a rule, I like to be alone and undisturbed.
undisturbed - ungestört
"But I'm really glad to have the clock seen to," he said, seeing a certain hesitation in Mr. Henfrey's manner. "Very glad." Mr. Henfrey had intended to apologise and withdraw, but this anticipation reassured him. The stranger turned round with his back to the fireplace and put his hands behind his back.
Glad - Erfreut; freudig, froh
hesitation - Zögern
intended - beabsichtigt; gedacht; (intend); beabsichtigen, vorhaben
apologise - sich entschuldigen; Abbitte leisten, entschuldigen
withdraw - zurückziehen; annullieren, entziehen, abziehen, ausscheiden
anticipation - Erwartung, Vorausahnung, Vorahnung, Vorfreude
reassured - beruhigt; versichern, beruhigen
fireplace - Kamin, Feuerstelle, Herd
"And presently," he said, "when the clock-mending is over, I think I should like to have some tea. But not till the clock-mending is over."
Presently - Gegenwärtig; sogleich
mending - Ausbessern; instandsetzend, reparierend
not till - nicht vor, erst wenn, erst als
Mrs. Hall was about to leave the room-she made no conversational advances this time, because she did not want to be snubbed in front of Mr. Henfrey-when her visitor asked her if she had made any arrangements about his boxes at Bramblehurst. She told him she had mentioned the matter to the postman, and that the carrier could bring them over on the morrow. "You are certain that is the earliest?" he said.
snubbed - brüskiert; brüskieren, rüffeln
arrangements - Vereinbarungen; Anordnung
mentioned - erwähnt; Erwähnung, erwähnen
postman - Postbote, Briefträger, Postmann
carrier - Träger; Frachtunternehmen; Trägersignal, Überträger
She was certain, with a marked coldness.
marked - markiert; Markus, Markus, Markus
coldness - Kälte
"I should explain," he added, "what I was really too cold and fatigued to do before, that I am an experimental investigator."
fatigued - Ermüdet; Müdigkeit, Ermüdung, Schlappheit, Überdruss
experimental - experimentell
investigator - Ermittler, Ermittlerin
"Indeed, sir," said Mrs. Hall, much impressed.
impressed - beeindruckt; beeindrucken, prägen
"And my baggage contains apparatus and appliances."
baggage - Gepäck, Reisegepäck
contains - enthält; enthalten
apparatus - Gerät; Apparat; Apparat
appliances - Geräte; Gerät
"Very useful things indeed they are, sir," said Mrs. Hall.
"And I'm very naturally anxious to get on with my inquiries."
naturally - natürlich
anxious - ängstlich, besorgt
inquiries - Erkundigungen; Anfrage, Erkundigung, Abfrage, Untersuchung
"Of course, sir."
"My reason for coming to Iping," he proceeded, with a certain deliberation of manner, "was ... a desire for solitude. I do not wish to be disturbed in my work. In addition to my work, an accident-"
proceeded - fortgefahren; vorgehen
deliberation - Überlegungen; Abwägung
desire - begehren; Begehren, Wunsch
solitude - Einsamkeit, Alleinsein
wish - Wunsch; wünschen
disturbed - beunruhigt; stören
Addition - Zufügung, Hinzufügung, Zusatz, Addition, Summant
"I thought as much," said Mrs. Hall to herself.
"-necessitates a certain retirement. My eyes-are sometimes so weak and painful that I have to shut myself up in the dark for hours together. Lock myself up. Sometimes-now and then. Not at present, certainly. At such times the slightest disturbance, the entry of a stranger into the room, is a source of excruciating annoyance to me-it is well these things should be understood."
necessitates - erforderlich ist; erfordern, zwingen
retirement - Rente, Ruhestand, Lebensabend
weak - schwach; out, unschön, häßlich, uninteressant
painful - schmerzhaft
shut - geschlossen; (to shut) schließen, zumachen
myself - mich selbst; mich
for hours together - stundenlang
lock - sperren; Schloss
such - solch, derartig, so ein
slightest - das Geringste; geringfügig, leicht, gering, unbedeutend, wenig
disturbance - Störung; Störenfried, Geistesstörung
entry - Eintritt; Zutritt; Eingang; Flur; Eintrag; Element
source - Quelle, Ursprung, belegen, beziehen
excruciating - unerträglich; quälen
annoyance - Ärger, Ärgernis, Verärgerung, Verdruss
"Certainly, sir," said Mrs. Hall. "And if I might make so bold as to ask-"
"That I think, is all," said the stranger, with that quietly irresistible air of finality he could assume at will. Mrs. Hall reserved her question and sympathy for a better occasion.
irresistible - unwiderstehlich
finality - Endgültigkeit
assume - annehmen, voraussetzen, vermuten, unterstellen
at will - nach Belieben, nach Wunsch, beliebig, absichtlich
reserved - Reservieren
sympathy - Mitleid, Mitgefühl, Empathie, Einfühlungsvermögen, Sympathie
Occasion - Gelegenheit; Anlass
After Mrs. Hall had left the room, he remained standing in front of the fire, glaring, so Mr. Henfrey puts it, at the clock-mending. Mr. Henfrey not only took off the hands of the clock, and the face, but extracted the works; and he tried to work in as slow and quiet and unassuming a manner as possible. He worked with the lamp close to him, and the green shade threw a brilliant light upon his hands, and upon the frame and wheels, and left the rest of the room shadowy. When he looked up, coloured patches swam in his eyes. Being constitutionally of a curious nature, he had removed the works-a quite unnecessary proceeding-with the idea of delaying his departure and perhaps falling into conversation with the stranger.
glaring - grell; Blendung, entrüstetes Starren, missbilligend anstarren
extracted - extrahiert; Auszug, Auszug, Extrakt
unassuming - bescheiden
shade - Schatten; Vorhang; Farbton; schattieren
threw - geworfen; Wurf; werfen (du wirfst, er wirft), ich/er/sie würfe
brilliant - strahlend, brillant, genial, Brillant, Diamant
frame - ausarbeiten, entwerfen, einfassen, einrahmen, festlegen
wheels - Räder; Rad
patches - notdürftig reparieren, reparieren, einsetzen; Flicken
constitutionally - verfassungsrechtlich
nature - Natur, Art
unnecessary - nicht notwendig, unnötig
proceeding - Wie geht es weiter; fortsetzend, verfahrend; (proceed); vorgehen
departure - Abreise; Abfahrt
But the stranger stood there, perfectly silent and still. So still, it got on Henfrey's nerves. He felt alone in the room and looked up, and there, grey and dim, was the bandaged head and huge blue lenses staring fixedly, with a mist of green spots drifting in front of them. It was so uncanny to Henfrey that for a minute they remained staring blankly at one another. Then Henfrey looked down again. Very uncomfortable position! One would like to say something. Should he remark that the weather was very cold for the time of year?
perfectly - perfekt, einwandfrei, vollkommen, durchaus
silent - still
dim - schummrig; trüb; dämmerig, dunkel
lenses - Linsen; Linse, Linse, Linse, Linse
fixedly - fixiert; bestimmt
mist - Nebel
spots - Flecken; Fleck, Punkt, Fleck, Pickel, Pustel, Bisschen
drifting - treiben lassen; Drift, driften, treiben, irren, ziellos ziehen
uncanny - unheimlich, gruselig, seltsam, verstörend, Unheimliche
blankly - ausdruckslos; leer
uncomfortable - unangenehm; unbequem, ungemütlich, unbehaglich
position - Stellung, Position, Arbeitsplatz, Stelle, positionieren
remark - bemerken; Anmerkung, Bemerkung
He looked up as if to take aim with that introductory shot. "The weather-" he began.
aim - zielen (auf); Ziel, Zweck; beabsichtigen
introductory - einführend
shot - Schuss; (to shoot up) aufschießen
"Why don't you finish and go?" said the rigid figure, evidently in a state of painfully suppressed rage. "All you've got to do is to fix the hour-hand on its axle. You're simply humbugging-"
figure - Abbildung; Figur; Gestalt; Ziffer; Form
state - Umstände ;Status , Zustand , Stand , Staat ;staatlich;darlegen, festlegen, konstatieren, festsetzen;Bundesland
painfully - schmerzhaft
suppressed - unterdrückt; unterdrücken, unterdrücken, unterdrücken
rage - Wut, Zorn, Raserei, Rage, wüten
Fix - reparieren, flicken, fixieren, befestigen
axle - Achse, Welle, Radachse
Simply - einfach
humbugging - Humbug, Unsinn, Betrug, Schwindel, Gauner, Halunke, Schwindler
"Certainly, sir-one minute more. I overlooked-" and Mr. Henfrey finished and went.
overlooked - Übersicht, Überblick, bemerken
But he went feeling excessively annoyed. "damn it!" said Mr. Henfrey to himself, trudging down the village through the thawing snow; "a man must do a clock at times, surely."
excessively - übermäßig; exzessiv
annoyed - verärgert; stören, ärgern, belästigen, nerven, verägern
damn - Verdammt!;tadeln, verurteilen, verdammen, verfluchen
trudging - stapfen; sich schleppend; (trudge); stapfen; schleppen
thawing - Tauwetter; tauend; (thaw); tauen, schmelzen, auftauen
surely - bestimmt, sicherlich
And again, "Can't a man look at you?-Ugly!"
ugly - hässlich
And yet again, "Seemingly not. If the police was wanting you you couldn't be more wropped and bandaged."
seemingly - scheinbar; anscheinende
wropped - abgewischt
At Gleeson's corner he saw Hall, who had recently married the stranger's hostess at the "Coach and Horses," and who now drove the Iping conveyance, when occasional people required it, to Sidderbridge Junction, coming towards him on his return from that place. Hall had evidently been "stopping a bit" at Sidderbridge, to judge by his driving. "'Ow do, Teddy?" he said, passing.
recently - in letzter Zeit; neulich, kürzlich, letztens, unlängst
hostess - Gastgeberin, Wirtin, Stewardess, Flugbegleiterin, Hostess
Conveyance - Beförderung; Transport, Übertragung, Transportmittel
occasional - gelegentlich, okkasionell
required - erforderlich; erfordern, brauchen, benötigen
junction - Kreuzung, Knotenpunkt, Grenzzone
towards - zu, in Richtung, nach, auf, zu, gegenüber, für, um, zwecks
judge - urteilen (nach), richten; Richter, Jurist
passing - vorübergehend, verrinnend ''(poetic)'', hervorragend
"You got a rum un up home!" said Teddy.
rum - Rum
un - VN, UN, UNO
Hall very sociably pulled up. "What's that?" he asked.
sociably - gesellig
"Rum-looking customer stopping at the 'Coach and Horses,'" said Teddy. "My sakes!"
And he proceeded to give Hall a vivid description of his grotesque guest. "Looks a bit like a disguise, don't it? I'd like to see a man's face if I had him stopping in my place," said Henfrey. "But women are that trustful-where strangers are concerned. He's took your rooms and he ain't even given a name, Hall."
grotesque - grotesk
disguise - Verkleidung; Tarnung; verstellen
trustful - vertrauensvoll
strangers - Fremde, Fremdling, Unbekannte
concerned - besorgt; Sorge, Anliegen
"You don't say so!" said Hall, who was a man of sluggish apprehension.
You don't say so - Nicht möglich!, Was Sie nicht sagen!
sluggish - träge; faul, schwach, inaktiv, lustlos
apprehension - Befürchtungen; Greifen, Ergreifen, Fassen, Anfassen
"Yes," said Teddy. "by the week. Whatever he is, you can't get rid of him under the week. And he's got a lot of luggage coming to-morrow, so he says. Let's hope it won't be stones in boxes, Hall."
by the week - wöchentlich
rid - loswerden; befreien
stones - Steine; Stein, Stein, Edelstein, t+Schmuckstein, Stein, Kern
He told Hall how his aunt at Hastings had been swindled by a stranger with empty portmanteaux. Altogether he left Hall vaguely suspicious. "Get up, old girl," said Hall. "I s'pose I must see 'bout this."
swindled - geschwindelt; betrügen, schwindeln, Schwindel
empty - leer; leeren, entleeren, ausleeren, leer machen
vaguely - undeutlich
suspicious - verdächtig; misstrauisch, argwöhnisch
pose - Pose; aufwerfen, posieren, posen
bout - Runde
Teddy trudged on his way with his mind considerably relieved.
trudged - gestapft; stapfen, schleppen
Considerably - Erheblich; wesentlich, beträchtlich, beachtlich
relieved - Erleichtert; erleichtern, lindern, entlasten, ablösen
Instead of "seeing 'bout it," however, Hall on his return was severely rated by his wife on the length of time he had spent in Sidderbridge, and his mild inquiries were answered snappishly and in a manner not to the point. But the seed of suspicion Teddy had sown germinated in the mind of Mr. Hall in spite of these discouragements. "You wim'don't know everything," said Mr. Hall, resolved to ascertain more about the personality of his guest at the earliest possible opportunity. And after the stranger had gone to bed, which he did about half-past nine, Mr.
instead - stattdessen, anstatt
severely - ernsthaft
rated - bewertet; Ratte
Length - Länge, Längenmaß, Pferdelänge
mild - mild, ausgeglichen, checkzahm, schwach
snappishly - schnippisch
seed - säen; Saatgut, Same, Saat, Samen
suspicion - Verdacht, Argwohn, Verdächtigung
sown - gesät; Sau; aussäen
germinated - gekeimt; keimen
spite - Bosheit; trotz
discouragements - Entmutigungen; Entmutigung
ascertain - festzustellen; feststellen
personality - Persönlichkeit
earliest possible - baldmöglichst, zum baldmöglichsten Zeitpunkt
opportunity - Gelegenheit, Chance, Möglichkeit
Hall went very aggressively into the parlour and looked very hard at his wife's furniture, just to show that the stranger wasn't master there, and scrutinised closely and a little contemptuously a sheet of mathematical computations the stranger had left. When retiring for the night he instructed Mrs. Hall to look very closely at the stranger's luggage when it came next day.
aggressively - aggressiv
furniture - Möbel
wasn - Was
Master - Haupt.., Grund, Meister, führend, leitend; bewältigen, meistern
closely - dicht, eng, nah, nahe
contemptuously - verächtlich
sheet - Blatt, Bogen, Blech, Platte, Lage, Schicht, Schot
mathematical - mathematisch; rechnerisch
computations - Berechnungen; Berechnung, Rechnen
retiring - in den Ruhestand gehen; pensionieren, zurücktreten
instructed - belehrt; instruieren, briefen, anweisen
"You mind your own business, Hall," said Mrs. Hall, "and I'll mind mine."
She was all the more inclined to snap at Hall because the stranger was undoubtedly an unusually strange sort of stranger, and she was by no means assured about him in her own mind. In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes.
inclined - geneigt; neigen, neigen, neigen, Neigung, Anstieg, Gefälle
snap - Knacken, Knallen, Schnappen, Zuschnappen, Schnippen, Schnalzen
Undoubtedly - Zweifelsohne; zweifellos
unusually - ungewöhnlich
sort - Sortierung, Gattung, Art, Sorte; sortieren, ordnen
assured - gesichert; beteuerte, versicherte, versichert
Middle - Mittelpunkt; Mitte; Mittel-, mittlere, mittig
dreaming - phantasierend, träumend; (dream); Traum, Wunsch, träumen
turnips - Rüben; Speiserübe; Mairübe, Teltower Rübchen
trailing - Rückstand; folgen, verfolgen, nachstellen, nacheilen
interminable - unendlich
necks - Hälse; knutschen; Genick, Zapfen (Wellenhals), Nacken
But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.
sensible - wahrnehmbar; spürbar; der Empfindung fähig; gewahr; vernünftig
subdued - gedämpft; unter Kontrolle bringen, unterwerfen, unterwerfen
terrors - Schrecken, Grauen
turned over - umgeblättert
So it was that on the twenty-ninth day of February, at the beginning of the thaw, this singular person fell out of infinity into Iping village. Next day his luggage arrived through the slush-and very remarkable luggage it was. There were a couple of trunks indeed, such as a rational man might need, but in addition there were a box of books-big, fat books, of which some were just in an incomprehensible handwriting-and a dozen or more crates, boxes, and cases, containing objects packed in straw, as it seemed to Hall, tugging with a casual curiosity at the straw-glass bottles.
ninth - neunte; Neunter; Neuntel
thaw - tauen, schmelzen, auftauen, entspannen, Schmelze, Tauwetter
singular - einzeln; einzigartig; ungewöhnlich; singularisch; singulär; Einzahl
fell out - (fall out) ausfallen
infinity - Unendlichkeit
slush - Schneematsch; Slush, Slusheis, Slush Eis
remarkable - bemerkenswert, verwunderlich, denkwürdig, beachtenswert
trunks - Stamm, Baumstamm, Koffer, Truhe, Schrankkoffer, Schiffskoffer
rational - vernünftig
incomprehensible - unverständlich
handwriting - Handschrift; (handwrite); Handschrift
dozen - Dutzend; Dutzende (''of'': von)
crates - Kisten; Kiste, Kasten
cases - Fälle; Gehäuse, Prozess, Kiste, Fach
containing - enthalten
packed - verpackt; packen, einpacken; packen (verstauen); Bündel, Meute
straw - Halm, Strohhalm, Stroh, strohfarben, strohgelb, Stroh-
tugging - zerrt; zerrend; (tug); zerren; schleppen; Ruck
casual - lässig; zufällig, beiläufig, gelegentlich, gleichgültig
curiosity - Neugier, Neugierde, Kuriosität, Kuriosum
The stranger, muffled in hat, coat, gloves, and wrapper, came out impatiently to meet Fearenside's cart, while Hall was having a word or so of gossip preparatory to helping bring them in. Out he came, not noticing Fearenside's dog, who was sniffing in a dilettante spirit at Hall's legs. "Come along with those boxes," he said. "I've been waiting long enough."
gloves - Handschuhe; Handschuh
wrapper - Verpackung, Umschlag, Wrapper-Klasse; (wrap); Verpackung
impatiently - Ungeduldig
cart - Pferdewagen, Wagen, Karren
gossip - Klatsch und Tratsch; Tratsche, Tratschtante, Klatschtante
preparatory - vorbereitend
noticing - Bekanntmachung, Benachrichtigung, Mitteilung, Kündigungsfrist
sniffing - schnüffelnd, abschnüffeln, schnobend; (sniff); schnüffeln
dilettante - Dilettant, Dilettantin, Amateur, Amateurin
spirit - Geist, Seele, Stimmung, Schnaps
along - entlang, längs, weiter
those - die; jene
And he came down the steps towards the tail of the cart as if to lay hands on the smaller crate.
steps - Schritte; treten, treten (du trittst
tail - Schwanz; Zipfel
crate - Kiste, Kasten
No sooner had Fearenside's dog caught sight of him, however, than it began to bristle and growl savagely, and when he rushed down the steps it gave an undecided hop, and then sprang straight at his hand. "Whup!" cried Hall, jumping back, for he was no hero with dogs, and Fearenside howled, "Lie down!" and snatched his whip.
caught - erwischt; Fang, Fang, Haken, Fang, fangen, fangen, einfangen
sight - Sehenswürdigkeit, Gesicht, Visier, erblicken, anvisieren
bristle - sträuben; Borste
growl - Knurren; Magenknurren
savagely - brutal
rushed - überstürzt; stürzen, drängen, hetzen, rasen; Eile, Andrang
undecided - unbestimmt, unbeantwortet, unschlüssig, unentschieden
hop - tanzen (hüpfen); schwoofen (ugs. tanzen)
straight - gerade; aufrecht, aufrichtig, offen, ungeschminkt
Whup - Was
jumping - (to jump) springen, hüpfen
hero - Held, Heldin, Kriegsheld, Hauptfigur
howled - geheult; Heulen
lie - lügen; (lie down) sich hinlegen
snatched - geschnappt; klauen, stehlen, Reißen
whip - Peitsche, Knute, Zagel, peitschen, auspeitschen
They saw the dog's teeth had slipped the hand, heard a kick, saw the dog execute a flanking jump and get home on the stranger's leg, and heard the rip of his trousering. Then the finer end of Fearenside's whip reached his property, and the dog, yelping with dismay, retreated under the wheels of the waggon. It was all the business of a swift half-minute.
slipped - ausgerutscht; Versprecher; Rutschen (geradeaus); Lapsus
kick - treten, (Pferd) ausschlagen; Stoß
execute - hinrichten; ausführen, durchführen
flanking - in der Flanke angreifen, flankieren, Flanke, Flanke
jump - (to jump) springen, hüpfen
rip - zerreißen; Riss; reißen, der Länge nach auftrennen
reached - erreicht; erzielen, greifen (nach), sich erstrecken; eintreffen
property - Eigentum, Besitz, Anwesen, Grundbesitz, Grundstück, Eigenschaft
yelping - kläffend; (yelp) kläffend
dismay - Bestürzung; Furcht, Ohnmacht
retreated - zurückgezogen; Rückzug
swift - Mauersegler; schnell; Segler; Garnwinde
No one spoke, everyone shouted. The stranger glanced swiftly at his torn glove and at his leg, made as if he would stoop to the latter, then turned and rushed swiftly up the steps into the inn. They heard him go headlong across the passage and up the uncarpeted stairs to his bedroom.
shouted - geschrien; Schrei, Zuruf; rufen, schreien, laut schreien
Swiftly - Zügig; schnell, flink, behände
torn - zerrissen; zerreißen, ich/er/sie/es riss, riß
glove - Handschuh
stoop - Buckel, sich beugen
headlong - kopflos; mit dem Kopf zuerst; kopfüber; Hals über Kopf
passage - Durchfahrt, Ăśbergang, Gang
uncarpeted - ohne Bodenbelag
stairs - Stufe, Treppenstufe, Treppe
"You brute, you!" said Fearenside, climbing off the waggon with his whip in his hand, while the dog watched him through the wheel. "Come here," said Fearenside-"You'd better."
brute - Tier, brutaler Kerl, brutal, Vieh
wheel - Rad; Steuerrad; Felge; kreisen
Hall had stood gaping. "He wuz bit," said Hall. "I'd better go and see to en," and he trotted after the stranger. He met Mrs. Hall in the passage. "Carrier's darg," he said "bit en."
gaping - klaffend; gähnend, angaffend; (gap) klaffend; gähnend, angaffend
see to - sorgen für, besorgen, erledigen, sehen nach
trotted - getrabt; trotten, laufen, traben
He went straight upstairs, and the stranger's door being ajar, he pushed it open and was entering without any ceremony, being of a naturally sympathetic turn of mind.
ajar - angelehnt; halboffen, einen Spalt offen
pushed - geschoben; schieben, drängen, stoßen
ceremony - Zeremonie, feierliche Handlung, Ritual, Feier
sympathetic - sympathisch; mitfühlend
The blind was down and the room dim. He caught a glimpse of a most singular thing, what seemed a handless arm waving towards him, and a face of three huge indeterminate spots on white, very like the face of a pale pansy. Then he was struck violently in the chest, hurled back, and the door slammed in his face and locked. It was so rapid that it gave him no time to observe.
handless - ohne Hände
waving - (wave) wehen, winken mit, flattern; (wave) (wave) wehen
indeterminate - unbestimmt
pale - Pfahl, blass; bleich (vor), blass (vor)
Pansy - Stiefmütterchen
struck - angeschlagen; streichen, schlagen, prägen, streiken, scheinen
violently - gewaltsam; gewalttätig
hurled - geschleudert; schleudern
slammed - zugeknallt; zuschlagen, hart anpacken, zuknallen; harte Kritik
locked - gesperrt; Schloss
rapid - schnell; Stromschnelle
observe - beobachten; beachten, halten, bemerken
A waving of indecipherable shapes, a blow, and a concussion. There he stood on the dark little landing, wondering what it might be that he had seen.
indecipherable - nicht entzifferbar
shapes - Zustand, Form, Form, Form, Gestalt, Form
blow - (to blow) blasen, wehen, pusten
concussion - Gehirnerschütterung
wondering - und fragen sich; (wonder) sich wundern (über)
A couple of minutes after, he rejoined the little group that had formed outside the "Coach and Horses." There was Fearenside telling about it all over again for the second time; there was Mrs. Hall saying his dog didn't have no business to bite her guests; there was Huxter, the general dealer from over the road, interrogative; and Sandy Wadgers from the forge, judicial; besides women and children, all of them saying fatuities: "Wouldn't let en bite me, I knows"; "'Tasn't right have such dargs"; "Whad 'e bite 'n for, then?
rejoined - wiedervereinigt; vereinigen
guests - Gäste; Gast, Gast, Gast, gastieren
general - allgemein, generell, General
dealer - Händler; Geber; (deal); Händler; Geber
interrogative - Frage
Sandy - sandig, sandfarben
forge - schmieden; sich Bahn brechen, formen, erfinden
judicial - juristisch; gerichtlich, Justiz
fatuities - Fatuitäten; Einfältigkeit
and so forth.
forth - weiter; heraus, hervor
Mr. Hall, staring at them from the steps and listening, found it incredible that he had seen anything so very remarkable happen upstairs. Besides, his vocabulary was altogether too limited to express his impressions.
vocabulary - Vokabeln, Wortschatz, Wortliste, Vokabular
limited - begrenzt, beschränkt; (limit); begrenzt, beschränkt
express - bekunden, Eilzug, Schnellzug, ausdrücklich; ausdrücken, äußern
"He don't want no help, he says," he said in answer to his wife's inquiry. "We'd better be a-takin'of his luggage in."
inquiry - Anfrage, Erkundigung, Abfrage, Untersuchung, Erforschung
"He ought to have it cauterised at once," said Mr. Huxter; "especially if it's at all inflamed."
especially - besonders, extra, speziell, außergewöhnlich, originell
inflamed - entzündet; anzünden, entflammen, anregen, aufregen, erzürnen
"I'd shoot en, that's what I'd do," said a lady in the group.
shoot - schießen; Jagd, Spross (Pflanze), Schuss; flitzen (Auto)
lady - Herrin des Hauses, Hausherrin, Ehefrau des Hausherrn
Suddenly the dog began growling again.
growling - knurrt; knurrend; (growl); Knurren; Magenknurren
"Come along," cried an angry voice in the doorway, and there stood the muffled stranger with his collar turned up, and his hat-brim bent down. "The sooner you get those things in the better I'll be pleased." It is stated by an anonymous bystander that his trousers and gloves had been changed.
doorway - Türöffnung
bent - verbogen; (to bend) sich niederbeugen, verbiegen
stated - erklärt; Staat, Staat, Land
anonymous - Anonym
bystander - Unbeteiligte; Zuschauer, Schaulustiger
"Was you hurt, sir?" said Fearenside. "I'm rare sorry the darg-"
rare - selten; rar, blutig (Steak)
"Not a bit," said the stranger. "Never broke the skin. Hurry up with those things."
skin - Haut, tHäutchen, Design, Fell
hurry - Eile; beeilen
He then swore to himself, so Mr. Hall asserts.
swore - geschworen; schwören
asserts - behauptet; versichern, zusichern, beteuern, beteuern, beteuern
Directly the first crate was, in accordance with his directions, carried into the parlour, the stranger flung himself upon it with extraordinary eagerness, and began to unpack it, scattering the straw with an utter disregard of Mrs. Hall's carpet. And from it he began to produce bottles-little fat bottles containing powders, small and slender bottles containing coloured and white fluids, fluted blue bottles labeled Poison, bottles with round bodies and slender necks, large green-glass bottles, large white-glass bottles, bottles with glass stoppers and frosted labels, bottles with fine corks, bottles with bungs, bottles with wooden caps, wine bottles, salad-oil bottles-putting them in rows on the chiffonnier, on the mantel, on the table under the window, round the floor, on the bookshelf-everywhere. The chemist's shop in Bramblehurst could not boast half so many.
directly - direkt, gerade, unmittelbar
accordance - Übereinstimmung
directions - Richtungen; Richtung, Führung, Regie
extraordinary - außerordentlich, außergewöhnlich
eagerness - Ungeduld; Eifer
unpack - entpacken, auspacken
scattering - Streuung, Zerstreuung; (scatter); zerstreuen, verstreuen
utter - Äußerlich; äußerst
disregard - missachten; Gleichgültigkeit, Nichtbeachten, Nichtbeachtung
produce - produzieren, herstellen, vorlegen, Produkt, Obst und Gemüse
powders - Pulvern; Puder, g
slender - schlank
fluids - Flüssigkeiten; Fluid
fluted - geriffelt; Flöte, Kannelierung
labeled - beschriftet; Etikett
poison - Gift, Giftstoff, vergiften
stoppers - Stopper; Stöpsel
frosted - gefrostet; mattiert; bereift; (frost); Reif; Frost; glasieren
labels - Etiketten; Etikett
corks - Korken; Cork, Cork
bungs - zupfropfen, verstopfen, verspunden; werfen, schmeißen; Stöpsel
wooden - hölzern, Holz-
caps - Mützen; Ventilkappe; Mütze, Haube, Kappe
salad-oil - (salad-oil) Salatöl
rows - Reihen; Reihe, Zeile
chiffonnier - Chiffonier
mantel - Kaminsims; Kaminregal
bookshelf - Regal, Bücherregal
everywhere - überall
chemist - Chemiker, Chemikerin
boast - rühmen; stolz sein auf etw
Quite a sight it was. Crate after crate yielded bottles, until all six were empty and the table high with straw; the only things that came out of these crates besides the bottles were a number of test-tubes and a carefully packed balance.
yielded - nachgegeben; hervorbringen, er/sie hat/hatte ergeben, weichen
test-tubes - (test-tubes) Reagenzgläser
carefully - sorgfältig; vorsichtig
balance - Gleichgewicht; Ausgewogenheit; Bilanz, Saldo, Guthaben, Rest
And directly the crates were unpacked, the stranger went to the window and set to work, not troubling in the least about the litter of straw, the fire which had gone out, the box of books outside, nor for the trunks and other luggage that had gone upstairs.
unpacked - ausgepackt; entpacken, auspacken
set - gesetzt; Seth
troubling - beunruhigend; störend; (trouble); Ärger; Schwierigkeit; Anstrengung
litter - Sänfte, Trage, Bahre, Wurf, Streu, Stroh, Abfall; (lit); Sänfte
gone out - ausgegangen
nor - weder noch, auch nicht
When Mrs. Hall took his dinner in to him, he was already so absorbed in his work, pouring little drops out of the bottles into test-tubes, that he did not hear her until she had swept away the bulk of the straw and put the tray on the table, with some little emphasis perhaps, seeing the state that the floor was in. Then he half turned his head and immediately turned it away again. But she saw he had removed his glasses; they were beside him on the table, and it seemed to her that his eye sockets were extraordinarily hollow. He put on his spectacles again, and then turned and faced her.
absorbed in - vertieft in
pouring - gießend, einschenkend; (pour) gießend, einschenkend
drops out - (drop out) Ausfallende , Signalausfall
tubes - Schläuche; Rohr
swept away - weggefegt
bulk - Masse; Großteil
tray - Tablett, Servierbrett
state - Staat, Land, Bundesland, Zustand, erklären, darlegen, nennen
immediately - sofort, alsbald, unverzüglich, auf der Stelle
beside - daneben; neben
sockets - Steckdosen; Steckdose, Buchse, Fassung
extraordinarily - außerordentlich
hollow - hohl, dumpf
She was about to complain of the straw on the floor when he anticipated her.
complain - sich beschweren, klagen, sich beklagen, meckern
"I wish you wouldn't come in without knocking," he said in the tone of abnormal exasperation that seemed so characteristic of him.
knocking - Nageln (Dieselmotor)
tone - Farbton, Klang, Umgangston, Ton
abnormal - unnormal, ungewöhnlich, anormal, abnormal
exasperation - Enttäuschung; Überforderung, Verzweiflung, Verbitterung, Frust
characteristic - charakteristisch, bezeichnend, kennzeichnend, typisch, Merkmal
"I knocked, but seemingly-"
knocked - angeklopft; Klopfen
"Perhaps you did. But in my investigations-my really very urgent and necessary investigations-the slightest disturbance, the jar of a door-I must ask you-"
investigations - Ermittlungen; Untersuchung
urgent - dringend, dringlich, eilig
necessary - nötig, notwendig, erforderlich, zwangsläufig, geboten
jar - Topf, Krug, Glasgefäß
"Certainly, sir. You can turn the lock if you're like that, you know. Any time."
"A very good idea," said the stranger.
"This stror, sir, if I might make so bold as to remark-"
"Don't. If the straw makes trouble put it down in the bill." And he mumbled at her-words suspiciously like curses.
trouble - Probleme; Ärger; Schwierigkeit; Anstrengung, Bemühung, Mühe
mumbled - gemurmelt; murmeln, nuscheln, mümmeln, Murmeln
curses - Verfluchungen; (cur) Hundesohn, Köter
He was so odd, standing there, so aggressive and explosive, bottle in one hand and test-tube in the other, that Mrs. Hall was quite alarmed. But she was a resolute woman. "In which case, I should like to know, sir, what you consider-"
odd - einzeln; seltsam, merkwürdig, komisch, ungerade
explosive - explosiv; aufbrausend, Sprengstoff; Sprengmittel
test-tube - (test-tube) Reagenzglas
alarmed - beunruhigt; Alarm, Alarm, Alarmsignal
resolute - entschieden, entschlossen, resolut
case - Fall; Gehäuse, Prozess, Kiste, Fach
Consider - überlegen; halten; betrachten, in Betracht ziehen
"A shilling-put down a shilling. Surely a shilling's enough?"
shilling - Schilling
"So be it," said Mrs. Hall, taking up the table-cloth and beginning to spread it over the table. "If you're satisfied, of course-"
taking up - aufgreifend
table-cloth - (table-cloth) Tischdecke
spread - verteilen; spreizen; ausstreuen, verbreiten, auftragen
satisfied - befriedigen, zufriedenstellen
He turned and sat down, with his coat-collar toward her.
toward - zu, in Richtung, nach, auf
All the afternoon he worked with the door locked and, as Mrs. Hall testifies, for the most part in silence. But once there was a concussion and a sound of bottles ringing together as though the table had been hit, and the smash of a bottle flung violently down, and then a rapid pacing athwart the room. Fearing "something was the matter," she went to the door and listened, not caring to knock.
testifies - bezeugt; bezeugen
silence - Stille, Schweigen, zum Schweigen bringen, Ruhe
ringing - klingeln; kraftvoll, klar; (ring) klingeln; kraftvoll, klar
hit - getroffen; schlagen
smash - Krachen; Wucht; zerschellen, zerschmettern, zertrümmern
athwart - quer
fearing - fürchten, befürchten, Angst haben; Furcht, Schreck, Befürchtung
knock - Klopfen; Schlag; schlagen
"I can't go on," he was raving. "I can't go on. Three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand! The huge multitude! Cheated! All my life it may take me! ... Patience! Patience indeed! ... Fool! fool!"
raving - (rave) wüten, toben, rasen; (rave) (rave) wüten, toben, rasen
four hundred - vierhundert
multitude - Vielfältigkeit; Vielzahl, Menge, Menschenmenge, Volk
cheated - betrogen; schummeln, bescheißen (sl.), betrügen
patience - Geduld
fool - dumme Gans, Dummkopf, Narr, Närrin
There was a noise of hobnails on the bricks in the bar, and Mrs. Hall had very reluctantly to leave the rest of his soliloquy. When she returned the room was silent again, save for the faint crepitation of his chair and the occasional clink of a bottle. It was all over; the stranger had resumed work.
noise - Lärm, Geräusch, Krach, Rauschen, Störung
hobnails - Schuhnagel, Schuhzwecke, Stiefelnagel
bricks - Ziegelsteine; Backstein, Ziegel, Ziegel, externes Netzteil
reluctantly - widerstrebend
soliloquy - Selbstgespräch, Monolog
save - retten; erretten; sichern, speichern, sparen, aufbewahren (2)
faint - leise, schwach, undeutlich, ohnmächtig werden
crepitation - Krepitation
clink - tönen, klirren, klingen
When she took in his tea she saw broken glass in the corner of the room under the concave mirror, and a golden stain that had been carelessly wiped. She called attention to it.
took in - (take in) enger machen, hereinlegen, einnehmen
concave mirror - Brennspiegel
Golden - golden, goldgelb
stain - Fleck; Schandfleck; beflecken; beizen
carelessly - unachtsam
wiped - abgewischt; löschen, abstreifen, abwischen, aufreiben, wischen
attention - Aufmerksamkeit, Beachtung, Wachsamkeit, Achtung, Habachtstellung
"Put it down in the bill," snapped her visitor. "For God's sake Don't worry me. If there's damage done, put it down in the bill," and he went on ticking a list in the exercise book before him.
snapped - geschnappt; Knacken
For God's sake - Um Gottes willen!
Don't worry - Machen Sie sich keine Sorgen!
damage - Schaden; beschädigen
ticking - Inlett, Inlettstoff, Drell, tickend; (tic); Tic, Zucken
exercise book - Ăśbungsheft , Schulheft
"I'll tell you something," said Fearenside, mysteriously. It was late in the afternoon, and they were in the little beer-shop of Iping Hanger.
mysteriously - geheimnisvoll, geheimnisvolle
hanger - Aufhänger, Anhänger, Kleiderbügel
"Well?" said Teddy Henfrey.
"This chap you're speaking of, what my dog bit. Well-he's black. Leastways, his legs are. I seed through the tear of his trousers and the tear of his glove. You'd have expected a sort of pinky to show, wouldn't you? Well-there wasn't none. Just blackness. I tell you, he's as black as my hat."
chap - Kerl; Bursche, Riss (in der Haut)
leastways - zumindest
tear - zerreißen, ich/er/sie/es riss, riß
expected - erwartet; erwarten, erwarten, erwarten
pinky - kleiner Finger
blackness - Schwärze
"My sakes!" said Henfrey. "It's a rummy case altogether. Why, his nose is as pink as paint!"
rummy - Rommé
"That's true," said Fearenside. "I knows that. And I tell 'ee what I'm thinking. That marn's a piebald, Teddy. Black here and white there-in patches. And he's ashamed of it. He's a kind of half-breed, and the colour's come off patchy instead of mixing. I've heard of such things before. And it's the common way with horses, as any one can see."
That's true - Das ist schon wahr.
piebald - gescheckt, scheckig, weißgescheckt
ashamed - schämen
breed - Rasse; aufziehen, erzeugen, züchten, sich paaren, brüten
come off - glücken, gelingen, klappen
patchy - lückenhaft; fleckig
I have told the circumstances of the stranger's arrival in Iping with a certain fulness of detail, in order that the curious impression he created may be understood by the reader. But excepting two odd incidents, the circumstances of his stay until the extraordinary day of the club festival may be passed over very cursorily. There were a number of skirmishes with Mrs. Hall on matters of domestic discipline, but in every case until late April, when the first signs of penury began, he over-rode her by the easy expedient of an extra payment.
circumstances - Umstände; Umstand, Umstand
fulness - Fülle
impression - Abdruck; Eindruck, Impression, Werbeeinblendung
Incidents - Vorfälle; Vorfall, Begebenheit, Ereignis
passed over - übertrat
cursorily - flüchtig
skirmishes - Scharmützel
matters - zählt; Materie, Materie, Masse, Substanz, Stoff, Angelegenheit
domestic - häuslich, Haus
discipline - Disziplin; Strafe, Bestrafung, disziplinieren
signs - Wert, Zeichen, Hinweistafel, Indiz; unterschreiben, signieren
penury - Verarmung; geizige
expedient - zweckmäßig; angebracht, opportun, hilfreich, passend
payment - Bezahlung
Hall did not like him, and whenever he dared he talked of the advisability of getting rid of him; but he showed his dislike chiefly by concealing it ostentatiously, and avoiding his visitor as much as possible. "Wait till the summer," said Mrs. Hall sagely, "when the artisks are beginning to come. Then we'll see. He may be a bit overbearing, but bills settled punctual is bills settled punctual, whatever you'd like to say."
whenever - wann auch immer
dared - gewagt; sich getrauen, wagen, jemanden herausfordern
advisability - Ratsamkeit
dislike - Abneigung; Unbehagen; ablehnen
chiefly - hauptsächlich
concealing - verbergen, verheimlichen, verschleiern, verschweigen, verstecken
ostentatiously - ostentativ
avoiding - ausweichen, meiden, fernbleiben, vermeiden, entkräften
sagely - weise; klughaft, klug
artisks - Kunsthandwerker
overbearing - überheblich; überwältigen
settled - erledigt; abklären
punctual - pünktlich
The stranger did not go to church, and indeed made no difference between Sunday and the irreligious days, even in costume. He worked, as Mrs. Hall thought, very fitfully. Some days he would come down early and be continuously busy. On others he would rise late, pace his room, fretting audibly for hours together, smoke, sleep in the armchair by the fire. Communication with the world beyond the village he had none. His temper continued very uncertain; for the most part his manner was that of a man suffering under almost unendurable provocation, and once or twice things were snapped, torn, crushed, or broken in spasmodic gusts of violence.
church - Kirche; Gottesdienst, Messe
irreligious - irreligiös
costume - Kostüm, Tracht, kostümieren
fitfully - unruhig; unbeständige, ruckartig
continuously - kontinuierlich
rise - steigen; Kursanstieg; Aufgang, Gehaltszulage, Aufschwung
pace - Tempo, Stufe, Schritt
fretting - beunruhigt; sich grämen
audibly - hörbar, vernehmlich
smoke - rauchen; Rauch
communication - Kommunikation, Informationsaustausch, Mitteilung
beyond - darüber hinaus; jenseits
temper - Gereiztheit, Laune, Temperament, Anlassen, Ausheizen
continued - fortgesetzt; fortsetzen, weiterhin
uncertain - unsicher
suffering - leidend; Leiden; (suffer); leiden; erleiden
almost - fast, beinahe, so gut wie
unendurable - unerträglich
provocation - Provokation
crushed - erdrückt; Schwarm, zerdrücken
broken in - eingebrochen
spasmodic - krampfhaft
gusts - Böen; Windstoß, Bö
violence - Gewalt, Gewalttaten, Gewalttätigkeiten
He seemed under a chronic irritation of the greatest intensity. His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard.
chronic - chronisch; langanhaltend, andauernd, fortwährend, Langzeit-
irritation - Ärger, Irritation, Verärgerung
intensity - Intensität
habit - Gepflogenheit, Angewohnheit
low - tief, niedrig, nieder, leise (Stimme); muhen, blöken (Rind)
steadily - beständig; stetige, stet, zuverlässig
conscientiously - Gewissenhaft
neither - weder; weder X noch Y; keiner, keines
He rarely went abroad by daylight, but at twilight he would go out muffled up invisibly, whether the weather were cold or not, and he chose the loneliest paths and those most overshadowed by trees and banks. His goggling spectacles and ghastly bandaged face under the penthouse of his hat, came with a disagreeable suddenness out of the darkness upon one or two home-going labourers, and Teddy Henfrey, tumbling out of the "Scarlet Coat" one night, at half-past nine, was scared shamefully by the stranger's skull-like head (he was walking hat in hand) lit by the sudden light of the opened inn door.
rarely - selten
abroad - Ausland
daylight - Tageslicht; Tag
invisibly - unsichtbar
whether - ob
loneliest - am einsamsten; einsam, alleinig, abgeschieden, einsam, öde
paths - Wege; Weg, Pfad
overshadowed - überschattet; überschatten, überschatten
goggling - glotzen
ghastly - geisterhaft; grässlich, gespenstisch, haarsträubend
penthouse - Dachwohnung, Penthouse, Schrägdach
disagreeable - unangenehm, unsympathisch
suddenness - Plötzlichkeit
labourers - Arbeitskräfte; Arbeiter
tumbling - purzeln; einstürzen, hinabstürzen; (tumble); Sturz, Fall
scarlet - Scharlachrot, Scharlach
scared - verängstigt; erschrocken, bange
shamefully - beschämend
skull - Totenschädel, Totenkopf, Schädel
Such children as saw him at nightfall dreamt of bogies, and it seemed doubtful whether he disliked boys more than they disliked him, or the reverse; but there was certainly a vivid enough dislike on either side.
at nightfall - bei Anbruch der Nacht
dreamt - geträumt; Traum, Traum, t+Wunsch, träumen, träumen, t+wünschen
bogies - Drehgestelle; Drehgestell
doubtful - zweifelhaft; zweifelnd
disliked - nicht mochte; Unbehagen
the reverse - das genaue Gegenteil
either - auch nicht; beide; auch, ebenso, ebenfalls, entweder, entweder
It was inevitable that a person of so remarkable an appearance and bearing should form a frequent topic in such a village as Iping. Opinion was greatly divided about his occupation. Mrs. Hall was sensitive on the point. When questioned, she explained very carefully that he was an "experimental investigator," going gingerly over the syllables as one who dreads pitfalls. When asked what an experimental investigator was, she would say with a touch of superiority that most educated people knew such things as that, and would thus explain that he "discovered things.
inevitable - unvermeidlich, unabwendbar, zwangsläufig
bearing - tragend, Manieren, Lager (Maschinenbau); (bear) tragend
frequent - häufig; aufsuchen
greatly - sehr; außerordentlich, großartig
divided - geteilt; aufteilen, teilen, einteilen, teilen, dividieren
occupation - Beschäftigung, Beruf, Besatzung; Besetzung; q
gingerly - behutsam, sanft, vorsichtig, zimperlich
syllables - Silben; Silbe
dreads - schaudern, grauen, gruseln, grausen
pitfalls - Fallstricke; Fallstrick, Fallgrube, Fanggrube, Wildgrube
touch - anfassen, berühren, Berührung, Tasten, Spur
superiority - Überlegenheit
most educated - gebildetste
thus - also; auf diese Weise, so, demnach, folglich, dieses
discovered - entdeckt; entdecken, erleben, erfahren, dabei sein
Her visitor had had an accident, she said, which temporarily discoloured his face and hands, and being of a sensitive disposition, he was averse to any public notice of the fact.
temporarily - vorübergehend
discoloured - verfärbt; verfärben
disposition - Neigung, Gesinnung, Hang, Veranlagung, Einteilung
averse - abgeneigt
public - öffentlich; Publikum, Öffentlichkeit
notice - Bekanntmachung; Benachrichtigung, Mitteilung, Kündigungsfrist
Out of her hearing there was a view largely entertained that he was a criminal trying to escape from justice by wrapping himself up so as to conceal himself altogether from the eye of the police. This idea sprang from the brain of Mr. Teddy Henfrey. No crime of any magnitude dating from the middle or end of February was known to have occurred. Elaborated in the imagination of Mr. Gould, the probationary assistant in the National School, this theory took the form that the stranger was an Anarchist in disguise, preparing explosives, and he resolved to undertake such detective operations as his time permitted.
view - Aussicht; Anblick, Ansicht, Aufruf, View, sehen
largely - groß, weitgehend, große
entertained - unterhalten
criminal - kriminell; Krimineller, Kriminelle, Verbrecher, Verbrecherin
escape - entgehen, ausweichen, davonkommen, Flucht
justice - Gerechtigkeit, Genugtuung, Justiz
wrapping - verpacken; einpacken, einwickeln
conceal - verbergen, verheimlichen, verschleiern, verschweigen
brain - Gehirn, Superhirn, Intelligenzbestie, Kopf, Verstand, Köpfchen
crime - Straftat; Verbrechen; Kriminalität
magnitude - Ausmaß; Betrag
occurred - aufgetreten; passieren, vorkommen, stattfinden, vorkommen
elaborated - ausgearbeitet; ausführlich, durchdacht, ausführen
imagination - Phantasie; Vorstellungskraft, Imagination, Einbildungskraft
probationary - in der Probezeit; bedingt freigelassen
assistant - Assistentin; helfend, hilfreich, Assistent, Mitarbeiter, Helfer
national - national, Staats-, Staatsangehöriger, Staatsangehörige
theory - Theorie
anarchist - Anarchist, Anarchistin
in disguise - verkappt
explosives - explosiv, aufbrausend, explosiv, Sprengstoff; Sprengmittel
undertake - unternehmen, ausführen, verpflichten
Detective - Ermittler, Ermittlerin, Detektiv, Detektivin
permitted - erlaubt; zulassen, erlauben; Erlaubnis, Erlaubnisschein
These consisted for the most part in looking very hard at the stranger whenever they met, or in asking people who had never seen the stranger, leading questions about him. But he detected nothing.
consisted - bestand; zusammensetzend, besteht aus; bestehen (aus)
detected - entdeckt; finden, ermitteln, aufspüren, entdecken, erkennen
Another school of opinion followed Mr. Fearenside, and either accepted the piebald view or some modification of it; as, for instance, Silas Durgan, who was heard to assert that "if he chooses to show enself at fairs he'd make his fortune in no time," and being a bit of a theologian, compared the stranger to the man with the one talent.
accepted - akzeptiert; annehmen, abnehmen, akzeptieren, aufnehmen
modification - Änderung, Abänderung, Modifikation
instance - Beispiel, Fall, Instanz
assert - behaupten; versichern, zusichern, beteuern
enself - selbst
fairs - gerecht, fair, heiter, schön, angemessen
theologian - Theologe, Theologin
talent - Talent, Begabung
Yet another view explained the entire matter by regarding the stranger as a harmless lunatic. That had the advantage of accounting for everything straight away.
entire - vollständig; ganz, gesamt
harmless - harmlos, unschädlich, ungefährlich
lunatic - Verrückte; Irre
advantage - Vorteil; Vorzug
accounting - Buchhaltung; (account); Buchhaltung
Between these main groups there were waverers and compromisers. Sussex folk have few superstitions, and it was only after the events of early April that the thought of the supernatural was first whispered in the village. Even then it was only credited among the women folk.
compromisers - Kompromissler
folk - Volk
superstitions - Aberglauben; Aberglaube
supernatural - übernatürlich
credited - gutgeschrieben; annehmen, für bare Münze nehmen, gutschreiben
among - unter, zwischen, untereinander
But whatever they thought of him, people in Iping, on the whole, agreed in disliking him. His irritability, though it might have been comprehensible to an urban brain-worker, was an amazing thing to these quiet Sussex villagers. The frantic gesticulations they surprised now and then, the headlong pace after nightfall that swept him upon them round quiet corners, the inhuman bludgeoning of all tentative advances of curiosity, the taste for twilight that led to the closing of doors, the pulling down of blinds, the extinction of candles and lamps-who could agree with such goings on? They drew aside as he passed down the village, and when he had gone by, young humourists would up with coat-collars and down with hat-brims, and go pacing nervously after him in imitation of his occult bearing.
disliking - Abneigung; Unbehagen
irritability - Reizbarkeit, Empfindlichkeit, Irritabilität
comprehensible - nachvollziehbar
Urban - städtisch, urban, Stadt
villagers - Dorfbewohner, Dorfbewohnerin, Dörfler, Dörflerin
frantic - verzweifelt; außer sich, rasend
gesticulations - Gestikulationen; Gestikulierung
nightfall - Einbruch der Nacht, Einbruch der Dunkelheit, Zwielicht
swept - gekehrt; fegen, kehren, fegen, rauschen, auf den Kopf stellen
corners - Ecken; Ecke, Winkel, Ecke, Ecke, Ecke, in die Enge treiben
inhuman - unmenschlich
bludgeoning - Knüppel, niederknüppeln, knüppeln, aufzwingen
tentative - vorläufig, Versuch
taste - Geschmack, Schmecken, kosten, probieren
led - geführt; LED; (lead) führen, anführen
pulling down - herunterreißend
blinds - Jalousien; blind, blind, unkritisch, ignorant, blind, Jalousie
extinction - Aussterben
candles - Kerzen; Kerze
goings - geht; Fortschritt, Weiterkommen
aside - beiseite, zur Seite
passed - bestanden; (to pass) durchgehen, passieren, durchlaufen
gone by - (go by) vorübergehen, vergehen
collars - Kragen, Halskette, Halsband
brims - Krempen; übersprudeln; Rand
nervously - nervös, erregbar, gereizt, hektisch
imitation - Imitation, Nachahmung, Kopie, Imitat
occult - okkult; Okkult, Okkultismus
There was a song popular at that time called "The Bogey Man". Miss Statchell sang it at the schoolroom concert (in aid of the church lamps), and thereafter whenever one or two of the villagers were gathered together and the stranger appeared, a bar or so of this tune, more or less sharp or flat, was whistled in the midst of them. Also belated little children would call "Bogey Man!" after him, and make off tremulously elated.
Bogey - Kobold
schoolroom - Schulzimmer; Klassenzimmer
aid - Hilfsmittel, Hilfe, Mithilfe; helfen, beispringen
thereafter - und danach
gathered - gesammelt; sammeln, versammeln
appeared - erschienen; erscheinen, auftauchen, erscheinen, auftauchen
tune - Melodie; stimmen
sharp - scharf; scharfsinning; spitz, -is, hoch, stechend
whistled - gepfiffen; Pfeife, Trillerpfeife, Flöte, Pfeifen
midst - mittendrin; Mitten, Mitte, inmitten
elated - hocherfreut; beschwingen, ermutigen
make off - sich aus dem Staub machen;davonmachen
tremulously - bebend
Cuss, the general practitioner, was devoured by curiosity. The bandages excited his professional interest, the report of the thousand and one bottles aroused his jealous regard. All through April and May he coveted an opportunity of talking to the stranger, and at last, towards Whitsuntide, he could stand it no longer, but hit upon the subscription-list for a village nurse as an excuse.
general practitioner - Praktiker
devoured - verschlungen; verschlingen, fressen, schlingen
professional - Profi, Professioneller, Professionelle, Beruf
aroused - erregt; reizen, aufreizen, anregen, erregen, entfachen
jealous - eifersüchtig; eifrig, eifernd, neidisch
regard - schätzen, betrachten, berücksichtigen, achten; Aufmerksamkeit
coveted - begehrt; begehren, sehnen, begehren, de
Whitsuntide - Pfingsten
hit upon - auf etwas stoßen
subscription - Abonnement, Bezug, Subskription, Zugang, Zeichnung
He was surprised to find that Mr. Hall did not know his guest's name. "He give a name," said Mrs. Hall-an assertion which was quite unfounded-"but I didn't rightly hear it." She thought it seemed so silly not to know the man's name.
assertion - Versicherung, Zusicherung, Behauptung, Beteuerung
unfounded - unbegründet
rightly - zurecht, zu Recht, richtig
silly - doof, dumm, albern, Dummerchen
Cuss rapped at the parlour door and entered. There was a fairly audible imprecation from within. "Pardon my intrusion," said Cuss, and then the door closed and cut Mrs. Hall off from the rest of the conversation.
imprecation - Verwünschung; Fluch
within - in, innerhalb
Pardon - Vergebung, Verzeihung, Begnadigung, verzeihen, vergeben
She could hear the murmur of voices for the next ten minutes, then a cry of surprise, a stirring of feet, a chair flung aside, a bark of laughter, quick steps to the door, and Cuss appeared, his face white, his eyes staring over his shoulder. He left the door open behind him, and without looking at her strode across the hall and went down the steps, and she heard his feet hurrying along the road.
murmur - Rauschen, Murmeln, Gemurmel, Raunen, Herzgeräusch
voices - Stimmen; äußern
cry - weinen; schreien; rufen; Weinen; Schrei
stirring of - Gefühlsregung , Regung
laughter - Gelächter, Lachen
strode - schritt; schreiten
hurrying - Beeilung; beeilend, eilend; (hurry); Eile; beeilen
He carried his hat in his hand. She stood behind the door, looking at the open door of the parlour. Then she heard the stranger laughing quietly, and then his footsteps came across the room. She could not see his face where she stood. The parlour door slammed, and the place was silent again.
