Ethan Frome (Webster's German Thesaurus Edition)

ETHAN FROME WEBSTER'S GERMAN THESAURUS EDITION

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Edith Wharton

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Ethan Frome Webster's German Thesaurus Edition

for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation

Edith Wharton

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ii ICON CLASSICS Published by ICON Group International, Inc. 7404 Trade Street San Diego, CA 92121 USA www.icongrouponline.com Ethan Frome: Webster's German Thesaurus Edition for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation This edition published by ICON Classics in 2005 Printed in the United States of America. Copyright ©2005 by ICON Group International, Inc. Edited by Philip M. Parker, Ph.D. (INSEAD); Copyright ©2005, all rights reserved. All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Copying our publications in whole or in part, for whatever reason, is a violation of copyright laws and can lead to penalties and fines. Should you want to copy tables, graphs, or other materials, please contact us to request permission (E-mail: [email protected]). ICON Group often grants permission for very limited reproduction of our publications for internal use, press releases, and academic research. Such reproduction requires confirmed permission from ICON Group International, Inc. TOEFL®, TOEIC®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved. ISBN 0-497-25751-3

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Contents PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR .......................................................................................... 1 PREFACE.......................................................................................................................... 2 CHAPTER I ..................................................................................................................... 14 CHAPTER II .................................................................................................................... 22 CHAPTER III ................................................................................................................... 31 CHAPTER IV ................................................................................................................... 37 CHAPTER V .................................................................................................................... 49 CHAPTER VI ................................................................................................................... 55 CHAPTER VII .................................................................................................................. 60 CHAPTER VIII ................................................................................................................. 73 CHAPTER IX ................................................................................................................... 82 GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................... 104

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PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-German thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton was edited for three audiences. The first includes German-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL® or TOEIC® preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or German speakers enrolled in English speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in 1 German in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement® (AP®) or similar examinations. By using the Webster's German Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in German or English. Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to “difficult, yet commonly used” words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in German, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not translated on a page, chances are that it has been translated on a previous page. A more complete glossary of translations is supplied at the end of the book; translations are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary. Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-onlinedictionary.org. Please send suggestions to [email protected] The Editor Webster’s Online Dictionary www.websters-online-dictionary.org

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PREFACE

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.% If you know Starkfield, Massachusetts, you know the post-office. If you know the post-office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins on his hollow-backed bay and drag himself across the brick pavement to the white colonnade: and you must have asked who he was. It was there that, several years ago, I saw him for the first time; and the sight pulled me up sharp. Even then he was the most striking figure in Starkfield, though he was but the ruin of a man. It was not so much his great height that marked him, for the “natives” were easily singled out by their lank longitude from the stockier foreign breed: it was the careless powerful look he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain. There was something bleak and unapproachable in his face, and he was so stiffened and grizzled that I took him for an old man and was surprised to hear that he was not more than fifty-two. I had this from Harmon Gow, who had driven the stage from Bettsbridge to Starkfield in pre-trolley days and knew the chronicle of all the families on his line. “He’s looked that way ever since he had his smash-up; and that’s twenty-four years ago come next February,” Harmon threw out between reminiscent pauses.

German bleak: kahl, öde, düster, trübe, dunkel, freudlos, trostlos, widerwärtig. careless: achtlos, nachlässig, sorglos, unvorsichtig, fahrlässig, leichtsinnig. checking: Kontrolle, überprüfung, Prüfung, abzählen. chronicle: Chronik, Aufzeichnung. colonnade: Kolonnade, Säulengang. drag: ziehen, zieht, ziehe, ziehst, schleppen, schleppst, schleppt, schleppe, nachschleppen, zerren, dreggen.

grizzled: grauhaarig, ergraut. jerk: Ruck, reißen, zucken, zerren, Ruckweise, erschüttern, anziehen. lameness: Lahmheit, Lähmung. lank: strähnig, glatthaarig, gerade, dünn, schlicht, schmächtig. longitude: Länge, Geographische Länge. pauses: pausiert, pausen. pavement: Bürgersteig, Pflaster, Gehweg, Trottoir. reins: Zügel, Zäume.

reminiscent: erinnernd. ruin: Ruine, verderben, Ruin, Trümmer, ruinieren, umbringen, Trümmerhaufen, vergiften, verheeren, verleiden, vergällen. spite: Boshaftigkeit. stiffened: versteiftest, versteift, versteifte, versteiften, versteiftet. stockier: untersetzter. unapproachable: unzugänglich, unnahbar, unerreichbar, nicht sehr entgegenkommend.

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The “smash-up” it was—I gathered from the same informant—which, besides drawing the red gash across Ethan Frome’s forehead, had so shortened and warped his right side that it cost him a visible effort to take the few steps from his buggy to the post-office window. He used to drive in from his farm every day at about noon, and as that was my own hour for fetching my mail I often passed him in the porch or stood beside him while we waited on the motions of the distributing hand behind the grating. I noticed that, though he came so punctually, he seldom received anything but a copy of the Bettsbridge Eagle, which he put without a glance into his sagging pocket. At intervals, however, the post-master would hand him an envelope addressed to Mrs. Zenobia—or Mrs. Zeena-Frome, and usually bearing conspicuously in the upper left-hand corner the address of some manufacturer of patent medicine and the name of his specific. These documents my neighbour would also pocket without a glance, as if too much used to them to wonder at their number and variety, and would then turn away with a silent nod to the post-master.% Every one in Starkfield knew him and gave him a greeting tempered to his own grave mien; but his taciturnity was respected and it was only on rare occasions that one of the older men of the place detained him for a word. When this happened he would listen quietly, his blue eyes on the speaker’s face, and answer in so low a tone that his words never reached me; then he would climb stiffly into his buggy, gather up the reins in his left hand and drive slowly away in the direction of his farm. “It was a pretty bad smash-up?” I questioned Harmon, looking after Frome’s retreating figure, and thinking how gallantly his lean brown head, with its shock of light hair, must have sat on his strong shoulders before they were bent out of shape. “Wust kind,” my informant assented. “More’n enough to kill most men. But the Fromes are tough. Ethan’ll likely touch a hundred.” “Good God!” I exclaimed. At the moment Ethan Frome, after climbing to his seat, had leaned over to assure himself of the security of a wooden box—also with a druggist’s label on it—which he had placed in the back of the buggy, and I

German assented: stimmte zu. buggy: Kinderwagen. conspicuously: auffallend. distributing: verteilend, austeilend. fetching: holend, bringend, Abholen, reizend, attraktiv. gallantly: galant, tapfer, ritterlich, galante. gash: Schmisse. grating: Rasterung, knirschend, Gitter, kratzend. greeting: Gruß, Begrüßung, Grüßend,

begrüßend. informant: Informant, Informantin. mien: Miene. patent: Patent, Patentiert, Gesetzlich geschützt, Patentieren. porch: Veranda, Vorhalle, Säulenhalle, Portikus, Haustürnische. punctually: pünktlich. retreating: zurückziehend, zurücktretend, zurückziehen. sagging: sackend. shortened: verkürzte, verkürzt,

verkürzten, kürztet, verkürztest, kürzte, gekürzt, verkürztet, kürztest, kürzten, abgekürzt. stiffly: steif. taciturnity: die Schweigsamkeit, Verschlossenheit, Schweigsamkeit, die Verschlossenheit, die Wortkargheit. tempered: gemäßigt, temperierte, temperiert. warped: krumm, windschief, verzerrte, verbogen.

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saw his face as it probably looked when he thought himself alone. “That man touch a hundred? He looks as if he was dead and in hell now!”% Harmon drew a slab of tobacco from his pocket, cut off a wedge and pressed it into the leather pouch of his cheek. “Guess he’s been in Starkfield too many winters. Most of the smart ones get away.” “Why didn’t he?” “Somebody had to stay and care for the folks. There warn’t ever anybody but Ethan. Fust his father—then his mother—then his wife.” “And then the smash-up?” Harmon chuckled sardonically. “That’s so. He had to stay then.” “I see. And since then they’ve had to care for him?” Harmon thoughtfully passed his tobacco to the other cheek. “Oh, as to that: I guess it’s always Ethan done the caring.” Though Harmon Gow developed the tale as far as his mental and moral reach permitted there were perceptible gaps between his facts, and I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps. But one phrase stuck in my memory and served as the nucleus about which I grouped my subsequent inferences: “Guess he’s been in Starkfield too many winters.” Before my own time there was up I had learned to know what that meant. Yet I had come in the degenerate day of trolley, bicycle and rural delivery, when communication was easy between the scattered mountain villages, and the bigger towns in the valleys, such as Bettsbridge and Shadd’s Falls, had libraries, theatres and Y. M. C. A. halls to which the youth of the hills could descend for recreation. But when winter shut down on Starkfield and the village lay under a sheet of snow perpetually renewed from the pale skies, I began to see what life there—or rather its negation—must have been in Ethan Frome’s young manhood. I had been sent up by my employers on a job connected with the big powerhouse at Corbury Junction, and a long-drawn carpenters’ strike had so delayed

German carpenters: Zimmerleute. chuckled: gluckste. degenerate: entarten, entarte, entartet, entartest, ausarten, arte aus, degenerieren, artest aus, artet aus, arten aus, degeneriert. descend: herunterkommen, kommt herunter, kommst herunter, kommen herunter, komme herunter, herabsteigen, absteigen, abstammen. folks: Leute, Menschen. fust: muffiger Geruch.

grouped: gruppiert. inferences: Folgerungen. manhood: Männlichkeit, Mannesalter. nucleus: Kern, Zellkern, Atomkern, Mittelpunkt, Obststein, Schwerpunkt, Zentrum. perceptible: wahrnehmbar, merklich. perpetually: endlos, unaufhörlich, ständig, fortwährende, dauernd, ewig. pouch: Beutel, Sack. sardonically: hämisch, höhnisch,

sardonische. skies: Himmel. slab: Platte, Tafel, Schwarte, Grundplatte. theatres: Theater, Schauspielhäuser. trolley: Wagen, Lore, Trollen, Transportkarren, Stangenstromabnehmer, Draisine, Karren. valleys: Talen, Täler. wedge: Keil, verkeilen. winters: Winter.

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the %work that I found myself anchored at Starkfield—the nearest habitable spot—for the best part of the winter. I chafed at first, and then, under the hypnotising effect of routine, gradually began to find a grim satisfaction in the life. During the early part of my stay I had been struck by the contrast between the vitality of the climate and the deadness of the community. Day by day, after the December snows were over, a blazing blue sky poured down torrents of light and air on the white landscape, which gave them back in an intenser glitter. One would have supposed that such an atmosphere must quicken the emotions as well as the blood; but it seemed to produce no change except that of retarding still more the sluggish pulse of Starkfield. When I had been there a little longer, and had seen this phase of crystal clearness followed by long stretches of sunless cold; when the storms of February had pitched their white tents about the. devoted village and the wild cavalry of March winds had charged down to their support; I began to understand why Starkfield emerged from its six months’ siege like a starved garrison capitulating without quarter. Twenty years earlier the means of resistance must have been far fewer, and the enemy in command of almost all the lines of access between the beleaguered villages; and, considering these things, I felt the sinister force of Harmon’s phrase: “Most of the smart ones get away.” But if that were the case, how could any combination of obstacles have hindered the flight of a man like Ethan Frome? During my stay at Starkfield I lodged with a middle-aged widow colloquially known as Mrs. Ned Hale. Mrs. Hale’s father had been the village lawyer of the previous generation, and “lawyer Varnum’s house,” where my landlady still lived with her mother, was the most considerable mansion in the village. It stood at one end of the main street, its classic portico and small-paned windows looking down a flagged path between Norway spruces to the slim white steeple of the Congregational church. It was clear that the Varnum fortunes were at the ebb, but the two women did what they could to preserve a decent dignity; and Mrs. Hale, in particular, had a certain wan refinement not out of keeping with her pale old-fashioned house.

German anchored: verankert. beleaguered: belagert, belagerte, belagerten, belagertest, belagertet. capitulating: kapitulierend. chafed: gerieben. clearness: Deutlichkeit, Klarheit. colloquially: umgangssprachlich. deadness: Leblosigkeit. ebb: ebbe, ebben. flagged: gekennzeichnet. glitter: Glitzern, Funkeln. habitable: bewohnbar.

hale: Gesund, Rüstig. hindered: hinderte, gehindert, hinderten, hindertet, hindertest, behindertet, behindert, behinderte, behinderten, behindertest, erschwertet. hypnotising: hypnotisieren. intenser: intensiver. portico: Säulengang. quicken: beschleunigen, beschleunigst, beschleunigt, beschleunige.

retarding: verlangsamen, verzögernd. sluggish: träge, faul, schleppend, langsam. snows: Schneit, Schnee. starved: hungerte, gehungert, hungertet, hungerten, hungertest, verhungertest, verhungerten, verhungerte, verhungert, verhungertet. steeple: Kirchturm. sunless: dunkel. torrents: Sturzbäche, Sturzfluten.

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In the “best parlour,” with its black horse-hair and mahogany weakly illuminated by a gurgling Carcel lamp, I listened every evening to another and more delicately shaded version of the Starkfield chronicle. It was not that Mrs. Ned Hale felt, or affected, any social superiority to the people about her; it was only that the accident of a finer sensibility and a little more education had put just enough distance between herself and her neighbours to enable her to judge them with detachment. She was not unwilling to exercise this faculty, and I had great hopes of getting from her the missing facts of Ethan Frome’s story, or rather such a key to his character as should co-ordinate the facts I knew. Her mind was a store-house of innocuous anecdote and any question about her acquaintances brought forth a volume of detail; but on the subject of Ethan Frome I found her unexpectedly reticent. There was no hint of disapproval in her reserve; I merely felt in her an insurmountable reluctance to speak of him or his affairs, a low “Yes, I knew them both... it was awful...” seeming to be the utmost concession that her distress could make to my curiosity.% So marked was the change in her manner, such depths of sad initiation did it imply, that, with some doubts as to my delicacy, I put the case anew to my village oracle, Harmon Gow; but got for my pains only an uncomprehending grunt. “Ruth Varnum was always as nervous as a rat; and, come to think of it, she was the first one to see ‘em after they was picked up. It happened right below lawyer Varnum’s, down at the bend of the Corbury road, just round about the time that Ruth got engaged to Ned Hale. The young folks was all friends, and I guess she just can’t bear to talk about it. She’s had troubles enough of her own.” All the dwellers in Starkfield, as in more notable communities, had had troubles enough of their own to make them comparatively indifferent to those of their neighbours; and though all conceded that Ethan Frome’s had been beyond the common measure, no one gave me an explanation of the look in his face which, as I persisted in thinking, neither poverty nor physical suffering could have put there. Nevertheless, I might have contented myself with the story pieced together from these hints had it not been for the provocation of Mrs.

German acquaintances: Bekannte, Bekanntschaften, die Bekanntschaft, Reisebekanntschaften. anecdote: Anekdote. anew: von neuem, erneut, aufs Neue, wieder, abermalig, abermals. contented: zufrieden, befriedigt, befriedigte. delicacy: Delikatesse, Leckerbissen, Feinheit, Zierlichkeit, Zartgefühl, Takt, Nascherei, Leckerei, Erquickung, Erfrischung, Dünne.

delicately: empfindlich, lecker. disapproval: Missbilligung, Missfallen. dwellers: Bewohner. grunt: Grunzen. gurgling: gurgelnd. illuminated: erleuchtet, erleuchtetet, erleuchtetest, erleuchteten, erleuchtete. innocuous: harmlos. insurmountable: unüberwindlich, unüberbrückbar, unbesiegbar,

unschlagbar. oracle: Orakel. provocation: Herausforderung, Provokation. reticent: verschwiegen, zurückhaltend. sensibility: Sensibilität, Empfindlichkeit. shaded: beschattet, schattierte. uncomprehending: verständnislos. weakly: schwach, schwächlich, kränklich.

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Hale’s silence, and—a little later—for the accident of personal contact with the man.% On my arrival at Starkfield, Denis Eady, the rich Irish grocer, who was the proprietor of Starkfield’s nearest approach to a livery stable, had entered into an agreement to send me over daily to Corbury Flats, where I had to pick up my train for the Junction. But about the middle of the winter Eady’s horses fell ill of a local epidemic. The illness spread to the other Starkfield stables and for a day or two I was put to it to find a means of transport. Then Harmon Gow suggested that Ethan Frome’s bay was still on his legs and that his owner might be glad to drive me over. I stared at the suggestion. “Ethan Frome? But I’ve never even spoken to him. Why on earth should he put himself out for me?” Harmon’s answer surprised me still more. “I don’t know as he would; but I know he wouldn’t be sorry to earn a dollar.” I had been told that Frome was poor, and that the saw-mill and the arid acres of his farm yielded scarcely enough to keep his household through the winter; but I had not supposed him to be in such want as Harmon’s words implied, and I expressed my wonder. “Well, matters ain’t gone any too well with him,” Harmon said. “When a man’s been setting round like a hulk for twenty years or more, seeing things that want doing, it eats inter him, and he loses his grit. That Frome farm was always ‘bout as bare’s a milkpan when the cat’s been round; and you know what one of them old water-mills is wuth nowadays. When Ethan could sweat over ‘em both from sunup to dark he kinder choked a living out of ‘em; but his folks ate up most everything, even then, and I don’t see how he makes out now. Fust his father got a kick, out haying, and went soft in the brain, and gave away money like Bible texts afore he died. Then his mother got queer and dragged along for years as weak as a baby; and his wife Zeena, she’s always been the greatest hand at doctoring in the county. Sickness and trouble: that’s what Ethan’s had his plate full up with, ever since the very first helping.”

German acres: Morgen. afore: zuvor. arid: trocken, dürr, ausgedörrt. choked: würgte. doctoring: verarztend, Doktoren. dragged: zog, zogt, gezogen, zogst, zogen, geschleppt, schleppte, schleppten, schlepptest, schlepptet. eats: Ißt, speist. epidemic: Epidemisch, Epidemie, Seuche. grit: Kies, Grus, Schutt.

grocer: Krämer, Lebensmittelhändler, Kolonialwarenhändler. hulk: Klotz. inter: zwischen. kinder: Gütiger. livery: Livree. loses: verliert. nowadays: Heutzutage, heute, aktuell, zur Zeit, derzeitig, gegenwärtig, heutig, gegenwartig. proprietor: Besitzer, Inhaber, Eigentümer.

queer: seltsam, sonderbar, verdächtig, komisch, eigenartig, schwul. scarcely: kaum, fast kein, schwerlich, knapp, gering, fast keine. sickness: Krankheit, Übelkeit. stables: Ställe. sunup: Sonnenaufgang. sweat: Schweiß, schwitzen. yielded: wicht, wichst, wichen, wich, gewichen, gab nach, brachtest ein, gewonnen, brachten ein, eingebracht, brachte ein.

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The%next morning, when I looked out, I saw the hollow-backed bay between the Varnum spruces, and Ethan Frome, throwing back his worn bearskin, made room for me in the sleigh at his side. After that, for a week, he drove me over every morning to Corbury Flats, and on my return in the afternoon met me again and carried me back through the icy night to Starkfield. The distance each way was barely three miles, but the old bay’s pace was slow, and even with firm snow under the runners we were nearly an hour on the way. Ethan Frome drove in silence, the reins loosely held in his left hand, his brown seamed profile, under the helmet-like peak of the cap, relieved against the banks of snow like the bronze image of a hero. He never turned his face to mine, or answered, except in monosyllables, the questions I put, or such slight pleasantries as I ventured. He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters. Only once or twice was the distance between us bridged for a moment; and the glimpses thus gained confirmed my desire to know more. Once I happened to speak of an engineering job I had been on the previous year in Florida, and of the contrast between the winter landscape about us and that in which I had found myself the year before; and to my surprise Frome said suddenly: “Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter. But now it’s all snowed under.” He said no more, and I had to guess the rest from the inflection of his voice and his sharp relapse into silence. Another day, on getting into my train at the Flats, I missed a volume of popular science—I think it was on some recent discoveries in bio-chemistry— which I had carried with me to read on the way. I thought no more about it till I got into the sleigh again that evening, and saw the book in Frome’s hand.

German accumulated: akkumulierten, akkumuliert, akkumuliertest, akkumulierte, akkumuliertet, sammelten an, sammeltest an, angesammelt, sammeltet an, sammelte an, häufte an. afterward: nachher, später, danach. bearskin: Bärenmütze. bridged: überbrückte, überbrückt. discoveries: Entdeckungen. glimpses: Blicke, Erblickt flüchtig. hinted: angedeutet.

incarnation: Inkarnation, Verkörperung. inflection: Flexion, Biegung, Beugung. loneliness: Einsamkeit, Verlassenheit, Einsamkeitsgefühl. loosely: locker, lose. melancholy: Schwermut, Melancholie, wehmütig, Trübsinn, Wehmut, schwermütig, melancholisch, Traurigkeit, trübsinnig, Tiefsinn. mute: Stumm, sprachlos, zudichten. pleasantries: Scherze.

plight: Zwangslage. relapse: Rückfall, Einsturz, Zusammenbruch, Schwäche, zurückfallen, Depression, Einstürzen, Flaute, Niedergang, Rückgang. sentient: empfindungsfähig, empfindend. sleigh: Schlitten, Pferdeschlitten. snowed: geschneit. unfriendly: unfreundlich. ventured: riskierte, gewagt. woe: Wehe, Weh.

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“I found it after you were gone,” he said.% I put the volume into my pocket and we dropped back into our usual silence; but as we began to crawl up the long hill from Corbury Flats to the Starkfield ridge I became aware in the dusk that he had turned his face to mine. “There are things in that book that I didn’t know the first word about,” he said. I wondered less at his words than at the queer note of resentment in his voice. He was evidently surprised and slightly aggrieved at his own ignorance. “Does that sort of thing interest you?” I asked. “It used to.” “There are one or two rather new things in the book: there have been some big strides lately in that particular line of research.” I waited a moment for an answer that did not come; then I said: “If you’d like to look the book through I’d be glad to leave it with you.” He hesitated, and I had the impression that he felt himself about to yield to a stealing tide of inertia; then, “Thank you—I’ll take it,” he answered shortly. I hoped that this incident might set up some more direct communication between us. Frome was so simple and straightforward that I was sure his curiosity about the book was based on a genuine interest in its subject. Such tastes and acquirements in a man of his condition made the contrast more poignant between his outer situation and his inner needs, and I hoped that the chance of giving expression to the latter might at least unseal his lips. But something in his past history, or in his present way of living, had apparently driven him too deeply into himself for any casual impulse to draw him back to his kind. At our next meeting he made no allusion to the book, and our intercourse seemed fated to remain as negative and one-sided as if there had been no break in his reserve. Frome had been driving me over to the Flats for about a week when one morning I looked out of my window into a thick snow-fall. The height of the white waves massed against the garden-fence and along the wall of the church

German acquirements: Erlangung, Erwerbungen. aggrieved: betrübt, gekränkt. allusion: Anspielung, Wink, Fingerzeig, Hinweis, Tip. crawl: kriechen, krabbeln. curiosity: Neugierde, Neugier, Seltenheit, Kuriosität, Kuriosum, Seltsames Exemplar, Wißbegier, Sehenswürdigkeit, Neugierigkeit, Exentrizität. dusk: Dämmerung,

Abenddämmerung, Zwielicht. fated: vom Schicksal bestimmt. hesitated: zögertet, zögerte, zögerten, gezögert, zögertest, zauderten, zauderte, gezaudert, zaudertest, zaudertet, gezagt. ignorance: Unwissenheit, Unkenntnis. impulse: Impuls, Antrieb, Trieb, Andrang, Kraftimpulsgröße, Andrift. inertia: Trägheit, Massenträgheit. intercourse: Verkehr. lately: kürzlich, letztlich, neuerdings,

neulich. outer: äußer, äußere. poignant: scharf, rührend. resentment: Ärger, Verstimmung, Mißgunst, Ressentiment. ridge: Kamm, Grat, Kante, Nocken, Gebirgskamm, Gesims, Giebelspitze, First, Hügelrücken, Nock, Rand. stealing: Stehlend. strides: schreit, schritte. tastes: schmeckt. unseal: entsiegeln.

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showed that the storm must have been going on all night, and that the drifts were likely to be heavy in the open. I thought it probable that my train would be delayed; but I had to be at the power-house for an hour or two that afternoon, and I decided, if Frome turned up, to push through to the Flats and wait there till my train came in. I don’t know why I put it in the conditional, however, for I never doubted that Frome would appear. He was not the kind of man to be turned from his business by any commotion of the elements; and at the appointed hour his sleigh glided up through the snow like a stage-apparition behind thickening veils of gauze.% I was getting to know him too well to express either wonder or gratitude at his keeping his appointment; but I exclaimed in surprise as I saw him turn his horse in a direction opposite to that of the Corbury road. “The railroad’s blocked by a freight-train that got stuck in a drift below the Flats,” he explained, as we jogged off into the stinging whiteness. “But look here—where are you taking me, then?” “Straight to the Junction, by the shortest way,” he answered, pointing up School House Hill with his whip. “To the Junction—in this storm? Why, it’s a good ten miles!” “The bay’ll do it if you give him time. You said you had some business there this afternoon. I’ll see you get there.” He said it so quietly that I could only answer: “You’re doing me the biggest kind of a favour.” “That’s all right,” he rejoined. Abreast of the schoolhouse the road forked, and we dipped down a lane to the left, between hemlock boughs bent inward to their trunks by the weight of the snow. I had often walked that way on Sundays, and knew that the solitary roof showing through bare branches near the bottom of the hill was that of Frome’s saw-mill. It looked exanimate enough, with its idle wheel looming above the black stream dashed with yellow-white spume, and its cluster of sheds sagging under their white load. Frome did not even turn his head as we

German abreast: nebeneinander, Seite an Seite. boughs: Äste. commotion: Aufregung, Erschütterung, Skandal, Sensation, aufheben, Ärgernis, Aufruhr. dashed: geschlagen. dipped: eingetaucht. doubted: zweifelte, angezweifelt. drifts: treibt, Verwehungen. exanimate: leblos. forked: gegabelt, gabelförmig, gespalten.

glided: geglitten, glitt. hemlock: Schierling. inward: innerlich, inner, innere, seelisch, nach innen, inwendig, innen, hinein, intern. jogged: getrottet. looming: aufragend, sich abzeichnend. pointing: Fugen, Mauern fugen. rejoined: vereinigte, erwiderte. schoolhouse: Schule. sheds: schuppt, vergiesst, gießt, Berghütte.

shortest: kürzeste. solitary: Einsam, allein, abgelegen, alleinig, bloß, solitär, nur, einzig, einzeln lebend. spume: der Schaum, die Gischt, Schaum. stinging: stechend, stachlig. thickening: verdickend, Verdickung, Schwellung. trunks: Kofferräume. veils: Schleier, Verschleiert, Vorhänge. whiteness: Weiße.

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drove by, and still in silence we began to mount the next slope. About a mile farther, on a road I had never travelled, we came to an orchard of starved appletrees writhing over a hillside among outcroppings of slate that nuzzled up through the snow like animals pushing out their noses to breathe. Beyond the orchard lay a field or two, their boundaries lost under drifts; and above the fields, huddled against the white immensities of land and sky, one of those lonely New England farm-houses that make the landscape lonelier.% “That’s my place,” said Frome, with a sideway jerk of his lame elbow; and in the distress and oppression of the scene I did not know what to answer. The snow had ceased, and a flash of watery sunlight exposed the house on the slope above us in all its plaintive ugliness. The black wraith of a deciduous creeper flapped from the porch, and the thin wooden walls, under their worn coat of paint, seemed to shiver in the wind that had risen with the ceasing of the snow. “The house was bigger in my father’s time: I had to take down the ‘L,’ a while back,” Frome continued, checking with a twitch of the left rein the bay’s evident intention of turning in through the broken-down gate. I saw then that the unusually forlorn and stunted look of the house was partly due to the loss of what is known in New England as the “L”: that long deep-roofed adjunct usually built at right angles to the main house, and connecting it, by way of storerooms and tool-house, with the wood-shed and cow-barn. Whether because of its symbolic sense, the image it presents of a life linked with the soil, and enclosing in itself the chief sources of warmth and nourishment, or whether merely because of the consolatory thought that it enables the dwellers in that harsh climate to get to their morning’s work without facing the weather, it is certain that the “L” rather than the house itself seems to be the centre, the actual hearth-stone of the New England farm. Perhaps this connection of ideas, which had often occurred to me in my rambles about Starkfield, caused me to hear a wistful note in Frome’s words, and to see in the diminished dwelling the image of his own shrunken body. “We’re kinder side-tracked here now,” he added, “but there was considerable passing before the railroad was carried through to the Flats.” He roused the

German adjunct: Zusatz, Beigabe, Komplement, Vervollständigung, Ergänzung. ceasing: beendend, endend. consolatory: tröstend, tröstlich. creeper: Kriecher, Kriechpflanze. deciduous: abfallend. flapped: schlug. forlorn: verlassen, einsam, verloren, öde, vereinsamt. huddled: gepresst. immensities: Unermeßlichkeit.

nourishment: Nahrung, Ernährung, Nahrungsmittel, Ätzung, Futter. nuzzled: schmiegtest, schmiegtet, geschmiegt, hätschelte, schmiegte, schmiegten. plaintive: klagend. railroad: Eisenbahn, Bahn. rambles: streift umher. roused: geweckt, weckten, wecktest, weckte, wecktet. shrunken: geschrumpft, eingefallen, eingelaufen.

sideway: Seitenweg. storerooms: Schuppen, Verschläge. stunted: hemmen, trick, verkrüppelt, verkümmert, verkümmert sein, in der Entwicklung gehemmt, vorführen Stunts, flugkunststück, kunststück. twitch: Zuckung, zupfen. ugliness: Hässlichkeit. wistful: wehmütig. wraith: Gespenst, das Gespenst. writhing: krümmend, zappelnd.

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lagging%bay with another twitch; then, as if the mere sight of the house had let me too deeply into his confidence for any farther pretence of reserve, he went on slowly: “I’ve always set down the worst of mother’s trouble to that. When she got the rheumatism so bad she couldn’t move around she used to sit up there and watch the road by the hour; and one year, when they was six months mending the Bettsbridge pike after the floods, and Harmon Gow had to bring his stage round this way, she picked up so that she used to get down to the gate most days to see him. But after the trains begun running nobody ever come by here to speak of, and mother never could get it through her head what had happened, and it preyed on her right along till she died.” As we turned into the Corbury road the snow began to fall again, cutting off our last glimpse of the house; and Frome’s silence fell with it, letting down between us the old veil of reticence. This time the wind did not cease with the return of the snow. Instead, it sprang up to a gale which now and then, from a tattered sky, flung pale sweeps of sunlight over a landscape chaotically tossed. But the bay was as good as Frome’s word, and we pushed on to the Junction through the wild white scene. In the afternoon the storm held off, and the clearness in the west seemed to my inexperienced eye the pledge of a fair evening. I finished my business as quickly as possible, and we set out for Starkfield with a good chance of getting there for supper. But at sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, and the snow began to fall straight and steadily from a sky without wind, in a soft universal diffusion more confusing than the gusts and eddies of the morning. It seemed to be a part of the thickening darkness, to be the winter night itself descending on us layer by layer. The small ray of Frome’s lantern was soon lost in this smothering medium, in which even his sense of direction, and the bay’s homing instinct, finally ceased to serve us. Two or three times some ghostly landmark sprang up to warn us that we were astray, and then was sucked back into the mist; and when we finally regained our road the old horse began to show signs of exhaustion. I felt myself to blame for having accepted Frome’s offer, and after a short discussion I

German astray: verloren, verirren, fehlgehen. chaotically: chaotisch. descending: absteigend, abstammend, absteigen, Absitzen, Abstieg, herunterkommend, Herabsteigen. diffusion: Diffusion, Streuung, Verbreitung, Zerstreuung. eddies: Wirbel. floods: fluten. gale: Sturm, Sturmwind, Wind. ghostly: geisterhaft. gusts: Böen, Windstöße.

homing: heimkehrend. inexperienced: unerfahren, unbewandert. landmark: Grenzstein, Wahrzeichen, Markstein. lantern: Laterne, Leuchte, Beleuchtungsgerät. mending: Ausbesserung, Reparierend. pretence: Vortäuschung, Preziosität, Illusion, Geziertheit, Geschraubtheit, Fassade, Verlogenheit, Vorschützung, Ziererei, Anspruch,

Anschein. reticence: Verschwiegenheit, Zurückhaltung, Stille, Stillschweigen, Schweigsamkeit, Verschlossenheit. rheumatism: Rheumatismus, Gelenkrheumatismus, Rheuma. smothering: erstickend. sweeps: flügel. tattered: zerlumpt, zerfetzte, zerrissen. veil: Schleier, Verschleiern, Verhüllen, Vertuschen, Voile, Verhehlen, Beschleiern.

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persuaded him to let me get out of the sleigh and walk along through the snow at the bay’s side. In this way we struggled on for another mile or two, and at last reached a point where Frome, peering into what seemed to me formless night, said: “That’s my gate down yonder.” The last stretch had been the hardest part of the way. The bitter cold and the heavy going had nearly knocked the wind out of me, and I could feel the horse’s side ticking like a clock under my hand.% “Look here, Frome,” I began, “there’s no earthly use in your going any farther—” but he interrupted me: “Nor you neither. There’s been about enough of this for anybody.” I understood that he was offering me a night’s shelter at the farm, and without answering I turned into the gate at his side, and followed him to the barn, where I helped him to unharness and bed down the tired horse. When this was done he unhooked the lantern from the sleigh, stepped out again into the night, and called to me over his shoulder: “This way.” Far off above us a square of light trembled through the screen of snow. Staggering along in Frome’s wake I floundered toward it, and in the darkness almost fell into one of the deep drifts against the front of the house. Frome scrambled up the slippery steps of the porch, digging a way through the snow with his heavily booted foot. Then he lifted his lantern, found the latch, and led the way into the house. I went after him into a low unlit passage, at the back of which a ladder-like staircase rose into obscurity. On our right a line of light marked the door of the room which had sent its ray across the night; and behind the door I heard a woman’s voice droning querulously. Frome stamped on the worn oil-cloth to shake the snow from his boots, and set down his lantern on a kitchen chair which was the only piece of furniture in the hall. Then he opened the door. “Come in,” he said; and as he spoke the droning voice grew still... It was that night that I found the clue to Ethan Frome, and began to put together this vision of his story.