Footsteps - Fußstapfen; Fußabdruck, Schritt
Cuss went straight up the village to Bunting the vicar. "Am I mad?" Cuss began abruptly, as he entered the shabby little study. "Do I look like an insane person?"
straight up - ungelogen;ohne Eis [Cocktails]
Bunting - Ammer; Wimpel, stoßend, Fahnentuch; (bunt) Ammer; Wimpel
Vicar - Vikar
mad - wahnsinnig, verrückt, toll, irre
shabby - schäbig
insane - wahnsinnig, verrückt, geisteskrank
"What's happened?" said the vicar, putting the ammonite on the loose sheets of his forth-coming sermon.
ammonite - Ammonit
loose - verlassen, lose, locker
sheets - Blätter; Blatt
sermon - Predigt
"That chap at the inn-"
"Well?"
"Give me something to drink," said Cuss, and he sat down.
When his nerves had been steadied by a glass of cheap sherry-the only drink the good vicar had available-he told him of the interview he had just had. "Went in," he gasped, "and began to demand a subscription for that Nurse Fund. He'd stuck his hands in his pockets as I came in, and he sat down lumpily in his chair. Sniffed. I told him I'd heard he took an interest in scientific things. He said yes. Sniffed again. Kept on sniffing all the time; evidently recently caught an infernal cold. No wonder, wrapped up like that! I developed the nurse idea, and all the while kept my eyes open. Bottles-chemicals-everywhere. Balance, test-tubes in stands, and a smell of-evening primrose. Would he subscribe? Said he'd consider it. Asked him, point-blank, was he researching. Said he was.
steadied - gefestigt; stetig, stetig, stabilisieren
sherry - Sherry
available - verfügbar
demand - Nachfrage, Bedarf, Anspruch, verlangen, bestehen
fund - Kapital, Fonds, finanzieren
stuck - stecken; stich!, ich/er/sie stäche, ich/er/sie stach; Schläger
pockets - Taschen; Tasche
lumpily - klumpig
sniffed - geschnüffelt; schnüffeln, züngeln (for reptiles)
scientific - wissenschaftlich
infernal - höllisch, infernalisch, Höllen-, checkinfernalisch
wonder - Wunder, Mirakel, wundern
chemicals - Chemikalien; chemisch, Chemikalie, Chemikalie, Chemikalie
smell - Geruch; Geruchssinn, Riechen, stinken
Primrose - Primel
subscribe - abonnieren
blank - ausdruckslos; unbeschrieben, unausgefüllt, Lücke, Leerzeichen
researching - Forschung, Untersuchung, Forschungsarbeit, forschen, erforschen
A long research? Got quite cross. 'A damnable long research,'said he, blowing the cork out, so to speak. 'Oh,'said I. And out came the grievance. The man was just on the boil, and my question boiled him over. He had been given a prescription, most valuable prescription-what for he wouldn't say. Was it medical? 'Damn you! What are you fishing after?'I apologised. Dignified sniff and cough. He resumed. He'd read it. Five ingredients. Put it down; turned his head. Draught of air from window lifted the paper. Swish, rustle. He was working in a room with an open fireplace, he said. Saw a flicker, and there was the prescription burning and lifting chimneyward. Rushed towards it just as it whisked up the chimney. So! Just at that point, to illustrate his story, out came his arm."
research - Forschung; Untersuchung, Forschungsarbeit, forschen, erforschen
damnable - verdammenswert, verdammungswürdig
blowing - (to blow) blasen, wehen, pusten
cork - Korken; Cork
grievance - Kummer; Ärgernis, Missstand, Übelstand
boiled - gekocht; kochen, sieden, ich/er/sie/es siedete, sott; Furunkel
prescription - Rezept, Verschreibung, Rechtssetzung, Verjährung
valuable - wertvoll; Wertgegenstand, Wertsache
medical - medizinisch
apologised - entschuldigt; Abbitte leisten, entschuldigen
dignified - würdevoll; ehren
sniff - schnüffeln, züngeln (for reptiles)
cough - husten; Husten
ingredients - Inhaltsstoffe; Bestandteil, Ingredienz, Inhaltsstoff, Zutat
draught - Tiefgang; Spielstein
lifted - angehoben; Lüften (Bremse), Lift, Aufzug; fördern
swish - zischen; sausen
rustle - Rascheln, Rauschen, Knistern
flicker - flimmern, flattern, flackern
lifting - Lüften (Bremse), Lift, Aufzug; fördern, Auftrieb geben, heben
chimneyward - Schornsteinfeger
illustrate - veranschaulichen; illustrieren
"Well?"
"No hand-just an empty sleeve. Lord! I thought, that's a deformity! Got a cork arm, I suppose, and has taken it off. Then, I thought, there's something odd in that. What the devil keeps that sleeve up and open, if there's nothing in it? There was nothing in it, I tell you.
sleeve - Ärmel; Hülse, Schutzhülle, Tülle, Köcher
Lord - Gebieter; Herr; herrschen
deformity - Deformität; Missbildung
devil - dem Teufel; Teufel, Satan, Teufelin, reizen, ärgern
Nothing down it, right down to the joint. I could see right down it to the elbow, and there was a glimmer of light shining through a tear of the cloth. 'Good God!'I said. Then he stopped. Stared at me with those black goggles of his, and then at his sleeve."
joint - Gelenk; gemeinschaftlich, gemeinsam, gemeinsame, gemeinsamer
elbow - Ellbogen; Rohrbogen; Ellbogenstoß; ellbögeln
glimmer - Schimmern; Schimmer; glimmern
shining through - durchleuchtend
God - Gott
"Well?"
"That's all. He never said a word; just glared, and put his sleeve back in his pocket quickly. 'I was saying,'said he, 'that there was the prescription burning, wasn't I?'Interrogative cough. 'How the devil,'said I, 'can you move an empty sleeve like that?''Empty sleeve?''Yes,'said I, 'an empty sleeve.'
glared - geblendet; Blendung, entrüstetes Starren
Pocket - Tasche
"'It's an empty sleeve, is it? You saw it was an empty sleeve?'He stood up right away. I stood up too. He came towards me in three very slow steps, and stood quite close. Sniffed venomously. I didn't flinch, though I'm hanged if that bandaged knob of his, and those blinkers, aren't enough to unnerve any one, coming quietly up to you.
venomously - boshaft
flinch - zusammenzucken; zurückweichen
hanged - aufgehängt
knob - Knopf, Knauf
blinkers - Scheuklappen; Scheuklappe
unnerve - verunsichern; entnerven
"'You said it was an empty sleeve?'he said. 'Certainly,'I said. At staring and saying nothing a barefaced man, unspectacled, starts scratch. Then very quietly he pulled his sleeve out of his pocket again, and raised his arm towards me as though he would show it to me again. He did it very, very slowly. I looked at it. Seemed an age. 'Well?'said I, clearing my throat, 'there's nothing in it.'
barefaced - ungeschminkt
unspectacled - unspektakulär
scratch - kratzen; zerkratzen, verkratzen, Kratzer
slowly - langsam
clearing - Klärung, Aufklärung, Lichtung, Rodung
throat - Kehle, Rachen, Hals, Flaschenhals
"Had to say something. I was beginning to feel frightened. I could see right down it. He extended it straight towards me, slowly, slowly-just like that-until the cuff was six inches from my face. Queer thing to see an empty sleeve come at you like that! And then-"
frightened - verängstigt; Angst machen, erschrecken, schrecken, beängstigen
cuff - Manschette; Hosenaufschlag, Umschlag (an der Hose)
inches - Zoll (2, 54 cm), Zoll (Längenmaß)
queer - seltsam; unwohl; schwul, lesbisch, queer, Queers, Homosexueller
"Well?"
"Something-exactly like a finger and thumb it felt-nipped my nose."
exactly - genau; ganz genau
finger - fingern
thumb - Daumen; durchblättern
nipped - gekniffen; kneifen, zwicken; flitzen
Bunting began to laugh.
"There wasn't anything there!" said Cuss, his voice running up into a shriek at the "there." "It's all very well for you to laugh, but I tell you I was so startled, I hit his cuff hard, and turned around, and cut out of the room-I left him-"
running up - anlaufend
shriek - schreien; Kreischen
Cuss stopped. There was no mistaking the sincerity of his panic. He turned round in a helpless way and took a second glass of the excellent vicar's very inferior sherry. "When I hit his cuff," said Cuss, "I tell you, it felt exactly like hitting an arm. And there wasn't an arm! There wasn't the ghost of an arm!"
sincerity - Aufrichtigkeit, Ehrlichkeit
panic - Panik, panisch
helpless - hilflos
excellent - ausgezeichnet, hervorragend, großartig
inferior - untergeordnet, nachgeordnet, unterlegen, tiefer, minderwertig
hitting - schlagen
Mr. Bunting thought it over. He looked suspiciously at Cuss. "It's a most remarkable story," he said. He looked very wise and grave indeed. "It's really," said Mr. Bunting with judicial emphasis, "a most remarkable story."
most remarkable - beachtenswerteste
wise - weise; klug, vernünftig
grave - Grab; feierlich, Gruft, massiv, würdig, ernst
The facts of the burglary at the vicarage came to us chiefly through the medium of the vicar and his wife. It occurred in the small hours of Whit Monday, the day devoted in Iping to the Club festivities. Mrs. Bunting, it seems, woke up suddenly in the stillness that comes before the dawn, with the strong impression that the door of their bedroom had opened and closed. She did not arouse her husband at first, but sat up in bed listening. She then distinctly heard the pad, pad, pad of bare feet coming out of the adjoining dressing-room and walking along the passage towards the staircase.
medium - Medium; mittelgroß
the small hours - frühe Morgenstunden
Whit Monday - Pfingstmontag
devoted - hingebungsvoll; widmen
festivities - Festlichkeiten; Fest
Seems - Scheint; scheinen, dünken
stillness - Stille
dawn - dämmern; Morgendämmerung, Morgengrauen
arouse - erwecken; reizen, aufreizen, anregen, erregen
pad - Unterlage, Polster, Matte, Stütze
bare - knapp, kahl, nackt, bloß; entblößen, abnehmen, freimachen
adjoining - angrenzend
dressing-room - (dressing-room) Ankleidezimmer , Umkleideraum , Umkleide
staircase - Treppe
As soon as she felt assured of this, she aroused the Rev. Mr. Bunting as quietly as possible. He did not strike a light, but putting on his spectacles, her dressing-gown and his bath slippers, he went out on the landing to listen. He heard quite distinctly a fumbling going on at his study desk down-stairs, and then a violent sneeze.
Rev - auf Touren bringen/kommen
putting on - umhängend
dressing-gown - (dressing-gown) Morgenrock , Schlafrock , Morgenmantel ;Bademantel (Morgenmantel)
slippers - Hausschuhe; Hausschuh, Latschen, Pantoffel, Patschen, Puschen
fumbling - Fummeln; umhertasten, tasten
violent - heftig, gewaltig, brutal, gewalttätig, gewaltbereit, grell
sneeze - niesen; Niesen
At that he returned to his bedroom, armed himself with the most obvious weapon, the poker, and descended the staircase as noiselessly as possible. Mrs. Bunting came out on the landing.
most obvious - ersichtlichste
weapon - Waffe
poker - pokern; Schürhaken
descended - abstammen; absteigen, niedergehen, herunterkommen, herabsteigen
noiselessly - geräuschlos
The hour was about four, and the ultimate darkness of the night was past. There was a faint shimmer of light in the hall, but the study doorway yawned impenetrably black. Everything was still except the faint creaking of the stairs under Mr. Bunting's tread, and the slight movements in the study. Then something snapped, the drawer was opened, and there was a rustle of papers. Then came an imprecation, and a match was struck and the study was flooded with yellow light.
ultimate - letzter, ultimativ, äußerster
shimmer - schimmern
yawned - gähnte; gähnen, Gähnen
impenetrably - undurchdringlich
Except - ausnehmen, ausklammern, ausschließen, widersprechen, außer
creaking - Knarren
tread - Lauffläche; (to tread) betreten, schreiten
Slight - geringfügig, leicht, unbedeutend
movements - Bewegungen; Bewegung, Bewegung, Satz
drawer - Zeichner, Schublade, Aussteller
match - Wettkampf, Kampf (Sport), Spiel (Sport); sich messen mit
flooded - überschwemmt; Flut, Flut, überschwemmen, überfluten, überfüllen
Mr. Bunting was now in the hall, and through the crack of the door he could see the desk and the open drawer and a candle burning on the desk. But the robber he could not see. He stood there in the hall undecided what to do, and Mrs. Bunting, her face white and intent, crept slowly downstairs after him. One thing kept Mr. Bunting's courage; the persuasion that this burglar was a resident in the village.
crack - Riss, Knall, Aufbruch, Bresche; aufbrechen, knallen, platzen
candle - Kerze
robber - Räuber, Räuberin
intent - Absicht
crept - gekrochen; kriechen, schleichen, schleichen, kriechen, Kriechen
persuasion - Überredung; Überzeugung; Überredungskunst
burglar - Einbrecher, Einbrecherin, Dieb, Diebin
resident - ansässig; Einwohner, Einwohnerin, Bewohner, Bewohnerin
They heard the chink of money, and realised that the robber had found the housekeeping reserve of gold-two pounds ten in half sovereigns altogether. At that sound Mr. Bunting was nerved to abrupt action. Gripping the poker firmly, he rushed into the room, closely followed by Mrs. Bunting. "Surrender!" cried Mr. Bunting, fiercely, and then stooped amazed. Apparently the room was perfectly empty.
chink - Schlitzauge; Spalte, Ritze, Spalt; klimpern, klirren
realised - realisiert; erfassen, (Gewinn) erzielen, zu Geld machen
housekeeping - Hauswirtschaft; Haushaltung, Hausarbeit
reserve - Reservieren, Bedenken, Vorbehalt, Reserviertheit, Reserve
nerved - genervt; Nerv, Nerv, Nerv, Nerv, Nerv
abrupt - abrupt, jäh, schroff, steil
gripping - fesselnd; packen, fassen; Griffigkeit, Heft (von Säge, Feile)
firmly - sicher, fest
surrender - kapitulieren, ergeben
fiercely - heftig, wütend
stooped - gekrümmt; Buckel, sich beugen
amazed - erstaunt; verwundern
apparently - offensichtlich, offenbar, scheinbar, anscheinend
Yet their conviction that they had, that very moment, heard somebody moving in the room had amounted to a certainty. For half a minute, perhaps, they stood gaping, then Mrs. Bunting went across the room and looked behind the screen, while Mr. Bunting, by a kindred impulse, peered under the desk.
conviction - Überzeugung; Verurteilung
amounted to - betrug
certainty - Gewissheit
screen - Schirm, Paravent, Sichtschutz, Insektengitter, Fliegengitter
kindred - Stammesbrüder, Stammesgeschwister, Artgenossen, verwandt
impulse - Anstoß; Impuls, Triebkraft, Drang, innerer Antrieb, Kraftstoß
peered - spähte; seinesgleichen, Beaufsichtigende; schielen, starren
Then Mrs. Bunting turned back the window-curtains, and Mr. Bunting looked up the chimney and probed it with the poker. Then Mrs. Bunting scrutinised the waste-paper basket and Mr. Bunting opened the lid of the coal-scuttle. Then they came to a stop and stood with eyes interrogating each other.
curtains - Vorhänge; Vorhang, Vorhang
chimney - Kamin, Esse, Schlot, Schornstein, Spalte
probed - sondiert; Untersuchung, Sonde, untersuchen
waste - Abfall; verschwenden
basket - Korb
lid - Deckel
scuttle - versenken; ruinieren; Lüftungsblech (am Auto)
interrogating - verhören, vernehmen
"I could have sworn-" said Mr. Bunting.
sworn - geschworen; schwören
"The candle!" said Mr. Bunting. "Who lit the candle?"
"The drawer!" said Mrs. Bunting. "And the money's gone!"
She went hastily to the doorway.
hastily - hastig
"Of all the strange occurrences-"
occurrences - Vorkommnisse; Vorfall
There was a violent sneeze in the passage. They rushed out, and as they did so the kitchen door slammed. "Bring the candle," said Mr. Bunting, and led the way. They both heard a sound of bolts being hastily shot back.
bolts - Riegel, Ballen, Blitz, Bolzen; durchgehen (Pferd), sausen
As he opened the kitchen door he saw through the scullery that the back door was just opening, and the faint light of early dawn displayed the dark masses of the garden beyond. He is certain that nothing went out of the door. It opened, stood open for a moment, and then closed with a slam. As it did so, the candle Mrs. Bunting was carrying from the study flickered and flared. It was a minute or more before they entered the kitchen.
saw through - (see through) durchschauen
scullery - Abwaschraum; Spülküche, Spülkammer
displayed - angezeigt; Vorführung, Vorstellung, Display
masses - Massen; Messe (kirchlich), Gottesdienst, Menge
stood open - offengestanden
slam - zuschlagen, hart anpacken, zuknallen; harte Kritik
flickered - flackerte; flimmern, flattern, flackern
flared - abgefackelt; Fackel, Leuchtfackel, Bengalo
The place was empty. They refastened the back door, examined the kitchen, pantry, and scullery thoroughly, and at last went down into the cellar. There was not a soul to be found in the house, search as they would.
refastened - neu befestigt; wieder festigen
examined - untersucht; untersuchen, untersuchen, untersuchen, prüfen
pantry - Speisekammer, Vorratskammer
thoroughly - gründlich, vollkommen, total, durch und durch
cellar - Keller
search - Suche; suchen, absuchen, durchsuchen
Daylight found the vicar and his wife, a quaintly-costumed little couple, still marvelling about on their own ground floor by the unnecessary light of a guttering candle.
quaintly - malerisch; wunderliche, originell, anheimelnd
costumed - kostümiert; Kostüm
marvelling - Staunen; (marvel) Wunderding, Wunder; (marvel); wundern
ground floor - Parterre
guttering - Dachrinnen; Regenrinnen
Now it happened that in the early hours of Whit Monday, before Millie was hunted out for the day, Mr. Hall and Mrs. Hall both rose and went noiselessly down into the cellar. Their business there was of a private nature, and had something to do with the specific gravity of their beer.
hunted - gejagt; jagen, suchen, Jagd
private - privat; privat
specific gravity - Dichte , spezifisches Gewicht
They had hardly entered the cellar when Mrs. Hall found she had forgotten to bring down a bottle of sarsaparilla from their joint-room. As she was the expert and principal operator in this affair, Hall very properly went upstairs for it.
bring down - herunterbringen, abschießen
sarsaparilla - Sarsaparille, Sarsaparilla, Stechwinde
expert - fachmännisch; Experte, Fachmann, Fachfrau
principal - Auftraggeber; hauptsächlich, Haupt-, wesentlich, Rektor
operator - Betreiber; Telefonist, Telefonistin, Vermittlung, Operator
affair - Angelegenheit; Scharmützel; Ding; Beziehung, Affäre
properly - ordnungsgemäß, ordentlich, richtig, vernünftig
On the landing he was surprised to see that the stranger's door was ajar. He went on into his own room and found the bottle as he had been directed.
directed - gerichtet; direkt, unmittelbar, beaufsichtigen, inszenieren
But returning with the bottle, he noticed that the bolts of the front door had been shot back, that the door was in fact simply on the latch. And with a flash of inspiration he connected this with the stranger's room upstairs and the suggestions of Mr. Teddy Henfrey. He distinctly remembered holding the candle while Mrs.
latch - einrasten; Riegel, Sperre, Klinke
flash - Blitzlicht; aufleuchten, blitzen, aufflammen
inspiration - Einatmung, Einatmen, Einschnaufen, göttliche Eingebung
connected - verbunden; verbinden, anschließen, verbinden
suggestions - Vorschläge; Vorschlag, Suggestion
Hall shot these bolts overnight. At the sight he stopped, gaping, then with the bottle still in his hand went upstairs again. He rapped at the stranger's door. There was no answer. He rapped again; then pushed the door wide open and entered.
overnight - über Nacht; von heute auf morgen; von einem Tag auf den anderen; q
It was as he expected. The bed, the room also, was empty. And what was stranger, even to his heavy intelligence, on the bedroom chair and along the rail of the bed were scattered the garments, the only garments so far as he knew, and the bandages of their guest. His big slouch hat even was cocked jauntily over the bed-post.
heavy - heftig, schwer, stark (Regen)
intelligence - Intelligenz, Klugheit, intelligentes Leben
rail - Gleis, Schiene, Reling, Geländer
scattered - verstreut; zerstreuen, zerstreuen, streuen, verstreuen
garments - Kleidungsstücke; Kleidungsstück
slouch hat - Schlapphut
cocked - aufgespannt; Vogelmännchen; Gockel
jauntily - übermütig; unbeschwert, munter, fröhlich
As Hall stood there he heard his wife's voice coming out of the depth of the cellar, with that rapid telescoping of the syllables and interrogative cocking up of the final words to a high note, by which the West Sussex villager is wont to indicate a brisk impatience. "George! You gart whad a wand?"
depth - Tiefe
telescoping - Teleskopieren; Teleskop
cocking - spannen; Vogelmännchen; Gockel, Hahn; erigierter Penis (vulg.)
wont - nicht
indicate - anzeigen, anweisen, andeuten, auf etwas deuten, blinken
brisk - lebhaft, rege, vital, anregend
Impatience - Ungeduld
George - Georg
wand - Zauberstab; Stab
At that he turned and hurried down to her. "Janny," he said, over the rail of the cellar steps, "'tas the truth what Henfrey sez. 'E's not in uz room, 'e en't. And the front door's onbolted."
hurried - eilig; Eile, beeilen
truth - Wahrheit, Treue
onbolted - angeschraubt
At first Mrs. Hall did not understand, and as soon as she did she resolved to see the empty room for herself. Hall, still holding the bottle, went first. "If 'e en't there," he said, "'is close are. And what's 'e doin''ithout 'is close, then? 'Tas a most curious business."
doin - tun
ithout - ohne
most curious - neugierigste, kurioseste
As they came up the cellar steps they both, it was afterwards ascertained, fancied they heard the front door open and shut, but seeing it closed and nothing there, neither said a word to the other about it at the time. Mrs. Hall passed her husband in the passage and ran on first upstairs. Someone sneezed on the staircase. Hall, following six steps behind, thought that he heard her sneeze. She, going on first, was under the impression that Hall was sneezing. She flung open the door and stood regarding the room. "Of all the curious!
ascertained - festzustellen; feststellen
sneezed - geniest; niesen, Niesen
sneezing - niesen; (sneeze); niesen; Niesen
she said.
She heard a sniff close behind her head as it seemed, and turning, was surprised to see Hall a dozen feet off on the topmost stair. But in another moment he was beside her. She bent forward and put her hand on the pillow and then under the clothes.
topmost - ganz oben; oberst
stair - Stufe, Treppenstufe, Treppe
forward - nachsenden, fördern, befördern, versenden, senden; dreist
pillow - Kopfkissen, Kissen; Ruhekissen
"Cold," she said. "He's been up this hour or more."
As she did so, a most extraordinary thing happened. The bed-clothes gathered themselves together, leapt up suddenly into a sort of peak, and then jumped headlong over the bottom rail. It was exactly as if a hand had clutched them in the centre and flung them aside. Immediately after, the stranger's hat hopped off the bed-post, described a whirling flight in the air through the better part of a circle, and then dashed straight at Mrs. Hall's face. Then as swiftly came the sponge from the washstand; and then the chair, flinging the stranger's coat and trousers carelessly aside, and laughing drily in a voice singularly like the stranger's, turned itself up with its four legs at Mrs.
themselves - selbst; sich; sich selber
leapt - gesprungen
Peak - Höchststand; Höchstwert, Pik (Berg), Spitze
jumped - gesprungen; (to jump) springen, hüpfen
bottom - unten; Boden, Grund, Unterseite, passiv
clutched - umklammert; Vogelgelege; Kupplung (Auto), Gelege
hopped - gehüpft; tanzen (hüpfen); schwoofen (ugs. tanzen)
whirling - wirbelnd; (whirl) strudeln, wirbeln; (whirl); wirbeln, lschnell
circle - Kreis, Zirkel, Augenringe, umkreisen, einkreisen
dashed - gestrichelt; Bindestrich, Gedankenstrich, Querstrich, Strich
sponge - Schwamm; Schnorrer; schnorren
washstand - Waschtisch
flinging - Schleudern; Affäre (Liebesaffäre)
singularly - singulär; singularisch
Hall, seemed to take aim at her for a moment, and charged at her. She screamed and turned, and then the chair legs came gently but firmly against her back and impelled her and Hall out of the room. The door slammed violently and was locked. The chair and bed seemed to be executing a dance of triumph for a moment, and then abruptly everything was still.
aim at - hinarbeiten auf, anstreben, anvisieren;erstreben
charged - aufgeladen; Entgelt
screamed - geschrien; Schrei, schreien
gently - sanft
impelled - angetrieben; antreiben, vorantreiben, treiben, nötigen
executing - hinrichten, ausführen, durchführen, ausführen
triumph - Sieg, Erfolg
Mrs. Hall was left almost in a fainting condition in Mr. Hall's arms on the landing. It was with the greatest difficulty that Mr. Hall and Millie, who had been roused by her scream of alarm, succeeded in getting her downstairs, and applying the restoratives customary in such cases.
Fainting - Ohnmacht; (faint); Ohnmacht
condition - Zustand; Bedingung, Kondition, Voraussetzung, Verfassung
difficulty - Schwierigkeiten; Schwierigkeit
roused - geweckt; wachrufen, wecken
scream - Schrei; schreien
alarm - Alarm, Alarmsignal, Alarmstimmung, Wecker, Alarm schlagen
applying - zutreffen, auflegen, anwenden, anlegen
restoratives - Wiederherstellungsmittel; erholsam, stärkend, restaurativ
customary - Gewöhnlich; üblich
"'Tas sperits," said Mrs. Hall. "I know 'tas sperits. I've read in papers of en. Tables and chairs leaping and dancing..."
sperits - Spermien
leaping - hervorspringen, hüpfen, überspringen
"Take a drop more, Janny," said Hall. "'Twill steady ye."
drop - fallen lassen, senken, weglassen, aufgeben
twill - Köperbindung, Köper
steady - beständig; stetig; stabilisieren
ye - ja; euch, ihr, dir, du
"Lock him out," said Mrs. Hall. "Don't let him come in again. I half guessed-I might ha'known. With them goggling eyes and bandaged head, and never going to church of a Sunday. And all they bottles-more'n it's right for any one to have. He's put the sperits into the furniture.... My good old furniture! 'Twas in that very chair my poor dear mother used to sit when I was a little girl. To think it should rise up against me now!"
ha - Das war jetzt aber ernst!
Twas - Das war; Zeitarbeitsunternehmen
rise up - sich (gegen jdn.) erheben
"Just a drop more, Janny," said Hall. "Your nerves is all upset."
upset - verärgert; aufgebracht, aufgewühlt, verstimmt, gereizt, nervös
They sent Millie across the street through the golden five o'clock sunshine to rouse up Mr. Sandy Wadgers, the blacksmith. Mr. Hall's compliments and the furniture upstairs was behaving most extraordinary. Would Mr. Wadgers come round?
sunshine - Sonnenschein
rouse - aufrütteln; wachrufen, wecken
blacksmith - Eisenschmied, Eisenschmiedin, Grobschmied, Grobschmiedin
compliments - Komplimente; Kompliment
behaving - benehmen
He was a knowing man, was Mr. Wadgers, and very resourceful. He took quite a grave view of the case. "Arm darmed if thet ent witchcraft," was the view of Mr. Sandy Wadgers. "You warnt horseshoes for such gentry as he."
resourceful - einfallsreich
darmed - ermutigt
witchcraft - Hexerei, Hexenkunst
horseshoes - Hufeisen
gentry - Adel; Leute
He came round greatly concerned. They wanted him to lead the way upstairs to the room, but he didn't seem to be in any hurry. He preferred to talk in the passage. over the way Huxter's apprentice came out and began taking down the shutters of the tobacco window. He was called over to join the discussion. Mr. Huxter naturally followed over in the course of a few minutes.
lead - führen, anführen, leiten;aus Blei;Aufmacher ;Anschlussdraht , Blei , Führung
over the way - gegenüber
apprentice - Lehrling, Auszubildender, Auszubildende, Azubi
taking down - abhängend
shutters - Fensterläden; Verschließender, Verschließer, Fensterladen; q
tobacco - Tabak, Tabakpflanze
called over - hergerufen
discussion - Diskussion, Erörterung, Besprechung
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action. "Let's have the facts first," insisted Mr. Sandy Wadgers. "Let's be sure we'd be acting perfectly right in bustin'that there door open. A door onbust is always open to bustin', but ye can't onbust a door once you've busted en."
Anglo - Angloamerikanisch; Anglo
Saxon - Sachse, Sachse, Sächsin, Non Plus Ultra, Viertelpetit, Sächsisch
genius - Genie; Genialität
parliamentary - parlamentarisch
government - staatlich;Regierung , Regierung , Landesregierung
asserted - behauptet; versichern, zusichern, beteuern, beteuern, beteuern
deal - Menge, Handel, Teil, Abkommen
decisive - entscheidend
insisted - darauf bestanden; auf , bestehen
acting - Schauspielerei; amtierend, stellvertretend, geschäftsführend
bustin - verhaftet
busted - verhaftet; Pleite gehen, kaputt gehen; Busen, Büste
And suddenly and most wonderfully the door of the room upstairs opened of its own accord, and as they looked up in amazement, they saw descending the stairs the muffled figure of the stranger staring more blackly and blankly than ever with those unreasonably large blue glass eyes of his. He came down stiffly and slowly, staring all the time; he walked across the passage staring, then stopped.
wonderfully - Wunderbar
accord - Vereinbarung; Übereinstimmung, Einvernehmen, Übereinkommen
amazement - Erstaunen; Staunen, Verwunderung
descending - absteigend; absteigen, niedergehen, herunterkommen, herabsteigen
blackly - gemein, niedrig, roh, schwarz
unreasonably - unangemessen
stiffly - steif, kräftig
"look there!" he said, and their eyes followed the direction of his gloved finger and saw a bottle of sarsaparilla hard by the cellar door. Then he entered the parlour, and suddenly, swiftly, viciously, slammed the door in their faces.
look there - hinsehen
direction - Richtung; Führung; Regie
viciously - bösartig
Not a word was spoken until the last echoes of the slam had died away. They stared at one another. "Well, if that don't lick everything!" said Mr. Wadgers, and left the alternative unsaid.
Echoes - Echos; Echo
lick - schlecken, lecken; flitzen
alternative - alternativ; Alternative
unsaid - ungesagt; widerrufen
"I'd go in and ask'n 'bout it," said Wadgers, to Mr. Hall. "I'd d'mand an explanation."
It took some time to bring the landlady's husband up to that pitch. At last he rapped, opened the door, and got as far as, "Excuse me-"
landlady - Vermieterin, Hauswirtin
pitch - werfen, festsetzen, errichten; Tonhöhe, Tonlage, Pech
"Go to the devil!" said the stranger in a tremendous voice, and "Shut that door after you." So that brief interview terminated.
tremendous - ungeheuerlich
brief - kurz; prägnant; kurze Zusammenfassung; briefen, instruieren
terminated - abgebrochen; abbrechen, terminieren, entlassen
unveiling - Enthüllung; enthüllend; (unveil); enthüllen; offenbaren
The stranger went into the little parlour of the "Coach and Horses" about half-past five in the morning, and there he remained until near midday, the blinds down, the door shut, and none, after Hall's repulse, venturing near him.
midday - mittags; Mittag, mittägig
repulse - abwehren; zurückschlagen, abweisen
venturing - (venture) wagen, herauswagen; (venture); Wagnis
All that time he must have fasted. Thrice he rang his bell, the third time furiously and continuously, but no one answered him. "Him and his 'go to the devil'indeed!" said Mrs. Hall. Presently came an imperfect rumour of the burglary at the vicarage, and two and two were put together. Hall, assisted by Wadgers, went off to find Mr. Shuckleforth, the magistrate, and take his advice.
thrice - dreimal
bell - Klingel, Schelle, Glocke
third - dritte; Dritter, Dritte, Drittel, Drittel, Terz, dreiteilen
furiously - wütend, heftig
imperfect - unvollkommen, mangelhaft, unvollständig, fehlerhaft, Imperfekt
rumour - Sage, Gerücht; munkeln
assisted - assistiert; assistieren, helfen, beistehen, unterstützen
magistrate - Magistrat; richterlicher Beamter
No one ventured upstairs. How the stranger occupied himself is unknown. Now and then he would stride violently up and down, and twice came an outburst of curses, a tearing of paper, and a violent smashing of bottles.
ventured - gewagt; Wagnis
occupied - besetzt; in Anspruch nehmen, belegen, bewohnen, besetzen
unknown - unbekannt; Unbekannte; Unbekannter
stride - schreiten
outburst - hervorbrechen; Ausbruch
curses - Verfluchungen; verfluchen, fluchen, verdammen; Fluch
tearing - zerreißen, ich/er/sie/es riss, riß
smashing - Krachen
The little group of scared but curious people increased. Mrs. Huxter came over; some gay young fellows resplendent in black ready-made jackets and piqué paper ties-for it was Whit Monday-joined the group with confused interrogations. Young Archie Harker distinguished himself by going up the yard and trying to peep under the window-blinds.
increased - erhöht; zunehmen, steigen, ansteigen, wachsen, anwachsen
gay - vergnügt, schwul, homosexuell, lustig, heiter
fellows - Kameraden; Stipendiat, Typ, Kerl, Bursche; Gefährte, Kerl
resplendent - prächtig
ties - Krawatten; zusammenbinden
confused - verwirrt; verwirren, konfundieren, verwechseln, vermischen
interrogations - Verhöre; Befragung, qualifier
distinguished - ausgezeichnet; unterscheiden, erkennen, auszeichnen
peep - piepsen; (peep hole) Schauloch; (to peep through) durchgucken
He could see nothing, but gave reason for supposing that he did, and others of the Iping youth presently joined him.
supposing - Angenommen; vermutend; (suppose); annehmen, vermuten, vermeinen
youth - Jugend, Jugendlichkeit, Jugendzeit, Jugendlicher, Jugendliche
It was the finest of all possible Whit Mondays, and down the village street stood a row of nearly a dozen booths, a shooting gallery, and on the grass by the forge were three yellow and chocolate waggons and some picturesque strangers of both sexes putting up a cocoanut shy. The gentlemen wore blue jerseys, the ladies white aprons and quite fashionable hats with heavy plumes.
Row - Rudern; Reihe, Zeile
nearly - beinahe, fast
booths - Stände; Stand, Messestand, Bude, Bude, Zelle, Nische
shooting gallery - Schießbude
grass - Gras; Rasen; Spitzel; verpfeifen
picturesque - malerisch; q
sexes - Geschlechter; Alter, Geschlecht, Wohnort?, Geschlecht
cocoanut - Kokosnuss
Shy - schüchtern, scheu, verlegen
gentlemen - Herr, Herr, Herr, meine Herren
jerseys - Trikots; Pullover, Jersey
ladies - Damen; Herrin des Hauses, Hausherrin, Ehefrau des Hausherrn
aprons - Schürzen; Schürze, Vorfeld
fashionable - modisch, fashionable
plumes - Federn; Schadstofffahne, Abwasserfahne
Wodger, of the "Purple Fawn," and Mr. Jaggers, the cobbler, who also sold old second-hand ordinary bicycles, were stretching a string of union-jacks and royal ensigns (which had originally celebrated the first Victorian Jubilee) across the road.
Fawn - schmeicheln, schwänzeln, sich einschmeicheln (bei); Rehkitz
Jaggers - Jagger
cobbler - Schuster, Flickschuster
second-hand - (second-hand) Sekundenzeiger , gebraucht, getragen
ordinary - Heroldsbild; gewöhnlich, normal
stretching - strecken, dehnen, langziehen, dehnen
string - Schnur; Zeichenkette, String, Saite, auffädeln, einfädeln
Union - Vereinigung, Union, Verein, Verband
jacks - Buchsen; Hans, Hanns, Hannes, Hänsel, Hansel, Hansl, Jakob
Royal - königlich; Royal; Royalsegel
ensigns - Fähnriche; Fähnrich, Fahne
originally - ursprünglich
celebrated - gefeiert; feiern, zelebrieren, feiern, zelebrieren, halten
Victorian - Viktorianisch
Jubilee - Jobeljahr, Jubeljahr, Erlassjahr, Jubiläum
And inside, in the artificial darkness of the parlour, into which only one thin jet of sunlight penetrated, the stranger, hungry we must suppose, and fearful, hidden in his uncomfortable hot wrappings, pored through his dark glasses upon his paper or chinked his dirty little bottles, and occasionally swore savagely at the boys, audible if invisible, outside the windows.
inside - Innenseite, Inneres, Innen-, Inner-, drinnen, hinein, innerhalb
artificial - künstlich
jet - Düsenflugzeug, Strahl, Düse; ausstoßen
sunlight - Sonnenlicht
penetrated - durchdrungen; eindringen, penetrieren, penetrieren
fearful - furchtbar; furchtsam, ängstlich, verängstigt
wrappings - Umhüllungen; einpacken, einwickeln, einhüllen
pored - gebohrt; Pore
chinked - geklirrt; Spalte, Ritze, Spalt; klimpern, klirren
Occasionally - gelegentlich
In the corner by the fireplace lay the fragments of half a dozen smashed bottles, and a pungent twang of chlorine tainted the air. So much we know from what was heard at the time and from what was subsequently seen in the room.
fragments - Fragmente; Fragment
smashed - zertrümmert; Krachen
pungent - stechend, beißend, penetrant
twang - Näseln; zupfen
chlorine - Chlor
tainted - verunreinigt; verderben
About noon he suddenly opened his parlour door and stood glaring fixedly at the three or four people in the bar. "Mrs. Hall," he said. Somebody went sheepishly and called for Mrs. Hall.
noon - Mittag
sheepishly - schüchterne
Mrs. Hall appeared after an interval, a little short of breath, but all the fiercer for that. Hall was still out. She had deliberated over this scene, and she came holding a little tray with an unsettled bill upon it. "Is it your bill you're wanting, sir?" she said.
interval - Pause; Abstand, Zwischenraum, Intervall
little short of - fast schon
breath - Atmen, Atmung, Atemzug, Atem, Atempause
fiercer - heftiger; wild, heftig, bedrohlich
deliberated - absichtlich, bewusst, vorsätzlich, wohlerwogen, wohlüberlegt
scene - Szene
unsettled - verunsichert; verwirren, beunruhigen
"Why wasn't my breakfast laid? Why haven't you prepared my meals and answered my bell? Do you think I live without eating?"
"Why isn't my bill paid?" said Mrs. Hall. "That's what I want to know."
"I told you three days ago I was awaiting a remittance-"
awaiting - erwarten, harren, warten
remittance - Geldüberweisung
"I told you two days ago I wasn't going to await no remittances. You can't grumble if your breakfast waits a bit, if my bill's been waiting these five days, can you?"
await - abwarten; erwarten, harren, warten
remittances - Geldüberweisungen; Geldüberweisung, Überweisung
grumble - meckern; Gegrummel, Grummeln, Knurren, murren, brummen
The stranger swore briefly but vividly.
briefly - kurz
vividly - anschaulich
"Nar, nar!" from the bar.
"And I'd thank you kindly, sir, if you'd keep your swearing to yourself, sir," said Mrs. Hall.
kindly - freundlich, freundlicherweise, gütig, liebenswürdig
swearing - schwörend, Fluchen; (swear) schwörend, Fluchen
The stranger stood looking more like an angry diving-helmet than ever. It was universally felt in the bar that Mrs. Hall had the better of him. His next words showed as much.
diving - Wasserspringen; Tauchen; (div); Wasserspringen; Tauchen
universally - universell
"look here, my good woman-" he began.
look here - hersehen
"Don't 'good woman'me," said Mrs. Hall.
"I've told you my remittance hasn't come."
"Remittance indeed!" said Mrs. Hall.
"Still, I daresay in my pocket-"
daresay - wagen Sie es; Ich möchte sagen.., Ich könnte mir denken..
"You told me three days ago that you hadn't anything but a sovereign's worth of silver upon you."
sovereign - souverän
worth - wert
silver - versilbern; silbern, Silber; Silberbesteck
"Well, I've found some more-"
"'Ul-lo!" from the bar.
"I wonder where you found it," said Mrs. Hall.
That seemed to annoy the stranger very much. He stamped his foot. "What do you mean?" he said.
annoy - stören, ärgern, belästigen, nerven
"That I wonder where you found it," said Mrs. Hall. "And before I take any bills or get any breakfasts, or do any such things whatsoever, you got to tell me one or two things I don't understand, and what nobody don't understand, and what everybody is very anxious to understand. I want to know what you been doing t'my chair upstairs, and I want to know how 'tis your room was empty, and how you got in again.
whatsoever - wie auch immer; überhaupt
I don't understand - Ich verstehe nicht.
Them as stops in this house comes in by the doors-that's the rule of the house, and that you didn't do, and what I want to know is how you did come in. And I want to know-"
Suddenly the stranger raised his gloved hands clenched, stamped his foot, and said, "Stop!" with such extraordinary violence that he silenced her instantly.
clenched - geballt; ballen
silenced - zum Schweigen gebracht; Stille, Schweigen
instantly - sofort; unmittelbar
"You don't understand," he said, "who I am or what I am. I'll show you. By Heaven! I'll show you." Then he put his open palm over his face and withdrew it. The centre of his face became a black cavity. "Here," he said. He stepped forward and handed Mrs.
Heaven - Der Himmel; Himmel, Firmament, Paradies
palm - Handfläche; Palme, Schaufel (am Geweih)
withdrew - zurückgezogen; annullieren, entziehen, abziehen, ausscheiden
cavity - Hohlraum, Gravur, Aushöhlung, Loch, Höhle
stepped forward - hervorgetreten
Hall something which she, staring at his metamorphosed face, accepted automatically. Then, when she saw what it was, she screamed loudly, dropped it, and staggered back. The nose-it was the stranger's nose! pink and shining-rolled on the floor.
metamorphosed - metamorphosiert; umgestalten, umwandeln, wandeln
automatically - automatisch
loudly - lautstark; laut
dropped - fallen gelassen; fallen lassen, senken, weglassen, aufgeben
shining - glänzen; schimmern, wienern; Schein; putzen (Schuhe)
rolled - gerollt; Rolle, Roulade, Walze, Semmel; drehen, wälzen, wickeln
Then he removed his spectacles, and everyone in the bar gasped. He took off his hat, and with a violent gesture tore at his whiskers and bandages. For a moment they resisted him. A flash of horrible anticipation passed through the bar. "Oh, my Gard!" said some one. Then off they came.
gesture - Geste, Gebärde, gestikulieren, erman: (jemandem etwas) bedeuten
tore - gerissen; (to tear) zerreißen, reißen
whiskers - Schnurrhaare; Barthaar
resisted - widerstanden; widerstreben, widerstehen, widerstreiten
horrible - schrecklich, abscheulich, fies, makaber
passed through - durchgelaufen
It was worse than anything. Mrs. Hall, standing open-mouthed and horror-struck, shrieked at what she saw, and made for the door of the house. Everyone began to move. They were prepared for scars, disfigurements, tangible horrors, but nothing!
shrieked - geschrien; Kreischen
scars - Narben; Narbe
disfigurements - Verunstaltungen; Schönheitsfehler, Entstellung
tangible - greifbar, erfühlbar, konkret, erfassbar, begreifbar
horrors - Schrecken; Angst, Furcht, Horror, Grauen
The bandages and false hair flew across the passage into the bar, making a hobbledehoy jump to avoid them. Everyone tumbled on everyone else down the steps. For the man who stood there shouting some incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the coat-collar of him, and then-nothingness, no visible thing at all!
avoid - ausweichen; meiden, fernbleiben, vermeiden, entkräften
shouting - Schreien, Geschrei; (shout); Schreien, Geschrei
incoherent - inkohärent
solid - fest, massiv, kompakt, deftig, solide, robust, bündig
gesticulating - gestikulieren, gestikulieren
nothingness - Nichtigkeit; Nichtvorhandensein, Nichts, Leere
visible - sichtbar
People down the village heard shouts and shrieks, and looking up the street saw the "Coach and Horses" violently firing out its humanity. They saw Mrs. Hall fall down and Mr. Teddy Henfrey jump to avoid tumbling over her, and then they heard the frightful screams of Millie, who, emerging suddenly from the kitchen at the noise of the tumult, had come upon the headless stranger from behind. These increased suddenly.
shouts - schreit; Schrei, Zuruf; rufen, schreien, laut schreien
shrieks - Schreie; Kreischen
humanity - die Menschheit; Menschheit; Humanität, Menschlichkeit
fall down - umstürzen;Niederfallen
frightful - schrecklich
screams - schreit; Schrei, schreien
emerging - entstehen; erscheinen, auftauchen, herauskommen, davonkommen
tumult - Aufruhr; Tumult, Krach, Lärm, lautes Stimmengewirr
headless - kopflos
Forthwith everyone all down the street, the sweetstuff seller, cocoanut shy proprietor and his assistant, the swing man, little boys and girls, rustic dandies, smart wenches, smocked elders and aproned gipsies-began running towards the inn, and in a miraculously short space of time a crowd of perhaps forty people, and rapidly increasing, swayed and hooted and inquired and exclaimed and suggested, in front of Mrs. Hall's establishment. Everyone seemed eager to talk at once, and the result was Babel.
forthwith - sofort, unverzüglich
sweetstuff - Süßkram
seller - Verkäufer; Anbieter
Proprietor - Inhaber, Inhaberin, Besitzer, Besitzerin
swing - schwingen, schaukeln, schwanken, baumeln, Schaukel, Hutsche
rustic - rustikal
dandies - Dandys; Dandy, Pinkel, prima, schön, gut
smart - klug; pfiffig, pfiffig, fesch, elegant, listig
wenches - Weiber; Magd, Mädchen
smocked - gesockelt; Kittel
elders - Ältere Menschen; Holunder, älterer
aproned - mit Schürze; Schürze, Vorfeld
gipsies - Zigeuner
miraculously - auf wundersame Weise
space of time - Zeitraum
crowd - Menschenmenge, Masse
increasing - zunehmen; steigernd, anwachsend, ansteigend
swayed - schwankte; Schwingen
hooted - gehupt; Spaßveranstaltung, Spaßmacher
inquired - nachgefragt; erkundigen
exclaimed - ausgerufen; ausrufen
suggested - vorgeschlagen; vorschlagen, vorschlagen
establishment - Einrichtung; Verankerung (von Rechten), Feststellung
babel - Stimmengewirr
A small group supported Mrs. Hall, who was picked up in a state of collapse. There was a conference, and the incredible evidence of a vociferous eye-witness. "O Bogey!" "What's he been doin', then?" "Ain't hurt the girl, 'as 'e?" "Run at en with a knife, I believe." "No 'ed, I tell ye. I don't mean no manner of speaking. I mean marn 'ithout a 'ed!" "Narnsense! 'tis some conjuring trick." "Fetched off 'is wrapping, 'e did-"
supported - unterstützt; Rückendeckung, Auflage, Unterstützung; abstützen
picked - ausgewählt; Foto
collapse - Zusammenbruch; einstürzen, kollabieren, zusammenfallen
conference - Konferenz, Tagung
evidence - Beweise; Beweis, Indiz, Beweismittel
vociferous - lautstark
witness - Zeugnis; Zeuge, Zeugin, bezeugen, erman: Zeuge sein
knife - Messer; messern
conjuring trick - Zauberkunststück
fetched - geholt; holen, einfangen, abrufen, apportieren
In its struggles to see in through the open door, the crowd formed itself into a straggling wedge, with the more adventurous apex nearest the inn. "He stood for a moment, I heerd the gal scream, and he turned. I saw her skirts whisk, and he went after her.
struggles - Kämpfe; Kampf, Gefecht
straggling - Nachzügler; umherstreifend; (straggle); abweichen, abschweifen
wedge - verkeilen, festklemmen, mit einem Keil spalten; keilen
adventurous - abenteuerlich
apex - Gipfel; Spitze
stood for - (stand for) bedeuten
gal - Mädchen; Wach auf!; Mädel
whisk - Schneebesen; flitzen, wischen
Didn't take ten seconds. Back he comes with a knife in uz hand and a loaf; stood just as if he was staring. Not a moment ago. Went in that there door. I tell 'e, 'e ain't gart no 'ed at all. You just missed en-"
loaf - Laib; herumlungern, Zeit verschwenden, trödeln
There was a disturbance behind, and the speaker stopped to step aside for a little procession that was marching very resolutely towards the house; first Mr. Hall, very red and determined, then Mr. Bobby Jaffers, the village constable, and then the wary Mr. Wadgers. They had Come now armed with a warrant.
speaker - Sprecher, Sprecherin, Lautsprecher, Vorsitzender, Vorsitzende
step aside - geh zur Seite;beiseite treten
procession - Prozession, Umzug
determined - bestimmt; bestimmen, eingrenzen, festlegen
Bobby - Polizist, Bulle
constable - Schutzmann, Polizist; Herr Wachtmeister
wary - misstrauisch; achtsam, umsichtig, vorsichtig, wachsam
Come now - Ja, das ist etwas anderes.
warrant - Haftbefehl; Nachweis; Befehl; garantieren
People shouted conflicting information of the recent circumstances. "'Ed or no 'ed," said Jaffers, "I got to 'rest en, and 'rest en I will."
conflicting - widersprüchlich; Konflikt, Streit, Gegensatz, Konflikt
recent - jüngst, neu, kürzlich, frisch
Mr. Hall marched up the steps, marched straight to the door of the parlour and flung it open. "Constable," he said, "do your duty."
Duty - Die Pflicht; Pflicht; Schicht, Arbeitszeit, Zoll, Einfuhrsteuer
Jaffers marched in. Hall next, Wadgers last. They saw in the dim light the headless figure facing them, with a gnawed crust of bread in one gloved hand and a chunk of cheese in the other.
dim light - Funzel (ugs.), Abblendlicht
gnawed - abgenagt; nagen, kauen, knabbern, nagen, verfolgen, umtreiben
crust - Kruste, Rinde
chunk - Brocken; Stück, Einzelteil
"That's him!" said Hall.
"What the devil's this?" came in a tone of angry expostulation from above the collar of the figure.
expostulation - Aufforderung
"You're a damned rum customer, mister," said Mr. Jaffers. "But 'ed or no 'ed, the warrant says 'body,'and duty's duty-"
damned - verdammt, verflucht; (damn); verdammen, verfluchen, ächten
mister - Hr. Herr(n); Herr
"Keep off!" said the figure, starting back.
Keep off - Betreten verboten!;abhalten
Abruptly he whipped down the bread and cheese, and Mr. Hall just grasped the knife on the table in time to save it. Off came the stranger's left glove and was slapped in Jaffers'face. In another moment Jaffers, cutting short some statement concerning a warrant, had gripped him by the handless wrist and caught his invisible throat. He got a sounding kick on the shin that made him shout, but he kept his grip.
whipped - ausgepeitscht; Peitsche, Knute, Zagel, peitschen, auspeitschen
grasped - begriffen; greifen, erfassen, begreifen, verstehen, erfassen
slapped - geohrfeigt; Klaps, Schlag, Makeup
concerning - Was bedeutet das; Sorge, Anliegen
gripped - gegriffen; packen, fassen; Griffigkeit, Heft (von Säge, Feile)
wrist - Handgelenk
shin - Schienbein; hinaufklettern
shout - Schrei, Zuruf; rufen, schreien, laut schreien
Hall sent the knife sliding along the table to Wadgers, who acted as goal-keeper for the offensive, so to speak, and then stepped forward as Jaffers and the stranger swayed and staggered towards him, clutching and hitting in. A chair stood in the way, and went aside with a crash as they came down together.
sliding - schiebend, abgleitend; (slid) schiebend, abgleitend
acted - gehandelt; Handlung, Tat, Akt, Gesetz
goal - Ziel; Tor; ein Tor schießen
keeper - Hüter; Wächter, Hüter, Torwart, Tormann
offensive - beleidigend; offensiv; Offensive, Angriff
stepped - getreten; Steppe, Steppe
clutching - Umklammern; Vogelgelege; Kupplung (Auto), Gelege
crash - Absturz; Zusammenstoß, Krach, Zusammenbruch; zusammenbrechen
"Get the feet," said Jaffers between his teeth.
Mr. Hall, endeavouring to act on instructions, received a sounding kick in the ribs that disposed of him for a moment, and Mr. Wadgers, seeing the decapitated stranger had rolled over and got the upper side of Jaffers, retreated towards the door, knife in hand, and so collided with Mr.
endeavouring - anstreben; sich nach Kräften bemühen; Bestrebung
act on - einwirken auf
instructions - Anweisungen; Unterricht, Anweisung, Anweisung, Assemblerbefehl
ribs - Rippen; Rippe (Profil); Drehschiene, Spant, Rippe, Lamelle
disposed of - (dispose of) verfügen über
decapitated - geköpft; köpfen
collided with - karambolierte
Huxter and the Sidderbridge carter coming to the rescue of law and order. At the same moment down came three or four bottles from the chiffonnier and shot a web of pungency into the air of the room.
Carter - Fuhrmann
rescue - retten; Rettung
law - Gesetz, Jura, Rechtswissenschaft
web - Netz; Web
pungency - Schärfe; Gestank
"I'll surrender," cried the stranger, though he had Jaffers down, and in another moment he stood up panting, a strange figure, headless and handless-for he had pulled off his right glove now as well as his left. "It's no good," he said, as if sobbing for breath.
panting - hechelnd; hecheln, keucheln
sobbing - Schluchzen; (sob); Huso
It was the strangest thing in the world to hear that voice coming as if out of empty space, but the Sussex peasants are perhaps the most matter-of-fact people under the sun. Jaffers got up also and produced a pair of handcuffs. Then he stared.
empty space - Leerraum , luftleerer Raum
peasants - Landwirte; arm
produced - produziert; produzieren, herstellen, vorlegen, produzieren
handcuffs - Handschellen; Handschelle, fesseln
"I say!" said Jaffers, brought up short by a dim realization of the incongruity of the whole business, "Darn it! Can't use 'em as I can see."
realization - Realisierung; Erkenntnis; Verwirklichung, Realisation
incongruity - Inkongruenz, Unvereinbarkeit, Ungleichheit, Disparität
Darn it - Verflucht!
The stranger ran his arm down his waistcoat, and as if by a miracle the buttons to which his empty sleeve pointed became undone. Then he said something about his shin, and stooped down. He seemed to be fumbling with his shoes and socks.
waistcoat - Weste
miracle - ein Wunder; Wunder, Mirakel
buttons - Tasten; (button) Knopf; (button) Tasten; (button) Knopf
undone - ungeschehen machen; öffnen, aufmachen, etwas rückgängig machen
socks - Socken, Socke, Faustschlag
"Why!" said Huxter, suddenly, "that's not a man at all. It's just empty clothes. Look! You can see down his collar and the linings of his clothes. I could put my arm-"
linings - Verkleidungen; Futter
He extended his hand; it seemed to meet something in mid-air, and he drew it back with a sharp exclamation. "I wish you'd keep your fingers out of my eye," said the aerial voice, in a tone of savage expostulation. "The fact is, I'm all here-head, hands, legs, and all the rest of it, but it happens I'm invisible.
mid - mittler
exclamation - Ausruf; Exklamation
fingers - fingern
aerial - Luft
savage - Wilde; wild, wüst, unbebaut, unbändig, rasend
It's a confounded nuisance, but I am. That's no reason why I should be poked to pieces by every stupid bumpkin in Iping, is it?"
confounded - verwirrt; verwirren, verschlimmern, verschlechtern, besiegen
nuisance - Ärgernis, Ärger, Quälgeist, Belästigung
poked - gestoßen; stoßen, stecken, stöbern
stupid - dumm, doof, blöd, Dummkopf
bumpkin - Bauerntrampel; Hinterwäldler, Bauerntölpel
The suit of clothes, now all unbuttoned and hanging loosely upon its unseen supports, stood up, arms akimbo.
suit - Anzug; Anzugträger; Farbe; passen
unbuttoned - aufgeknöpft; aufknöpfen
hanging - (to hang) hängen, schweben; (hang) (to hang) hängen, schweben
loosely - locker
unseen - ungesehen; unbesehen, unsichtbar
supports - unterstützt; Rückendeckung, Auflage, Unterstützung; abstützen
Several other of the men folks had now entered the room, so that it was closely crowded. "Invisible, eh?" said Huxter, ignoring the stranger's abuse. "Who ever heard the likes of that?"
several - mehrere, einige, verschiedene, checkeinige
folks - Leute; Volk
crowded - überfüllt; Menschenmenge, Masse
eh - oder
ignoring - ignorieren, missachten
abuse - missbrauchen, beschimpfen; Missbrauch, Schmähung
"It's strange, perhaps, but it's not a crime. Why am I assaulted by a policeman in this fashion?"
assaulted - angegriffen; Anschlag, Überfall, Angriff, überfallen, angreifen
fashion - Mode; Stil; fertigen, anfertigen
"Ah! that's a different matter," said Jaffers. "No doubt you are a bit difficult to see in this light, but I got a warrant and it's all correct. What I'm after ain't no invisibility,-it's burglary. There's a house been broke into and money took."
doubt - bezweifeln, Zweifel
invisibility - Unsichtbarkeit
"Well?"
"And circumstances certainly point-"
"Stuff and nonsense!" said the Invisible Man.
stuff - Sachen, Kram, Zeug, Ding, Stoff, Material
nonsense - Blödsinn, Nonsens
"I hope so, sir; but I've got my instructions."
"Well," said the stranger, "I'll come. I'll come. But no handcuffs."
"It's the regular thing," said Jaffers.
"No handcuffs," stipulated the stranger.
stipulated - vorgeschrieben; vereinbaren
"Pardon me," said Jaffers.
Pardon me - Verzeihung!
Abruptly the figure sat down, and before any one could realise was was being done, the slippers, socks, and trousers had been kicked off under the table. Then he sprang up again and flung off his coat.
realise - realisieren; erfassen, (Gewinn) erzielen, zu Geld machen
kicked off - (kick off) anstoßen
sprang up - (spring up) aus dem Boden schießen, (Wind) aufkommen
"Here, stop that," said Jaffers, suddenly realising what was happening. He gripped at the waistcoat; it struggled, and the shirt slipped out of it and left it limp and empty in his hand. "Hold him!" said Jaffers, loudly. "Once he gets the things off-"
realising - zu realisieren; erfassen, (Gewinn) erzielen, zu Geld machen
struggled - gekämpft; Kampf, Gefecht
limp - schlaff; schlapp; hinken, lahmen
"Hold him!" cried everyone, and there was a rush at the fluttering white shirt which was now all that was visible of the stranger.
rush - stürzen, drängen, hetzen, rasen; Eile, Andrang
fluttering - Flatterhaft; flattern, wedeln
The shirt-sleeve planted a shrewd blow in Hall's face that stopped his open-armed advance, and sent him backward into old Toothsome the sexton, and in another moment the garment was lifted up and became convulsed and vacantly flapping about the arms, even as a shirt that is being thrust over a man's head.
shrewd - klug, clever, gewitzt, schlau, listig
advance - erhöhen, erheben, befördern, vorrücken, Fortschritt, Vorschuss
backward - zurück, nach hinten, rückwärts, zögerlich, gehemmt, rückständig
toothsome - zahnschmeichelnd; schmackhaft
sexton - Küster, Küsterin, Sigrist
garment - Kleidungsstück
convulsed - verkrampft; erschüttern
vacantly - unbesetzt
flapping - flattert; Klappe, klappen, Patte (an einer Tasche); Hosenklappe
thrust - Stoß, Stich, Vorstoß, Schub, Schubkraft
Jaffers clutched at it, and only helped to pull it off; he was struck in the mouth out of the air, and incontinently threw his truncheon and smote Teddy Henfrey savagely upon the crown of his head.
pull - ziehen
incontinently - inkontinent
truncheon - Knüppel; Schlagstock
smote - erschlagen; schlagen, schlagen
crown - Zenit; krönen; Bombage (ballige Fläche), Zahnkrone; Baumkrone
"Look out!" said everybody, fencing at random and hitting at nothing. "Hold him! Shut the door! Don't let him loose! I got something! Here he is!" A perfect Babel of noises they made. Everybody, it seemed, was being hit all at once, and Sandy Wadgers, knowing as ever and his wits sharpened by a frightful blow in the nose, reopened the door and led the rout. The others, following incontinently, were jammed for a moment in the corner by the doorway.
fencing - Fechten; Zaunfeld, Absperrgitter, Einzäunung
random - Rando; zufällig; Durchschnitts-; random
noises - Geräusche; Lärm, Geräusch
wits - Verstand; nämlich, und zwar
sharpened - geschärft; schärfen
reopened - wiedereröffnet; wiedereröffnen
rout - Routine; Rotte
jammed - verklemmt; stauen; Papierstau, Konfitüre, Stau
The hitting continued. Phipps, the Unitarian, had a front tooth broken, and Henfrey was injured in the cartilage of his ear. Jaffers was struck under the jaw, and, turning, caught at something that intervened between him and Huxter in the męlée, and prevented their coming together. He felt a muscular chest, and in another moment the whole mass of struggling, excited men shot out into the crowded hall.
Unitarian - Unitarier
front tooth - Vorderzahn
injured - verletzt; verletzen, verletzen
cartilage - Knorpel
jaw - Kiefer, Maul
intervened - interveniert; eingreifen, einschreiten, dazwischengehen
męlée - melée
prevented - verhindert; verhindern, vorbeugen
muscular - muskulär, Muskel
mass - Masse; Messe (kirchlich), Gottesdienst, Menge
struggling - sich abmühen; kämpfend, ringend; (struggle); Kampf, Gefecht
"I got him!" shouted Jaffers, choking and reeling through them all, and wrestling with purple face and swelling veins against his unseen enemy.
choking - erwürgen, erdrosseln, ersticken, überwältigen
Reeling - Taumeln; Taumel; (reel); Spule; Haspel; Demoband; aufrollen; drehen
wrestling - Ringkampf, Ringen; (wrestle); ringen
swelling - Schwellungen; Anschwellen
veins - Venen; Vene, Ader, Geäder
enemy - Feind, Feindin, Gegner, Gegnerin, feindlich
Men staggered right and left as the extraordinary conflict swayed swiftly towards the house door, and went spinning down the half-dozen steps of the inn. Jaffers cried in a strangled voice-holding tight, nevertheless, and making play with his knee-spun around, and fell heavily undermost with his head on the gravel. Only then did his fingers relax.
conflict - Konflikt, Streit, Gegensatz, Inkompatibilität
spinning - Spinnen; (spinning-wheel) Spinnrad; (spin) Spinnen; (spinning-wheel) Spinnrad
strangled - erdrosselt; strangulieren, erwürgen
tight - knapp, eng, dicht, tight, fest
nevertheless - nichtsdestoweniger, trotzdem, lauch wenn, dennoch
spun - gesponnen; durchdrehen, spinnen
heavily - schwerlich, stark
undermost - unterste
gravel - Kies, Schotter, Kiesel, schottern
There were excited cries of "Hold him!" "Invisible!" and so forth, and a young fellow, a stranger in the place whose name did not come to light, rushed in at once, caught something, missed his hold, and fell over the constable's prostrate body. Half-way across the road a woman screamed as something pushed by her; a dog, kicked apparently, yelped and ran howling into Huxter's yard, and with that the transit of the Invisible Man was accomplished.
cries - weint; weinen, schreien, schreien, rufen, Weinen
fellow - Stipendiat, Typ, Kerl, Bursche; Gefährte, Kerl
whose - wessen; dessen, deren, wem gehört/gehören?
prostrate - niedergeschlagen; niedergestreckt; niederwerfen, erniedrigen
kicked - getreten; treten, (Pferd) ausschlagen; Stoß
yelped - gekläfft; yelp
howling - brüllen, heulen, niederschreien; (howl); Heulen, jaulen
Transit - Transit, Durchgang, Durchreise, Theodolit
accomplished - vollendet; vollenden, vollenden, vollenden, vollenden
For a space people stood amazed and gesticulating, and then came panic, and scattered them abroad through the village as a gust scatters dead leaves.
gust - Böe; Windstoß, Bö
scatters - verstreut; zerstreuen, zerstreuen, streuen, verstreuen
But Jaffers lay quite still, face upward and knees bent, at the foot of the steps of the inn.
upward - nach oben; ansteigend, aufwärts
The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district, while lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul within a couple of miles of him, as he thought, and almost dozing, heard close to him the sound as of a man coughing, sneezing, and then swearing savagely to himself; and looking, beheld nothing. Yet the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.
Eighth - achte; Achtel
exceedingly - übermäßig; überaus, äußerst, außerordentlich, ungemein
relates - Beziehungen; sich beziehen, erzählen, berichten
Gibbons - Gibbon
amateur - Amateur, Amateurin, Laie, Laiin
naturalist - Naturforscher, Naturforscherin, Naturalist, Naturalistin
district - Bezirk, Kreis, Landkreis, Stadtteil
lying - Lügen; liegend; (lie) Lügen; liegend
spacious - geräumig; weiträumig
coughing - hustend; (cough); husten; Husten
beheld - gesehen; betrachten, sehen, schauen, anschauen, ansehen
indisputable - unbestreitbar
swear - schwören
breadth - Weite; Breite
variety - Vielfalt; Sorte; Varietät, Sprachform, Sprachvarietät
distinguishes - auszeichnet; unterscheiden, erkennen, auszeichnen
cultivated - kultiviert; kultivieren, anbauen, kultivieren, pflegen
It grew to a climax, diminished again, and died away in the distance, going as it seemed to him in the direction of Adderdean. It lifted to a spasmodic sneeze and ended. Gibbons had heard nothing of the morning's occurrences, but the phenomenon was so striking and disturbing that his philosophical tranquillity vanished; he got up hastily, and hurried down the steepness of the hill towards the village, as fast as he could go.
climax - Höhepunkt, Orgasmus
diminished - vermindert; vermindern, verkleinern, reduzieren, verringern
distance - Distanz, Entfernung, Abstand, Ferne, Weite, entfernen
phenomenon - Phänomen, Erscheinung
striking - auffällig; (strike); streichen; schlagen; prägen; streiken; scheinen; die Fahne streichen; Strike; Streik; Schlag
disturbing - beunruhigend; stören
philosophical - philosophisch
tranquillity - Gelassenheit; Ruhe, Stille
vanished - verschwunden; verschwinden, vergehen, sich verflüchtigen
steepness - Steilheit
Hill - Hügel; Hang, Steigung, Steigung, Anstieg, häufeln
You must picture Mr. Thomas Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling eccentricity. His figure inclined to embonpoint; his short limbs accentuated this inclination.
copious - reichlich
flexible - biegsam, flexibel, elastisch, dehnbar, fügsam
visage - Gesicht
cylindrical - zylindrisch
protrusion - Vorsprung; Herausragen, Heraustreten, Vorstehen, Ausbeulen
liquorish - alkoholisch
ample - reichlich; groß, umfangreich, üppig
fluctuating - schwankend; schwanken, fluktuieren, (hin und her) schwanken
beard - Bart; Alibifreundin
bristling - sträuben; Borste, Borste
eccentricity - exzentrisches Verhalten; Exzentrizität
limbs - Gliedmaßen; Schenkel (geol. Falte), Glied
accentuated - akzentuiert; akzentuieren, betonen, hervorheben
inclination - Neigung
He wore a furry silk hat, and the frequent substitution of twine and shoe-laces for buttons, apparent at critical points of his costume, marked a man essentially bachelor.
furry - pelzig, Pelz-, Furry
Substitution - Ersatz, Ersetzen, Substitution, Substituierung, Ersetzung
twine - zwirnen; Faden
laces - Schnürsenkel; schnüren, Spitze (Gewebe)
apparent - offensichtlich; offenbar
critical - kritisch
essentially - im Wesentlichen
bachelor - Junggeselle; Bachelor
Mr. Thomas Marvel was sitting with his feet in a ditch by the roadside over the down towards Adderdean, about a mile and a half out of Iping. His feet, save for socks of irregular open-work, were bare, his big toes were broad, and pricked like the ears of a watchful dog. In a leisurely manner-he did everything in a leisurely manner-he was contemplating trying on a pair of boots. They were the soundest boots he had come across for a long time, but too large for him; whereas the ones he had were, in dry weather, a very comfortable fit, but too thin-soled for damp.
ditch - Straßengraben, Wassergraben, Bach; auf dem Wasser notlanden
roadside - am Straßenrand; Straßenrand
irregular - irregulär, unregelmäßig
open-work - (open-work) durchbrochen
toes - Zehen; Zeh, Zehe, Zeh, Zehe, Spur, Vorspur (5)
broad - breit, deutliche, großräumig
pricked - gestochen; spitzer Gegenstand, Stich
watchful - wachsam
leisurely - gemütlich; gemächlich
contemplating - nachgedacht; nachsinnen
trying on - anprobierend
whereas - wohingegen, wogegen, während, wobei
comfortable - komfortabel, bequem, behaglich, kommod, gemütlich
fit - passen; (to be fit) in Form sein
soled - besohlt; Mist, kein Glück mehr
damp - feucht; Feuchtigkeit; ersticken, dämpfen
Mr. Thomas Marvel hated roomy shoes, but then he hated damp. He had never properly thought out which he hated most, and it was a pleasant day, and there was nothing better to do. So he put the four shoes in a graceful group on the turf and looked at them. And seeing them there among the grass and springing agrimony, it suddenly occurred to him that both pairs were exceedingly ugly to see. He was not at all startled by a voice behind him.
roomy - erman: geräumig gloss
pleasant - angenehm
graceful - anmutig, ansprechend, elegant, graziös
turf - Grasnarbe; Rasen; Grassode
agrimony - Odermennig
"They're boots, anyhow," said the Voice.
anyhow - irgendwie
"They are-charity boots," said Mr. Thomas Marvel, with his head on one side regarding them distastefully; "and which is the ugliest pair in the whole blessed universe, I'm darned if I know!"
distastefully - geschmacklos
ugliest - hässlichsten; Ugli
blessed - gesegnet; selig; (bless); gesegnet; selig
universe - Universum, Weltall
darned - verflixt, ausgebessert; (darn) verflixt, ausgebessert
"H'm," said the Voice.
"I've worn worse-in fact, I've worn none. But none so owdacious ugly-if you'll allow the expression. I've been cadging boots-in particular-for days. Because I was sick of them. They're sound enough, of course. But a gentleman on tramp sees such a thundering lot of his boots. And if you'll believe me, I've raised nothing in the whole blessed country, try as I would, but them. Look at 'em!
owdacious - unersättlich
allow - erlauben, zulassen, akzeptieren, mit einberechnen
expression - Ausdruck; Redensart, Miene
cadging - schnorren, um Geld anpumpen
particular - besonders; speziell, bestimmt, spezifisch, genau
tramp - Landstreicher; Vagabund, Penner, Schlampe, Flittchen
thundering - donnernd; (thunder); Donner; Donnern
And a good country for boots, too, in a general way. But it's just my promiscuous luck. I've got my boots in this country ten years or more. And then they treat you like this."
promiscuous - promiskuitiv
treat - behandeln; bewirten, einladen, heilen, kurieren
"It's a beast of a country," said the Voice. "And pigs for people."
beast - Tier, Bestie, Unmensch, Biest
"Ain't it?" said Mr. Thomas Marvel. "Lord! But them boots! It beats it."
beats it - verduftet
He turned his head over his shoulder to the right, to look at the boots of his interlocutor with a view to comparisons, and lo! where the boots of his interlocutor should have been were neither legs nor boots. He was irradiated by the dawn of a great amazement. "Where are yer?" said Mr. Thomas Marvel over his shoulder and coming on all fours. He saw a stretch of empty downs with the wind swaying the remote green-pointed furze bushes.
interlocutor - Gesprächspartner
comparisons - Vergleich, Komparation, Vergleichen
irradiated - bestrahlt; strahlen, bestrahlen
stretch - strecken, dehnen, langziehen, dehnen
swaying - schwankend; (sway); Schwingen, Schwenken, Hin- und Herschwingen
remote - ferngesteuert; fern, entfernt, abgelegen, fernbetrieb
bushes - Büsche; Buchse, Strauch, Busch
"Am I drunk?" said Mr. Marvel. "Have I had visions? Was I talking to myself? What the-"
visions - Visionen; Sicht, Sehvermögen
"Don't be alarmed," said a Voice.
be alarmed - sich ängstigen (um)
"None of your ventriloquising me," said Mr. Thomas Marvel, rising sharply to his feet. "Where are yer? Alarmed, indeed!"
rising - steigend, aufgehend; (rise); steigend, aufgehend
sharply - scharf, scharfzüngig, spitzzüngig
"Don't be alarmed," repeated the Voice.
"You'll be alarmed in a minute, you silly fool," said Mr. Thomas Marvel. "Where are yer? Lemme get my mark on yer...
mark - Markus
"Are yer buried?" said Mr. Thomas Marvel, after an interval.
buried - vergraben, verbergen, begraben
There was no answer. Mr. Thomas Marvel stood bootless and amazed, his jacket nearly thrown off.
bootless - stiefellos; nutzlos
thrown - geworfen; Wurf; werfen (du wirfst, er wirft), ich/er/sie würfe
"Peewit," said a peewit, very remote.
Peewit - Kiebitz
"Peewit, indeed!" said Mr. Thomas Marvel. "This ain't no time for foolery." The down was desolate, east and west, north and south; the road with its shallow ditches and white bordering stakes, ran smooth and empty north and south, and, save for that peewit, the blue sky was empty too. "So help me," said Mr. Thomas Marvel, shuffling his coat on to his shoulders again. "It's the drink! I might ha'known."
foolery - Dummheit
desolate - verzweifelt; verlassen; verlassen
shallow - flach; q
ditches - Gräben; Straßengraben, Wassergraben
bordering - angrenzend; Grenze, Rand, Rand, Beet
stakes - Pfahl, Pflock, Marterpfahl, Scheiterhaufen, Anteil, Einsatz
smooth - glatt; reibungslos, problemlos, glätten
sky - Himmel; (am) Firmament
shuffling - schlurfend, schiebend; (shuffle); Mischen, Mischeln, Schlurfen
"It's not the drink," said the Voice. "You keep your nerves steady."
"Ow!" said Mr. Marvel, and his face grew white amidst its patches. "It's the drink!" his lips repeated noiselessly. He remained staring about him, rotating slowly backwards. "I could have swore I heard a voice," he whispered.
amidst - inmitten von
rotating - drehen
backwards - zurück, nach hinten, rückwärts, rückwärts, zögerlich, gehemmt
"Of course you did."
"It's there again," said Mr. Marvel, closing his eyes and clasping his hand on his brow with a tragic gesture. He was suddenly taken by the collar and shaken violently, and left more dazed than ever. "Don't be a fool," said the Voice.
clasping - Umklammerung; klammernd, umklammernd; (clasp); Spange, Klammer
brow - Stirn; Braue, Augenbraue
tragic - tragisch
shaken - geschüttelt; schütteln, erschüttern, schütteln, erschüttern
dazed - Benommenheit, betäuben
"I'm-off-my-blooming-chump," said Mr. Marvel. "It's no good. It's fretting about them blarsted boots. I'm off my blessed blooming chump. Or it's spirits."
blooming - blühen; Blüte, Blütenpracht, Duft
chump - Trottel; Klotz, Dummkopf
I'm off - Ich gehe jetzt.
spirits - Geister; Geist, Seele, Geist, Stimmung, Schnaps, qualifier
"Neither one thing nor the other," said the Voice. "Listen!"
"Chump," said Mr. Marvel.
"One minute," said the Voice, penetratingly, tremulous with self-control.
penetratingly - durchdringend
tremulous - zitternd
self-control - (self-control) Selbstbeherrschung
"Well?" said Mr. Thomas Marvel, with a strange feeling of having been dug in the chest by a finger.
dug - gegraben; (dig) gegraben
"You think I'm just imagination? Just imagination?"
"What else can you be?" said Mr. Thomas Marvel, rubbing the back of his neck.
rubbing - Reiben, Polieren; (rub); reiben, abreiben, sich abreiben
"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."
relief - Erleichterung, Befreiung, Linderung, Unterstützung
throw - Wurf; werfen (du wirfst, er wirft), ich/er/sie würfe
flints - Feuersteine; Feuerstein; q
differently - anders
"But where are yer?"
The Voice made no answer. Whizz came a flint, apparently out of the air, and missed Mr. Marvel's shoulder by a hair's-breadth. Mr. Marvel, turning, saw a flint jerk up into the air, trace a complicated path, hang for a moment, and then fling at his feet with almost invisible rapidity. He was too amazed to dodge. Whizz it came, and ricochetted from a bare toe into the ditch.
Whizz - zischen, flitzen
Flint - Feuerstein; q
by a hair - um ein Haar
jerk - Trottel; Zuckung, Satz, Reflex, ruckweise; Wichser; erschüttern
trace - verfolgen; Zeichen, Spur
complicated - kompliziert; komplizieren
path - Weg, Pfad
hang - hängen
fling - Seitensprung; Affäre (Liebesaffäre)
rapidity - Schnelligkeit
Dodge - ausweichen, beiseite springen, umgehen
ricochetted - abgeprallt; Querschuss, Querschläger, abprallen, querschlagen
toe - Zeh, Zehe, Spur, Vorspur (5)
Mr. Thomas Marvel jumped a foot and howled aloud. Then he started to run, tripped over an unseen obstacle, and came head over heels into a sitting position.
aloud - laut
obstacle - Hindernis, Hürde
heels - Absätze; Hinterende des Hobels, Ferse
"Now," said the Voice, as a third stone curved upward and hung in the air above the tramp. "Am I imagination?"
curved - gekrümmt; Kurve, Kurve, Linie, Kurven, biegen, verbiegen
Mr. Marvel by way of reply struggled to his feet, and was immediately rolled over again. He lay quiet for a moment. "If you struggle any more," said the Voice, "I shall throw the flint at your head."
reply - antworten, erwidern, Antwort, Entgegnung
Struggle - Kämpfen; Kampf, Gefecht, sich durchbeißen, sich schwer tun
shall - sollen
"It's a fair do," said Mr. Thomas Marvel, sitting up, taking his wounded toe in hand and fixing his eye on the third missile. "I don't understand it. Stones flinging themselves. Stones talking. Put yourself down. Rot away. I'm done."
fair - gerecht, fair, heiter, schön, angemessen
sitting up - aufbleibend
wounded - verwundet; anschießen, verwunden
toe in - Vorspur (beim Auto)
fixing - Reparieren; befestigend, fixierend
missile - Rakete; Geschoss, Fluggeschoss, Lenkflugkörper, Lenkwaffe
rot - verrotten, verderben, faulen, verfaulen
The third flint fell.
"It's very simple," said the Voice. "I'm an invisible man."
simple - einfach, simpel
"Tell us something I don't know," said Mr. Marvel, gasping with pain. "Where you've hid-how you do it-I don't know. I'm beat."
gasping - keuchend; (gasp); keuchen; japsen, prusten, Atemzug, Luftholen
pain - Schmerzen; Qual, Stich (Schmerz), Schmerz
beat - Schlag ;jdn. bezwingen
"That's all," said the Voice. "I'm invisible. That's what I want you to understand."
"Anyone could see that. There is no need for you to be so confounded impatient, mister. now then. Give us a notion. How are you hid?"
impatient - ungeduldig
now then - nun also
notion - Ahnung, Ansicht, Auffassung, Begriff
"I'm invisible. That's the great point. And what I want you to understand is this-"
"But whereabouts?" interrupted Mr. Marvel.
whereabouts - Wo ist er; Verbleib; (whereabout) Wo ist er; Verbleib
interrupted - unterbrochen; unterbrechen
"Here! Six yards in front of you."
yards - (der) Yard
"Oh, come! I ain't blind. You'll be telling me next you're just thin air. I'm not one of your ignorant tramps-"
ignorant - unwissend; ignorant
Tramps - Landstreicher; Vagabund, Penner, Schlampe, Flittchen
"Yes, I am-thin air. You're looking through me."
looking through - durchblickend
"What! Ain't there any stuff to you. Vox et-what is it?-jabber. Is it that?"
et - und
jabber - plappern
"I am just a human being-solid, needing food and drink, needing covering too-But I'm invisible. You see? Invisible. Simple idea. Invisible."
covering - Abdeckung; zudeckend; (cover); Deckel, Abdeckung, Versteck
"What, real like?"
"Yes, real."
"Let's have a hand of you," said Marvel, "if you are real. It won't be so darn out-of-the-way like, then-Lord!" he said, "how you made me jump!-gripping me like that!"
darn - verflixt; verfluchen, in Verruf bringen, ausbessern
He felt the hand that had closed round his wrist with his disengaged fingers, and his fingers went timorously up the arm, patted a muscular chest, and explored a bearded face. Marvel's face was astonishment.
disengaged - losgelöst; ausklinken, aushaken, entkuppeln
patted - getätschelt; Pat
explored - erforscht; erforschen, erforschen, erforschen, untersuchen
bearded - bärtig; Bart, Alibifreundin
astonishment - Staunen, Erstaunen, Verwunderung
"I'm dashed!" he said. "If this don't beat cock-fighting! Most remarkable!-And there I can see a rabbit clean through you, 'arf a mile away! Not a bit of you visible-except-"
beat - schlagen; Schlag; jdn. bezwingen
cock - Vogelmännchen; Gockel, Hahn; erigierter Penis (vulg.), Pimmel
fighting - (fight) kämpfen, sich streiten; (fight) (fight) kämpfen
rabbit - Kaninchen, Hase
He scrutinised the apparently empty space keenly. "You 'aven't been eatin'bread and cheese?" he asked, holding the invisible arm.
keenly - scharfsinnig; scharfe
'aven't - (have not) bin nicht, Habenichts , hat nicht ...
eatin - Essen
"You're quite right, and it's not quite assimilated into the system."
assimilated - assimiliert; assimilieren
system - System, Ordnung, Verbund, Akkolade
"Ah!" said Mr. Marvel. "Sort of ghostly, though."
ghostly - geisterhaft, spukhaft
"Of course, all this isn't half so wonderful as you think."
"It's quite wonderful enough for my modest wants," said Mr. Thomas Marvel. "Howjer manage it! How the dooce is it done?"
modest - bescheiden, maßvoll, klein, gering; (mod); bescheiden, maßvoll
manage it - es schaffen
dooce - dösen
"It's too long a story. And besides-"
"I tell you, the whole business fairly beats me," said Mr. Marvel.
beats - Schlag; jdn. bezwingen
"What I want to say at present is this: I need help. I have come to that-I came upon you suddenly. I was wandering, mad with rage, naked, impotent. I could have murdered. And I saw you-"
wandering - wandernd; (wander) irren, wandern
naked - nackt, kahl, bloß
impotent - impotent
murdered - ermordet; Mord, Mord, Mord, mörderisch, ermorden, massakrieren
"Lord!" said Mr. Marvel.
"I came up behind you-hesitated-went on-"
hesitated - gezögert; zögern, zögern, stammeln
Mr. Marvel's expression was eloquent.
"-then stopped. 'Here,'I said, 'is an outcast like myself. This is the man for me.'So I turned back and came to you-you. And-"
outcast - verstoßen; ausgestoßen
"Lord!" said Mr. Marvel. "But I'm all in a tizzy. May I ask-How is it? And what you may be requiring in the way of help?-Invisible!"
tizzy - Aufregung
requiring - erfordern; verlangend, verlangt; (require); erfordern; brauchen
"I want you to help me get clothes-and shelter-and then, with other things. I've left them long enough. If you won't-well! But you will-must."
shelter - Unterkunft; Zuflucht, Obdach, Zufluchtsort, Schutzraum
"Look here," said Mr. Marvel. "I'm too flabbergasted. Don't knock me about any more. And leave me go. I must get steady a bit. And you've pretty near broken my toe. It's all so unreasonable. Empty downs, empty sky. Nothing visible for miles except the bosom of Nature. And then comes a voice. A voice out of heaven! And stones! And a fist-Lord!"
flabbergasted - verblüfft; verblüffen, erstaunen, baff sein, platt sein
unreasonable - unvernünftig, kompromisslos, nicht nachvollziehbar, unklug
for miles - meilenweit
bosom - Busen, Brust, der Busenfreund (bosom buddy)
fist - fausten; Faust
"Pull yourself together," said the Voice, "for you have to do the job I've chosen for you."
Pull yourself together - Nimm dich zusammen!, Strengen Sie sich mal an!
Mr. Marvel blew out his cheeks, and his eyes were round.
blew out - (blow out) ausblasen, auslöschen
"I've chosen you," said the Voice. "You are the only man except some of those fools down there, who knows there is such a thing as an invisible man. You have to be my helper. Help me-and I will do great things for you. An invisible man is a man of power." He stopped for a moment to sneeze violently.
fools - Dummköpfe; dumme Gans, Dummkopf, Narr, Närrin, Pute, Narr
helper - Helfer, Helferin
power - Macht, Kraft, Großmacht, Stärke, Strom
"But if you betray me," he said, "if you fail to do as I direct you-" He paused and tapped Mr. Marvel's shoulder smartly. Mr. Marvel gave a yelp of terror at the touch. "I don't want to betray you," said Mr. Marvel, edging away from the direction of the fingers. "Don't you go a-thinking that, whatever you do. All I want to do is to help you-just tell me what I got to do. (Lord!) Whatever you want done, that I'm most willing to do."
betray - verraten; im Stich lassen, von etwas zeugen, verleiten
fail - mangelhaft (Zensur 5), ungenügend (Zensur 6);jdn. im Stich lassen;fehlschlagen, scheitern, misslingen, versagen
Direct - direkt, unmittelbar, beaufsichtigen, inszenieren, befehlen
paused - innegehalten; pausieren, innehalten, pausieren, Pause
tapped - angezapft; Wasserhahn; Schlacke abstechen
smartly - klug; schlau, elegant
yelp - aufschreien; yelp
terror - Schrecken, Grauen, schreckliche Furcht, Terror
edging - Paspel, Einfassung; (edge); Rand; Seite, Kante, Vorsprung
most willing - bereitwilligste
After the first gusty panic had spent itself Iping became argumentative. Scepticism suddenly reared its head-rather nervous scepticism, not at all assured of its back, but scepticism nevertheless. It is so much easier not to believe in an invisible man; and those who had actually seen him dissolve into air, or felt the strength of his arm, could be counted on the fingers of two hands. And of these witnesses Mr. Wadgers was presently missing, having retired impregnably behind the bolts and bars of his own house, and Jaffers was lying stunned in the parlour of the "Coach and Horses." Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
gusty - böig; stürmisch
argumentative - streitlustig
scepticism - Skepsis
reared - aufgezogen; Hinter.., hinterster, Heck, Rück..
nervous - nervös
actually - Ja, also eigentlich ...;eigentlich, wirklich, tatsächlich
dissolve - auflösen; auflösen
strength - Stärke, Kraft, Festigkeit, Mumm
counted - gezählt; rechnen, abzählen, zählen
witnesses - Zeugnis
retired - im Ruhestand; pensionieren, zurücktreten, sich zurückziehen
impregnably - unbezwingbar
bars - Takt; Schankstube; Latte (Sport); Balken, Leiste, Stange, Strich
stunned - fassungslos; betäuben, verblüffen
transcending - transzendieren; ubersteigen
Experience - Erlebnis, Erfahrung, Praxis
effect - Auswirkung, Eindruck, Effekt, Kraft
considerations - Überlegungen; Erwägung, Überlegung, Überlegung, Rücksicht
Iping was gay with bunting, and everybody was in gala dress. Whit Monday had been looked forward to for a month or more. By the afternoon even those who believed in the Unseen were beginning to resume their little amusements in a tentative fashion, on the supposition that he had quite gone away, and with the sceptics he was already a jest. But people, sceptics and believers alike, were remarkably sociable all that day.
gala dress - Gala
resume - weiter; Lebenslauf; fortsetzen, wiedererlangen, wiederaufnehmen
amusements - Vergnügungen; Amüsement
supposition - Vermutung; Annahme, Supposition, Annehmen
gone away - fortgegangen
sceptics - Skeptiker
believers - Gläubiger, Gläubige
alike - ähneln; gleich; gleichermaßen
remarkably - bemerkenswert
sociable - gesellig
Haysman's meadow was gay with a tent, in which Mrs. Bunting and other ladies were preparing tea, while, without, the Sunday-school children ran races and played games under the noisy guidance of the curate and the Misses Cuss and Sackbut. No doubt there was a slight uneasiness in the air, but people for the most part had the sense to conceal whatever imaginative qualms they experienced. On the village green an inclined strong [rope?], down which, clinging the while to a pulley-swung handle, one could be hurled violently against a sack at the other end, came in for considerable favour among the adolescents, as also did the swings and the cocoanut shies.
meadow - Wiese, Weide, Aue
tent - Zelt
sunday-school - (sunday-school) Sonntagsschule
races - um die Wette rennen; Rasse, Menschenschlag, Rennen
noisy - lärmend; laut, geräuschvoll
guidance - Anleitung, Richtungsweisung, Handlungsempfehlung
curate - kuratieren; Hilfspfarrer
Sackbut - Sackhüpfen; Posaune, Barockposaune, Renaissanceposaune, Sackbut
uneasiness - Unbehagen
imaginative - einfallsreich
qualms - Gewissensbisse-p, Skrupel, de
experienced - Erlebnis
rope - Tau, Seil, Strang
clinging - anhaftend; anschmiegen
pulley - Riemenscheibe; Rolle
handle - handhaben; Henkel, Hantel, Griff, Türklinke; abarbeiten
favour - Gefallen; begünstigen, bevorzugen
adolescents - Heranwachsende; Jugendliche
swings - schwingen, schaukeln, schwanken, schaukeln, baumeln, schwingen
shies - scheuen; schüchtern, scheu, scheu, schüchtern, verlegen
There was also promenading, and the steam organ attached to a small roundabout filled the air with a pungent flavour of oil and with equally pungent music. Members of the club, who had attended church in the morning, were splendid in badges of pink and green, and some of the gayer-minded had also adorned their bowler hats with brilliant-coloured favours of ribbon. Old Fletcher, whose conceptions of holiday-making were severe, was visible through the jasmine about his window or through the open door (whichever way you chose to look), poised delicately on a plank supported on two chairs, and whitewashing the ceiling of his front room.
promenading - promenieren; Promenade, spazieren gehen
steam - etwas dünsten;Dampf
organ - Organ; Orgel
attached - befestigt; anbringen
roundabout - Kreisverkehr; umständlich, verschleiert, allumfassend
flavour of - riechen nach, schmecken nach
oil - ölen; Ă–l
equally - gleichermaßen, gleichmäßig
attended - teilgenommen; (to attend) mit etwas verbunden sein
splendid - glänzend; prächtig; hervorragend
badges - Abzeichen
gayer - schwuler; vergnügt, schwul, homosexuell, lustig, heiter
minded - aufpassen; Verstand, t+Geist, t+Sinn, Bewusstsein
adorned - geschmückt; schmücken, zieren, verzieren
bowler - Kegler
favours - Gefälligkeiten; begünstigen, bevorzugen
ribbon - Band; Farbband
Fletcher - Pfeilmacher
conceptions - Konzeptionen; Empfängnis, Vorstellung, Konzeption
severe - schwerwiegend; streng
jasmine - Jasmin, Jasminum
whichever - was auch immer
poised - bereit; Gleichgewicht
delicately - zart
plank - ein Brett; Planke; Schwerpunkt
whitewashing - Schönfärberei; (whitewash) tünchen; (whitewash); Tünche; Zu-null-Sieg; reinwaschen
ceiling - Zimmerdecke; Zimmerdecke; (ceil) Zimmerdecke; Zimmerdecke
About four o'clock a stranger entered the village from the direction of the downs. He was a short, stout person in an extraordinarily shabby top hat, and he appeared to be very much out of breath. His cheeks were alternately limp and tightly puffed. His mottled face was apprehensive, and he moved with a sort of reluctant alacrity.
stout - beleibt
alternately - abwechselnd
tightly - eng
puffed - aufgeblasen; pusten; Hauch
mottled - gesprenkelt; marmorieren, sprenkeln
apprehensive - beunruhigt
reluctant - zögernd
alacrity - Eilfertigkeit; Eifer; Unverzüglichkeit
He turned the corner of the church, and directed his way to the "Coach and Horses." Among others old Fletcher remembers seeing him, and indeed the old gentleman was so struck by his peculiar agitation that he inadvertently allowed a quantity of whitewash to run down the brush into the sleeve of his coat while regarding him.
peculiar - eigentümlich; merkwürdig, seltsam
agitation - Aufregung; Aufwühlung, Agitation
inadvertently - versehentlich
allowed - erlaubt; erlauben, zulassen, akzeptieren, erlauben, zulassen
quantity - Quantität, Menge, in Klammern
whitewash - Beschönigung; Tünche; Zu-null-Sieg; reinwaschen, schönfärben
run down - überfahren;heruntergewirtschaftet
brush - Bürste; gloss aint-; Busch, Gebüsch, Gestrüpp, Lunte, Standarte
This stranger, to the perceptions of the proprietor of the cocoanut shy, appeared to be talking to himself, and Mr. Huxter remarked the same thing. He stopped at the foot of the "Coach and Horses" steps, and, according to Mr. Huxter, appeared to undergo a severe internal struggle before he could induce himself to enter the house.
perceptions - Wahrnehmungen; Wahrnehmung
remarked - bemerkt; bemerken; Anmerkung, Bemerkung
according - nach; Übereinstimmung, Einvernehmen
undergo - unterziehen; durchmachen
internal - intern, checkinnerlich, checkinländisch
induce - einleiten; dazu bringen, anstacheln, bewirken, verursachen
enter - reingehen, hineingehen, hereingehen, eintreten
Finally he marched up the steps, and was seen by Mr. Huxter to turn to the left and open the door of the parlour. Mr. Huxter heard voices from within the room and from the bar apprising the man of his error. "That room's private!" said Hall, and the stranger shut the door clumsily and went into the bar.
finally - schließlich; endlich; definitiv, checkletztendlich
apprising - informiert; benachrichtigen
error - Fehler; Irrtum; aussteigen; fehlschlagen, misslingen
clumsily - unbeholfen; plump
In the course of a few minutes he reappeared, wiping his lips with the back of his hand with an air of quiet satisfaction that somehow impressed Mr. Huxter as assumed. He stood looking about him for some moments, and then Mr. Huxter saw him walk in an oddly furtive manner towards the gates of the yard, upon which the parlour window opened.
reappeared - wieder aufgetaucht; wieder erscheinen, wiederauftreten
wiping - (wipe) löschen, abstreifen, abwischen, aufreiben
satisfaction - Befriedigung; Zufriedenheit; Satisfaktion, Genugtuung
somehow - irgendwie
assumed - angenommen; annehmen, voraussetzen, vermuten, unterstellen
oddly - Seltsam; einzeln, sonderbar
furtive - geheim, heimlich, tarnen
gates - Tor, Flugsteig, Pforte, Schranke
The stranger, after some hesitation, leant against one of the gate-posts, produced a short clay pipe, and prepared to fill it. His fingers trembled while doing so. He lit it clumsily, and folding his arms began to smoke in a languid attitude, an attitude which his occasional glances up the yard altogether belied.
leant - angelehnt; knapp, schlank, hager, mager
Gate - Tor, Flugsteig, Pforte, Schranke
short clay - Magerton
clay pipe - Tonpfeife
trembled - gezittert; zittern, Zittern
folding - Klapp-; Falten, Klappen; (fold); Klapp-; Falten, Klappen
languid - träge; schwach
attitude - Haltung; Einstellung, Attitüde, Orientierung, Ausrichtung
glances - blicken, Blick, Streifblick, Glanz, Steinkohle
belied - belogen; lügen; etw. falsch darstellen, über etw. hinwegtäuschen
All this Mr. Huxter saw over the canisters of the tobacco window, and the singularity of the man's behaviour prompted him to maintain his observation.
canisters - Kanister; Dose, Büchse, Behälter, Büchse, Dose, Kartusche
Singularity - Eigenheit; Singularität
behaviour - Verhalten, Benehmen, Betragen; Fahrverhalten
prompted - veranlasst; Eingabeaufforderung, anleiten, antreiben
maintain - unterhalten, warten, beibehalten, aufrechterhalten
observation - Beobachtung; Bemerkung
Presently the stranger stood up abruptly and put his pipe in his pocket. Then he vanished into the yard. Forthwith Mr. Huxter, conceiving he was witness of some petty larceny, leapt round his counter and ran out into the road to intercept the thief. As he did so, Mr. Marvel reappeared, his hat askew, a big bundle in a blue table-cloth in one hand, and three books tied together-as it proved afterwards with the Vicar's braces-in the other. Directly he saw Huxter he gave a sort of gasp, and turning sharply to the left, began to run. "Stop, thief!" cried Huxter, and set off after him. Mr. Huxter's sensations were vivid but brief. He saw the man just before him and spurting briskly for the church corner and the hill road.
conceiving - Empfängnis; konzipieren, erdenken, ersinnen, empfangen
witness - etw. miterleben;erleben, bezeugen, Zeuge sein bei; miterleben
petty - gering, geringfügig, klein, kleinlich
larceny - Diebstahl
counter - Zähler, Ladentisch; kontern
intercept - abfangen; Achsenabschnitt
thief - Dieb, Diebin
askew - schief, verzogen, verwunden, verbogen
bundle - Bündel
proved - er/sie hat/hatte bewiesen, beweisen, erhärten
braces - Hosenträger; Klafter
gasp - keuchen; japsen, prusten, Atemzug, Luftholen
sensations - Empfindungen; Gefühl
spurting - sprudelnd; herausspritzen (aus)
He saw the village flags and festivities beyond, and a face or so turned towards him. He bawled, "Stop!" again. He had hardly gone ten strides before his shin was caught in some mysterious fashion, and he was no longer running, but flying with inconceivable rapidity through the air. He saw the ground suddenly close to his face. The world seemed to splash into a million whirling specks of light, and subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
flags - markieren, beflaggen, kennzeichnen; Kennzeichen, Platte, Flag
bawled - gegrölt; schreien, brüllen, heulen, brüllen
strides - schritte; schreiten
mysterious - geheimnisvoll; mysteriös; rätselhaft
inconceivable - unvorstellbar
ground - Masse (elektrisch); Erdboden, Grund, Boden
splash - Spritzen; plätschern, platschen
specks - Flecken; Fleckchen
subsequent - anschließend, später, darauffolgend
proceedings - fortsetzend, verfahrend
Now in order clearly to understand what had happened in the inn, it is necessary to go back to the moment when Mr. Marvel first came into view of Mr. Huxter's window.
At that precise moment Mr. Cuss and Mr. Bunting were in the parlour. They were seriously investigating the strange occurrences of the morning, and were, with Mr. Hall's permission, making a thorough examination of the Invisible Man's belongings. Jaffers had partially recovered from his fall and had gone home in the charge of his sympathetic friends.
precise - präzise, genau, exakt, präzisieren
seriously - ernst, ernsthaft
investigating - Ermittlungen; untersuchen, erforschen, recherchieren
permission - Erlaubnis, Gestattung, Genehmigung
thorough - gründlich
examination - Prüfung, Untersuchung, Test, Überprüfung
belongings - Hab und Gut; gehörend, zugehörig
partially - teilweise, teils, zum Teil
recovered - erholt; wiederfinden, sich erholen, beikommen
charge - Gebühr; Entgelt; Ladung; Last; Rempeln; beauftragen, belasten
The stranger's scattered garments had been removed by Mrs. Hall and the room tidied up. And on the table under the window where the stranger had been wont to work, Cuss had hit almost at once on three big books in manuscript labelled "Diary."
tidied up - aufgeräumt
manuscript - Handschrift, Manuskript, Handschrift, Manuskript
labelled - etikettiert; Etikett
diary - Tagebuch
"Diary!" said Cuss, putting the three books on the table. "Now, at any rate, we shall learn something." The Vicar stood with his hands on the table.
rate - Wechselkurs, Devisenkurs, Kurs; Kommunalsteuer
"Diary," repeated Cuss, sitting down, putting two volumes to support the third, and opening it. "H'm-no name on the fly-leaf. Bother!-cypher. And figures."
sitting down - hinsetzend
volumes - Volumen
support - Rückendeckung, Auflage, Unterstützung; abstützen, befürworten
leaf - Blatt, Laubblatt, Platte
cypher - Chiffre
figures - Zahlen; Abbildung, Figur, Gestalt, Ziffer, Form
The vicar came round to look over his shoulder.
look over - durchsehen, inspizieren
Cuss turned the pages over with a face suddenly disappointed. "I'm-dear me! It's all cypher, Bunting."
"There are no diagrams?" asked Mr. Bunting. "No illustrations throwing light-"
diagrams - Diagramme; Diagramm
illustrations - Illustrationen; Illustration, Illustration, Illustration
throwing - Werfen; (to throw) schmeißen; (throw) Werfen; (to throw) schmeißen
"See for yourself," said Mr. Cuss. "Some of it's mathematical and some of it's Russian or some such language (to judge by the letters), and some of it's Greek. Now the Greek I thought you-"
Russian - russisch, russländisch, altrussisch, Russe, Russin
Greek - griechisch; Griechisch, griechische Sprache, Grieche, Griechin
"Of course," said Mr. Bunting, taking out and wiping his spectacles and feeling suddenly very uncomfortable-for he had no Greek left in his mind worth talking about; "yes-the Greek, of course, may furnish a clue."
taking out - herausnehmend
furnish - möblieren, einrichten, ausrüsten
clue - Anhaltspunkt, Hinweis, Faden, Indiz, informieren, unterrichten
"I'll find you a place."
"I'd rather glance through the volumes first," said Mr. Bunting, still wiping. "A general impression first, Cuss, and then, you know, we can go looking for clues."
glance - blicken; Blick, Streifblick, Glanz, Steinkohle
clues - Anhaltspunkte; Anhaltspunkt, Hinweis, Faden, Indiz
He coughed, put on his glasses, arranged them fastidiously, coughed again, and wished something would happen to avert the seemingly inevitable exposure. Then he took the volume Cuss handed him in a leisurely manner. And then something did happen.
coughed - gehustet; husten, husten, Husten, Husten
arranged - vereinbart; arrangieren, systematisieren, aufstellen, ordnen
fastidiously - anspruchsvoll
wished - gewollt; Wunsch, wünschen, wünschen
avert - abwenden, verhindern
exposure - Exposition; Kontakt, Einwirkung, Lage, Witterung, Belichtung
volume - Volumen; Lautstärke; Jahrgang; Band; Volume
The door opened suddenly.
Both gentlemen started violently, looked round, and were relieved to see a sporadically rosy face beneath a furry silk hat. "Tap?" asked the face, and stood staring.
sporadically - sporadisch
rosy - rosig, rosenfarbig
beneath - unter
tap - Wasserhahn; Schlacke abstechen
"No," said both gentlemen at once.
"Over the other side, my man," said Mr. Bunting. And "Please shut that door," said Mr. Cuss, irritably.
irritably - gereizt
"All right," said the intruder, as it seemed in a low voice curiously different from the huskiness of its first inquiry. "Right you are," said the intruder in the former voice. "Stand clear!" and he vanished and closed the door.
intruder - Eindringling
curiously - neugierige
huskiness - Heiserkeit
former - erstgenannt, ehem. ehemalig, frühere, früher
clear - klar, durchsichtig, hell, frei
"A sailor, I should judge," said Mr. Bunting. "Amusing fellows, they are. Stand clear! indeed. A nautical term, referring to his getting back out of the room, I suppose."
sailor - Matrose, Matrosin, Seemann, Seefrau
amusing - amüsant; amüsieren, vergnügen, belustigen, erheitern
nautical - nautisch
term - Termin, Semester, Begriff; Spielzeit, Saison; Amtszeit
referring - verweisen; überweisen (an)
getting back - wiederbekommend
"I daresay so," said Cuss. "My nerves are all loose to-day. It quite made me jump-the door opening like that."
Mr. Bunting smiled as if he had not jumped. "And now," he said with a sigh, "these books."
smiled - gelächelt; Lächeln
sigh - Seufzen, Seufzer, Säuseln (Wind); säuseln (Wind)
Someone sniffed as he did so.
"One thing is indisputable," said Bunting, drawing up a chair next to that of Cuss. "There certainly have been very strange things happen in Iping during the last few days-very strange. I cannot of course believe in this absurd invisibility story-"
absurd - absurd
"It's incredible," said Cuss-"incredible. But the fact remains that I saw-I certainly saw right down his sleeve-"
remains - bleibt; Überrest (2), de
"But did you-are you sure? Suppose a mirror, for instance- hallucinations are so easily produced. I don't know if you have ever seen a really good conjuror-"
mirror - Spiegel; Kopie
hallucinations - Halluzinationen; Halluzination, Wahnvorstellung
Conjuror - Beschwörer
"I won't argue again," said Cuss. "We've thrashed that out, Bunting. And just now there's these books-Ah! here's some of what I take to be Greek! Greek letters certainly."
argue - diskutieren, erörtern, streiten, argumentieren
thrashed - verprügelt; schlagen, dreschen, zusammenschlagen, eindreschen
He pointed to the middle of the page. Mr. Bunting flushed slightly and brought his face nearer, apparently finding some difficulty with his glasses. Suddenly he became aware of a strange feeling at the nape of his neck. He tried to raise his head, and encountered an immovable resistance. The feeling was a curious pressure, the grip of a heavy, firm hand, and it bore his chin irresistibly to the table.
flushed - gespült; Wasserspülung, Wallung, Schwall; spülen
slightly - ein wenig, leicht
aware - wachsam, gewahr, bewusst, checkgewahr
nape - Nacken
raise - Gehaltszulage; aufsteigen, anheben, erhöhen, heranziehen
encountered - begegnet; treffen, begegnen, Begegnung, Treffen
immovable - unbeweglich
resistance - Widerstand
pressure - Druck; unter Druck setzen
grip - packen, fassen; Griffigkeit, Heft (von Säge, Feile)
firm - fest, straff (Busen), Fa. Firma, gesetzt, hart
bore - langweilig; (to bear fruit) Früchte tragen; (bear) langweilig; (to bear fruit) Früchte tragen
chin - Kinn
irresistibly - unwiderstehlich
"Don't move, little men," whispered a voice, "or I'll brain you both!" He looked into the face of Cuss, close to his own, and each saw a horrified reflection of his own sickly astonishment.
horrified - entsetzt; entsetzen, erschrecken, schockieren
sickly - kränklich
"I'm sorry to handle you so roughly," said the Voice, "but it's unavoidable."
roughly - ungefähr; grob; uneben
unavoidable - unvermeidlich
"Since when did you learn to pry into an investigator's private memoranda," said the Voice; and two chins struck the table simultaneously, and two sets of teeth rattled.
pry - ausspähen; neugierig sein
memoranda - Memoranden; Vermerke
chins - Kinns; Kinn
simultaneously - gleichzeitig
sets of teeth - Gebisse
rattled - verunsichert; klappern, rasseln, erschüteln, knattern
"Since when did you learn to invade the private rooms of a man in misfortune?" and the concussion was repeated.
invade - eindringen, verletzen, überfallen, einmarschieren, einfallen
misfortune - Pech, Ungemach, Unglück, Unfall, Unheil
"Where have they put my clothes?"