German booted: gestiefelt, gebootet, gestartet. digging: Grabend, wühlend, Erdarbeiten. droning: brummend. earthly: irdisch, weltlich, erdhaft, terrestrisch. floundered: zappelte. formless: formlos, unförmig. hardest: härteste. interrupted: unterbrochen. latch: Klinke, Riegel, Verschluß, Schnappschloß.

obscurity: Dunkelheit, Finsternis, Undeutlichkeit, Düsterheit. peering: guckend. querulously: quengelig, streitsüchtig, verdrossene. scrambled: verschlüsselt. slippery: glitschig, schlüpfrig, glatt, aalglatt, rutschig, rutschgefährlich, schleudergefährlich. staggering: schwankend, grundlos, atemberaubend, instabil, flatterhaft, wackelig, wechselhaft, wandelbar,

veränderlich, unzuverlässig, unsolide. stamped: frankiert, gestempelt, abgestempelt, freigemacht. ticking: Tickend, Drell, Inlett. trembled: bangte, gezittert. unharness: abspannen, ausschirren, abschirren. unhooked: haktest auf, aufgehakt, hakte auf, hakten auf, haktet auf. unlit: düster, finster, gedrückt, trüb, trübe, unbeleuchtet, dunkel.

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CHAPTER I

The%village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires. The moon had set, but the night was so transparent that the white housefronts between the elms looked gray against the snow, clumps of bushes made black stains on it, and the basement windows of the church sent shafts of yellow light far across the endless undulations. Young Ethan Frome walked at a quick pace along the deserted street, past the bank and Michael Eady’s new brick store and Lawyer Varnum’s house with the two black Norway spruces at the gate. Opposite the Varnum gate, where the road fell away toward the Corbury valley, the church reared its slim white steeple and narrow peristyle. As the young man walked toward it the upper windows drew a black arcade along the side wall of the building, but from the lower openings, on the side where the ground sloped steeply down to the Corbury road, the light shot its long bars, illuminating many fresh furrows in the track leading to the basement door, and showing, under an adjoining shed, a line of sleighs with heavily blanketed horses. The night was perfectly still, and the air so dry and pure that it gave little sensation of cold. The effect produced on Frome was rather of a complete absence of atmosphere, as though nothing less tenuous than ether intervened

German arcade: Säulengang, Arkade, Säulenhalle, Säulengalerie, Bogengang, Galerie. bars: Stäbe, sperrt, Barren. blanketed: verdeckte. brick: Ziegelstein, Backstein, Ziegel, Baustein, Stein. clumps: Gruppiert. corners: Ecken. elms: Ulmen. ether: Äther. fires: Feuert.

flashed: leuchtete auf, aufgeblitzt. furrows: Furchen. gray: Grau. hung: gehangen. icicles: Eiszapfen. illuminating: erleuchtend, aufschlußreich. openings: Öffnungen. peristyle: Säulengang, die Säulenhalle. reared: aufgezogen. shafts: Stiele, Deichseln. sleighs: schlittet.

slim: schlank, dünn. sloped: geneigt, abgeschrägt. stains: flecken. steeply: steil. tenuous: dünn. toward: zu, nach, gegen, in, an, betreffs, bezüglich. transparent: durchsichtig, transparent, gläsern, glasig, durchscheinend, erkennbar, glasartig, glashell. undulations: Wellenformen. windy: windig.

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between the white earth under his feet and the metallic dome overhead. “It’s like being in an exhausted receiver,” he thought. Four or five years earlier he had taken a year’s course at a technological college at Worcester, and dabbled in the laboratory with a friendly professor of physics; and the images supplied by that experience still cropped up, at unexpected moments, through the totally different associations of thought in which he had since been living. His father’s death, and the misfortunes following it, had put a premature end to Ethan’s studies; but though they had not gone far enough to be of much practical use they had fed his fancy and made him aware of huge cloudy meanings behind the daily face of things.% As he strode along through the snow the sense of such meanings glowed in his brain and mingled with the bodily flush produced by his sharp tramp. At the end of the village he paused before the darkened front of the church. He stood there a moment, breathing quickly, and looking up and down the street, in which not another figure moved. The pitch of the Corbury road, below lawyer Varnum’s spruces, was the favourite coasting-ground of Starkfield, and on clear evenings the church corner rang till late with the shouts of the coasters; but tonight not a sled darkened the whiteness of the long declivity. The hush of midnight lay on the village, and all its waking life was gathered behind the church windows, from which strains of dance-music flowed with the broad bands of yellow light. The young man, skirting the side of the building, went down the slope toward the basement door. To keep out of range of the revealing rays from within he made a circuit through the untrodden snow and gradually approached the farther angle of the basement wall. Thence, still hugging the shadow, he edged his way cautiously forward to the nearest window, holding back his straight spare body and craning his neck till he got a glimpse of the room. Seen thus, from the pure and frosty darkness in which he stood, it seemed to be seething in a mist of heat. The metal reflectors of the gas-jets sent crude waves of light against the whitewashed walls, and the iron flanks of the stove at the end of the hall looked as though they were heaving with volcanic fires. The

German cloudy: bewölkt, wolkig, trüb, trübe, unklar. coasters: Küstenfahrer. craning: vorstrecken, mit einem Kran hebend. cropped: abgeschnitten, bebaut. dabbled: bespritzte. declivity: Abhang. edged: scharf. flanks: Flanken, Flankiert. flowed: geflossen. frosty: frostig, eisig.

glowed: glühte. heaving: hebend, hochhebend. hugging: Umarmend. hush: still. metallic: metallisch, metallartig. mingled: mischtest, gemischt, mischte, mischten, mischtet, kunterbunt, mengte, mengten, mengtest, mengtet, gemengt. misfortunes: Mißgeschick, Rückschläge, Unfall. reflectors: Reflektoren.

seething: siedend, Kochen, kochend, Sieden. skirting: Ecke, Fußbodenleiste, Eckstoß. sled: Schlitten. thence: daher, von dort. tramp: trampeln, Landstreicher, Dachlose. untrodden: unbetreten, nicht zugänglich, unberührt. whitewashed: tünchte, tünchtet, tünchtest, getüncht, tünchten.

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floor was thronged with girls and young men. Down the side wall facing the window stood a row of kitchen chairs from which the older women had just risen. By this time the music had stopped, and the musicians—a fiddler, and the young lady who played the harmonium on Sundays—were hastily refreshing themselves at one corner of the supper-table which aligned its devastated piedishes and ice-cream saucers on the platform at the end of the hall. The guests were preparing to leave, and the tide had already set toward the passage where coats and wraps were hung, when a young man with a sprightly foot and a shock of black hair shot into the middle of the floor and clapped his hands. The signal took instant effect. The musicians hurried to their instruments, the dancers—some already half-muffled for departure—fell into line down each side of the room, the older spectators slipped back to their chairs, and the lively young man, after diving about here and there in the throng, drew forth a girl who had already wound a cherry-coloured “fascinator” about her head, and, leading her up to the end of the floor, whirled her down its length to the bounding tune of a Virginia reel.% Frome’s heart was beating fast. He had been straining for a glimpse of the dark head under the cherry-coloured scarf and it vexed him that another eye should have been quicker than his. The leader of the reel, who looked as if he had Irish blood in his veins, danced well, and his partner caught his fire. As she passed down the line, her light figure swinging from hand to hand in circles of increasing swiftness, the scarf flew off her head and stood out behind her shoulders, and Frome, at each turn, caught sight of her laughing panting lips, the cloud of dark hair about her forehead, and the dark eyes which seemed the only fixed points in a maze of flying lines. The dancers were going faster and faster, and the musicians, to keep up with them, belaboured their instruments like jockeys lashing their mounts on the home-stretch; yet it seemed to the young man at the window that the reel would never end. Now and then he turned his eyes from the girl’s face to that of her partner, which, in the exhilaration of the dance, had taken on a look of almost impudent ownership. Denis Eady was the son of Michael Eady, the ambitious

German aligned: ausgerichtet, richtetet aus, richtete aus, richteten aus, richtetest aus. bounding: begrenzend. clapped: geklatscht. devastated: verwüstetest, verwüsteten, verwüstete, verwüstet, verwüstetet. diving: Tauchen, Tauchend. exhilaration: Erheiterung. fiddler: Geiger, Spielmann, Betrüger, Schwindler.

harmonium: Harmonium. impudent: unverschämt, frech, dreist. jockeys: Betrügt, Jockeis. lashing: peitschend, Zurring. maze: Labyrinth, Irrgarten. mounts: Untersätze, montiert, beschlägt, Berge. panting: Keuchend. reel: Spule, Haspel, Rolle, Garnrolle, Spühle, Filmspühle. refreshing: auffrischend, erfrischend, erquickend.

saucers: Untertassen. scarf: Schal, Halstuch. sprightly: lebhaft, munter. straining: anstrengend, Verrenkung, Verstauchung, anspannend, Zerrung. swiftness: Schnelligkeit. throng: Gedränge. thronged: gedrängt, bedrängte. vexed: geärgert, ärgerte, ärgerten, ärgertest, ärgertet, verärgert. whirled: gewirbelt. wraps: hüllen, hüllt ein.

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Irish grocer, whose suppleness and effrontery had given Starkfield its first notion of “smart” business methods, and whose new brick store testified to the success of the attempt. His son seemed likely to follow in his steps, and was meanwhile applying the same arts to the conquest of the Starkfield maidenhood. Hitherto Ethan Frome had been content to think him a mean fellow; but now he positively invited a horse-whipping. It was strange that the girl did not seem aware of it: that she could lift her rapt face to her dancer’s, and drop her hands into his, without appearing to feel the offence of his look and touch.% Frome was in the habit of walking into Starkfield to fetch home his wife’s cousin, Mattie Silver, on the rare evenings when some chance of amusement drew her to the village. It was his wife who had suggested, when the girl came to live with them, that such opportunities should be put in her way. Mattie Silver came from Stamford, and when she entered the Fromes’ household to act as her cousin Zeena’s aid it was thought best, as she came without pay, not to let her feel too sharp a contrast between the life she had left and the isolation of a Starkfield farm. But for this—as Frome sardonically reflected—it would hardly have occurred to Zeena to take any thought for the girl’s amusement. When his wife first proposed that they should give Mattie an occasional evening out he had inwardly demurred at having to do the extra two miles to the village and back after his hard day on the farm; but not long afterward he had reached the point of wishing that Starkfield might give all its nights to revelry. Mattie Silver had lived under his roof for a year, and from early morning till they met at supper he had frequent chances of seeing her; but no moments in her company were comparable to those when, her arm in his, and her light step flying to keep time with his long stride, they walked back through the night to the farm. He had taken to the girl from the first day, when he had driven over to the Flats to meet her, and she had smiled and waved to him from the train, crying out, “You must be Ethan!” as she jumped down with her bundles, while he reflected, looking over her slight person: “She don’t look much on housework, but she ain’t a fretter, anyhow.” But it was not only that the coming

German amusement: Unterhaltung, Vergnügen, Belustigung, Vergnügung, Amüsement. appearing: Erscheinend, auftretend. bundles: Bündel, Büsche, Sträucher. comparable: vergleichbar. conquest: Eroberung. crying: schreiend, schreiende, Weinen. demurred: zögerte. effrontery: Frechheit. evenings: Abende. fetch: holen, bringen, holst, hole,

bringt, Abruf, bringe, bringst, holt, eintragen, heranbringen. hitherto: bisher. housework: Hausarbeit. inwardly: innerlich. jumped: gesprungen, sprang. maidenhood: die Jungfernschaft, die Jungfräulichkeit, die Jungmädchenzeit, die Mädchenzeit, Jungfernschaft, Mädchenzeit. nights: Nächte. occasional: gelegentlich, okkasionell.

positively: positiv. rapt: versunken. revelry: Ausgelassene Lustbarkeit. stride: schreiten, Schritt, ausschreiten, treten, Tritt. supper: Abendessen, Souper, Abendmahl. suppleness: Geschmeidigkeit. testified: bezeugtet, bezeugt, bezeugte, bezeugten, bezeugtest. waved: gewellt, winkte zu. wishing: Wünschend.

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to his house of a bit of hopeful young life was like the lighting of a fire on a cold hearth. The girl was more than the bright serviceable creature he had thought her. She had an eye to see and an ear to hear: he could show her things and tell her things, and taste the bliss of feeling that all he imparted left long reverberations and echoes he could wake at will.% It was during their night walks back to the farm that he felt most intensely the sweetness of this communion. He had always been more sensitive than the people about him to the appeal of natural beauty. His unfinished studies had given form to this sensibility and even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion. But hitherto the emotion had remained in him as a silent ache, veiling with sadness the beauty that evoked it. He did not even know whether any one else in the world felt as he did, or whether he was the sole victim of this mournful privilege. Then he learned that one other spirit had trembled with the same touch of wonder: that at his side, living under his roof and eating his bread, was a creature to whom he could say: “That’s Orion down yonder; the big fellow to the right is Aldebaran, and the bunch of little ones—like bees swarming—they’re the Pleiades...” or whom he could hold entranced before a ledge of granite thrusting up through the fern while he unrolled the huge panorama of the ice age, and the long dim stretches of succeeding time. The fact that admiration for his learning mingled with Mattie’s wonder at what he taught was not the least part of his pleasure. And there were other sensations, less definable but more exquisite, which drew them together with a shock of silent joy: the cold red of sunset behind winter hills, the flight of cloud-flocks over slopes of golden stubble, or the intensely blue shadows of hemlocks on sunlit snow. When she said to him once: “It looks just as if it was painted!” it seemed to Ethan that the art of definition could go no farther, and that words had at last been found to utter his secret soul.... As he stood in the darkness outside the church these memories came back with the poignancy of vanished things. Watching Mattie whirl down the floor from hand to hand he wondered how he could ever have thought that his dull talk interested her. To him, who was never gay but in her presence, her gaiety

German definable: definierbar. entranced: verzückt. evoked: rieft hervor, hervorgerufen, rief hervor, riefst hervor, riefen hervor. fern: Farn, Farnkraut. imparted: weitergegeben. ledge: Leiste, Fenstersims. mournful: traurig, trauervoll. panorama: Panorama, Rundblick, Ausblick, Aussicht. poignancy: Schärfe.

reverberations: Echos. serviceable: dienlich, betriebsfähig, gebrauchsfähig, einsatzfähig, brauchbar. stubble: Stoppel, Bartstoppeln. succeeding: gelingend, erzielen, folgend, gelingen, erfolg. sunlit: sonnenbeschienen, sonnenbestrahlt, sonnig. sweetness: Süßigkeit, Süße, Liebenswürdigkeit, Anmut, Lieblichkeit.

thrusting: Stoßen. unhappiest: unglücklichste. unrolled: rolltet auf, rolltest auf, rollten auf, rollte auf, aufgerollt, abgerollt. veiling: Verschleiernd, Verschleierung. whirl: wirbeln, sich drehen, kreiseln, quirlen, schwingen, Wirbel. yonder: jener, dort drüben, dahin, nach dort, dort, die, derjenige, hierhin, das, dorthin, da.

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seemed plain proof of indifference. The face she lifted to her dancers was the same which, when she saw him, always looked like a window that has caught the sunset. He even noticed two or three gestures which, in his fatuity, he had thought she kept for him: a way of throwing her head back when she was amused, as if to taste her laugh before she let it out, and a trick of sinking her lids slowly when anything charmed or moved her.% The sight made him unhappy, and his unhappiness roused his latent fears. His wife had never shown any jealousy of Mattie, but of late she had grumbled increasingly over the house-work and found oblique ways of attracting attention to the girl’s inefficiency. Zeena had always been what Starkfield called “sickly,” and Frome had to admit that, if she were as ailing as she believed, she needed the help of a stronger arm than the one which lay so lightly in his during the night walks to the farm. Mattie had no natural turn for housekeeping, and her training had done nothing to remedy the defect. She was quick to learn, but forgetful and dreamy, and not disposed to take the matter seriously. Ethan had an idea that if she were to marry a man she was fond of the dormant instinct would wake, and her pies and biscuits become the pride of the county; but domesticity in the abstract did not interest her. At first she was so awkward that he could not help laughing at her; but she laughed with him and that made them better friends. He did his best to supplement her unskilled efforts, getting up earlier than usual to light the kitchen fire, carrying in the wood overnight, and neglecting the mill for the farm that he might help her about the house during the day. He even crept down on Saturday nights to scrub the kitchen floor after the women had gone to bed; and Zeena, one day, had surprised him at the churn and had turned away silently, with one of her queer looks. Of late there had been other signs of her disfavour, as intangible but more disquieting. One cold winter morning, as he dressed in the dark, his candle flickering in the draught of the ill-fitting window, he had heard her speak from the bed behind him. “The doctor don’t want I should be left without anybody to do for me,” she said in her flat whine.

German ailing: kränklich, Kränkeln, leidend, kränkelnd. charmed: entzückte. churn: buttern, Butterfass, umruhren, schüren, anschüren, bewegen. disfavour: Ungefallen, das Missfallen, die Abneigung, die Ungunst, Mißbilligen. disquieting: beunruhigend. domesticity: Häuslichkeit. dormant: ruhend, schlafend, schlummernd.

draught: Zug, Schluck, Luftzug. dreamy: verträumt, träumerisch. fatuity: Einfältigkeit, Albernheit. flickering: flackernd, flimmern, flackern, funkeln, glänzen, glitzern, lichtsignal, lichtzeichen, schimmer. forgetful: vergesslich. housekeeping: Haushaltung, Hauswirtschaft, Haushaltsführung, Haushalten. inefficiency: Unzweckmäßigkeit. intangible: unfassbar.

lids: Deckel, Lider. neglecting: vernachlässigend. oblique: schräg, schief, Indirekt, obliquus, abhängig. scrub: Schrubben, abscheuern, scheuern, putzen. unhappiness: Elend, Unglück. whine: Heulen, langweilig sein, brüllen, heule, heulst, heult, schleppend sprechen, schreien, salbadern, herausschreien, lautauf schreien.

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He had supposed her to be asleep, and the sound of her voice had startled him, though she was given to abrupt explosions of speech after long intervals of secretive silence.% He turned and looked at her where she lay indistinctly outlined under the dark calico quilt, her high-boned face taking a grayish tinge from the whiteness of the pillow. “Nobody to do for you?” he repeated. “If you say you can’t afford a hired girl when Mattie goes.” Frome turned away again, and taking up his razor stooped to catch the reflection of his stretched cheek in the blotched looking-glass above the washstand. “Why on earth should Mattie go?” “Well, when she gets married, I mean,” his wife’s drawl came from behind him. “Oh, she’d never leave us as long as you needed her,” he returned, scraping hard at his chin. “I wouldn’t ever have it said that I stood in the way of a poor girl like Mattie marrying a smart fellow like Denis Eady,” Zeena answered in a tone of plaintive self-effacement. Ethan, glaring at his face in the glass, threw his head back to draw the razor from ear to chin. His hand was steady, but the attitude was an excuse for not making an immediate reply. “And the doctor don’t want I should be left without anybody,” Zeena continued. “He wanted I should speak to you about a girl he’s heard about, that might come—” Ethan laid down the razor and straightened himself with a laugh. “Denis Eady! If that’s all, I guess there’s no such hurry to look round for a girl.” “Well, I’d like to talk to you about it,” said Zeena obstinately.

German abrupt: plötzlich, brüsk, schroff, abrupt, abgebrochen, barsch, abgerissen, abschüssig, grob, hastig, unvermutet. blotched: fleckig, beklecksen, beschmiert. calico: Kattun, Kaliko. drawl: dehnt, Schleppend Sprache, Gedehntes sprechen, Gedehnte Sprache, Dehnen, dehne, Affektiert sprechen, Sprechen schleppend, dehnst.

explosions: Explosionen. glaring: grell, kraß, scharf, spitz, schroff, schrill, schreiend, hell, grell beleuchtet, anblitzend. grayish: gräulich. indistinctly: undeutlich. marrying: heiratend. obstinately: stur. outlined: umissen, skizziert. pillow: Kopfkissen, Kissen, Polster, das Kissen. quilt: Steppdecke, Steppen,

Daunendecke, Wattieren, Federbett, Deckbett. razor: Rasiermesser, Rasierapparat, Rasierklinge. scraping: Kratzend. secretive: verschlossen. straightened: richtetest aus, richteten aus, richtete aus, gestrafft, geradegezogen, geradegemacht, gerade geworden, richtetet aus, geradegebogen, straffte, strafften. tinge: Note, Tönung, Tönen.

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He was getting into his clothes in fumbling haste. “All right. But I haven’t got the time now; I’m late as it is,” he returned, holding his old silver turnipwatch to the candle.% Zeena, apparently accepting this as final, lay watching him in silence while he pulled his suspenders over his shoulders and jerked his arms into his coat; but as he went toward the door she said, suddenly and incisively: “I guess you’re always late, now you shave every morning.” That thrust had frightened him more than any vague insinuations about Denis Eady. It was a fact that since Mattie Silver’s coming he had taken to shaving every day; but his wife always seemed to be asleep when he left her side in the winter darkness, and he had stupidly assumed that she would not notice any change in his appearance. Once or twice in the past he had been faintly disquieted by Zenobia’s way of letting things happen without seeming to remark them, and then, weeks afterward, in a casual phrase, revealing that she had all along taken her notes and drawn her inferences. Of late, however, there had been no room in his thoughts for such vague apprehensions. Zeena herself, from an oppressive reality, had faded into an insubstantial shade. All his life was lived in the sight and sound of Mattie Silver, and he could no longer conceive of its being otherwise. But now, as he stood outside the church, and saw Mattie spinning down the floor with Denis Eady, a throng of disregarded hints and menaces wove their cloud about his brain....

German apprehensions: Festnahmen. conceive: denkt aus, empfange, empfangen, empfängst, empfangt, entwickele, denkst aus, konzipiert, begreift, sich vorstellen, entwickelst. disquieted: beunruhigt, beunruhigte, beunruhigten, beunruhigtest, beunruhigtet. disregarded: unbeachtet gelassen, mißachtete. faintly: schwach. fumbling: umhertastend, fummelnd,

linkisch, tastend. haste: Eile, Hast, Geschwindigkeit. hints: hinweise, Andeutungen. incisively: schneidend. insinuations: Andeutungn, Andeutungen. insubstantial: unwirklich. jerked: gezerrt. menaces: droht. oppressive: drückend, bedrückend, schwül, stickig, gewaltsam, erstickend, beklemmend, beklemmt,

bedrängt, bange. revealing: offenbarend, aufschlußreich, aufdeckend. seeming: scheinend, scheinbar. shave: rasieren, Rasur, sich rasieren, barbieren. shaving: Rasierend, Rasieren, Span. spinning: Spinnen, Spinnerei. stupidly: dumm. suspenders: Hosenträger, die Hosenträger. wove: weben, webte.

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As%the dancers poured out of the hall Frome, drawing back behind the projecting storm-door, watched the segregation of the grotesquely muffled groups, in which a moving lantern ray now and then lit up a face flushed with food and dancing. The villagers, being afoot, were the first to climb the slope to the main street, while the country neighbours packed themselves more slowly into the sleighs under the shed. “Ain’t you riding, Mattie?” a woman’s voice called back from the throng about the shed, and Ethan’s heart gave a jump. From where he stood he could not see the persons coming out of the hall till they had advanced a few steps beyond the wooden sides of the storm-door; but through its cracks he heard a clear voice answer: “Mercy no! Not on such a night.” She was there, then, close to him, only a thin board between. In another moment she would step forth into the night, and his eyes, accustomed to the obscurity, would discern her as clearly as though she stood in daylight. A wave of shyness pulled him back into the dark angle of the wall, and he stood there in silence instead of making his presence known to her. It had been one of the wonders of their intercourse that from the first, she, the quicker, finer, more expressive, instead of crushing him by the contrast, had given him something of

German accustomed: gewöhnt, gewöhnte, gewöhntet, gewöhntest, gewöhnten, gewohnt, üblich, angewöhnt, gewöhnten an, gewöhntest an, gewöhntet an. afoot: zu Fuß, im Gange, in gang, auf den Beinen. cracks: kracht, Knallen, Bruchstellen, Brüche, Anreißen, Risse. crushing: Zertrümmerung, Zermalmung, zerdrückend, Schmähung, Quetschung.

dancers: Tänzer. dancing: Tanzend, Tanzen. daylight: Tageslicht. discern: erkennen, erkenne, erkennt, erkennst. expressive: ausdrucksvoll, expressiv, sprechend. finer: feiner. flushed: scheuchte auf, errötet, durchflutet, ausgespült. grotesquely: grotesken. lit: erleichtert, beleuchtet, erleuchtet.

muffled: umhüllt. poured: gegossen. projecting: Projektion, vorspringend. quicker: schneller. segregation: Absonderung, Trennung, Teilung, Scheidung, Segregation, Bruch, Unterbrechung, Einschnitt. shyness: Schüchternheit, Scheu, Verschlossenheit, Zurückhaltung, Zaghaftigkeit, Verlegenheit, Scheuheit, Geniertheit. wonders: Wunder.

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her own ease and freedom; but now he felt as heavy and loutish as in his student days, when he had tried to “jolly” the Worcester girls at a picnic.% He hung back, and she came out alone and paused within a few yards of him. She was almost the last to leave the hall, and she stood looking uncertainly about her as if wondering why he did not show himself. Then a man’s figure approached, coming so close to her that under their formless wrappings they seemed merged in one dim outline. “Gentleman friend gone back on you? Say, Matt, that’s tough! No, I wouldn’t be mean enough to tell the other girls. I ain’t as low-down as that.” (How Frome hated his cheap banter!) “But look a here, ain’t it lucky I got the old man’s cutter down there waiting for us?” Frome heard the girl’s voice, gaily incredulous: “What on earth’s your father’s cutter doin’ down there?” “Why, waiting for me to take a ride. I got the roan colt too. I kinder knew I’d want to take a ride to-night,” Eady, in his triumph, tried to put a sentimental note into his bragging voice. The girl seemed to waver, and Frome saw her twirl the end of her scarf irresolutely about her fingers. Not for the world would he have made a sign to her, though it seemed to him that his life hung on her next gesture. “Hold on a minute while I unhitch the colt,” Denis called to her, springing toward the shed. She stood perfectly still, looking after him, in an attitude of tranquil expectancy torturing to the hidden watcher. Frome noticed that she no longer turned her head from side to side, as though peering through the night for another figure. She let Denis Eady lead out the horse, climb into the cutter and fling back the bearskin to make room for her at his side; then, with a swift motion of flight, she turned about and darted up the slope toward the front of the church. “Good-bye! Hope you’ll have a lovely ride!” she called back to him over her shoulder.

German bragging: Prahlerei, Aufschneiderei, Angabe, Angeberei, Prahlend, Flunkerei, Protzerei, Prahlen, Windmacherei, Großtuer, Bluff. colt: Fohlen, Füllen, Hengstfohlen. darted: schleuderte. expectancy: Erwartung. fling: schleudern, werfen, schmeißen, schlingen, schwingen, pfeffern. gaily: unbekümmert. good-bye: Abschied. incredulous: ungläubig.

irresolutely: unschlüssig, unentschlossen. loutish: flegelhaft, hochgewachsen, stümperhaft, läppisch, aufgeschossen, lümmelhaft, großwüchsig. roan: rötlichgrau, Rotschimmel. springing: Federung. torturing: folternd, Foltern. twirl: kräuseln, wirbeln, ringeln, locken. uncertainly: unsicher.

unhitch: aufknüpfen, zurückdrehen, tilgen, rückgängig machen, loshaken, lösen, entknoten, aufknoten, aufknöpfen, aufhaken, aufbinden. watcher: Beobachter, der Schaulustige, der Wächter, die Beobachterin, die Schaulustige, Ein Schaulustiger, Schaulustige, Wächter, der Beobachter. waver: zögern, wanken, taumeln, wackeln, schwanken, zagen, zaudern. wrappings: Hüllen.

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Denis laughed, and gave the horse a cut that brought him quickly abreast of her retreating figure.% “Come along! Get in quick! It’s as slippery as thunder on this turn,” he cried, leaning over to reach out a hand to her. She laughed back at him: “Good-night! I’m not getting in.” By this time they had passed beyond Frome’s earshot and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes as they continued to move along the crest of the slope above him. He saw Eady, after a moment, jump from the cutter and go toward the girl with the reins over one arm. The other he tried to slip through hers; but she eluded him nimbly, and Frome’s heart, which had swung out over a black void, trembled back to safety. A moment later he heard the jingle of departing sleigh bells and discerned a figure advancing alone toward the empty expanse of snow before the church. In the black shade of the Varnum spruces he caught up with her and she turned with a quick “Oh!” “Think I’d forgotten you, Matt?” he asked with sheepish glee. She answered seriously: “I thought maybe you couldn’t come back for me.” “Couldn’t? What on earth could stop me?” “I knew Zeena wasn’t feeling any too good to-day.” “Oh, she’s in bed long ago.” He paused, a question struggling in him. “Then you meant to walk home all alone?” “Oh, I ain’t afraid!” she laughed. They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and grey under the stars. He brought his question out. “If you thought I hadn’t come, why didn’t you ride back with Denis Eady?” “Why, where were you? How did you know? I never saw you!” Her wonder and his laughter ran together like spring rills in a thaw. Ethan had the sense of having done something arch and ingenious. To prolong the

German cutter: Schneidemaschine, Kutter, Zuschneider, Messer, Locher, Mäher. departing: abreisend, abfahrend, fortgehend. discerned: erkannten, erkannt, erkannte, erkanntest, erkanntet. earshot: Hörweite. eluded: wich aus, wicht aus, wichst aus, wichen aus, ausgewichen. expanse: Ausdehnung, Fläche. glee: Frohlocken, die Fröhlichkeit, Freuden, Freude, Fröhlichkeit.

glimmering: schimmernd, Blinken, flimmernd, Glänzen, Leuchten. gloom: Trübsinn, Dunkelheit. ingenious: genial, erfinderisch, ausgeklügelt, sinnreich, geistreich, klug, tüchtig, geschult, geübt, gewandt, handlich. jingle: Klimpern, Klingeln, Klirren. nimbly: flink. pantomime: Pantomime, Mimenspiel, Mimik. prolong: verlängern, ausdehnen,

verlängert, verlängre, verlängere, verlängerst, dehnt aus, dehne aus, dehnen aus, dehnst aus, recken. shadowy: schattenhaft, schattig. sheepish: blöde, verlegen, treudoof, schafsköpfig, Schafartig, dämlich, einfältig. silhouettes: Schattenbilder. thaw: Tauwetter, tauen, taust, taut, taue, auftauen, taut auf, tauen auf, taue auf, taust auf. void: leer, nichtig, ungültig.

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effect he groped for a dazzling phrase, and brought out, in a growl of rapture: “Come along.” He slipped an arm through hers, as Eady had done, and fancied it was faintly pressed against her side. but neither of them moved. It was so dark under the spruces that he could barely see the shape of her head beside his shoulder. He longed to stoop his cheek and rub it against her scarf. He would have liked to stand there with her all night in the blackness. She moved forward a step or two and then paused again above the dip of the Corbury road. Its icy slope, scored by innumerable runners, looked like a mirror scratched by travellers at an inn.% “There was a whole lot of them coasting before the moon set,” she said. “Would you like to come in and coast with them some night?” he asked. “Oh, would you, Ethan? It would be lovely!” “We’ll come to-morrow if there’s a moon.” She lingered, pressing closer to his side. “Ned Hale and Ruth Varnum came just as near running into the big elm at the bottom. We were all sure they were killed.” Her shiver ran down his arm. “Wouldn’t it have been too awful? They’re so happy!” “Oh, Ned ain’t much at steering. I guess I can take you down all right!” he said disdainfully. He was aware that he was “talking big,” like Denis Eady; but his reaction of joy had unsteadied him, and the inflection with which she had said of the engaged couple “They’re so happy!” made the words sound as if she had been thinking of herself and him. “The elm is dangerous, though. It ought to be cut down,” she insisted. “Would you be afraid of it, with me?” “I told you I ain’t the kind to be afraid” she tossed back, almost indifferently; and suddenly she began to walk on with a rapid step. These alterations of mood were the despair and joy of Ethan Frome. The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches.

German blackness: Schwärze, Schwarz sein. coasting: Auslauf, Küstenschiffahrt. dazzling: blendend, schwindelerregend. disdainfully: verachtungsvolle, verachtungsvoll, verachtenswert, verächtlich. elm: Ulme, Rüster. fancied: wähnte. flit: flirten, herumflattern, liebeln, tändeln. groped: tastetet, tastetest, tasteten,

tastete, getastet, tappte, getappt, tapptet, tappten, tapptest. growl: knurren, Brummen, grunzen, nörgeln. incalculable: unberechenbar, unermeßlich, unabsehbar. indifferently: gleichgültig. innumerable: unzählig, zahllos. lingered: verweilt, verweiltet, verweiltest, verweilte, verweilten. longed: gesehnt. rapture: Entzücken, Begeisterung.

rub: reiben, frottieren, abreiben, einreiben, rubbeln. scratched: gekratzt, gelöscht. shiver: zittern, zucken, beben, Splitter, Frösteln, schlottern, bibbern, Erschütterung, frieren, schaudern, Schauer. steering: Steuerung, Lenkung, Steuervorrichtung, Steuernd, Bewirtschaftung, Angestellten. stoop: sich bücken, sich krümmen, krumm gehen, hängen, biegen.