"Listen," said the Voice. "The windows are fastened and I've taken the key out of the door. I am a fairly strong man, and I have the poker handy-besides being invisible. There's not the slightest doubt that I could kill you both and get away quite easily if I wanted to-do you understand? Very well. If I let you go will you promise not to try any nonsense and do what I tell you?"
fastened - befestigen, festmachen
handy - praktisch; griffig, nützlich
promise - Versprechen
The vicar and the doctor looked at one another, and the doctor pulled a face. "Yes," said Mr. Bunting, and the doctor repeated it. Then the pressure on the necks relaxed, and the doctor and the vicar sat up, both very red in the face and wriggling their heads.
wriggling - zappelnd; sich winden, sich befreien
"Please keep sitting where you are," said the Invisible Man. "Here's the poker, you see."
"When I came into this room," continued the Invisible Man, after presenting the poker to the tip of the nose of each of his visitors, "I did not expect to find it occupied, and I expected to find, in addition to my books of memoranda, an outfit of clothing. Where is it?
expect - erwarten
outfit - Outfit
clothing - Kleidung; (cloth); Stoff, Tuch
No-don't rise. I can see it's gone. Now, just at present, though the days are quite warm enough for an invisible man to run about stark, the evenings are quite chilly. I want clothing-and other accommodation; and I must also have those three books."
Stark - krass, schlicht, schier, rein, nackt, völlig
chilly - frostig, kalt, kühl
accommodation - Unterkunft, Übernachtung, Anpassung
It is unavoidable that at this point the narrative should break off again, for a certain very painful reason that will presently be apparent. While these things were going on in the parlour, and while Mr. Huxter was watching Mr. Marvel smoking his pipe against the gate, not a dozen yards away were Mr. Hall and Teddy Henfrey discussing in a state of cloudy puzzlement the one Iping topic.
narrative - erzählend, erzählerisch, in erzählender Form darlegend
break off - (Therapie) absetzen, aufhören, abbrechen
cloudy - bewölkt, wolkig, trüb
puzzlement - Verwirrung
Suddenly there came a violent thud against the door of the parlour, a sharp cry, and then-silence.
thud - Aufprall; Bollern; dumpfer Knall, stampfen, dumpf knallen
"Hul-lo!" said Teddy Henfrey.
"Hul-lo!" from the Tap.
Mr. Hall took things in slowly but surely. "That ain't right," he said, and came round from behind the bar towards the parlour door.
He and Teddy approached the door together, with intent faces. Their eyes considered. "Summat wrong," said Hall, and Henfrey nodded agreement. Whiffs of an unpleasant chemical odour met them, and there was a muffled sound of conversation, very rapid and subdued.
considered - berücksichtigt; überlegen, überlegen, halten, betrachten
nodded - abgenickt; nicken, einnicken, Kopfnicken
agreement - Vereinbarung, Zustimmung, Einigkeit, Einvernehmen
whiffs - pfeift; Hauch, Hauch
unpleasant - unangenehm
chemical - Chemie; chemisch; Chemikalie
odour - Geruch
"You all right thur?" asked Hall, rapping.
rapping - rappen; pochen, schlagen; Geplapper
The muttered conversation ceased abruptly, for a moment silence, then the conversation was resumed, in hissing whispers, then a sharp cry of "No! no, you don't!" There came a sudden motion and the oversetting of a chair, a brief struggle. Silence again.
muttered - gemurmelt; murmeln
ceased - eingestellt; aufhören, aufhören, einstellen
whispers - Geflüster
sudden - plötzlich, jäh
motion - Bewegung
"What the dooce?" exclaimed Henfrey, sotto voce.
"You-all-right thur?" asked Mr. Hall, sharply, again.
The Vicar's voice answered with a curious jerking intonation: "Quite ri-right. Please don't-interrupt."
jerking - Ruckeln; stoßweise, zusammenzuckend
intonation - Satzmelodie, Sprachmelodie, Intonation, Tongebung
interrupt - unterbrechen
"Odd!" said Mr. Henfrey.
"Odd!" said Mr. Hall.
"Says, 'Don't interrupt,'" said Henfrey.
"I heerd'n," said Hall.
"And a sniff," said Henfrey.
They remained listening. The conversation was rapid and subdued. "I can't," said Mr. Bunting, his voice rising; "I tell you, sir, I will not."
"What was that?" asked Henfrey.
"Says he wi'nart," said Hall. "Warn't speaking to us, wuz he?"
warn - warnen, mahnen
"Disgraceful!" said Mr. Bunting, within.
disgraceful - eine Schande
"'Disgraceful,'" said Mr. Henfrey. "I heard it-distinct."
distinct - deutlich
"Who's that speaking now?" asked Henfrey.
"Mr. Cuss, I s'pose," said Hall. "Can you hear-anything?"
Silence. The sounds within indistinct and perplexing.
perplexing - verwirrend; verwirren
"Sounds like throwing the table-cloth about," said Hall.
Mrs. Hall appeared behind the bar. Hall made gestures of silence and invitation. This aroused Mrs. Hall's wifely opposition. "What yer listenin'there for, Hall?" she asked. "Ain't you nothin'better to do-busy day like this?"
gestures - Gesten; Geste, Gebärde, Geste, gestikulieren
invitation - Einladung, Einladen
wifely - fraulich
opposition - Opposition
listenin - Hörst du zu
nothin - gar nichts
Hall tried to convey everything by grimaces and dumb show, but Mrs. Hall was obdurate. She raised her voice. So Hall and Henfrey, rather crestfallen, tiptoed back to the bar, gesticulating to explain to her.
convey - vermitteln; befördern, transportieren, verfrachten, übermitteln
grimaces - Grimasse, Grimassen schneiden
dumb show - Pantomime
obdurate - verstockt; stur, hartnäckig
crestfallen - geknickt
tiptoed - auf Zehenspitzen gegangen; Zehenspitze
At first she refused to see anything in what they had heard at all. Then she insisted on Hall keeping silence, while Henfrey told her his story. She was inclined to think the whole business nonsense-perhaps they were just moving the furniture about. "I heerd'n say 'disgraceful'; that I did," said Hall.
refused - abgelehnt; Müll; abweisen, verweigern, abschlagen, ablehnen
"I heerd that, Mrs. Hall," said Henfrey.
"Like as not-" began Mrs. Hall.
"Hsh!" said Mr. Teddy Henfrey. "didn't I hear the window?"
didn't I - Ich habe es dir ja gesagt!
"What window?" asked Mrs. Hall.
"Parlour window," said Henfrey.
Everyone stood listening intently. Mrs. Hall's eyes, directed straight before her, saw without seeing the brilliant oblong of the inn door, the road white and vivid, and Huxter's shop-front blistering in the June sun. Abruptly Huxter's door opened and Huxter appeared, eyes staring with excitement, arms gesticulating. "Yap!" cried Huxter. "Stop thief!" and he ran obliquely across the oblong towards the yard gates, and vanished.
intently - angespannt, aufmerksam, konzentriert
oblong - länglich, lang, quer, breit, rechteckig
blistering - Blasenbildung; Blase, Blase, kritisieren, Blasen werfen
excitement - Aufregung, Begeisterung, Spannung, Erregung
Yap - Japsen, Kläffen, Gekläffe
obliquely - schräg
Simultaneously came a tumult from the parlour, and a sound of windows being closed.
Hall, Henfrey, and the human contents of the tap rushed out at once pell-mell into the street. They saw someone whisk round the corner towards the road, and Mr. Huxter executing a complicated leap in the air that ended on his face and shoulder. Down the street people were standing astonished or running towards them.
Contents - Inhalt; (to be content with) sich mit etwas begnügen
mell - mischen
round the corner - um die Ecke
leap - hervorspringen, hüpfen, überspringen
astonished - erstaunt; erstaunen
Mr. Huxter was stunned. Henfrey stopped to discover this, but Hall and the two labourers from the Tap rushed at once to the corner, shouting incoherent things, and saw Mr. Marvel vanishing by the corner of the church wall. They appear to have jumped to the impossible conclusion that this was the Invisible Man suddenly become visible, and set off at once along the lane in pursuit. But Hall had hardly run a dozen yards before he gave a loud shout of astonishment and went flying headlong sideways, clutching one of the labourers and bringing him to the ground.
discover - entdecken; erleben, erfahren, dabei sein
vanishing - verschwinden; (vanish) verschinden
appear - erscheinen, auftauchen, auftreten
impossible - unmöglich
conclusion - Schluss, Ende, Abschluss, Ergebnis, Schlussfolgerung
lane - Fahrspur; Gasse; Spur, Route
pursuit - Verfolgung
loud - laut
sideways - seitwärts; Seitenweg
He had been charged just as one charges a man at football. The second labourer came round in a circle, stared, and conceiving that Hall had tumbled over of his own accord, turned to resume the pursuit, only to be tripped by the ankle just as Huxter had been. Then, as the first labourer struggled to his feet, he was kicked sideways by a blow that might have felled an ox.
charges - Gebühren; Entgelt
Labourer - Hilfsarbeiter; Arbeiter
ankle - Knöchel, Fußknöchel
felled - abgeholzt; jdn. hinstrecken; fiel, gefallen
ox - Ochse, Rind
As he went down, the rush from the direction of the village green came round the corner. The first to appear was the proprietor of the cocoanut shy, a burly man in a blue jersey. He was astonished to see the lane empty save for three men sprawling absurdly on the ground.
burly - stämmig; kräftig
Jersey - Pullover, Jersey, Trikot
sprawling - ausgedehnt; ausspreizen, grätschen, sich ausbreiten, Wuchern
absurdly - absurd; sinnwidrig
And then something happened to his rear-most foot, and he went headlong and rolled sideways just in time to graze the feet of his brother and partner, following headlong. The two were then kicked, knelt on, fallen over, and cursed by quite a number of over-hasty people.
rear - hinten; Hinter.., hinterster, Heck, Rück..
graze - grasen; Kratzen, Schrammen, Schaben, Schleifen
knelt - kniete; knien
cursed - verflucht, verfluchte; (curs) verflucht, verfluchte
hasty - voreilig; hastig, eilig
Now when Hall and Henfrey and the labourers ran out of the house, Mrs. Hall, who had been disciplined by years of experience, remained in the bar next the till. And suddenly the parlour door was opened, and Mr. Cuss appeared, and without glancing at her rushed at once down the steps toward the corner. "Hold him!" he cried. "Don't let him drop that parcel."
disciplined - diszipliniert; Disziplin, Strafe, Bestrafung, Disziplin
parcel - Paket; Parzelle
He knew nothing of the existence of Marvel. For the Invisible Man had handed over the books and bundle in the yard. The face of Mr. Cuss was angry and resolute, but his costume was defective, a sort of limp white kilt that could only have passed muster in Greece. "Hold him!" he bawled. "He's got my trousers! And every stitch of the Vicar's clothes!"
existence - Existenz, Dasein
defective - fehlerhaft, defekt, mangelhaft, unvollständig
kilt - Schottenrock
Greece - Griechenland
stitch - Stich (Näh-), Stich (Schmerz); nähen, absteppen
"'Tend to him in a minute!" he cried to Henfrey as he passed the prostrate Huxter, and, coming round the corner to join the tumult, was promptly knocked off his feet into an indecorous sprawl. Somebody in full flight trod heavily on his finger. He yelled, struggled to regain his feet, was knocked against and thrown on all fours again, and became aware that he was involved not in a capture, but a rout.
tend - tendieren; abzielen
knocked off - abgeklopfter, abgeklopft
indecorous - unanständig
sprawl - Zersiedelung; ausspreizen, grätschen, sich ausbreiten, Wuchern
trod - getreten; schritt, zertrat, trat; (tread) getreten; schritt
yelled - geschrien; kreischen, schreien
regain - zurückgewinnen; wiedergewinnen
Involved - Involviert; umfassen, etwas komplizieren, gehen um, verwirren
capture - erfassen; Fang, Festnahme, Gefangennahme, Erfassung
Everyone was running back to the village. He rose again and was hit severely behind the ear. He staggered and set off back to the "Coach and Horses" forthwith, leaping over the deserted Huxter, who was now sitting up, on his way.
deserted - Wüste, wüst, Ă–de; verlassen, desertieren, im Stich lassen
Behind him as he was halfway up the inn steps he heard a sudden yell of rage, rising sharply out of the confusion of cries, and a sounding smack in someone's face. He recognised the voice as that of the Invisible Man, and the note was that of a man suddenly infuriated by a painful blow.
halfway - auf halbem Weg; halbwegs
yell - kreischen, schreien
confusion - Verwirrung, Durcheinander, Konfusion, Verwechslung
Smack - Heroin; riechen nach, schmecken nach; Geschmack, Knall
recognised - anerkannt; anerkennen
infuriated - wütend machen, zur Weißglut bringen
In another moment Mr. Cuss was back in the parlour. "He's coming back, Bunting!" he said, rushing in. "Save yourself!"
rushing - hetzend, sausend; (rush) hetzend, sausend
Mr. Bunting was standing in the window engaged in an attempt to clothe himself in the hearth-rug and a West Surrey Gazette. "Who's coming?" he said, so startled that his costume narrowly escaped disintegration.
engaged - verlobt; beschäftigen, anstellen, angreifen, anlegen, einrasten
attempt - versuchen; Versuch, Bestreben, Bestrebung, Anschlag, Attentat
clothe - bekleiden, anziehen
hearth - Feuerstelle, Herdboden, Grund, Kaminboden
rug - Vorleger; Teppich, Brücke
Surrey - Error
Gazette - Gazette; Amtsblatt, Anzeiger
narrowly - eng
escaped - entkommen; entgehen, entgehen, ausweichen, davonkommen, Flucht
disintegration - Zersetzung; Zerfall
"Invisible Man," said Cuss, and rushed on to the window. "We'd better clear out from here! He's fighting mad! Mad!"
clear out - entrümpeln
In another moment he was out in the yard.
"Good heavens!" said Mr. Bunting, hesitating between two horrible alternatives. He heard a frightful struggle in the passage of the inn, and his decision was made. He clambered out of the window, adjusted his costume hastily, and fled up the village as fast as his fat little legs would carry him.
Good heavens - Um Himmels willen!
hesitating - zögernd; zögern, zögern, stammeln
alternatives - Alternativen; alternativ, alternativ, Alternative, Alternative
decision - Entscheidung, Beschluss
clambered - erklommen; klettern, erklimmen, kraxeln, herumturnen
adjusted - angepasst; anpassen, abstimmen, ausrichten, justieren
fled - geflohen; fliehen, flüchten, fliehen, entfliehen, flüchten
From the moment when the Invisible Man screamed with rage and Mr. Bunting made his memorable flight up the village, it became impossible to give a consecutive account of affairs in Iping. Possibly the Invisible Man's original intention was simply to cover Marvel's retreat with the clothes and books.
memorable - erinnerungswürdig; denkwürdig, merkwürdig, einprägsam
consecutive - konsekutiv
account - Rechnung, Bericht, Rechnung, Konto
affairs - Angelegenheiten; Angelegenheit, Angelegenheit, Scharmützel
Possibly - vielleicht, eventuell, möglicherweise, negated: unmöglich
original - ursprünglich, ur-, original, originell, Original, ext
intention - Absicht
cover - Versicherungsdeckung ;überdecken;bespannen (mit Stoff ...), decken, überziehen;Ăśberzug , Umschlag , Hülle , Titel
retreat - Rückzug
But his temper, at no time very good, seems to have gone completely at some chance blow, and forthwith he set to smiting and overthrowing, for the mere satisfaction of hurting.
chance - riskieren, zufällig geschehen; Chance, Zufall, Gelegenheit
smiting - schlagen, schlagen
overthrowing - umstürzen (Politik)
mere - einfach; nur, schier, bloß
hurting - weh tun, schmerzen, verletzen, quälen, verletzt
You must figure the street full of running figures, of doors slamming and fights for hiding-places. You must figure the tumult suddenly striking on the unstable equilibrium of old Fletcher's planks and two chairs-with cataclysmic results.
slamming - zuknallend, zuschlagend; (slam) zuknallend, zuschlagend
fights - Kämpfe; Kampf, Schlacht
unstable - unstabil; instabil, labil
equilibrium - Gleichgewicht, Balance, Ausgeglichenheit
planks - Bretter; Planke, Schwerpunkt
cataclysmic - kataklysmisch
You must figure an appalled couple caught dismally in a swing. And then the whole tumultuous rush has passed and the Iping street with its gauds and flags is deserted save for the still raging unseen, and littered with cocoanuts, overthrown canvas screens, and the scattered stock in trade of a sweetstuff stall. Everywhere there is a sound of closing shutters and shoving bolts, and the only visible humanity is an occasional flitting eye under a raised eyebrow in the corner of a window pane.
appalled - entsetzt; erschrecken, entsetzen
dismally - trostlos, düstere
tumultuous - stürmisch; tumultuarisch
raging - wütend; Wut, Zorn, Raserei, Rage, wüten, rasen, toben, toben
littered - verstreut; Sänfte, Trage, Bahre, Wurf, Streu, Stroh
overthrown - umgestürzt; umstürzen (Politik)
canvas - Leinwand, Segeltuch
screens - Bildschirme; Schirm, Paravent, Sichtschutz, Insektengitter
stock - in Bausch und Bogen, Aktien, Inventar
trade - handeln (mit), eintauschen, schachern mit etwas;Handel , Handwerk , Geschäft , Trade;gewerblich {adj};eintauschen (für)
stall - hinhalten; Strömungsabriss
shoving - schubsen; schieben
flitting - hüpfend; wandernd; (flit); gaukeln
eyebrow - Braue, Augenbraue
pane - Scheibe, Fensterscheibe
The Invisible Man amused himself for a little while by breaking all the windows in the "Coach and Horses," and then he thrust a street lamp through the parlour window of Mrs.
amused - amüsiert; amüsieren, vergnügen, belustigen, erheitern
Gribble. He it must have been who cut the telegraph wire to Adderdean just beyond Higgins'cottage on the Adderdean road. And after that, as his peculiar qualities allowed, he passed out of human perceptions altogether, and he was neither heard, seen, nor felt in Iping any more. He vanished absolutely.
Telegraph - Telegraph; telegrafieren, depeschieren
wire - Draht, Ader, Wanze, Geld
cottage - Cottage, Häuschen, Kotten
qualities - Eigenschaften; Qualität, Qualität, Eigenschaft, Qualität
absolutely - absolut, durchaus, total, unbedingt
But it was the best part of two hours before any human being ventured out again into the desolation of Iping street.
desolation - Verwüsten, Verwüstung, Verwüstetsein, Verlassenheit
resignation - Rücktritt, Niederlegung, Kündigung, Rücktrittserklärung
When the dusk was gathering and Iping was just beginning to peep timorously forth again upon the shattered wreckage of its bank holiday, a short, thick-set man in a shabby silk hat was marching painfully through the twilight behind the beechwoods on the road to Bramblehurst. He carried three books bound together by some sort of ornamental elastic ligature, and a bundle wrapped in a blue table-cloth.
dusk - Abenddämmerung
gathering - Erfassung, Sammeln, Lese; (gather); sammeln, versammeln
shattered - zertrümmert; zum Zerspringen bringen, zerschmettern
wreckage - Wrackteile; Trümmer
bank holiday - Bankfeiertag
beechwoods - Buchenwälder; Beechwood
bound together - zusammen gebunden, zusammengebunden [alt]
ornamental - Zier-, dekorativ, Zierpflanze
elastic - dehnbar, elastisch, Gummiband
ligature - Ligatur
His rubicund face expressed consternation and fatigue; he appeared to be in a spasmodic sort of hurry. He was accompanied by a voice other than his own, and ever and again he winced under the touch of unseen hands.
expressed - ausgedrückt; bekunden, Eilzug, Schnellzug
consternation - Bestürzung, Fassungslosigkeit
fatigue - Müdigkeit, Ermüdung, Schlappheit, Überdruss
accompanied - begleitet; begleiten, begleiten, begleiten, begleiten, geleiten
winced - gezuckt; Zusammenzucken
"If you give me the slip again," said the Voice, "if you attempt to give me the slip again-"
slip - Ausrutscher; Versprecher; Rutschen (geradeaus); Lapsus
"Lord!" said Mr. Marvel. "That shoulder's a mass of bruises as it is."
bruises - blaue Flecken; Prellung, Bluterguss, blauer Fleck, Druckstelle
"On my honour," said the Voice, "I will kill you."
honour - Ehrung, Ehre; ehren; beehren, akzeptieren, annehmen, honorieren
"I didn't try to give you the slip," said Marvel, in a voice that was not far remote from tears. "I swear I didn't. I didn't know the blessed turning, that was all! How the devil was I to know the blessed turning? As it is, I've been knocked about-"
Tears - Tränen; zerreißen, ich/er/sie/es riss, riß
"You'll get knocked about a great deal more if you don't mind," said the Voice, and Mr. Marvel abruptly became silent. He blew out his cheeks, and his eyes were eloquent of despair.
became silent - verstummte
blew - geblasen; (to blow) blasen, wehen, pusten
despair - verzweifeln; Verzweiflung
"It's bad enough to let these floundering yokels explode my little secret, without your cutting off with my books. It's lucky for some of them they cut and ran when they did! Here am I ... No one knew I was invisible! And now what am I to do?"
floundering - straucheln; sich abquälen, taumeln, stolpern
yokels - Bauerntölpel, Hinterwäldler, Tölpel, Hanswurst, Simpel
explode - sprengen, explodieren, platzen
secret - Geheimnis
cutting off - (cut off) wegschneiden, abschneiden, abstellen
lucky - glücklich
"What am I to do?" asked Marvel, sotto voce.
"It's all about. It will be in the papers! Everybody will be looking for me; everyone on their guard-" The Voice broke off into vivid curses and ceased.
guard - Wächter; Parierstange; Schutz; schützen, bewachen
The despair of Mr. Marvel's face deepened, and his pace slackened.
deepened - vertieft; aushölen, vertiefen, zunehmen, vergrößern, vergrößern
slackened - erlahmt; entspannen
"Go on!" said the Voice.
Mr. Marvel's face assumed a greyish tint between the ruddier patches.
greyish - gräulich
tint - färben, tönen; Farbe, Farbton
ruddier - rötlicher; rot, rötlich, verdammt, verflixt
"Don't drop those books, stupid," said the Voice, sharply-overtaking him.
overtaking - überholen, aufholen, überholen
"The fact is," said the Voice, "I shall have to make use of you.... You're a poor tool, but I must."
tool - Gerät, Instrument, Werkzeug
"I'm a miserable tool," said Marvel.
miserable - unglücklich; elend, erbärmlich, jämmerlich, miserabel
"You are," said the Voice.
"I'm the worst possible tool you could have," said Marvel.
"I'm not strong," he said after a discouraging silence.
"I'm not over strong," he repeated.
"No?"
"And my heart's weak. That little business-I pulled it through, of course-but Bless you! I could have dropped."
heart - Herz, Herzstück
Bless you - Gesundheit! (nach dem Niesen)
"Well?"
"I haven't the nerve and strength for the sort of thing you want."
nerve - Frechheit; Nerv
"I'll stimulate you."
stimulate - anregen; stimulieren
"I wish you wouldn't. I wouldn't like to mess up your plans, you know. But I might-out of sheer funk and misery."
mess - Chaos; Unordnung, Kuddelmuddel, Schlamassel
sheer - durchsichtig; scheren, ausreißen, gieren; rein, blank
funk - Schiss, Bammel
misery - Misere, Elend
"You'd better not," said the Voice, with quiet emphasis.
"I wish I was dead," said Marvel.
"It ain't justice," he said; "you must admit.... It seems to me I've a perfect right-"
admit - einlassen, zulassen, zugeben, eingestehen, erlauben, einweisen
"Get on!" said the Voice.
Mr. Marvel mended his pace, and for a time they went in silence again.
mended - geflickt; reparieren, flicken
"It's devilish hard," said Mr. Marvel.
devilish - teuflisch
This was quite ineffectual. He tried another tack.
ineffectual - unwirksam
tack - Stift; heften, kreuzen; anheften (schweißen)
"What do I make by it?" he began again in a tone of unendurable wrong.
"Oh! shut up!" said the Voice, with sudden amazing vigour. "I'll see to you all right. You do what you're told. You'll do it all right. You're a fool and all that, but you'll do-"
vigour - Vitalität; Ausdruckskraft, Energie, Leidenschaftlichkeit
"I tell you, sir, I'm not the man for it. Respectfully-but it is so-"
respectfully - respektvoll
"If you don't shut up I shall twist your wrist again," said the Invisible Man. "I want to think."
twist - Zwirn; Biegung; Wendung; Twist; verziehen, drehen, wickeln
Presently two oblongs of yellow light appeared through the trees, and the square tower of a church loomed through the gloaming. "I shall keep my hand on your shoulder," said the Voice, "all through the village. Go straight through and try no foolery. It will be the worse for you if you do."
oblongs - länglich, lang, quer, breit, rechteckig, oblong, Oblong
square - quadratisch; Quadrat; Platz; Feld
tower - starker Rückhalt, Turm; emporragen, hochragen, ragen
loomed - aufgetaucht; Webstuhl; undeutlich sichtbar werden
gloaming - düster; Dämmerung
straight through - querdurch
"I know that," sighed Mr. Marvel, "I know all that."
sighed - geseufzt; Seufzen, Seufzer, Säuseln (Wind); säuseln (Wind)
The unhappy-looking figure in the obsolete silk hat passed up the street of the little village with his burdens, and vanished into the gathering darkness beyond the lights of the windows.
unhappy - unglücklich
obsolete - veraltet; verbraucht, zurück geblieben, altmodisch, obsolet
burdens - belastet; Refrain, Last, Möller (Hüttenwesen); belasten
Ten o'clock the next morning found Mr. Marvel, unshaven, dirty, and travel-stained, sitting with the books beside him and his hands deep in his pockets, looking very weary, nervous, and uncomfortable, and inflating his cheeks at infrequent intervals, on the bench outside a little inn on the outskirts of Port Stowe. Beside him were the books, but now they were tied with string.
unshaven - unrasiert
stained - gefärbt; Fleck, Schandfleck, Fleck, beflecken, beizen
deep - tief, tiefgründig, dunkel, Tiefe
weary - müde
inflating - aufblasen, aufpumpen, aufblähen, aufblasen
infrequent - unregelmäßig
Bench - Bank, Sitzbank, Richter
outskirts - Außenbezirke; Außenbezirk, Stadtrand, Außenbereich, Vorort
The bundle had been abandoned in the pine-woods beyond Bramblehurst, in accordance with a change in the plans of the Invisible Man. Mr. Marvel sat on the bench, and although no one took the slightest notice of him, his agitation remained at fever heat. His hands would go ever and again to his various pockets with a curious nervous fumbling.
abandoned - im Stich lassen, preisgeben, verlassen, abbrechen
pine - Kiefer; pineapple = Ananasa
woods - Wälder; Holz
fever - Fieber, Temperaturerhöhung
heat - Hitze, Wärme
various - verschiedene
When he had been sitting for the best part of an hour, however, an elderly mariner, carrying a newspaper, came out of the inn and sat down beside him. "Pleasant day," said the mariner.
elderly - ältere Menschen; älter, bejahrt, betagt
mariner - Seemann; Schiffer; (marine); See
Mr. Marvel glanced about him with something very like terror. "Very," he said.
"Just seasonable weather for the time of year," said the mariner, taking no denial.
seasonable - saisonal
"Quite," said Mr. Marvel.
The mariner produced a toothpick, and (saving his regard) was engrossed thereby for some minutes. His eyes meanwhile were at liberty to examine Mr. Marvel's dusty figure, and the books beside him. As he had approached Mr. Marvel he had heard a sound like the dropping of coins into a pocket.
toothpick - Zahnstocher
saving - Sparen; Ersparnisse; (save); retten; erretten; sichern
engrossed - vertieft; beschlagnahmen, beanspruchen
thereby - dabei; dadurch, damit, deswegen, darum
Meanwhile - In der Zwischenzeit; währenddessen, inzwischen, derweil
liberty - Freiheit
examine - untersuchen, prüfen, befragen
dusty - staubig
dropping - Fallenlassen; Kot; (drop) Fallenlassen; Kot
coins - Münzen; Münze, Geldstück
He was struck by the contrast of Mr. Marvel's appearance with this suggestion of opulence. Thence his mind wandered back again to a topic that had taken a curiously firm hold of his imagination.
contrast - Kontrast; Gegensatz, Unterschied, gegenüberstellen
suggestion - Anregung; Vorschlag; Suggestion
opulence - Opulenz; Reichtum, Wohlstand
thence - von dort aus; daher
wandered - gewandert; umherstreifen, umherstreichen, herumziehen, stromern
"Books?" he said suddenly, noisily finishing with the toothpick.
noisily - geräuschvoll
Mr. Marvel started and looked at them. "Oh, yes," he said. "Yes, they're books."
"There's some extra-ordinary things in books," said the mariner.
"I believe you," said Mr. Marvel.
"And some extra-ordinary things out of 'em," said the mariner.
"True likewise," said Mr. Marvel. He eyed his interlocutor, and then glanced about him.
likewise - ebenfalls
"There's some extra-ordinary things in newspapers, for example," said the mariner.
"There are."
"In this newspaper," said the mariner.
"Ah!" said Mr. Marvel.
"There's a story," said the mariner, fixing Mr. Marvel with an eye that was firm and deliberate; "there's a story about an Invisible Man, for instance."
deliberate - absichtlich, bewusst, vorsätzlich, wohlerwogen, wohlüberlegt
Mr. Marvel pulled his mouth askew and scratched his cheek and felt his ears glowing. "What will they be writing next?" he asked faintly. "Ostria, or America?"
scratched - zerkratzt; kratzen, kratzen, zerkratzen, verkratzen, Kratzer
cheek - Frechheit; Backe, ormal, Stirn, Mick, Pumpenmick
glowing - glühen, abstrahlen, leuchten, Glühen
faintly - kaum, schwach, entfernt, leicht
"Neither," said the mariner. "Here."
"Lord!" said Mr. Marvel, starting.
"When I say here," said the mariner, to Mr. Marvel's intense relief, "I don't of course mean here in this place, I mean hereabouts."
intense - intensiv; hochgradig
hereabouts - hier in der Gegend; hier herum
"An Invisible Man!" said Mr. Marvel. "And what's he been up to?"
"Everything," said the mariner, controlling Marvel with his eye, and then amplifying, "every-blessed-thing."
controlling - Kontrolle; kontrollierend
amplifying - verstärkend; erman: verstärken glossore intense; vergrößern gloss
"I ain't seen a paper these four days," said Marvel.
"Iping's the place he started at," said the mariner.
"In-deed!" said Mr. Marvel.
deed - Tat, Akt, Werk, Urkunde, urkundlich übertragen; (dee); Tat, Akt
"He started there. And where he came from, nobody don't seem to know. Here it is: 'Pe-culiar Story from Iping.'And it says in this paper that the evidence is extra-ordinary strong-extra-ordinary."
pe - Sportunterricht
"Lord!" said Mr. Marvel.
"But then, it's an extra-ordinary story. There is a clergyman and a medical gent witnesses-saw 'im all right and proper-or leastways didn't see 'im. He was staying, it says, at the 'Coach an'Horses,'and no one don't seem to have been aware of his misfortune, it says, aware of his misfortune, until in an Altercation in the inn, it says, his bandages on his head was torn off.
clergyman - Pfarrer, Pastor, Kleriker, Geistlicher
gent - Herr
proper - richtig, passend, angemessen, eigentlich, Eigenname
altercation - heftig
torn off - abgerissen
It was then ob-served that his head was invisible. Attempts were At Once made to secure him, but casting off his garments, it says, he succeeded in escaping, but not until after a desperate struggle, in which he had inflicted serious injuries, it says, on our worthy and able constable, Mr. J. A. Jaffers. Pretty straight story, eh? Names and everything."
attempts - versuchen, Versuch, Bestreben
secure - sicher, geschützt, beschützt, zuverlässig
casting - Gießerei, Abguss, Rollenbesetzung; (cast); werfen; wegwerfen
desperate - verzweifelt bemüht, sehnsuchtsvoll verlangend, aussichtslos
inflicted - auferlegt; zufügen, de
serious - ernst, seriös, ernsthaft, schwerwiegend
injuries - Verletzungen; Verletzung, Wunde, Verwundung
"Lord!" said Mr. Marvel, looking nervously about him, trying to count the money in his pockets by his unaided sense of touch, and full of a strange and novel idea. "It sounds most astonishing."
count - rechnen, abzählen, zählen
unaided - ohne fremde Hilfe
sense of touch - Tastsinn
novel - Roman, originell
most astonishing - erstaunlichste
"Don't it? Extra-ordinary, I call it. Never heard tell of Invisible Men before, I haven't, but nowadays one hears such a lot of extra-ordinary things-that-"
nowadays - Heutzutage; gegenwärtig, zur Zeit, derzeitig, jetzt
"That all he did?" asked Marvel, trying to seem at his ease.
ease - Leichtigkeit, Mühelosigkeit, Behaglichkeit, Bequemlichkeit
"It's enough, ain't it?" said the mariner.
"Didn't go Back by any chance?" asked Marvel. "Just escaped and that's all, eh?"
"All!" said the mariner. "Why!-ain't it enough?"
"Quite enough," said Marvel.
"I should think it was enough," said the mariner. "I should think it was enough."
"He didn't have any pals-it don't say he had any pals, does it?" asked Mr. Marvel, anxious.
pals - Kumpels; Kumpel, Kamerad
"Ain't one of a sort enough for you?" asked the mariner. "No, thank Heaven, as one might say, he didn't."
He nodded his head slowly. "It makes me regular uncomfortable, the bare thought of that chap running about the country! He is at present at Large, and from certain evidence it is supposed that he has-taken-took, I suppose they mean-the road to Port Stowe. You see we're right in it! None of your American wonders, this time. And just think of the things he might do! Where'd you be, if he took a drop over and above, and had a fancy to go for you?
present at - anwesend bei
wonders - fragt sich; Wunder
fancy - schick; extravagant, originell
Suppose he wants to rob-who can prevent him? He can trespass, he can burgle, he could walk through a cordon of policemen as easy as me or you could give the slip to a blind man! Easier! For these here blind chaps hear uncommon sharp, I'm told. And wherever there was liquor he fancied-"
rob - rauben, berauben, Raubbau treiben, ausrauben
prevent - verhindern, vorbeugen, etwas daran hindern (zu geschehen)
trespass - Hausfriedensbruch; widerrechtlich betreten; Ăśbertretung
burgle - einbrechen
cordon - Kordon
blind man - Blinde {m,f}
chaps - Bursche, Riss (in der Haut)
uncommon - ungebräuchlich; ungewöhnlich
wherever - wo auch immer
liquor - Schnaps; Spirituose
"He's got a tremenjous advantage, certainly," said Mr. Marvel. "And-well..."
"You're right," said the mariner. "He has."
You're right - Sie haben recht.
All this time Mr. Marvel had been glancing about him intently, listening for faint footfalls, trying to detect imperceptible movements. He seemed on the point of some great resolution. He coughed behind his hand.
footfalls - Fußstapfen; Schritt
detect - finden, ermitteln, aufspüren, entdecken, erkennen
imperceptible - nicht wahrnehmbar
resolution - Entschlossenheit, Standfestigkeit, Vorsatz, Auflösung
He looked about him again, listened, bent towards the mariner, and lowered his voice: "The fact of it is-I happen-to know just a thing or two about this Invisible Man. From private sources."
lowered - gesenkt; niedriger, niedrigerer
sources - Quellen; Quelle, Ursprung, Quelle, Quelle, belegen, beziehen
"Oh!" said the mariner, interested. "You?"
"Yes," said Mr. Marvel. "Me."
"Indeed!" said the mariner. "And may I ask-"
"You'll be astonished," said Mr. Marvel behind his hand. "It's tremenjous."
be astonished - erstaunt sein, erstaunen
"Indeed!" said the mariner.
"The fact is," began Mr. Marvel eagerly in a confidential undertone. Suddenly his expression changed marvellously. "Ow!" he said. He rose stiffly in his seat. His face was eloquent of physical suffering. "Wow!" he said.
eagerly - eifrig
confidential - vertraulich
undertone - Unterton, Beigeschmack
marvellously - fabelhaft
seat - Sitz, Sitzplatz, Sitzgelegenheit, Stuhl, Sitzmöbel
physical - physisch, materiell, stofflich, physikalisch, körperlich
"What's up?" said the mariner, concerned.
What's up? - Was gibt's?, Was geht hier vor?, Was ist los?
"Toothache," said Mr. Marvel, and put his hand to his ear. He caught hold of his books. "I must be getting on, I think," he said. He edged in a curious way along the seat away from his interlocutor. "But you was just a-going to tell me about this here Invisible Man!" protested the mariner. Mr. Marvel seemed to consult with himself. "Hoax," said a Voice. "It's a hoax," said Mr. Marvel.
toothache - Zahnschmerzen; Zahnschmerz, Zahnweh
getting on - weiterkommend
edged - kantig; Rand, Seite, Kante, Kante, Vorsprung, Klinge, Schneide
this here - dies
protested - protestiert; protestieren, demonstrieren, Einspruch erheben
consult - Rat halten; beraten, beratschlagen, um Rat fragen
hoax - Scherz; anführen, hereinlegen, einen Bären aufbinden, foppen
"But it's in the paper," said the mariner.
"Hoax all the same," said Marvel. "I know the chap that started the lie. There ain't no Invisible Man whatsoever-Blimey."
Blimey - Verflixt; (Gott) verdamm mich!
"But how 'bout this paper? D'you mean to say-?"
"Not a word of it," said Marvel, stoutly.
stoutly - beherzt; beleibt
The mariner stared, paper in hand. Mr. Marvel jerkily faced about. "Wait a bit," said the mariner, rising and speaking slowly, "D'you mean to say-?"
jerkily - ruckartig
"I do," said Mr. Marvel.
"Then why did you let me go on and tell you all this blarsted stuff, then? What d'yer mean by letting a man make a fool of himself like that for? Eh?"
Mr. Marvel blew out his cheeks. The mariner was suddenly very red indeed; he clenched his hands. "I been talking here this ten minutes," he said; "and you, you little pot-bellied, leathery-faced son of an old boot, couldn't have the elementary manners-"
bellied - bauchig; Bauch, Magen
leathery - lederartig; ledern
elementary - elementar
manners - Manieren; Weise, Manier
"Don't you come bandying words with me," said Mr. Marvel.
bandying - spielen; verbreitend; (bandy) spielen; verbreitend
"Bandying words! I'm a jolly good mind-"
jolly - fröhlich; vergnügt, lustig
"Come up," said a Voice, and Mr. Marvel was suddenly whirled about and started marching off in a curious spasmodic manner. "You'd better move on," said the mariner. "Who's moving on?" said Mr. Marvel. He was receding obliquely with a curious hurrying gait, with occasional violent jerks forward. Some way along the road he began a muttered monologue, protests and recriminations.
whirled - gewirbelt; wirbeln, wirbeln, lschnell, Wirbeln
receding - zurückgehen; zurücktreten
gait - Gang, Gangart (eines Pferdes)
jerks - Idioten; Zuckung, Satz, Reflex, ruckweise; Wichser; erschüttern
monologue - Monolog, Selbstgespräch
protests - Proteste; protestieren, demonstrieren, Einspruch erheben
recriminations - gegenseitige Beschuldigungen; Erheben einer Gegenbeschuldigung
"Silly devil!" said the mariner, legs wide apart, elbows akimbo, watching the receding figure. "I'll show you, you silly ass-hoaxing me! It's here-on the paper!"
apart - auseinander; getrennt; beiseite; entzwei, in Stücke
elbows - Ellbogen, Rohrbogen, Ellbogenstoß, ellbögeln
ass - Arsch, Esel, Dummkopf
hoaxing - Scherzartikel; anführen, hereinlegen, einen Bären aufbinden
Mr. Marvel retorted incoherently and, receding, was hidden by a bend in the road, but the mariner still stood magnificent in the midst of the way, until the approach of a butcher's cart dislodged him. Then he turned himself towards Port Stowe. "Full of extra-ordinary asses," he said softly to himself. "Just to take me down a bit-that was his silly game-It's on the paper!"
retorted - erwiderte; Retorte; erwidern (scharf)
incoherently - unzusammenhängend
bend - beugen; biegen, durchbiegen, Kurve, Biegung, Schrägbalken
magnificent - großartig; prächtig; ausgezeichnet
approach - sich nähern, nahekommen, ähnlich sein
butcher - niedermetzeln, niedermachen; Metzger, Schlächter
dislodged - verdrängt; herauslösen; außer Position bringen
asses - Ärsche; Dummköpfe, Esel; (ass) Ärsche; Dummköpfe, Esel
And there was another extraordinary thing he was presently to hear, that had happened quite close to him. And that was a vision of a "fist full of money" (no less) travelling without visible agency, along by the wall at the corner of St. Michael's Lane. A brother mariner had seen this wonderful sight that very morning.
vision - Sicht, Sehvermögen, Sehkraft, Augenlicht, Trugbild
agency - Wille; Agency; Agentur; Behörde
He had snatched at the money forthwith and had been knocked headlong, and when he had got to his feet the butterfly money had vanished. Our mariner was in the mood to believe anything, he declared, but that was a bit too stiff. Afterwards, however, he began to think things over.
at the money - Optionspreis
butterfly - Schmetterling
mood - Anwandlung, Stimmung, launisch
declared - erklärt; bekanntmachen, bekanntgeben, deklarieren, ausrufen
stiff - steif, starr, Steifer, Zechpreller, prellen, abspeisen
The story of the flying money was true. And all about that neighbourhood, even from the august London and Country Banking Company, from the tills of shops and inns-doors standing that sunny weather entirely open-money had been quietly and dexterously making off that day in handfuls and rouleaux, floating quietly along by walls and shady places, dodging quickly from the approaching eyes of men.
neighbourhood - Viertel (Wohngegend), Nachbarschaft; Nähe, Stadtteil
Inns - Gasthöfe; Herberge
sunny - sonnig, heiter
entirely - vollständig; ganz, total, entirely
dexterously - geschickterweise
making off - davonmachend
handfuls - Handvoll, Handbreite, Handvoll
floating - schwebend; schwimmend, fließend, gleiten
shady - schattig; schattenspendend, Schatten, zwielichtig
dodging - ausweichen, beiseite springen, ausweichen, umgehen
approaching - sich nähern, nahekommen, ähnlich sein
And it had, though no man had traced it, invariably ended its mysterious flight in the pocket of that agitated gentleman in the obsolete silk hat, sitting outside the little inn on the outskirts of Port Stowe.
traced - zurückverfolgt; Zeichen, Spur
invariably - ausnahmslos
agitated - aufgewühlt; aufwühlen, aufrühren, rühren, schütteln, umrühren
It was ten days after-and indeed only when the Burdock story was already old-that the mariner collated these facts and began to understand how near he had been to the wonderful Invisible Man.
Burdock - Klette
collated - zusammengetragen; abgleichen, kollationieren, vergleichen
"Another of those fools," said Dr. Kemp. "Like that ass who ran into me this morning round a corner, with the ''Visible Man a-coming, sir!'I can't imagine what possesses people. One might think we were in the thirteenth century."
possesses - besitzt; besitzen, besitzen
thirteenth - dreizehnte
He got up, went to the window, and stared at the dusky hillside, and the dark little figure tearing down it. "He seems in a confounded hurry," said Dr. Kemp, "but he doesn't seem to be getting on. If his pockets were full of lead, he couldn't run heavier."
dusky - düster
hillside - Berghang; Bergabhang
tearing down - (tear down) abbrechen
lead - führen, anführen, leiten; aus Blei; Aufmacher; Anschlussdraht
heavier - Schwerer; heftig, schwer, stark (Regen)
"Spurted, sir," said Dr. Kemp.
spurted - gespritzt; herausspritzen (aus)
In another moment the higher of the villas that had clambered up the hill from Burdock had occulted the running figure. He was visible again for a moment, and again, and then again, three times between the three detached houses that came next, and then the terrace hid him.
villas - Villen; Villa, Anwesen
occulted - okkultisiert; okkult, okkult, Okkult, Okkultismus
detached - losgelöst; entfernen, ablösen, lösen, loslösen, abtrennen
terrace - Dachterrasse; Häuserreihe; Häuserflucht; Stehtribüne; Stehplätze
"Asses!" said Dr. Kemp, swinging round on his heel and walking back to his writing-table.
swinging - swingen; schaukelnd; (swing); schwingen, schaukeln, schwanken
heel - Hinterende des Hobels, Ferse, Absatz; flitzen; Brotkanten
But those who saw the fugitive nearer, and perceived the abject terror on his perspiring face, being themselves in the open roadway, did not share in the doctor's contempt. By the man pounded, and as he ran he chinked like a well-filled purse that is tossed to and fro. He looked neither to the right nor the left, but his dilated eyes stared straight downhill to where the lamps were being lit, and the people were crowded in the street.
fugitive - auf der Flucht; Flüchtling; flüchtig, vorübergehend, kurzlebig
perceived - wahrgenommen; wahrnehmen
abject - unterwürfig; verächtlich, demütig, jämmerlich, bitter (Armut)
perspiring - Sie schwitzen; schwitzen
roadway - Fahrbahn, Straße, Straßendamm
share in - teilhaben an, teilen;Anteil an
purse - Handtasche; Geldbörse, Geldbeutel
tossed - geworfen; Wurf, Münzwurf, werfen, werfen, verwerfen, wegwerfen
dilated - geweitet; dilatieren, weiten, vergrößern, erweitern, dehnen
downhill - bergab; Abfahrt
And his ill-shaped mouth fell apart, and a glairy foam lay on his lips, and his breath came hoarse and noisy. All he passed stopped and began staring up the road and down, and interrogating one another with an inkling of discomfort for the reason of his haste.
shaped - geformt; Zustand, Form, Form, Form, Gestalt, Form
fell apart - (fall apart) auseinanderfallen [alt], auseinander fallen
foam - Schaum; Schaumgummi; schäumen
lay on - aufstreichen, anschließen, sorgen für
hoarse - heiser
inkling - Andeutung
discomfort - Unbehagen
haste - Eile, Hast
And then presently, far up the hill, a dog playing in the road yelped and ran under a gate, and as they still wondered something-a wind-a pad, pad, pad,-a sound like a panting breathing, rushed by.
wondered - gewundert; Wunder
breathing - Atmen, Atmung; (breath); Atmen, Atmung, Atemzug, Atem, Atempause
People screamed. People sprang off the pavement: It passed in shouts, it passed by instinct down the hill. They were shouting in the street before Marvel was halfway there. They were bolting into houses and slamming the doors behind them, with the news. He heard it and made one last desperate spurt. Fear came striding by, rushed ahead of him, and in a moment had seized the town.
pavement - Bürgersteig; Asphalt, Pflaster
instinct - Instinkt
bolting - Abhauen; verriegelnd, abriegelnd; (bolt) Abhauen; verriegelnd
spurt - herausspritzen (aus)
fear - fürchten, befürchten, Angst haben; Furcht, Schreck, Befürchtung
striding - schreitend; schreiten
ahead - voraus, vorne, vorn, oben, geradeaus
seized - beschlagnahmt; ergreifen, fassen, greifen, packen, ergreifen
"The Invisible Man is coming! The Invisible Man!"
The "Jolly Cricketers" is just at the bottom of the hill, where the tram-lines begin. The barman leant his fat red arms on the counter and talked of horses with an anaemic cabman, while a black-bearded man in grey snapped up biscuit and cheese, drank Burton, and conversed in American with a policeman off duty.
tram - Straßenbahn, Bahn, Bim (österr.); Bim (österr.) (ugs.)
barman - Barkeeper; barman
anaemic - blutarm
cabman - Taxifahrer, Droschkenkutscher
biscuit - Kekse; Keks
conversed - unterhielten; Umkehrung, umgekehrt, Gegenteil
off duty - dienstfrei
"What's the shouting about!" said the anaemic cabman, going off at a tangent, trying to see up the hill over the dirty yellow blind in the low window of the inn. Somebody ran by outside. "Fire, perhaps," said the barman.
Footsteps approached, running heavily, the door was pushed open violently, and Marvel, weeping and dishevelled, his hat gone, the neck of his coat torn open, rushed in, made a convulsive turn, and attempted to shut the door. It was held half open by a strap.
pushed open - aufgestoßen
weeping - weinen; .; (weep) weinen
dishevelled - zerzaust; in Unordnung bringen, herumschmeißen, verwirren
torn open - aufgerissen
convulsive - krampfhaft
attempted - Versucht; versuchen, Versuch, Bestreben
half open - halboffen
strap - Gurt; Riemen; Streichriemen; Achselklappe, Schulterklappe
"Coming!" he bawled, his voice shrieking with terror. "He's coming. The 'Visible Man! After me! For Gawd's sake! 'Elp! 'Elp! 'Elp!"
shrieking - schreien; kreischend; (shriek); Kreischen
sake - (for your sake) deinetwegen, euretwegen, Ihretwegen, dir zuliebe
elp - hilfe
"Shut the doors," said the policeman. "Who's coming? What's the row?" He went to the door, released the strap, and it slammed. The American closed the other door.
released - freigegeben; Freigabe, Freisetzung, Befreiung, Erlösung
"Lemme go inside," said Marvel, staggering and weeping, but still clutching the books. "Lemme go inside. Lock me in-somewhere. I tell you he's after me. I give him the slip. He said he'd kill me and he will."
go inside - hineingehen
staggering - taumelnd, wankend, torkelnd; (stagger); taumelnd, wankend
somewhere - irgendwo; irgendwohin
"You're safe," said the man with the black beard. "The door's shut. What's it all about?"
safe - sicher, gefahrlos, Tresor, Safe, Geldschrank
What's it all about? - Um was handelt es sich?
"Lemme go inside," said Marvel, and shrieked aloud as a blow suddenly made the fastened door shiver and was followed by a hurried rapping and a shouting outside. "Hullo," cried the policeman, "who's there?" Mr. Marvel began to make frantic dives at panels that looked like doors. "He'll kill me-he's got a knife or something. For Gawd's sake-!"
shiver - Schauder, Schauer, zittern, frösteln
Hullo - Hallo!
Dives - Tauchgänge; tauchen
panels - Tafeln; Verkleidung, Platte, Tafel, Paneel
"Here you are," said the barman. "Come in here." And he held up the flap of the bar.
flap - Klappe, klappen, Patte (an einer Tasche); Hosenklappe
Mr. Marvel rushed behind the bar as the summons outside was repeated. "Don't open the door," he screamed. "Please don't open the door. Where shall I hide?"
summons - Vorladungen; Vorladung; (summon) Vorladungen; Vorladung
hide - verbergen, verheimlichen, verstecken, verdecken
"This, this Invisible Man, then?" asked the man with the black beard, with one hand behind him. "I guess it's about time we saw him."
The window of the inn was suddenly smashed in, and there was a screaming and running to and fro in the street. The policeman had been standing on the settee staring out, craning to see who was at the door. He got down with raised eyebrows. "It's that," he said. The barman stood in front of the bar-parlour door which was now locked on Mr. Marvel, stared at the smashed window, and came round to the two other men.
screaming - Schrei, schreien
settee - Sofabett; Sitzbank, Sofa
craning - Kurbeln; Kranich, Kran; den Kopf/Hals recken
eyebrows - Augenbrauen; Braue, Augenbraue
Everything was suddenly quiet. "I wish I had my truncheon," said the policeman, going irresolutely to the door. "Once we open, in he comes. There's no stopping him."
irresolutely - unentschlossen
"Don't you be in too much hurry about that door," said the anaemic cabman, anxiously.
anxiously - ängstlich; besorgt, bang, unruhig
"Draw the bolts," said the man with the black beard, "and if he comes-" He showed a revolver in his hand.
revolver - Revolver
"That won't do," said the policeman; "that's murder."
murder - Mord, mörderisch, ermorden, massakrieren, umbringen
"I know what country I'm in," said the man with the beard. "I'm going to let off at his legs. Draw the bolts."
let off - abgelassen;abfeuern, aussteigen lassen
"Not with that blinking thing going off behind me," said the barman, craning over the blind.
blinking - blinzeln, lichthupen, aufblenden, blinken, morsen, blinken
"Very well," said the man with the black beard, and stooping down, revolver ready, drew them himself. Barman, cabman, and policeman faced about.
stooping - Bücken; Buckel, sich beugen
"Come in," said the bearded man in an undertone, standing back and facing the unbolted doors with his pistol behind him. No one came in, the door remained closed. Five minutes afterwards when a second cabman pushed his head in cautiously, they were still waiting, and an anxious face peered out of the bar-parlour and supplied information.
standing back - zurückstehend
unbolted - aufgeschraubt; öffnen
pistol - Pistole, Faustfeuerwaffe, Zündpistole
cautiously - behutsam; vorsichtig
supplied - geliefert; Stellvertretung, Versorgung, Vorrat; liefern
"Are all the doors of the house shut?" asked Marvel. "He's going round-prowling round. He's as artful as the devil."
prowling - herumtreibend; (prowl); durchstreifen, herumstreifen
artful - kunstvoll; geschickt, trickreich
"Good Lord!" said the burly barman. "There's the back! Just watch them doors! I say-!" He looked about him helplessly. The bar-parlour door slammed and they heard the key turn. "There's the yard door and the private door. The yard door-"
helplessly - hilflose
He rushed out of the bar.
In a minute he reappeared with a carving-knife in his hand. "The yard door was open!" he said, and his fat underlip dropped. "He may be in the house now!" said the first cabman.
carving-knife - (carving-knife) Tranchiermesser
underlip - Unterlippe
"He's not in the kitchen," said the barman. "There's two women there, and I've stabbed every inch of it with this little beef slicer. And they don't think he's come in. They haven't noticed-"
stabbed - erstochen; Stich (Messer-); erstechen
beef - Rindfleisch, Ochsenfleisch, Groll, heftige Verärgerung, Rochus
slicer - Aufschnittmaschine; Schneider, Hobel
"Have you fastened it?" asked the first cabman.
"I'm out of frocks," said the barman.
frocks - Kutten; Kleid, Kutte
The man with the beard replaced his revolver. And even as he did so the flap of the bar was shut down and the bolt clicked, and then with a tremendous thud the catch of the door snapped and the bar-parlour door burst open. They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret, and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue.
replaced - ersetzt; zurückstellen, ersetzen
bolt - Riegel, Ballen, Blitz, Bolzen; durchgehen (Pferd), sausen
clicked - geklickt; Klick; anklicken, zuschnappen, klicken
catch - Fang; Haken; fangen; einfangen; verstehen, begreifen, bekommen
burst open - gesprengt
squeal - verpfeifen; Schrei, Kreischen, erman: singen
leveret - gehebelt; Häschen, Häslein
clambering - klettern, erklimmen, kraxeln, herumturnen, hinaufklettern
The bearded man's revolver cracked and the looking-glass at the back of the parlour starred and came smashing and tinkling down.
cracked - geknackt; Riss, Knall, Aufbruch, Bresche; aufbrechen, knallen
tinkling - (tinkle) klingeln, klimpern, bimmeln; (tinkle); klingeln
As the barman entered the room he saw Marvel, curiously crumpled up and struggling against the door that led to the yard and kitchen. The door flew open while the barman hesitated, and Marvel was dragged into the kitchen. There was a scream and a clatter of pans. Marvel, head down, and lugging back obstinately, was forced to the kitchen door, and the bolts were drawn.
crumpled - zerknittert; knüllen, zerknittern
dragged - geschleppt; Planierschleppe; nachschleppen, schleppen, ziehen
clatter - klappern, poltern, Geklapper, Gepolter, Klappern
pans - Pfannen; Pfanne, Tiegel
lugging - zerren, schleppen; Anschlussklemme, Vorsprung, Ă–se
obstinately - hartnäckig
forced - gezwungen; zwingen, forcieren, erzwingen; Stärke, Macht
Then the policeman, who had been trying to pass the barman, rushed in, followed by one of the cabmen, gripped the wrist of the invisible hand that collared Marvel, was hit in the face and went reeling back. The door opened, and Marvel made a frantic effort to obtain a lodgment behind it. Then the cabman collared something. "I got him," said the cabman. The barman's red hands came clawing at the unseen. "Here he is!" said the barman.
pass - passen; (to pass) durchgehen, passieren, durchlaufen
cabmen - Taxifahrer, Droschkenkutscher
collared - mit Halsband; Kragen, Halskette, Halsband
effort - Anstrengung, Aufwand
obtain - erlangen, erhalten, bestehen
lodgment - Einreichung
clawing - kratzt; zerkratzen; Kralle, Fang (Vogelkralle), Klaue
Mr. Marvel, released, suddenly dropped to the ground and made an attempt to crawl behind the legs of the fighting men. The struggle blundered round the edge of the door. The voice of the Invisible Man was heard for the first time, yelling out sharply, as the policeman trod on his foot. Then he cried out passionately and his fists flew round like flails.
crawl - krabbeln; kriechen
blundered - verpatzt; Patzer, Schnitzer, Fehler, Fehlgriff, Mißgriff
edge - Rand; Seite, Kante, Vorsprung, Klinge, Schneide, schieben
yelling - (yell) kreischen, schreien; (yell) (yell) kreischen, schreien
passionately - leidenschaftlich
fists - Fäuste; fausten; Faust
flew round - umflog
flails - Flegel, Dreschflegel, Flegel, Streitflegel, Kriegsflegel
The cabman suddenly whooped and doubled up, kicked under the diaphragm. The door into the bar-parlour from the kitchen slammed and covered Mr. Marvel's retreat. The men in the kitchen found themselves clutching at and struggling with empty air.
whooped - verprügelt; schreien
doubled - verdoppelt; doppelt, doppelt, doppel-, doppellagig, zweilagig
diaphragm - Zwerchfell; Diaphragma; Membran; Blende
struggling with - abmühend
"Where's he gone?" cried the man with the beard. "Out?"
"This way," said the policeman, stepping into the yard and stopping.
stepping - treten, treten (du trittst
A piece of tile whizzed by his head and smashed among the crockery on the kitchen table.
tile - Kacheln; Kachel, Fliese; Dachziegel
whizzed - Gezischt; schleudern (Wäsche), zischen
crockery - Geschirr; Essgeschirr
"I'll show him," shouted the man with the black beard, and suddenly a steel barrel shone over the policeman's shoulder, and five bullets had followed one another into the twilight whence the missile had come. As he fired, the man with the beard moved his hand in a horizontal curve, so that his shots radiated out into the narrow yard like spokes from a wheel.
steel barrel - Stahltonne , Stahlfass
shone - leuchtete; schimmern, wienern; Schein; putzen (Schuhe)
bullets - Kugeln; Geschoss (Kugel), Kugel
whence - woher; von daher
horizontal - horizontal, waagrecht, waagerecht
curve - Kurve; Linie; Kurven; biegen, verbiegen
shots - Schüsse; (to shoot up) aufschießen, emporschießen
radiated - ausgestrahlt; strahlen, ausstrahlen
narrow - eng, schmal, knapp
spokes - Speichen; Radspeiche, Speiche, gesprochen
A silence followed. "Five cartridges," said the man with the black beard. "That's the best of all. Four aces and a joker. Get a lantern, someone, and come and feel about for his body."
cartridges - Patronen; Patrone, Patrone, Kartusche
aces - Asse; As, Eins auf dem Würfel
joker - Witzbold; Spaßvogel; Joker, Jolly
lantern - Laterne
Dr. Kemp had continued writing in his study until the shots aroused him. Crack, crack, crack, they came one after the other.
"Hullo!" said Dr. Kemp, putting his pen into his mouth again and listening. "Who's letting off revolvers in Burdock? What are the asses at now?"
letting off - ablassend
revolvers - Revolver
He went to the south window, threw it up, and leaning out stared down on the network of windows, beaded gas-lamps and shops, with its black interstices of roof and yard that made up the town at night. "Looks like a crowd down the hill," he said, "by 'The Cricketers,'" and remained watching.
leaning out - hinausbeugende
network - Netzwerk; vernetzen
beaded - mit Perlen; Perle, Tropfen
interstices - Zwischenräume; Zwischenraum
roof - überdachen; Autodach, Dach
Thence his eyes wandered over the town to far away where the ships'lights shone, and the pier glowed-a little illuminated, facetted pavilion like a gem of yellow light. The moon in its first quarter hung over the westward hill, and the stars were clear and almost tropically bright.
ships - verschicken, verschiffen, abfertigen, befördern; Schiff
pier - Seebrücke, Anlegestelle, Kai, Brückenpfeiler
glowed - geglüht; glühen, abstrahlen, leuchten, Glühen
illuminated - beleuchtet; beleuchten, erhellen, illuminieren
facetted - facettiert; Facette, Facette, Facette
pavilion - Pavillon
gem - Edelstein, Juwel, Kleinod
moon - Mond, Erdtrabant, Erdsatellit
hung over - überhängte
westward - westwärts
tropically - tropisch
After five minutes, during which his mind had travelled into a remote speculation of social conditions of the future, and lost itself at last over the time dimension, Dr. Kemp roused himself with a sigh, pulled down the window again, and returned to his writing desk.
speculation - Spekulationen; Spekulation, Betrachtung
social - kontaktfreudig, gesellig, sozial, Sozial-, gesellschaftlich
conditions - Bedingungen; Bedingung, Kondition, Bedingung, Voraussetzung
Dimension - Dimension; dimensionieren
pulled down - heruntergerissen
It must have been about an hour after this that the front-door bell rang. He had been writing slackly, and with intervals of abstraction, since the shots. He sat listening. He heard the servant answer the door, and waited for her feet on the staircase, but she did not come. "Wonder what that was," said Dr. Kemp.
slackly - schlaff; nachlassende
abstraction - Abstraktion
servant - Diener, Dienerin, Lakai, Kammerdiener
He tried to resume his work, failed, got up, went downstairs from his study to the landing, rang, and called over the balustrade to the housemaid as she appeared in the hall below. "Was that a letter?" he asked.
failed - gescheitert; mangelhaft (Zensur 5)
went downstairs - (go downstairs) Treppe hinabgehen
balustrade - Balustrade
housemaid - Hausmädchen
"Only a runaway ring, sir," she answered.
runaway - Ausreißer, Entflohener, Entlaufener, davongelaufen
ring - Ring, Kreis
"I'm restless to-night," he said to himself. He went back to his study, and this time attacked his work resolutely. In a little while he was hard at work again, and the only sounds in the room were the ticking of the clock and the subdued shrillness of his quill, hurrying in the very centre of the circle of light his lampshade threw on his table.
restless - unruhig; ruhelos, rastlos, checkunruhig
attacked - angegriffen; Attacke, Angriff, Angriff, Attacke, Anfall, Anfall
shrillness - Schrillheit; schrille Stimme
quill - Kiel; Schreibfeder, Federkiel, Stift, Stachel
lampshade - Lampenschirm
It was two o'clock before Dr. Kemp had finished his work for the night. He rose, yawned, and went downstairs to bed. He had already removed his coat and vest, when he noticed that he was thirsty. He took a candle and went down to the dining-room in search of a syphon and whiskey.
dining - Essen; Lärm, Getöse; dröhnen
syphon - Siphon; entleeren
whiskey - Whisky
Dr. Kemp's scientific pursuits have made him a very observant man, and as he recrossed the hall, he noticed a dark spot on the linoleum near the mat at the foot of the stairs. He went on upstairs, and then it suddenly occurred to him to ask himself what the spot on the linoleum might be.
pursuits - Verfolgungen; Verfolgung
observant - aufmerksam
spot - Fleck, Punkt, Pickel, Pustel, Bisschen, Stelle, Ort, Werbespot
linoleum - Linoleum
mat - Matte
Apparently some subconscious element was at work. At any rate, he turned with his burden, went back to the hall, put down the syphon and whiskey, and bending down, touched the spot. Without any great surprise he found it had the stickiness and colour of drying blood.
subconscious - Unterbewusstes; unterbewusst
element - Element; Bauelement
bending down - (bend down) sich bücken
touched - berührt; anfassen, berühren, rühren, Berührung, Berührung
stickiness - Klebrigkeit
drying - Trocknen; Dörren; (dry); trocken; trocknen, abtrocknen
blood - anbluten
He took up his burden again, and returned upstairs, looking about him and trying to account for the blood-spot. On the landing he saw something and stopped astonished. The door-handle of his own room was blood-stained.
He looked at his own hand. It was quite clean, and then he remembered that the door of his room had been open when he came down from his study, and that consequently he had not touched the handle at all. He went straight into his room, his face quite calm-perhaps a trifle more resolute than usual. His glance, wandering inquisitively, fell on the bed.
consequently - folglich
Calm - ruhig; windstill; Ruhe; Windstille; beruhigen, ruhig stellen
trifle - eine Lappalie; Trifle; Kleinigkeit, ein bisschen, ein wenig
usual - gewöhnlich, üblich
inquisitively - neugierig
On the counterpane was a mess of blood, and the sheet had been torn. He had not noticed this before because he had walked straight to the dressing-table. On the further side the bedclothes were depressed as if someone had been recently sitting there.
counterpane - die Tagesdecke
further - fördern; weiter, ferner, des Weiteren
bedclothes - Bettwaren; Bettwäsche, Bettzeug
depressed - deprimiert; deprimieren
Then he had an odd impression that he had heard a low voice say, "Good Heavens!-Kemp!" But Dr. Kemp was no believer in voices.
heavens - Himmel, Firmament
believer - Gläubiger, Gläubige
He stood staring at the tumbled sheets. Was that really a voice? He looked about again, but noticed nothing further than the disordered and blood-stained bed.
disordered - gestört; Unordnung, Unruhen-p, Störung
Then he distinctly heard a movement across the room, near the wash-hand stand. All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings. The feeling that is called "eerie" came upon him. He closed the door of the room, came forward to the dressing-table, and put down his burdens. Suddenly, with a start, he perceived a coiled and blood-stained bandage of linen rag hanging in mid-air, between him and the wash-hand stand.
movement - Bewegung; Satz
highly - am Höchsten, hoch
educated - Gebildet; ausbilden, erziehen
retain - beibehalten; behalten; festhalten
superstitious - abergläubisch
inklings - Andeutungen
eerie - unheimlich
coiled - aufgerollt; Wendel, Spule, Wicklung; aufwickeln
rag - Fummel, Lumpen, Putzlappen, Unfug
He stared at this in amazement. It was an empty bandage, a bandage properly tied but quite empty. He would have advanced to grasp it, but a touch arrested him, and a voice speaking quite close to him.
advanced - fortgeschritten; erhöhen, erheben, befördern, vorrücken
grasp - greifen, erfassen, begreifen, verstehen, Griff, Verständnis
arrested - verhaftet; Verhaftung, Festnahme, Arrest, arretieren
"Kemp!" said the Voice.
"Eh?" said Kemp, with his mouth open.
"Keep your nerve," said the Voice. "I'm an Invisible Man."
Kemp made no answer for a space, simply stared at the bandage. "Invisible Man," he said.
answer for - verantworten
"I am an Invisible Man," repeated the Voice.
The story he had been active to ridicule only that morning rushed through Kemp's brain. He does not appear to have been either very much frightened or very greatly surprised at the moment. Realisation came later.
active - aktiv; gewandt, flink, tätig, rührig
ridicule - lächerlich machen; verhöhnen, verspotten; Spott
rushed through - durcheilte
realisation - Verwirklichung; Durchführung, Ausführung, Realisierung
"I thought it was all a lie," he said. The thought uppermost in his mind was the reiterated arguments of the morning. "Have you a bandage on?" he asked.
uppermost - ganz oben
reiterated - wiederholen; reiterieren
arguments - Argumente; Diskussion, Auseinandersetzung, Beweis
"Yes," said the Invisible Man.
"Oh!" said Kemp, and then roused himself. "I say!" he said. "But this is nonsense. It's some trick." He stepped forward suddenly, and his hand, extended towards the bandage, met invisible fingers.
trick - List, Falle, Finte, Trick, Trick
stepped - getreten; treten, treten (du trittst
He recoiled at the touch and his colour changed.
recoiled - zurückgeworfen; Rückstoß, zurückschrecken, zurückschlagen
"Keep steady, Kemp, for God's sake! I want help badly. Stop!"
badly - schlecht
The hand gripped his arm. He struck at it.
"Kemp!" cried the Voice. "Kemp! Keep steady!" and the grip tightened.
tightened - verschärft; anziehen
A frantic desire to free himself took possession of Kemp. The hand of the bandaged arm gripped his shoulder, and he was suddenly tripped and flung backwards upon the bed. He opened his mouth to shout, and the corner of the sheet was thrust between his teeth. The Invisible Man had him down grimly, but his arms were free and he struck and tried to kick savagely.
took possession of - bemächtigte
grimly - grimmig
"listen to reason, will you?" said the Invisible Man, sticking to him in spite of a pounding in the ribs. "By Heaven! you'll madden me in a minute!
listen to reason - auf die Vernunft hören
sticking to - (stick to) einhalten (Regeln )
madden - rasend machen
"Lie still, you fool!" bawled the Invisible Man in Kemp's ear.
Kemp struggled for another moment and then lay still.
"If you shout, I'll smash your face," said the Invisible Man, relieving his mouth.
relieving - Erleichternd; erleichtern, lindern, entlasten, ablösen
"I'm an Invisible Man. It's no foolishness, and no magic. I really am an Invisible Man. And I want your help. I don't want to hurt you, but if you behave like a frantic rustic, I must. Don't you remember me, Kemp? Griffin, of University College?"
foolishness - Torheit, Dummheit, Tölpelhaftigkeit, Narrheit
magic - Zauberei, Zauber, Magie, Hexerei
behave - benehmen
griffin - Greif
"Let me get up," said Kemp. "I'll stop where I am. And let me sit quiet for a minute."
He sat up and felt his neck.
"I am Griffin, of University College, and I have made myself invisible. I am just an ordinary man-a man you have known-made invisible."
"Griffin?" said Kemp.
"Griffin," answered the Voice. A younger student than you were, almost an albino, six feet high, and broad, with a pink and white face and red eyes, who won the medal for chemistry."
albino - albino-; Albino
medal - Medaille
chemistry - Chemie
"I am confused," said Kemp. "My brain is rioting. What has this to do with Griffin?"
I am confused - Ich bin verwirrt
rioting - Unruhen; randalierend; (riot); Aufruhr, Tumult, Krawall, Randale
"I am Griffin."
Kemp thought. "It's horrible," he said. "But what devilry must happen to make a man invisible?"
devilry - Unfug, böser, Quälerei, Hexerei, Teufelei
"It's no devilry. It's a process, sane and intelligible enough-"
process - weiter verarbeiten, verarbeiten, entwickeln; Verfahren
sane - vernünftig; zurechnungsfähig
intelligible - Verständlich
"It's horrible!" said Kemp. "How on earth-?"
earth - Erde, Land, Grund
"It's horrible enough. But I'm wounded and in pain, and tired ... Great God! Kemp, you are a man. Take it steady. Give me some food and drink, and let me sit down here."
Kemp stared at the bandage as it moved across the room, then saw a basket chair dragged across the floor and come to rest near the bed. It creaked, and the seat was depressed the quarter of an inch or so. He rubbed his eyes and felt his neck again. "This beats ghosts," he said, and laughed stupidly.
rubbed - gerieben; reiben, reiben, abreiben, sich abreiben
ghosts - Gespenst
stupidly - dummerweise, blöderweise
"That's better. Thank Heaven, you're getting sensible!"
"Or silly," said Kemp, and knuckled his eyes.
knuckled - geknöchelt; Fingerknöchel
"Give me some whiskey. I'm near dead."
"It didn't feel so. Where are you? If I get up shall I run into you? There! all right. Whiskey? Here. Where shall I give it to you?"
The chair creaked and Kemp felt the glass drawn away from him. He let go by an effort; his instinct was all against it. It came to rest poised twenty inches above the front edge of the seat of the chair. He stared at it in infinite perplexity. "This is-this must be-hypnotism. You have suggested you are invisible."
infinite - unendlich, endlos, unzählige
hypnotism - Hypnose; Hypnotismus
"Nonsense," said the Voice.
"It's frantic."
"Listen to me."
"I demonstrated conclusively this morning," began Kemp, "that invisibility-"
demonstrated - demonstriert; demonstrieren, demonstrieren, aufzeigen
conclusively - schlüssig
"Never mind what you've demonstrated!-I'm starving," said the Voice, "and the night is chilly to a man without clothes."
Starving - Hungrig; hungernd; (starve); verhungern, Hungers sterben
"Food?" said Kemp.
The tumbler of whiskey tilted itself. "Yes," said the Invisible Man rapping it down. "Have you a dressing-gown?"
tumbler - Trinkglas, Tumbler, Glasbecher, Tümmler
tilted - gekippt; Schärfedehnung, Höchstleistung
gown - Gewand; Umhang, Umwurf, Überwurf, Kleid, Abendkleid, Robe
Kemp made some exclamation in an undertone. He walked to a wardrobe and produced a robe of dingy scarlet. "This do?" he asked. It was taken from him. It hung limp for a moment in mid-air, fluttered weirdly, stood full and decorous buttoning itself, and sat down in his chair. "Drawers, socks, slippers would be a comfort," said the Unseen, curtly. "And food."
wardrobe - Garderobe, Kleiderschrank
dingy - schmuddelig; schmutzig, schäbige
fluttered - geflattert; flattern, wedeln
weirdly - Seltsam
decorous - anständig
buttoning - Knöpfen; Schaltfläche, Taster, Knopf, Taste
drawers - Schubladen; Zeichner, Schublade, Aussteller
comfort - Behaglichkeit, Bequemlichkeit, Komfort, Trost, Tröstung
curtly - schroff; knapp, kurz
"Anything. But this is the insanest thing I ever was in, in my life!"
insanest - wahnsinnig, verrückt, geisteskrank
He turned out his drawers for the articles, and then went downstairs to ransack his larder. He came back with some cold cutlets and bread, pulled up a light table, and placed them before his guest. "Never mind knives," said his visitor, and a cutlet hung in mid-air, with a sound of gnawing.
ransack - plündern; durchwühlen
larder - Kühlraum, Speisekammer
cutlets - Schnitzel
light table - Leuchttisch
knives - Messer
gnawing - abnagend, nagend; (gnaw); nagen, kauen, knabbern, verfolgen
"Invisible!" said Kemp, and sat down on a bedroom chair.
"I always like to get something about me before I eat," said the Invisible Man, with a full mouth, eating greedily. "Queer fancy!"
greedily - gierig
"I suppose that wrist is all right," said Kemp.
"Trust me," said the Invisible Man.
trust - Vertrauen, Hoffnung, Trust, anschreiben
"Of all the strange and wonderful-"
"Exactly. But it's odd I should blunder into your house to get my bandaging. My first stroke of luck! Anyhow I meant to sleep in this house to-night. You must stand that! It's a filthy nuisance, my blood showing, isn't it? Quite a clot over there. Gets visible as it coagulates, I see. It's only the living tissue I've changed, and only for as long as I'm alive.... I've been in the house three hours."
blunder - Patzer, Schnitzer, Fehler, Fehlgriff
bandaging - Verband, bandagieren
stroke of luck - Glücksfall
filthy - dreckig, verdreckt, versifft, schmutzig, widerlich
isn't it? - gell, gelle, gelt?
clot - Blutgerinnsel; Trottel; Klumpen bilden
coagulates - gerinnt; gerinnen
tissue - Gewebe; Papier, Tuch, oilet paper
"But how's it done?" began Kemp, in a tone of exasperation. "Confound it! The whole business-it's unreasonable from beginning to end."
Confound - verwirren; verschlimmern, verschlechtern, besiegen, verfluchen
"Quite reasonable," said the Invisible Man. "Perfectly reasonable."
reasonable - vernünftig
He reached over and secured the whiskey bottle. Kemp stared at the devouring dressing gown. A ray of candle-light penetrating a torn patch in the right shoulder, made a triangle of light under the left ribs. "What were the shots?" he asked. "How did the shooting begin?"
secured - gesichert; sicher, geschützt, beschützt, sicher, geschützt
devouring - verschlingen, fressen, schlingen, herunterschlingen, zerstören
ray - Schimmer, Strahl; ausstrahlen
penetrating - durchdringend; eindringen, penetrieren, penetrieren
patch - notdürftig reparieren, reparieren, einsetzen; Flicken
triangle - Dreieck; Triangel
shooting - Schießen, Schießerei; (shoot); Schießen, Schießerei
"There was a real fool of a man-a sort of confederate of mine-curse him!-who tried to steal my money. Has done so."
Confederate - Konföderierte; vereinigen, verbünden; Bundesgenosse
curse - verfluchen, fluchen, verdammen; Fluch
steal - stehlen, entwenden, klauen, rauben, Schnäppchen, Diebstahl
"Is he invisible too?"
"No."
"Well?"
"Can't I have some more to eat before I tell you all that? I'm hungry-in pain. And you want me to tell stories!"
Kemp got up. "You didn't do any shooting?" he asked.
"Not me," said his visitor. "Some fool I'd never seen fired at random. A lot of them got scared. They all got scared at me. Curse them!-I say-I want more to eat than this, Kemp."
fired at - beschossen
"I'll see what there is to eat downstairs," said Kemp. "Not much, I'm afraid."
I'm afraid - leider, ich bedaure, ich fürchte
After he had done eating, and he made a heavy meal, the Invisible Man demanded a cigar. He bit the end savagely before Kemp could find a knife, and cursed when the outer leaf loosened. It was strange to see him smoking; his mouth, and throat, pharynx and nares, became visible as a sort of whirling smoke cast.
demanded - gefordert; Nachfrage, Bedarf, Nachfrage, Anspruch, verlangen
cigar - Zigarre; Glimmstängel
pharynx - Rachen; Pharynx
cast - werfen; wegwerfen, hinwerfen, gießen, Cast, Besetzung, Ensemble
"This blessed gift of smoking!" he said, and puffed vigorously. "I'm lucky to have fallen upon you, Kemp. You must help me. Fancy tumbling on you just now! I'm in a devilish scrape-I've been mad, I think. The things I have been through! But we will do things yet. Let me tell you-"
gift - Geschenk, Präsent, Begabung, Talent, schenken
vigorously - mit Nachdruck; kräftig, ordentlich, heftig, tüchtig
scrape - abkratzen, schaben, scharren
He helped himself to more whiskey and soda. Kemp got up, looked about him, and fetched a glass from his spare room. "It's wild-but I suppose I may drink."
soda - Soda; Sprudel, saurer Sprudel, Sprudelwasser, Limonade
spare - überflüssig, frei, sparsam, Ersatz; sparsam umgehen
wild - wild, rau
"You haven't changed much, Kemp, these dozen years. You fair men don't. Cool and methodical-after the first collapse. I must tell you. We will work together!"
methodical - methodisch
"But how was it all done?" said Kemp, "and how did you get like this?"
"For God's sake, let me smoke in peace for a little while! And then I will begin to tell you."
peace - Ruhe, Frieden, Friede
But the story was not told that night. The Invisible Man's wrist was growing painful; he was feverish, exhausted, and his mind came round to brood upon his chase down the hill and the struggle about the inn. He spoke in fragments of Marvel, he smoked faster, his voice grew angry. Kemp tried to gather what he could.
feverish - fiebrig, febril, fieberhaft
exhausted - erschöpft; erschöpfen, dezimieren, erschöpfen, Auspuff, Abgas
brood - Brut; brüten, grübeln
chase - verfolgtes Wild, Verfolgung; jagen; Jagd (nach)
smoked - geraucht; Rauch
gather - sammeln, versammeln
"He was afraid of me, I could see that he was afraid of me," said the Invisible Man many times over. "He meant to give me the slip-he was always casting about! What a fool I was!
"The cur!
cur - Köter
"I should have killed him!"
"Where did you get the money?" asked Kemp, abruptly.
The Invisible Man was silent for a space. "I can't tell you to-night," he said.
He groaned suddenly and leant forward, supporting his invisible head on invisible hands. "Kemp," he said, "I've had no sleep for near three days, except a couple of dozes of an hour or so. I must sleep soon."
groaned - gestöhnt; Stöhnen
supporting - stützend, abstützend, unterstützend; (support) stützend
dozes - döst; Halbschlaf
"Well, have my room-have this room."
"But how can I sleep? If I sleep-he will get away. Ugh! What does it matter?"
Ugh - igitt, pfui
"What's the shot wound?" asked Kemp, abruptly.
wound - anschießen, verwunden
"Nothing-scratch and blood. Oh, God! How I want sleep!"
"Why not?"
The Invisible Man appeared to be regarding Kemp. "Because I've a particular objection to being caught by my fellow-men," he said slowly.
objection - Beanstandung; Einwand, Widerspruch, Einspruch
being caught - verfangend
fellow-men - (fellow-men) Mitmenschen
Kemp started.
"Fool that I am!" said the Invisible Man, striking the table smartly. "I've put the idea into your head."
Exhausted and wounded as the Invisible Man was, he refused to accept Kemp's word that his freedom should be respected. He examined the two windows of the bedroom, drew up the blinds and opened the sashes, to confirm Kemp's statement that a retreat by them would be possible. Outside the night was very quiet and still, and the new moon was setting over the down.
Accept - annehmen, abnehmen, akzeptieren, aufnehmen
freedom - Freiheit
respected - respektiert; Achtung, Respekt, respektieren, respektieren
sashes - Schärpen; Schieberahmen, Schärpe
confirm - bestätigen, bekräftigen
new moon - Neumond
setting - Kontext; Einstellung; Vertonung; untergehend; (set); Seth
Then he examined the keys of the bedroom and the two dressing-room doors, to satisfy himself that these also could be made an assurance of freedom. Finally he expressed himself satisfied. He stood on the hearth rug and Kemp heard the sound of a yawn.
satisfy - befriedigen, zufriedenstellen
assurance - Sicherheit; Zusicherung, Versicherung, Zusage, Beteuerung
"I'm sorry," said the Invisible Man, "if I cannot tell you all that I have done to-night. But I am worn out. It's grotesque, no doubt. It's horrible! But believe me, Kemp, in spite of your arguments of this morning, it is quite a possible thing. I have made a discovery. I meant to keep it to myself. I can't. I must have a partner. And you.... We can do such things ... But to-morrow. Now, Kemp, I feel as though I must sleep or perish."
discovery - Entdeckung
perish - untergehen; verderben, schlecht werden, umkommen
Kemp stood in the middle of the room staring at the headless garment. "I suppose I must leave you," he said. "It's-incredible. Three things happening like this, overturning all my preconceptions-would make me insane. But it's real! Is there anything more that I can get you?"
overturning - Umkippen; überschlagen
preconceptions - Vorurteile; Vorurteil
"Only bid me good-night," said Griffin.
bid - Angebot, reizen, Gebot, Bieten, bieten
"Good-night," said Kemp, and shook an invisible hand. He walked sideways to the door. Suddenly the dressing-gown walked quickly towards him. "Understand me!" said the dressing-gown. "No attempts to hamper me, or capture me! Or-"
hamper - stören, behindern, hemmen, hindern; Geschenkkorb
Kemp's face changed a little. "I thought I gave you my word," he said.
Kemp closed the door softly behind him, and the key was turned upon him forthwith. Then, as he stood with an expression of passive amazement on his face, the rapid feet came to the door of the dressing-room and that too was locked. Kemp slapped his brow with his hand. "Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad-or have I?"
passive - passiv; leidend, leidentlich, passivisch, unterwürfig, Passiv
He laughed, and put his hand to the locked door. "Barred out of my own bedroom, by a flagrant absurdity!" he said.
barred - verwehrt; Takt; Schankstube; Latte (Sport); Balken, Leiste
flagrant - schamlos, eklatant (Widerspruch), abscheulich
absurdity - Absurdität
He walked to the head of the staircase, turned, and stared at the locked doors. "It's fact," he said. He put his fingers to his slightly bruised neck. "Undeniable fact!
bruised - geprellt; Prellung, Bluterguss, blauer Fleck, Druckstelle
undeniable - unbestreitbar
"But-"
He shook his head hopelessly, turned, and went downstairs.
hopelessly - hoffnungslos
He lit the dining-room lamp, got out a cigar, and began pacing the room, ejaculating. Now and then he would argue with himself.
dining - Essen; speisen
ejaculating - ejakulieren, ejakulieren, Ejakulat
"Invisible!" he said.
"Is there such a thing as an invisible animal? ... In the sea, yes. Thousands-millions. All the larvae, all the little nauplii and tornarias, all the microscopic things, the jelly-fish. In the sea there are more things invisible than visible! I never thought of that before. And in the ponds too! All those little pond-life things-specks of colourless translucent jelly! But in air? No!
larvae - Larven; Larve, Larve
microscopic - mikroskopisch klein
jelly - Wackelpudding, Wackelpeter; Gelee, Gallert
ponds - Teiche; Weiher, Teich
colourless - farblos
translucent - lichtdurchlässig
"It can't be.
"But after all-why not?
"If a man was made of glass he would still be visible."
His meditation became profound. The bulk of three cigars had passed into the invisible or diffused as a white ash over the carpet before he spoke again. Then it was merely an exclamation. He turned aside, walked out of the room, and went into his little consulting-room and lit the gas there. It was a little room, because Dr.
meditation - Meditation
profound - tiefgründig; tiefgehend, profund
cigars - Zigarren; Zigarre; Glimmstängel
diffused - verbreiten, diffundieren, sich vermischen; diffus (Licht)
ash - Esche, Asche
merely - bloß, lediglich, nur, schier
consulting - Beratung; Rat halten, beraten, beratschlagen, beraten
little room - Stübchen
Kemp did not live by practice, and in it were the day's newspapers. The morning's paper lay carelessly opened and thrown aside. He caught it up, turned it over, and read the account of a "Strange Story from Iping" that the mariner at Port Stowe had spelt over so painfully to Mr. Marvel. Kemp read it swiftly.
"Wrapped up!" said Kemp. "Disguised! Hiding it! 'No one seems to have been aware of his misfortune.'What the devil is his game?"
disguised - getarnt; Verkleidung, Tarnung, verstellen
He dropped the paper, and his eye went seeking. "Ah!" he said, and caught up the St. James'Gazette, lying folded up as it arrived. "Now we shall get at the truth," said Dr. Kemp. He rent the paper open; a couple of columns confronted him. "An Entire Village in Sussex goes Mad" was the heading.
seeking - suchen
James - Jakobus, Jakobus, Jakob
folded up - zusammengeklappt [alt], zusammen geklappt
rent - Mietpreis, Wohnungsmiete, Hausmiete; anmieten; (rend); zerreißen
columns - Spalten; Säule, Spalte, Spalte, Druckspalte, Kolumne, Kolonne
"Good Heavens!" said Kemp, reading eagerly an incredulous account of the events in Iping, of the previous afternoon, that have already been described. Over the leaf the report in the morning paper had been reprinted.
incredulous - ungläubig, skeptisch
previous - früher; vorhergehend
morning paper - Morgenzeitung
reprinted - nachgedruckt; Neuauflage, Neudruck, Nachdruck, neu auflegen
He re-read it. "Ran through the streets striking right and left. Jaffers insensible. Mr. Huxter in great pain-still unable to describe what he saw. Painful humiliation-vicar. Woman ill with terror! Windows smashed. This extraordinary story probably a fabrication. Too good not to print-cum grano!"
insensible - unempfindlich
unable - unfähig, untauglich
humiliation - Demütigung, Erniedrigung
fabrication - Fälschung; Herstellung, Vorfertigung, Fertigung
print - drucken; Druckschrift; Abdruck; Abzug; Kopie
cum - abspritzen; Wichse (derb Sperma), Sperma; Orgasmus erleben
He dropped the paper and stared blankly in front of him. "Probably a fabrication!"
He caught up the paper again, and re-read the whole business. "But when does the Tramp come in? Why the deuce was he chasing a tramp?"
deuce - zwei; Einstand (Tennis), Teufel
chasing - ziselierend, jagend; (chas) ziselierend, jagend
He sat down abruptly on the surgical bench. "He's not only invisible," he said, "but he's mad! Homicidal!"
surgical - chirurgisch
homicidal - gemeingefährlich
When dawn came to mingle its pallor with the lamp-light and cigar smoke of the dining-room, Kemp was still pacing up and down, trying to grasp the incredible.
mingle - vermischen, vermengen, untermischen
pallor - Blässe
He was altogether too excited to sleep. His servants, descending sleepily, discovered him, and were inclined to think that over-study had worked this ill on him. He gave them extraordinary but quite explicit instructions to lay breakfast for two in the belvedere study-and then to confine themselves to the basement and ground-floor. Then he continued to pace the dining-room until the morning's paper came. That had much to say and little to tell, beyond the confirmation of the evening before, and a very badly written account of another remarkable tale from Port Burdock. This gave Kemp the essence of the happenings at the "Jolly Cricketers," and the name of Marvel.
servants - Diener, Dienerin, Lakai, Kammerdiener, Zofe, Bediensteter
sleepily - schläfrig
explicit - ausdrücklich, explizit
Belvedere - Belvedere, Aussichtturm
confine - einschränken; beschränken; Begrenzung
basement - Keller, Untergeschoss, Kellergeschoss, Grundgebirge
confirmation - Bestätigung; Firmung
Tale - Geschichte, Erzählung, Fabel
essence - Wesen; Essenz, Extrakt, Parfüm
happenings - Geschehnisse; Ereignis, stattfindend, geschehend
"He has made me keep with him twenty-four hours," Marvel testified. Certain minor facts were added to the Iping story, notably the cutting of the village telegraph-wire. But there was nothing to throw light on the connexion between the Invisible Man and the Tramp; for Mr. Marvel had supplied no information about the three books, or the money with which he was lined. The incredulous tone had vanished and a shoal of reporters and inquirers were already at work elaborating the matter.
testified - bezeugt; bezeugen
minor - minderjährig; gering, geringfügig, klein, unbedeutend
notably - beachtenswert, bekannt, bemerkenswert, bedeutend
throw light on - Licht werfen auf
connexion - Verbindung; Anbindung, Verbindung
shoal - Schwarm; Schar, Untiefe
reporters - Reportern; Reporter, Reporterin
inquirers - Anfragende; Fragende, Forscher, Untersuchender
elaborating - Ausarbeitung; ausführlich, durchdacht, ausführen
Kemp read every scrap of the report and sent his housemaid out to get every one of the morning papers she could. These also he devoured.
"He is invisible!" he said. "And it reads like rage growing to mania! The things he may do! The things he may do! And he's upstairs free as the air. What on earth ought I to do?"
mania - Manie, Fimmel
"For instance, would it be a breach of faith if-? No."
breach - Bruch; Verstoß, Bresche, Brechen
Faith - Glaube; Vertrauen
He went to a little untidy desk in the corner, and began a note. He tore this up half written, and wrote another. He read it over and considered it. Then he took an envelope and addressed it to "Colonel Adye, Port Burdock."
untidy - unordentlich
envelope - Umschlag; verhüllen; Kuvert, Versandtasche, Hüllenkurve
Colonel - Herr Oberst; Oberst
The Invisible Man awoke even as Kemp was doing this. He awoke in an evil temper, and Kemp, alert for every sound, heard his pattering feet rush suddenly across the bedroom overhead. Then a chair was flung over and the wash-hand stand tumbler smashed. Kemp hurried upstairs and rapped eagerly.
awoke - erwacht; munter, wach; erwachen, aufwachen
evil - böse; Sünde, übel, üblen, Ăśbel
alert - alarmiert; alarmieren; Alarm, Warnton, Alarmruf, wachsam
pattering - Prasseln; schwatzen
overhead - von oben, darüber, Überkopf-
"What's the matter?" asked Kemp, when the Invisible Man admitted him.
What's the matter? - Was ist (denn) los?
admitted - zugelassen; einlassen, zulassen, zugeben, eingestehen, erlauben
"Nothing," was the answer.
"But, confound it! The smash?"
"Fit of temper," said the Invisible Man. "Forgot this arm; and it's sore."
sore - sauer; weh, wund, schmerzend, schmerzhaft
"You're rather liable to that sort of thing."
liable - haftbar; fehlbar
"I am."
Kemp walked across the room and picked up the fragments of broken glass. "All the facts are out about you," said Kemp, standing up with the glass in his hand; "all that happened in Iping, and down the hill. The world has become aware of its invisible citizen. But no one knows you are here."
picked - ausgewählt; Hacke, Pickel, Spitzhacke, Dietrich, pflücken
citizen - Staatsbürger, Staatsbürgerin, Einwohner
The Invisible Man swore.
"The secret's out. I gather it was a secret. I don't know what your plans are, but of course I'm anxious to help you."
The Invisible Man sat down on the bed.
"There's breakfast upstairs," said Kemp, speaking as easily as possible, and he was delighted to find his strange guest rose willingly. Kemp led the way up the narrow staircase to the belvedere.
delighted - erfreut; Freude, Entzückung, Wohlgefallen
willingly - bereitwillig; gern, gerne
"Before we can do anything else," said Kemp, "I must understand a little more about this invisibility of yours." He had sat down, after one nervous glance out of the window, with the air of a man who has talking to do.
His doubts of the sanity of the entire business flashed and vanished again as he looked across to where Griffin sat at the breakfast-table-a headless, handless dressing-gown, wiping unseen lips on a miraculously held serviette.
doubts - bezweifeln, zweifeln, Zweifel
sanity - Verstand
flashed - geflasht; aufleuchten, blitzen, aufflammen
"It's simple enough-and credible enough," said Griffin, putting the serviette aside and leaning the invisible head on an invisible hand.
credible - glaubhaft; glaubwürdig
leaning - (to lean) sich an etwas lehnen
"No doubt, to you, but-" Kemp laughed.
"Well, yes; to me it seemed wonderful at first, no doubt. But now, great God! ... But we will do great things yet! I came on the stuff first at Chesilstowe."
"Chesilstowe?"
"I went there after I left London. You know I dropped medicine and took up physics? No; well, I did. Light fascinated me."
Medicine - Medizin; Heilkunst, Heilkunde, Arznei
physics - Physik; Abführmittel
fascinated - fasziniert; faszinieren, faszinieren, faszinieren, bezaubern
"Ah!"
"Optical density! The whole subject is a network of riddles-a network with solutions glimmering elusively through. And being but two-and-twenty and full of enthusiasm, I said, 'I will devote my life to this. This is worth while.'You know what fools we are at two-and-twenty?"
optical - optisch
density - Dichte, Massendichte
riddles - Rätsel
solutions - Lösungen; Lösung, Lösung, Lösung
glimmering - schimmernd, flimmernd; (glimmer); Schimmer; glimmern
elusively - ausweichend
enthusiasm - Begeisterung, Enthusiasmus, Schwärmerei
devote - widmen
"Fools then or fools now," said Kemp.
"As though knowing could be any satisfaction to a man!
"But I went to work-like a slave. And I had hardly worked and thought about the matter six months before light came through one of the meshes suddenly-blindingly! I found a general principle of pigments and refraction-a formula, a geometrical expression involving four dimensions. Fools, common men, even common mathematicians, do not know anything of what some general expression may mean to the student of molecular physics.
slave - Sklave, Sklavin, Sexsklave
meshes - Maschen; Netz
blindingly - Blendend
principle - Grundsatz, Prinzip, Naturgesetz
pigments - Pigmente; Pigment
refraction - Brechung, Refraktion
formula - Formel; Rezept; Rezeptur, Zusammensetzung, Bestandteile
geometrical - geometrisch
involving - einbeziehen; umfassen, etwas komplizieren, gehen um, verwirren
dimensions - Abmessungen; Dimension, Dimension, Dimension, Dimension
mathematicians - Mathematiker, Mathematikerin
molecular - molekular
In the books-the books that tramp has hidden-there are marvels, miracles! But this was not a method, it was an idea, that might lead to a method by which it would be possible, without changing any other property of matter-except, in some instances colours-to lower the refractive index of a substance, solid or liquid, to that of air-so far as all practical purposes are concerned."
marvels - Erstaunen; wundern
miracles - Wunder
method - Methode; Verfahrensweise, Art und Weise, Weg
instances - Instanzen; Beispiel
refractive index - Brechungsindex
substance - Substanz, Stoff
liquid - Flüssigkeit; Fließlaut, Liquida, Liquid, disponibel
practical - praktisch; Praktikum
purposes - Zwecke; absicht, Absicht, Einsatzzweck, Zweck
"Phew!" said Kemp. "That's odd! But still I don't see quite ... I can understand that thereby you could spoil a valuable stone, but personal invisibility is a far cry."
Phew - puh; pfui
spoil - plündern; ruinieren, verderben, kaputtmachen, verwöhnen
"Precisely," said Griffin. "But consider, visibility depends on the action of the visible bodies on light. Either a body absorbs light, or it reflects or refracts it, or does all these things. If it neither reflects nor refracts nor absorbs light, it cannot of itself be visible. You see an opaque red box, for instance, because the colour absorbs some of the light and reflects the rest, all the red part of the light, to you. If it did not absorb any particular part of the light, but reflected it all, then it would be a shining white box. Silver! A diamond box would neither absorb much of the light nor reflect much from the general surface, but just here and there where the surfaces were favourable the light would be reflected and refracted, so that you would get a brilliant appearance of flashing reflections and translucencies-a sort of skeleton of light.
precisely - genau; präzise
visibility - Sicht, Sichtbarkeit, Sichtverhältnisse, Sichtweite
depends - abhängt; abhängen, ankommen
absorbs - absorbiert; absorbieren, aufnehen
reflects - reflektiert; reflektieren, zurückspiegeln, spiegeln
refracts - bricht; brechen
opaque - matt, dunkel, undurchsichtig, undurchlässig, opak
shining - glänzen; Schienbein; hinaufklettern
diamond - Stern, Diamant
surfaces - Oberflächen; Oberfläche, Fläche, auftauchen, publik werden
favourable - günstig
be reflected - sich zeigen (in), sich ausprägen;sich spiegeln
refracted - refraktiert; brechen
flashing - Witterungsschutz; Blinken, Aufblinken
reflections - Überlegungen; Reflexion, Abbild
translucencies - Transluzenzen; Durchsichtigkeiten
skeleton - Skelett; Not-, Gerippe, provisorisch, Knochengerüst
A glass box would not be so brilliant, nor so clearly visible, as a diamond box, because there would be less refraction and reflection. See that? From certain points of view you would see quite clearly through it. Some kinds of glass would be more visible than others, a box of flint glass would be brighter than a box of ordinary window glass. A box of very thin common glass would be hard to see in a bad light, because it would absorb hardly any light and refract and reflect very little. And if you put a sheet of common white glass in water, still more if you put it in some denser liquid than water, it would vanish almost altogether, because light passing from water to glass is only slightly refracted or reflected or indeed affected in any way. It is almost as invisible as a jet of coal gas or hydrogen is in air. And for precisely the same reason!"
brighter - heller; fröhlich, aufgeweckt, leuchtend, klar, hell
absorb - absorbieren, aufnehen
refract - refraktieren; brechen
denser - dichter; Höhlen
vanish - verschwinden, vergehen, sich verflüchtigen
reflected - reflektiert; reflektieren, zurückspiegeln, spiegeln
affected - betroffen; beeinträchtigen, eine Vorliebe haben für, bewohnen
coal gas - Leuchtgas
hydrogen - Wasserstoff, Hydrogen, Hydrogenium, Wasserstoffatom
"Yes," said Kemp, "that is pretty plain sailing."
plain - unscheinbar, einfach, vollständige, ehrlich
sailing - absegelnd, segelnd; (sail) absegelnd, segelnd
"And here is another fact you will know to be true. If a sheet of glass is smashed, Kemp, and beaten into a powder, it becomes much more visible while it is in the air; it becomes at last an opaque white powder. This is because the powdering multiplies the surfaces of the glass at which refraction and reflection occur.
is smashed - zerschellt
beaten - besiegt; Schlag; jdn. bezwingen
powdering - pudern; Puder, g
multiplies - multipliziert; multiplizieren
occur - auftreten; passieren, vorkommen, stattfinden, einfallen
In the sheet of glass there are only two surfaces; in the powder the light is reflected or refracted by each grain it passes through, and very little gets right through the powder. But if the white powdered glass is put into water, it forthwith vanishes. The powdered glass and water have much the same refractive index; that is, the light undergoes very little refraction or reflection in passing from one to the other.
grain - Getreide; Korn, Samenkorn, Maserung
passes - Pässe; (to pass) durchgehen, passieren, durchlaufen
powdered - pulverisiert; Puder, g
vanishes - verschwindet; verschwinden, vergehen, sich verflüchtigen
refractive - refraktiv
index - Index, Verzeichnis, indizieren
Undergoes - Unterzieht sich; durchmachen
"You make the glass invisible by putting it into a liquid of nearly the same refractive index; a transparent thing becomes invisible if it is put in any medium of almost the same refractive index. And if you will consider only a second, you will see also that the powder of glass might be made to vanish in air, if its refractive index could be made the same as that of air; for then there would be no refraction or reflection as the light passed from glass to air.
powder - Puder, g; (''otherwise:'') Pulver, Puder
"Yes, yes," said Kemp. "But a man's not powdered glass!"
"No," said Griffin. "He's more transparent!"
more transparent - transparentere
"Nonsense!"
"That from a doctor! How one forgets! Have you already forgotten your physics, in ten years? Just think of all the things that are transparent and seem not to be so. Paper, for instance, is made up of transparent fibres, and it is white and opaque only for the same reason that a powder of glass is white and opaque. Oil White Paper, fill up the interstices between the particles with oil so that there is no longer refraction or reflection except at the surfaces, and it becomes as transparent as glass.
fibres - Fasern; Faser, Faser
White Paper - Weißbuch
fill up - auffüllen, betanken (Kraftfahrzeug), vollfüllen
particles - Teilchen
And not only paper, but cotton fibre, linen fibre, wool fibre, woody fibre, and bone, Kemp, flesh, Kemp, hair, Kemp, nails and nerves, Kemp, in fact the whole fabric of a man except the red of his blood and the black pigment of hair, are all made up of transparent, colourless tissue. So little suffices to make us visible one to the other. For the most part the fibres of a living creature are no more opaque than water."
cotton - Baumwolle
fibre - Faser
Wool - Wolle
woody - holzig
bone - Knochen
flesh - Fleisch; Haut, Leib, Fruchtfleisch, Fleischfarbe, zunehmen
nails - Nägel; nageln (derb. koitieren); annageln, Nagel, nageln
fabric - Stoff; Bau, Rohbau, Struktur, Gewebe, Textil
pigment - Pigment; Farbstoff, checkPigment, pigmentieren
suffices - ausreicht; ausreichen, genügen, genug sein, reichen
creature - Wesen, Lebewesen, Fabelwesen
"Great Heavens!" cried Kemp. "Of course, of course! I was thinking only last night of the sea larvae and all jelly-fish!"
"Now you have me! And all that I knew and had in mind a year after I left London-six years ago. But I kept it to myself. I had to do my work under frightful disadvantages. Oliver, my professor, was a scientific bounder, a journalist by instinct, a thief of ideas-he was always prying! And you know the knavish system of the scientific world. I simply would not publish, and let him share my credit.
disadvantages - Nachteile; Nachteil
Oliver - Oliver, (olive) Oliver
professor - Professor, Professorin, Professorsgattin, Bekenner, Bekennerin
bounder - Begrenzer; Schurke
journalist - Journalist, Journalistin, Reporter
prying - neugierig schauend, neugierig; (pry) neugierig schauend
knavish - schurkisch
publish - herausgeben, publizieren, veröffentlichen
credit - Kredit; annehmen, für bare Münze nehmen, gutschreiben
I went on working; I got nearer and nearer making my formula into an experiment, a reality. I told no living soul, because I meant to flash my work upon the world with crushing effect and become famous at a blow. I took up the question of pigments to fill up certain gaps. And suddenly, not by design but by accident, I made a discovery in physiology."
experiment - Experiment, Versuch, experimentieren
reality - Wirklichkeit, Realität, checkRealität
crushing - erdrückend; Schwarm, zerdrücken
gaps - Lücken; Zahnlücke; Lücke, Bresche, Leerstelle, Kluft
by accident - zufällig, zufälligerweise, durch Zufall
physiology - Physiologie
"Yes?"
"You know the red colouring matter of blood; it can be made white-colourless-and remain with all the functions it has now!"
remain - Überrest (2); Überreste (3); sterbliche Überreste (3); bleiben
functions - Funktionen; Funktion, Funktionalität, Funktion, Aufgabe
Kemp gave a cry of incredulous amazement.
The Invisible Man rose and began pacing the little study. "You may well exclaim. I remember that night. It was late at night-in the daytime one was bothered with the gaping, silly students-and I worked then sometimes till dawn. It came suddenly, splendid and complete in my mind. I was alone; the laboratory was still, with the tall lights burning brightly and silently. In all my great moments I have been alone.
exclaim - ausrufen
daytime - tagsüber; heller Tag, Tageszeit
bothered - belästigt; stören, verdammt, Mist
laboratory - Labor, Laboratorium, Laborgebäude
brightly - leuchtend; strahlend, hell
silently - leise; schweigend, still
'One could make an animal-a tissue-transparent! One could make it invisible! All except the pigments-I could be invisible!'I said, suddenly realising what it meant to be an albino with such knowledge. It was overwhelming. I left the filtering I was doing, and went and stared out of the great window at the stars. 'I could be invisible!'I repeated.
knowledge - Wissen, Kenntnis
overwhelming - überwältigend; überwältigen, übermannen, überrumpeln, de
filtering - Filter, Filter, Filter, filtern, filtern, filtrieren
"To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man-the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become-this. I ask you, Kemp if you ... Anyone, I tell you, would have flung himself upon that research.
transcend - transzendieren; ubersteigen
mystery - Geheimnis, Rätsel
drawbacks - Nachteile; Nachteil, Minuspunkt, Schattenseite, Haken
poverty - Armut
hemmed - gesäumt; säumen, einfassen, einsäumen, einschließen [Mil.]; Saum
demonstrator - Demonstrant, Demonstrantin, Kundgebungsteilnehmer
provincial - Provinzler; provinziell, provinzial
And I worked three years, and every mountain of difficulty I toiled over showed another from its summit. The infinite details! And the exasperation! A professor, a provincial professor, always prying. 'When are you going to publish this work of yours?'was his everlasting question. And the students, the cramped means! Three years I had of it-
toiled - geschuftet; Mühe, schuften, sich plagen, sich quälen, roboten
summit - Gipfel
everlasting - ewig; endlos
cramped - eingeengt; Krampf, krampfen
"And after three years of secrecy and exasperation, I found that to complete it was impossible-impossible."
secrecy - Geheimhaltung; Geheimniskrämerei, Geheimnistuerei
"How?" asked Kemp.
"Money," said the Invisible Man, and went again to stare out of the window.
stare - starren, anstarren
He turned around abruptly. "I robbed the old man-robbed my father.
robbed - ausgeraubt; rauben, berauben, Raubbau treiben, ausrauben
"The money was not his, and he shot himself."
For a moment Kemp sat in silence, staring at the back of the headless figure at the window. Then he started, struck by a thought, rose, took the Invisible Man's arm, and turned him away from the outlook.
outlook - Aussichtspunkt; Aussicht, Ausblick, Einstellung
"You are tired," he said, "and while I sit, you walk about. Have my chair."
He placed himself between Griffin and the nearest window.