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The fact that he had no right to show his feelings, and thus provoke the expression of hers, made him attach a fantastic importance to every change in her look and tone. Now he thought she understood him, and feared; now he was sure she did not, and despaired. To-night the pressure of accumulated misgivings sent the scale drooping toward despair, and her indifference was the more chilling after the flush of joy into which she had plunged him by dismissing Denis Eady. He mounted School House Hill at her side and walked on in silence till they reached the lane leading to the saw-mill; then the need of some definite assurance grew too strong for him.% “You’d have found me right off if you hadn’t gone back to have that last reel with Denis,” he brought out awkwardly. He could not pronounce the name without a stiffening of the muscles of his throat. “Why, Ethan, how could I tell you were there?” “I suppose what folks say is true,” he jerked out at her, instead of answering. She stopped short, and he felt, in the darkness, that her face was lifted quickly to his. “Why, what do folks say?” “It’s natural enough you should be leaving us” he floundered on, following his thought. “Is that what they say?” she mocked back at him; then, with a sudden drop of her sweet treble: “You mean that Zeena—ain’t suited with me any more?” she faltered. Their arms had slipped apart and they stood motionless, each seeking to distinguish the other’s face. “I know I ain’t anything like as smart as I ought to be,” she went on, while he vainly struggled for expression. “There’s lots of things a hired girl could do that come awkward to me still—and I haven’t got much strength in my arms. But if she’d only tell me I’d try. You know she hardly ever says anything, and sometimes I can see she ain’t suited, and yet I don’t know why.” She turned on him with a sudden flash of indignation. “You’d ought to tell me, Ethan Frome— you’d ought to! Unless you want me to go too—”

German answering: antwortend, Anrufbeantwortung. awkwardly: ungeschickt. chilling: die Abkühlung, kalt, Kälte verbreitend, Kühlen. despaired: verzweifelte. dismissing: entlassend, verabschiedend, abweisend, einrückend, einmarschierend. drooping: schlaff. faltered: geschwankt. flush: bündig, spülen, Wallung,

Hitzewallung, Röte. indignation: Empörung, Entrüstung, Ärger. misgivings: Befürchtungen. mocked: verspottet, verspottetet, verspottetest, verspotteten, verspottete, gespottet, spottetest, spotteten, spottete, spottetet. motionless: bewegungslos, regungslos, reglos, still. plunged: getaucht. pronounce: aussprechen, sprechen

aus, sprichst aus, sprecht aus, spreche aus, sprich aus, fällen. provoke: reizen, reize, reizt, provozieren, aufreizen, herausfordern, aufhetzen, fordere heraus, fordern heraus, forderst heraus, fordert heraus. stiffening: Versteifung, versteifend, Steif werdend, Erstarrung. treble: dreifach, verdreifachen. vainly: vergeblich, eingebildet, vergebens.

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Unless he wanted her to go too! The cry was balm to his raw wound. The iron heavens seemed to melt and rain down sweetness. Again he struggled for the all-expressive word, and again, his arm in hers, found only a deep “Come along.” They walked on in silence through the blackness of the hemlock-shaded lane, where Ethan’s sawmill gloomed through the night, and out again into the comparative clearness of the fields. On the farther side of the hemlock belt the open country rolled away before them grey and lonely under the stars. Sometimes their way led them under the shade of an overhanging bank or through the thin obscurity of a clump of leafless trees. Here and there a farmhouse stood far back among the fields, mute and cold as a grave-stone. The night was so still that they heard the frozen snow crackle under their feet. The crash of a loaded branch falling far off in the woods reverberated like a musketshot, and once a fox barked, and Mattie shrank closer to Ethan, and quickened her steps.% At length they sighted the group of larches at Ethan’s gate, and as they drew near it the sense that the walk was over brought back his words. “Then you don’t want to leave us, Matt?” He had to stoop his head to catch her stifled whisper: “Where’d I go, if I did?” The answer sent a pang through him but the tone suffused him with joy. He forgot what else he had meant to say and pressed her against him so closely that he seemed to feel her warmth in his veins. “You ain’t crying are you, Matt?” “No, of course I’m not,” she quavered. They turned in at the gate and passed under the shaded knoll where, enclosed in a low fence, the Frome grave-stones slanted at crazy angles through the snow. Ethan looked at them curiously. For years that quiet company had mocked his restlessness, his desire for change and freedom. “We never got away—how should you?” seemed to be written on every headstone; and

German balm: Balsam, Melisse. barked: bellte. clump: Büschel, Klumpen. crackle: prasseln, rascheln, knistern, bersten, reißen, zerreißen, knabberen, zerspringen. farther: weiter, ferner. headstone: Grabstein, Grundstein, der Eckstein, der Grundstein, der Grabstein. knoll: Niedriger Hügel. leafless: blattlos, kahl, entblättert.

melt: schmelzen, Schmelze, tauen, auftauen, ineinander überlaufen, gießen, verwischen, sich verwischen, abtauen, verschwimmen. overhanging: hervorstehend. pang: Schmerz, Stechen. quavered: getrillert. quickened: beschleunigte, beschleunigtet, beschleunigtest, beschleunigt, beschleunigten. restlessness: Unruhe, Rastlosigkeit. reverberated: hallte, strahltet zurück,

zurückgestrahlt, warft zurück, zurückgeworfen, warfst zurück, warfen zurück, warf zurück, strahltest zurück, strahlten zurück, strahlte zurück. sawmill: Sägewerk, Sägerei, Sägemühle. sighted: gesichtet. slanted: geneigt. stifled: erstickt, erstickte, erstickten, ersticktest, ersticktet. suffused: bedeckte.

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whenever he went in or out of his gate he thought with a shiver: “I shall just go on living here till I join them.” But now all desire for change had vanished, and the sight of the little enclosure gave him a warm sense of continuance and stability.% “I guess we’ll never let you go, Matt,” he whispered, as though even the dead, lovers once, must conspire with him to keep her; and brushing by the graves, he thought: “We’ll always go on living here together, and some day she’ll lie there beside me.” He let the vision possess him as they climbed the hill to the house. He was never so happy with her as when he abandoned himself to these dreams. Halfway up the slope Mattie stumbled against some unseen obstruction and clutched his sleeve to steady herself. The wave of warmth that went through him was like the prolongation of his vision. For the first time he stole his arm about her, and she did not resist. They walked on as if they were floating on a summer stream. Zeena always went to bed as soon as she had had her supper, and the shutterless windows of the house were dark. A dead cucumber-vine dangled from the porch like the crape streamer tied to the door for a death, and the thought flashed through Ethan’s brain: “If it was there for Zeena—” Then he had a distinct sight of his wife lying in their bedroom asleep, her mouth slightly open, her false teeth in a tumbler by the bed... They walked around to the back of the house, between the rigid gooseberry bushes. It was Zeena’s habit, when they came back late from the village, to leave the key of the kitchen door under the mat. Ethan stood before the door, his head heavy with dreams, his arm still about Mattie. “Matt—” he began, not knowing what he meant to say. She slipped out of his hold without speaking, and he stooped down and felt for the key. “It’s not there!” he said, straightening himself with a start.

German brushing: Bürstend. climbed: geklettert, erkletterte. clutched: packte. conspire: sich verschwören, verschwören. continuance: Dauer. crape: Trauerflor. dangled: baumeltet, gebaumelt, baumeltest, baumelten, baumelte. dreams: Träumt, Träume. enclosure: Beilage, Anlage, Gehäuse, Umzäunung, Koppel, Umhüllung.

gooseberry: Stachelbeere. graves: Gräber. lovers: Geliebte. mat: Matte, Matt, Vorleger, Untersetzer, Untersatz, Unterlage, Strohsitz, streiten, sich prügeln, Setdeckchen, kämpfen. obstruction: Obstruktion, Hindernis, Sperrung, Hemmung, Stockung, Verstopfung, Erstöpfung in das Körper, Behinderung. possess: besitzen, besitze, besitzt.

prolongation: Verlängerung, Erneuerung. stole: Stola, Stahl, Stolle. straightening: gerade werdend. streamer: Serpentine, Papierschlange. stumbled: gestolpert. tied: gebunden, verschnürte. tumbler: Becher, Wasserglas. unseen: Ungesehen, unsichtbar. warmth: Wärme, Glut, Herzlichkeit, Hitze. whispered: geflüstert.

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They strained their eyes at each other through the icy darkness. Such a thing had never happened before. “Maybe she’s forgotten it,” Mattie said in a tremulous whisper; but both of them knew that it was not like Zeena to forget.% “It might have fallen off into the snow,” Mattie continued, after a pause during which they had stood intently listening. “It must have been pushed off, then,” he rejoined in the same tone. Another wild thought tore through him. What if tramps had been there—what if... Again he listened, fancying he heard a distant sound in the house; then he felt in his pocket for a match, and kneeling down, passed its light slowly over the rough edges of snow about the doorstep. He was still kneeling when his eyes, on a level with the lower panel of the door, caught a faint ray beneath it. Who could be stirring in that silent house? He heard a step on the stairs, and again for an instant the thought of tramps tore through him. Then the door opened and he saw his wife. Against the dark background of the kitchen she stood up tall and angular, one hand drawing a quilted counterpane to her flat breast, while the other held a lamp. The light, on a level with her chin, drew out of the darkness her puckered throat and the projecting wrist of the hand that clutched the quilt, and deepened fantastically the hollows and prominences of her high-boned face under its ring of crimping-pins. To Ethan, still in the rosy haze of his hour with Mattie, the sight came with the intense precision of the last dream before waking. He felt as if he had never before known what his wife looked like. She drew aside without speaking, and Mattie and Ethan passed into the kitchen, which had the deadly chill of a vault after the dry cold of the night. “Guess you forgot about us, Zeena,” Ethan joked, stamping the snow from his boots. “No. I just felt so mean I couldn’t sleep.”

German angular: eckig, winklig, kantig, mit Ecken. counterpane: die Tagesdecke, Steppdecke, Tagesdecke. deepened: vertieftest, vertiefte, vertieftet, vertieften, vertieft. fancying: wähnend. fantastically: phantastisch. haze: Dunst, Nebel, Schleier, Wegen, Nebelichkeit, Kleinigkeiten tadeln, Hauch, Duft, Anflug, Schikanieren. hollows: Hohlräume, Hohl, Höhlen.

intently: eifrig. joked: gescherzt. kneeling: Kniend, Hinkniend, Kniebeugung, Kniefall. prominences: Prominenzen. puckered: blasig, runzelte, runzelten, runzeltest, runzeltet, gerunzelt. quilted: gesteppt, wattierte, wattiert. rosy: rosig, rosenfarbig. stamping: stempeln, Stempelung, Prägung, Abstempeln, einstampfend. stirring: mitreißend.

strained: gespannt, angestrengt, spannte an, angespannt, gehetzt, gereizt, gestreßt. tramps: Vagabungen, Landstreicher, Dachlosen. tremulous: zitternd. vault: Gewölbe, Tresor, Kuppel, Kuppelgewölbe, Bockspringen, Tresorraum. waking: Wachend, Bewachen, Beaufsichtigen, auf Streifegehen, Streifen, Patrouillieren.

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Mattie came forward, unwinding her wraps, the colour of the cherry scarf in her fresh lips and cheeks. “I’m so sorry, Zeena! Isn’t there anything I can do?” “No; there’s nothing.” Zeena turned away from her. “You might ‘a’ shook off that snow outside,” she said to her husband.% She walked out of the kitchen ahead of them and pausing in the hall raised the lamp at arm’s-length, as if to light them up the stairs. Ethan paused also, affecting to fumble for the peg on which he hung his coat and cap. The doors of the two bedrooms faced each other across the narrow upper landing, and to-night it was peculiarly repugnant to him that Mattie should see him follow Zeena. “I guess I won’t come up yet awhile,” he said, turning as if to go back to the kitchen. Zeena stopped short and looked at him. “For the land’s sake—what you going to do down here?” “I’ve got the mill accounts to go over.” She continued to stare at him, the flame of the unshaded lamp bringing out with microscopic cruelty the fretful lines of her face. “At this time o’ night? You’ll ketch your death. The fire’s out long ago.” Without answering he moved away toward the kitchen. As he did so his glance crossed Mattie’s and he fancied that a fugitive warning gleamed through her lashes. The next moment they sank to her flushed cheeks and she began to mount the stairs ahead of Zeena. “That’s so. It is powerful cold down here,” Ethan assented; and with lowered head he went up in his wife’s wake, and followed her across the threshold of their room.

German bedrooms: Schlafzimmer, Schlafräume. cheeks: Backen. cherry: Kirsche. cruelty: Grausamkeit. flame: Flamme, Flammen. fretful: verdrießlich, weinerlich, ärgerlich. fugitive: Flüchtling, Flüchtig. fumble: fummeln, fummle, herumdoktern, herumfingern, fummelt, fummele, fummelst.

gleamed: glänzte, schimmerte. ketch: Ketsch, die Ketsch. lamp: Lampe, die Lampe, Laterne. lashes: peitscht. lowered: senktet, senkte, senktest, gesenkt, senkten, ließt herunter, ließest herunter, heruntergelassen, ließen herunter, ließ herunter. microscopic: mikroskopisch. paused: pausiert. pausing: Pausieren, pausierend. peculiarly: eigenartig, eigen.

peg: Pflock, Keil, Zapfen, Nagel, Stift, Bolz, Spieß, Feder, Griffel, Haken, Nadel. repugnant: abstoßend, widerlich. sank: sanken. stare: starren, anstarren, stieren, anglotzen. threshold: Schwelle, Drempel, Schwellwert. unshaded: unverdunkelt. unwinding: abwickelnd, entspannend.

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There was some hauling to be done at the lower end of the wood-lot, and Ethan was out early the next day.% The winter morning was as clear as crystal. The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke. It was in the early morning stillness, when his muscles were swinging to their familiar task and his lungs expanding with long draughts of mountain air, that Ethan did his clearest thinking. He and Zeena had not exchanged a word after the door of their room had closed on them. She had measured out some drops from a medicine-bottle on a chair by the bed and, after swallowing them, and wrapping her head in a piece of yellow flannel, had lain down with her face turned away. Ethan undressed hurriedly and blew out the light so that he should not see her when he took his place at her side. As he lay there he could hear Mattie moving about in her room, and her candle, sending its small ray across the landing, drew a scarcely perceptible line of light under his door. He kept his eyes fixed on the light till it vanished. Then the room grew perfectly black, and not a sound was audible but Zeena’s asthmatic breathing. Ethan felt confusedly that there were many things he ought to think about, but through his tingling veins and tired brain only one sensation throbbed: the warmth of

German asthmatic: asthmatisch, engbrüstig. audible: hörbar, vernehmbar, vernehmlich, hellhörig. clearest: hellste. confusedly: verworren. darkly: dunkel. draughts: Dame spielen, Damsteinespiel, Damespiele, Damspielsteine. drops: tropfen, tropft. flannel: Flanell, Flannel, Aus Flanell, Molton, Flanellen.

hauling: Schleppend, Abschleppen, Schleppen. hurriedly: eilig. lain: gelegen. patches: Flecke. rim: Rand, Felge, Radkranz, Saum, Eckchen, Rändchen, Grat, Kante. scintillating: funkelnd. stillness: Stille. sunrise: Sonnenaufgang. swallowing: verschlingung, schluckend.

swinging: schlängelnd, schwankend, wackelig, schaukelnd. throbbed: geklopft. tingling: prickelnd, klingend. undressed: entkleidetet, entkleidetest, entkleideten, entkleidete, entkleidet, ausgezogen, zog aus, zogen aus, zogst aus, zogt aus, unbekleidet. wrapping: UmhÜllung, Verpackung, Kapsel, Gehäuse, Gefäß, Flugschreiber, Karton, Dose, Hülse, Dichtung, Büchse.

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Mattie’s shoulder against his. Why had he not kissed her when he held her there? A few hours earlier he would not have asked himself the question. Even a few minutes earlier, when they had stood alone outside the house, he would not have dared to think of kissing her. But since he had seen her lips in the lamplight he felt that they were his.% Now, in the bright morning air, her face was still before him. It was part of the sun’s red and of the pure glitter on the snow. How the girl had changed since she had come to Starkfield! He remembered what a colourless slip of a thing she had looked the day he had met her at the station. And all the first winter, how she had shivered with cold when the northerly gales shook the thin clapboards and the snow beat like hail against the loose-hung windows! He had been afraid that she would hate the hard life, the cold and loneliness; but not a sign of discontent escaped her. Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn’t any other place to go to; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive. Zeena, at any rate, did not apply the principle in her own case. He felt all the more sorry for the girl because misfortune had, in a sense, indentured her to them. Mattie Silver was the daughter of a cousin of Zenobia Frome’s, who had inflamed his clan with mingled sentiments of envy and admiration by descending from the hills to Connecticut, where he had married a Stamford girl and succeeded to her father’s thriving “drug” business. Unhappily Orin Silver, a man of far-reaching aims, had died too soon to prove that the end justifies the means. His accounts revealed merely what the means had been; and these were such that it was fortunate for his wife and daughter that his books were examined only after his impressive funeral. His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano. For this purpose her equipment, though varied, was inadequate. She could trim a hat, make molasses candy, recite “Curfew shall not ring to-night,” and play “The Lost Chord” and a pot-pourri from “Carmen.” When she tried to extend the field of her activities in the direction of stenography and book-keeping her health broke down, and six

German candy: Bonbon, Kandis, Süßigkeiten, Kandieren, Kandiszucker, Süßigkeit, Leckereien, Nascherei, Naschwerk, Verzuckern, Leckerei. clan: Sippe, Stamm, Klan, Abkunft, Haufen, Gezücht, Geschlecht, Bande, Horde. colourless: farblos, glanzlos, ungefärbt. conclusive: schlüssig, entscheidend, endgültig, triftig, wirksam. discontent: Unzufriedenheit,

Unzufrieden. gales: Stürme. hail: Hagel, hageln, anreden, anrufen, ansprechen. indentured: verpflichtete vertraglich. inflamed: entflammt, entflammte, entflammten, entflammtest, entflammtet, brenzlich. justifies: rechtfertigt. lamplight: Lampenlicht. misfortune: Mißgeschick, Unglück, Pech.

molasses: Melasse, Sirup, Zuckerrübensirup. northerly: nördlich. recite: vortragen, trage vor, tragen vor, trägst vor, rezitieren, tragt vor, rezitiere, rezitiert, rezitierst, Gedichten vortragen, deklamieren. sentiments: Empfindungen, Gefühle. stenography: Stenographie, Kurzschrift, Steno, Stenogramm. thriving: gedeihend. unhappily: unglücklicherweise.

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months on her feet behind the counter of a department store did not tend to restore it. Her nearest relations had been induced to place their savings in her father’s hands, and though, after his death, they ungrudgingly acquitted themselves of the Christian duty of returning good for evil by giving his daughter all the advice at their disposal, they could hardly be expected to supplement it by material aid. But when Zenobia’s doctor recommended her looking about for some one to help her with the house-work the clan instantly saw the chance of exacting a compensation from Mattie. Zenobia, though doubtful of the girl’s efficiency, was tempted by the freedom to find fault without much risk of losing her; and so Mattie came to Starkfield.% Zenobia’s fault-finding was of the silent kind, but not the less penetrating for that. During the first months Ethan alternately burned with the desire to see Mattie defy her and trembled with fear of the result. Then the situation grew less strained. The pure air, and the long summer hours in the open, gave back life and elasticity to Mattie, and Zeena, with more leisure to devote to her complex ailments, grew less watchful of the girl’s omissions; so that Ethan, struggling on under the burden of his barren farm and failing saw-mill, could at least imagine that peace reigned in his house. There was really, even now, no tangible evidence to the contrary; but since the previous night a vague dread had hung on his sky-line. It was formed of Zeena’s obstinate silence, of Mattie’s sudden look of warning, of the memory of just such fleeting imperceptible signs as those which told him, on certain stainless mornings, that before night there would be rain. His dread was so strong that, man-like, he sought to postpone certainty. The hauling was not over till mid-day, and as the lumber was to be delivered to Andrew Hale, the Starkfield builder, it was really easier for Ethan to send Jotham Powell, the hired man, back to the farm on foot, and drive the load down to the village himself. He had scrambled up on the logs, and was sitting astride of them, close over his shaggy grays, when, coming between him and their streaming necks, he had a vision of the warning look that Mattie had given him the night before.

German acquitted: sprachen frei, sprachst frei, sprach frei, freigesprochen, spracht frei. ailments: Krankheiten, Leiden, Unpäßlich. alternately: abwechselnd. astride: rittlings, breitbeinig. elasticity: Elastizität, Dehnbarkeit, Spannkraft, Verformbarkeit, Dehnung. exacting: anspruchsvoll, noch genauer, genau, anstrengend.

fault-finding: Krittelei. fleeting: flüchtig. grays: ergraut. imperceptible: unmerklich, unbemerkbar. logs: Holzblöcke, Klötze, Schlagholz. lumber: Bauholz, Holz, Nutzholz. obstinate: hartnäckig, starrsinnig, eigensinnig, starrköpfig, stur, halsstarrig, trotzig, widerspenstig, widerhaarig, schwerhandhabbar, widersetzlich.

omissions: Auslassungen. penetrating: durchdringend, eindringend, penetrant, penetrierend, eindringlich, aufdringlich. reigned: regierte. shaggy: zottig, struppig, gezottelt, haarig, rauhhaarig. stainless: rostfrei, fleckenfrei, unbeflekt, rein, ansteckungsfrei. streaming: Strömend, flüssig, fließend. ungrudgingly: neidlos. watchful: wachsam.

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“If there’s going to be any trouble I want to be there,” was his vague reflection, as he threw to Jotham the unexpected order to unhitch the team and lead them back to the barn.% It was a slow trudge home through the heavy fields, and when the two men entered the kitchen Mattie was lifting the coffee from the stove and Zeena was already at the table. Her husband stopped short at sight of her. Instead of her usual calico wrapper and knitted shawl she wore her best dress of brown merino, and above her thin strands of hair, which still preserved the tight undulations of the crimping-pins, rose a hard perpendicular bonnet, as to which Ethan’s clearest notion was that he had to pay five dollars for it at the Bettsbridge Emporium. On the floor beside her stood his old valise and a bandbox wrapped in newspapers. “Why, where are you going, Zeena?” he exclaimed. “I’ve got my shooting pains so bad that I’m going over to Bettsbridge to spend the night with Aunt Martha Pierce and see that new doctor,” she answered in a matter-of-fact tone, as if she had said she was going into the storeroom to take a look at the preserves, or up to the attic to go over the blankets. In spite of her sedentary habits such abrupt decisions were not without precedent in Zeena’s history. Twice or thrice before she had suddenly packed Ethan’s valise and started off to Bettsbridge, or even Springfield, to seek the advice of some new doctor, and her husband had grown to dread these expeditions because of their cost. Zeena always came back laden with expensive remedies, and her last visit to Springfield had been commemorated by her paying twenty dollars for an electric battery of which she had never been able to learn the use. But for the moment his sense of relief was so great as to preclude all other feelings. He had now no doubt that Zeena had spoken the truth in saying, the night before, that she had sat up because she felt “too mean” to sleep: her abrupt resolve to seek medical advice showed that, as usual, she was wholly absorbed in her health.

German bandbox: Hutschachtel. blankets: Decken, Bettdecken. bonnet: Haube, Motorhaube, Mütze, Kapotte, Kappe, Kapotthut. commemorated: gedacht, gedachtet, gedachtest, gedachten, gedachte. dread: Furcht, fürchten, Scheu, angst, Ängstlichkeit, Bangigkeit, zurückschrecken, scheuen. expeditions: Expeditionen. knitted: gestrickt, strickte. laden: beladen.

merino: die Merinowolle, Merino, Merinoschaf. perpendicular: senkrecht, Senkrechte, Lot, perpendikulär. precedent: Präzedenzfall, Vorhergehend. preclude: ausschließen, schließe aus, schließen aus, schließt aus. preserves: Eingemachte, Konfekt, Konfitüre, Konserven. sedentary: sesshaft, sitzend. shawl: Schal, Umschlagetuch,

Umhängetuch, Kopftuch, Umhang, Haartuch, Shawl, Halstuch. strands: Strände, Strandet, Stränge. thrice: dreimal, dreifach. trudge: zuckeln, stapfen, trödeln, trotten, trudeln. valise: Reisetasche, Kleiner Handkoffer, Handkoffer, Felleisen. wrapper: Verpackung, Streifen, Banderole, Deckblatt, Kreuzband, Papierstreifen, Streifband, Umhüllung, Hülle.

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As if expecting a protest, she continued plaintively; “If you’re too busy with the hauling I presume you can let Jotham Powell drive me over with the sorrel in time to ketch the train at the Flats.” Her husband hardly heard what she was saying. During the winter months there was no stage between Starkfield and Bettsbridge, and the trains which stopped at Corbury Flats were slow and infrequent. A rapid calculation showed Ethan that Zeena could not be back at the farm before the following evening....% “If I’d supposed you’d ‘a’ made any objection to Jotham Powell’s driving me over—” she began again, as though his silence had implied refusal. On the brink of departure she was always seized with a flux of words. “All I know is,” she continued, “I can’t go on the way I am much longer. The pains are clear away down to my ankles now, or I’d ‘a’ walked in to Starkfield on my own feet, sooner’n put you out, and asked Michael Eady to let me ride over on his wagon to the Flats, when he sends to meet the train that brings his groceries. I’d ‘a’ had two hours to wait in the station, but I’d sooner ‘a’ done it, even with this cold, than to have you say—” “Of course Jotham’ll drive you over,” Ethan roused himself to answer. He became suddenly conscious that he was looking at Mattie while Zeena talked to him, and with an effort he turned his eyes to his wife. She sat opposite the window, and the pale light reflected from the banks of snow made her face look more than usually drawn and bloodless, sharpened the three parallel creases between ear and cheek, and drew querulous lines from her thin nose to the corners of her mouth. Though she was but seven years her husband’s senior, and he was only twenty-eight, she was already an old woman. Ethan tried to say something befitting the occasion, but there was only one thought in his mind: the fact that, for the first time since Mattie had come to live with them, Zeena was to be away for a night. He wondered if the girl were thinking of it too.... He knew that Zeena must be wondering why he did not offer to drive her to the Flats and let Jotham Powell take the lumber to Starkfield, and at first he could

German ankles: Knöchel. befitting: ziemend. bloodless: blutlos, unblutig. brink: Rand, Kante, Grat, Saum. calculation: Berechnung, Kalkulation, Kalkül, Zählung. creases: Falten. flux: Fluß, Flußmittel, Strom, Schmelzmittel, Ausfluß. groceries: Lebensmittel, Lebensmittelgeschäfte, Materialwaren, Kolonialwaren.

infrequent: selten. objection: Einwand, Einspruch, Widerspruch, Einwendung, Protest, Beschwerde, Bedenken, Klage, Verteidigungsschrift, Beanstandung. pains: Sorgen. plaintively: traurig. presume: voraussetzen, annehmen, vermuten, setzt voraus, setzen voraus, setze voraus, vermutet, vermutest, vermute, schätzen, denken.

querulous: Zickig, verdrossen, schnauzig, kratzbürstig, bissig. sends: sendet, schickt, schickt ab, sendet ein, übersendet, versendet, sendet ab, sendet zu. sharpened: schleifte, schleiften, schleiftest, geschleift, schleiftet, schärftest, schärften, schärfte, geschärft, schärftet, gewetzt. sorrel: Sauerampfer. trains: Zuggarnitur. wagon: Waggon, Wagen.

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not think of a pretext for not doing so; then he said: “I’d take you over myself, only I’ve got to collect the cash for the lumber.” As soon as the words were spoken he regretted them, not only because they were untrue—there being no prospect of his receiving cash payment from Hale—but also because he knew from experience the imprudence of letting Zeena think he was in funds on the eve of one of her therapeutic excursions. At the moment, however, his one desire was to avoid the long drive with her behind the ancient sorrel who never went out of a walk.% Zeena made no reply: she did not seem to hear what he had said. She had already pushed her plate aside, and was measuring out a draught from a large bottle at her elbow. “It ain’t done me a speck of good, but I guess I might as well use it up,” she remarked; adding, as she pushed the empty bottle toward Mattie: “If you can get the taste out it’ll do for pickles.”

German adding: zufügend, addierend, beifügend, ergänzend, anfügend, beigebend. aside: Beiseite, Abseits, daneben, seitlich, zur Seite. collect: sammeln, sammelt, sammelst, sammle, sammele, einsammeln, sammeln ein, sammele ein, sammelst ein, sammelt ein, sammle ein. elbow: Ellbogen, Ellenbogen, Knie, Hohlleiterkrümmer, der Ellbogen. eve: Vorabend.

excursions: Ausflüge, Schulausflüge. guess: raten, Vermutung, erraten, vermuten, Mutmaßung, enträtseln, voraussetzen, Schätzung, schätzen. imprudence: Unvorsichtigkeit, Unklugheit. letting: Lassend, vermietend, Vermietung. measuring: Messen, Messend, Messung, Abmessen. pretext: Vorwand, Ausflucht, Scheingrund, Umschweif.

prospect: Aussicht, Schürfen. pushed: angestoßen. receiving: empfangend, erhaltend, empfang, Hehlerei, Annahme, in Empfangnahme. regretted: bedauerte. remarked: merkte. speck: Körnchen, Sprenkel, Tüpfel, Fleck. spoken: gesprochen, gesagt. therapeutic: therapeutisch, heilkräftig.

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As soon as his wife had driven off Ethan took his coat and cap from the peg. Mattie was washing up the dishes, humming one of the dance tunes of the night before. He said “So long, Matt,” and she answered gaily “So long, Ethan”; and that was all.% It was warm and bright in the kitchen. The sun slanted through the south window on the girl’s moving figure, on the cat dozing in a chair, and on the geraniums brought in from the door-way, where Ethan had planted them in the summer to “make a garden” for Mattie. He would have liked to linger on, watching her tidy up and then settle down to her sewing; but he wanted still more to get the hauling done and be back at the farm before night. All the way down to the village he continued to think of his return to Mattie. The kitchen was a poor place, not “spruce” and shining as his mother had kept it in his boyhood; but it was surprising what a homelike look the mere fact of Zeena’s absence gave it. And he pictured what it would be like that evening, when he and Mattie were there after supper. For the first time they would be alone together indoors, and they would sit there, one on each side of the stove, like a married couple, he in his stocking feet and smoking his pipe, she laughing and talking in that funny way she had, which was always as new to him as if he had never heard her before.

German boyhood: Jugend, Kindheit. cap: Kappe, Mütze, Haube, Deckel, bedecken, Barett, Hut, Knallplätzchen, Kopfbedeckung, Decke, Käppchen. dishes: Geschirr, Gerichte, Eßgeschirr. dozing: schlummernd, dösend, Nickerchen, Schläfchen, Dösen. homelike: heimelig, gemütlich, heimisch. humming: Trällern, Summend, Geräusch, Gesumm.

indoors: innen, im Hause, drinnen. laughing: lachend, lachen, gekicher, lacher, gelächter, kichern. linger: verweilen, verweilst, verweilt, verweile, sich aufhalten, bleiben, zögern, dauern, stehenbleiben, fortdauern, fortwähren. pictured: dargestellt. planted: gepflanzt, angepflanzt. sewing: Vernähend, Nähend, Stickerei, heftend. shining: glänzend, strahlend,

leuchtend, glimmend. smoking: rauchend, Rauchen, Räuchern, qualmend. stocking: Strumpf, Kniestrumpf. stove: Ofen, Herd, Feuerung, Erwärmung, Heizung. tidy: ordentlich, sauber, geordnet, aufgeräumt, aufräumen, geordent, herb, gepflegt, tadellos, säuberlich. tunes: Melodien, stellt an, stimmt. washing: Waschend, Waschen, Wäsche, Kleider, Kleidung.

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The sweetness of the picture, and the relief of knowing that his fears of “trouble” with Zeena were unfounded, sent up his spirits with a rush, and he, who was usually so silent, whistled and sang aloud as he drove through the snowy fields. There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability which the long Starkfield winters had not yet extinguished. By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse. At Worcester, though he had the name of keeping to himself and not being much of a hand at a good time, he had secretly gloried in being clapped on the back and hailed as “Old Ethe” or “Old Stiff”; and the cessation of such familiarities had increased the chill of his return to Starkfield.% There the silence had deepened about him year by year. Left alone, after his father’s accident, to carry the burden of farm and mill, he had had no time for convivial loiterings in the village; and when his mother fell ill the loneliness of the house grew more oppressive than that of the fields. His mother had been a talker in her day, but after her “trouble” the sound of her voice was seldom heard, though she had not lost the power of speech. Sometimes, in the long winter evenings, when in desperation her son asked her why she didn’t “say something,” she would lift a finger and answer: “Because I’m listening”; and on stormy nights, when the loud wind was about the house, she would complain, if he spoke to her: “They’re talking so out there that I can’t hear you.” It was only when she drew toward her last illness, and his cousin Zenobia Pierce came over from the next valley to help him nurse her, that human speech was heard again in the house. After the mortal silence of his long imprisonment Zeena’s volubility was music in his ears. He felt that he might have “gone like his mother” if the sound of a new voice had not come to steady him. Zeena seemed to understand his case at a glance. She laughed at him for not knowing the simplest sick-bed duties and told him to “go right along out” and leave her to see to things. The mere fact of obeying her orders, of feeling free to go about his business again and talk with other men, restored his shaken balance and magnified his sense of what he owed her. Her efficiency shamed and dazzled him. She seemed to possess by instinct all the household wisdom that his long

German cessation: Stillstand, Einstellung. convivial: gastlich, gesellig, festlich. dazzled: geblendet, verblendet. extinguished: löschtet, löschte aus, löschten, löschten aus, gelöscht, löschtest aus, löschte, löschtet aus, löschtest, ausgelöscht, abgelöscht. familiarities: Vertrautheiten. gaiety: Fröhlichkeit, Frohsinn, Lustigkeit. gloried: triumphierte. hailed: gehagelt.

inarticulate: undeutlich, unartikuliert. magnified: vergrößert. marrow: Mark, Knochenmark, Kern. mortal: sterblich, tödlich. obeying: gehorchend, befolgend. recklessness: Rücksichtslosigkeit, Leichtsinn. shamed: beschämte, schämte sich. simplest: einfachste. slumbering: schlummernd. snowy: verschneit, schneeig, schlackig, schneebedeckt.

sociability: Geselligkeit. spark: Funke, Funken, Fünkchen. stormy: stürmisch. talker: Schwätzer. unfounded: grundlos, unbegründet, bodenlos, egal, einerlei, gedankenlos, gefühllos, gleichgültig, indifferent, mirnichtsdirnichts, schlampig. volubility: Redegewandtheit. warmed: erwärmte, erwärmten, gewärmt. whistled: gepfiffen.