For a space Griffin sat silent, and then he resumed abruptly:
"I had left the Chesilstowe cottage already," he said, "when that happened. It was last December. I had taken a room in London, a large unfurnished room in a big ill-managed lodging-house in a slum near Great Portland Street. The room was soon full of the appliances I had bought with his money; the work was going on steadily, successfully, drawing near an end. I was like a man emerging from a thicket, and suddenly coming on some unmeaning tragedy. I went to bury him. My mind was still on this research, and I did not lift a finger to save his character.
managed - verwaltet; verwalten, leiten, hinbekommen, schaffen, schaffen
lodging - Unterbringung; Unterkunft; (lodge); Lodge; Loge; Biberburg; feststecken
slum - Elendsviertel
successfully - erfolgreich
thicket - Dickicht, Gebüsch, Gestrüpp, Buschwerk
unmeaning - unbedeutend
tragedy - Tragödie
bury - vergraben, verbergen, begraben
lift - Lüften (Bremse), Lift, Aufzug; fördern, Auftrieb geben, heben
character - Figur, Person, Charakter, Original, Buchstabe, Zeichen
I remember the funeral, the cheap hearse, the scant ceremony, the windy frost-bitten hillside, and the old college friend of his who read the service over him-a shabby, black, bent old man with a snivelling cold.
funeral - Bestattung, Beerdigung, Begräbnis
hearse - Leichenwagen
scant - spärlich, gering, dürftig, knapp
windy - windig
frost - Reif; Frost; glasieren
bitten - gebissen; beißen, beißen, beißen, beißen, Biss, Biss, Stich
service - warten; Bedienung, Dienstleistung, Betrieb
snivelling - wehleidig; (snivel); tief einatmen; schniefen
"I remember walking back to the empty house, through the place that had once been a village and was now patched and tinkered by the jerry builders into the ugly likeness of a town.
patched - gepatcht; notdürftig reparieren, reparieren, einsetzen; Flicken
tinkered - gebastelt; Kesselflicker, Kesselflickerin, tüfteln, frickeln
Jerry - Nachttopf
builders - Bauherren; Bauarbeiter
likeness - Ähnlichkeit; Gestalt; Abbild
Every way the roads ran out at last into the desecrated fields and ended in rubble heaps and rank wet weeds. I remember myself as a gaunt black figure, going along the slippery, shiny pavement, and the strange sense of detachment I felt from the squalid respectability, the sordid commercialism of the place.
desecrated - entweiht; entheiligen, schänden, entweihen
fields - Felder; Feld
rubble - Trümmer; Schutt
heaps - haufenweise; Menschenmenge, Masse, Haufen, Haufe, Heap, Haufen
rank - (sozialer) Stand, Rang, Dienstgrad
weeds - Unkraut; (weed) aussondern
gaunt - knochig, dünn, hager, mager, abgemagert
going along - mitgehend
slippery - schlüpfrig; rutschig, glitschig, aalglatt
detachment - Abtrennung; Militäreinheit, Trennung, Abteilung
squalid - verwahrlost; schmutzig, armselig
respectability - Respektabilität; Achtbarkeit
sordid - dreckig, schäbig, schmutzig, geizig
commercialism - Kommerzialisierung; Handelsgeist
"I did not feel a bit sorry for my father. He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality. The current cant required my attendance at his funeral, but it was really not my affair.
victim - Opfer
foolish - dumm, närrisch, töricht
sentimentality - Sentimentalität
current - Strömung; Strom; gegenwärtig, aktuell, zeitnah
cant - nicht; kippen, verkanten
attendance - Anwesenheit
"But going along the high street, my old life came back to me for a space, for I met the girl I had known ten years since. Our eyes met.
high street - Hauptstraße
"Something moved me to turn back and talk to her. She was a very ordinary person.
turn back - umkehren
"It was all like a dream, that visit to the old places. I did not feel then that I was lonely, that I had come out from the world into a desolate place. I appreciated my loss of sympathy, but I put it down to the general inanity of things. Re-entering my room seemed like the recovery of reality.
dream - Traum, Wunsch, träumen, wünschen
lonely - einsam, alleinig, abgeschieden, öde
appreciated - gewürdigt; zu schätzen wissen, würdigen, zu schätzen wissen
Loss - Verlust, Ausfall; Kursverlust
inanity - Unsinnigkeit; Inanität
recovery - Wiedererlangung, Wiedergewinnung, Zurückgewinnung, Genesung
There were the things I knew and loved. There stood the apparatus, the experiments arranged and waiting. And now there was scarcely a difficulty left, beyond the planning of details.
experiments - Experimente; Experiment
scarcely - knapp, kaum, wohl nicht, gerade erst
"I will tell you, Kemp, sooner or later, all the complicated processes. We need not go into that now. For the most part, saving certain gaps I chose to remember, they are written in cypher in those books that tramp has hidden. We must hunt him down. We must get those books again. But the essential phase was to place the transparent object whose refractive index was to be lowered between two radiating centres of a sort of ethereal vibration, of which I will tell you more fully later.
processes - Prozesse; weiter verarbeiten, verarbeiten
hunt - jagen; suchen; Jagd
essential - unerlässlich; essenziell, notwendig, unverzichtbar, wesentlich
phase - Phase
radiating - strahlen, ausstrahlen
ethereal - ätherisch
vibration - Vibration, Schwingung
No, not those Röntgen vibrations-I don't know that these others of mine have been described. Yet they are obvious enough. I needed two little dynamos, and these I worked with a cheap gas engine. My first experiment was with a bit of white wool fabric. It was the strangest thing in the world to see it in the flicker of the flashes soft and white, and then to watch it fade like a wreath of smoke and vanish.
vibrations - Vibrationen; Vibration, Schwingung, Vibration, Schwingung
obvious - offensichtlich; selbstverständlich; deutlich; überdeutlich; offenbar; q
dynamos - Dynamo, Energiebündel
gas engine - Gasmotor
flashes - blinkt; aufleuchten, blitzen, aufflammen
fade - verfärben, Ausblendung; verblassen, nachlassen, verwelken
wreath - Kranz, Gebinde, Helmwulst
"I could scarcely believe I had done it. I put my hand into the emptiness, and there was the thing as solid as ever. I felt it awkwardly, and threw it on the floor. I had a little trouble finding it again.
emptiness - Leere, Leerheit
awkwardly - unbeholfen, ungeschickt, umständlich, tapsig
"And then came a curious experience. I heard a miaow behind me, and turning, saw a lean white cat, very dirty, on the cistern cover outside the window. A thought came into my head. 'Everything ready for you,'I said, and went to the window, opened it, and called softly. She came in, purring-the poor beast was starving-and I gave her some milk.
miaow - miauen
lean - knapp, schlank, hager, mager
cistern - Zisterne; Spülkasten
cover - Deckel, Abdeckung, Versteck, Einband, agazine, Decke, Gedeck
purring - schnurren, surren, summen; (pur) schnurren, surren, summen
All my food was in a cupboard in the corner of the room. After that she went smelling round the room, evidently with the idea of making herself at home. The invisible rag upset her a bit; you should have seen her spit at it! But I made her comfortable on the pillow of my truckle-bed. And I gave her butter to get her to wash."
cupboard - Schrank; Küchenschrank
smelling - riechend; (smell); Geruch; Geruchssinn, Riechen, stinken
spit at - anspeien
truckle - kriechen
"And you processed her?"
processed - verarbeitet; weiter verarbeiten, verarbeiten
"I processed her. But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp! And the process failed."
drugs - Drogen; Droge, Rauschgift, arzneimittel
joke - Witz; Scherz, Streich, Spaß, scherzen, Witze machen
"Failed!"
"In two particulars. These were the claws and the pigment stuff, what is it?-at the back of the eye in a cat. You know?"
particulars - Einzelheiten; speziell, bestimmt, spezifisch, genau, einzeln
claws - Krallen; zerkratzen; Kralle, Fang (Vogelkralle), Klaue
"Tapetum."
"Yes, the tapetum. It didn't go. After I'd given the stuff to bleach the blood and done certain other things to her, I gave the beast opium, and put her and the pillow she was sleeping on, on the apparatus. And after all the rest had faded and vanished, there remained two little ghosts of her eyes."
bleach - Bleichmittel; ausbleichen, bleichen
opium - Opium
sleeping on - überschlafend
faded - verblasst; verfärben, Ausblendung; verblassen, nachlassen
"Odd!"
"I can't explain it. She was bandaged and clamped, of course-so I had her safe; but she woke while she was still misty, and miaowed dismally, and someone came knocking. It was an old woman from downstairs, who suspected me of vivisecting-a drink-sodden old creature, with only a white cat to care for in all the world. I whipped out some chloroform, applied it, and answered the door. 'Did I hear a cat?
clamped - geklemmt; Zwinge; klammern, halten, einklemmen, klemmen
misty - neblig, nebelhaft
miaowed - miaut; miauen
suspected - verdächtigt; vermuten, misstrauen, verdächtigen
sodden - durchnässt, aufgeweicht, sturzbetrunken
care - kümmern; Sorgfalt, Aufbewahrung, Behandlung
chloroform - Chloroform
applied - angewendet; zutreffen, auflegen, anwenden, anlegen
she asked. 'My cat?''Not here,'said I, very politely. She was a little doubtful and tried to peer past me into the room; strange enough to her no doubt-bare walls, uncurtained windows, truckle-bed, with the gas engine vibrating, and the seethe of the radiant points, and that faint ghastly stinging of chloroform in the air. She had to be satisfied at last and went away again."
peer - seinesgleichen, Beaufsichtigende; schielen, starren
engine - Motor, Triebwerk, Antrieb
vibrating - vibrieren, Vibration
seethe - kochen, sieden, schäumen, sprudeln
radiant - strahlend; Radiant
stinging - stechend; (sting) Stachel, brennender Schmerz
be satisfied - zufrieden sein
"How long did it take?" asked Kemp.
"Three or four hours-the cat. The bones and sinews and the fat were the last to go, and the tips of the coloured hairs. And, as I say, the back part of the eye, tough, iridescent stuff it is, wouldn't go at all.
bones - Knochen
sinews - Sehnen; Sehne
tips - Tipps; Tip
tough - hart; zäh; widerstandsfähig; knifflig, schwierig, Pech
iridescent - schillernd
"It was night outside long before the business was over, and nothing was to be seen but the dim eyes and the claws. I stopped the gas engine, felt for and stroked the beast, which was still insensible, and then, being tired, left it sleeping on the invisible pillow and went to bed. I found it hard to sleep. I lay awake thinking weak aimless stuff, going over the experiment over and over again, or dreaming feverishly of things growing misty and vanishing about me, until everything, the ground I stood on, vanished, and so I came to that sickly falling nightmare one gets. About two, the cat began miaowing about the room. I tried to hush it by talking to it, and then I decided to turn it out. I remember the shock I had when striking a light-there were just the round eyes shining green-and nothing round them. I would have given it milk, but I hadn't any. It wouldn't Be quiet, it just sat down and miaowed at the door. I tried to catch it, with an idea of putting it out of the window, but it wouldn't be caught, it vanished.
stroked - gestreichelt; streicheln; Stoß, Schlag, Streich, Hub
aimless - planlos, ziellos
feverishly - Fieberhaft
nightmare - Albtraum, Alptraum
miaowing - miauend; miauen
Hush - Pst; verstummen, still werden, zum Schweigen bringen, Stille
Be quiet - Sei doch mal still!
be caught - verfangen
Then it began miaowing in different parts of the room. At last I opened the window and made a bustle. I suppose it went out at last. I never saw any more of it.
bustle - Betriebsamkeit; Hektik; hasten
"Then-Heaven knows why-I fell thinking of my father's funeral again, and the dismal windy hillside, until the day had come. I found sleeping was hopeless, and, locking my door after me, wandered out into the morning streets."
dismal - düster; unzureichend, unzulänglich, jämmerlich, kläglich
hopeless - hoffnungslos
locking - Sperren; Schloss
"You don't mean to say there's an invisible cat at large!" said Kemp.
"If it hasn't been killed," said the Invisible Man. "Why not?"
"Why not?" said Kemp. "I didn't mean to interrupt."
"It's very probably been killed," said the Invisible Man. "It was alive four days after, I know, and down a grating in Great Titchfield Street; because I saw a crowd round the place, trying to see whence the miaowing came."
grating - knirschend; Gitter; (grate) knirschend; Gitter
crowd round - sich scharen um
He was silent for the best part of a minute. Then he resumed abruptly:
"I remember that morning before the change very vividly. I must have gone up Great Portland Street. I remember the barracks in Albany Street, and the horse soldiers coming out, and at last I found the summit of Primrose Hill. It was a sunny day in January-one of those sunny, frosty days that came before the snow this year. My weary brain tried to formulate the position, to plot out a plan of action.
gone up - gestiegen
Barracks - Kaserne; (barrack) Kaserne
soldiers - Soldaten; Soldat, Soldatin, Kämpfer
frosty - frostig
formulate - formulieren, darlegen
plot - Handlung, Plot, Ausdruck, Komplott, planen, ausarbeiten
"I was surprised to find, now that my prize was within my grasp, how inconclusive its attainment seemed. As a matter of fact I was worked out; the intense stress of nearly four years'continuous work left me incapable of any strength of feeling. I was apathetic, and I tried in vain to recover the enthusiasm of my first inquiries, the passion of discovery that had enabled me to compass even the downfall of my father's grey hairs.
prize - Prämie, Preis, Gewinn
inconclusive - nicht schlüssig
attainment - Errungenschaften; Erlangen; Errungenschaft
stress - Spannung; Stress; Betonung; beanspruchen; stressen; betonen
continuous - kontinuierlich
incapable - nicht fähig; unfähig
apathetic - teilnahmslos
in vain - vergebens
recover - wiederfinden, sich erholen, beikommen
passion - Leidenschaft, Passion
enabled - aktiviert; berechtigen, befähigen, ermöglichen, anordnen
compass - Kompass
Downfall - Niedergang, Untergang, Verfall, Ruin
Nothing seemed to matter. I saw pretty clearly this was a transient mood, due to overwork and want of sleep, and that either by drugs or rest it would be possible to recover my energies.
transient - vergänglich, vorübergehend, temporär, instationär
due - fällig
overwork - Überarbeitung; mit Arbeit überlasten
energies - Energien; Energie, Energie, Energie
"All I could think clearly was that the thing had to be carried through; the fixed idea still ruled me. And soon, for the money I had was almost exhausted. I looked about me at the hillside, with children playing and girls watching them, and tried to think of all the fantastic advantages an invisible man would have in the world.
fixed - repariert; reparieren, flicken, fixieren, befestigen
advantages - Vorteile; Vorteil, Vorteil, Vorzug, Vorteil
After a time I crawled home, took some food and a strong dose of strychnine, and went to sleep in my clothes on my unmade bed. Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man."
crawled - gekrabbelt; kriechen
dose - Dosis; dosieren
strychnine - Strychnin
unmade - nicht gemacht; beseitigen, aufheben
grand - großartig, prächtig, groß, bedeutend
tonic - Stärkungsmittel, Tonika
flabbiness - Schwabbeligkeit; Schlaffheit
"It's the devil," said Kemp. "It's the palaeolithic in a bottle."
palaeolithic - Paläolithikum
"I awoke vastly invigorated and rather irritable. You know?"
vastly - erheblich, ungeheuer
invigorated - gestärkt; beleben, kräftigen, stärken, verstärken
irritable - reizbar
"I know the stuff."
"And there was someone rapping at the door. It was my landlord with threats and inquiries, an old Polish Jew in a long grey coat and greasy slippers. I had been tormenting a cat in the night, he was sure-the old woman's tongue had been busy. He insisted on knowing all about it. The laws in this country against vivisection were very severe-he might be liable. I denied the cat. Then the vibration of the little gas engine could be felt all over the house, he said. That was true, certainly. He edged round me into the room, peering about over his German-silver spectacles, and a sudden dread came into my mind that he might carry away something of my secret. I tried to keep between him and the concentrating apparatus I had arranged, and that only made him more curious.
landlord - Vermieter, Hauswirt
threats - Bedrohungen; drohen; Bedrohung, Drohung
polish - Politur; polnisch; Polnisch
Jew - Jude, Jüdin, Jude, Jüdin
greasy - schmierig, rutschig, fettig
tormenting - gequält; schikanierend, peinigend; (torment); Qual; quälen
tongue - Zunge, Lasche
laws - Gesetze; Gesetz, Jura, Rechtswissenschaft
vivisection - Vivisektion
denied - verweigert; leugnen, bestreiten, dementieren
peering - spähen; seinesgleichen, Beaufsichtigende; schielen, starren
German - Deutscher, Deutsche, Germane, Germanin, Achtelcicero, Deutsch
carry away - mitreißen, davontragen, abtragen
concentrating - konzentrieren, sich konzentrieren, konzentrieren, konzentrieren
more curious - neugierigere
What was I doing? Why was I always alone and secretive? Was it legal? Was it dangerous? I paid nothing but the usual rent. His had always been a most respectable house-in a disreputable neighbourhood. Suddenly my temper gave way. I told him to get out. He began to protest, to jabber of his right of entry. In a moment I had him by the collar; something ripped, and he went spinning out into his own passage. I slammed and locked the door and sat down quivering.
secretive - geheimnisvoll
legal - juristisch, rechtlich, legal
most respectable - ehrbarste
disreputable - anrüchig
gave way - wich
protest - protestieren, demonstrieren, Einspruch erheben, Einwände äußern
ripped - gerissen; Riss; reißen, der Länge nach auftrennen
quivering - zitternd; zittern
"He made a fuss outside, which I disregarded, and after a time he went away.
fuss - Aufregung; Lärm, Wirbel, Aufstand, Gehabe
disregarded - nicht beachtet; Gleichgültigkeit, Nichtbeachten
"But this brought matters to a crisis. I did not know what he would do, nor even what he had the power to do. To move to fresh apartments would have meant delay; altogether I had barely twenty pounds left in the world, for the most part in a bank-and I could not afford that. Vanish! It was irresistible. Then there would be an inquiry, the sacking of my room.
crisis - Krise
fresh - kess (frech), frisch, frech, pampig (ugs.)
delay - Verspätung, Verzögerung, Verzug
barely - kaum; gerade noch
afford - leisten
sacking - Entlassung; plündernd, entlassend; (sac) Entlassung; plündernd
"At the thought of the possibility of my work being exposed or interrupted at its very climax, I became very angry and active. I hurried out with my three books of notes, my cheque-book-the tramp has them now-and directed them from the nearest Post Office to a house of call for letters and parcels in Great Portland Street. I tried to go out noiselessly. Coming in, I found my landlord going quietly upstairs; he had heard the door close, I suppose.
possibility - Möglichkeit
cheque - Scheck
parcels - Pakete; Paket
You would have laughed to see him jump aside on the landing as I came tearing after him. He glared at me as I went by him, and I made the house quiver with the slamming of my door. I heard him come shuffling up to my floor, hesitate, and go down. I set to work upon my preparations forthwith.
quiver - Köcher; zittern
hesitate - zögern, stammeln
preparations - Vorbereitungen; Vorbereitung, Präparat
"It was all done that evening and night. While I was still sitting under the sickly, drowsy influence of the drugs that decolourise blood, there came a repeated knocking at the door. It ceased, footsteps went away and returned, and the knocking was resumed. There was an attempt to push something under the door-a blue paper. Then in a fit of irritation I rose and went and flung the door wide open. 'Now then?'said I.
influence - Einfluss; Beeinflussung, Beeinflusser, beeinflussen
decolourise - entfärben
knocking at - anklopfend
push - schieben, drängen, stoßen
"It was my landlord, with a notice of ejectment or something. He held it out to me, saw something odd about my hands, I expect, and lifted his eyes to my face.
ejectment - Rauswurf
"For a moment he gaped. Then he gave a sort of inarticulate cry, dropped candle and writ together, and went blundering down the dark passage to the stairs. I shut the door, locked it, and went to the looking-glass. Then I understood his terror.... My face was white-like white stone.
gaped - gähnt; Zahnlücke; Lücke, Bresche, Leerstelle, Kluft
inarticulate - sprachlos, unfähig zu sprechen, undeutlich, unartikuliert
blundering - stolpern; pfuschend; (blunder); Patzer, Schnitzer, Fehler
"But it was all horrible. I had not expected the suffering. A night of racking anguish, sickness and fainting. I set my teeth, though my skin was presently afire, all my body afire; but I lay there like grim death. I understood now how it was the cat had howled until I chloroformed it.
racking - Regale; streckend; (rack) Regale; streckend
anguish - Ängste; Pein, Angst, Qual
sickness - Krankheit; Übelkeit
afire - brennt; Flammen; in Brand; Feuer und Flamme sein
grim - makaber, grimmig
Death - Tod, Exitus, der Tod, Untergang
chloroformed - chloroformiert; Chloroform
Lucky it was I lived alone and untended in my room. There were times when I sobbed and groaned and talked. But I stuck to it.... I became insensible and woke languid in the darkness.
untended - unbeaufsichtigt
sobbed - geschluchzt; Huso
stuck to - (stick to) einhalten (Regeln )
"The pain had passed. I thought I was killing myself and I did not care. I shall never forget that dawn, and the strange horror of seeing that my hands had become as clouded glass, and watching them grow clearer and thinner as the day went by, until at last I could see the sickly disorder of my room through them, though I closed my transparent eyelids.
killing - Töten, Erlegen; (kill); Töten, Erlegen
horror - Angst, Furcht, Horror, Grauen
clouded - getrübt; verschleiern
clearer - deutlicher; heller, anschaulichere; (clear); klar, durchsichtig
disorder - Unordnung; Unruhen; Störung
eyelids - Augenlider; Augenlid
My limbs became glassy, the bones and arteries faded, vanished, and the little white nerves went last. I gritted my teeth and stayed there to the end. At last only the dead tips of the fingernails remained, pallid and white, and the brown stain of some acid upon my fingers.
glassy - glasig, gläsern, glasartig
arteries - Arterien; Arterie, Schlagader
faded - verblasst; Mode, Trend, Modeerscheinung, Fimmel
gritted - geknirscht; Schrot; Kies, Streusand, Schotter, Split
fingernails - Fingernägel; Fingernagel
pallid - fahl, bleich, blass
acid - sauer; Säure
"I struggled up. At first I was as incapable as a swathed infant-stepping with limbs I could not see. I was weak and very hungry. I went and stared at nothing in my shaving-glass, at nothing save where an attenuated pigment still remained behind the retina of my eyes, fainter than mist. I had to hang on to the table and press my forehead against the glass.
swathed - ummantelt; Schneise, Schwade, Schwaden, Schwung, Landstrich
infant - Säugling, Wickelkind, Kleinkind
stepping - Treten; Steppe, Steppe
shaving - Rasieren; Span; (shave) Rasieren; Span
attenuated - abgeschwächt; verringern, vermindern, abschwächen, reduzieren
retina - Netzhaut, Retina
fainter - schwächer; (faint) schwach, matt
press - Presse (Maschine), Presse (Zeitung); drängen, drücken
"It was only by a frantic effort of will that I dragged myself back to the apparatus and completed the process.
"I slept during the forenoon, pulling the sheet over my eyes to shut out the light, and about midday I was awakened again by a knocking. My strength had returned. I sat up and listened and heard a whispering. I sprang to my feet and as noiselessly as possible began to detach the connections of my apparatus, and to distribute it about the room, so as to destroy the suggestions of its arrangement. Presently the knocking was renewed and voices called, first my landlord's, and then two others.
forenoon - am Vormittag; Vormittag
pulling - herausziehen; (pull); ziehen
awakened - geweckt; aufwecken, wecken, aufwachen, erwachen, wach werden
whispering - Geflüster; (whisper); Geflüster, Flüstern, Wispern
detach - abtrennen; entfernen, ablösen, loslösen
connections - Verbindungen; Verbindung, Verknüpfung, Verbindung, Verknüpfung
distribute - vertreiben; aufteilen, verteilen, ausliefern, beliefern
destroy - zerstören, vernichten
arrangement - Vereinbarung; Anordnung
renewed - erneuert; erneuern, erneuern
To gain time I answered them. The invisible rag and pillow came to hand and I opened the window and pitched them out on to the cistern cover. As the window opened, a heavy crash came at the door. Someone had charged it with the idea of smashing the lock. But the stout bolts I had screwed up some days before stopped him. That startled me, made me angry. I began to tremble and do things hurriedly.
gain - Gewinn, Zunahme, Verstärkung; erwerben, gewinnen, erlangen
pitched - gepitcht; werfen, festsetzen, errichten; Tonhöhe, Tonlage, Pech
screwed up - (screw up) vermasseln, etwas versauen
tremble - zittern; Zittern
hurriedly - eilig, hastig, schleuning
"I tossed together some loose paper, straw, packing paper and so forth, in the middle of the room, and turned on the gas. Heavy blows began to rain upon the door. I could not find the matches. I beat my hands on the wall with rage. I turned down the gas again, stepped out of the window on the cistern cover, very softly lowered the sash, and sat down, secure and invisible, but quivering with anger, to watch events.
packing paper - Packpapier
blows - Schläge; (to blow) blasen, wehen
stepped out - ausgeschritten
sash - Schieberahmen, Schärpe
anger - Ärger, Zorn, Wut, Groll
They split a panel, I saw, and in another moment they had broken away the staples of the bolts and stood in the open doorway. It was the landlord and his two step-sons, sturdy young men of three or four and twenty. Behind them fluttered the old hag of a woman from downstairs.
split - gespalten; Riss, Spalt, Spaltung, Spagat
panel - Verkleidung, Platte, Tafel, Paneel
broken away - (break away) abbrechen
staples - Heftklammern; Heftklammer
step - treten, treten (du trittst
sturdy - solide; robust; stabil
hag - altes Weib, Hexe
"You may imagine their astonishment to find the room empty. One of the younger men rushed to the window at once, flung it up and stared out. His staring eyes and thick-lipped bearded face came a foot from my face. I was half minded to hit his silly countenance, but I arrested my doubled fist. He stared right through me. So did the others as they joined him. The old man went and peered under the bed, and then they all made a rush for the cupboard.
lipped - lippig; Lippe, Auslauf, Überlauf, Schnaupe, Ansatz
countenance - Antlitz, Gesichtsausdruck, Miene, Unterstützung, Fassung
They had to argue about it at length in Yiddish and Cockney English. They concluded I had not answered them, that their imagination had deceived them. A feeling of extraordinary elation took the place of my anger as I sat outside the window and watched these four people-for the old lady came in, glancing suspiciously about her like a cat, trying to understand the riddle of my behaviour.
at length - schließlich, endlich, ausführlich
Yiddish - jiddisch, judendeutsch, judenteutsch, jüdischdeutsch
Cockney - Londoner
concluded - abgeschlossen; beenden, schließen, zu Ende führen, abschließen
deceived - getäuscht; betrügen, täuschen
elation - Euphorie, Hochgefühl, Begeisterung, Jubelstimmung
riddle - Rätsel
"The old man, so far as I could understand his patois, agreed with the old lady that I was a vivisectionist. The sons protested in garbled English that I was an electrician, and appealed to the dynamos and radiators. They were all nervous about my arrival, although I found subsequently that they had bolted the front door.
patois - Dialekt
vivisectionist - Vivisektionist
garbled - verstümmelt; verstümmeln
electrician - Elektriker, Elektrikerin
appealed - appelliert; Revision, Wirkung, Anziehungskraft; reizen, zusagen
radiators - Strahler, Radiator, Kühler, Heizkörper
bolted - verriegelt; Riegel, Ballen, Blitz, Bolzen; durchgehen (Pferd)
The old lady peered into the cupboard and under the bed, and one of the young men pushed up the register and stared up the chimney. One of my fellow lodgers, a coster-monger who shared the opposite room with a butcher, appeared on the landing, and he was called in and told incoherent things.
register - anmelden; Register; Register; Stilschicht, Stilebene
lodgers - Untermieter, Mieter
monger - Krämer, Händler, Verkäufer
"It occurred to me that the radiators, if they fell into the hands of some acute well-educated person, would give me away too much, and watching my opportunity, I came into the room and tilted one of the little dynamos off its fellow on which it was standing, and smashed both apparatus. Then, while they were trying to explain the smash, I dodged out of the room and went softly downstairs.
acute - scharf; spitz; akut
dodged - abgewichen; ausweichen, beiseite springen, ausweichen, umgehen
"I went into one of the sitting-rooms and waited until they came down, still speculating and argumentative, all a little disappointed at finding no 'horrors,'and all a little puzzled how they stood legally towards me. Then I slipped up again with a box of matches, fired my heap of paper and rubbish, put the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last time.
sitting-rooms - (sitting-rooms) Wohnstuben
speculating - spekulieren, Vermutungen anstellen, vermuten, spekulieren
puzzled - verwirrt; Rätsel
legally - legal
heap - Menschenmenge, Masse, Haufen, Haufe, Heap
rubbish - Quatsch, Blödsinn, Unsinn, Mist, Müll
India - Indien
rubber - Verhüterli (hum. Kondom); Radiergummi; Radierer (Radiergummi); Kautschuk
tube - Schlauch; Rohr, Röhre, Tube
Farewell - Abschied nehmen; Lebewohl, Adieu, Abschied, Lebewohl sagen
"You fired the house!" exclaimed Kemp.
"Fired the house. It was the only way to cover my trail-and no doubt it was insured. I slipped the bolts of the front door quietly and went out into the street. I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do."
trail - Pfad; folgen, verfolgen, nachstellen, nacheilen
insured - versicherte; (insure); versichern
only just - gerade erst
teeming - wimmelt; wimmeln
impunity - Straflosigkeit, Straffreiheit, Straflosigkeit
"In going downstairs the first time I found an unexpected difficulty because I could not see my feet; indeed I stumbled twice, and there was an unaccustomed clumsiness in gripping the bolt. By not looking down, however, I managed to walk on the level passably well.
unexpected - unerwartet
stumbled - gestolpert; Stolpern
unaccustomed - ungewohnt
clumsiness - Ungeschicklichkeit, Plumpheit, Unbeholfenheit
level - Niveau; eben; auf gleicher Höhe
passably - passabel; passierbar, vertretbar
"My mood, I say, was one of exaltation. I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.
exaltation - Erhöhen, Erhöhung
padded - gepolstert; Unterlage, Polster, Matte, Stütze
noiseless - geräuschlos
startle - aufschrecken, scheuen, erschrecken
clap - Tripper, Beifall; klatschen
astray - in die Irre; fehlgeleitet, abwegig, irregeleitet
generally - im Allgemeinen
revel - schwelgen; feiern, ausgelassen sein
"But hardly had I emerged upon Great Portland Street, however (my lodging was close to the big draper's shop there), when I heard a clashing concussion and was hit violently behind, and turning saw a man carrying a basket of soda-water syphons, and looking in amazement at his burden.
emerged - aufgetaucht; erscheinen, auftauchen, herauskommen, davonkommen
clashing - kollidieren; zusammengeratend
soda-water - (soda-water) Sodawasser , Selterswasser , Tafelwasser
syphons - Siphons; Siphon; entleeren
looking in - hereinschauend
Although the blow had really hurt me, I found something so irresistible in his astonishment that I laughed aloud. 'The devil's in the basket,'I said, and suddenly twisted it out of his hand. He let go incontinently, and I swung the whole weight into the air.
twisted - verdreht; Zwirn, Biegung, Wendung, Twist, verziehen, drehen
weight - Gewicht; beschweren, gewichten
"But a fool of a cabman, standing outside a public house, made a sudden rush for this, and his extending fingers took me with excruciating violence under the ear. I let the whole down with a smash on the cabman, and then, with shouts and the clatter of feet about me, people coming out of shops, vehicles pulling up, I realised what I had done for myself, and cursing my folly, backed against a shop window and prepared to dodge out of the confusion. In a moment I should be wedged into a crowd and inevitably discovered.
public house - Schankwirtschaft
extending - erweitern, ausdehnen, erweitern, ausdehnen, ausweiten
vehicles - Fahrzeuge; Fahrzeug
pulling up - heraufziehend
cursing - Fluchen; verwünschend; (curs) Fluchen; verwünschend
folly - Wahnsinn; Torheit, Narrheit, Dummheit, Tollheit
shop window - Schaufenster
wedged - verkeilt; verkeilen, festklemmen
inevitably - unausweichlich; zwangsläufig; erwartbarerweise
I pushed by a butcher boy, who luckily did not turn to see the nothingness that shoved him aside, and dodged behind the cab-man's four-wheeler. I do not know how they settled the business. I hurried straight across the road, which was happily clear, and hardly heeding which way I went, in the fright of detection the incident had given me, plunged into the afternoon throng of Oxford Street.
luckily - glücklicherweise, auf glückliche Weise, mit Glück, zum Glück
shoved - geschoben; schieben
cab - Taxi, Fiaker
Happily - glücklicherweise, fröhlich, bereitwillig, gerne
heeding - beachtet; beherzigen, beachten
fright - erschrecken; Angst, Schreck, Schrecken
detection - Erkennung; Detektion
incident - Vorfall, Begebenheit, Ereignis, Geschehnis
plunged - stürzte; eintauchen, tauchen
throng - Menschengewühl, Gedränge, Menschenmenge, Schwarm
"I tried to get into the stream of people, but they were too thick for me, and in a moment my heels were being trodden upon. I took to the gutter, the roughness of which I found painful to my feet, and forthwith the shaft of a crawling hansom dug me forcibly under the shoulder blade, reminding me that I was already bruised severely. I staggered out of the way of the cab, avoided a perambulator by a convulsive movement, and found myself behind the hansom.
stream - Bach; Strom; Datenstrom; strömen; streamen
trodden - zertreten; (to tread) betreten, schreiten
gutter - Regenrinne, Rinnstein, Gosse
roughness - Rauheit, Grobheit
shaft - Welle; Schaft; Strahl; Schacht; hereinlegen, übervorteilen
crawling - (crawl) krabbeln, kriechen; (crawl) (crawl) krabbeln, kriechen
Hansom - Kutsche
forcibly - gewaltsame, gewaltsam
shoulder blade - Schulterblatt
reminding - erinnern, in Erinnerung bringen
avoided - vermieden; ausweichen, meiden, fernbleiben, vermeiden
perambulator - Messrad, Kinderwagen
A happy thought saved me, and as this drove slowly along I followed in its immediate wake, trembling and astonished at the turn of my adventure. And not only trembling, but shivering. It was a bright day in January and I was stark naked and the thin slime of mud that covered the road was freezing. Foolish as it seems to me now, I had not reckoned that, transparent or not, I was still amenable to the weather and all its consequences.
saved - gerettet; retten, erretten, sichern, speichern, sparen
immediate - sofortig; unmittelbar, immediat
trembling - Zittern, Beben; (tremble); zittern; Zittern
adventure - Abenteuer
shivering - Frösteln; schlotternde, schlotternd
stark naked - splitterfasernackt, splitternackt
slime - Schleim
mud - Schmutz, Schlamm; Rollenspiel im Internet
freezing - einfrieren; frostig, affenkalt, Erstarren
reckoned - gerechnet; rechnen, damit rechnen, zählen
amenable - aufnahmefähig
consequences - Folgen; Konsequenz, Folge, Konsequenz, Folge, Konsequenz
"Then suddenly a bright idea came into my head. I ran round and got into the cab. And so, shivering, scared, and sniffing with the first intimations of a cold, and with the bruises in the small of my back growing upon my attention, I drove slowly along Oxford Street and past Tottenham Court Road.
intimations - Andeutungen; Andeutung
Court - Hof, Hofstaat, Gericht, Gerichtshof, Platz, werben
My mood was as different from that in which I had sallied forth ten minutes ago as it is possible to imagine. This invisibility indeed! The one thought that possessed me was-how was I to get out of the scrape I was in.
sallied - geflüchtet; aufbrechen
possessed - besessen; besitzen, besitzen
"We crawled past Mudie's, and there a tall woman with five or six yellow-labelled books hailed my cab, and I sprang out just in time to escape her, shaving a railway van narrowly in my flight. I made off up the roadway to Bloomsbury Square, intending to strike north past the Museum and so get into the quiet district.
hailed - jdm. zujubeln; (Hail to thee!) Wohl dir!, Sei gegrüßt!
van - Lieferwagen; Van
made off - davongemacht
intending - beabsichtigen, vorhaben, intendieren
I was now cruelly chilled, and the strangeness of my situation so unnerved me that I whimpered as I ran. At the northward corner of the Square a little white dog ran out of the Pharmaceutical Society's offices, and incontinently made for me, nose down.
cruelly - grausam
chilled - gekühlt; Mutlosigkeit, Frostgefühl
strangeness - Seltsamkeit; Fremdartigkeit, Fremdheit
unnerved - entnervt; entnerven
whimpered - gewimmert; Wimmern
northward - nordwärts
Pharmaceutical - pharmazeutisch, q
Society - Gesellschaft
"I had never realised it before, but the nose is to the mind of a dog what the eye is to the mind of a seeing man. Dogs perceive the scent of a man moving as men perceive his vision. This brute began barking and leaping, showing, as it seemed to me, only too plainly that he was aware of me.
perceive - wahrnehmen
scent - Geruch, Duft, Parfüm, Parfum, Fährte, Geruch (1, 3)
barking - Bellen
plainly - klar und deutlich; klar
I crossed Great Russell Street, glancing over my shoulder as I did so, and went some way along Montague Street before I realised what I was running towards.
crossed - gekreuzt; Kreuz
"Then I became aware of a blare of music, and looking along the street saw a number of people advancing out of Russell Square, red shirts, and the banner of the Salvation Army to the fore. Such a crowd, chanting in the roadway and scoffing on the pavement, I could not hope to penetrate, and dreading to go back and farther from home again, and deciding on the spur of the moment, I ran up the white steps of a house facing the museum railings, and stood there until the crowd should have passed.
blare - plärren
advancing - fortschreitend; erhöhen, erheben, befördern, vorrücken
banner - Banner, Fahne, Spruchbanner
Salvation Army - Heilsarmee
fore - vorn
chanting - skandieren; Kirchenlied, Gesang
Scoffing - Verspottet; verspottend; (scoff) Verspottet; verspottend
penetrate - durchdringen; eindringen, penetrieren
dreading - schaudern, grauen, gruseln, grausen
on the spur of the moment - Hals über Kopf, spontan
ran up - (run up) hochfahren, hissen
railings - Geländer
Happily the dog stopped at the noise of the band too, hesitated, and turned tail, running back to Bloomsbury Square again.
"On came the band, bawling with unconscious irony some hymn about 'When shall we see His face?'and it seemed an interminable time to me before the tide of the crowd washed along the pavement by me. Thud, thud, thud, came the drum with a vibrating resonance, and for the moment I did not notice two urchins stopping at the railings by me. 'See 'em,'said one. 'See what?'said the other. 'Why-them footmarks-bare. Like what you makes in mud.'
bawling - Gegröle; grölend; (bawl); schreien, brüllen, heulen
unconscious - bewusstlos; spontan, unbewusst, unterbewusst, Unbewusstes
irony - Ironie
hymn - Hymne (''now rare in this sense''); Hymnus, Kirchenlied, Loblied
tide - Gezeiten, Ebbe
drum - Trommel
resonance - Resonanz; Mesomerie
urchins - Seeigel; Bengel, Lümmel, Lausbube, Racker, Schlingel, Göre
"I looked down and saw the youngsters had stopped and were gaping at the muddy footmarks I had left behind me up the newly whitened steps. The passing people elbowed and jostled them, but their confounded intelligence was arrested.
Muddy - trübe, schlammig
newly - neu
whitened - geweißt; weißen, erman: weiß werden
elbowed - mit dem Ellbogen gestoßen; Ellbogen, Rohrbogen, Ellbogenstoß
jostled - angerempelt; drängeln, drängeln, Drängelei, Gedrängel
'Thud, thud, thud, when, thud, shall we see, thud, his face, thud, thud.''There's a barefoot man gone up them steps, or I don't know nothing,'said one. 'And he ain't never come down again. And his foot was a-bleeding.'
barefoot - barfuß
bleeding - Blutungen; Blutung; (bleed); bluten; ausbluten; entlüften; Blutung; Beschnitt
"The thick of the crowd had already passed. 'Looky there, Ted,'quoth the younger of the detectives, with the sharpness of surprise in his voice, and pointed straight to my feet. I looked down and saw at once the dim suggestion of their outline sketched in splashes of mud. For a moment I was paralysed.
quoth - Was sagt er
Detectives - Detektive; Ermittler, Ermittlerin, Detektiv, Detektiv
sharpness - Schärfe; Schärfe, Bildschärfe
outline - skizzieren; Umriss, Kontur, Skizze, Skizzierung, Umrisszeichnung
sketched - skizziert; skizzieren, entwerfen, Skizze, Sketch
splashes - Spritzer; Spritzen, plätschern, platschen
paralysed - gelähmt; lahmlegen; lähmen
"'Why, that's rum,'said the elder. 'Dashed rum! It's just like the ghost of a foot, ain't it?'He hesitated and advanced with outstretched hand. A man pulled up short to see what he was catching, and then a girl. In another moment he would have touched me. Then I saw what to do.
outstretched - ausgestreckt; ausstrecken
catching - nehmend, fangend
I made a step, the boy started back with an exclamation, and with a rapid movement I swung myself over into the portico of the next house. But the smaller boy was sharp-eyed enough to follow the movement, and before I was well down the steps and upon the pavement, he had recovered from his momentary astonishment and was shouting out that the feet had gone over the wall.
portico - Säulengang; Portikus
"They rushed round and saw my new footmarks flash into being on the lower step and upon the pavement. 'What's up?'asked someone. 'Feet! Look! Feet running!'
"Everybody in the road, except my three pursuers, was pouring along after the Salvation Army, and this blow not only impeded me but them. There was an eddy of surprise and interrogation. At the cost of bowling over one young fellow I got through, and in another moment I was rushing headlong round the circuit of Russell Square, with six or seven astonished people following my footmarks.
pursuers - Verfolger, Verfolgerin
Salvation - Erlösung, Rettung
army - Heer, Landstreitkräfte, Armee, Heeresamt
impeded - behindert; behindern, erschweren, hemmen, hindern, vereiteln
eddy - Strudel
interrogation - Verhör; Befragung
bowling - Bowling; Kegeln; (bowl); Bowling; Kegeln
got through - drangen
circuit - Umlauf; Schaltkreis; Bezirk
There was no time for explanation, or else the whole host would have been after me.
Host - Zeremonienmeister, Hausherr, Menge; Hostie; Gastgeber sein
"Twice I doubled round corners, thrice I crossed the road and came back upon my tracks, and then, as my feet grew hot and dry, the damp impressions began to fade. At last I had a breathing space and rubbed my feet clean with my hands, and so got away altogether.
tracks - Spuren; Spur, Fußspur, Fußsohle, Trampelpfad, Bahn, Bahn
got away - davongekommen
The last I saw of the chase was a little group of a dozen people perhaps, studying with infinite perplexity a slowly drying footprint that had resulted from a puddle in Tavistock Square, a footprint as isolated and incomprehensible to them as Crusoe's solitary discovery.
footprint - Fußabdruck, Fußspur, Fußstapfen, Profil, Standfläche
puddle - Pfütze, Lache, Pfuhl
isolated - isoliert; isolieren, absondern, abdichten
solitary - einsam, einzeln
"This running warmed me to a certain extent, and I went on with a better courage through the maze of less frequented roads that runs hereabouts. My back had now become very stiff and sore, my tonsils were painful from the cabman's fingers, and the skin of my neck had been scratched by his nails; my feet hurt exceedingly and I was lame from a little cut on one foot. I saw in time a blind man approaching me, and fled limping, for I feared his subtle intuitions.
extent - Umfang, Ausdehnung, Ausmaß, Größe
maze - Labyrinth; Irrgarten
frequented - frequentiert; häufig; aufsuchen
tonsils - Mandeln; Mandel, Tonsille
lame - lähmen; lahm
limping - lahmend, hinkend; (limp) lahmend, hinkend
feared - gefürchtet; fürchten, befürchten, Angst haben; Furcht, Schreck
subtle - subtil, fast unmerklich, haarfein, dezent
intuitions - Intuitionen; Ahnung, Anschauung, Eingebung, Einfühlungsvermögen
Once or twice accidental collisions occurred and I left people amazed, with unaccountable curses ringing in their ears. Then came something silent and quiet against my face, and across the Square fell a thin veil of slowly falling flakes of snow. I had caught a cold, and do as I would I could not avoid an occasional sneeze. And every dog that came in sight, with its pointing nose and curious sniffing, was a terror to me.
accidental - versehentlich, zufällig, Zufall, Versehen
collisions - Kollisionen; Zusammenstoß, Kollision
unaccountable - nicht rechenschaftspflichtig
veil - Vorhang; Schleier; verschleiern, verhüllen
flakes - Spinner; sich abschälen, abblättern; Fetzen, Flocke
caught a cold - erkältete
"Then came men and boys running, first one and then others, and shouting as they ran. It was a fire. They ran in the direction of my lodging, and looking back down a street I saw a mass of black smoke streaming up above the roofs and telephone wires. It was my lodging burning; my clothes, my apparatus, all my resources indeed, except my cheque-book and the three volumes of memoranda that awaited me in Great Portland Street, were there.
streaming - strömend; (stream); Bach; Strom; Datenstrom; strömen; streamen
roofs - Dächer; überdachen; Autodach, Dach
wires - Drähte; Draht, Draht, Ader, Wanze, Geld
resources - Ressourcen; Betriebsmittel, Hilfsquelle, Ressource
awaited - erwartet; erwarten, harren, warten
Burning! I had burnt my boats-if ever a man did! The place was blazing."
burnt - angebrannt, verbrannt, brennen, verbrennen; (burn) angebrannt
blazing - lodernd; Lohe, Brand, Großbrand, brenne, Glut
The Invisible Man paused and thought. Kemp glanced nervously out of the window. "Yes?" he said. "Go on."
"So last January, with the beginning of a snowstorm in the air about me-and if it settled on me it would betray me!-weary, cold, painful, inexpressibly wretched, and still but half convinced of my invisible quality, I began this new life to which I am committed. I had no refuge, no appliances, no human being in the world in whom I could confide. To have told my secret would have given me away-made a mere show and rarity of me.
snowstorm - Schneesturm
inexpressibly - unaussprechlich
wretched - unglücklich; sehr schlecht, miserabel, wertlos
Convinced - Überzeugt; überzeugen
quality - Qualität, Eigenschaft, Qualität
committed - verpflichtet; einweisen, einliefern, begehen, verbrechen
refuge - Zuflucht; Herberge
whom - wen; wem; dem, der, den, die
confide - anvertrauen; vertrauen; einweihen, ins Vertrauen ziehen
rarity - Seltenheit, Rarität
Nevertheless, I was half-minded to accost some passer-by and throw myself upon his mercy. But I knew too clearly the terror and brutal cruelty my advances would evoke. I made no plans in the street. My sole object was to get shelter from the snow, to get myself covered and warm; then I might hope to plan. But even to me, an Invisible Man, the rows of London houses stood latched, barred, and bolted impregnably.
accost - ansprechen
passer - Passant; Passer; (pass) Passant; Passer
mercy - Barmherzigkeit, Erbarmen, Gnade, Mitleid
brutal - brutal
cruelty - Grausamkeit, Quälerei
evoke - evozieren; hervorrufen
sole - Seezunge, Sohle, einzig
latched - verriegelt; Riegel, Sperre, Klinke
"Only one thing could I see clearly before me-the cold exposure and misery of the snowstorm and the night.
"And then I had a brilliant idea. I turned down one of the roads leading from Gower Street to Tottenham Court Road, and found myself outside Omniums, the big establishment where everything is to be bought-you know the place: meat, grocery, linen, furniture, clothing, oil paintings even-a huge meandering collection of shops rather than a shop. I had thought I should find the doors open, but they were closed, and as I stood in the wide entrance a carriage stopped outside, and a man in uniform-you know the kind of personage with 'Omnium'on his cap-flung open the door.
A brilliant idea - eine geniale Idee
Grocery - Lebensmittelladen, Lebensmittelgeschäft, Lebensmittelhandlung
paintings - Gemälde
meandering - mäandernd, mäanderartig, abschweifend
collection - Sammlung, Kollektion, Menge, Sammeln
entrance - Eingang, Einfahrt, Antritt
uniform - gleichförmig, gleichmäßig, einheitlich, Uniform, Dienstkleidung
personage - Persönlichkeit
cap - Ventilkappe; Mütze, Haube, Kappe, Deckel; Laufflächenkrone
I contrived to enter, and walking down the shop-it was a department where they were selling ribbons and gloves and stockings and that kind of thing-came to a more spacious region devoted to picnic baskets and wicker furniture.
contrived - ausgeklügelt; ersinnen, entwerfen, bewerkstelligen
department - Abteilung
ribbons - Bändchen; Band
stockings - Strümpfe; Strumpf
region - Gegend, Region, Raum, Gebiet, Bezirk
picnic - Picknick; Kinderspiel
baskets - Körbe; Korb
wicker - Korbwaren; Weide; Flechtwerk
"I did not feel safe there, however; people were going to and fro, and I prowled restlessly about until I came upon a huge section in an upper floor containing multitudes of bedsteads, and over these I clambered, and found a resting-place at last among a huge pile of folded flock mattresses. The place was already lit up and agreeably warm, and I decided to remain where I was, keeping a cautious eye on the two or three sets of shopmen and customers who were meandering through the place, until closing time came. Then I should be able, I thought, to rob the place for food and clothing, and disguised, prowl through it and examine its resources, perhaps sleep on some of the bedding.
prowled - herumgeschlichen; durchstreifen, herumstreifen, herumstreifen
restlessly - rastlose
upper floor - Obergeschoss
multitudes - Scharen; Vielzahl, Menge, Menschenmenge, Menge, Volk
bedsteads - Bettgestelle; Bettgestell
resting-place - (resting-place) Rastplatz
pile - Haufen, Pfahl, Pulk
folded - falten, zusammenlegen, verschränken (Arme); Falte, gefaltete
flock - Schwarm; (to flock together) sich rotten, sich zusammenrotten
mattresses - Matratzen; Matratze
agreeably - zustimmen; angenehm
cautious - zurückhaltend; vorsichtig, zaghaft, behutsam
sets - Seth
shopmen - Geschäftsleute; Verkäufer
closing time - Polizeistunde , Sperrstunde ;Büroschluss
sleep on - überschlafen
That seemed an acceptable plan. My idea was to procure clothing to make myself a muffled but acceptable figure, to get money, and then to recover my books and parcels where they awaited me, take a lodging somewhere and elaborate plans for the complete realisation of the advantages my invisibility gave me (as I still imagined) over my fellow-men.
acceptable - akzeptabel
procure - beschaffen, erwerben, besorgen, aufbringen
elaborate - ausarbeiten; ausführlich, durchdacht, ausführen
"Closing time arrived quickly enough. It could not have been more than an hour after I took up my position on the mattresses before I noticed the blinds of the windows being drawn, and customers being marched doorward. And then a number of brisk young men began with remarkable alacrity to tidy up the goods that remained disturbed. I left my lair as the crowds diminished, and prowled cautiously out into the less desolate parts of the shop. I was really surprised to observe how rapidly the young men and women whipped away the goods displayed for sale during the day. All the boxes of goods, the hanging fabrics, the festoons of lace, the boxes of sweets in the grocery section, the displays of this and that, were being whipped down, folded up, slapped into tidy receptacles, and everything that could not be taken down and put away had sheets of some coarse stuff like sacking flung over them. Finally all the chairs were turned up on to the counters, leaving the floor clear. Directly each of these young people had done, he or she made promptly for the door with such an expression of animation as I have rarely observed in a shop assistant before. Then came a lot of youngsters scattering sawdust and carrying pails and brooms. I had to dodge to get out of the way, and as it was, my ankle got stung with the sawdust. For some time, wandering through the swathed and darkened departments, I could hear the brooms at work. And at last a good hour or more after the shop had been closed, came a noise of locking doors.
doorward - türwärts
tidy up - aufräumen
lair - Versteck; lagern
crowds - Menschenmassen; Menschenmenge, Masse
sale - Vertrieb, Verkauf; verkaufen
fabrics - Stoffe; Bau, Rohbau, Struktur, Gewebe
festoons - Girlanden; Feston
lace - schnüren, Spitze (Gewebe)
sweets - Süßigkeiten; Süßigkeit, Bonbon
displays - Anzeigen; Vorführung, Vorstellung, Display
receptacles - Gefäße; Gefäß
taken down - abgehängt
put away - weglegen;weggelegt
coarse - grob, grobkörnig, derb, primitiv
counters - Zähler, Ladentisch; kontern
observed - beobachtet; beobachten, beachten, halten, bemerken
sawdust - Sägemehl, Sägespäne
pails - Eimer
brooms - Auskehrer, Besen
stung - gestochen; Stachel, brennender Schmerz
darkened - verdunkelt; verdunkeln, verdunkeln
departments - Abteilungen; Abteilung
Silence came upon the place, and I found myself wandering through the vast and intricate shops, galleries, show-rooms of the place, alone. It was very still; in one place I remember passing near one of the Tottenham Court Road entrances and listening to the tapping of boot-heels of the passers-by.
intricate - verwickelt
galleries - Galerien; Galerie, Galerie, Galerie, Galerie
entrances - Eingänge; Eingang, Einfahrt, Antritt
tapping - anzapfend, klopfend, steppend; (tap) anzapfend, klopfend
passers - Passanten; Passer
"My first visit was to the place where I had seen stockings and gloves for sale. It was dark, and I had the devil of a hunt after matches, which I found at last in the drawer of the little cash desk. Then I had to get a candle. I had to tear down wrappings and ransack a number of boxes and drawers, but at last I managed to turn out what I sought; the box label called them lambswool pants, and lambswool vests.
cash desk - Kassenschalter
tear down - abbrechen
sought - gesucht; suchen
label - Etikett, Etikette, Beschriftung, Aufschrift, etikettieren
pants - Hosen; keuchen, hecheln, schnaufen (i. S. v. keuchen)
vests - Unterhemden; Weste, Gilet
Then socks, a thick comforter, and then I went to the clothing place and got trousers, a lounge jacket, an overcoat and a slouch hat-a clerical sort of hat with the brim turned down. I began to feel a human being again, and my next thought was food.
comforter - Trostspender; Tröster; Bettdecke, Plumeau, Plümo
lounge - Lounge, Wartezimmer, Warteraum, Wohnzimmer
slouch - nachlässig; herumlungern, herumhängen, Durchhänger, Schlafmütze
clerical - kirchlich; klerikal, geistlich, priesterlich
"Upstairs was a refreshment department, and there I got cold meat. There was coffee still in the urn, and I lit the gas and warmed it up again, and altogether I did not do badly. Afterwards, prowling through the place in search of blankets-I had to put up at last with a heap of down quilts-I came upon a grocery section with a lot of chocolate and candied fruits, more than was good for me indeed-and some white burgundy.
refreshment - Erfrischung
cold meat - Aufschnitt
urn - Urne
blankets - Decke, Wolldecke, Bettdecke, Schicht, Lage, allgemein
quilts - Steppdecken; Steppdecke, only for decorative examples: Quilt
candied - kandiert; Süßigkeit, kandieren, Bonbon, Kandis; Naschereien
Burgundy - Bordeauxrot, Weinrot, Burgunderrot
And near that was a toy department, and I had a brilliant idea. I found some artificial noses-dummy noses, you know, and I thought of dark spectacles. But Omniums had no optical department. My nose had been a difficulty indeed-I had thought of paint. But the discovery set my mind running on wigs and masks and the like. Finally I went to sleep in a heap of down quilts, very warm and comfortable.
toy - Spielzeug; herumspielen
dummy - Puppe; Attrappe
wigs - Perücken; Perücke
masks - Masken; Maske; abkleben (zum Schutz); abdecken, maskieren
"My last thoughts before sleeping were the most agreeable I had had since the change. I was in a state of physical serenity, and that was reflected in my mind. I thought that I should be able to slip out unobserved in the morning with my clothes upon me, muffling my face with a white wrapper I had taken, purchase, with the money I had taken, spectacles and so forth, and so complete my disguise. I lapsed into disorderly dreams of all the fantastic things that had happened during the last few days.
thoughts - Gedanken; Gedanke
agreeable - angenehm; verträglich, liebenswürdig, gefällig
serenity - Gelassenheit, Gleichmut, Klarheit, Heiterkeit, Abgeklärtheit
unobserved - unbeobachtet
muffling - Schalldämpfer; umhüllend
purchase - Einkauf, Anschaffung, kaufen, anschaffen
lapsed - verjährt; Runden
disorderly - unordentlich
dreams - Traum, Traum, t+Wunsch, träumen, träumen, t+wünschen, träumen
I saw the ugly little Jew of a landlord vociferating in his rooms; I saw his two sons marvelling, and the wrinkled old woman's gnarled face as she asked for her cat. I experienced again the strange sensation of seeing the cloth disappear, and so I came round to the windy hillside and the sniffing old clergyman mumbling 'Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,'at my father's open grave.
vociferating - lautstark; schreien
wrinkled - zerknittert; sich runzeln, runzlig (runzelig) werden, knittern
gnarled - knorrig; Knorren
disappear - verschwinden, entschwinden, zum Verschwinden bringen
mumbling - Nuscheln; Genuschel, murmelnd; (mumble); murmeln, nuscheln
ashes to ashes - Asche zu Asche
dust - Staub; entstauben, abstauben, ein Sandbad nehmen, sandbaden
"'You also,'said a voice, and suddenly I was being forced towards the grave. I struggled, shouted, appealed to the mourners, but they continued stonily following the service; the old clergyman, too, never faltered droning and sniffing through the ritual. I realised I was invisible and inaudible, that overwhelming forces had their grip on me.
mourners - Trauernder, Trauernde
stonily - steinig
faltered - Wanken
droning - dröhnen, brummen, eintönig reden, herleiern; Drohne, Basspfeife
Ritual - rituell; Ritual
inaudible - nicht hörbar
forces - Kräfte; zwingen, forcieren, erzwingen; Stärke, Macht, Einfluss
I struggled in vain, I was forced over the brink, the coffin rang hollow as I fell upon it, and the gravel came flying after me in spadefuls. Nobody heeded me, nobody was aware of me. I made convulsive struggles and awoke.
vain - eitel; unnützlich
brink - Rande; Rand
coffin - Sarg, einsargen
heeded - beachtet; beherzigen, beachten
"the pale London dawn had come, the place was full of a chilly grey light that filtered round the edges of the window blinds. I sat up, and for a time I could not think where this ample apartment, with its counters, its piles of rolled stuff, its heap of quilts and cushions, its iron pillars, might be. Then, as recollection came back to me, I heard voices in conversation.
the pale - die Grenze des Erlaubten
filtered - gefiltert; Filter, Filter, Filter, filtern, filtern, filtrieren
edges - Kanten; Rand, Seite, Kante, Kante, Vorsprung, Klinge, Schneide
piles - Stapel; Haufen, Pfahl, Pulk
cushions - Kissen
iron - eisern; bügeln; in Eisen legen
pillars - Pfeilern; Pfeiler, Säule
recollection - Erinnern Sie sich; Erinnerung
"Then far down the place, in the brighter light of some department which had already raised its blinds, I saw two men approaching. I scrambled to my feet, looking about me for some way of escape, and even as I did so the sound of my movement made them aware of me. I suppose they saw merely a figure moving quietly and quickly away. 'Who's that?'cried one, and 'Stop there!'shouted the other. I dashed around a corner and came full tilt-a faceless figure, Mind you!
scrambled - verschlüsselt; krabbeln, drängeln, verrühren, verquirlen
tilt - neigen; Schärfedehnung, Höchstleistung
faceless - gesichtslos
Mind you - wohlgemerkt;Das du dich ja warm hältst!
on a lanky lad of fifteen. He yelled and I bowled him over, rushed past him, turned another corner, and by a happy inspiration threw myself behind a counter. In another moment feet went running past and I heard voices shouting, 'All hands to the doors!'asking what was 'up,'and giving one another advice how to catch me.
lanky - schlaksig
lad - Junge, Knabe, Bube, Bursche, junger Mann, Stallbursche
bowled - gekegelt; Schüssel, Kessel
"Lying on the ground, I felt scared out of my wits. But-odd as it may seem-it did not occur to me at the moment to take off my clothes as I should have done. I had made up my mind, I suppose, to get away in them, and that ruled me. And then down the vista of the counters came a bawling of 'Here he is!'
vista - Aussicht
"I sprang to my feet, whipped a chair off the counter, and sent it whirling at the fool who had shouted, turned, came into another round a corner, sent him spinning, and rushed up the stairs. He kept his footing, gave a view hallo, and came up the staircase hot after me. Up the staircase were piled a multitude of those bright-coloured pot things-what are they?"