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apprenticeship had not instilled in him. When the end came it was she who had to tell him to hitch up and go for the undertaker, and she thought it “funny” that he had not settled beforehand who was to have his mother’s clothes and the sewing-machine. After the funeral, when he saw her preparing to go away, he was seized with an unreasoning dread of being left alone on the farm; and before he knew what he was doing he had asked her to stay there with him. He had often thought since that it would not have happened if his mother had died in spring instead of winter...% When they married it was agreed that, as soon as he could straighten out the difficulties resulting from Mrs. Frome’s long illness, they would sell the farm and saw-mill and try their luck in a large town. Ethan’s love of nature did not take the form of a taste for agriculture. He had always wanted to be an engineer, and to live in towns, where there were lectures and big libraries and “fellows doing things.” A slight engineering job in Florida, put in his way during his period of study at Worcester, increased his faith in his ability as well as his eagerness to see the world; and he felt sure that, with a “smart” wife like Zeena, it would not be long before he had made himself a place in it. Zeena’s native village was slightly larger and nearer to the railway than Starkfield, and she had let her husband see from the first that life on an isolated farm was not what she had expected when she married. But purchasers were slow in coming, and while he waited for them Ethan learned the impossibility of transplanting her. She chose to look down on Starkfield, but she could not have lived in a place which looked down on her. Even Bettsbridge or Shadd’s Falls would not have been sufficiently aware of her, and in the greater cities which attracted Ethan she would have suffered a complete loss of identity. And within a year of their marriage she developed the “sickliness” which had since made her notable even in a community rich in pathological instances. When she came to take care of his mother she had seemed to Ethan like the very genius of health, but he soon saw that her skill as a nurse had been acquired by the absorbed observation of her own symptoms.

German absorbed: absorbiert, absorbierte, absorbiertest, absorbiertet, absorbierten, saugtet auf, saugtest auf, saugten auf, saugte auf, aufgesaugt, nahmst auf. apprenticeship: Lehre, Lehrzeit, Lehrstelle. beforehand: im Voraus, vorher, zuvor. eagerness: Eifer, Habsucht, Gierde, Gier, Gelüst. genius: Genie, Genius, Genialer Kopf, Besonders heller Kopf, Genialität,

Pionierkorps. hitch: Ruck, Haken, Problem, Zweifel, festmachen, Schererei, Zögern, Unschlüssigkeit, Schwankung, Unentschlossenheit. impossibility: Unmöglichkeit. instances: Belegstellen, Fälle, Instanzen, Umstände. instilled: brachte bei, träufelte ein, flößtet ein, flößtest ein, flößten ein, beigebracht, erzog an, brachten bei, brachtest bei, brachtet bei, erzogen

an. lectures: vorträge. nearer: näher. pathological: pathologisch, krankhaft. purchasers: Erwerber. straighten: gerade machen, gerade werden, ausrichten, geradebiegen. transplanting: Verpflanzend. undertaker: Leichenbestatter, Bestattungsinstitut, Bestattungsunternehmer. unreasoning: vernunftlos.

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Then%she too fell silent. Perhaps it was the inevitable effect of life on the farm, or perhaps, as she sometimes said, it was because Ethan “never listened.” The charge was not wholly unfounded. When she spoke it was only to complain, and to complain of things not in his power to remedy; and to check a tendency to impatient retort he had first formed the habit of not answering her, and finally of thinking of other things while she talked. Of late, however, since he had reasons for observing her more closely, her silence had begun to trouble him. He recalled his mother’s growing taciturnity, and wondered if Zeena were also turning “queer.” Women did, he knew. Zeena, who had at her fingers’ ends the pathological chart of the whole region, had cited many cases of the kind while she was nursing his mother; and he himself knew of certain lonely farm-houses in the neighbourhood where stricken creatures pined, and of others where sudden tragedy had come of their presence. At times, looking at Zeena’s shut face, he felt the chill of such forebodings. At other times her silence seemed deliberately assumed to conceal far-reaching intentions, mysterious conclusions drawn from suspicions and resentments impossible to guess. That supposition was even more disturbing than the other; and it was the one which had come to him the night before, when he had seen her standing in the kitchen door. Now her departure for Bettsbridge had once more eased his mind, and all his thoughts were on the prospect of his evening with Mattie. Only one thing weighed on him, and that was his having told Zeena that he was to receive cash for the lumber. He foresaw so clearly the consequences of this imprudence that with considerable reluctance he decided to ask Andrew Hale for a small advance on his load. When Ethan drove into Hale’s yard the builder was just getting out of his sleigh. “Hello, Ethe!” he said. “This comes handy.” Andrew Hale was a ruddy man with a big gray moustache and a stubbly double-chin unconstrained by a collar; but his scrupulously clean shirt was always fastened by a small diamond stud. This display of opulence was misleading, for though he did a fairly good business it was known that his

German chill: Kälte, Erkältung, Kühle, erstarren, Schnupfen. fastened: befestigten, befestigtest, befestigte, befestigt, befestigtet. forebodings: Vorahnungen. foresaw: sah voraus, sahen voraus, sahst voraus, saht voraus, sah ab, sahst ab, saht ab, sahen ab. impatient: ungeduldig, rastlos, ruhelos, rührig, steif, unruhig, zappelig, flatterhaft, unbeständig. moustache: Schnurrbart.

observing: beobachtend, aufmerksam, bemerkend. opulence: Reichtum, Üppigkeit. pined: befestigt. resentments: Verstimmungen. retort: Retorte, erwidern. ruddy: rot. scrupulously: ängstlich, bedenkliche, genau, gewissenhaft. stricken: heimgesucht, verwundet, streiken, stoßen, leidenden, leidend, gestrichen, gestreikt, angeschlagen,

leidende. stubbly: stoppelig. stud: Stiftschraube, Hengst, Gestüt, Pfosten, Springer, Deckhengst, Gestüthengst. supposition: Annahme, Voraussetzung, Vermutung, Mutmaßung. suspicions: Verdacht, Verdachte, Verdächtigungen. unconstrained: zwanglos, variabel, ungezwungen, locker, entspannung.

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easygoing habits and the demands of his large family frequently kept him what Starkfield called “behind.” He was an old friend of Ethan’s family, and his house one of the few to which Zeena occasionally went, drawn there by the fact that Mrs. Hale, in her youth, had done more “doctoring” than any other woman in Starkfield, and was still a recognised authority on symptoms and treatment.% Hale went up to the grays and patted their sweating flanks. “Well, sir,” he said, “you keep them two as if they was pets.” Ethan set about unloading the logs and when he had finished his job he pushed open the glazed door of the shed which the builder used as his office. Hale sat with his feet up on the stove, his back propped against a battered desk strewn with papers: the place, like the man, was warm, genial and untidy. “Sit right down and thaw out,” he greeted Ethan. The latter did not know how to begin, but at length he managed to bring out his request for an advance of fifty dollars. The blood rushed to his thin skin under the sting of Hale’s astonishment. It was the builder’s custom to pay at the end of three months, and there was no precedent between the two men for a cash settlement. Ethan felt that if he had pleaded an urgent need Hale might have made shift to pay him; but pride, and an instinctive prudence, kept him from resorting to this argument. After his father’s death it had taken time to get his head above water, and he did not want Andrew Hale, or any one else in Starkfield, to think he was going under again. Besides, he hated lying; if he wanted the money he wanted it, and it was nobody’s business to ask why. He therefore made his demand with the awkwardness of a proud man who will not admit to himself that he is stooping; and he was not much surprised at Hale’s refusal. The builder refused genially, as he did everything else: he treated the matter as something in the nature of a practical joke, and wanted to know if Ethan meditated buying a grand piano or adding a “cupolo” to his house; offering, in the latter case, to give his services free of cost.

German astonishment: Erstaunen, Verwunderung, Aufsehen, Wunder, Staunen, Befremdung. awkwardness: Ungeschicklichkeit, Ungeschicktheit, Unbeholfenheit. battered: abgenutzt, zerschlagen, geschlagen. builder: Erbauer, Bauunternehmer, Baumeister, Bauherr, Bauarbeiter. easygoing: unbekümmert. genial: freundlich, großartig. genially: freundlich, heiter.

glazed: glasiert, verglast, geglänst. instinctive: instinktiv, instinktmäßig. meditated: meditiertet, meditiertest, meditierten, meditierte, meditiert, nachgedacht. patted: geklapst, betätschelt. pleaded: plädiert. propped: gestützt, stützte. prudence: Umsicht, Besonnenheit, Klugheit. resorting: erholungs, flüchtend. sting: stechen, Stachel, Stich, sticheln,

stecken, strecken, stacheln, spritzen, verletzen, Pik, einstechen. stooping: bückend. strewn: gestreut. sweating: schwitzend, Schwitzen. unloading: Entladung, ausladend, Entladen, Ausladung, abladend, Löschung. untidy: unordentlich, chaotisch, nachlässig, schlampig machen, struppig, ungeordnet, ungepflegt machen, wüst.

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Ethan’s arts were soon exhausted, and after an embarrassed pause he wished Hale good day and opened the door of the office. As he passed out the builder suddenly called after him: “See here—you ain’t in a tight place, are you?” “Not a bit,” Ethan’s pride retorted before his reason had time to intervene.% “Well, that’s good! Because I am, a shade. Fact is, I was going to ask you to give me a little extra time on that payment. Business is pretty slack, to begin with, and then I’m fixing up a little house for Ned and Ruth when they’re married. I’m glad to do it for ‘em, but it costs.” His look appealed to Ethan for sympathy. “The young people like things nice. You know how it is yourself: it’s not so long ago since you fixed up your own place for Zeena.” Ethan left the grays in Hale’s stable and went about some other business in the village. As he walked away the builder’s last phrase lingered in his ears, and he reflected grimly that his seven years with Zeena seemed to Starkfield “not so long.” The afternoon was drawing to an end, and here and there a lighted pane spangled the cold gray dusk and made the snow look whiter. The bitter weather had driven every one indoors and Ethan had the long rural street to himself. Suddenly he heard the brisk play of sleigh-bells and a cutter passed him, drawn by a free-going horse. Ethan recognised Michael Eady’s roan colt, and young Denis Eady, in a handsome new fur cap, leaned forward and waved a greeting. “Hello, Ethe!” he shouted and spun on. The cutter was going in the direction of the Frome farm, and Ethan’s heart contracted as he listened to the dwindling bells. What more likely than that Denis Eady had heard of Zeena’s departure for Bettsbridge, and was profiting by the opportunity to spend an hour with Mattie? Ethan was ashamed of the storm of jealousy in his breast. It seemed unworthy of the girl that his thoughts of her should be so violent. He walked on to the church corner and entered the shade of the Varnum spruces, where he had stood with her the night before. As he passed into their

German appealed: berufen. ashamed: beschämt, enttäuscht, verschämt. bells: Klingeln, Schellen. brisk: lebhaft, flink, flott, frisch, forsch, hurtig, munter, wach, gewandt, aufgeweckt, rasch. contracted: zusammengezogen, vertrag geschlossen. dwindling: Schwindend, Schwund. embarrassed: verlegen, gehindert, unbehaglich, umbequem, verwirrte,

lästig, betreten, unbequem, unangenehm. exhausted: erschöpft, gerädert, abgehetzt, schachmatt, ausgebraucht. fixing: Befestigend, festsetzend, Befestigung, Fixierend, reparierend. fur: Pelz, Fell, Tierhaut, Pelzwerk, Pelzrand, Belag, Anlaufen, Balg. grimly: grimmig. jealousy: Eifersucht, Neid, Mißgunst. lighted: beleuchtet, angemacht, angezüundet.

pane: Scheibe, Raute, Quadrat, Pepita, Viereck. profiting: profitierend. slack: flau, schlaff, entspannen, locker, lose, lustlos, entladen nach der Arbeit. spun: schnell drehen, versponnen, verspinnen, verspann, spinnen, sich drehen, kreiseln, herumwirbeln, gesponnen, sich schnell drehen. unworthy: unwürdig, würdelos. whiter: Weißer.

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gloom he saw an indistinct outline just ahead of him. At his approach it melted for an instant into two separate shapes and then conjoined again, and he heard a kiss, and a half-laughing “Oh!” provoked by the discovery of his presence. Again the outline hastily disunited and the Varnum gate slammed on one half while the other hurried on ahead of him. Ethan smiled at the discomfiture he had caused. What did it matter to Ned Hale and Ruth Varnum if they were caught kissing each other? Everybody in Starkfield knew they were engaged. It pleased Ethan to have surprised a pair of lovers on the spot where he and Mattie had stood with such a thirst for each other in their hearts; but he felt a pang at the thought that these two need not hide their happiness.% He fetched the grays from Hale’s stable and started on his long climb back to the farm. The cold was less sharp than earlier in the day and a thick fleecy sky threatened snow for the morrow. Here and there a star pricked through, showing behind it a deep well of blue. In an hour or two the moon would push over the ridge behind the farm, burn a gold-edged rent in the clouds, and then be swallowed by them. A mournful peace hung on the fields, as though they felt the relaxing grasp of the cold and stretched themselves in their long winter sleep. Ethan’s ears were alert for the jingle of sleigh-bells, but not a sound broke the silence of the lonely road. As he drew near the farm he saw, through the thin screen of larches at the gate, a light twinkling in the house above him. “She’s up in her room,” he said to himself, “fixing herself up for supper”; and he remembered Zeena’s sarcastic stare when Mattie, on the evening of her arrival, had come down to supper with smoothed hair and a ribbon at her neck. He passed by the graves on the knoll and turned his head to glance at one of the older headstones, which had interested him deeply as a boy because it bore his name. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ETHAN FROME AND ENDURANCE HIS WIFE, WHO DWELLED TOGETHER IN PEACE FOR FIFTY YEARS.

German conjoined: verbandet, verbunden, verbandest, verbanden, verband. discomfiture: Niederlage. disunited: trennte. fetched: gebracht, brachten, holtest, brachtest, brachte, geholt, brachtet, holtet, holte, holten. fleecy: wollig, flauschig. hastily: hastig, eilig, schnell, vorschnell, rasch, geschwind. hurried: beeilt, hastig, eilig. indistinct: unklar, undeutlich, trübe,

ungewiß, undurchsichtig, unbestimmt, schuftig, obskur, haarig, finster, faul. instant: Augenblick, Moment, sofortig. kissing: Küssend. melted: geschmolzen. morrow: Folgender Tag. pricked: angestochen, aufgestochen. provoked: reiztet, reizten, reiztest, gereizt, reizte, reizten auf, reizte auf, herausgefordert, provoziertest, provozierten, provozierte.

relaxing: entspannend, ausspannend. ribbon: Band, Farbband, Schleife, Farbbänder, Bändchen. sarcastic: sarkastisch, scharf, anzüglich, gehässig, schneidend, bissig, ätzend, stoppelig, stachlig, beißend. slammed: zugeschlagen. smoothed: geglättet, glättete. swallowed: geschluckt. thirst: Durst, Dürsten. twinkling: Glitzernd, Funkelnd.

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He used to think that fifty years sounded like a long time to live together, but now it seemed to him that they might pass in a flash. Then, with a sudden dart of irony, he wondered if, when their turn came, the same epitaph would be written over him and Zeena.% He opened the barn-door and craned his head into the obscurity, half-fearing to discover Denis Eady’s roan colt in the stall beside the sorrel. But the old horse was there alone, mumbling his crib with toothless jaws, and Ethan whistled cheerfully while he bedded down the grays and shook an extra measure of oats into their mangers. His was not a tuneful throat—but harsh melodies burst from it as he locked the barn and sprang up the hill to the house. He reached the kitchen-porch and turned the door-handle; but the door did not yield to his touch. Startled at finding it locked he rattled the handle violently; then he reflected that Mattie was alone and that it was natural she should barricade herself at nightfall. He stood in the darkness expecting to hear her step. It did not come, and after vainly straining his ears he called out in a voice that shook with joy: “Hello, Matt!” Silence answered; but in a minute or two he caught a sound on the stairs and saw a line of light about the door-frame, as he had seen it the night before. So strange was the precision with which the incidents of the previous evening were repeating themselves that he half expected, when he heard the key turn, to see his wife before him on the threshold; but the door opened, and Mattie faced him. She stood just as Zeena had stood, a lifted lamp in her hand, against the black background of the kitchen. She held the light at the same level, and it drew out with the same distinctness her slim young throat and the brown wrist no bigger than a child’s. Then, striking upward, it threw a lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows.

German barn-door: Scheunentor. barricade: Barrikade, verbarrikadieren, Sperrung, Straßensperre, Verhau, verrammeln, blockieren, Absperrung, Wegsperre, verstellen, sperren. bedded: gebettet. brows: Brauen. cheerfully: fröhlich, heiter. craned: hob mit einem Kran, vorgestreckt, gestreckt. crib: Krippe, Abschreiben, Christstall.

dart: Pfeil, Wurfpfeil, Satz. distinctness: Deutlichkeit. epitaph: Grabschrift, Grabinschrift. fleck: Fleck. jaws: Rachen, Maul, Fresse, Schnauze, Schnabel, Schlund, Klappe, Mund. lustrous: glänzend. mangers: Krippen. melodies: Melodien. milky: milchig, milchartig. mumbling: murmelnd. nightfall: Nachteinbruch, Einbruch

der Dunkelheit. oats: Hafer, Getreide. rattled: gerasselt. repeating: wiederholend, Wiederholung. sprang: gesprungen, sprang, herstammen von, springen. toothless: zahnlos. tuneful: melodisch. upward: aufwärts, ansteigend, empor, steigend. violently: heftig.

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She wore her usual dress of darkish stuff, and there was no bow at her neck; but through her hair she had run a streak of crimson ribbon. This tribute to the unusual transformed and glorified her. She seemed to Ethan taller, fuller, more womanly in shape and motion. She stood aside, smiling silently, while he entered, and then moved away from him with something soft and flowing in her gait. She set the lamp on the table, and he saw that it was carefully laid for supper, with fresh doughnuts, stewed blueberries and his favourite pickles in a dish of gay red glass. A bright fire glowed in the stove and the cat lay stretched before it, watching the table with a drowsy eye.% Ethan was suffocated with the sense of well-being. He went out into the passage to hang up his coat and pull off his wet boots. When he came back Mattie had set the teapot on the table and the cat was rubbing itself persuasively against her ankles. “Why, Puss! I nearly tripped over you,” she cried, the laughter sparkling through her lashes. Again Ethan felt a sudden twinge of jealousy. Could it be his coming that gave her such a kindled face? “Well, Matt, any visitors?” he threw off, stooping down carelessly to examine the fastening of the stove. She nodded and laughed “Yes, one,” and he felt a blackness settling on his brows. “Who was that?” he questioned, raising himself up to slant a glance at her beneath his scowl. Her eyes danced with malice. “Why, Jotham Powell. He came in after he got back, and asked for a drop of coffee before he went down home.” The blackness lifted and light flooded Ethan’s brain. “That all? Well, I hope you made out to let him have it.” And after a pause he felt it right to add: “I suppose he got Zeena over to the Flats all right?” “Oh, yes; in plenty of time.”

German blueberries: Heidelbeeren. carelessly: sorglos, nachlässig. crimson: Karmesinrot, Karmesin, purpurrot. darkish: dunkel, schwärzlich. doughnuts: Krapfen, Ringförmige Objekte. drowsy: schläfrig, schlaftrunken, dumpf, schlaff, dösig, dumpfig, duselig, stumpfsinnig, verschlafen, betäubt. fastening: Befestigend, Fest machen,

Befestigung. gait: Gang, Gangart. glorified: verherrlicht, verherrlichtet, verherrlichtest, verherrlichten, verherrlichte. kindled: entzündetest, zündetet an, entzündete, entzündet, zündeten an, zündete an, angezündet, entzündetet, zündetest an, entzündeten, entflammt. persuasively: überzeugend. pickles: Gurken und Zwiebel im

Essig, Essigfrüchte. scowl: finster blicken, starren, finster Blick, böse Gesicht, blicken finster. slant: Neigung, schräge. stewed: geschmort, gedämpft. streak: Streifen, Strich. suffocated: erstickt, erstickte, erstickten, ersticktest, ersticktet. teapot: Teekanne, die Teekanne. tripped: getrippelt. twinge: Stich. womanly: fraulich, weiblich.

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The name threw a chill between them, and they stood a moment looking sideways at each other before Mattie said with a shy laugh. “I guess it’s about time for supper.” They drew their seats up to the table, and the cat, unbidden, jumped between them into Zeena’s empty chair. “Oh, Puss!” said Mattie, and they laughed again.% Ethan, a moment earlier, had felt himself on the brink of eloquence; but the mention of Zeena had paralysed him. Mattie seemed to feel the contagion of his embarrassment, and sat with downcast lids, sipping her tea, while he feigned an insatiable appetite for dough-nuts and sweet pickles. At last, after casting about for an effective opening, he took a long gulp of tea, cleared his throat, and said: “Looks as if there’d be more snow.” She feigned great interest. “Is that so? Do you suppose it’ll interfere with Zeena’s getting back?” She flushed red as the question escaped her, and hastily set down the cup she was lifting. Ethan reached over for another helping of pickles. “You never can tell, this time of year, it drifts so bad on the Flats.” The name had benumbed him again, and once more he felt as if Zeena were in the room between them. “Oh, Puss, you’re too greedy!” Mattie cried. The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena’s seat to the table, and was stealthily elongating its body in the direction of the milk-jug, which stood between Ethan and Mattie. The two leaned forward at the same moment and their hands met on the handle of the jug. Mattie’s hand was underneath, and Ethan kept his clasped on it a moment longer than was necessary. The cat, profiting by this unusual demonstration, tried to effect an unnoticed retreat, and in doing so backed into the pickle-dish, which fell to the floor with a crash. Mattie, in an instant, had sprung from her chair and was down on her knees by the fragments. “Oh, Ethan, Ethan—it’s all to pieces! What will Zeena say?”

German benumbed: betäubt, betäubtet, betäubtest, betäubten, betäubte. casting: Gießen, Guss, Abguss, Gussteil, Rollenverteilung, Gußstück, Rollenbesetzung, Gießerei, Besetzung. clasped: bedrängt, bange, beklemmt, eingeklemmt. contagion: Ansteckung, Infektion. crept: kroch, krocht, krochst, krochen, gekrochen, schlichen, schlicht, schlichst, schlich, geschlichen.

downcast: niedergeschlagen. elongating: verlängernd. eloquence: Beredsamkeit, Sprachgewandtheit, Redegewandtheit, Außdruckskraft. feigned: geheuchelt, vorgeblich, heuchelten, unnatürlich, unecht, künstlich, heuchlerisch, gekünstelt, heucheltet, heucheltest, vorgeschützt. gulp: schluck, schlucken. insatiable: unersättlich, unstillbar. jug: Krug, Kanne, Kännchen, Behälter,

Besteck, Karaffe, Hafen, Topf. paralysed: gelähmt, lähmte, lähmten, lähmtet, lähmtest, lahm. paws: Pfoten, Klauen, Tatzen. sideways: seitwärts, seitlich. sipping: nippend. sprung: herstammen von, sprang, springen, gesprungen. stealthily: verstohlen, heimlich. unbidden: ungebeten, unaufgefordert. unnoticed: unbemerkt, unbeachtet, verstohlen, ungesehen.

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But this time his courage was up. “Well, she’ll have to say it to the cat, any way!” he rejoined with a laugh, kneeling down at Mattie’s side to scrape up the swimming pickles.% She lifted stricken eyes to him. “Yes, but, you see, she never meant it should be used, not even when there was company; and I had to get up on the stepladder to reach it down from the top shelf of the china-closet, where she keeps it with all her best things, and of course she’ll want to know why I did it—” The case was so serious that it called forth all of Ethan’s latent resolution. “She needn’t know anything about it if you keep quiet. I’ll get another just like it to-morrow. Where did it come from? I’ll go to Shadd’s Falls for it if I have to!” “Oh, you’ll never get another even there! It was a wedding present—don’t you remember? It came all the way from Philadelphia, from Zeena’s aunt that married the minister. That’s why she wouldn’t ever use it. Oh, Ethan, Ethan, what in the world shall I do?” She began to cry, and he felt as if every one of her tears were pouring over him like burning lead. “Don’t, Matt, don’t—oh, don’t!” he implored her. She struggled to her feet, and he rose and followed her helplessly while she spread out the pieces of glass on the kitchen dresser. It seemed to him as if the shattered fragments of their evening lay there. “Here, give them to me,” he said in a voice of sudden authority. She drew aside, instinctively obeying his tone. “Oh, Ethan, what are you going to do?” Without replying he gathered the pieces of glass into his broad palm and walked out of the kitchen to the passage. There he lit a candle-end, opened the china-closet, and, reaching his long arm up to the highest shelf, laid the pieces together with such accuracy of touch that a close inspection convinced him of the impossibility of detecting from below that the dish was broken. If he glued it together the next morning months might elapse before his wife noticed what had happened, and meanwhile he might after all be able to match the dish at Shadd’s

German courage: Mut, Tüchtigkeit, Schneidigkeit, Rüstigkeit. detecting: Entdeckend, erkennend. dish: Schüssel, Gericht, Schale, Speise, Teller, Schälchen, Schüsselchen. dresser: Kommode, Anrichte, Ankleider, Spültisch, Aufwaschtisch, Abwaschtisch. elapse: vergehen, verstreichen. fragments: Bruchstücke. gathered: sammelte, versammelte. glued: geklebt, gummiert, geleimt.

helplessly: hilflos. implored: flehten an, flehte an, flehtest an, flehtet an, angefleht. instinctively: instinktiv. latent: verborgen, latent, potentiell. palm: Palme, Handfläche, Handteller. pouring: der Abguss, der Abstich, der Roheisenabstich, gießen, giessend, strömend, das Abstechen. replying: antwortend, erwiderung. scrape: Kratzen, schaben, abkratzen, radieren, schrapen.

shattered: zerschmettertest, zerschmettertet, zerschmetterten, zerschmettert, zerschmetterte, zerrüttet, zerschmetterd, zertrümmerd. shelf: Regal, Brett, Einlegeboden, Bord, Bordbrett, Schrankfach, das Regal, Fach, Wandbrett. step-ladder: Stehleiter. struggled: gekämpft. swimming: schwimmend, schwimmen, Schwimmsport.

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Falls or Bettsbridge. Having satisfied himself that there was no risk of immediate discovery he went back to the kitchen with a lighter step, and found Mattie disconsolately removing the last scraps of pickle from the floor.% “It’s all right, Matt. Come back and finish supper,” he commanded her. Completely reassured, she shone on him through tear-hung lashes, and his soul swelled with pride as he saw how his tone subdued her. She did not even ask what he had done. Except when he was steering a big log down the mountain to his mill he had never known such a thrilling sense of mastery.

German commanded: befahl, befohlene. disconsolately: trostlos, niedergeschlagen, trostlose, untröstlich. discovery: Entdeckung, Erfindung. lighter: Feuerzeug, Leichter, Schute, Funke, Taschenfeuerzeug, gemildert. log: protokollieren, Protokoll, Logbuch, Log, Klotz, Scheit. mastery: Herrschaft, Beherrschung, Meisterschaft. pickle: einlegen, einsalzen, pökeln,

Beize, einkochen, Essiggurke, einmachen, konservieren, einpökeln. pride: Stolz, Hochmut, Hoffahrt. reassured: beruhigt, beruhigtet, beruhigtest, beruhigten, beruhigte, versicherte. removing: entfernend, beseitigend, fortschaffend, Ausnehmen, Amputieren, abtragend, Abnehmen, Entfernen. satisfied: befriedigtet, befriedigtest, befriedigten, befriedigte, befriedigt,

zufrieden, satt, gesättigt, gefüllt, voll. scraps: Verschrottet. shone: schien, geschienen. subdued: unterwarft, unterwarfen, unterwarfst, überwältigtet, unterwarf, überwältigte, überwältigten, überwältigtest, unterworfen, überwältigt, eingezogen. swelled: geschwollen, schwoll. thrilling: spannend, aufregend, durchdringend.

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They finished supper, and while Mattie cleared the table Ethan went to look at the cows and then took a last turn about the house. The earth lay dark under a muffled sky and the air was so still that now and then he heard a lump of snow come thumping down from a tree far off on the edge of the wood-lot.% When he returned to the kitchen Mattie had pushed up his chair to the stove and seated herself near the lamp with a bit of sewing. The scene was just as he had dreamed of it that morning. He sat down, drew his pipe from his pocket and stretched his feet to the glow. His hard day’s work in the keen air made him feel at once lazy and light of mood, and he had a confused sense of being in another world, where all was warmth and harmony and time could bring no change. The only drawback to his complete well-being was the fact that he could not see Mattie from where he sat; but he was too indolent to move and after a moment he said: “Come over here and sit by the stove.” Zeena’s empty rocking-chair stood facing him. Mattie rose obediently, and seated herself in it. As her young brown head detached itself against the patchwork cushion that habitually framed his wife’s gaunt countenance, Ethan had a momentary shock. It was almost as if the other face, the face of the superseded woman, had obliterated that of the intruder. After a moment Mattie seemed to be affected by the same sense of constraint. She changed her position, leaning

German constraint: Zwang, Nötigung. countenance: Antlitz, Gesicht, Anblick, Szene, Schauspiel, Miene, Gesichtsausdruck. cushion: Kissen, Polster, polstern, das Kissen, Kopfkissen. detached: trenntest ab, trennten ab, abgetrennt, trenntet ab, trennte ab, abgelöst, losgelöst, gelöst, freistehend. drawback: Nachteil, Schattenseite. dreamed: träumte.

framed: umrahmte, umrahmt. gaunt: hager, mager, wüste, traurig, öde, düster, dünn. glow: glühen, Glut, brennen, Leuchten, Feuer, erglühen, Inbrunst. habitually: ständig, gewöhnlich, gewohnt. indolent: träge, faul, indolent, behäbig, schwerfällig. intruder: Eindringling, Einschleicher, Infiltrantin, Fremdkörper, Zudringling, Einbrecher, Infiltrant.

lazy: faul, träge, arbeitsscheu. momentary: augenblicklich, momentan, vorübergehend, monentele, augenblickliche. obediently: gehorsam. obliterated: löschtet aus, löschte aus, löschten aus, löschtest aus, ausgelöscht. seated: gesetzt, sitzend, seßhaft. superseded: ersetzte, ersetztet, ersetztest, ersetzt, ersetzten. thumping: Stöße.

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forward to bend her head above her work, so that he saw only the foreshortened tip of her nose and the streak of red in her hair; then she slipped to her feet, saying “I can’t see to sew,” and went back to her chair by the lamp.% Ethan made a pretext of getting up to replenish the stove, and when he returned to his seat he pushed it sideways that he might get a view of her profile and of the lamplight falling on her hands. The cat, who had been a puzzled observer of these unusual movements, jumped up into Zeena’s chair, rolled itself into a ball, and lay watching them with narrowed eyes. Deep quiet sank on the room. The clock ticked above the dresser, a piece of charred wood fell now and then in the stove, and the faint sharp scent of the geraniums mingled with the odour of Ethan’s smoke, which began to throw a blue haze about the lamp and to hang its greyish cobwebs in the shadowy corners of the room. All constraint had vanished between the two, and they began to talk easily and simply. They spoke of every-day things, of the prospect of snow, of the next church sociable, of the loves and quarrels of Starkfield. The commonplace nature of what they said produced in Ethan an illusion of long-established intimacy which no outburst of emotion could have given, and he set his imagination adrift on the fiction that they had always spent their evenings thus and would always go on doing so... “This is the night we were to have gone coasting. Matt,” he said at length, with the rich sense, as he spoke, that they could go on any other night they chose, since they had all time before them. She smiled back at him. “I guess you forgot!” “No, I didn’t forget; but it’s as dark as Egypt outdoors. We might go tomorrow if there’s a moon.” She laughed with pleasure, her head tilted back, the lamplight sparkling on her lips and teeth. “That would be lovely, Ethan!” He kept his eyes fixed on her, marvelling at the way her face changed with each turn of their talk, like a wheat-field under a summer breeze. It was

German adrift: treibend. charred: machte rein, verkohlt. cobwebs: Spinngewebe, Spinngeweben, Spinnengeweben. commonplace: Alltäglich, banal, fade, Gemeinplatz, trivial, abgedroschen. foreshortened: verkürzt, zeichnete perspektivisch, verkürztet, verkürztest, verkürzten, verkürzte. greyish: gräulich, graulich. illusion: Täuschung, Illusion, Einbildung, Wahn, Fata Morgana,

Einbildungskraft, Vorstellung, Augentäuschung, Wahnidee, Wahnbild, Fiktion. intimacy: Vertrautheit, Intimität, Innigkeit, Vertraulichkeit. narrowed: verengt. odour: Geruch, Gestank, Hauch. outburst: Ausbruch. outdoors: Draußen, im Freien. puzzled: verwirrt. quarrels: Steitigkeiten, Zankt, Kräche, Streitereien.

replenish: ergänzen, auffüllen. sociable: Gesellig, umgänglich, kontaktfreudig, unterhaltsam, unterhaltend, sozialkaritativ, freundlich. sparkling: funkelnd, brilliant, blendend, leuchtend, Sprudeln. ticked: getickt. tilted: gekippt. vanished: verschwunden, verschwandet, verschwandest, verschwanden, verschwand.

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intoxicating to find such magic in his clumsy words, and he longed to try new ways of using it.% “Would you be scared to go down the Corbury road with me on a night like this?” he asked. Her cheeks burned redder. “I ain’t any more scared than you are!” “Well, I’d be scared, then; I wouldn’t do it. That’s an ugly corner down by the big elm. If a fellow didn’t keep his eyes open he’d go plumb into it.” He luxuriated in the sense of protection and authority which his words conveyed. To prolong and intensify the feeling he added: “I guess we’re well enough here.” She let her lids sink slowly, in the way he loved. “Yes, we’re well enough here,” she sighed. Her tone was so sweet that he took the pipe from his mouth and drew his chair up to the table. Leaning forward, he touched the farther end of the strip of brown stuff that she was hemming. “Say, Matt,” he began with a smile, “what do you think I saw under the Varnum spruces, coming along home just now? I saw a friend of yours getting kissed.” The words had been on his tongue all the evening, but now that he had spoken them they struck him as inexpressibly vulgar and out of place. Mattie blushed to the roots of her hair and pulled her needle rapidly twice or thrice through her work, insensibly drawing the end of it away from him. “I suppose it was Ruth and Ned,” she said in a low voice, as though he had suddenly touched on something grave. Ethan had imagined that his allusion might open the way to the accepted pleasantries, and these perhaps in turn to a harmless caress, if only a mere touch on her hand. But now he felt as if her blush had set a flaming guard about her. He supposed it was his natural awkwardness that made him feel so. He knew that most young men made nothing at all of giving a pretty girl a kiss, and he remembered that the night before, when he had put his arm about Mattie, she had not resisted. But that had been out-of-doors, under the open irresponsible night. Now, in the warm lamplit room, with all its ancient implications of

German blush: erröten, Schamröte, Röten, Errötung, Hitzewallung, rot werden. blushed: rot angelaufen, erröten, errötet, errötete. caress: liebkosen, streicheln, Liebkosung, kosen, Umarmung, Streicheleinheit, Reiz, knuddeln, Knuddel, kitzeln, Kitzel. clumsy: unbeholfen, ungeschickt, schwerfällig, plump, täppisch, taktlos, stümperhaft, stelzbeinig, schlapp, schlaff, schlacksig.

conveyed: versandt. flaming: Flammend, feurig, brennend, ansteckend, glühend. harmless: harmlos, ungefährlich. hemming: säumend. inexpressibly: unaussprechlich. insensibly: unempfindlich. intensify: intensivieren, verstärken, intensivierst, intensiviere, intensiviert, verschärfen, stärken. intoxicating: berauschend. irresponsible: unverantwortlich,

verantwortungslos. luxuriated: schwelgte. out-of-doors: außer Hause, auswärts. plumb: Lot, Füllung, loten, senkrecht, Plombierung, Senkblei. redder: Roter. resisted: widerstandet, widerstanden, widerstandst, widerstand. vulgar: vulgär, ordinär, gewöhnlich, schäbig, trivial, üblich, schofel, geschmacklos, banal, abgeschmackt, verständlich.

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conformity and order, she seemed infinitely farther away from him and more unapproachable.% To ease his constraint he said: “I suppose they’ll be setting a date before long.” “Yes. I shouldn’t wonder if they got married some time along in the summer.” She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades. A pang shot through Ethan, and he said, twisting away from her in his chair: “It’ll be your turn next, I wouldn’t wonder.” She laughed a little uncertainly. “Why do you keep on saying that?” He echoed her laugh. “I guess I do it to get used to the idea.” He drew up to the table again and she sewed on in silence, with dropped lashes, while he sat in fascinated contemplation of the way in which her hands went up and down above the strip of stuff, just as he had seen a pair of birds make short perpendicular flights over a nest they were building. At length, without turning her head or lifting her lids, she said in a low tone: “It’s not because you think Zeena’s got anything against me, is it?” His former dread started up full-armed at the suggestion. “Why, what do you mean?” he stammered. She raised distressed eyes to his, her work dropping on the table between them. “I don’t know. I thought last night she seemed to have.” “I’d like to know what,” he growled. “Nobody can tell with Zeena.” It was the first time they had ever spoken so openly of her attitude toward Mattie, and the repetition of the name seemed to carry it to the farther corners of the room and send it back to them in long repercussions of sound. Mattie waited, as if to give the echo time to drop, and then went on: “She hasn’t said anything to you?” He shook his head. “No, not a word.”

German caressed: gewollt, liebkosen, geliebt, liebkoste. conformity: Übereinstimmung, Konformität, Ähnlichkeit. contemplation: Betrachtung, erneutes Erwägen. covert: Versteckt, verstohlen, versteck. distressed: trübsinnig, quälte, schwermütig, bekümmert, betrübt, gedrückt, trübselig, traurig, verdrießlich, trüb. dropping: abwerfend, Abwerfen,

fallenlassend. echoed: widerhallt. enchanted: bezaubert, bezaubertet, bezaubertest, bezauberte, bezauberten. fascinated: faszinierten, fasziniertest, faszinierte, fasziniert, fasziniertet, bezauberte, angekettet, fesselte, fesselten, fesseltest, fesseltet. glades: Lichtungen. growled: geknurrt. infinitely: unendlich.

repercussions: Rückwirkungen. repetition: Wiederholung, Repetition, Wiederfolte Übung, Repetieren. rustling: Raschelnd, Sausen, Gesause, Geräusch, Rauschen. sewed: genäht, hefteten, heftetest, heftetet, heftete. stammered: gestottert. twisting: Krümmung, Verschlingung, Verdrillen, Verdrehung, verdrehend, Schlinge, sichschlängelnd, Windung, Schleife, schlängelnd, Kurve.

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She tossed the hair back from her forehead with a laugh. “I guess I’m just nervous, then. I’m not going to think about it any more.” “Oh, no—don’t let’s think about it, Matt!” The sudden heat of his tone made her colour mount again, not with a rush, but gradually, delicately, like the reflection of a thought stealing slowly across her heart. She sat silent, her hands clasped on her work, and it seemed to him that a warm current flowed toward him along the strip of stuff that still lay unrolled between them. Cautiously he slid his hand palm-downward along the table till his finger-tips touched the end of the stuff. A faint vibration of her lashes seemed to show that she was aware of his gesture, and that it had sent a counter-current back to her; and she let her hands lie motionless on the other end of the strip.% As they sat thus he heard a sound behind him and turned his head. The cat had jumped from Zeena’s chair to dart at a mouse in the wainscot, and as a result of the sudden movement the empty chair had set up a spectral rocking. “She’ll be rocking in it herself this time to-morrow,” Ethan thought. “I’ve been in a dream, and this is the only evening we’ll ever have together.” The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anaesthetic. His body and brain ached with indescribable weariness, and he could think of nothing to say or to do that should arrest the mad flight of the moments. His alteration of mood seemed to have communicated itself to Mattie. She looked up at him languidly, as though her lids were weighted with sleep and it cost her an effort to raise them. Her glance fell on his hand, which now completely covered the end of her work and grasped it as if it were a part of herself. He saw a scarcely perceptible tremor cross her face, and without knowing what he did he stooped his head and kissed the bit of stuff in his hold. As his lips rested on it he felt it glide slowly from beneath them, and saw that Mattie had risen and was silently rolling up her work. She fastened it with a pin, and then, finding her thimble and scissors, put them with the roll of stuff into

German ached: schmerzte, geschmerzt. alteration: Änderung, Veränderung, Abänderung, Wechsel, Umstellung, Abwechsellung, Wandlung, Verwandlung, Umwandlung, Metamorphose, Abwechslung. anaesthetic: Betäubend, Betäubungsmittel, Narkose, Betäubung. cautiously: vorsichtig. communicated: teiltest mit, teiltet mit, teilten mit, teilte mit, mitgeteilt,

kommuniziertet, kommuniziertest, kommunizierten, kommunizierte, kommuniziert. glide: gleiten, rutschen, glitschen, Gleitflug, segelfliegen. grasped: packte, packte zu. indescribable: unbeschreiblich. languidly: matt. rested: geruht, ausgeruht. rocking: schaukelnd. scissors: Schere. silently: schweigend, still,

geräuschlos, lautlos. spectral: spektral, gespenstisch, geisterhaft. thimble: Fingerhut. tossed: geworfen. tremor: Zittern, Tremor, Beben. vibration: Vibration, Schwingung, Erschütterung, Beben, Vibrieren. wainscot: Täfeln, Bekleiden, Täfelung, Verkleiden, Paneel. weariness: Müdigkeit. weighted: gewogen, gewichtet.

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the box covered with fancy paper which he had once brought to her from Bettsbridge.% He stood up also, looking vaguely about the room. The clock above the dresser struck eleven. “Is the fire all right?” she asked in a low voice. He opened the door of the stove and poked aimlessly at the embers. When he raised himself again he saw that she was dragging toward the stove the old soap-box lined with carpet in which the cat made its bed. Then she recrossed the floor and lifted two of the geranium pots in her arms, moving them away from the cold window. He followed her and brought the other geraniums, the hyacinth bulbs in a cracked custard bowl and the German ivy trained over an old croquet hoop. When these nightly duties were performed there was nothing left to do but to bring in the tin candlestick from the passage, light the candle and blow out the lamp. Ethan put the candlestick in Mattie’s hand and she went out of the kitchen ahead of him, the light that she carried before her making her dark hair look like a drift of mist on the moon. “Good night, Matt,” he said as she put her foot on the first step of the stairs. She turned and looked at him a moment. “Good night, Ethan,” she answered, and went up. When the door of her room had closed on her he remembered that he had not even touched her hand.

German aimlessly: ziellos. bulbs: Glühbirnen, Zwiebeln. candle: Kerze, Licht, Wachskerze, Wachslicht. candlestick: Leuchter, Kerzenhalter, Kerzenständer. carpet: Teppich, Fußbodenbelag, Belag, Decke. cracked: gekracht, geknackt. croquet: Krocket. custard: Eierkrem, Eiercreme, Pudding.

dragging: ziehend, schleppend, ziehen, Schlepperei, nachschleppend, mit einer Dregge absuchen, gründliches Durchsuchen, Dreggen, Abtasten, Absuchen. drift: Abdrift, Drift, Treibstrom, abweichen, Durchschlag, Jähzorn, langsames Abwandern, Richtung, Tendenz, Treiben. embers: Glut. fancy: Phantasie, sich einbilden, Laune, wähnen, lecker finden,

träumen, erdichten, sich vorstellen, mögen, gerne essen, gerne trinken. geranium: Geranie. hoop: Reifen, Reif, Ring, Band. hyacinth: Hyazinthe. ivy: Efeu. lined: liniiert, liniert. mist: Nebel, Dunst, Dampf, Qualm, Schleier. nightly: nächtlich. poked: geschürt, stieß. vaguely: unbestimmt, vage.

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CHAPTER VI

The next morning at breakfast Jotham Powell was between them, and Ethan tried to hide his joy under an air of exaggerated indifference, lounging back in his chair to throw scraps to the cat, growling at the weather, and not so much as offering to help Mattie when she rose to clear away the dishes.% He did not know why he was so irrationally happy, for nothing was changed in his life or hers. He had not even touched the tip of her fingers or looked her full in the eyes. But their evening together had given him a vision of what life at her side might be, and he was glad now that he had done nothing to trouble the sweetness of the picture. He had a fancy that she knew what had restrained him... There was a last load of lumber to be hauled to the village, and Jotham Powell—who did not work regularly for Ethan in winter—had “come round” to help with the job. But a wet snow, melting to sleet, had fallen in the night and turned the roads to glass. There was more wet in the air and it seemed likely to both men that the weather would “milden” toward afternoon and make the going safer. Ethan therefore proposed to his assistant that they should load the sledge at the wood-lot, as they had done on the previous morning, and put off the “teaming” to Starkfield till later in the day. This plan had the advantage of

German exaggerated: übertriebst, übertrieb, übertrieben, übertriebt, bauschte auf, bauschten auf, bauschtest auf, bauschtet auf, aufgebauscht, hyperbolisch, übertreibend. growling: Knurren, Knurrend, Grummen. hauled: geschleppt. hers: ihr, ihre, ihrer, ihres. hide: verstecken, verstecke, versteckst, versteckt, verbergen, Fell, verhehlen, verheimlichen, verhehle, bergen,

verhehlst. indifference: Gleichgültigkeit, Indifferenz, Empfindungslosigkeit, Unempfindlichkeit, Phlegma, Kaltblütigkeit, Gefühllosigkeit, Gedankenlosigkeit. irrationally: irrational. lounging: faulenzend. melting: Schmelzen, schmelzend, Tauwetter, Abtauen. restrained: hielt zurück, hielten zurück, hieltest zurück, hieltet

zurück, zurückgehalten, beherrschtet, beherrscht, beherrschte, beherrschten, beherrschtest, verlegen. safer: sicherer. sledge: Schlitten, schlittenfahren, Schlitten fahren. sleet: Schneeregen, graupeln. tip: Spitze, Trinkgeld, Zipfel, Wink, Hinweis, Gipfel, Tipp, kippen, Stift, Indiz, Kippe. touched: verletzt, berührt, angeschlagen.

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enabling him to send Jotham to the Flats after dinner to meet Zenobia, while he himself took the lumber down to the village.% He told Jotham to go out and harness up the greys, and for a moment he and Mattie had the kitchen to themselves. She had plunged the breakfast dishes into a tin dish-pan and was bending above it with her slim arms bared to the elbow, the steam from the hot water beading her forehead and tightening her rough hair into little brown rings like the tendrils on the traveller’s joy. Ethan stood looking at her, his heart in his throat. He wanted to say: “We shall never be alone again like this.” Instead, he reached down his tobacco-pouch from a shelf of the dresser, put it into his pocket and said: “I guess I can make out to be home for dinner.” She answered “All right, Ethan,” and he heard her singing over the dishes as he went. As soon as the sledge was loaded he meant to send Jotham back to the farm and hurry on foot into the village to buy the glue for the pickle-dish. With ordinary luck he should have had time to carry out this plan; but everything went wrong from the start. On the way over to the wood-lot one of the greys slipped on a glare of ice and cut his knee; and when they got him up again Jotham had to go back to the barn for a strip of rag to bind the cut. Then, when the loading finally began, a sleety rain was coming down once more, and the tree trunks were so slippery that it took twice as long as usual to lift them and get them in place on the sledge. It was what Jotham called a sour morning for work, and the horses, shivering and stamping under their wet blankets, seemed to like it as little as the men. It was long past the dinner-hour when the job was done, and Ethan had to give up going to the village because he wanted to lead the injured horse home and wash the cut himself. He thought that by starting out again with the lumber as soon as he had finished his dinner he might get back to the farm with the glue before Jotham and the old sorrel had had time to fetch Zenobia from the Flats; but he knew the chance was a slight one. It turned on the state of the roads and on the possible lateness of the Bettsbridge train. He remembered afterward, with a grim flash of

German bared: entkleidete. beading: Einsicken, Perlstickerei. bending: Biegen, Umkehr, Umgestaltung, Umbruch, Umbiegen, Trendwende, Kenterung, Umschlag, biegend, Änderung, Abwandlung. bind: binden, verbinden, einbinden, mit der Schlinge fangen, festknüpfen, festschnallen, festmachen, festbinden, ketten, knebeln, ködern. glare: Blendung, Glanz, anblitzen, glänzen.

glue: Leim, kleben, leimen, Klebstoff, Kleber, heften, anheften, ankleben, anleimen, festheften, festkleben. greys: Grau. harness: Geschirr, anspannen, Kabelbaum, Joch, Gespann, Gurtwerk, vorspannen, spannen. lateness: Verspätung. loaded: geladen, beladen, belastet. loading: Laden, Beladung, Belastung, Ladung, Verladung, Beladen, Einschiffung, Frachtgut, Ladend,

Verladen. rag: Lappen, Fetzen, Lumpen, kleiner Lappen, einem die Fuchstaufe erteilen, Flicken, Hader, Stoffetzen, Stofflappen, wertlose Zeug, Wisch. rings: Ringe. shivering: schaudernd. sleety: graupelig. sour: sauer, herb, bitter, bitterlich, unwirsch, brummig. tendrils: Ranken. tightening: verschärfend.

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self-derision, what importance he had attached to the weighing of these probabilities...% As soon as dinner was over he set out again for the wood-lot, not daring to linger till Jotham Powell left. The hired man was still drying his wet feet at the stove, and Ethan could only give Mattie a quick look as he said beneath his breath: “I’ll be back early.” He fancied that she nodded her comprehension; and with that scant solace he had to trudge off through the rain. He had driven his load half-way to the village when Jotham Powell overtook him, urging the reluctant sorrel toward the Flats. “I’ll have to hurry up to do it,” Ethan mused, as the sleigh dropped down ahead of him over the dip of the school-house hill. He worked like ten at the unloading, and when it was over hastened on to Michael Eady’s for the glue. Eady and his assistant were both “down street,” and young Denis, who seldom deigned to take their place, was lounging by the stove with a knot of the golden youth of Starkfield. They hailed Ethan with ironic compliment and offers of conviviality; but no one knew where to find the glue. Ethan, consumed with the longing for a last moment alone with Mattie, hung about impatiently while Denis made an ineffectual search in the obscurer corners of the store. “Looks as if we were all sold out. But if you’ll wait around till the old man comes along maybe he can put his hand on it.” “I’m obliged to you, but I’ll try if I can get it down at Mrs. Homan’s,” Ethan answered, burning to be gone. Denis’s commercial instinct compelled him to aver on oath that what Eady’s store could not produce would never be found at the widow Homan’s; but Ethan, heedless of this boast, had already climbed to the sledge and was driving on to the rival establishment. Here, after considerable search, and sympathetic questions as to what he wanted it for, and whether ordinary flour paste wouldn’t do as well if she couldn’t find it, the widow Homan finally hunted down her

German aver: behaupten, behauptet, behaupte, behauptest. boast: prahlen, Prahlerei, angeben, aufschneiden, renommieren, großeRedeführen, rühmen, sich brüsten, brüsten, ausposaunen, sich mit etwas brüsten. conviviality: die Fröhlichkeit, die Geselligkeit, Festliche Stimmung, Fröhlichkeit, Geselligkeit. deigned: geruhtet, geruhtest, geruhten, geruhte, geruht.

drying: trocknend, trocknen, abtrocknend, Abtrocknen. hastened: geeilt, eilte, eilten, eiltest, eiltet. heedless: achtlos, unachtsam. hunted: gejagt, jagte, jagten, jagtest, jagtet. ineffectual: unwirksam, ineffektiv. longing: Sehnsucht, Verlangen, Sehnsüchtig, Schmachten, Verlangt, Sich sehnen nach, Sehnen, Sehnend, Begierde, Begehren.

oath: Eid, Schwur, Fluch. obscurer: unklarer, unbekannter. overtook: überholten, überholte, überholtest, überholtet. paste: Pasta, Paste, Teig, kleben, einfügen, Kleister, dickflüssige Salbe, Nudeln, Klebstoff. scant: winzig, winzig klein, verschwindend klein, sehr klein, sehr gering, geringfügig. solace: Trost, Erleichterung, Trösten, aushilfe, Linderung.

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solitary bottle of glue to its hiding-place in a medley of cough-lozenges and corset-laces.% “I hope Zeena ain’t broken anything she sets store by,” she called after him as he turned the greys toward home. The fitful bursts of sleet had changed into a steady rain and the horses had heavy work even without a load behind them. Once or twice, hearing sleighbells, Ethan turned his head, fancying that Zeena and Jotham might overtake him; but the old sorrel was not in sight, and he set his face against the rain and urged on his ponderous pair. The barn was empty when the horses turned into it and, after giving them the most perfunctory ministrations they had ever received from him, he strode up to the house and pushed open the kitchen door. Mattie was there alone, as he had pictured her. She was bending over a pan on the stove; but at the sound of his step she turned with a start and sprang to him. “See, here, Matt, I’ve got some stuff to mend the dish with! Let me get at it quick,” he cried, waving the bottle in one hand while he put her lightly aside; but she did not seem to hear him. “Oh, Ethan—Zeena’s come,” she said in a whisper, clutching his sleeve. They stood and stared at each other, pale as culprits. “But the sorrel’s not in the barn!” Ethan stammered. “Jotham Powell brought some goods over from the Flats for his wife, and he drove right on home with them,” she explained. He gazed blankly about the kitchen, which looked cold and squalid in the rainy winter twilight. “How is she?” he asked, dropping his voice to Mattie’s whisper. She looked away from him uncertainly. “I don’t know. She went right up to her room.” “She didn’t say anything?”

German barn: Scheune, Stall, Hütte, Lagerhütte, Scheuer, Bude, die Scheune, Bauernscheuer, Baracke. blankly: leer. bursts: zerplatzt, platzt, ausbrüche. clutching: packend. culprits: Schuldigen. fitful: unbeständig, ruckartig. gazed: gestarrt, starrte an. hiding-place: Schlupfwinkel, Ecke. medley: Potpourri, Gemisch. mend: reparieren, flicken, ausbessern,

wiederherstellen. overtake: überholen, überhole, überholst, überholt, überraschen. pan: Pfanne, Schwenken, Trog. perfunctory: flüchtig, oberflächlich. ponderous: schwerfällig, schwerwiegend. rainy: regnerisch, verregnet, trüb, naß, trübe. sleeve: Ärmel, Manschette, Hülse, Muffe, Muff. squalid: schmutzig, armselig.

strode: schritt, überschreiten, Schreiten, ausschreiten, übersteigen, stiefelte, stiefeln, schreitete, gestiefelt, geschritten, durchschreiten. twilight: Dämmerung, Zwielicht, Abenddämmerung, Dämmerlicht, Finsternis, Halbdunkel, Glühen, Flimmern. waving: Welle, Wogen, Wellenlinie, Wellenbewegung. whisper: Flüstern, tuscheln, zischeln, säuseln, munkeln, Geflüster, lispeln.

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“No.” Ethan let out his doubts in a low whistle and thrust the bottle back into his pocket. “Don’t fret; I’ll come down and mend it in the night,” he said. He pulled on his wet coat again and went back to the barn to feed the greys.% While he was there Jotham Powell drove up with the sleigh, and when the horses had been attended to Ethan said to him: “You might as well come back up for a bite.” He was not sorry to assure himself of Jotham’s neutralising presence at the supper table, for Zeena was always “nervous” after a journey. But the hired man, though seldom loth to accept a meal not included in his wages, opened his stiff jaws to answer slowly: “I’m obliged to you, but I guess I’ll go along back.” Ethan looked at him in surprise. “Better come up and dry off. Looks as if there’d be something hot for supper.” Jotham’s facial muscles were unmoved by this appeal and, his vocabulary being limited, he merely repeated: “I guess I’ll go along back.” To Ethan there was something vaguely ominous in this stolid rejection of free food and warmth, and he wondered what had happened on the drive to nerve Jotham to such stoicism. Perhaps Zeena had failed to see the new doctor or had not liked his counsels: Ethan knew that in such cases the first person she met was likely to be held responsible for her grievance. When he re-entered the kitchen the lamp lit up the same scene of shining comfort as on the previous evening. The table had been as carefully laid, a clear fire glowed in the stove, the cat dozed in its warmth, and Mattie came forward carrying a plate of doughnuts. She and Ethan looked at each other in silence; then she said, as she had said the night before: “I guess it’s about time for supper.”

German assure: versichern, versichere, versicherst, versichert, versichre, zusichern, sichere zu, sichre zu, sichert zu, sicherst zu, sichern zu. counsels: rät. dozed: geschlummert, schlummertet, schlummertest, schlummerten, schlummerte, döstet, gedöst, dösten, döste, döstest. facial: im Gesicht. fret: Handbohrer, sich abquälen, Nagelbohrer, kleiner Bohrer, sich

abmühen, Fritt. grievance: Beschwerde, Mißstand. hired: mietete, gemietet, mieteten, mietetest, mietetet, dingtest, heuertet, heuerte, geheuert, heuertest, dingtet. loth: abgeneigt, unwillig. nerve: Nerv. neutralising: neutralisieren. obliged: verpflichtet, verpflichtetet, verpflichtete, verpflichteten, verpflichtetest, verbunden. ominous: ominös, unheilvoll,

bedrohlich, ahnungsvoll, drohend, unheilverkündend, verhängnisvoll. stiff: Steif, starr, hart, schwierig, spröde, fest. stoicism: Stoizismus, Gleichmut. stolid: stur, phlegmatisch. unmoved: unbewegt, ungerührt. vocabulary: Wortschatz, Wörterverzeichnis, Wörterbuch, Vokabular, Sprachschatz, Redensart, Vokabel, Sprichwort, Ausdruck. whistle: Pfeife, pfeifen, Pfiff.

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Ethan%went out into the passage to hang up his wet garments. He listened for Zeena’s step and, not hearing it, called her name up the stairs. She did not answer, and after a moment’s hesitation he went up and opened her door. The room was almost dark, but in the obscurity he saw her sitting by the window, bolt upright, and knew by the rigidity of the outline projected against the pane that she had not taken off her travelling dress. “Well, Zeena,” he ventured from the threshold. She did not move, and he continued: “Supper’s about ready. Ain’t you coming?” She replied: “I don’t feel as if I could touch a morsel.” It was the consecrated formula, and he expected it to be followed, as usual, by her rising and going down to supper. But she remained seated, and he could think of nothing more felicitous than: “I presume you’re tired after the long ride.” Turning her head at this, she answered solemnly: “I’m a great deal sicker than you think.” Her words fell on his ear with a strange shock of wonder. He had often heard her pronounce them before—what if at last they were true?

German answered: geantwortet. bolt: Bolzen, Riegel, Schraube, Durchgehen, Schloß, Verriegeln, Blitz, Bolz, Mutterbolzen, Zuriegeln, Verschluß. consecrated: segnete. ear: Ohr, Ähre, das Ohr. felicitous: glücklich, treffend, gelungen. formula: Formel. garments: Gewänder, Ausstaffierung, Bekleidung, Kleider, Kleidung, Zeug,

Ausstattung. hang: hängen, aufhängen, erhängen, henken, anhängen. hesitation: Zögern, Unschlüssigkeit, Schwanken, Schwankung, Unentschlossenheit, Bedenken, Verzögerung, Zweifel, Zwiespalt. projected: sich herumtreiben, werfen, vorspringen, vorhergesagt, versetzen, projizieren, projektierte, projekt, planen, plan, geplant. rigidity: Steifheit, Starrheit, Starre,

Starrsinn, Steife, Störrigkeit, Rigidität, Härte, Steifigkeit, Schwierigkeit. sicker: kranker. solemnly: festlich, ernst, feierlich. stairs: Treppe, Treppen, Stiege. travelling: Umherreisend, Herumreisend, Reisend. upright: Aufrecht, senkrecht, gerade, gerecht, Ständer, rechtschaffen, ehrlich, pur, treuherzig, offenherzig, offen.

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He advanced a step or two into the dim room. “I hope that’s not so, Zeena,” he said.% She continued to gaze at him through the twilight with a mien of wan authority, as of one consciously singled out for a great fate. “I’ve got complications,” she said. Ethan knew the word for one of exceptional import. Almost everybody in the neighbourhood had “troubles,” frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had “complications.” To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death-warrant. People struggled on for years with “troubles,” but they almost always succumbed to “complications.” Ethan’s heart was jerking to and fro between two extremities of feeling, but for the moment compassion prevailed. His wife looked so hard and lonely, sitting there in the darkness with such thoughts. “Is that what the new doctor told you?” he asked, instinctively lowering his voice. “Yes. He says any regular doctor would want me to have an operation.” Ethan was aware that, in regard to the important question of surgical intervention, the female opinion of the neighbourhood was divided, some glorying in the prestige conferred by operations while others shunned them as indelicate. Ethan, from motives of economy, had always been glad that Zeena was of the latter faction. In the agitation caused by the gravity of her announcement he sought a consolatory short cut. “What do you know about this doctor anyway? Nobody ever told you that before.” He saw his blunder before she could take it up: she wanted sympathy, not consolation. “I didn’t need to have anybody tell me I was losing ground every day. Everybody but you could see it. And everybody in Bettsbridge knows about Dr. Buck. He has his office in Worcester, and comes over once a fortnight to Shadd’s Falls and Bettsbridge for consultations. Eliza Spears was wasting away with

German agitation: Bewegung, Aufruhr, Agitation, Aufstand, Hektik, Ruhelosigkeit, Streß, Krawall, Nervosität, Tumult, Getümmel. blunder: Fehler, Schnitzer, schlittern, Fehlschüsse, Verstoß, glitschen, Versehen, Irrtum, Mangel, Mißgriff, Schwäche. buck: Bock, Dollar, bocken, Hirschbock, Hirschböcke, Hirsch. conferred: konferiertest, verliehen, konferiertet, übertrug, konferierte,

konferiert, konferierten. consciously: bewusst. consolation: Trost, Vertröstung, Tröstung. consultations: Beratungen. extremities: Äußerst Notfall, Extremitäten, Äußerste, Gliedmaßen, Äußerst Ende, Extremität. fro: zurück, her. glorying: triumphierend. indelicate: taktlos. jerking: zerrend.

localized: lokalisiert, lokalisierte, lokalisierten, lokalisiertet, lokalisiertest. lowering: senkend, Absenkung, Herunterlassen, drohend, herunterlassend, Senkung. prevailed: geherrscht, herrschtet, herrschte, herrschten, herrschtest. shunned: gemieden, mieden, miedest, mied, miedet. succumbed: erlagt, erlegen, erlagen, erlag, erlagst.

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kidney trouble before she went to him, and now she’s up and around, and singing in the choir.” “Well, I’m glad of that. You must do just what he tells you,” Ethan answered sympathetically.% She was still looking at him. “I mean to,” she said. He was struck by a new note in her voice. It was neither whining nor reproachful, but drily resolute. “What does he want you should do?” he asked, with a mounting vision of fresh expenses. “He wants I should have a hired girl. He says I oughtn’t to have to do a single thing around the house.” “A hired girl?” Ethan stood transfixed. “Yes. And Aunt Martha found me one right off. Everybody said I was lucky to get a girl to come away out here, and I agreed to give her a dollar extry to make sure. She’ll be over to-morrow afternoon.” Wrath and dismay contended in Ethan. He had foreseen an immediate demand for money, but not a permanent drain on his scant resources. He no longer believed what Zeena had told him of the supposed seriousness of her state: he saw in her expedition to Bettsbridge only a plot hatched between herself and her Pierce relations to foist on him the cost of a servant; and for the moment wrath predominated. “If you meant to engage a girl you ought to have told me before you started,” he said. “How could I tell you before I started? How did I know what Dr. Buck would say?” “Oh, Dr. Buck—” Ethan’s incredulity escaped in a short laugh. “Did Dr. Buck tell you how I was to pay her wages?” Her voice rose furiously with his. “No, he didn’t. For I’d ‘a’ been ashamed to tell him that you grudged me the money to get back my health, when I lost it nursing your own mother!”

German contended: gestritten, disputierte. dismay: in Bestürzung versetzen, Schrecken, Niedergeschlagenheit, Konsternieren, Bestürzt machen, Bestürzung. dollar: Dollar. drain: entwässern, Abfluss, ablassen, Ablauf, drainieren, abfließen, abtropfen, Gully, leeren, ausstoßen, Abflußrohr. drily: trocken, unverfroren. foist: aufreden, aufschwatzen.

foreseen: vorausgesehen, abgesehen. furiously: wild, wütend. grudged: beneidete, missgönnt. hatched: ausgebrütet. incredulity: Ungläubigkeit. kidney: Niere, die Niere. mounting: Montage, Einbau, Ersteigend, Halterung, Zusammenstellung, Montierung, Schiffslafette, Bestückung. predominated: vorgeherrscht, herrschte vor, herrschten vor,

herrschtest vor, herrschtet vor. reproachful: vorwurfsvoll. resolute: entschlossen, entschieden, energisch, entschlußfähig, bestimmt, resolut, tatkräftig. seriousness: Ernst, Ernsthaftigkeit, Schwere. transfixed: durchstochen. whining: wimmernd, Quengelei, heulend. wrath: Zorn, Wut, Erbitterung, Grimm, Gram.

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“You lost your health nursing mother?” “Yes; and my folks all told me at the time you couldn’t do no less than marry me after—” “Zeena!” Through the obscurity which hid their faces their thoughts seemed to dart at each other like serpents shooting venom. Ethan was seized with horror of the scene and shame at his own share in it. It was as senseless and savage as a physical fight between two enemies in the darkness.% He turned to the shelf above the chimney, groped for matches and lit the one candle in the room. At first its weak flame made no impression on the shadows; then Zeena’s face stood grimly out against the uncurtained pane, which had turned from grey to black. It was the first scene of open anger between the couple in their sad seven years together, and Ethan felt as if he had lost an irretrievable advantage in descending to the level of recrimination. But the practical problem was there and had to be dealt with. “You know I haven’t got the money to pay for a girl, Zeena. You’ll have to send her back: I can’t do it.” “The doctor says it’ll be my death if I go on slaving the way I’ve had to. He doesn’t understand how I’ve stood it as long as I have.” “Slaving!—” He checked himself again, “You sha’n’t lift a hand, if he says so. I’ll do everything round the house myself—” She broke in: “You’re neglecting the farm enough already,” and this being true, he found no answer, and left her time to add ironically: “Better send me over to the almshouse and done with it... I guess there’s been Fromes there afore now.” The taunt burned into him, but he let it pass. “I haven’t got the money. That settles it.”

German almshouse: Altersheim. burned: gebrannt, brannte, verbrannt. chimney: Schornstein, Kamin, Esse, der Schornstein. enemies: Feinde. hid: verstecktet, verstecktest, versteckten, versteckte, verheimlichtet, verhehlten, verhehlte, verhehltest, verhehltet, verheimlichte, verheimlichten. horror: Gräuel, Abscheu, Horror, Schrecken, Spinnkopf, Spuck.

ironically: ironisch. irretrievable: unwiederbringlich. recrimination: Gegenbeschuldigung, Gegenklage. savage: wild, grausam, Wilde. seized: ergriff, ergriffen, ergrifft, ergriffst, griff, gegriffen, griffen, griffst, grifft, zog ein, zogen ein. senseless: bewusstlos, unvernünftig, sinnlos, unsinnig, blöde, unklug, gedankenlos, dämlich, besinnungslos, töricht, dumm.

serpents: Schlangen. settles: besiedelt, legt bei. shadows: Schatten, Schattenbilder, Schattenrisse, Schemen. shame: Scham, Schande, schade, Pfui. shooting: schiessend, Schießen, Abschießen, erschießend, Abfeuern, Beschießung, Emporschießend. slaving: abschuftend, schuftend. taunt: beschimpen, verspotten, sticheln. venom: Gift, Gehässigkeit.