"Art pots," suggested Kemp.
pots - Töpfe; Blumentopf
"That's it! Art pots. Well, I turned at the top step and swung round, plucked one out of a pile and smashed it on his silly head as he came at me. The whole pile of pots went headlong, and I heard shouting and footsteps running from all parts. I made a mad rush for the refreshment place, and there was a man in white like a man cook, who took up the chase. I made one last desperate turn and found myself among lamps and ironmongery. I went behind the counter of this, and waited for my cook, and as he bolted in at the head of the chase, I doubled him up with a lamp.
plucked - gerupft; pflücken, abrupfen, zupfen, schlagen, rupfen, ausrupfen
A mad rush for - eine wilde Jagd nach
ironmongery - Eisenwaren
Down he went, and I crouched down behind the counter and began whipping off my clothes as fast as I could. Coat, jacket, trousers, shoes were all right, but a lambswool vest fits a man like a skin. I heard more men coming, my cook was lying quiet on the other side of the counter, stunned or scared speechless, and I had to make another dash for it, like a rabbit hunted out of a wood-pile.
crouched - gehockt; sich ducken (vor), kriechen; kauern, hocken
whipping - (whip) auspeitschen, flitzen, peitschen; (whip); Peitsche
fits - passt; (to be fit) in Form sein
speechless - sprachlos, fassungslos, stumm
Dash - Bindestrich, Gedankenstrich, Querstrich, Spurt, Sprint
wood - Holz
"'This way, policeman!'I heard someone shouting. I found myself in my bedstead storeroom again, and at the end of a wilderness of wardrobes. I rushed among them, went flat, got rid of my vest after infinite wriggling, and stood a free man again, panting and scared, as the policeman and three of the shopmen came round the corner.
bedstead - Bettgestell, Bettrahmen
storeroom - Lager, Lagerraum, Abstellraum
wilderness - Wildnis, Wüste
wardrobes - Schränke; Garderobe, Kleiderschrank
They made a rush for the vest and pants, and collared the trousers. 'He's dropping his plunder,'said one of the young men. 'He must be somewhere here.'
plunder - ausplündern, ausbeuten, Plünderung, Beute, Raubgut
"But they did not find me all the same.
"I stood watching them hunt for me for a time, and cursing my ill-luck in losing the clothes. Then I went into the refreshment-room, drank a little milk I found there, and sat down by the fire to consider my position.
refreshment-room - (refreshment-room) Erfrischungsraum
"In a little while two assistants came in and began to talk over the business very excitedly and like the fools they were. I heard a magnified account of my depredations, and other speculations as to my whereabouts. Then I fell to scheming again. The insurmountable difficulty of the place, especially now it was alarmed, was to get any plunder out of it. I went down into the warehouse to see if there was any chance of packing and addressing a parcel, but I could not understand the system of checking.
assistants - Assistenten; helfend, hilfreich, Assistent, Mitarbeiter, Helfer
talk over - besprechen
excitedly - aufgeregt
magnified - vergrößert; vergrößern
depredations - Verwüstungen; Plünderung
speculations - Spekulationen; Spekulation, Betrachtung, Spekulation
scheming - intrigieren; ränkevoll; (scheme); Programm, Plan, Projekt
insurmountable - unüberwindbar
warehouse - Lager, Lagerhaus, Speicherhaus, Packhaus, lagern
packing - Kühleinbauten (Kühlturm); Aufzug (Drucktechnik); Abdichtung (Dichtung)
About eleven o'clock, the snow having thawed as it fell, and the day being finer and a little warmer than the previous one, I decided that the Emporium was hopeless, and went out again, exasperated at my want of success, with only the vaguest plans of action in my mind."
thawed - aufgetaut; tauen, schmelzen, auftauen, entspannen, Schmelze
exasperated - verärgert; verärgern, aufbringen, auf die Palme bringen
vaguest - am vagesten; nebelhaft, schwach, unklar, undeutlich, ungenau
"But you begin now to realise," said the Invisible Man, "the full disadvantage of my condition. I had no shelter-no covering-to get clothing was to forego all my advantage, to make myself a strange and terrible thing. I was fasting; for to eat, to fill myself with unassimilated matter, would be to become grotesquely visible again."
disadvantage - Nachteil
forego - Verzichten; vorhergehen
unassimilated - unassimiliert
grotesquely - grotesk
"I never thought of that," said Kemp.
"Nor had I. And the snow had warned me of other dangers. I could not go abroad in snow-it would settle on me and expose me. Rain, too, would make me a watery outline, a glistening surface of a man-a bubble. And fog-I should be like a fainter bubble in a fog, a surface, a greasy glimmer of humanity.
warned - gewarnt; warnen, mahnen, warnen
dangers - Gefahren; Gefahr, Risiko
go abroad - ins Ausland gehen
settle - regeln; abklären
expose - entlarven; aufdecken, offenbaren, entblößen, bloßlegen
watery - wässrig
glistening - glitzern, glänzen, gleißen
surface - Oberfläche; auftauchen; publik werden, ans Licht kommen
bubble - Blase; Blase; blubbern
Fog - umnebeln, verschleiern; (dicker) Nebel, Nebel
Moreover, as I went abroad-in the London air-I gathered dirt about my ankles, floating smuts and dust upon my skin. I did not know how long it would be before I should become visible from that cause also. But I saw clearly it could not be for long.
Moreover - außerdem, überdies, des Weiteren, obendrein
dirt - Schmutz; Erde, Boden, Dreck
ankles - Knöchel, Fußknöchel
smuts - Brand
cause - Ursache, Anlass, Grund, verursachen, auslösen, lassen
"Not in London at any rate.
"I went into the slums towards Great Portland Street, and found myself at the end of the street in which I had lodged. I did not go that way, because of the crowd halfway down it opposite to the still smoking ruins of the house I had fired.
slums - Elendsviertel
lodged - hinterlegt; Lodge, Loge, Loge, Biberburg, feststecken
opposite to - gegenüber
ruins - Ruinen; Ruine, Ruin, Ruin, ruinieren, auf die Knie zwingen
My most immediate problem was to get clothing. What to do with my face puzzled me. Then I saw in one of those little miscellaneous shops-news, sweets, toys, stationery, belated Christmas tomfoolery, and so forth-an array of masks and noses. I realised that problem was solved. In a flash I saw my course. I turned about, no longer aimless, and went-circuitously in order to avoid the busy ways, towards the back streets north of the Strand; for I remembered, though not very distinctly where, that some theatrical costumiers had shops in that district.
miscellaneous - Verschiedenes
toys - Spielzeug
Stationery - Papierware, Büromaterial, Briefpapier
Christmas - Weihnachten
tomfoolery - Dummheit; Unsinn, Blödsinn, Clownerie
array - Bekleidung, Tracht, Arrangement; Feld; Übersicht, Anzahl, Fülle
solved - gelöst; lösen
turned about - kehrtgemacht
circuitously - umständlich
Strand - Strand, Ader, Faden, Strähne; auf den Strand setzen
theatrical - theatralisch, Theater
"The day was cold, with a nipping wind down the northward running streets. I walked fast to avoid being overtaken. Every crossing was a danger, every passenger a thing to watch alertly. One man as I was about to pass him at the top of Bedford Street, turned upon me abruptly and came into me, sending me into the road and almost under the wheel of a passing hansom. The verdict of the cab-rank was that he had had some sort of stroke.
nipping - kneifen, zwicken; flitzen
overtaken - überholt; überholen, aufholen, überholen
Crossing - Kreuzung; Überfahrt; (cross); Kreuz; Kreuzzeichen; Kreuzung; Cross; Flanke; quer; entgegengesetzt
danger - Gefahr, Risiko, Bedrohung; (dang); Gefahr, Risiko, Bedrohung
passenger - Passagier, Passagierin, Fahrgast, Fahrgästin
alertly - wachsame
verdict - Gerichtsurteil
stroke - Schlaganfall; streicheln; Stoß, Schlag, Streich, Hub
I was so unnerved by this encounter that I went into Covent Garden Market and sat down for some time in a quiet corner by a stall of violets, panting and trembling. I found I had caught a fresh cold, and had to turn out after a time lest my sneezes should attract attention.
encounter - mit etw. in Berührung kommen;entgegentreten, sich begegnen, treffen auf;Begegnung , Treffen , Zusammenstoß
violets - Violett, Veilchen
sneezes - niest; niesen, Niesen
attract attention - auffallen
"At last I reached the object of my quest, a dirty, fly-blown little shop in a by-way near Drury Lane, with a window full of tinsel robes, sham jewels, wigs, slippers, dominoes and theatrical photographs. The shop was old-fashioned and low and dark, and the house rose above it for four storeys, dark and dismal. I peered through the window and, seeing no one within, entered.
quest - Frage, Suche
blown - aufgeflogen; (to blow) blasen, wehen, pusten
tinsel - flittern, Lametta
robes - Gewänder; Robe
sham - Schwindel; Schein., Fälschung
jewels - Juwelen; Edelstein, Juwel
dominoes - Dominosteine; Domino, Dominostein, Dominospiel
old-fashioned - (old-fashioned) altmodisch
storeys - Stockwerke; Stock, Stockwerk
The opening of the door set a clanking bell ringing. I left it open, and walked round a bare costume stand, into a corner behind a cheval glass. For a minute or so no one came. Then I heard heavy feet striding across a room, and a man appeared down the shop.
clanking - klirrend; (clank); klirren, kläppern, aneinanderschlagen
"My plans were now perfectly definite. I proposed to make my way into the house, secrete myself upstairs, watch my opportunity, and when everything was quiet, rummage out a wig, mask, spectacles, and costume, and go into the world, perhaps a grotesque but still a credible figure. And incidentally of course I could rob the house of any available money.
definite - Definitiv
proposed - vorgeschlagen; vorschlagen, einen Heiratsantrag machen
secrete - absondern, abscheiden in flüssiger Form
rummage - durchwühlen, stöbern
wig - Perücke
mask - Maske; abkleben (zum Schutz); abdecken, maskieren
incidentally - zufällig
"The man who had just entered the shop was a short, slight, hunched, beetle-browed man, with long arms and very short bandy legs. Apparently I had interrupted a meal. He stared about the shop with an expression of expectation. This gave way to surprise, and then to anger, as he saw the shop empty.
Beetle - Stampfer (allg.), Käfer; flitzen
browed - gebräunt
bandy - verbreiten, wechseln
expectation - Erwartung
'Damn the boys!'he said. He went to stare up and down the street. He came in again in a minute, kicked the door to with his foot spitefully, and went muttering back to the house door.
Damn - verdammen, verfluchen, ächten, verschreien, verteufeln
spitefully - gehässig
muttering - Gemurmel; murmeln, brummeln; (mutter) Gemurmel; murmeln
"I came forward to follow him, and at the noise of my movement he stopped dead. I did so too, startled by his quickness of ear. He slammed the house door in my face.
"I stood hesitating. Suddenly I heard his quick footsteps returning, and the door reopened. He stood looking about the shop like one who was still not satisfied. Then, murmuring to himself, he examined the back of the counter and peered behind some fixtures. Then he stood doubtful. He had left the house door open and I slipped into the inner room.
murmuring - murmelnd, raunend; (murmur); Rauschen, Murmeln, Gemurmel
fixtures - Einrichtungsgegenstände; Installation, Zubehörteil
"It was a queer little room, poorly furnished and with a number of big masks in the corner. On the table was his belated breakfast, and it was a confoundedly exasperating thing for me, Kemp, to have to sniff his coffee and stand watching while he came in and resumed his meal. And his table manners were irritating.
poorly - dürftig, schlecht, arm
furnished - eingerichtet; möblieren, einrichten, ausrüsten
confoundedly - verwirrt
exasperating - verärgernd; verärgern, aufbringen, auf die Palme bringen
irritating - irritierend; reizen, irritieren, ärgern
Three doors opened into the little room, one going upstairs and one down, but they were all shut. I could not get out of the room while he was there; I could scarcely move because of his alertness, and there was a draught down my back. Twice I strangled a sneeze just in time.
alertness - Wachsamkeit
"The spectacular quality of my sensations was curious and novel, but for all that I was heartily tired and angry long before he had done his eating. But at last he made an end and putting his beggarly crockery on the black tin tray upon which he had had his teapot, and gathering all the crumbs up on the mustard stained cloth, he took the whole lot of things after him. His burden prevented his shutting the door behind him-as he would have done; I never saw such a man for shutting doors-and I followed him into a very dirty underground kitchen and scullery.
spectacular - spektakulär
heartily - von Herzen; herzlich
beggarly - bettelarm; arm
teapot - Teekanne
crumbs - (crumb) Krümel, Brösel; (crumb); Krümel
shutting - (to shut) schließen, zumachen
underground - unterirdisch, Untergrund
I had the pleasure of seeing him begin to wash up, and then, finding no good in keeping down there, and the brick floor being cold on my feet, I returned upstairs and sat in his chair by the fire. It was burning low, and scarcely thinking, I put on a little coal. The noise of this brought him up at once, and he stood aglare. He peered about the room and was within an ace of touching me. Even after that examination, he scarcely seemed satisfied. He stopped in the doorway and took a final inspection before he went down.
pleasure - Vergnügen; Freude, Spaß, Wollust
wash up - abspülen
brick - Ziegelstein; Backstein, Ziegel, externes Netzteil, bricken
Ace - As, Eins auf dem Würfel
touching - (to touch) anfassen, streifen, berühren; (touch); anfassen
inspection - Inspektion, Prüfung
"I waited in the little parlour for an age, and at last he came up and opened the upstairs door. I just managed to get by him.
"On the staircase he stopped suddenly, so that I very nearly blundered into him. He stood looking back right into my face and listening. 'I could have sworn,'he said. His long hairy hand pulled at his lower lip. His eye went up and down the staircase. Then he grunted and went on up again.
hairy - behaart, haarig, pelzartig
lower lip - Unterlippe
grunted - gegrunzt; Grunzer, Stöhnen
"His hand was on the handle of a door, and then he stopped again with the same puzzled anger on his face. He was becoming aware of the faint sounds of my movements about him. The man must have had diabolically acute hearing. He suddenly flashed into rage. 'If there's anyone in this house-'he cried with an oath, and left the threat unfinished.
diabolically - teuflisch
oath - Eid, Schwur, Fluch, erman:
threat - drohen; Bedrohung, Drohung
unfinished - unvollendet
He put his hand in his pocket, failed to find what he wanted, and rushing past me went blundering noisily and pugnaciously downstairs. But I did not follow him. I sat on the head of the staircase until his return.
pugnaciously - kampflustig
"Presently he came up again, still muttering. He opened the door of the room, and before I could enter, slammed it in my face.
"I resolved to explore the house, and spent some time in doing so as noiselessly as possible. The house was very old and tumble-down, damp so that the paper in the attics was peeling from the walls, and rat infested. Some of the door handles were stiff and I was afraid to turn them. Several rooms I did inspect were unfurnished, and others were littered with theatrical lumber, bought second-hand, I judged, from its appearance. In one room next to his I found a lot of old clothes. I began routing among these, and in my eagerness forgot again the evident sharpness of his ears.
explore - erkunden; erforschen; untersuchen
tumble - purzeln; Sturz, Fall, Überschlag, Absturz
attics - Dachböden; Dachgeschoss
peeling - Schälen; (peel); Schälen
rat - Ratte
infested - verseucht; befallen
handles - Griffe; Henkel, Hantel, Griff, Türklinke; abarbeiten, behandeln
inspect - begutachten, untersuchen, inspizieren, prüfen
lumber - Schnittholz; Bauholz
judged - verurteilt; urteilen (nach), richten; Richter, Jurist
routing - Routenplanung; Streckenführung, Leit..
evident - offensichtlich; offenkundig
I heard a stealthy footstep and, looking up just in time, saw him peering in at the tumbled heap and holding an old-fashioned revolver in his hand. I stood perfectly still while he stared about open-mouthed and suspicious. 'It must have been her,'he said slowly. 'Damn her!'
stealthy - geheim, heimlich, verstohlen
footstep - Fußstapfen; Fußabdruck; Schritt
fashioned - modisch; Mode, Stil, Mode, fertigen, anfertigen
"He shut the door quietly, and immediately I heard the key turn in the lock. Then his footsteps retreated. I realised abruptly that I was locked in. For a minute I did not know what to do. I walked from door to window and back, and stood perplexed. A gust of anger came upon me. But I decided to inspect the clothes before I did anything further, and my first attempt brought down a pile from an upper shelf.
turn in - einreichen;abliefern (ugs.)
perplexed - perplex; verwirren
brought down - heruntergebracht
shelf - Regal; Schelf
This brought him back, more sinister than ever. That time he actually touched me, jumped back with amazement and stood astonished in the middle of the room.
sinister - unheimlich
actually - eigentlich, tatsächlich, in Wirklichkeit, in Wahrheit
"Presently he calmed a little. 'Rats,'he said in an undertone, fingers on lips. He was evidently a little scared. I edged quietly out of the room, but a plank creaked. Then the infernal little brute started going all over the house, revolver in hand and locking door after door and pocketing the keys. When I realised what he was up to I had a fit of rage-I could hardly control myself sufficiently to watch my opportunity. By this time I knew he was alone in the house, and so I made no more ado, but knocked him on the head.
calmed - beruhigt; ruhig, ruhig, windstill, Ruhe, Windstille, beruhigen
rats - Ratten; Ratte
pocketing - einstecken; Tasche
control - steuern, kontrollieren, regeln, Kontrolle, Kontrollen, Regelung
sufficiently - ausreichend; hinreichend, genügend, zureichende
ado - Getue; Getöse, checkLärm, checkMühe
"Knocked him on the head?" exclaimed Kemp.
"Yes-stunned him-as he was going downstairs. Hit him from behind with a stool that stood on the landing. He went downstairs like a bag of old boots."
stool - Stuhl, Kot, Hocker
"But-I say! The common conventions of humanity-"
conventions - Konferenzen; Kongress, Versammlung, Tagung, Abkommen
"Are all very well for common people. But the point was, Kemp, that I had to get out of that house in a disguise without his seeing me. I couldn't think of any other way of doing it. And then I gagged him with a Louis Quatorze vest and tied him up in a sheet."
gagged - geknebelt; Knebel, Maulkorberlass, Witz, Gag, würgen, knebeln
"Tied him up in a sheet!"
"Made a sort of bag of it. It was rather a good idea to keep the idiot scared and quiet, and a devilish hard thing to get out of-head away from the string. My dear Kemp, it's no good your sitting glaring as though I was a murderer. It had to be done. He had his revolver. If once he saw me he would be able to describe me-"
idiot - Idiot, Idiotin, Narr, Närrin
murderer - Mörder, Mörderin
"But still," said Kemp, "in England-to-day. And the man was in his own house, and you were-well, robbing."
robbing - rauben, berauben, Raubbau treiben, ausrauben
"Robbing! Confound it! You'll call me a thief next! Surely, Kemp, you're not fool enough to dance on the old strings. Can't you see my position?"
strings - Schnur, Zeichenkette, String, Saite, String, auffädeln
"And his too," said Kemp.
The Invisible Man stood up sharply. "What do you mean to say?"
Kemp's face grew a trifle hard. He was about to speak and checked himself. "I suppose, after all," he said with a sudden change of manner, "the thing had to be done. You were in a fix. But still-"
"Of course I was in a fix-an infernal fix. And he made me wild too-hunting me about the house, fooling about with his revolver, locking and unlocking doors. He was simply exasperating. You don't blame me, do you? You don't blame me?"
hunting - Jagd; (hunt); jagen; suchen; Jagd
fooling about - albernd
unlocking - aufschließen, entriegeln, entsperren (screen, Device, PC
blame - jemadem die Schuld zuweisen
"I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion. What did you do next?"
"I was hungry. Downstairs I found a loaf and some rank cheese-more than sufficient to satisfy my hunger. I took some brandy and water, and then went up past my impromptu bag-he was lying quite still-to the room containing the old clothes. This looked out upon the street, two lace curtains brown with dirt guarding the window. I went and peered out through their interstices. Outside the day was bright-by contrast with the brown shadows of the dismal house in which I found myself, dazzlingly bright.
sufficient - genügend, ausreichend, hinreichend
hunger - hungern; Hunger
brandy - Kognak, Brandy, Weinbrand, Branntwein, Kurzer
impromptu - aus dem Stegreif; improvisiert; Impromptu
guarding - Bewachung; Wächter, Parierstange, Schutz, schützen, bewachen
contrast with - (Farbe) absetzen von, abstechen, gegen
dazzlingly - schillernd; verwirrt
A brisk traffic was going by, fruit carts, a hansom, a four-wheeler with a pile of boxes, a fishmonger's cart. I turned with spots of colour swimming before my eyes to the shadowy fixtures behind me. My excitement was giving place to a clear apprehension of my position again. The room was full of a faint scent of benzoline, used, I suppose, in cleaning the garments.
going by - (go by) vorübergehen, vergehen
carts - Pferdewagen, Wagen, Karren
fishmonger - Fischhändler, Fischhändlerin, Fischverkäufer, Fischverkäuferin
benzoline - Benzolin
"I began a systematic search of the place. I should judge the hunchback had been alone in the house for some time. He was a curious person. Everything that could possibly be of service to me I collected in the clothes storeroom, and then I made a deliberate selection. I found a handbag I thought a suitable possession, and some powder, rouge, and sticking-plaster.
systematic - systematisch; System
hunchback - Buckelig; Buckliger, Bucklige
collected - gesammelt; eintreiben (Schulden), sammeln, einsammeln
selection - Anwahl, Auswahl
handbag - Handtasche
suitable - geeignet, passend, angemessen
possession - Gut; Besessenheit; Ballbesitz
Rouge - Rouge, Rosarot
sticking - klebend, festklebend; (stick) klebend, festklebend
plaster - Gips; Salbe, Creme, Putz, Verputz, Stuck
"I had thought of painting and powdering my face and all that there was to show of me, in order to render myself visible, but the disadvantage of this lay in the fact that I should require turpentine and other appliances and a considerable amount of time before I could vanish again. Finally I chose a mask of the better type, slightly grotesque but not more so than many human beings, dark glasses, greyish whiskers, and a wig. I could find no underclothing, but that I could buy subsequently, and for the time I swathed myself in calico dominoes and some white cashmere scarfs. I could find no socks, but the hunchback's boots were rather a loose fit and sufficed.
render - leisten, wiedergeben
the disadvantage of - zuungunsten [alt], zu Ungunsten
lay in - einkellern
require - erfordern; brauchen, benötigen
turpentine - Terpentin
amount - Anzahl, Menge, Betrag, beträgt
beings - Wesen
underclothing - Unterkleidung, Unterwäsche; (underclothe) Unterkleidung
calico - Kattun, Kaliko
cashmere - Kaschmir
scarfs - Halstücher; Halstuch, Schal
loose fit - Spielpassung
sufficed - genügte; ausreichen, genügen, genug sein, reichen
In a desk in the shop were three sovereigns and about thirty shillings'worth of silver, and in a locked cupboard I burst in the inner room were eight pounds in gold. I could go forth into the world again, equipped.
shillings - Schillinge; Schilling, alte britische Münze im Wert von 5 Pence
burst in - hereinplatzen;hereingeplatzt
equipped - ausgestattet; ausrüsten, ausstatten, anlegen, ausrüsten
"Then came a curious hesitation. Was my appearance really credible? I tried myself with a little bedroom looking-glass, inspecting myself from every point of view to discover any forgotten chink, but it all seemed sound. I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility.
inspecting - begutachten, untersuchen, inspizieren, inspizieren, prüfen
stage - Stufe, Etappe, Bühne
miser - Geizhals, Geizkragen, Geiziger, Geizige
impossibility - Unmöglichkeit
Gathering confidence, I took my looking-glass down into the shop, pulled down the shop blinds, and surveyed myself from every point of view with the help of the cheval glass in the corner.
confidence - Selbstgewissheit; Zuversicht; Vertrauen, Zutrauen
surveyed - befragt; Umfrage, Untersuchung, Vermessung, überblicken
"I spent some minutes screwing up my courage and then unlocked the shop door and marched out into the street, leaving the little man to get out of his sheet again when he liked. In five minutes a dozen turnings intervened between me and the costumier's shop. No one appeared to notice me very pointedly. My last difficulty seemed overcome."
screwing - Vögelei (vulg.), Vögeln (vulg.); schraubend
unlocked - freigeschaltet; aufschließen, entriegeln, entsperren (screen
little man - Männchen
turnings - Drehungen; Abdrehen, schaltend, drehend
costumier - Kostümbildner
pointedly - gezielt
overcome - überwunden; überwinden
He stopped again.
"And you troubled no more about the hunchback?" said Kemp.
troubled - beunruhigt; Ärger, Schwierigkeit, Anstrengung, Bemühung, Mühe
"No," said the Invisible Man. "Nor have I heard what became of him. I suppose he untied himself or kicked himself out. The knots were pretty tight."
untied - ungebunden; losbinden, losmachen, aufklären, auflösen
knots - Knoten, Knäuel
He became silent and went to the window and stared out.
"What happened when you went out into the Strand?"
"Oh!-disillusionment again. I thought my troubles were over. Practically I thought I had impunity to do whatever I chose, everything-save to give away my secret. So I thought. Whatever I did, whatever the consequences might be, was nothing to me. I had merely to fling aside my garments and vanish. No person could hold me. I could take my money where I found it. I decided to treat myself to a sumptuous feast, and then put up at a good hotel, and accumulate a new outfit of property. I felt amazingly confident; it's not particularly pleasant recalling that I was an ass. I went into a place and was already ordering lunch, when it occurred to me that I could not eat unless I exposed my invisible face. I finished ordering the lunch, told the man I should be back in ten minutes, and went out exasperated.
disillusionment - Desillusionierung, Enttäuschung, Ernüchterung
troubles - Probleme; Ärger, Schwierigkeit, Anstrengung, Bemühung, Mühe
practically - praktisch
give away - hergeben, preisgeben, verschenken
sumptuous - üppig; prächtig, prunkvoll, prachtvoll, reichhaltig
feast - Festessen; Fest, Festgelage; feiern
accumulate - ansammeln; aufstauen; sich vermehren
amazingly - Erstaunlich
confident - selbstbewusst; zuversichtlich, sicher
particularly - besonders
recalling - zurückrufen, erinnern
Unless - wenn nicht, es sei denn
I don't know if you have ever been disappointed in your appetite."
appetite - Appetit; Begierde, Lust
"Not quite so badly," said Kemp, "but I can imagine it."
quite so - ganz recht
"I could have smashed the silly devils. At last, faint with the desire for tasteful food, I went into another place and demanded a private room. 'I am disfigured,'I said. 'Badly.'They looked at me curiously, but of course it was not their affair-and so at last I got my lunch.
devils - Teufeln; Teufel, Satan, Teufel, Teufel, Teufel, Teufelin
tasteful - geschmackvoll
another place - anderswohin
It was not particularly well served, but it sufficed; and when I had had it, I sat over a cigar, trying to plan my line of action. And outside a snowstorm was beginning.
"The more I thought it over, Kemp, the more I realised what a helpless absurdity an Invisible Man was-in a cold and dirty climate and a crowded civilised city. Before I made this mad experiment I had dreamt of a thousand advantages. That afternoon it seemed all disappointment. I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.
climate - Klima
civilised - zivilisiert; zivilisieren
disappointment - Enttäuschung, Verdruss, Misserfolg, Fehlschlag, Reinfall
reckons - meint; rechnen, damit rechnen, zählen
desirable - erwünscht; wünschenswert
Ambition-what is the good of pride of place when you cannot appear there? What is the good of the love of woman when her name must needs be Delilah? I have no taste for politics, for the blackguardisms of fame, for philanthropy, for sport. What was I to do? And for this I had become a wrapped-up mystery, a swathed and bandaged caricature of a man!"
Ambition - Ehrgeiz, checkAmbition (5)
pride of place - Standesdünkel
Delilah - Delila
politics - Politik; diplomatisch
fame - Ruhm, Berühmtheit, Bekanntheit
philanthropy - Philanthropie; Philantropie, Menschenliebe, Nächstenliebe
caricature - Karikatur, Zerrbild, karikieren
He paused, and his attitude suggested a roving glance at the window.
roving - Umherstreifen; umherschweifend; (rove) Umherstreifen; umherschweifend
"But how did you get to Iping?" said Kemp, anxious to keep his guest busy talking.
"I went there to work. I had one hope. It was a half idea! I have it still. It is a full blown idea now. A way of getting back! Of restoring what I have done. When I choose. When I have done all I mean to do invisibly. And that is what I chiefly want to talk to you about now."
restoring - wiederherstellen, restaurieren, restaurieren
"You went straight to Iping?"
"Yes. I had simply to get my three volumes of memoranda and my cheque-book, my luggage and underclothing, order a quantity of chemicals to work out this idea of mine-I will show you the calculations as soon as I get my books-and then I started. Jove! I remember the snowstorm now, and the accursed bother it was to keep the snow from damping my pasteboard nose."
calculations - Berechnungen; Berechnung
damping - Dämpfung; (damp); feucht; Feuchtigkeit; ersticken, dämpfen
pasteboard - Pappe; Pappkarton
"At the end," said Kemp, "the day before yesterday, when they found you out, you rather-to judge by the papers-"
"I did. Rather. Did I kill that fool of a constable?"
"No," said Kemp. "He's expected to recover."
"That's his luck, then. I clean lost my temper, the fools! Why couldn't they leave me alone? And that grocer lout?"
grocer - Lebensmittelhändler, Lebensmittelhändlerin, Kaufmann, Kauffrau
lout - Flegel; Lümmel
"There are no deaths expected," said Kemp.
deaths - Todesfälle; Tod, Exitus, Tod, der Tod, Tod, Untergang
"I don't know about that tramp of mine," said the Invisible Man, with an unpleasant laugh.
"By Heaven, Kemp, you don't know what rage is! ... To have worked for years, to have planned and plotted, and then to get some fumbling purblind idiot messing across your course! ... Every conceivable sort of silly creature that has ever been created has been sent to cross me.
plotted - aufgezeichnet; Handlung, Plot, Ausdruck, Komplott
purblind - kurzsichtig
messing - durcheinander; (me) US-Bundesstaat
"If I have much more of it, I shall go wild-I shall start mowing 'em.
mowing - Mahd, mähend; (mow) Mahd, mähend
"As it is, they've made things a thousand times more difficult."
"No doubt it's exasperating," said Kemp, drily.
"But now," said Kemp, with a side glance out of the window, "what are we to do?"
side glance - Seitenblick
He moved nearer his guest as he spoke in such a manner as to prevent the possibility of a sudden glimpse of the three men who were advancing up the hill road-with an intolerable slowness, as it seemed to Kemp.
intolerable - unerträglich
"What were you planning to do when you were heading for Port Burdock? Had you any plan?"
heading for - auf dem Weg sein nach, anfliegend
"I was going to clear out of the country. But I have altered that plan rather since seeing you. I thought it would be wise, now the weather is hot and invisibility possible, to make for the South. Especially as my secret was known, and everyone would be on the lookout for a masked and muffled man. You have a line of steamers from here to France. My idea was to get aboard one and run the risks of the passage. Thence I could go by train into Spain, or else get to Algiers.
altered - Verändert; verändern, ändern, wandeln, modifizieren, abändern
lookout - Ausschau halten; Ausguck
masked - maskiert; Maske; abkleben (zum Schutz); abdecken, maskieren
steamers - Dampfschiff, Dampfer
France - Frankreich
aboard - an Bord
risks - Risiken; Risiko
go by train - mit dem Zug fahren, mit der Bahn fahren
Spain - Spanien
Algiers - Algier
It would not be difficult. There a man might always be invisible-and yet live. And do things. I was using that tramp as a money box and luggage carrier, until I decided how to get my books and things sent over to meet me."
money box - Sparbüchse
"That's clear."
"And then the filthy brute must needs try and rob me! He has hidden my books, Kemp. Hidden my books! If I can lay my hands on him!"
"Best plan to get the books out of him first."
"But where is he? Do you know?"
"He's in the town police station, locked up, by his own request, in the strongest cell in the place."
police station - Polizeirevier , Revier , Polizeiwache
request - Anfrage; anfordern, erwünschen, verlangen nach, begehren
cell - Zelle, Speicherzelle
"Cur!" said the Invisible Man.
"But that hangs up your plans a little."
hangs up - (hang up) aufhängen, auflegen
"We must get those books; those books are vital."
vital - Leben
"Certainly," said Kemp, a little nervously, wondering if he heard footsteps outside. "Certainly we must get those books. But that won't be difficult, if he doesn't know they're for you."
"No," said the Invisible Man, and thought.
Kemp tried to think of something to keep the talk going, but the Invisible Man resumed of his own accord.
"Blundering into your house, Kemp," he said, "changes all my plans. For you are a man that can understand. In spite of all that has happened, in spite of this publicity, of the loss of my books, of what I have suffered, there still remain great possibilities, huge possibilities-"
publicity - Öffentlichkeitsarbeit; Werbung
possibilities - Möglichkeiten; Möglichkeit
"You have told no one I am here?" he asked abruptly.
Kemp hesitated. "That was implied," he said.
implied - angedeutet; implizieren, zur Folge haben, implizieren, bedeuten
"No one?" insisted Griffin.
"Not a soul."
"Ah! Now-" The Invisible Man stood up, and sticking his arms akimbo began to pace the study.
"I made a mistake, Kemp, a huge mistake, in carrying this thing through alone. I have wasted strength, time, opportunities. Alone-it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.
wasted - verschwendet; verschwenden
opportunities - Möglichkeiten; Gelegenheit, Chance, Möglichkeit, Gelegenheit
"What I want, Kemp, is a goal-keeper, a helper, and a hiding-place, an arrangement whereby I can sleep and eat and rest in peace, and unsuspected. I must have a confederate. With a confederate, with food and rest-a thousand things are possible.
hiding-place - (hiding-place) Schlupfwinkel
whereby - wodurch
unsuspected - unvermutet
"Hitherto I have gone on vague lines. We have to consider all that invisibility means, all that it does not mean. It means little advantage for eavesdropping and so forth-one makes sounds. It's of little help-a little help perhaps-in housebreaking and so forth. Once you've caught me you could easily imprison me. But on the other hand I am hard to catch. This invisibility, in fact, is only good in two cases: It's useful in getting away, it's useful in approaching. It's particularly useful, therefore, in killing.
vague - vage; nebelhaft, schwach, unklar, undeutlich
eavesdropping - Lauschangriff; belauschen, horchen, lauschen, abhören, zuhören
housebreaking - Hausfriedensbruch; Einbruch; (housebreak) Hausfriedensbruch; Einbruch
imprison - Gefangenschaft; einsperren, einkerkern
getting away - davonkommend
therefore - deswegen, deshalb, darum, also (folglich), daher
I can walk round a man, whatever weapon he has, choose my point, strike as I like. Dodge as I like. Escape as I like."
walk round - umrunden
Kemp's hand went to his moustache. Was that a movement downstairs?
moustache - Schnurrbart, Oberlippenbart, Schnauzbart, Schnauzer
"And it is killing we must do, Kemp."
"It is killing we must do," repeated Kemp. "I'm listening to your plan, Griffin, but I'm not agreeing, mind. Why killing?"
"Not wanton killing, but a judicious slaying. The point is, they know there is an Invisible Man-as well as we know there is an Invisible Man. And that Invisible Man, Kemp, must now establish a Reign of Terror. Yes; no doubt it's startling. But I mean it. A Reign of Terror. He must take some town like your Burdock and terrify and dominate it. He must issue his orders. He can do that in a thousand ways-scraps of paper thrust under doors would suffice. And all who disobey his orders he must kill, and kill all who would defend them.
wanton - mutwillig; wild, unkontrolliert, unbeherrscht, unberechenbar
judicious - vernünftig
slaying - tötend, erschlagend; (slay) tötend, erschlagend
establish - feststellen, etablieren, eröffnen, gründen, niederlassen
reign - Herrschaft, Regentschaft, herrschen, regieren
startling - verblüffend; überraschend, alarmierend, erschreckend
terrify - erschrecken
dominate - herrschen (über), emporragen (über); beherrschen, dominieren
issue - Problem; ausgehen
scraps - Abfälle; ausrangieren; Abfallholz, Teil, Schrott
suffice - ausreichen, genügen, genug sein, zufriedenstellen
disobey - missachten; nicht gehorchen
defend - verteidigen
"Humph!" said Kemp, no longer listening to Griffin but to the sound of his front door opening and closing.
Humph - hm
"It seems to me, Griffin," he said, to cover his wandering attention, "that your confederate would be in a difficult position."
"No one would know he was a confederate," said the Invisible Man, eagerly. And then suddenly, "Hush! What's that downstairs?"
"Nothing," said Kemp, and suddenly began to speak loud and fast. "I don't agree to this, Griffin," he said. "Understand me, I don't agree to this. Why dream of playing a game against the race? How can you hope to gain happiness? Don't be a lone wolf. Publish your results; take the world-take the nation at least-into your confidence. Think what you might do with a million helpers-"
I don't agree - Ich bin nicht ihrer Meinung.
race - um die Wette rennen; Rasse, Menschenschlag, Rennen
Happiness - Glücklich sein; Glück, Glücklichkeit, Fröhlichkeit
lone wolf - Einzelkämpfer ;Einzelgänger
nation - Staat, Nation, Volk
helpers - Helfern; Helfer, Helferin
The Invisible Man interrupted-arm extended. "There are footsteps coming upstairs," he said in a low voice.
"Nonsense," said Kemp.
"Let me see," said the Invisible Man, and advanced, arm extended, to the door.
And then things happened very swiftly. Kemp hesitated for a second and then moved to intercept him. The Invisible Man started and stood still. "Traitor!" cried the Voice, and suddenly the dressing-gown opened, and sitting down the Unseen began to disrobe. Kemp made three swift steps to the door, and forthwith the Invisible Man-his legs had vanished-sprang to his feet with a shout. Kemp flung the door open.
traitor - Verräter, Verräterin, Vaterlandsverräter, Vaterlandsverräterin
disrobe - ausziehen; entkleiden
As it opened, there came a sound of hurrying feet downstairs and voices.
With a quick movement Kemp thrust the Invisible Man back, sprang aside, and slammed the door. The key was outside and ready. In another moment Griffin would have been alone in the belvedere study, a prisoner. Save for one little thing. The key had been slipped in hastily that morning. As Kemp slammed the door it fell noisily upon the carpet.
prisoner - Gefangener, Gefangene, Häftling, Strafgefangener
Kemp's face became white. He tried to grip the door handle with both hands. For a moment he stood lugging. Then the door gave six inches. But he got it closed again. The second time it was jerked a foot wide, and the dressing-gown came wedging itself into the opening.
jerked - gerissen; Zuckung, Satz, Reflex
wedging - (wedge) verkeilen, festklemmen, mit einem Keil spalten; keilen
His throat was gripped by invisible fingers, and he left his hold on the handle to defend himself. He was forced back, tripped and pitched heavily into the corner of the landing. The empty dressing-gown was flung on the top of him.
Halfway up the staircase was Colonel Adye, the recipient of Kemp's letter, the chief of the Burdock police. He was staring aghast at the sudden appearance of Kemp, followed by the extraordinary sight of clothing tossing empty in the air. He saw Kemp felled, and struggling to his feet. He saw him rush forward, and go down again, felled like an ox.
recipient - Empfänger, Empfängerin
chief - Häuptling, Oberhaupt, Chef
aghast - verblüfft; bestürzt, zutiefst erschrocken, fassungslos
tossing - Werfen; hin- und herschleudern
rush forward - vorstürmen
Then suddenly he was struck violently. By nothing! A vast weight, it seemed, leapt upon him, and he was hurled headlong down the staircase, with a grip on his throat and a knee in his groin. An invisible foot trod on his back, a ghostly patter passed downstairs, he heard the two police officers in the hall shout and run, and the front door of the house slammed violently.
groin - Leiste
patter - Sprüche; schwatzen; (pat) Sprüche; schwatzen
officers - Offiziere; Funktionär, Funktionärin, Beamter, Beamtin, Offizier
He rolled over and sat up staring. He saw, staggering down the staircase, Kemp, dusty and disheveled, one side of his face white from a blow, his lip bleeding, and a pink dressing-gown and some underclothing held in his arms.
disheveled - zerzaust; in Unordnung bringen, herumschmeißen, verwirren
lip - Lippe; Auslauf, Überlauf, Schnaupe, Ansatz
"My God!" cried Kemp, "the game's up! He's gone!"
For a space Kemp was too inarticulate to make Adye understand the swift things that had just happened. They stood on the landing, Kemp speaking swiftly, the grotesque swathings of Griffin still on his arm. But presently Adye began to grasp something of the situation.
swathings - Schwaden
"He is mad," said Kemp; "inhuman. He is pure selfishness. He thinks of nothing but his own advantage, his own safety. I have listened to such a story this morning of brutal self-seeking.... He has wounded men. He will kill them unless we can prevent him. He will create a panic. Nothing can stop him. He is going out now-furious!"
pure - bloß, rein
selfishness - Egoismus, Selbstsucht
safety - Sicherheit, Gefahrlosigkeit, Griffsicherung, Safety
furious - wütend, erbost, furios
"He must be caught," said Adye. "That is certain."
"But how?" cried Kemp, and suddenly became full of ideas. "You must begin at once. You must set every available man to work; you must prevent his leaving this district. Once he gets away, he may go through the countryside as he wills, killing and maiming. He dreams of a reign of terror! A reign of terror, I tell you.
full of ideas - ideenreich
gets away - (get away) wegkommen, davonkommen
countryside - Landleben; Land
maiming - Verstümmelung; verstümmelnd; (maim); verstümmeln, verschandeln
You must set a watch on trains and roads and shipping. The garrison must help. You must wire for help. The only thing that may keep him here is the thought of recovering some books of notes he counts of value. I will tell you of that! There is a man in your police station-Marvel."
set a watch - eine Uhr stellen
Shipping - Warenausgang (Bereich); Transport (Versand)
garrison - Standort, Garnison
recovering - wiederfinden, sich erholen, beikommen
counts - zählt; rechnen, abzählen, zählen
value - Wert, Wichtigkeit, Notenwert, Tonwert, Werte, schätzen
"I know," said Adye, "I know. Those books-yes. But the tramp...."
"Says he hasn't them. But he thinks the tramp has. And you must prevent him from eating or sleeping; day and night the country must be astir for him. Food must be locked up and secured, all food, so that he will have to break his way to it. The houses everywhere must be barred against him.
astir - rege
Heaven send us cold nights and rain! The whole country-side must begin hunting and keep hunting. I tell you, Adye, he is a danger, a disaster; unless he is pinned and secured, it is frightful to think of the things that may happen."
disaster - Katastrophe; Desaster
pinned - angeheftet; Zapfen, Bolzen, Schraubendrehereinsatz; feststecken
"What else can we do?" said Adye. "I must go down at once and begin organising. But why not come? Yes-you come too! Come, and we must hold a sort of council of war-get Hopps to help-and the railway managers. By Jove! it's urgent. Come along-tell me as we go. What else is there we can do? Put that stuff down."
organising - gliedern, organisieren, einrichten, ordnen
Council - Rat
war - Krieg; Krieg führen
managers - Direktor, Direktorin, Manager, Managerin, Verwalter, Verwalterin
In another moment Adye was leading the way downstairs. They found the front door open and the policemen standing outside staring at empty air. "He's got away, sir," said one.
"We must go to the central station at once," said Adye. "One of you go on down and get a cab to come up and meet us-quickly. And now, Kemp, what else?"
central station - Hbf. Hauptbahnhof
"Dogs," said Kemp. "Get dogs. They don't see him, but they wind him. Get dogs."
"Good," said Adye. "It's not generally known, but the prison officials over at Halstead know a man with bloodhounds. Dogs. What else?"
prison - Gefängnis, Knast, Haft, Gefangenschaft
officials - offiziell, offiziell, amtlich, dienstlich, Beamter, Beamtin
bloodhounds - Bluthunde; Bloodhound; q
"Bear in mind," said Kemp, "his food shows. After eating, his food shows until it is assimilated. So that he has to hide after eating. You must keep on beating. Every thicket, every quiet corner. And put all weapons-all implements that might be weapons, away. He can't carry such things for long. And what he can snatch up and strike men with must be hidden away."
bear - Bär; (to bear) ertragen, aushalten
beating - Schlagen, Prügel, Verprüglung, vernichtende Niederlage
weapons - Waffen; Waffe
implements - Geräte; Werkzeug
snatch up - zusammen raffen, zusammenraffen [alt]
"Good again," said Adye. "We shall have him yet!"
"And on the roads," said Kemp, and hesitated.
"Yes?" said Adye.