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There was a moment’s pause in the struggle, as though the combatants were testing their weapons. Then Zeena said in a level voice: “I thought you were to get fifty dollars from Andrew Hale for that lumber.” “Andrew Hale never pays under three months.” He had hardly spoken when he remembered the excuse he had made for not accompanying his wife to the station the day before; and the blood rose to his frowning brows.% “Why, you told me yesterday you’d fixed it up with him to pay cash down. You said that was why you couldn’t drive me over to the Flats.” Ethan had no suppleness in deceiving. He had never before been convicted of a lie, and all the resources of evasion failed him. “I guess that was a misunderstanding,” he stammered. “You ain’t got the money?” “No.” “And you ain’t going to get it?” “No.” “Well, I couldn’t know that when I engaged the girl, could I?” “No.” He paused to control his voice. “But you know it now. I’m sorry, but it can’t be helped. You’re a poor man’s wife, Zeena; but I’ll do the best I can for you.” For a while she sat motionless, as if reflecting, her arms stretched along the arms of her chair, her eyes fixed on vacancy. “Oh, I guess we’ll make out,” she said mildly. The change in her tone reassured him. “Of course we will! There’s a whole lot more I can do for you, and Mattie—” Zeena, while he spoke, seemed to be following out some elaborate mental calculation. She emerged from it to say: “There’ll be Mattie’s board less, any how—”

German accompanying: begleitend, zuzüglich, geleitend. combatants: Kämpfer. convicted: verurteilte. deceiving: betrügend, täuschend, hintergehend. dollars: Dollars. elaborate: ausarbeiten, grob, weitgehend, maßlos, kunstvoll, kompliziert, durchgearbeitet, ausgereift, ausgeklügelt. emerged: aufgetaucht, tauchte auf,

tauchten auf, tauchtest auf, tauchtet auf, auseinandergezogen. engaged: besetzt, beschäftigt, legte ein, legtet ein, legtest ein, engagierte, sich befassen, sich beschäftigen, engagierten, engagiertest, legten ein. evasion: Umgehung, Ausweichen, Hinterziehung. frowning: missbilligend, die Stirne runzelnd, kraus. helped: half, geholfen. mildly: sanft, mild, milde.

pause: Pause, pausieren, Unterbrechung, zögern. pays: bezahlt, zahlt, entrichtet, zahlt aus. reflecting: reflektierend, abspiegelnd. stretched: gedehnt, ausgestreckt, aufgespannt. testing: Prüfung, Testen, Erprobung, Probe, Test, Tests, Examen. vacancy: Leere, Freie Stelle, Offene Stelle, Lücke, Stellenangebot. weapons: Waffen, Kriegsgerät.

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Ethan, supposing the discussion to be over, had turned to go down to supper. He stopped short, not grasping what he heard. “Mattie’s board less—?” he began.% Zeena laughed. It was on odd unfamiliar sound—he did not remember ever having heard her laugh before. “You didn’t suppose I was going to keep two girls, did you? No wonder you were scared at the expense!” He still had but a confused sense of what she was saying. From the beginning of the discussion he had instinctively avoided the mention of Mattie’s name, fearing he hardly knew what: criticism, complaints, or vague allusions to the imminent probability of her marrying. But the thought of a definite rupture had never come to him, and even now could not lodge itself in his mind. “I don’t know what you mean,” he said. “Mattie Silver’s not a hired girl. She’s your relation.” “She’s a pauper that’s hung onto us all after her father’d done his best to ruin us. I’ve kep’ her here a whole year: it’s somebody else’s turn now.” As the shrill words shot out Ethan heard a tap on the door, which he had drawn shut when he turned back from the threshold. “Ethan—Zeena!” Mattie’s voice sounded gaily from the landing, “do you know what time it is? Supper’s been ready half an hour.” Inside the room there was a moment’s silence; then Zeena called out from her seat: “I’m not coming down to supper.” “Oh, I’m sorry! Aren’t you well? Sha’n’t I bring you up a bite of something?” Ethan roused himself with an effort and opened the door. “Go along down, Matt. Zeena’s just a little tired. I’m coming.” He heard her “All right!” and her quick step on the stairs; then he shut the door and turned back into the room. His wife’s attitude was unchanged, her face inexorable, and he was seized with the despairing sense of his helplessness. “You ain’t going to do it, Zeena?” “Do what?” she emitted between flattened lips.

German allusions: Anspielungen. complaints: Klagen, Beschwerden. despairing: verzweifelnd. emitted: emittiertest, emittiertet, emittierten, emittierte, emittiert, ausgegeben, in die Atmosphäre gebracht. fearing: Befürchtend, fürchtend. flattened: abgeflacht, plattetet ab, plattetest ab, plattete ab, platt, planierte, abgeplattet, platteten ab. grasping: habgierig, zupackend,

packend. helplessness: Hilflosigkeit, Hilfebedürftigkeit, Ratlosigkeit. imminent: bevorstehend, drohende, unmittelbar bevorstehend, bevorstehen. inexorable: unerbittlich, herrisch, unaufhaltsam, unnachsichtig, herrschsüchtig, hart, gnadenlos, rücksichtslos, hartherzig. lodge: beherbergen, einreichen, unterbringen, einquartieren,

Häuschen, wohnen, hausen, Hütte, leben, Loge, akkomodieren. pauper: Arme. rupture: Bruch, brechen, Ruptur, Schisma, Spaltung. scared: erschrocken. shrill: schrill, grell, höllisch, schroff, gellend, anzüglich, eindringlich, durchdringend, scharf klingend. supposing: vermutend. unchanged: unverändert. unfamiliar: unbekannt, ungewohnt.

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“Send%Mattie away—like this?” “I never bargained to take her for life!” He continued with rising vehemence: “You can’t put her out of the house like a thief—a poor girl without friends or money. She’s done her best for you and she’s got no place to go to. You may forget she’s your kin but everybody else’ll remember it. If you do a thing like that what do you suppose folks’ll say of you?” Zeena waited a moment, as if giving him time to feel the full force of the contrast between his own excitement and her composure. Then she replied in the same smooth voice: “I know well enough what they say of my having kep’ her here as long as I have.” Ethan’s hand dropped from the door-knob, which he had held clenched since he had drawn the door shut on Mattie. His wife’s retort was like a knife-cut across the sinews and he felt suddenly weak and powerless. He had meant to humble himself, to argue that Mattie’s keep didn’t cost much, after all, that he could make out to buy a stove and fix up a place in the attic for the hired girl— but Zeena’s words revealed the peril of such pleadings. “You mean to tell her she’s got to go—at once?” he faltered out, in terror of letting his wife complete her sentence. As if trying to make him see reason she replied impartially: “The girl will be over from Bettsbridge to-morrow, and I presume she’s got to have somewheres to sleep.” Ethan looked at her with loathing. She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding. It was the sense of his helplessness that sharpened his antipathy. There had never been anything in her that one could appeal to; but as long as he could ignore and command he had remained indifferent. Now she had mastered him and he abhorred her. Mattie was her relation, not his: there were no means by which he could compel her to keep the girl under her roof. All the long misery of his baffled past, of his youth of failure, hardship and vain effort, rose up in his soul

German abhorred: verabscheutet, verabscheutest, verabscheuten, verabscheute, verabscheut. antipathy: Antipathie, Abneigung, Widerwille. baffled: verwirrte, betreten, betroffen, entsetzt, erschüttert, erstaunt, baff, fassungslos, perplex, bestürzt, verblüfft. bargained: handelte. brooding: Brut, brütend, Sippschaft, Zeug, Pöbel, Plebs, Pack,

Lumpengesindel, Grübeln, Grübelei, Gesindel. compel: zwingen, zwinge, zwingst, zwingt, nötigen, pressen, zwängen, forcieren. composure: Gelassenheit, Gefaßtheit. impartially: unparteiisch, parteilos. listless: lustlos, schlaff, langsam, teilnahmslos, freudlos, schwerfällig, träge, schlapp, mißvergnügt, matt, lahm. loathing: Verabscheuend, Ekel.

peril: Gefahr, Risiko. pleadings: Plädiert. secreted: abgesondert, sonderten ab, sondertest ab, sonderte ab, sondertet ab. sinews: Sehnen. sullen: mürrisch, verdrießlich, mißmutig. vehemence: Vehemenz, Ungestüm, Leidenschaftlichkeit, Heftigkeit, Intensität, Bissigkeit, Brunst, Eifer, Grimmigkeit, Schärfe, Stachlichkeit.

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in bitterness and seemed to take shape before him in the woman who at every turn had barred his way. She had taken everything else from him; and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for all the others. For a moment such a flame of hate rose in him that it ran down his arm and clenched his fist against her. He took a wild step forward and then stopped.% “You’re—you’re not coming down?” he said in a bewildered voice. “No. I guess I’ll lay down on the bed a little while,” she answered mildly; and he turned and walked out of the room. In the kitchen Mattie was sitting by the stove, the cat curled up on her knees. She sprang to her feet as Ethan entered and carried the covered dish of meat-pie to the table. “I hope Zeena isn’t sick?” she asked. “No.” She shone at him across the table. “Well, sit right down then. You must be starving.” She uncovered the pie and pushed it over to him. So they were to have one more evening together, her happy eyes seemed to say! He helped himself mechanically and began to eat; then disgust took him by the throat and he laid down his fork. Mattie’s tender gaze was on him and she marked the gesture. “Why, Ethan, what’s the matter? Don’t it taste right?” “Yes—it’s first-rate. Only I—” He pushed his plate away, rose from his chair, and walked around the table to her side. She started up with frightened eyes. “Ethan, there’s something wrong! I knew there was!” She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies. “What is it—what is it?” she stammered; but he had found her lips at last and was drinking unconsciousness of everything but the joy they gave him. She lingered a moment, caught in the same strong current; then she slipped from him and drew back a step or two, pale and troubled. Her look smote him

German barred: gesperrt, sperrte, sperrten, sperrtest, sperrtet. bewildered: verwirrten, verwirrtest, verwirrte, verwirrt, verwirrtet, irre, geistig durcheinander, fassungslos. bitterness: Bitterkeit, Verbitterung, Groll. butterflies: Schmetterlinge. cheek: Backe, Wange. clenched: biß zusammen. curled: lockig, gelockt, kraus. disgust: Ekel, Ekeln, Empören,

Abstoß, Übelkeit. first-rate: vorzüglich, erstklassig, erstrangig, herausragend, oberst, vortrefflich, oberste. fist: Faust, Fäustchen. fork: gabele, Gabelung, Verzweigung, gabeln, die Gabel, Flußarm. mechanically: mechanisch. pie: Torte, Pastete, Törtchen, Kuchen. smote: quälte. tender: zart, Angebot, weich, Verdingung, anbieten, Anerbieten,

empfindlich, mürbe, präsentieren, Submission, sorgfältig. terror: Schrecken, Schreck, Grauen, Entzetzen, Entsetzen. troubled: gestört, beunruhigt, aufgewühlt, trüb, unruhig, trübe. unconsciousness: Bewußtlosigkeit, Unbewußtheit, Besinnungslosigkeit. uncovered: aufgedeckt, unbedeckt, abgedeckt, enthüllt, deckte ab, enthüllten, deckten ab, enthülltest, decktest ab, enthülltet, enthüllte.

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with compunction, and he cried out, as if he saw her drowning in a dream: “You can’t go, Matt! I’ll never let you!” “Go—go?” she stammered. “Must I go?” The words went on sounding between them as though a torch of warning flew from hand to hand through a black landscape.% Ethan was overcome with shame at his lack of self-control in flinging the news at her so brutally. His head reeled and he had to support himself against the table. All the while he felt as if he were still kissing her, and yet dying of thirst for her lips. “Ethan, what has happened? Is Zeena mad with me?” Her cry steadied him, though it deepened his wrath and pity. “No, no,” he assured her, “it’s not that. But this new doctor has scared her about herself. You know she believes all they say the first time she sees them. And this one’s told her she won’t get well unless she lays up and don’t do a thing about the house— not for months—” He paused, his eyes wandering from her miserably. She stood silent a moment, drooping before him like a broken branch. She was so small and weaklooking that it wrung his heart; but suddenly she lifted her head and looked straight at him. “And she wants somebody handier in my place? Is that it?” “That’s what she says to-night.” “If she says it to-night she’ll say it to-morrow.” Both bowed to the inexorable truth: they knew that Zeena never changed her mind, and that in her case a resolve once taken was equivalent to an act performed. There was a long silence between them; then Mattie said in a low voice: “Don’t be too sorry, Ethan.” “Oh, God—oh, God,” he groaned. The glow of passion he had felt for her had melted to an aching tenderness. He saw her quick lids beating back the tears, and longed to take her in his arms and soothe her.

German aching: schmerzend, schmerzhaft. beating: Schlagen, Klopfen. bowed: verbeugte, gebeugt. brutally: brutal. compunction: Gewissensbisse, Bedenken. drowning: ertrinkend, ertrinken, ertränkend. dying: Sterbend, krepierend, Absterben, Sterben, Hinscheiden. flinging: werfend, schleudern, schleudernd.

groaned: gestöhnt, stöhnte. handier: handlicher. lays: legt. miserably: elend, jämmerlich. resolve: vornehmen, beabsichtigen, lösen. self-control: Selbstbeherschung, Kontrolle, Beherschung. soothe: beruhigen, beruhigt, beruhige, beruhigst, besänftigen, lindern, beschwichtigen, drosseln, lindere, linderst, lindert.

sounding: schallend, erklingend, sondierend, klangreich, klingend, tönend. steadied: stellte sicher. tenderness: Zärtlichkeit, Weichheit, Zuneigung, Innigkeit, Zartheit, Sanftheit, Sanftmut. torch: Fackel, Taschenlampe. wandering: wandernd, irrend, umherstreifend, unstet, herumreisend. wrung: gewrungen.

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“You’re letting your supper get cold,” she admonished him with a pale gleam of gaiety.% “Oh, Matt—Matt—where’ll you go to?” Her lids sank and a tremor crossed her face. He saw that for the first time the thought of the future came to her distinctly. “I might get something to do over at Stamford,” she faltered, as if knowing that he knew she had no hope. He dropped back into his seat and hid his face in his hands. Despair seized him at the thought of her setting out alone to renew the weary quest for work. In the only place where she was known she was surrounded by indifference or animosity; and what chance had she, inexperienced and untrained, among the million bread-seekers of the cities? There came back to him miserable tales he had heard at Worcester, and the faces of girls whose lives had begun as hopefully as Mattie’s.... It was not possible to think of such things without a revolt of his whole being. He sprang up suddenly. “You can’t go, Matt! I won’t let you! She’s always had her way, but I mean to have mine now—” Mattie lifted her hand with a quick gesture, and he heard his wife’s step behind him. Zeena came into the room with her dragging down-at-the-heel step, and quietly took her accustomed seat between them. “I felt a little mite better, and Dr. Buck says I ought to eat all I can to keep my strength up, even if I ain’t got any appetite,” she said in her flat whine, reaching across Mattie for the teapot. Her “good” dress had been replaced by the black calico and brown knitted shawl which formed her daily wear, and with them she had put on her usual face and manner. She poured out her tea, added a great deal of milk to it, helped herself largely to pie and pickles, and made the familiar gesture of adjusting her false teeth before she began to eat. The cat rubbed itself ingratiatingly against her, and she said “Good Pussy,” stooped to stroke it and gave it a scrap of meat from her plate.

German adjusting: anpassend, einstellend, justierend, Peilung, abstimmend, Einschätzung, Einstellung. admonished: ermahntet, ermahntest, ermahnten, ermahnt, ermahnte. animosity: Feindseligkeit, Animosität, Haß, Feindschaft. despair: Verzweiflung, verzweifeln, Schwermut, Ratlosigkeit, Mutlosigkeit, Lebensmüdigkeit, Trübsal. distinctly: verschieden, klar.

gleam: Schimmer, glänzen, Schein, Abglanz, Angewohnheit. ingratiatingly: liebenswürdig, einschmeicheln, schmeichlerisch. miserable: elend, jämmerlich, erbärmlich, miserabel, schlecht, unglücklich, traurig, arm, gräßlich, böse, unpäßlich. mite: Milbe, Zecke. quest: Suche, Suchen, Nachsuchung. renew: erneuern, erneuere, erneuerst, erneuert, erneure, verlängern.

revolt: Aufstand, revoltieren, Revolte, Aufruhr, rebellieren, auflehnen, sich empören, Empörung. rubbed: gerieben. scrap: Fetzen, Schrott, verschrotten, sich raufen, sich keilen, Hader, Lappen, schlagen, bestreiten, bekämpfen, balgen. untrained: unausgebildet, ungeschult, undressiert, ungeübt. weary: müde, abständlich, zurückhaltend, matt, lustlos, kühl.

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Ethan sat speechless, not pretending to eat, but Mattie nibbled valiantly at her food and asked Zeena one or two questions about her visit to Bettsbridge. Zeena answered in her every-day tone and, warming to the theme, regaled them with several vivid descriptions of intestinal disturbances among her friends and relatives. She looked straight at Mattie as she spoke, a faint smile deepening the vertical lines between her nose and chin.% When supper was over she rose from her seat and pressed her hand to the flat surface over the region of her heart. “That pie of yours always sets a mite heavy, Matt,” she said, not ill-naturedly. She seldom abbreviated the girl’s name, and when she did so it was always a sign of affability. “I’ve a good mind to go and hunt up those stomach powders I got last year over in Springfield,” she continued. “I ain’t tried them for quite a while, and maybe they’ll help the heartburn.” Mattie lifted her eyes. “Can’t I get them for you, Zeena?” she ventured. “No. They’re in a place you don’t know about,” Zeena answered darkly, with one of her secret looks. She went out of the kitchen and Mattie, rising, began to clear the dishes from the table. As she passed Ethan’s chair their eyes met and clung together desolately. The warm still kitchen looked as peaceful as the night before. The cat had sprung to Zeena’s rocking-chair, and the heat of the fire was beginning to draw out the faint sharp scent of the geraniums. Ethan dragged himself wearily to his feet. “I’ll go out and take a look around,” he said, going toward the passage to get his lantern. As he reached the door he met Zeena coming back into the room, her lips twitching with anger, a flush of excitement on her sallow face. The shawl had slipped from her shoulders and was dragging at her down-trodden heels, and in her hands she carried the fragments of the red glass pickle-dish. “I’d like to know who done this,” she said, looking sternly from Ethan to Mattie.

German abbreviated: kürztet ab, kürztest ab, abgekürzt, kürzten ab, kürzte ab, verkürztet, verkürztest, verkürzten, verkürzte, verkürzt. affability: Leutseligkeit, Freundlichkeit, Umgänglichkeit. clung: klammerte, angeschmiegt. deepening: Vertiefend, Vertiefung, Aushöhlung. desolately: wüst. disturbances: Störungen. heels: Absätze, Fersen, Hacken,

Schuhabsätze. intestinal: Darm. nibbled: geknabbert, knabberte. powders: Pulver. pretending: Vorgebend, Vortäuschend, heuchelnd, heuchlerisch. regaled: verwöhntest, gefeiert, spendiert, spendierte, spendierten, spendiertest, spendiertet, verwöhnt, geehrt, verwöhnten, ehrtet. sallow: bleich, fahl, teigig, farblos,

blaß, blässlich. scent: Geruch, Aroma, Duft, Fährte, Parfümieren, Wittern, Atem, Parfüm, Geschmack. speechless: sprachlos, stumm, schweigend, dumm. sternly: streng, ernst. twitching: Zupfend. valiantly: tapfer. vivid: lebhaft. warming: Wärmen, erwärmend. wearily: müde.

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There was no answer, and she continued in a trembling voice: “I went to get those powders I’d put away in father’s old spectacle-case, top of the china-closet, where I keep the things I set store by, so’s folks shan’t meddle with them—” Her voice broke, and two small tears hung on her lashless lids and ran slowly down her cheeks. “It takes the stepladder to get at the top shelf, and I put Aunt Philura Maple’s pickle-dish up there o’ purpose when we was married, and it’s never been down since, ‘cept for the spring cleaning, and then I always lifted it with my own hands, so’s ‘t shouldn’t get broke.” She laid the fragments reverently on the table. “I want to know who done this,” she quavered.% At the challenge Ethan turned back into the room and faced her. “I can tell you, then. The cat done it.” “The cat?” “That’s what I said.” She looked at him hard, and then turned her eyes to Mattie, who was carrying the dish-pan to the table. “I’d like to know how the cat got into my china-closet”‘ she said. “Chasin’ mice, I guess,” Ethan rejoined. “There was a mouse round the kitchen all last evening.” Zeena continued to look from one to the other; then she emitted her small strange laugh. “I knew the cat was a smart cat,” she said in a high voice, “but I didn’t know he was smart enough to pick up the pieces of my pickle-dish and lay ‘em edge to edge on the very shelf he knocked ‘em off of.” Mattie suddenly drew her arms out of the steaming water. “It wasn’t Ethan’s fault, Zeena! The cat did break the dish; but I got it down from the china-closet, and I’m the one to blame for its getting broken.” Zeena stood beside the ruin of her treasure, stiffening into a stony image of resentment, “You got down my pickle-dish—what for?” A bright flush flew to Mattie’s cheeks. “I wanted to make the supper-table pretty,” she said.

German blame: Tadel, beschuldigen, schuld, Vorwürfe machen, vorwerfen, Vorwurf, verklagen, imputieren, Vergehen, zur Last legen, zuschreiben. cat: Katze, Kater, die Katze. cleaning: Reinigend, Reinigen, Reinigung, putzend, säubernd, Säuberung, Waschen, Saubermachen, Sauber machen, Abputzend, Saubermachend. faced: konfrontiert, gegenüberstehen,

blicken, dreistigkeit, gegenübergestanden, äußer Gestalt, gesichts, miene, oberfläche, schauen in Richtung, stirn. flew: flog, flogst, flogt, flogen. knocked: geschlagen, geklopft. laid: legtet, legte, legtest, legten, gelegt. lifted: angehoben, abgehoben. meddle: sich einmischen. mice: Mäuse. mouse: Maus, die Maus, Feldmaus,

Mäuse. reverently: ehrerbietig. smart: schlau, klug, pfiffig, gewitzt, gerieben, clever, flott, verschmitzt, gewiegt, glatt, listig. steaming: dampfend, dämpfen. stepladder: Küchentreppe, Leiter, Stehleiter. stony: steinig, steinartig. treasure: schatz, Tresor. trembling: zitternd, Zittern, Erschütterung, Beben.

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“You wanted to make the supper-table pretty; and you waited till my back was turned, and took the thing I set most store by of anything I’ve got, and wouldn’t never use it, not even when the minister come to dinner, or Aunt Martha Pierce come over from Bettsbridge—” Zeena paused with a gasp, as if terrified by her own evocation of the sacrilege. “You’re a bad girl, Mattie Silver, and I always known it. It’s the way your father begun, and I was warned of it when I took you, and I tried to keep my things where you couldn’t get at ‘em— and now you’ve took from me the one I cared for most of all—” She broke off in a short spasm of sobs that passed and left her more than ever like a shape of stone.% “If I’d ‘a’ listened to folks, you’d ‘a’ gone before now, and this wouldn’t ‘a’ happened,” she said; and gathering up the bits of broken glass she went out of the room as if she carried a dead body...

German begun: angefangen, Begonnen, begann, aufgenommen, angebrochen. bits: die Bits, Bits. cared: sorgte. evocation: Hervorrufen. gasp: Keuchen, schnaufen. gathering: Versammlung, Sammeln, Erfassung, Zusammenkunft, Schwarm, Einholen, Einziehen, Zusammensein, Gewühl, Masse, Menge. listened: hörte zu, hörten zu, hörtest

zu, zugehört, hörtet zu, angehört, hörte an, hörten an, hörtest an, hörtet an, horchte. sacrilege: Sakrileg, Frevel, Sakrilegium, Entweihung, Entheiligung. sobs: Schluchzt. spasm: Krampf, Spasmus. store: Geschäft, Laden, aufbewahren, Speicher, lagern, speichern, Lager, ablegen, zurücklegen, bergen, Magazin.

terrified: erschrocken, zu Tode erschrocken, erschreckte, erschrakt, erschrakst, erschraken, erschrak, todesbang. till: Bis, Kasse, Geldkasten, Geldschublade, bis zu. waited: wartete, warteten, wartetest, gewartet, wartetet, wartetest ab, warteten ab, wartetet ab, wartete ab, abgewartet. warned: warntest, warnten, gewarnt, warntet, warnte.

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CHAPTER VIII

When%Ethan was called back to the farm by his father’s illness his mother gave him, for his own use, a small room behind the untenanted “best parlour.” Here he had nailed up shelves for his books, built himself a box-sofa out of boards and a mattress, laid out his papers on a kitchen-table, hung on the rough plaster wall an engraving of Abraham Lincoln and a calendar with “Thoughts from the Poets,” and tried, with these meagre properties, to produce some likeness to the study of a “minister” who had been kind to him and lent him books when he was at Worcester. He still took refuge there in summer, but when Mattie came to live at the farm he had to give her his stove, and consequently the room was uninhabitable for several months of the year. To this retreat he descended as soon as the house was quiet, and Zeena’s steady breathing from the bed had assured him that there was to be no sequel to the scene in the kitchen. After Zeena’s departure he and Mattie had stood speechless, neither seeking to approach the other. Then the girl had returned to her task of clearing up the kitchen for the night and he had taken his lantern and gone on his usual round outside the house. The kitchen was empty when he came back to it; but his tobacco-pouch and pipe had been laid on the table, and under them was a scrap of paper torn from the back of a seedsman’s catalogue, on which three words were written: “Don’t trouble, Ethan.”

German boards: Bretter. breathing: atmend, Atmen, Atmung. built: gebaut, aufgebaut. calendar: Kalender, Zeitrechnung. descended: abstammen, kam herunter, heruntergekommen, kamen herunter, kamst herunter, stieg ab, kamt herunter, abgestammt. engraving: gravierend, Gravieren, Gravüre, Gravierung, Gravur, Eingravierend, Stich, einmeißelnd, Stahlstich, Kupferstecherarbeit,

Gravierarbeit. kitchen: Küche. lent: Geliehen, lieht, lieh, liehen, liehst, verlieht, verliehst, verliehen, verlieh, Fastenzeit, geborgt. likeness: Ähnlichkeit, Bildnis, Konterfei. mattress: Matratze, die Matratze. meagre: mager. nailed: genagelt. papers: Papiere, Papierkram. pipe: Rohr, Pfeife, Röhre, Schlauch,

Leitung. properties: Eigenschaften. returned: zurückgekehrt. scene: Szene, Schauplatz, Bühne. seeking: Suchend. sequel: Folge. shelves: Schrankfächer. torn: zerrissen, gerissen, riss, eingerissen. tried: erprobt, bewährt, geprüft. uninhabitable: unbewohnbar. untenanted: unbewohnt.

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Going into his cold dark “study” he placed the lantern on the table and, stooping to its light, read the message again and again. It was the first time that Mattie had ever written to him, and the possession of the paper gave him a strange new sense of her nearness; yet it deepened his anguish by reminding him that henceforth they would have no other way of communicating with each other. For the life of her smile, the warmth of her voice, only cold paper and dead words! Confused motions of rebellion stormed in him. He was too young, too strong, too full of the sap of living, to submit so easily to the destruction of his hopes. Must he wear out all his years at the side of a bitter querulous woman? Other possibilities had been in him, possibilities sacrificed, one by one, to Zeena’s narrow-mindedness and ignorance. And what good had come of it? She was a hundred times bitterer and more discontented than when he had married her: the one pleasure left her was to inflict pain on him. All the healthy instincts of self-defence rose up in him against such waste...% He bundled himself into his old coon-skin coat and lay down on the box-sofa to think. Under his cheek he felt a hard object with strange protuberances. It was a cushion which Zeena had made for him when they were engaged—the only piece of needlework he had ever seen her do. He flung it across the floor and propped his head against the wall... He knew a case of a man over the mountain—a young fellow of about his own age—who had escaped from just such a life of misery by going West with the girl he cared for. His wife had divorced him, and he had married the girl and prospered. Ethan had seen the couple the summer before at Shadd’s Falls, where they had come to visit relatives. They had a little girl with fair curls, who wore a gold locket and was dressed like a princess. The deserted wife had not done badly either. Her husband had given her the farm and she had managed to sell it, and with that and the alimony she had started a lunch-room at Bettsbridge and bloomed into activity and importance. Ethan was fired by the thought. Why should he not leave with Mattie the next day, instead of letting her go alone? He would hide his valise under the seat of the sleigh, and Zeena would suspect

German alimony: Alimente, Unterhalt, Unterhaltszahlung. anguish: Pein, Qual, Schreckhaftigkeit, Angst. bloomed: blühte. bundled: band zusammen, gebündelt, zusammengepackt. communicating: Mitteilend, kommunizierend. curls: Locken. discontented: unzufrieden, missmutig.

henceforth: künftig, fortan, ab jetzt, von nun an, in Zukunft. inflict: zufügen, fügst zu, fügen zu, füge zu, fügt zu, auferlegen, zubringen. locket: Medaillon. narrow-mindedness: Engstirnigkeit, Spießbürgerlichkeit, Kleinlichkeit, Borniertheit, Beschränktheit, Kleinmütigkeit. nearness: Nähe, Nachbarschaft, Umgebung.

needlework: Näherei, Handarbeit, Nähzeug. prospered: gediehst, gediehen, gedieht, gedieh, glücktest, geglückt, glückten, glückte, glücktet. reminding: erinnernd. sacrificed: geopfert, aufgeopfert. sap: Saft, abbrechen, abreißen, niederreißen, abtragen, wegreißen, abwracken, zerlegen, aushöhlen, verschrotten. stormed: gestürmt.

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nothing till she went upstairs for her afternoon nap and found a letter on the bed...% His impulses were still near the surface, and he sprang up, re-lit the lantern, and sat down at the table. He rummaged in the drawer for a sheet of paper, found one, and began to write. “Zeena, I’ve done all I could for you, and I don’t see as it’s been any use. I don’t blame you, nor I don’t blame myself. Maybe both of us will do better separate. I’m going to try my luck West, and you can sell the farm and mill, and keep the money—” His pen paused on the word, which brought home to him the relentless conditions of his lot. If he gave the farm and mill to Zeena what would be left him to start his own life with? Once in the West he was sure of picking up work—he would not have feared to try his chance alone. But with Mattie depending on him the case was different. And what of Zeena’s fate? Farm and mill were mortgaged to the limit of their value, and even if she found a purchaser—in itself an unlikely chance—it was doubtful if she could clear a thousand dollars on the sale. Meanwhile, how could she keep the farm going? It was only by incessant labour and personal supervision that Ethan drew a meagre living from his land, and his wife, even if she were in better health than she imagined, could never carry such a burden alone. Well, she could go back to her people, then, and see what they would do for her. It was the fate she was forcing on Mattie—why not let her try it herself? By the time she had discovered his whereabouts, and brought suit for divorce, he would probably—wherever he was—be earning enough to pay her a sufficient alimony. And the alternative was to let Mattie go forth alone, with far less hope of ultimate provision... He had scattered the contents of the table-drawer in his search for a sheet of paper, and as he took up his pen his eye fell on an old copy of the Bettsbridge Eagle. The advertising sheet was folded uppermost, and he read the seductive words: “Trips to the West: Reduced Rates.”

German depending: abhängend, abhängig von. doubtful: fraglich, zweifelhaft, unsicher. drawer: Schublade, Lade, Zeichner, Schubfach, Aussteller, Trassant, Tischlade. earning: verdienend, verdienen. feared: befürchtete, gefürchtet. folded: gefaltet, umgeklapt. forcing: zwängend, treibend. impulses: Impulse. incessant: ununterbrochen,

unaufhörlich, unablässig, ständig. mill: Mühle, Fabrik, fräsen, Mahlen. mortgaged: verpfändet, nahm eine Hypothek auf. nap: Schläfchen, Nickerchen, Schlummern, Noppe. relentless: unerbittlich, unnachgiebig, unfreiwillig, gezwungen, steif, zwangsmäsig, zwanghaft. rummaged: durchsuchte. scattered: streute, streutet, streutest, streuten, gestreut, zerstreute,

zerstreut, zerstreutest, zerstreutet, zerstreuten, verstreut. seductive: verführerisch, verlockend. supervision: Überwachung, Aufsicht, die Aufsicht führen, Kontrolle, Supervision, Übersehen, Beaufsichtigen, Beaufsichtigung. uppermost: höchste, höchst, hervorragendste, bedeutendste, oberste, äußerst, vornehmste. whereabouts: Aufenthaltsort, zeitweiliger Aufenthaltsort.

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He drew the lantern nearer and eagerly scanned the fares; then the paper fell from his hand and he pushed aside his unfinished letter. A moment ago he had wondered what he and Mattie were to live on when they reached the West; now he saw that he had not even the money to take her there. Borrowing was out of the question: six months before he had given his only security to raise funds for necessary repairs to the mill, and he knew that without security no one at Starkfield would lend him ten dollars. The inexorable facts closed in on him like prison-warders handcuffing a convict. There was no way out—none. He was a prisoner for life, and now his one ray of light was to be extinguished.% He crept back heavily to the sofa, stretching himself out with limbs so leaden that he felt as if they would never move again. Tears rose in his throat and slowly burned their way to his lids. As he lay there, the window-pane that faced him, growing gradually lighter, inlaid upon the darkness a square of moon-suffused sky. A crooked tree-branch crossed it, a branch of the apple-tree under which, on summer evenings, he had sometimes found Mattie sitting when he came up from the mill. Slowly the rim of the rainy vapours caught fire and burnt away, and a pure moon swung into the blue. Ethan, rising on his elbow, watched the landscape whiten and shape itself under the sculpture of the moon. This was the night on which he was to have taken Mattie coasting, and there hung the lamp to light them! He looked out at the slopes bathed in lustre, the silver-edged darkness of the woods, the spectral purple of the hills against the sky, and it seemed as though all the beauty of the night had been poured out to mock his wretchedness... He fell asleep, and when he woke the chill of the winter dawn was in the room. He felt cold and stiff and hungry, and ashamed of being hungry. He rubbed his eyes and went to the window. A red sun stood over the grey rim of the fields, behind trees that looked black and brittle. He said to himself: “This is Matt’s last day,” and tried to think what the place would be without her. As he stood there he heard a step behind him and she entered. “Oh, Ethan—were you here all night?”

German bathed: badete, badeten, badetest, badetet, gebadet. borrowing: Entlehnung, Entlehnend, Borgend, Anleihe, Übernahme. brittle: Spröde, zerbrechlich, knackend, mürbe, knusprig, brüchig, bröcklig. convict: verurteilen, Verurteilte, Sträfling, Zuchthäusler, Gefangene. crooked: krumm, unehrlich. eagerly: eifrig. fares: Fahrpreise, Fahrgelder.

inlaid: eingelegt. leaden: bleiern. limbs: Glieder, Gliedmaßen, Teil, Glied. lustre: Glanz. mock: verspotten, verspottet, spotten, verspottest, verspotte, spottet, spotte, spottest, foppen, äffen, nachahmen. repairs: Wiederherstellung, Erhaltung, Erneuerung, repariert, Restauration, Sanierung. scanned: tasteten ab, tastetest ab,

tastetet ab, abgetastet, tastete ab, überflogen, überflog, überflogt, überflogst. slopes: Abhänge, Neigt sich. stretching: Dehnen. unfinished: unfertig, nicht fertig, unbearbeitet, unbeendet, unvollendet. vapours: Dämpfe, Düfte. whiten: bleichen, weißen, bleichst, bleicht, weißt, weiße, weißst, bleiche. window-pane: Fensterscheibe.

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She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the red scarf wound about her, and the cold light turning her paleness sallow, that Ethan stood before her without speaking.% “You must be frozen,” she went on, fixing lustreless eyes on him. He drew a step nearer. “How did you know I was here?” “Because I heard you go down stairs again after I went to bed, and I listened all night, and you didn’t come up.” All his tenderness rushed to his lips. He looked at her and said: “I’ll come right along and make up the kitchen fire.” They went back to the kitchen, and he fetched the coal and kindlings and cleared out the stove for her, while she brought in the milk and the cold remains of the meat-pie. When warmth began to radiate from the stove, and the first ray of sunlight lay on the kitchen floor, Ethan’s dark thoughts melted in the mellower air. The sight of Mattie going about her work as he had seen her on so many mornings made it seem impossible that she should ever cease to be a part of the scene. He said to himself that he had doubtless exaggerated the significance of Zeena’s threats, and that she too, with the return of daylight, would come to a saner mood. He went up to Mattie as she bent above the stove, and laid his hand on her arm. “I don’t want you should trouble either,” he said, looking down into her eyes with a smile. She flushed up warmly and whispered back: “No, Ethan, I ain’t going to trouble.” “I guess things’ll straighten out,” he added. There was no answer but a quick throb of her lids, and he went on: “She ain’t said anything this morning?” “No. I haven’t seen her yet.” “Don’t you take any notice when you do.”

German bent: Gebogen, verbogen, krumm, gekrümmt, verneigt, vorüber gebogen, umgebogen, geneigt, gewölbt, gewunden. cease: aufhören, verzichten, zurücktreten, etwas aufgeben, ausscheiden, ablassen. cleared: abgeräumt, lichtete, geklärt. doubtless: zweifellos. mellower: reifer. mood: Stimmung, Laune, Humor, Gemutszustand.

mornings: Morgen. paleness: Farblosigkeit, Blässe, bläßlich aussehen. pinched: gekniffen, gestohlen. quick: schnell, rasch, hurtig, geschwind, flüchtig, prompt, flott, kurz, wach. radiate: strahlen, strahle, strahlt, strahlst, ausstrahlen, strahlt aus, strahlst aus, strahlen aus, strahle aus, etwas ausstrahlen, leuchten. ray: Strahl, Rochen, Schimmer,

bescheinen, bestrahlen, Chemotherapie geben, Streifen, Roggen, erleuchten. rushed: gehetzt. saner: gescheiter. sunlight: Sonnenlicht. threats: Drohungen, Bedrohungen. throb: klopfen. warmly: warm, herzlich. wound: wunde, verwunden, verletzen, Verletzung, Verwundung, kränken, düpieren.

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With this injunction he left her and went out to the cow-barn. He saw Jotham Powell walking up the hill through the morning mist, and the familiar sight added to his growing conviction of security.% As the two men were clearing out the stalls Jotham rested on his pitch-fork to say: “Dan’l Byrne’s goin’ over to the Flats to-day noon, an’ he c’d take Mattie’s trunk along, and make it easier ridin’ when I take her over in the sleigh.” Ethan looked at him blankly, and he continued: “Mis’ Frome said the new girl’d be at the Flats at five, and I was to take Mattie then, so’s ‘t she could ketch the six o’clock train for Stamford.” Ethan felt the blood drumming in his temples. He had to wait a moment before he could find voice to say: “Oh, it ain’t so sure about Mattie’s going—” “That so?” said Jotham indifferently; and they went on with their work. When they returned to the kitchen the two women were already at breakfast. Zeena had an air of unusual alertness and activity. She drank two cups of coffee and fed the cat with the scraps left in the pie-dish; then she rose from her seat and, walking over to the window, snipped two or three yellow leaves from the geraniums. “Aunt Martha’s ain’t got a faded leaf on ‘em; but they pine away when they ain’t cared for,” she said reflectively. Then she turned to Jotham and asked: “What time’d you say Dan’l Byrne’d be along?” The hired man threw a hesitating glance at Ethan. “Round about noon,” he said. Zeena turned to Mattie. “That trunk of yours is too heavy for the sleigh, and Dan’l Byrne’ll be round to take it over to the Flats,” she said. “I’m much obliged to you, Zeena,” said Mattie. “I’d like to go over things with you first,” Zeena continued in an unperturbed voice. “I know there’s a huckabuck towel missing; and I can’t take out what you done with that match-safe ‘t used to stand behind the stuffed owl in the parlour.”

German alertness: Wachsamkeit. aunt: Tante, die Tante. clearing: Lichtung, Verrechnungsverkehr, Clearing, Rodung, Auslösen, Frei machen. cups: Tassen. drank: trank, getrunken. drumming: Trommelnd. faded: verblasst, verblaßtet, verblaßtest, verblaßte, verblaßten, erblaßten, welk, erblaßte, erblaßt, fahl, erblaßtet.

hesitating: zögernd, zaudernd, zagend, unschlüssig, unentschlossen, unentschieden, unbeständig, zögern, wankelmütig, schwankend. injunction: Gerichtliche Verfügung, Einstweilige Verfügung. leaf: Blatt. noon: Mittag, der Mittag. owl: Eule, die Eule, Kauz. pine: Kiefer, Föhre, Pinie, Fichte, Kiefernholz, Föhrenholz. reflectively: reflektierend.

snipped: geschnippelt, geschnippt. stalls: Ställe, Stände. stuffed: ausgestopft, gefüllt, vollgestopft, stopfst, voll. temples: Tempel, Schläfen. towel: Handtuch, Frottéehandtuch, Frottiertuch, das Handtuch, Badetuch. trunk: Rumpf, Koffer, Stamm, Rüssel, Torso, Baumstamm, Kofferraum, Ladenkästen, Strunk, Container. unperturbed: gelassen.

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She went out, followed by Mattie, and when the men were alone Jotham said to his employer: “I guess I better let Dan’l come round, then.” Ethan finished his usual morning tasks about the house and barn; then he said to Jotham: “I’m going down to Starkfield. Tell them not to wait dinner.” The passion of rebellion had broken out in him again. That which had seemed incredible in the sober light of day had really come to pass, and he was to assist as a helpless spectator at Mattie’s banishment. His manhood was humbled by the part he was compelled to play and by the thought of what Mattie must think of him. Confused impulses struggled in him as he strode along to the village. He had made up his mind to do something, but he did not know what it would be.% The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring. Every yard of the road was alive with Mattie’s presence, and there was hardly a branch against the sky or a tangle of brambles on the bank in which some bright shred of memory was not caught. Once, in the stillness, the call of a bird in a mountain ash was so like her laughter that his heart tightened and then grew large; and all these things made him see that something must be done at once. Suddenly it occurred to him that Andrew Hale, who was a kind-hearted man, might be induced to reconsider his refusal and advance a small sum on the lumber if he were told that Zeena’s ill-health made it necessary to hire a servant. Hale, after all, knew enough of Ethan’s situation to make it possible for the latter to renew his appeal without too much loss of pride; and, moreover, how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast? The more he considered his plan the more hopeful it seemed. If he could get Mrs. Hale’s ear he felt certain of success, and with fifty dollars in his pocket nothing could keep him from Mattie... His first object was to reach Starkfield before Hale had started for his work; he knew the carpenter had a job down the Corbury road and was likely to leave

German banishment: Verbannung, Geisterbeschwörung, Exil, Beschwörung, Deportation. brambles: Brombeersträucher. carpenter: Zimmermann, Tischler, Schreiner. compelled: zwang, gezwungen, zwangst, zwangen, zwangt, erzwungen. ebullition: Überschäumen. hopeful: Hoffnungsvoll. humbled: gedemütigt, demütigte,

demütigt, bescheiden. induced: induziert, induzierten, induziertest, induzierte, induziertet, veranlaßt, veranlaßte, veranlaßten, veranlaßtet, veranlaßtest. kind-hearted: mild, wohltuend, sanft, sanftmütig, wohlwollend, gutherzig, gutartig, großzügig, freigebig, weitherzig, gutmütig. passions: Leidenschaften, Begeisterung, Inbrünste, Passionen. reconsider: erneut erwägen.

shines: klettert hinauf. shred: Fetzen, zerfetzen, Stückchen. sober: nüchtern, dienstlich, sachlich, objektiv, mäßig, geschäftlich, ernüchtern, abstinent. spectator: Zuschauer, Beobachter, Zuschauer im Publikum, Publikumsmitglied. tangle: verwirren, Gewirr, Chaos. tightened: verschärft, verschärftest, verschärftet, verschärften, verschärfte.

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his house early. Ethan’s long strides grew more rapid with the accelerated beat of his thoughts, and as he reached the foot of School House Hill he caught sight of Hale’s sleigh in the distance. He hurried forward to meet it, but as it drew nearer he saw that it was driven by the carpenter’s youngest boy and that the figure at his side, looking like a large upright cocoon in spectacles, was that of Mrs. Hale. Ethan signed to them to stop, and Mrs. Hale leaned forward, her pink wrinkles twinkling with benevolence.% “Mr. Hale? Why, yes, you’ll find him down home now. He ain’t going to his work this forenoon. He woke up with a touch o’ lumbago, and I just made him put on one of old Dr. Kidder’s plasters and set right up into the fire.” Beaming maternally on Ethan, she bent over to add: “I on’y just heard from Mr. Hale ‘bout Zeena’s going over to Bettsbridge to see that new doctor. I’m real sorry she’s feeling so bad again! I hope he thinks he can do something for her. I don’t know anybody round here’s had more sickness than Zeena. I always tell Mr. Hale I don’t know what she’d ‘a’ done if she hadn’t ‘a’ had you to look after her; and I used to say the same thing ‘bout your mother. You’ve had an awful mean time, Ethan Frome.” She gave him a last nod of sympathy while her son chirped to the horse; and Ethan, as she drove off, stood in the middle of the road and stared after the retreating sleigh. It was a long time since any one had spoken to him as kindly as Mrs. Hale. Most people were either indifferent to his troubles, or disposed to think it natural that a young fellow of his age should have carried without repining the burden of three crippled lives. But Mrs. Hale had said, “You’ve had an awful mean time, Ethan Frome,” and he felt less alone with his misery. If the Hales were sorry for him they would surely respond to his appeal... He started down the road toward their house, but at the end of a few yards he pulled up sharply, the blood in his face. For the first time, in the light of the words he had just heard, he saw what he was about to do. He was planning to take advantage of the Hales’ sympathy to obtain money from them on false

German accelerated: beschleunigtest, beschleunigten, beschleunigtet, beschleunigt, beschleunigte, beeilte, beeiltet, beeiltest, beeilten, beeilt, schneller gemacht. chirped: zwitscherten, gechirpt, gezirpt, zirpte. cocoon: Kokon. crippled: verkrüppelt, krüppelhaft, gebrechlich. disposed: aufgelegt, geneigt, angeordnet, verfügte, gestimmt.

forenoon: Vormittag. indifferent: gleichgültig, indifferent, egal, abgestumpft, teilnahmslos, unparteiisch, unmotiviert, uninterressiert, ungerührt, teilnamslos, einerlei. kindly: freundlich, gütig, freundlicherweise. leaned: gelehnt. lumbago: Hexenschuß, Lumbago. maternally: mütterlich. nod: nicken, Kopfnicken, grüßen, ja

knicken, winken. plasters: Pflaster, Verputzt, Mörtel. repining: murrend. sharply: scharf, scharfäugig. spectacles: Brille, Schauspiele, Augengläser. troubles: Empörumg, Problem, Probleme, Schererei, Scherereien, Berührung, Aufruhr. woke: wachte. wrinkles: Runzeln. youngest: jüngst, geringst.

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pretences. That was a plain statement of the cloudy purpose which had driven him in headlong to Starkfield. With the sudden perception of the point to which his madness had carried him, the madness fell and he saw his life before him as it was. He was a poor man, the husband of a sickly woman, whom his desertion would leave alone and destitute; and even if he had had the heart to desert her he could have done so only by deceiving two kindly people who had pitied him.% He turned and walked slowly back to the farm.

German alone: allein, alleine, einzig, nur, bloß, alleinig, einsam. desert: Wüste, Einöde, verlassen, wüst, überlassen, Wildnis, unterlassen, entäußern, fortlassen, öde. desertion: Fahnenflucht, Verlassen, Desertion, Abtrennung, Desertition. destitute: mittellos, bettelarm, notleidend, arm, bedürftig, brotlos, total verarmt, verarmt. driven: gefahren, getrieben,

angetrieben, zurückgelegt, gesteuert. headlong: kopfüber. madness: Wahnsinn, Verrücktheit, Idiotie, Unsinn, Unklugheit, Torheit, Tollheit, Schelmerei, Irrsinn, Dummheit, Schalkhaftigkeit. perception: Wahrnehmung, Empfindung, Eindruck, Perzeption, Sinnlichkeit, Emotion, Auffassung, Augenaufschlag, Blick. pitied: bemitleidet. plain: Ebene, einfarbig, einfach, klar,

deutlich, schlicht, gängig, gewöhnlich, glatt, ordinär, nichthäßlich. pretences: Vortäuschungen, Vorspielungen. sickly: kränklich, krank, blass, übel, ungesund, widerlich, schlecht, eklig, ekelhaft. sudden: plötzlich, jäh, abrupt, unerwartet. walked: spazierten, ging, spazierte, spaziertest, spaziertet, spaziert.

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CHAPTER IX

At the kitchen door Daniel Byrne sat in his sleigh behind a big-boned grey who pawed the snow and swung his long head restlessly from side to side.% Ethan went into the kitchen and found his wife by the stove. Her head was wrapped in her shawl, and she was reading a book called “Kidney Troubles and Their Cure” on which he had had to pay extra postage only a few days before. Zeena did not move or look up when he entered, and after a moment he asked: “Where’s Mattie?” Without lifting her eyes from the page she replied: “I presume she’s getting down her trunk.” The blood rushed to his face. “Getting down her trunk—alone?” “Jotham Powell’s down in the wood-lot, and Dan’l Byrne says he darsn’t leave that horse,” she returned. Her husband, without stopping to hear the end of the phrase, had left the kitchen and sprung up the stairs. The door of Mattie’s room was shut, and he wavered a moment on the landing. “Matt,” he said in a low voice; but there was no answer, and he put his hand on the door-knob. He had never been in her room except once, in the early summer, when he had gone there to plaster up a leak in the eaves, but he remembered exactly how

German big-boned: grobknochig, grobschlächtig. eaves: Traufe. grey: grau. landing: Landung, Absatz, Treppenabsatz, Flur, Fallen, Anlegen, Stürzen, Während der Landung aufsetzen. leak: Leck, lecken, Undichtigkeit, undichte Stelle, Loch, Öffnung, entweichen, auslaufen, Punktion. lifting: hebend, Stapellauf, heben.

pawed: scharrte. stoppend, Haltend, bremsend, plaster: Pflaster, Gips, Verputzen, abstellend, Ausscheiden, stoppen, Verputz, bewerfen, Gipsen, aufhaltend, Aufhören. Heftpflaster, in Stuck arbeiten, swung: geschwungen, sich frei stukadoren, kalken. bewegen, sich drehen, schwingen, postage: Porto, Postgebühr, Frankatur, schaukeln, schwang. Frankierkosten, Zustellgebühr, wavered: wackeltest, zagte, wanktet, Portwein, Gebühr. wanktest, wankten, wackeltet, replied: antwortete. zagten, zögertest, wankte, zagtest, restlessly: rastlose, ruhelos, unruhig. zagtet. snow: Schnee, Schneien, der Schnee. wrapped: hüllte ein, eingewickelt, stopping: aufhörend, Anhaltend, übernommen.

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everything had looked: the red-and-white quilt on her narrow bed, the pretty pin-cushion on the chest of drawers, and over it the enlarged photograph of her mother, in an oxydized frame, with a bunch of dyed grasses at the back. Now these and all other tokens of her presence had vanished and the room looked as bare and comfortless as when Zeena had shown her into it on the day of her arrival. In the middle of the floor stood her trunk, and on the trunk she sat in her Sunday dress, her back turned to the door and her face in her hands. She had not heard Ethan’s call because she was sobbing and she did not hear his step till he stood close behind her and laid his hands on her shoulders.% “Matt—oh, don’t—oh, Matt!” She started up, lifting her wet face to his. “Ethan—I thought I wasn’t ever going to see you again!” He took her in his arms, pressing her close, and with a trembling hand smoothed away the hair from her forehead. “Not see me again? What do you mean?” She sobbed out: “Jotham said you told him we wasn’t to wait dinner for you, and I thought—” “You thought I meant to cut it?” he finished for her grimly. She clung to him without answering, and he laid his lips on her hair, which was soft yet springy, like certain mosses on warm slopes, and had the faint woody fragrance of fresh sawdust in the sun. Through the door they heard Zeena’s voice calling out from below: “Dan’l Byrne says you better hurry up if you want him to take that trunk.” They drew apart with stricken faces. Words of resistance rushed to Ethan’s lips and died there. Mattie found her handkerchief and dried her eyes; then,— bending down, she took hold of a handle of the trunk. Ethan put her aside. “You let go, Matt,” he ordered her.

German bunch: Bündel, Bund, Büschel, Haufen, Bündeln, Strauß, Menge, Klumpen, Berg, Faszikel. comfortless: trostlos. drawers: Schubfächer, Schubladen, Schubläden, Unterhose, Zeichner. dried: getrocknet, abgetrocknet, trocknete. dyed: gefärbt. enlarged: vergrößertet, vergrößertest, vergrößerten, vergrößerte, vergrößert.

faint: Schwach, matt, ohnmächtig werden, in Ohnmacht fallen, Ohnmacht, flau, hinfällig, lustlos, lahm, gelinde, kränklich. forehead: Stirn, die Stirn. fragrance: Duft, Aroma, Wohlgeruch. grasses: Gräser. handkerchief: Taschentuch, Schnupftuch. hurry: eilen, Eile, sich beeilen, beeilen, sputen, hast, Tempo machen, pressieren, schnell, jagen, hasten.

mosses: Moose. pressing: Pressung, dringend. sawdust: Sägemehl, Sägespäne, Holzmehl. sobbed: geschluchzt. sobbing: Schluchzen, Schluchzend, Weinen, Jammern, Geweine, Geschluchtze, Geheul. springy: federnd, elastisch. tokens: Zeichen. woody: waldig, holzig, bösartig, gemein.

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She answered: “It takes two to coax it round the corner”; and submitting to this argument he grasped the other handle, and together they manoeuvred the heavy trunk out to the landing.% “Now let go,” he repeated; then he shouldered the trunk and carried it down the stairs and across the passage to the kitchen. Zeena, who had gone back to her seat by the stove, did not lift her head from her book as he passed. Mattie followed him out of the door and helped him to lift the trunk into the back of the sleigh. When it was in place they stood side by side on the door-step, watching Daniel Byrne plunge off behind his fidgety horse. It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock. Twice he opened his lips to speak to Mattie and found no breath. At length, as she turned to re-enter the house, he laid a detaining hand on her. “I’m going to drive you over, Matt,” he whispered. She murmured back: “I think Zeena wants I should go with Jotham.” “I’m going to drive you over,” he repeated; and she went into the kitchen without answering. At dinner Ethan could not eat. If he lifted his eyes they rested on Zeena’s pinched face, and the corners of her straight lips seemed to quiver away into a smile. She ate well, declaring that the mild weather made her feel better, and pressed a second helping of beans on Jotham Powell, whose wants she generally ignored. Mattie, when the meal was over, went about her usual task of clearing the table and washing up the dishes. Zeena, after feeding the cat, had returned to her rocking-chair by the stove, and Jotham Powell, who always lingered last, reluctantly pushed back his chair and moved toward the door. On the threshold he turned back to say to Ethan: “What time’ll I come round for Mattie?”

German ate: aßt, aßest, Aßen, Aß, speisten, speistet, speiste, speistest. beans: Bohnen. coax: schmeicheln, schmeichele, schmeichelst, schmeichelt, schmeichle, Koaxialkabel. cords: Schnüre, Bindfäden, Drähte, Seile. declaring: deklarierend, erklärend. detaining: abhaltend, festhaltend, festsetzend, zurückhaltend, hindernd.

feeding: speisend, fütternd, ernährend, Ernährung, fressend, Zuführung, Fütterung, weidend, Essen, Fressen, Nahrung. fidgety: zappelig, unruhig. helping: Helfend, Portion. ignored: ignoriert, ignorierten, ignoriertest, ignoriertet, ignorierte, überhörte, überhörten, überhörtet, überhört, überhörtest. manoeuvred: manövrieren. mild: mild, sanft, leicht.

murmured: gemurmelt. plunge: Eintauchen, stürzen, tauchen. pressed: gepresst, gedrückt. quiver: zittern, beben, Köcher, zucken, brennen, klopfen, unruhig warten auf etwas. reluctantly: widerstrebend, ungern, widerwillig, unwillig, widerspenstig, zögernd. shouldered: geschultert. submitting: vorschlagend. tick: Zecke, ticken, abhaken.

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Ethan was standing near the window, mechanically filling his pipe while he watched Mattie move to and fro. He answered: “You needn’t come round; I’m going to drive her over myself.” He saw the rise of the colour in Mattie’s averted cheek, and the quick lifting of Zeena’s head.% “I want you should stay here this afternoon, Ethan,” his wife said. “Jotham can drive Mattie over.” Mattie flung an imploring glance at him, but he repeated curtly: “I’m going to drive her over myself.” Zeena continued in the same even tone: “I wanted you should stay and fix up that stove in Mattie’s room afore the girl gets here. It ain’t been drawing right for nigh on a month now.” Ethan’s voice rose indignantly. “If it was good enough for Mattie I guess it’s good enough for a hired girl.” “That girl that’s coming told me she was used to a house where they had a furnace,” Zeena persisted with the same monotonous mildness. “She’d better ha’ stayed there then,” he flung back at her; and turning to Mattie he added in a hard voice: “You be ready by three, Matt; I’ve got business at Corbury.” Jotham Powell had started for the barn, and Ethan strode down after him aflame with anger. The pulses in his temples throbbed and a fog was in his eyes. He went about his task without knowing what force directed him, or whose hands and feet were fulfilling its orders. It was not till he led out the sorrel and backed him between the shafts of the sleigh that he once more became conscious of what he was doing. As he passed the bridle over the horse’s head, and wound the traces around the shafts, he remembered the day when he had made the same preparations in order to drive over and meet his wife’s cousin at the Flats. It was little more than a year ago, on just such a soft afternoon, with a “feel” of spring in the air. The sorrel, turning the same big ringed eye on him, nuzzled the

German aflame: in Flammen. averted: abgewandt, wandtet ab, wandtest ab, wandten ab, wandte ab. backed: zurückgegangen, gesichert. bridle: Zaum, Zaumzeug, Zügel, zügeln, Gürtelschen, Leine, Lenkseil, Riemen, Gängelband, Gürtel, Kopfgeschirr. cousin: Vetter, Kusine, Cousin, Base, Cousine, Neffe. curtly: knapp, kurz. directed: gerichtet, adressiert,

zugespitzt. filling: Füllung, Plombe, Sättigend, Abfüllend, fett, Füllmaße, Füllstoff, schwer, schwerverdaulich, Zahnfüllung, Füllsel. fix: befestigen, befestigt, befestige, befestigst, reparieren, fixieren, festsetzen, fixiere, anberaumen, setze fest, setzt fest. flung: geschleudert. fog: Nebel, Schleier, der Nebel, Dunst. fulfilling: erfüllend, ableistend.

ha: prevailing opinion, ha. imploring: anflehend, inständig. indignantly: empört. mildness: Milde. monotonous: monoton, eintönig. nigh: nahe. persisted: beharrt, beharrte, beharrten, beharrtest, beharrtet. preparations: Vorbereitungen. pulses: Stromstoß, Stromstösse. ringed: beringt. traces: spuren.

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palm of his hand in the same way; and one by one all the days between rose up and stood before him...% He flung the bearskin into the sleigh, climbed to the seat, and drove up to the house. When he entered the kitchen it was empty, but Mattie’s bag and shawl lay ready by the door. He went to the foot of the stairs and listened. No sound reached him from above, but presently he thought he heard some one moving about in his deserted study, and pushing open the door he saw Mattie, in her hat and jacket, standing with her back to him near the table. She started at his approach and turning quickly, said: “Is it time?” “What are you doing here, Matt?” he asked her. She looked at him timidly. “I was just taking a look round—that’s all,” she answered, with a wavering smile. They went back into the kitchen without speaking, and Ethan picked up her bag and shawl. “Where’s Zeena?” he asked. “She went upstairs right after dinner. She said she had those shooting pains again, and didn’t want to be disturbed.” “Didn’t she say good-bye to you?” “No. That was all she said.” Ethan, looking slowly about the kitchen, said to himself with a shudder that in a few hours he would be returning to it alone. Then the sense of unreality overcame him once more, and he could not bring himself to believe that Mattie stood there for the last time before him. “Come on,” he said almost gaily, opening the door and putting her bag into the sleigh. He sprang to his seat and bent over to tuck the rug about her as she slipped into the place at his side. “Now then, go ‘long,” he said, with a shake of the reins that sent the sorrel placidly jogging down the hill.

German deserted: verlassen, menschenleer, öde, ausgestorben. hat: Hut, der Hut, Hütchen. jogging: Trottend, Rüttelnd. overcame: überwältigtet, überwältigtest, überwältigten, überwältigte, überwandest, überwand, überwandet, überwanden, übermanntest, übermannten, übermanntet. placidly: ruhig. presently: gegenwärtig, bald, jetzt.

pushing: einstoßend, Geschupse, Gedränge. rug: Teppich, Brücke, Deckchen, Vorleger. shake: schütteln, schüttelt, schüttle, schüttelst, schüttele, erschüttern, erschüttre, erschütterst, erschüttert, erschüttere, rütteln. shudder: schaudern, Schauder, sich gruseln, sich grausen, grausen. slipped: ausgerutscht. timidly: furchtsam.

tuck: Falte, stecken, sich stürzen, die Falte, der Saum, Abnäher, die Süßigkeiten. unreality: Unwirklichkeit. upstairs: oben, nach oben, oben gelegen, steigend, oberes, obere, in eine höhere Etage, droben, aufwärts, ansteigend, herauf. wavering: Schwankend, unsolide, zögernd, wankend, wankelmütig, unzuverlässig, unschlüssig, unfest, instabil, unentschieden, unbeständig.

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“We got lots of time for a good ride, Matt!” he cried, seeking her hand beneath the fur and pressing it in his. His face tingled and he felt dizzy, as if he had stopped in at the Starkfield saloon on a zero day for a drink.% At the gate, instead of making for Starkfield, he turned the sorrel to the right, up the Bettsbridge road. Mattie sat silent, giving no sign of surprise; but after a moment she said: “Are you going round by Shadow Pond?” He laughed and answered: “I knew you’d know!” She drew closer under the bearskin, so that, looking sideways around his coat-sleeve, he could just catch the tip of her nose and a blown brown wave of hair. They drove slowly up the road between fields glistening under the pale sun, and then bent to the right down a lane edged with spruce and larch. Ahead of them, a long way off, a range of hills stained by mottlings of black forest flowed away in round white curves against the sky. The lane passed into a pinewood with boles reddening in the afternoon sun and delicate blue shadows on the snow. As they entered it the breeze fell and a warm stillness seemed to drop from the branches with the dropping needles. Here the snow was so pure that the tiny tracks of wood-animals had left on it intricate lace-like patterns, and the bluish cones caught in its surface stood out like ornaments of bronze. Ethan drove on in silence till they reached a part of the wood where the pines were more widely spaced, then he drew up and helped Mattie to get out of the sleigh. They passed between the aromatic trunks, the snow breaking crisply under their feet, till they came to a small sheet of water with steep wooded sides. Across its frozen surface, from the farther bank, a single hill rising against the western sun threw the long conical shadow which gave the lake its name. It was a shy secret spot, full of the same dumb melancholy that Ethan felt in his heart. He looked up and down the little pebbly beach till his eye lit on a fallen treetrunk half submerged in snow. “There’s where we sat at the picnic,” he reminded her. The entertainment of which he spoke was one of the few that they had taken part in together: a “church picnic” which, on a long afternoon of the preceding

German aromatic: aromatisch. blown: geblasen, geschneuzt. bluish: bläulich. boles: Baustämme. bronze: Bronze, Erz, bräunen, bronzen, ehern. cones: Kegel. conical: kegelförmig, konisch. crisply: knusprig. curves: kurven, krümmung, beigung, kurve. dizzy: schwindlig, schwindelig,

schwindelerregend, duselig. dumb: stumm, sprachlos, doof, dumm. glistening: glitzernd. intricate: kompliziert, verwickelt. larch: Lärche, Lärchenbaum. needles: Nadeln. ornaments: Verzierungen, Schmuckstücke, Schmucksteine, Schmucksachen, Juwelierarbeit, Schmuck, Bijouterien. pebbly: kieselig, kiesig.

picnic: Picknick, picknicken. pines: Kiefern. reddening: Rötung. saloon: Kneipe, Salon, Limousine. spaced: beabstandet. spruce: Fichte, Tanne, gepflegt, Edeltanne, schleimig. stained: befleckt, fleckig, unsauber, beschmutzt, gefleckt. submerged: unter Wasser. tingled: geklungen. wooded: bewaldet, bewachsen.

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summer, had filled the retired place with merry-making. Mattie had begged him to go with her but he had refused. Then, toward sunset, coming down from the mountain where he had been felling timber, he had been caught by some strayed revellers and drawn into the group by the lake, where Mattie, encircled by facetious youths, and bright as a blackberry under her spreading hat, was brewing coffee over a gipsy fire. He remembered the shyness he had felt at approaching her in his uncouth clothes, and then the lighting up of her face, and the way she had broken through the group to come to him with a cup in her hand. They had sat for a few minutes on the fallen log by the pond, and she had missed her gold locket, and set the young men searching for it; and it was Ethan who had spied it in the moss.... That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods...% “It was right there I found your locket,” he said, pushing his foot into a dense tuft of blueberry bushes. “I never saw anybody with such sharp eyes!” she answered. She sat down on the tree-trunk in the sun and he sat down beside her. “You were as pretty as a picture in that pink hat,” he said. She laughed with pleasure. “Oh, I guess it was the hat!” she rejoined. They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry. He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things. Suddenly she rose to her feet and said: “We mustn’t stay here any longer.” He continued to gaze at her vaguely, only half-roused from his dream. “There’s plenty of time,” he answered. They stood looking at each other as if the eyes of each were straining to absorb and hold fast the other’s image. There were things he had to say to her before they parted, but he could not say them in that place of summer memories,

German approaching: nähernd. avowed: bekannte, bekanntet, bekannten, bekannt, bekanntest, erklärt. begged: bat, batet, baten, gebeten, batest, betteltet, betteltest, gebettelt, bettelte, bettelten, ersuchtet. blackberry: Brombeere. blueberry: Heidelbeere, Blaubeere, Waldbeere. brewing: Brauend, Zusammenbrauend.

butterfly: Schmetterling, Falter, der Schmetterling. encircled: kreistest ein, kreisten ein, kreistet ein, eingekreist, kreiste ein. facetious: witzig, scherzend, scherzhaft. felling: fällend. flashes: blitze, blitzt, blinkt. gipsy: Zigeuner. inclination: Neigung, Inklination, Neigungswinkel, Lust, Gefälle, Geneigtheit, Gesinnung, Deklination,

Zuneigung, Einstellung, Trend. parted: auseinandergegangen, getrennt. revellers: Spaßvögel. smelt: Stint, gerochen, schmelzen. strayed: abgeirrt. sunset: Sonnenuntergang, Abendrot, Sonnenstand. tuft: Büschel, Schopf, Quaste. uncouth: ungehobelt, flegelhaft, grob. wooing: Lockend. youths: Junge Leute, Jugend.

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and he turned and followed her in silence to the sleigh. As they drove away the sun sank behind the hill and the pine-boles turned from red to grey.% By a devious track between the fields they wound back to the Starkfield road. Under the open sky the light was still clear, with a reflection of cold red on the eastern hills. The clumps of trees in the snow seemed to draw together in ruffled lumps, like birds with their heads under their wings; and the sky, as it paled, rose higher, leaving the earth more alone. As they turned into the Starkfield road Ethan said: “Matt, what do you mean to do?” She did not answer at once, but at length she said: “I’ll try to get a place in a store.” “You know you can’t do it. The bad air and the standing all day nearly killed you before.” “I’m a lot stronger than I was before I came to Starkfield.” “And now you’re going to throw away all the good it’s done you!” There seemed to be no answer to this, and again they drove on for a while without speaking. With every yard of the way some spot where they had stood, and laughed together or been silent, clutched at Ethan and dragged him back. “Isn’t there any of your father’s folks could help you?” “There isn’t any of ‘em I’d ask.” He lowered his voice to say: “You know there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for you if I could.” “I know there isn’t.” “But I can’t—” She was silent, but he felt a slight tremor in the shoulder against his. “Oh, Matt,” he broke out, “if I could ha’ gone with you now I’d ha’ done it—” She turned to him, pulling a scrap of paper from her breast. “Ethan—I found this,” she stammered. Even in the failing light he saw it was the letter to his wife

German breast: Brust, Busen, Mutterbrust. devious: abwegig, verschlagen. drove: Fuhr, fuhrst, fuhren, fuhrt, trieben an, triebt an, triebt, triebst an, triebst, trieben, trieb an. failing: fehlerhafte, Stockung, Abwesenheit, scheiternd. hills: Hügel. laughed: gelacht. lumps: Klumpen. paled: umschlossen, blass werden, bleich machen, einzäunen,

verblassen. pulling: Ziehend, zerrend, reißend, Verreißend, Ziehen, verziehend. reflection: Reflexion, Spiegelbild, Abglanz, Widerspiegelung, Reflektion, Spiegelung, Widerschein, Wiederspiegeln, Gegenbild, Widerhall, Besinnung. ruffled: zerzaust, sträubte. shoulder: Schulter, Achsel, schultern, tragen, die Schulter, Bankett, Seitenstreifen.

silent: schweigend, still, schweigsam, verschwiegen, ruhig, geräuschlos, stillschweigend. slight: geringfügig, Gering, leicht, klein, schwach, Kränkung, schmächtig. speaking: Sprechend, Redend. stronger: stärker. throw: werfen, Wurf, schleudern. wings: Flügel. yard: Hof, Yard, Hofraum, Lagerplatz, Werft, Bahnhofsgelände.