"Powdered glass," said Kemp. "It's cruel, I know. But think of what he may do!"
cruel - schrecklich; grausam (gegen)
Adye drew the air in sharply between his teeth. "It's unsportsmanlike. I don't know. But I'll have powdered glass got ready. If he goes too far...."
unsportsmanlike - unsportlich
got ready - fertig gemacht
"The man's become inhuman, I tell you," said Kemp. "I am as sure he will establish a reign of terror-so soon as he has got over the emotions of this escape-as I am sure I am talking to you. Our only chance is to be ahead. He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head."
got over - hinweggekommen
emotions - Emotionen; Gefühl
The Invisible Man seems to have rushed out of Kemp's house in a state of blind fury. A little child playing near Kemp's gateway was violently caught up and thrown aside, so that its ankle was broken, and thereafter for some hours the Invisible Man passed out of human perceptions. No one knows where he went nor what he did. But one can imagine him hurrying through the hot June forenoon, up the hill and on to the open downland behind Port Burdock, raging and despairing at his intolerable fate, and sheltering at last, heated and weary, amid the thickets of Hintondean, to piece together again his shattered schemes against his species.
fury - Wut; Furie
gateway - Einfahrt, Tor, Zugang, Gateway, Protokollumsetzer
downland - Niederungen
raging - wütend; Fummel, Lumpen, Putzlappen, Unfug
despairing - verzweifelt; verzweifeln, Verzweiflung
fate - Schicksal, Los, Geschick
sheltering - beschützen; bedeckend; (shelter); Zuflucht, Obdach
heated - erhitzt; Hitze, Wärme
amid - inmitten; mitten unter
thickets - Dickicht
piece together - zusammenstoppeln [alt], zusammen stoppeln
schemes - Schemata; Programm
species - Arten; Hartgeld
That seems the most probable refuge for him, for there it was he re-asserted himself in a grimly tragical manner about two in the afternoon.
most probable - wahrscheinlichste
tragical - tragisch
One wonders what his state of mind may have been during that time, and what plans he devised. No doubt he was almost ecstatically exasperated by Kemp's treachery, and though we may be able to understand the motives that led to that deceit, we may still imagine and even sympathise a little with the fury the attempted surprise must have occasioned. Perhaps something of the stunned astonishment of his Oxford Street experiences may have returned to him, for he had evidently counted on Kemp's co-operation in his brutal dream of a terrorised world.
devised - erdacht; ausdenken, entwerfen, erdenken, planen
ecstatically - ekstatisch
treachery - Verrat
motives - Motiven; Motiv
deceit - Betrügerei, Betrug, Täuschung, Falschheit
sympathise - mitfühlen
occasioned - veranlasst; Gelegenheit, Gelegenheit, Anlass
experiences - Erfahrungen; Erlebnis
Co - US-Bundesstaat
operation - Betrieb; Operation, Verknüpfung, Aktion, Unternehmen
At any rate he vanished from human ken about midday, and no living witness can tell what he did until about half-past two. It was a fortunate thing, perhaps, for humanity, but for him it was a fatal inaction.
ken - (know) kennen
fortunate - glücklich; günstig, verheißungsvoll
fatal - verhängnisvoll, fatal, tödlich
inaction - Untätigkeit, Tatenlosigkeit, Trägheit, Nichtstun
During that time a growing multitude of men scattered over the countryside were busy. In the morning he had still been simply a legend, a terror; in the afternoon, by virtue chiefly of Kemp's drily worded proclamation, he was presented as a tangible antagonist, to be wounded, captured, or overcome, and the countryside began organising itself with inconceivable rapidity. By two o'clock even he might still have removed himself out of the district by getting aboard a train, but after two that became impossible.
legend - Legende; Kartenlegende
virtue - Tugend; Keuschheit
proclamation - Proklamation
antagonist - Antagonist, Widersacher, Gegner
captured - gefangen genommen; Fang, Festnahme, Gefangennahme, Erfassung
Every passenger train along the lines on a great parallelogram between Southampton, Manchester, Brighton and Horsham, travelled with locked doors, and the goods traffic was almost entirely suspended. And in a great circle of twenty miles round Port Burdock, men armed with guns and bludgeons were presently setting out in groups of three and four, with dogs, to beat the roads and fields.
parallelogram - Parallelogramm
Manchester - Manchester
suspended - ausgesetzt; suspendieren, aufhängen, suspendieren, aufheben
guns - Pistolen; Geschütz, Gewehr, Knarre, Revolver
bludgeons - Knüppel, niederknüppeln, knüppeln, aufzwingen
setting out - aussetzend
in groups - gruppenweise
Mounted policemen rode along the country lanes, stopping at every cottage and warning the people to lock up their houses, and keep indoors unless they were armed, and all the elementary schools had broken up by three o'clock, and the children, scared and keeping together in groups, were hurrying home. Kemp's proclamation-signed indeed by Adye-was posted over almost the whole district by four or five o'clock in the afternoon. It gave briefly but clearly all the conditions of the struggle, the necessity of keeping the Invisible Man from food and sleep, the necessity for incessant watchfulness and for a prompt attention to any evidence of his movements.
mounted - montiert; Reittier, Berg, Lafette (Waffe); einbauen, aufsteigen
lanes - Fahrspuren; Gasse, Spur, Spur, Route
warning - Warnung, Mahnung, Achtung; (warn); warnen, mahnen
lock up - einsperren, einlochen (einsperren), versperren
indoors - in geschlossenen Räumen; Innen-, innerhalb des Hauses, Haus-
broken up - aufgehackt
signed - unterzeichnet; Wert, Zeichen, Hinweistafel
necessity - Notwendigkeit, Nezessität, Not, Bedürfnis
incessant - ständig, unablässig, unaufhörlich
watchfulness - Wachsamkeit
prompt - Eingabeaufforderung; anleiten, antreiben, anstacheln
And so swift and decided was the action of the authorities, so prompt and universal was the belief in this strange being, that before nightfall an area of several hundred square miles was in a stringent state of siege. And before nightfall, too, a thrill of horror went through the whole watching nervous countryside. Going from whispering mouth to mouth, swift and certain over the length and breadth of the country, passed the story of the murder of Mr. Wicksteed.
authorities - Behörden; Autorität, Autorität; Behörde, Autorität, Behörde
universal - allgemein, Allgemein-, universell, weltweit, Welt-
belief - Glauben; Glaube
stringent - Streng; stringent
state of siege - Belagerungszustand
thrill - Aufregung; Nervenkitzel; erregen, erschauern, durchdringen
If our supposition that the Invisible Man's refuge was the Hintondean thickets, then we must suppose that in the early afternoon he sallied out again bent upon some project that involved the use of a weapon. We cannot know what the project was, but the evidence that he had the iron rod in hand before he met Wicksteed is to me at least overwhelming.
iron rod - Eisenstange
Of course we can know nothing of the details of that encounter. It occurred on the edge of a gravel pit, not two hundred yards from Lord Burdock's lodge gate. Everything points to a desperate struggle-the trampled ground, the numerous wounds Mr. Wicksteed received, his splintered walking-stick; but why the attack was made, save in a murderous frenzy, it is impossible to imagine. Indeed the theory of madness is almost unavoidable. Mr. Wicksteed was a man of forty-five or forty-six, steward to Lord Burdock, of inoffensive habits and appearance, the very last person in the world to provoke such a terrible antagonist. Against him it would seem the Invisible Man used an iron rod dragged from a broken piece of fence.
encounter - treffen, begegnen, Begegnung, Treffen
gravel pit - Kiesgrube
Lodge - Lodge; Loge; Biberburg; feststecken, festklemmen, beherbergen
trampled - zertrampelt; trampeln, zertrampeln, herumtrampeln
numerous - zahlreich, vielzählig
wounds - anschießen, verwunden
splintered - abgesplittert; Span, Splitter
stick - stich!, ich/er/sie stäche, ich/er/sie stach; Schläger
attack - Attacke, Angriff, Anfall, angreifen, attackieren
murderous - mörderisch
frenzy - Raserei; Wahn, Rausch, Wut
madness - Wahnsinn, Verrücktheit, Tollheit
steward - Verwalter
inoffensive - unbedenklich
habits - Gewohnheiten; Gepflogenheit, Angewohnheit
provoke - provozieren, aufreizen, aufwühlen, aufhetzen
rod - Rute; Stange, Stock, Stab, Latte
broken piece - Scherbe
fence - Zaun
He stopped this quiet man, going quietly home to his midday meal, attacked him, beat down his feeble defences, broke his arm, felled him, and smashed his head to a jelly.
beat down - herunterhandeln
feeble - kraftlos, schwach, dürftig
defences - Verteidigungsmaßnahmen; Verteidigung, Abwehr
Of course, he must have dragged this rod out of the fencing before he met his victim-he must have been carrying it ready in his hand. Only two details beyond what has already been stated seem to bear on the matter. One is the circumstance that the gravel pit was not in Mr. Wicksteed's direct path home, but nearly a couple of hundred yards out of his way. The other is the assertion of a little girl to the effect that, going to her afternoon school, she saw the murdered man "trotting" in a peculiar manner across a field towards the gravel pit.
stated - erklärt; Statistik
circumstance - Umstand
pit - Fallgrube, Schachtgrube, Box (Sport)
trotting - trabte; traben; (trot) trabte; traben
field - Feld, Gefilde, Heide, tHeideland
Her pantomime of his action suggests a man pursuing something on the ground before him and striking at it ever and again with his walking-stick. She was the last person to see him alive. He passed out of her sight to his death, the struggle being hidden from her only by a clump of beech trees and a slight depression in the ground.
pantomime - Pantomime; pantomimisieren
suggests - vorschlägt; vorschlagen, vorschlagen
pursuing - verfolgend; (pursue); verfolgen, beschreiten, nachjagen
clump - Klumpen; Büschel; Plumps
beech - Buche
depression - Senke; Depression, Abschwung
Now this, to the present writer's mind at least, lifts the murder out of the realm of the absolutely wanton. We may imagine that Griffin had taken the rod as a weapon indeed, but without any deliberate intention of using it in murder. Wicksteed may then have come by and noticed this rod inexplicably moving through the air. Without any thought of the Invisible Man-for Port Burdock is ten miles away-he may have pursued it.
lifts - Aufzüge; Lüften (Bremse), Lift, Aufzug; fördern, Auftrieb geben
realm - Bereich; Reich, Königreich
inexplicably - unerklärlich
pursued - Verfolgt; verfolgen, folgen, beschreiten, nachjagen, nachgehen
It is quite conceivable that he may not even have heard of the Invisible Man. One can then imagine the Invisible Man making off-quietly in order to avoid discovering his presence in the neighbourhood, and Wicksteed, excited and curious, pursuing this unaccountably locomotive object-finally striking at it.
discovering - Entdeckung; entdecken, erleben, erfahren, dabei sein
presence - Anwesenheit
in the neighbourhood - in der Nachbarschaft
unaccountably - unerklärlich
locomotive - Lokomotive; lokomotorisch
No doubt the Invisible Man could easily have distanced his middle-aged pursuer under ordinary circumstances, but the position in which Wicksteed's body was found suggests that he had the ill luck to drive his quarry into a corner between a drift of stinging nettles and the gravel pit. To those who appreciate the extraordinary irascibility of the Invisible Man, the rest of the encounter will be easy to imagine.
distanced - distanziert; Distanz, Entfernung, Abstand, Ferne, Weite
pursuer - Verfolger, Verfolgerin
quarry - Steinbruch; stöbern; Beute, Jagdbeute, verfolgtes Wild
drift - Drift; driften, treiben, irren, ziellos ziehen, ziellos wandern
nettles - Nesseln; Nessel, Brennnessel
appreciate - zu schätzen wissen, würdigen, verstehen, begreifen
irascibility - Jähzorn
But this is pure hypothesis. The only undeniable facts-for stories of children are often unreliable-are the discovery of Wicksteed's body, done to death, and of the blood-stained iron rod flung among the nettles. The abandonment of the rod by Griffin, suggests that in the emotional excitement of the affair, the purpose for which he took it-if he had a purpose-was abandoned.
hypothesis - Hypothese
unreliable - unzuverlässig
abandonment - Verzicht; Überlassen, Aufgabe, Preisgabe, Hinterlassung
purpose - absicht, Absicht, Einsatzzweck, Zweck
He was certainly an intensely egotistical and unfeeling man, but the sight of his victim, his first victim, bloody and pitiful at his feet, may have released some long pent fountain of remorse which for a time may have flooded whatever scheme of action he had contrived.
intensely - intensiv
egotistical - egoistisch
unfeeling - gefühllos
bloody - blutig, blutbefleckt
pitiful - Mitleid erregend; erbärmlich, kläglich, jämmerlich
pent - gefesselt
fountain - Springbrunnen; Fontäne
remorse - Reue, Gewissensbisse
scheme - Schema; Programm, Plan, Projekt, Intrige, Komplott
After the murder of Mr. Wicksteed, he would seem to have struck across the country towards the downland. There is a story of a voice heard about sunset by a couple of men in a field near Fern Bottom. It was wailing and laughing, sobbing and groaning, and ever and again it shouted. It must have been queer hearing. It drove up across the middle of a clover field and died away towards the hills.
sunset - Sonnenuntergang; Lebensabend
fern - Farn, Farnkraut
wailing - (to wail) jammern, wehklagen, klagen; (wail) (to wail) jammern
groaning - ächzend, stöhnend, Ächzen, Geächze
clover - Klee
hills - Hügeln; Hügel, Hang, Steigung, Steigung, Anstieg, häufeln
That afternoon the Invisible Man must have learnt something of the rapid use Kemp had made of his confidences. He must have found houses locked and secured; he may have loitered about railway stations and prowled about inns, and no doubt he read the proclamations and realised something of the nature of the campaign against him. And as the evening advanced, the fields became dotted here and there with groups of three or four men, and noisy with the yelping of dogs. These men-hunters had particular instructions in the case of an encounter as to the way they should support one another. But he avoided them all.
confidences - Vertraulichkeiten; Selbstgewissheit, Zuversicht, Vertrauen
loitered - getrödelt; rumlungern, rumhängen, herumhängen, abhängen
proclamations - Proklamationen; Proklamation
campaign - Einsatz, Feldzug, Heereszug, Kampagne, einsetzen
dotted - gepunktet; stricheln; Punkt
hunters - Jägern; Jäger, Jagdhund, Jäger, Verfolger
We may understand something of his exasperation, and it could have been none the less because he himself had supplied the information that was being used so remorselessly against him. For that day at least he lost heart; for nearly twenty-four hours, save when he turned on Wicksteed, he was a hunted man. In the night, he must have eaten and slept; for in the morning he was himself again, active, powerful, angry, and malignant, prepared for his last great struggle against the world.
remorselessly - erbarmungslos
powerful - mächtig
malignant - bösartig, malign
Kemp read a strange missive, written in pencil on a greasy sheet of paper.
missive - Briefchen; Sendschreiben, Schrieb
"You have been amazingly energetic and clever," this letter ran, "though what you stand to gain by it I cannot imagine. You are against me. For a whole day you have chased me; you have tried to rob me of a night's rest. But I have had food in spite of you, I have slept in spite of you, and the game is only beginning. The game is only beginning. There is nothing for it, but to start the Terror. This announces the first day of the Terror. Port Burdock is no longer under the Queen, tell your Colonel of Police, and the rest of them; it is under me-the Terror! This is day one of year one of the new epoch-the Epoch of the Invisible Man.
energetic - energisch, energiegeladen, Energie
clever - geschickt; clever, ausgekocht, patent, klug, gescheit
chased - gejagt; Chas
announces - ankündigt; ankündigen, verkünden, bekanntgeben, verkündigen
Queen - Königin; Dame; Tunte; Kätzin
epoch - Epoche, Ära
I am Invisible Man the First. To begin with the rule will be easy. The first day there will be one execution for the sake of example-a man named Kemp. Death starts for him to-day. He may lock himself away, hide himself away, get guards about him, put on armour if he likes-Death, the unseen Death, is coming. Let him take precautions; it will impress my people. Death starts from the pillar box by midday. The letter will fall in as the postman comes along, then off! The game begins. Death starts. Help him not, my people, lest Death fall upon you also. To-day Kemp is to die."
execution - Ausführung; Hinrichtung
guards - Wächter, Parierstange, Schutz, schützen, bewachen
armour - Panzer, Rüstung
take precautions - Vorsichtsmaßnahmen treffen
impress - beeindrucken; prägen
pillar - Pfeiler, Säule
Kemp read this letter twice, "It's no hoax," he said. "That's his voice! And he means it."
He turned the folded sheet over and saw on the addressed side of it the postmark Hintondean, and the prosaic detail "2d. to pay."
postmark - Poststempel; stempeln
prosaic - prosaisch
He got up slowly, leaving his lunch unfinished-the letter had come by the one o'clock post-and went into his study. He rang for his housekeeper, and told her to go round the house at once, examine all the fastenings of the windows, and close all the shutters. He closed the shutters of his study himself.
housekeeper - Haushälterin; Hausfrau; (hired) Haushälterin; (hired) Haushälter
go round - umgehen, umrunden, kursieren
fastenings - Befestigungen; befestigend, anbindend
From a locked drawer in his bedroom he took a little revolver, examined it carefully, and put it into the pocket of his lounge jacket. He wrote a number of brief notes, one to Colonel Adye, gave them to his servant to take, with explicit instructions as to her way of leaving the house. "There is no danger," he said, and added a mental reservation, "to you." He remained meditative for a space after doing this, and then returned to his cooling lunch.
mental - seelisch, geistig
reservation - Reservierung; Vorbehalt; Bedenken, Reservat, Vorbestellung
meditative - meditativ
He ate with gaps of thought. Finally he struck the table sharply. "We will have him!" he said; "and I am the bait. He will come too far."
bait - Köder, Luder, Fischköder
He went up to the belvedere, carefully shutting every door after him. "It's a game," he said, "an odd game-but the chances are all for me, Mr. Griffin, in spite of your invisibility. Griffin contra mundum ... with a vengeance."
chances - Chancen; riskieren, zufällig geschehen; Chance, Zufall
contra - Kontra; gegen, im Gegensatz zu, contra, anti
vengeance - Rache, Vergeltung
He stood at the window staring at the hot hillside. "He must get food every day-and I don't envy him. Did he really sleep last night? Out in the open somewhere-secure from collisions. I wish we could get some good cold wet weather instead of the heat.
envy - Neid; beneiden
"He may be watching me now."
He went close to the window. Something rapped smartly against the brickwork over the frame, and made him start violently back.
brickwork - Mauerwerk
"I'm getting nervous," said Kemp. But it was five minutes before he went to the window again. "It must have been a sparrow," he said.
sparrow - Sperling, Spatz
Presently he heard the front-door bell ringing, and hurried downstairs. He unbolted and unlocked the door, examined the chain, put it up, and opened cautiously without showing himself. A familiar voice hailed him. It was Adye.
chain - Kette; anketten
familiar - vertraut; bekannt
"Your servant's been assaulted, Kemp," he said round the door.
"What!" exclaimed Kemp.
"Had that note of yours taken away from her. He's close about here. Let me in."
Kemp released the chain, and Adye entered through as narrow an opening as possible. He stood in the hall, looking with infinite relief at Kemp refastening the door. "Note was snatched out of her hand. Scared her horribly. She's down at the station. Hysterics. He's close here. What was it about?"
refastening - Wiederbefestigung; wieder festigen
horribly - furchtbar; fürchterlich
Hysterics - Hysterie; Hysteriker, qualifieremale
Kemp swore.
"What a fool I was," said Kemp. "I might have known. It's not an hour's walk from Hintondean. Already?"
"What's up?" said Adye.
"Look here!" said Kemp, and led the way into his study. He handed Adye the Invisible Man's letter. Adye read it and whistled softly. "And you-?" said Adye.
"Proposed a trap-like a fool," said Kemp, "and sent my proposal out by a maid servant. To him."
proposal - Vorschlag; Heiratsantrag
Adye followed Kemp's profanity.
profanity - Profanität, Respektlosigkeit, Gotteslästerlichkeit, Fluch
"He'll clear out," said Adye.
"Not he," said Kemp.
A resounding smash of glass came from upstairs. Adye had a silvery glimpse of a little revolver half out of Kemp's pocket. "It's a window, upstairs!" said Kemp, and led the way up. There came a second smash while they were still on the staircase. When they reached the study they found two of the three windows smashed, half the room littered with splintered glass, and one big flint lying on the writing table.
resounding - durchschlagend; widerhallen
silvery - silbrig, silberig, silberhell, silbern
The two men stopped in the doorway, contemplating the wreckage. Kemp swore again, and as he did so the third window went with a snap like a pistol, hung starred for a moment, and collapsed in jagged, shivering triangles into the room.
collapsed - zusammengebrochen; einstürzen, kollabieren, zusammenfallen
jagged - zerklüftet; zackig; (jag) zerklüftet; zackig
triangles - Dreiecke; Dreieck
"What's this for?" said Adye.
"It's a beginning," said Kemp.
"There's no way of climbing up here?"
climbing up - hinaufsteigend
"Not for a cat," said Kemp.
"No shutters?"
"Not here. All the downstairs rooms-Hullo!"
Smash, and then whack of boards hit hard came from downstairs. "Confound him!" said Kemp. "That must be-yes-it's one of the bedrooms. He's going to do all the house. But he's a fool. The shutters are up, and the glass will fall outside. He'll cut his feet."
whack - umlegen; Schlag, Hieb, schlagen, töten, ermorden, verteilen
boards - Bretter; Brett, Tafel
Another window proclaimed its destruction. The two men stood on the landing perplexed. "I have it!" said Adye. "Let me have a stick or something, and I'll go down to the station and get the bloodhounds put on. That ought to settle him! They're hard by-not ten minutes-"
proclaimed - verkündet; verkünden, verkündigen, erklären
destruction - Zerstörung, Vernichtung
Another window went the way of its fellows.
"You haven't a revolver?" asked Adye.
Kemp's hand went to his pocket. Then he hesitated. "I haven't one-at least to spare."
"I'll bring it back," said Adye, "you'll be safe here."
Kemp, ashamed of his momentary lapse from truthfulness, handed him the weapon.
lapse - Entgleisung, Ausrutscher, Verfallen, Erlöschen, Verfall
truthfulness - Wahrhaftigkeit
"Now for the door," said Adye.
As they stood hesitating in the hall, they heard one of the first-floor bedroom windows crack and clash. Kemp went to the door and began to slip the bolts as silently as possible. His face was a little paler than usual. "You must step straight out," said Kemp. In another moment Adye was on the doorstep and the bolts were dropping back into the staples.
first-floor - (first-floor) Parterre ;Obergeschoss ;Erdgeschoss
clash - zusammenstoßen; Scheppern, Geschepper, Zusammenstoß
paler - blasser; Kumpel, Kamerad
straight out - glätten
doorstep - Eingangsstufe, Türschwelle
He hesitated for a moment, feeling more comfortable with his back against the door. Then he marched, upright and square, down the steps. He crossed the lawn and approached the gate. A little breeze seemed to ripple over the grass. Something moved near him. "Stop a bit," said a Voice, and Adye stopped dead and his hand tightened on the revolver.
upright - aufrecht; hochkant
lawn - Liegewiese, Rasenplatz, Rasen
breeze - Brise, Hauch
ripple - wellenförmig; Brummspannung, Welligkeit
"Well?" said Adye, white and grim, and every nerve tense.
tense - angespannt; verkrampft, gespannt, nervös; spannen
"Oblige me by going back to the house," said the Voice, as tense and grim as Adye's.
oblige - verpflichten; einen Gefallen tun
"Sorry," said Adye a little hoarsely, and moistened his lips with his tongue. The Voice was on his left front, he thought. Suppose he were to take his luck with a shot?
hoarsely - heiser
moistened - befeuchtet; anfeuchten, befeuchten, feucht werden
"What are you going for?" said the Voice, and there was a quick movement of the two, and a flash of sunlight from the open lip of Adye's pocket.
Adye desisted and thought. "Where I go," he said slowly, "is my own business." The words were still on his lips, when an arm came round his neck, his back felt a knee, and he was sprawling backward. He drew clumsily and fired absurdly, and in another moment he was struck in the mouth and the revolver wrested from his grip.
desisted - aufgegeben; aufhören
wrested - gerungen; erzwingen
He made a vain clutch at a slippery limb, tried to struggle up and fell back. "Damn!" said Adye. The Voice laughed. "I'd kill you now if it wasn't the waste of a bullet," it said. He saw the revolver in mid-air, six feet off, covering him.
clutch - Vogelgelege; Kupplung (Auto), Gelege
limb - Gliedmaßen; Schenkel (geol. Falte), Glied
bullet - Patrone; Geschoss (Kugel), Kugel
"Well?" said Adye, sitting up.
"Get up," said the Voice.
Adye stood up.
"Attention," said the Voice, and then fiercely, "Don't try any games. Remember I can see your face if you can't see mine. You've got to go back to the house."
"He won't let me in," said Adye.
"That's a pity," said the Invisible Man. "I've got no quarrel with you."
pity - Mitleid; schade; bemitleiden, Mitleid haben mit
quarrel - sich streiten, zanken
Adye moistened his lips again. He glanced away from the barrel of the revolver and saw the sea far off very blue and dark under the midday sun, the smooth green down, the white cliff of the Head, and the multitudinous town, and suddenly he knew that life was very sweet. His eyes came back to this little metal thing hanging between heaven and earth, six yards away. "What am I to do?" he said sullenly.
barrel - Fass, Tonne, Gebinde, Barrel, Trommel, Hohlzylinder
cliff - Kliff, Felsvorsprung, Klippe
multitudinous - Vielfältig
sweet - Süßigkeit, Bonbon
metal - Metall; Metal
sullenly - mürrisch, mürrischen
"What am I to do?" asked the Invisible Man. "You will get help. The only thing is for you to go back."
"I will try. If he lets me in will you promise not to rush the door?"
"I've got no quarrel with you," said the Voice.
Kemp had hurried upstairs after letting Adye out, and now crouching among the broken glass and peering cautiously over the edge of the study window sill, he saw Adye stand parleying with the Unseen. "Why doesn't he fire?" whispered Kemp to himself. Then the revolver moved a little and the glint of the sunlight flashed in Kemp's eyes. He shaded his eyes and tried to see the source of the blinding beam.
crouching - hockend; sich ducken (vor), kriechen; kauern, hocken
sill - Schweller; Türschwelle, Schwelle
parleying - parlieren; Unterredung, Verhandlungsgespräch
glint - funkeln; Glitzern
shaded - schattiert; Maifisch
blinding - geblendet; blendend, grell; (blind); blind, unkritisch
beam - Balken; Breite; Pflugbaum, Grindel, Strahl, strahlen, beamen
"Surely!" he said, "Adye has given up the revolver."
"Promise not to rush the door," Adye was saying. "Don't push a winning game too far. Give a man a chance."
Don't push - Nicht drängeln!
"You go back to the house. I tell you flatly I will not promise anything."
flatly - ganz einfach; kategorisch; ausdruckslos, emotionslos
Adye's decision seemed suddenly made. He turned towards the house, walking slowly with his hands behind him. Kemp watched him-puzzled. The revolver vanished, flashed again into sight, vanished again, and became evident on a closer scrutiny as a little dark object following Adye. Then things happened very quickly.
scrutiny - Kontrolle; genaue Untersuchung, genaue Beobachtung
Adye leapt backwards, swung around, clutched at this little object, missed it, threw up his hands and fell forward on his face, leaving a little puff of blue in the air. Kemp did not hear the sound of the shot. Adye writhed, raised himself on one arm, fell forward, and lay still.
puff - pusten; Hauch
writhed - verfasst; winden, krümmen
For a space Kemp remained staring at the quiet carelessness of Adye's attitude. The afternoon was very hot and still, nothing seemed stirring in all the world save a couple of yellow butterflies chasing each other through the shrubbery between the house and the road gate. Adye lay on the lawn near the gate.
carelessness - Nachlässigkeit; Unvorsichtigkeit, Leichtsinn
stirring - rührend; ergreifend, bewegend
butterflies - Schmetterlinge; Schmetterling, qualifieroetic
shrubbery - Sträucher; Strauchwerk, Gesträuch
The blinds of all the villas down the hill-road were drawn, but in one little green summer-house was a white figure, apparently an old man asleep. Kemp scrutinised the surroundings of the house for a glimpse of the revolver, but it had vanished. His eyes came back to Adye. The game was opening well.
summer-house - (summer-house) Gartenhaus
asleep - schlafen, schlafen
surroundings - Umgebung, umliegend
Then came a ringing and knocking at the front door, that grew at last tumultuous, but pursuant to Kemp's instructions the servants had locked themselves into their rooms. This was followed by a silence. Kemp sat listening and then began peering cautiously out of the three windows, one after another. He went to the staircase head and stood listening uneasily.
pursuant - gemäß
uneasily - unbehaglich
He armed himself with his bedroom poker, and went to examine the interior fastenings of the ground-floor windows again. Everything was safe and quiet. He returned to the belvedere. Adye lay motionless over the edge of the gravel just as he had fallen. coming along the road by the villas were the housemaid and two policemen.
interior - inner; Interieur, Inneres, Innenraum, offener Kern
motionless - unbeweglich, reglos, bewegungslos
coming along - hinzukommend
Everything was deadly still. The three people seemed very slow in approaching. He wondered what his antagonist was doing.
deadly - tödlich
He started. There was a smash from below. He hesitated and went downstairs again. Suddenly the house resounded with heavy blows and the splintering of wood. He heard a smash and the destructive clang of the iron fastenings of the shutters. He turned the key and opened the kitchen door. As he did so, the shutters, split and splintering, came flying inward. He stood aghast. The window frame, save for one crossbar, was still intact, but only little teeth of glass remained in the frame. The shutters had been driven in with an axe, and now the axe was descending in sweeping blows upon the window frame and the iron bars defending it. Then suddenly it leapt aside and vanished.
resounded - ertönte; widerhallen
splintering - Absplitterung; Span, Splitter
destructive - zerstörerisch
clang - Klirren; schallen
inward - innere; innen
crossbar - Querstange; Querlatte
intact - unversehrt; intakt
driven in - eingeschlagen
axe - Axt, Beil
sweeping - erman:; Fegen, Kehren; (sweep); fegen, kehren, rauschen
defending - verteidigen
He saw the revolver lying on the path outside, and then the little weapon sprang into the air. He dodged back. The revolver cracked just too late, and a splinter from the edge of the closing door flashed over his head. He slammed and locked the door, and as he stood outside he heard Griffin shouting and laughing. Then the blows of the axe with its splitting and smashing consequences, were resumed.
splinter - Span, Splitter
splitting - (split) geteilt, Spalt, Spaltung
Kemp stood in the passage trying to think. In a moment the Invisible Man would be in the kitchen. This door would not keep him a moment, and then-
A ringing came at the front door again. It would be the policemen. He ran into the hall, put up the chain, and drew the bolts. He made the girl speak before he dropped the chain, and the three people blundered into the house in a heap, and Kemp slammed the door again.
"The Invisible Man!" said Kemp. "He has a revolver, with two shots-left. He's killed Adye. Shot him anyhow. Didn't you see him on the lawn? He's lying there."
"Who?" said one of the policemen.
"Adye," said Kemp.
"We came in the back way," said the girl.
"What's that smashing?" asked one of the policemen.
"He's in the kitchen-or will be. He has found an axe-"
Suddenly the house was full of the Invisible Man's resounding blows on the kitchen door. The girl stared towards the kitchen, shuddered, and retreated into the dining-room. Kemp tried to explain in broken sentences. They heard the kitchen door give.
shuddered - geschaudert; Schauder, (wohliger) Schauder, schaudern, zittern
"This way," said Kemp, starting into activity, and bundled the policemen into the dining-room doorway.
bundled - gebündelt; Bündel
"Poker," said Kemp, and rushed to the fender. He handed the poker he had carried to the policeman and the dining-room one to the other. He suddenly flung himself backward.
"Whup!" said one policeman, ducked, and caught the axe on his poker. The pistol snapped its penultimate shot and ripped a valuable Sidney Cooper. The second policeman brought his poker down on the little weapon, as one might knock down a wasp, and sent it rattling to the floor.
ducked - geduckt; untertauchen (in); Schiertuch, Ente
penultimate - vorletzte
Cooper - Böttcher, Schöffler (hist.), Küfer
knock down - überfahren, zuschlagen, niederschlagen
wasp - die Wespe
rattling - klappernd, ratternd, klirrend, rasselnd; (rattle) klappernd
At the first clash the girl screamed, stood screaming for a moment by the fireplace, and then ran to open the shutters-possibly with an idea of escaping by the shattered window.
The axe receded into the passage, and fell to a position about two feet from the ground. They could hear the Invisible Man breathing. "Stand away, you two," he said. "I want that man Kemp."
receded - zurückgegangen ist; zurücktreten
"We want you," said the first policeman, making a quick step forward and wiping with his poker at the Voice. The Invisible Man must have started back, and he blundered into the umbrella stand.
step forward - hervortreten
umbrella stand - Schirmständer
Then, as the policeman staggered with the swing of the blow he had aimed, the Invisible Man countered with the axe, the helmet crumpled like paper, and the blow sent the man spinning to the floor at the head of the kitchen stairs. But the second policeman, aiming behind the axe with his poker, hit something soft that snapped. There was a sharp exclamation of pain and then the axe fell to the ground.
aimed - gezielt; zielen (auf); Ziel, Zweck; beabsichtigen
countered - gekontert; Zähler, Ladentisch; kontern
aiming - zielen (auf); Ziel, Zweck; beabsichtigen
The policeman wiped again at vacancy and hit nothing; he put his foot on the axe, and struck again. Then he stood, poker clubbed, listening intent for the slightest movement.
vacancy - Vakanz, freie Stelle, freies Zimmer, freier Platz
He heard the dining-room window open, and a quick rush of feet within. His companion rolled over and sat up, with the blood running down between his eye and ear. "Where is he?" asked the man on the floor.
companion - Begleiter, Freund, Liebhaber, Kamerad
"Don't know. I've hit him. He's standing somewhere in the hall. Unless he's slipped past you. Doctor Kemp-sir."
Pause.
pause - Eine Pause; pausieren, innehalten, Pause
"Doctor Kemp," cried the policeman again.
The second policeman began struggling to his feet. He stood up. Suddenly the faint pad of bare feet on the kitchen stairs could be heard. "Yap!" cried the first policeman, and incontinently flung his poker. It smashed a little gas bracket.
bracket - Klammer; Böckchen, Winkel, Halter, Konsole
He made as if he would pursue the Invisible Man downstairs. Then he thought better of it and stepped into the dining-room.
pursue - verfolgen, beschreiten, nachjagen, nachgehen
"Doctor Kemp-" he began, and stopped short.
"Doctor Kemp's a hero," he said, as his companion looked over his shoulder.
The dining-room window was wide open, and neither housemaid nor Kemp was to be seen.
The second policeman's opinion of Kemp was terse and vivid.
Terse - knapp, markig, prägnant, kurz angebunden, wortkarg
Mr. Heelas, Mr. Kemp's nearest neighbour among the villa holders, was asleep in his summer house when the siege of Kemp's house began. Mr. Heelas was one of the sturdy minority who refused to believe "in all this nonsense" about an Invisible Man. His wife, however, as he was subsequently to be reminded, did. He insisted upon walking about his garden just as if nothing was the matter, and he went to sleep in the afternoon in accordance with the custom of years. He slept through the smashing of the windows, and then woke up suddenly with a curious persuasion of something wrong.
villa - Villa, Anwesen, Landhaus, Herrenhaus
holders - Halterungen; Halter, Ständer, Halterung, Halter, Besitzer
minority - Minderheit, Minorität
reminded - Erinnert; erinnern, in Erinnerung bringen
custom - Brauch, Gewohnheit, Sitte, Usus, Zoll, maßgeschneidert
He looked across at Kemp's house, rubbed his eyes and looked again. Then he put his feet to the ground, and sat listening. He said he was damned, but still the strange thing was visible. The house looked as though it had been deserted for weeks-after a violent riot. Every window was broken, and every window, save those of the belvedere study, was blinded by the internal shutters.
riot - Aufruhr, Tumult, Krawall, Randale
blinded - geblendet; blind, blind, unkritisch, ignorant, blind, Jalousie
"I could have sworn it was all right"-he looked at his watch-"twenty minutes ago."
He became aware of a measured concussion and the clash of glass, far away in the distance. And then, as he sat open-mouthed, came a still more wonderful thing. The shutters of the drawing-room window were flung open violently, and the housemaid in her outdoor hat and garments, appeared struggling in a frantic manner to throw up the sash. Suddenly a man appeared beside her, helping her-Dr. Kemp! In another moment the window was open, and the housemaid was struggling out; she pitched forward and vanished among the shrubs.
measured - gemessen; Maß
more wonderful - wunderbarere
outdoor - Außen-, außerhalb des Hauses, im Freien, Freiluft-
throw up - kotzen;in die Höhe werfen, sich übergeben
shrubs - Sträucher; Busch, Strauch, Staude
Mr. Heelas stood up, exclaiming vaguely and vehemently at all these wonderful things. He saw Kemp stand on the sill, spring from the window, and reappear almost instantaneously running along a path in the shrubbery and stooping as he ran, like a man who evades observation. He vanished behind a laburnum, and appeared again clambering over a fence that abutted on the open down. In a second he had tumbled over and was running at a tremendous pace down the slope towards Mr. Heelas.
exclaiming - ausrufen
vehemently - vehement
spring from - herrühren von
reappear - wieder auftauchen; wieder erscheinen, wiederauftreten
instantaneously - sofort
evades - ausweicht; ausweichen, meiden, sich entziehen
laburnum - Goldregen
abutted - Angrenzend; grenzen, anlehnen, anstoßen, angrenzen
slope - Steigung, Hang, Abhang, Ableitung
"Lord!" cried Mr. Heelas, struck with an idea; "it's that Invisible Man brute! It's right, after all!"
With Mr. Heelas to think things like that was to act, and his cook watching him from the top window was amazed to see him come pelting towards the house at a good nine miles an hour. There was a slamming of doors, a ringing of bells, and the voice of Mr. Heelas bellowing like a bull. "Shut the doors, shut the windows, shut everything!-the Invisible Man is coming!
act - handeln; Handlung, Tat, Akt, Gesetz, Akte, Spiel
pelting - prasselt; niederprasselnd; (pelt) prasselt; niederprasselnd
bells - Glocken; Klingel, Schelle, Glocke
bellowing - Gebrüll; brüllen, röhren, brüllen, grölen
Bull - Bulle, Stier
Instantly the house was full of screams and directions, and scurrying feet. He ran himself to shut the French windows that opened on the veranda; as he did so Kemp's head and shoulders and knee appeared over the edge of the garden fence. In another moment Kemp had ploughed through the asparagus, and was running across the tennis lawn to the house.
scurrying - wuseln; hasten, huschen, vorbeihuschen
French - Französisch
veranda - Veranda
garden fence - Gartenzaun
ploughed through - durchgeackert
asparagus - Spargel
"You can't come in," said Mr. Heelas, shutting the bolts. "I'm very sorry if he's after you, but you can't come in!"
Kemp appeared with a face of terror close to the glass, rapping and then shaking frantically at the French window. Then, seeing his efforts were useless, he ran along the veranda, vaulted the end, and went to hammer at the side door. Then he ran round by the side gate to the front of the house, and so into the hill-road. And Mr.
shaking - schüttelnd, erschütternd; (shake); schütteln, erschüttern
frantically - verzweifelt
French window - Balkontür , Terrassentür
efforts - Anstrengungen; Anstrengung, Aufwand
useless - nutzlos, unnützlich, wertlos
vaulted - gewölbt; sich wölben, überwölben
hammer - Hammer; Schlagstück, Hahn, Schlaghebel, tMalleus
side door - Seitentür
Heelas staring from his window-a face of horror-had scarcely witnessed Kemp vanish, ere the asparagus was being trampled this way and that by feet unseen. At that Mr. Heelas fled precipitately upstairs, and the rest of the chase is beyond his purview. But as he passed the staircase window, he heard the side gate slam.
witnessed - bezeugt; Zeugnis
ere - hier
precipitately - überstürzt
purview - Geltungsbereich; Einflussbereich, Zuständigkeitsbereich
Emerging into the hill-road, Kemp naturally took the downward direction, and so it was he came to run in his own person the very race he had watched with such a critical eye from the belvedere study only four days ago. He ran it well, for a man out of training, and though his face was white and wet, his wits were cool to the last.
downward - abwärts, nach unten, runter, nach unten gehend, absteigend
out of training - aus dem Training
He ran with wide strides, and wherever a patch of rough ground intervened, wherever there came a patch of raw flints, or a bit of broken glass shone dazzling, he crossed it and left the bare invisible feet that followed to take what line they would.
rough - rau, grob, Rough
raw - roh; Roh-; rau
dazzling - schillernd; blendend, grell, umwerfend, betörend
For the first time in his life Kemp discovered that the hill-road was indescribably vast and desolate, and that the beginnings of the town far below at the hill foot were strangely remote. Never had there been a slower or more painful method of progression than running. All the gaunt villas, sleeping in the afternoon sun, looked locked and barred; no doubt they were locked and barred-by his own orders. But at any rate they might have kept a lookout for an eventuality like this!
indescribably - Unbeschreiblich
beginnings - Anfänge; Beginn, Anfang
strangely - seltsame, merkwürdige
more painful - qualvollere
progression - Fortschreiten, Verlauf, Fortschritt, Vorwärtsbewegung
eventuality - Eventualität
The town was rising up now, the sea had dropped out of sight behind it, and people down below were stirring. A tram was just arriving at the hill foot. Beyond that was the police station. Was that footsteps he heard behind him? Spurt.
dropped out - ausgeschieden
The people below were staring at him, one or two were running, and his breath was beginning to saw in his throat. The tram was quite near now, and the "Jolly Cricketers" was noisily barring its doors. Beyond the tram were posts and heaps of gravel-the drainage works. He had a transitory idea of jumping into the tram and slamming the doors, and then he resolved to go for the police station.
barring - Sperrung; ausgenommen; (bar) Sperrung; ausgenommen
drainage - Entwässerung, Drainage, Dränage
transitory - vorübergehend
In another moment he had passed the door of the "Jolly Cricketers," and was in the blistering fag end of the street, with human beings about him. The tram driver and his helper-arrested by the sight of his furious haste-stood staring with the tram horses unhitched. further on the astonished features of navvies appeared above the mounds of gravel.
fag - Schwuchtel, Schwuchtel (abw.)
unhitched - abgehängt; losmachen
further on - weiterhin
features - Merkmale; Besonderheit, Charakteristikum
navvies - Marineinfanteristen; Hilfsarbeiter
mounds - Hügeln; Erdhügel, Erdwall, Hügel
His pace broke a little, and then he heard the swift pad of his pursuer, and leapt forward again. "The Invisible Man!" he cried to the navvies, with a vague indicative gesture, and by an inspiration leapt the excavation and placed a burly group between him and the chase. Then abandoning the idea of the police station he turned into a little side street, rushed by a greengrocer's cart, hesitated for the tenth of a second at the door of a sweetstuff shop, and then made for the mouth of an alley that ran back into the main Hill Street again.
indicative - indikativ, hinweisend, Indikativ
excavation - Grabung; Ausgrabung g; Ausschachtung; Aushub; Ausgrabung
Abandoning - Aufgeben; im Stich lassen, preisgeben, verlassen, abbrechen
side street - Nebenstraße
greengrocer - Gemüsehändler, Gemüsehändlerin, Obst- und Gemüsehändler
tenth - zehnten; zehnte
alley - Allee, Bahn, Weg, Gasse, Pfad
Two or three little children were playing here, and shrieked and scattered at his apparition, and forthwith doors and windows opened and excited mothers revealed their hearts. Out he shot into Hill Street again, three hundred yards from the tram-line end, and immediately he became aware of a tumultuous vociferation and running people.
apparition - Erscheinung
revealed - aufgedeckt; enthüllen, offenbaren
hearts - Herzen; Herz, Herzstück
vociferation - Vokalisierung
He glanced up the street towards the hill. Hardly a dozen yards off ran a huge navvy, cursing in fragments and slashing viciously with a spade, and hard behind him came the tram conductor with his fists clenched. Up the street others followed these two, striking and shouting. Down towards the town, men and women were running, and he noticed clearly one man coming out of a shop-door with a stick in his hand.
navvy - Hilfsarbeiter
slashing - aufschlitzen; schlitzend; (slash) aufschlitzen; schlitzend
spade - Spaten, Schaufel (für Kinder); Pik (Kartenspiel)
conductor - Dirigent, Dirigentin, Schaffner, Leiter
"Spread out! Spread out!" cried some one. Kemp suddenly grasped the altered condition of the chase. He stopped, and looked round, panting. "He's close here!" he cried. "Form a line across-"
He was hit hard under the ear, and went reeling, trying to face round towards his unseen antagonist. He just managed to keep his feet, and he struck a vain counter in the air. Then he was hit again under the jaw, and sprawled headlong on the ground. In another moment a knee compressed his diaphragm, and a couple of eager hands gripped his throat, but the grip of one was weaker than the other; he grasped the wrists, heard a cry of pain from his assailant, and then the spade of the navvy came whirling through the air above him, and struck something with a dull thud.
sprawled - Ausgestreckt; ausspreizen, grätschen, sich ausbreiten, Wuchern
compressed - komprimiert; komprimieren; Kompresse, Umschlag [med.]
weaker - schwächer; schwach, schwach, schwach, out, unschön, häßlich
wrists - Handgelenke; Handgelenk
cry of pain - Schmerzensschrei
assailant - Angreifer
dull - stumpf; fad, langweilig, matt, blöd, blöde
He felt a drop of moisture on his face. The grip at his throat suddenly relaxed, and with a convulsive effort, Kemp loosed himself, grasped a limp shoulder, and rolled uppermost. He gripped the unseen elbows near the ground. "I've got him!" screamed Kemp. "Help! Help-hold! He's down! Hold his feet!"
moisture - Feuchtigkeit, Nässe
loosed - gelockert; verlassen, lose, locker
In another second there was a simultaneous rush upon the struggle, and a stranger coming into the road suddenly might have thought an exceptionally savage game of Rugby football was in progress. And there was no shouting after Kemp's cry-only a sound of blows and feet and heavy breathing.
simultaneous - simultan
exceptionally - Ausnahmsweise
Rugby - Rugby
progress - fortschreiten, Fortschritte machen, weiterkommen; Fortgang
Then came a mighty effort, and the Invisible Man threw off a couple of his antagonists and rose to his knees. Kemp clung to him in front like a hound to a stag, and a dozen hands gripped, clutched, and tore at the Unseen. The tram conductor suddenly got the neck and shoulders and lugged him back.
mighty - gewaltig, mächtig
antagonists - Antagonisten; Antagonist, Widersacher, Gegner, Antagonist
clung to - angeschmiegt
hound - Hund, Jagdhund, Laufhund
stag - Junggeselle; Hirsch, Hirschbock, Rothirsch, Fohlen
lugged - geschleppt; zerren, schleppen; Anschlussklemme, Vorsprung, Ă–se
Down went the heap of struggling men again and rolled over. There was, I am afraid, some savage kicking. Then suddenly a wild scream of "Mercy! Mercy!" that died down swiftly to a sound like choking.
kicking - treten, (Pferd) ausschlagen; Stoß
"Get back, you fools!" cried the muffled voice of Kemp, and there was a vigorous shoving back of stalwart forms. "He's hurt, I tell you. stand back!"
vigorous - kräftig, stark, energisch, lebhaft
stalwart - standhaft; kräftig, robust, handfest, unerschütterlich, tapfer
stand back - zurückstehen
There was a brief struggle to clear a space, and then the circle of eager faces saw the doctor kneeling, as it seemed, fifteen inches in the air, and holding invisible arms to the ground. Behind him a constable gripped invisible ankles.
kneeling - kniend, hinkniend; (kneel); knien
"Don't you leave go of en," cried the big navvy, holding a blood-stained spade; "he's shamming."
shamming - Schummeln; Schein.., Fälschung
"He's not shamming," said the doctor, cautiously raising his knee; "and I'll hold him." His face was bruised and already going red; he spoke thickly because of a bleeding lip. He released one hand and seemed to be feeling at the face. "The mouth's all wet," he said. And then, "Good God!"
raising - Erhöhung; Erhebung; Großziehen, Aufziehen
at the face - vor Ort
He stood up abruptly and then knelt down on the ground by the side of the thing unseen. There was a pushing and shuffling, a sound of heavy feet as fresh people turned up to increase the pressure of the crowd. People now were coming out of the houses. The doors of the "Jolly Cricketers" stood suddenly wide open. Very little was said.
pushing - schieben, drängen, stoßen
increase - erhöhen; zunehmen, steigen, ansteigen, wachsen
Kemp felt about, his hand seeming to pass through empty air. "He's not breathing," he said, and then, "I can't feel his heart. His side-ugh!"
seeming - scheinbar; anscheinend, scheinend; (seem); scheinen, dünken
pass through - durchfahren, durchlaufen, durchgehen, durchreisen
Suddenly an old woman, peering under the arm of the big navvy, screamed sharply. "Looky there!" she said, and thrust out a wrinkled finger.
thrust out - vorstrecken
And looking where she pointed, everyone saw, faint and transparent as though it was made of glass, so that veins and arteries and bones and nerves could be distinguished, the outline of a hand, a hand limp and prone. It grew clouded and opaque even as they stared.
prone - in Bauchlage; schräg; anfällig, geneigt
"Hullo!" cried the constable. "Here's his feet a-showing!"
And so, slowly, beginning at his hands and feet and creeping along his limbs to the vital centres of his body, that strange change continued. It was like the slow spreading of a poison. First came the little white nerves, a hazy grey sketch of a limb, then the glassy bones and intricate arteries, then the flesh and skin, first a faint fogginess, and then growing rapidly dense and opaque.
creeping - schleichend; kriechen, schleichen, schleichen, kriechen
spreading - Ausbreitung; Verteilen, Verteilung, Verbreiten
hazy - verschwommen; dunstig, diesig, trüb, getrübt
sketch - skizzieren; entwerfen; Skizze; Sketch
fogginess - Nebelbildung; Verworrenheit
dense - dicht
Presently they could see his crushed chest and his shoulders, and the dim outline of his drawn and battered features.
battered - ramponiert; zerschlagen, ich/er/sie stieß ab, schlagen
When at last the crowd made way for Kemp to stand erect, there lay, naked and pitiful on the ground, the bruised and broken body of a young man about thirty. His hair and brow were white-not grey with age, but white with the whiteness of albinism-and his eyes were like garnets. His hands were clenched, his eyes wide open, and his expression was one of anger and dismay.
erect - aufrecht; stramm (Haltung), steif; errichten
whiteness - Weiße, Weißheit, Weißsein
albinism - Albinismus
garnets - Granate; Granat
"Cover his face!" said a man. "For Gawd's sake, cover that face!" and three little children, pushing forward through the crowd, were suddenly twisted round and sent packing off again.
Someone brought a sheet from the "Jolly Cricketers," and having covered him, they carried him into that house.
And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men to make himself invisible, Griffin, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, ended in infinite disaster his strange and terrible career.
tawdry - kitschig, geschmacklos, flitterhaft, bunt
surrounded - umgeben, umringen, umzingeln, umringen
betrayed - verraten, im Stich lassen, verraten, verraten, verraten
unpitied - unaufgefordert
most gifted - talentvollste
physicist - Physiker, Physikerin
THE EPILOGUE
Epilogue - Epilog, Nachwort
So ends the story of the strange and evil experiments of the Invisible Man. And if you would learn more of him you must go to a little inn near Port Stowe and talk to the landlord. The sign of the inn is an empty board save for a hat and boots, and the name is the title of this story. The landlord is a short and corpulent little man with a nose of cylindrical proportions, wiry hair, and a sporadic rosiness of visage.
sign - Wert, Zeichen, Hinweistafel, Indiz; unterschreiben, signieren
board - Brett, Tafel
corpulent - korpulent
proportions - Proportionen; Teil, Proportion, Anteil
wiry - drahtig
sporadic - sporadisch
rosiness - rosig
Drink generously, and he will tell you generously of all the things that happened to him after that time, and of how the lawyers tried to do him out of the treasure found upon him.
generously - freigebige, großzügig, generös, dankenswerterweise
lawyers - Anwälte; Rechtsanwalt, Rechtsanwältin, Anwalt, Anwältin
treasure - Schatz; schätzen
"When they found they couldn't prove whose money was which, I'm blessed," he says, "if they didn't try to make me out a blooming treasure trove! Do I look like a Treasure Trove? And then a gentleman gave me a guinea a night to tell the story at the Empire Music 'All-just to tell 'em in my own words-barring one."
Prove - er/sie hat/hatte bewiesen, beweisen, erhärten
treasure trove - Schatzfund
guinea - Guinea
Empire - Reich, Imperium, Kaiserreich, Kaisertum, Weltreich
And if you want to cut off the flow of his reminiscences abruptly, you can always do so by asking if there weren't three manuscript books in the story. He admits there were and proceeds to explain, with asseverations that everybody thinks he has 'em! But bless you! he hasn't. "The Invisible Man it was took 'em off to hide 'em when I cut and ran for Port Stowe. It's that Mr. Kemp put people on with the idea of my having 'em."
flow - Wasserführung; ich flösse, ich/er/sie floss (floß
reminiscences - Reminiszenzen; Erinnern
weren - wer
admits - einlassen, zulassen, zugeben, eingestehen, erlauben, einweisen
proceeds - Erlöse; vorgehen
asseverations - Beteuerungen; Beteuerung
And then he subsides into a pensive state, watches you furtively, bustles nervously with glasses, and presently leaves the bar.
subsides - nachlässt; einsinken, abklingen, nachlassen, abschwellen
pensive - nachdenklich, gedankenvoll, gedankenverloren
furtively - heimlich
bustles - Büsten; Hektik, hasten
He is a bachelor man-his tastes were ever bachelor, and there are no women folk in the house. Outwardly he buttons-it is expected of him-but in his more vital privacies, in the matter of braces for example, he still turns to string. He conducts his house without enterprise, but with eminent decorum.
tastes - Geschmäcker; Geschmack, Schmecken
outwardly - nach außen hin; äußerlich
more vital - lebenswichtigere
privacies - Privates; Zurückgezogenheit, Privatsphäre, Privatheit
conducts - verhält; Leitung, Führung, leiten, führen, sich verhalten
enterprise - Unternehmen; Unterfangen, Vorhaben, Unternehmungsgeist
decorum - Anstand, Etikette, Schicklichkeit, Anständigkeit
His movements are slow, and he is a great thinker. But he has a reputation for wisdom and for a respectable parsimony in the village, and his knowledge of the roads of the South of England would beat Cobbett.
thinker - Denker, Denkerin
reputation - Ansehen, Ruf, Klang, Bekanntheit
wisdom - Weisheit
respectable - respektabel; angesehen, geachtet
parsimony - Sparsamkeit, Geiz, Knauserei, Pfennigfuchserei
And on Sunday mornings, every Sunday morning, all the year round, while he is closed to the outer world, and every night after ten, he goes into his bar parlour, bearing a glass of gin faintly tinged with water, and having placed this down, he locks the door and examines the blinds, and even looks under the table. And then, being satisfied of his solitude, he unlocks the cupboard and a box in the cupboard and a drawer in that box, and produces three volumes bound in brown leather, and places them solemnly in the middle of the table.
gin - Gin, Wacholderbranntwein
tinged - gefärbt; klingeln
examines - prüft; untersuchen, untersuchen, untersuchen, prüfen, befragen
unlocks - freischaltet; aufschließen, entriegeln, entsperren (screen
produces - produziert; produzieren, herstellen, vorlegen, produzieren
leather - Leder; ledern
solemnly - feierlich, festlich, ernst
The covers are weather-worn and tinged with an algal green-for once they sojourned in a ditch and some of the pages have been washed blank by dirty water. The landlord sits down in an armchair, fills a long clay pipe slowly-gloating over the books the while. Then he pulls one towards him and opens it, and begins to study it-turning over the leaves backwards and forwards.
covers - Abdeckungen; Deckel, Abdeckung, Deckung, Versteck
tinged - gefärbt; tönen
algal - Algen
sojourned - verweilte; Aufenthalt, Unterkunft, Obdach
clay - Lehm, Ton, Asche
gloating - schadenfroh; hämisch freuen, sich weiden, sich diebisch freuen
pulls - zieht; ziehen, ziehen
forwards - nachsenden, fördern, befördern, versenden, senden; dreist
His brows are knit and his lips move painfully. "Hex, little two up in the air, cross and a fiddle-de-dee. Lord! what a one he was for intellect!"
brows - Augenbrauen; Brauen; (brow) Augenbrauen; Brauen
knit - stricken
Hex - verfluchen; hexadezimal
fiddle - fiedeln; Schiffsgeländer; fummeln
intellect - Intellekt
Presently he relaxes and leans back, and blinks through his smoke across the room at things invisible to other eyes. "Full of secrets," he says. "Wonderful secrets!"
leans - lehnt; knapp, schlank, hager, mager
blinks - blinkt; (blink); blinzeln; lichthupen, aufblenden, blinken
secrets - Geheimnisse; Geheimnis
"Once I get the haul of them-Lord!"
haul - Beutezug; ziehen, schleppen, transportieren, befödern
"I wouldn't do what he did; I'd just-well!" He pulls at his pipe.
So he lapses into a dream, the undying wonderful dream of his life. And though Kemp has fished unceasingly, no human being save the landlord knows those books are there, with the subtle secret of invisibility and a dozen other strange secrets written therein. And none other will know of them until he dies.
lapses - Versäumnisse; Entgleisung, Ausrutscher, Verfallen
undying - unsterblich
unceasingly - unaufhörlich
Therein - darin