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that he had begun the night before and forgotten to destroy. Through his astonishment there ran a fierce thrill of joy. “Matt—” he cried; “if I could ha’ done it, would you?” “Oh, Ethan, Ethan—what’s the use?” With a sudden movement she tore the letter in shreds and sent them fluttering off into the snow.% “Tell me, Matt! Tell me!” he adjured her. She was silent for a moment; then she said, in such a low tone that he had to stoop his head to hear her: “I used to think of it sometimes, summer nights, when the moon was so bright I couldn’t sleep.” His heart reeled with the sweetness of it. “As long ago as that?” She answered, as if the date had long been fixed for her: “The first time was at Shadow Pond.” “Was that why you gave me my coffee before the others?” “I don’t know. Did I? I was dreadfully put out when you wouldn’t go to the picnic with me; and then, when I saw you coming down the road, I thought maybe you’d gone home that way o’ purpose; and that made me glad.” They were silent again. They had reached the point where the road dipped to the hollow by Ethan’s mill and as they descended the darkness descended with them, dropping down like a black veil from the heavy hemlock boughs. “I’m tied hand and foot, Matt. There isn’t a thing I can do,” he began again. “You must write to me sometimes, Ethan.” “Oh, what good’ll writing do? I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you’re sick and when you’re lonesome.” “You mustn’t think but what I’ll do all right.” “You won’t need me, you mean? I suppose you’ll marry!” “Oh, Ethan!” she cried.

German adjured: beschwor. bright: hell, blank, gescheit, leuchtend, klug, intelligent, licht, heiter, helle, aufgeweckt, frisch. coffee: Kaffee, der Kaffee. cried: geschrieen, schrie. darkness: Dunkelheit, Finsternis, Halbdunkel, Dämmerlicht, Dämmerung. destroy: zerstören, zerstört, zerstörst, zerstöre, vernichten, zertrümmern, umbringen, zugrunde richten,

verheeren, verderben, umreißen. dreadfully: schrecklich. fierce: grimmig, heftig, scharf, wild, grell, hitzig, intens, leidenschaftlich, ungestüm. fixed: fest, befestigt, festgelegt, befestigtet, befestigtest, befestigte, befestigten, fix, repariert, fixiert, fixierte. fluttering: Flatternd, Geschwirr. foot: Fuß, Fußende, Füßchen, Pfote, Bein.

forgotten: vergessen. hollow: hohl, höhle, Hohlraum. joy: Freude, Genuß, Wonne. moon: Mond, der Mond. o: Oxygenium, Sauerstoff. shreds: Zerschnitzelt. sick: krank, übel, geschmacklos, makaber. thrill: durchzucken, Nervenkitzel. tone: Ton, Tonus, Klang, Timbre, Klangfarbe. tore: Riss.

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“I don’t know how it is you make me feel, Matt. I’d a’most rather have you dead than that!” “Oh, I wish I was, I wish I was!” she sobbed.% The sound of her weeping shook him out of his dark anger, and he felt ashamed. “Don’t let’s talk that way,” he whispered. “Why shouldn’t we, when it’s true? I’ve been wishing it every minute of the day.” “Matt! You be quiet! Don’t you say it.” “There’s never anybody been good to me but you.” “Don’t say that either, when I can’t lift a hand for you!” “Yes; but it’s true just the same.” They had reached the top of School House Hill and Starkfield lay below them in the twilight. A cutter, mounting the road from the village, passed them by in a joyous flutter of bells, and they straightened themselves and looked ahead with rigid faces. Along the main street lights had begun to shine from the housefronts and stray figures were turning in here and there at the gates. Ethan, with a touch of his whip, roused the sorrel to a languid trot. As they drew near the end of the village the cries of children reached them, and they saw a knot of boys, with sleds behind them, scattering across the open space before the church. “I guess this’ll be their last coast for a day or two,” Ethan said, looking up at the mild sky. Mattie was silent, and he added: “We were to have gone down last night.” Still she did not speak and, prompted by an obscure desire to help himself and her through their miserable last hour, he went on discursively: “Ain’t it funny we haven’t been down together but just that once last winter?” She answered: “It wasn’t often I got down to the village.”

German cries: schreit. discursively: abschweifende. flutter: Flattern, Geleier, wappern, Vibrieren, Vibration, tändeln, liebeln, herumflattern, flirten, Gejammer. joyous: freudig, fröhlich. knot: Knoten, Knutt, Knüpfen, Knäuel, Wickel, Strenges Garn, Schlinge, Laufknoten, Knorren. languid: matt, träge, müde, lustlos, lässig, nachlässig, freudlos, arbeitsscheu, denkfaul, schleppend,

flau. obscure: dunkel, obskur, schmierig, schuftig, teuflisch, unbedeutend, unbekannt, veruntreuen, unheimlich, fragwürdig, unklar. prompted: abgefragt. rigid: starr, steif, unbeugsam, streng, stelzbeinig, standhaft, straff, stier, unerschütterlich, starrköpfig, unverwandt. scattering: Streuung, streuend, zerstreuend.

shine: leuchten, scheinen, glänzen, schein, schimmern, Glanz, strahlen, Schimmer, blinken, glühen. sleds: Schlittert. stray: herrenlos, streunen, streunend, verirrt, abirren. trot: Trab, trotten, traben, Trott. weeping: weinend, Weinen, tränend. whip: Peitsche, peitschen, quirlen, geißeln, Geißel, schlagen, kasteien, auspeitschen, Karbatsche, Reitpeitsche, stäupen.

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“That’s so,” he said.% They had reached the crest of the Corbury road, and between the indistinct white glimmer of the church and the black curtain of the Varnum spruces the slope stretched away below them without a sled on its length. Some erratic impulse prompted Ethan to say: “How’d you like me to take you down now?” She forced a laugh. “Why, there isn’t time!” “There’s all the time we want. Come along!” His one desire now was to postpone the moment of turning the sorrel toward the Flats. “But the girl,” she faltered. “The girl’ll be waiting at the station.” “Well, let her wait. You’d have to if she didn’t. Come!” The note of authority in his voice seemed to subdue her, and when he had jumped from the sleigh she let him help her out, saying only, with a vague feint of reluctance: “But there isn’t a sled round anywheres.” “Yes, there is! Right over there under the spruces.” He threw the bearskin over the sorrel, who stood passively by the roadside, hanging a meditative head. Then he caught Mattie’s hand and drew her after him toward the sled. She seated herself obediently and he took his place behind her, so close that her hair brushed his face. “All right, Matt?” he called out, as if the width of the road had been between them. She turned her head to say: “It’s dreadfully dark. Are you sure you can see?” He laughed contemptuously: “I could go down this coast with my eyes tied!” and she laughed with him, as if she liked his audacity. Nevertheless he sat still a moment, straining his eyes down the long hill, for it was the most confusing hour of the evening, the hour when the last clearness from the upper sky is merged with the rising night in a blur that disguises landmarks and falsifies distances. “Now!” he cried. The sled started with a bound, and they flew on through the dusk, gathering smoothness and speed as they went, with the hollow night opening out below

German audacity: Verwegenheit. blur: verwischen, Unklarheit, Verschleierung. confusing: verwirrend, verwechselnd. contemptuously: verächtlich, verachtungsvoll. crest: Kamm, Gipfel, Gipfelpunkt, Haube. disguises: verkleidet, Deckmäntel. erratic: erratisch, unberechenbar, unstet, unregelmäßig, wandernd. falsifies: fälscht, verfälscht.

feint: Verstellung, Scheinangriff, Finte, Scheinmanöver. glimmer: Schimmern, Schimmer, Glimmen, Blinken, Dämmern, Flimmern. landmarks: Grenzsteine. meditative: nachdenklich, versponnen. merged: mischtet, gemischt, mischtest, fusionierten, fusioniertest, fusioniertet, fusioniert, mischten, mischte, fusionierte.

passively: passiv. postpone: verschieben, aufschieben, verschiebe, schieben auf, schiebe auf, verschiebt, schiebt auf, schiebst auf, verschiebst, vertagen, vertagt. roadside: Straßenrand. smoothness: Glätte, Glattheit. subdue: überwältigen, unterwerfen, überwältigst, überwältigt, unterwirfst, unterwirf, unterwerft, unterwerfe, überwältige, überwinden, bezwingen.

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them and the air singing by like an organ. Mattie sat perfectly still, but as they reached the bend at the foot of the hill, where the big elm thrust out a deadly elbow, he fancied that she shrank a little closer.% “Don’t be scared, Matt!” he cried exultantly, as they spun safely past it and flew down the second slope; and when they reached the level ground beyond, and the speed of the sled began to slacken, he heard her give a little laugh of glee. They sprang off and started to walk back up the hill. Ethan dragged the sled with one hand and passed the other through Mattie’s arm. “Were you scared I’d run you into the elm?” he asked with a boyish laugh. “I told you I was never scared with you,” she answered. The strange exaltation of his mood had brought on one of his rare fits of boastfulness. “It is a tricky place, though. The least swerve, and we’d never ha’ come up again. But I can measure distances to a hair’s-breadth—always could.” She murmured: “I always say you’ve got the surest eye...” Deep silence had fallen with the starless dusk, and they leaned on each other without speaking; but at every step of their climb Ethan said to himself: “It’s the last time we’ll ever walk together.” They mounted slowly to the top of the hill. When they were abreast of the church he stooped his head to her to ask: “Are you tired?” and she answered, breathing quickly: “It was splendid!” With a pressure of his arm he guided her toward the Norway spruces. “I guess this sled must be Ned Hale’s. Anyhow I’ll leave it where I found it.” He drew the sled up to the Varnum gate and rested it against the fence. As he raised himself he suddenly felt Mattie close to him among the shadows. “Is this where Ned and Ruth kissed each other?” she whispered breathlessly, and flung her arms about him. Her lips, groping for his, swept over his face, and he held her fast in a rapture of surprise. “Good-bye—good-bye,” she stammered, and kissed him again.

German anyhow: irgendwie, sowieso, trotzdem, auf irgendeine Weise, immerhin. boastfulness: Überheblichkeit. boyish: jungenhaft, knabenhaft, bubenhaft, kindische. breathlessly: atemlos. deadly: tödlich. distances: Abstände, Entfernungen. exaltation: Erhöhung, Erhebung, Verlockung, Verzückung, Verleitung, Verführung, Trance,

Geistesverführung, Fröhlichkeit, Exaltation, Begeisterung. exultantly: frohlockend. fits: paßt, die Art, anfälle, art. groping: tastend, tappend. guided: geführt, geleitet, gelenkt. kissed: geküßt, küsste. mounted: beritten. organ: Orgel, Organ. slacken: nachlassen, lockern, verringern, schmälern, reduzieren, mäßigen, einschränken,

zurückdrehen, zurückschicken, zurücksenden, rückgängig machen. starless: sternenlos, sternlos. surest: sicherste. swept: gefegt. swerve: entrinnen, Wende, flüchten, fliehen, entwischen, entweichen, entspringen, Drehung, entschlüpfen, Wendung, entfliehen. tricky: kompliziert, verzwickt, knifflig, heikel, lästig, belastend, beschwerlich.

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“Oh, Matt, I can’t let you go!” broke from him in the same old cry. She freed herself from his hold and he heard her sobbing. “Oh, I can’t go either!” she wailed.% “Matt! What’ll we do? What’ll we do?” They clung to each other’s hands like children, and her body shook with desperate sobs. Through the stillness they heard the church clock striking five. “Oh, Ethan, it’s time!” she cried. He drew her back to him. “Time for what? You don’t suppose I’m going to leave you now?” “If I missed my train where’d I go?” “Where are you going if you catch it?” She stood silent, her hands lying cold and relaxed in his. “What’s the good of either of us going anywheres without the other one now?” he said. She remained motionless, as if she had not heard him. Then she snatched her hands from his, threw her arms about his neck, and pressed a sudden drenched cheek against his face. “Ethan! Ethan! I want you to take me down again!” “Down where?” “The coast. Right off,” she panted. “So ‘t we’ll never come up any more.” “Matt! What on earth do you mean?” She put her lips close against his ear to say: “Right into the big elm. You said you could. So ‘t we’d never have to leave each other any more.” “Why, what are you talking of? You’re crazy!” “I’m not crazy; but I will be if I leave you.” “Oh, Matt, Matt—” he groaned. She tightened her fierce hold about his neck. Her face lay close to his face.

German broke: pleite, brach, bankrott, mit leerer Tasche, blank, abgebrannt. catch: fangen, fangt, fange, fängst, erwischen, erwischt, erwische, erwischst, Fang, ertappen, ertappt. clock: Uhr, Taktgeber, Takt, Taktgenerator, Stoppen, die Uhr, Standuhr. coast: Küste. crazy: verrückt, toll, wahnsinnig, irre, übergeschnappt, ausgeflippt. cry: weinen, Schrei, schreien, heulen,

Ruf, kreischen, jammern, wehklagen, brüllen, rufen. desperate: Verzweifelt, hoffnungslos, ratlos. drenched: durchnässt. freed: Befreit, frei, befreite. herself: selber, selbst, sich, sie selbst. lips: Lippen. lying: Liegend, Verlogen, Lügnerisch, fraudulös, betrügerisch, trügerisch, unzuverlässig, lügenhaft. missed: vermisste.

panted: gekeucht, keuchte. relaxed: entspannt, entspanntet, entspanntest, entspannten, entspannte, aufgelockert. snatched: gegriffen. striking: auffallend, eindrucksvoll, ungewöhnlich, schlagend, unverkennbar, prononciert, beachtenswert, hervorragend, plakativ, bemerkenswert, anschlagend. threw: warf, geworfen.

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“Ethan, where’ll I go if I leave you? I don’t know how to get along alone. You said so yourself just now. Nobody but you was ever good to me. And there’ll be that strange girl in the house... and she’ll sleep in my bed, where I used to lay nights and listen to hear you come up the stairs...” The words were like fragments torn from his heart. With them came the hated vision of the house he was going back to—of the stairs he would have to go up every night, of the woman who would wait for him there. And the sweetness of Mattie’s avowal, the wild wonder of knowing at last that all that had happened to him had happened to her too, made the other vision more abhorrent, the other life more intolerable to return to...% Her pleadings still came to him between short sobs, but he no longer heard what she was saying. Her hat had slipped back and he was stroking her hair. He wanted to get the feeling of it into his hand, so that it would sleep there like a seed in winter. Once he found her mouth again, and they seemed to be by the pond together in the burning August sun. But his cheek touched hers, and it was cold and full of weeping, and he saw the road to the Flats under the night and heard the whistle of the train up the line. The spruces swathed them in blackness and silence. They might have been in their coffins underground. He said to himself: “Perhaps it’ll feel like this...” and then again: “After this I sha’n’t feel anything...” Suddenly he heard the old sorrel whinny across the road, and thought: “He’s wondering why he doesn’t get his supper...” “Come!” Mattie whispered, tugging at his hand. Her sombre violence constrained him: she seemed the embodied instrument of fate. He pulled the sled out, blinking like a night-bird as he passed from the shade of the spruces into the transparent dusk of the open. The slope below them was deserted. All Starkfield was at supper, and not a figure crossed the open space before the church. The sky, swollen with the clouds that announce a thaw, hung as low as before a summer storm. He strained his eyes through the dimness, and they seemed less keen, less capable than usual.

German abhorrent: verabscheuungswürdig, abscheulich, zuwider, verhasst. announce: ankündigen, kündige an, kündigst an, kündigen an, kündigt an, verkünden, anmelden, verkünde, verkündest, verkündet, anzeigen. avowal: Bekenntnis. blinking: blinkend, Blinken. clouds: Wolken, Bewölkung. coffins: Särge. constrained: gezwungen, zwangt, zwang, zwangen, zwangst.

dimness: Düsterkeit. embodied: verkörpertet, verkörpert, verkörperte, verkörperten, verkörpertest. hated: gehaßt, verhaßt, unbeliebt. intolerable: unerträglich, intolerabel, untragbar. seed: Samen, Saat, säen, Same, Samenkorn, Kern. shade: Schatten, schattieren, Schattierung, Farbton, Nuance, Abstufung, beschatten, Ton,

Leuchtenschirm. slope: Abhang, Neigung, Gefälle, Hang, Halde, Schräge, Steigung, Böschung, Helling, leicht abfallend, Senkung. sombre: düster. stroking: Streichelnd. swathed: wickelte ein. swollen: geschwollen, angeschwollen, aufgedunsen, verschwollen. tugging: zerrend, zerren. whinny: Wiehern.

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He took his seat on the sled and Mattie instantly placed herself in front of him. Her hat had fallen into the snow and his lips were in her hair. He stretched out his legs, drove his heels into the road to keep the sled from slipping forward, and bent her head back between his hands. Then suddenly he sprang up again.% “Get up,” he ordered her. It was the tone she always heeded, but she cowered down in her seat, repeating vehemently: “No, no, no!” “Get up!” “Why?” “I want to sit in front.” “No, no! How can you steer in front?” “I don’t have to. We’ll follow the track.” They spoke in smothered whispers, as though the night were listening. “Get up! Get up!” he urged her; but she kept on repeating: “Why do you want to sit in front?” “Because I—because I want to feel you holding me,” he stammered, and dragged her to her feet. The answer seemed to satisfy her, or else she yielded to the power of his voice. He bent down, feeling in the obscurity for the glassy slide worn by preceding coasters, and placed the runners carefully between its edges. She waited while he seated himself with crossed legs in the front of the sled; then she crouched quickly down at his back and clasped her arms about him. Her breath in his neck set him shuddering again, and he almost sprang from his seat. But in a flash he remembered the alternative. She was right: this was better than parting. He leaned back and drew her mouth to his... Just as they started he heard the sorrel’s whinny again, and the familiar wistful call, and all the confused images it brought with it, went with him down the first reach of the road. Half-way down there was a sudden drop, then a rise, and after that another long delirious descent. As they took wing for this it

German cowered: kauerten, kauerte, kauertet, kauertest, gekauert, hockte. crossed: gekreuzt. crouched: gekauert, kauertet, kauertest, kauerten, kauerte, hocktet, hocktest, hockten, hockte, gehockt. delirious: irreredend. descent: Abstieg, Abstammung, Herkunft, Abhang, Niedergang, Abfall. edges: Kanten, Ränder, Säume. flash: blitz, aufblitzen, aufleuchten,

blinken, blitzen, Lichtzeichen, zucken, Pfeil, Lichtsignal, Strahl. glassy: gläsern, glasig, glasartig, glasklar, glashell, durchsichtig. heeded: beachtet. instantly: sofort, sogleich, gleich, augenblicklich. parting: Abschied, Trennung. preceding: vorausgehend, vorangehend, vorhergehend, fortschreitend, früher, vorig. runners: Läufer.

shuddering: schaudernd. slide: Dia, gleiten, Rutschbahn, rutschen, Rodelbahn, Schlitten, Rutsche, Diapositiv. slipping: schlüpfend, Ausrutschen, ausgleitend. smothered: erstickte. steer: steuern, lenken, führen, ochse, richten, dirigieren. urged: drängte, gedrängt. vehemently: heftig, vehement. whispers: flüsterten, flüstern, flüstert.

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seemed to him that they were flying indeed, flying far up into the cloudy night, with Starkfield immeasurably below them, falling away like a speck in space... Then the big elm shot up ahead, lying in wait for them at the bend of the road, and he said between his teeth: “We can fetch it; I know we can fetch it—” As they flew toward the tree Mattie pressed her arms tighter, and her blood seemed to be in his veins. Once or twice the sled swerved a little under them. He slanted his body to keep it headed for the elm, repeating to himself again and again: “I know we can fetch it”; and little phrases she had spoken ran through his head and danced before him on the air. The big tree loomed bigger and closer, and as they bore down on it he thought: “It’s waiting for us: it seems to know.” But suddenly his wife’s face, with twisted monstrous lineaments, thrust itself between him and his goal, and he made an instinctive movement to brush it aside. The sled swerved in response, but he righted it again, kept it straight, and drove down on the black projecting mass. There was a last instant when the air shot past him like millions of fiery wires; and then the elm...% The sky was still thick, but looking straight up he saw a single star, and tried vaguely to reckon whether it were Sirius, or—or—The effort tired him too much, and he closed his heavy lids and thought that he would sleep... The stillness was so profound that he heard a little animal twittering somewhere near by under the snow. It made a small frightened cheep like a field mouse, and he wondered languidly if it were hurt. Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body. He tried in vain to roll over in the direction of the sound, and stretched his left arm out across the snow. And now it was as though he felt rather than heard the twittering; it seemed to be under his palm, which rested on something soft and springy. The thought of the animal’s suffering was intolerable to him and he struggled to raise himself, and could not because a rock, or some huge mass, seemed to be lying on him. But he continued to finger about cautiously with his left hand, thinking he might get hold of the little creature and help it; and all at once he knew that the soft thing he had touched was Mattie’s hair and that his hand was on her face.

German bend: biegen, Kurve, beugen, Biegung, krümmen, verbiegen, sich beugen, Krümmung, neigen, Drehung, hinneigen. cheep: Piepsen. creature: Geschöpf, Lebewesen, Kreatur, Gebilde, Erzeugnis. danced: getanzt, tanzte. excruciating: qualvoll. fiery: feurig, glühend, inbrünstig, leidenschaftlich, sehnlich. immeasurably: unermeßlich.

lineaments: Gesichtszüge. loomed: türmte sich auf, zich abgezeichnet. monstrous: ungeheuer, mißgestaltet, monströs, abscheulich, ungeheuerlich, riesig, widerlich, gräßlich, ekelerregend, abscheuerregend, grundhäßlich. mysteriously: geheimnisvoll. phrases: Phrasen. profound: tief, tiefschürfend, gründlich, tiefsinnig, weise, innig,

zärtlich, profund, tiefgründig, tiefgehend, tiefdenkend. swerved: wich aus. tighter: fester. twisted: gedreht, verdreht, faltig, gewunden. twittering: zwitschernd. vain: eitel, vergeblich, eingebildet, vergebens, hinfällig, nutzlos, leer. veins: Adern, Venen, Neigungen, Geäder. wires: Drähte.

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He dragged himself to his knees, the monstrous load on him moving with him as he moved, and his hand went over and over her face, and he felt that the twittering came from her lips...% He got his face down close to hers, with his ear to her mouth, and in the darkness he saw her eyes open and heard her say his name. “Oh, Matt, I thought we’d fetched it,” he moaned; and far off, up the hill, he heard the sorrel whinny, and thought: “I ought to be getting him his feed...”

German close: schließen, schließe, schließt, verschließen, verschließt, verschließe, nah, zumachen, vertraut, machen zu, nahe. dragged: zog, zogt, gezogen, zogst, zogen, geschleppt, schleppte, schleppten, schlepptest, schlepptet. ear: Ohr, Ähre, das Ohr. fetched: gebracht, brachten, holtest, brachtest, brachte, geholt, brachtet, holtet, holte, holten. heard: hörte, hörtet, hörten, Gehört,

hörtest, erfuhrt, erfuhrst, gehörte, erfuhren, erfahren, vernahm. hers: ihr, ihre, ihrer, ihres. hill: Hügel, Anhöhe, Halde, Kleine Höhe, Kleiner Hügel. knees: Kniet. load: Last, laden, Ladung, Belastung, beladen, aufladen, belasten, einladen, Bürde, Fuhre, befrachten. moaned: gestöhnt, stöhnte. monstrous: ungeheuer, mißgestaltet, monströs, abscheulich,

ungeheuerlich, riesig, widerlich, gräßlich, ekelerregend, abscheuerregend, grundhäßlich. mouth: Mund, Mündung, Maul, der Mund, Schwätzer, Öffnung. moved: bewegt, berührt, ergriffen. moving: bewegend, ergreifend, beweglich, rührend. ought: sollte, sollen. sorrel: Sauerampfer. twittering: zwitschernd. whinny: Wiehern.

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The querulous drone ceased as I entered Frome’s kitchen, and of the two women sitting there I could not tell which had been the speaker.% One of them, on my appearing, raised her tall bony figure from her seat, not as if to welcome me—for she threw me no more than a brief glance of surprise— but simply to set about preparing the meal which Frome’s absence had delayed. A slatternly calico wrapper hung from her shoulders and the wisps of her thin grey hair were drawn away from a high forehead and fastened at the back by a broken comb. She had pale opaque eyes which revealed nothing and reflected nothing, and her narrow lips were of the same sallow colour as her face. The other woman was much smaller and slighter. She sat huddled in an armchair near the stove, and when I came in she turned her head quickly toward me, without the least corresponding movement of her body. Her hair was as grey as her companion’s, her face as bloodless and shrivelled, but amber-tinted, with swarthy shadows sharpening the nose and hollowing the temples. Under her shapeless dress her body kept its limp immobility, and her dark eyes had the bright witch-like stare that disease of the spine sometimes gives. Even for that part of the country the kitchen was a poor-looking place. With the exception of the dark-eyed woman’s chair, which looked like a soiled relic of luxury bought at a country auction, the furniture was of the roughest kind. Three coarse china plates and a broken-nosed milk-jug had been set on a greasy table scored with knife-cuts, and a couple of straw-bottomed chairs and a kitchen dresser of unpainted pine stood meagrely against the plaster walls.

German bony: knöchern, knochig, grätig, knochendürr, dürr, hager, knochenartig, ausgezehrt, abgemagert, spindeldürr, voller Gräten. ceased: aufgehört, hörte auf. comb: Kamm, kämmen, frisieren, der Kamm. drone: Drohne, brummen, dröhnen, quengeln. greasy: fettig, schmierig, fett, geil, schmuddelig, schlüpfrig,

schweinisch, schmutzig, schmalzig, fettähnlich, feist. hollowing: aushöhlend. immobility: Unbeweglichkeit, Immobilität. limp: hinken, humpeln, schlaff. opaque: undurchsichtig, opak, dunkel. relic: Reliquie, Relikt, Überbleibsel. roughest: rauhste, rauhsten. shapeless: formlos. sharpening: schleifend, schärfend, wetzend, anspitzend, Verschärfung,

Schärfung, schärfen, Anspitzen. shrivelled: geschrumpft. slatternly: liederlich, schlampig. slighter: geringer. soiled: verschmutzt, fleckig, beschmutzt, unlauter, unsauber, verunreinigt. spine: Rückgrat, Wirbelsäule, Dorn, Rücken, Stachel. swarthy: dunkel, dunkelhäutig. unpainted: nicht bemalt. wisps: Strähnen.

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“My, it’s cold here! The fire must be ‘most out,” Frome said, glancing about him apologetically as he followed me in.% The tall woman, who had moved away from us toward the dresser, took no notice; but the other, from her cushioned niche, answered complainingly, in a high thin voice. “It’s on’y just been made up this very minute. Zeena fell asleep and slep’ ever so long, and I thought I’d be frozen stiff before I could wake her up and get her to ‘tend to it.” I knew then that it was she who had been speaking when we entered. Her companion, who was just coming back to the table with the remains of a cold mince-pie in a battered pie-dish, set down her unappetising burden without appearing to hear the accusation brought against her. Frome stood hesitatingly before her as she advanced; then he looked at me and said: “This is my wife, Mis’ Frome.” After another interval he added, turning toward the figure in the arm-chair: “And this is Miss Mattie Silver...” ....................... Mrs. Hale, tender soul, had pictured me as lost in the Flats and buried under a snow-drift; and so lively was her satisfaction on seeing me safely restored to her the next morning that I felt my peril had caused me to advance several degrees in her favour. Great was her amazement, and that of old Mrs. Varnum, on learning that Ethan Frome’s old horse had carried me to and from Corbury Junction through the worst blizzard of the winter; greater still their surprise when they heard that his master had taken me in for the night. Beneath their wondering exclamations I felt a secret curiosity to know what impressions I had received from my night in the Frome household, and divined that the best way of breaking down their reserve was to let them try to penetrate mine. I therefore confined myself to saying, in a matter-of-fact tone, that I had

German accusation: Anklage, Beschuldigung, Anschuldigung, Anzeige. amazement: Verwunderung, Verblüffung, Erstaunen. apologetically: entschuldigend, apologetisches, sich rechtfertigend, bedauernd, apologetisch. blizzard: Schneesturm. companion: Gefährte, Begleiter, Kamerad, Genosse, Geselle, Kumpel, Gefährtin, Macker, Freund. complainingly: klagen, klagend.

cushioned: polsterte. divined: ahnte voraus. exclamations: Ausrufe. frozen: gefroren, eingefroren. glancing: blickend, überblicken. hesitatingly: zögern, zögernd. impressions: Eindrücke. interval: Intervall, Abstand, Zeitabstand, Tonabstand, Logarithmisches Frequenzintervall. lively: lebhaft, lebendig, munter, witzig, flott, geistreich, heiter,

Herzhaftigkeit, sinnreich. niche: Nische, Hohlräume, Höhlung, Kasse, Spalte, Mauernische, Höhle, Gewächshäuser, Aushöhlung, Höhle im mauer. penetrate: durchdringen, dringe durch, dringt durch, dringst durch, dringen durch, eindringen, dringen ein, dringe ein, dringt ein, dringst ein, penetrieren. safely: sicher, wohlbehalten. unappetising: unappetitlich.

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been received with great kindness, and that Frome had made a bed for me in a room on the ground-floor which seemed in happier days to have been fitted up as a kind of writing-room or study.% “Well,” Mrs. Hale mused, “in such a storm I suppose he felt he couldn’t do less than take you in—but I guess it went hard with Ethan. I don’t believe but what you’re the only stranger has set foot in that house for over twenty years. He’s that proud he don’t even like his oldest friends to go there; and I don’t know as any do, any more, except myself and the doctor...” “You still go there, Mrs. Hale?” I ventured. “I used to go a good deal after the accident, when I was first married; but after awhile I got to think it made ‘em feel worse to see us. And then one thing and another came, and my own troubles... But I generally make out to drive over there round about New Year’s, and once in the summer. Only I always try to pick a day when Ethan’s off somewheres. It’s bad enough to see the two women sitting there—but his face, when he looks round that bare place, just kills me... You see, I can look back and call it up in his mother’s day, before their troubles.” Old Mrs. Varnum, by this time, had gone up to bed, and her daughter and I were sitting alone, after supper, in the austere seclusion of the horse-hair parlour. Mrs. Hale glanced at me tentatively, as though trying to see how much footing my conjectures gave her; and I guessed that if she had kept silence till now it was because she had been waiting, through all the years, for some one who should see what she alone had seen. I waited to let her trust in me gather strength before I said: “Yes, it’s pretty bad, seeing all three of them there together.” She drew her mild brows into a frown of pain. “It was just awful from the beginning. I was here in the house when they were carried up—they laid Mattie Silver in the room you’re in. She and I were great friends, and she was to have been my bridesmaid in the spring... When she came to I went up to her and stayed all night. They gave her things to quiet her, and she didn’t know much till to’rd morning, and then all of a sudden she woke up just like herself, and looked

German austere: streng, entsagend, nüchtern, mäßig, ernst, sachlich, schlicht, einfach, sparsam, ärmlich. awhile: eine Weile. bare: bloß, nackt, entblößen, kahl, auskleiden, aufdecken, entblößt, enthüllen, freilegen, offen hinlegen, bloßlegen. bridesmaid: Brautjungfer. conjectures: Vermutungen, Vermutet. fitted: zugeschnitten, tailliert. footing: Fundament.

frown: die Stirn runzeln, Stirnrunzeln, runzeln, Falten ziehen, mißbilligen. gather: sammeln, einsammeln, zusammentragen, ernten, sich versammeln, versammeln, pflücken, ansammeln, auflesen, bündeln, deduzieren. glanced: blickte. guessed: geraten, vermutete. happier: glücklicher. kills: tötet. kindness: Freundlichkeit,

Liebenswürdigkeit, Güte, Wohlwollen. oldest: alteste, senior, älteste. parlour: Salon, Wohnzimmer, Aula. seclusion: Abgeschiedenheit, Abgeschlossenheit, Zurückgezogenheit. storm: Sturm, stürmen, bestürmen, anstürmen, Unwetter, der Sturm. stranger: Fremder, Fremdling, Fremde. tentatively: versuchsweise.

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straight at me out of her big eyes, and said... Oh, I don’t know why I’m telling you all this,” Mrs. Hale broke off, crying.% She took off her spectacles, wiped the moisture from them, and put them on again with an unsteady hand. “It got about the next day,” she went on, “that Zeena Frome had sent Mattie off in a hurry because she had a hired girl coming, and the folks here could never rightly tell what she and Ethan were doing that night coasting, when they’d ought to have been on their way to the Flats to ketch the train... I never knew myself what Zeena thought—I don’t to this day. Nobody knows Zeena’s thoughts. Anyhow, when she heard o’ the accident she came right in and stayed with Ethan over to the minister’s, where they’d carried him. And as soon as the doctors said that Mattie could be moved, Zeena sent for her and took her back to the farm.” “And there she’s been ever since?” Mrs. Hale answered simply: “There was nowhere else for her to go;” and my heart tightened at the thought of the hard compulsions of the poor. “Yes, there she’s been,” Mrs. Hale continued, “and Zeena’s done for her, and done for Ethan, as good as she could. It was a miracle, considering how sick she was—but she seemed to be raised right up just when the call came to her. Not as she’s ever given up doctoring, and she’s had sick spells right along; but she’s had the strength given her to care for those two for over twenty years, and before the accident came she thought she couldn’t even care for herself.” Mrs. Hale paused a moment, and I remained silent, plunged in the vision of what her words evoked. “It’s horrible for them all,” I murmured. “Yes: it’s pretty bad. And they ain’t any of ‘em easy people either. Mattie was, before the accident; I never knew a sweeter nature. But she’s suffered too much—that’s what I always say when folks tell me how she’s soured. And Zeena, she was always cranky. Not but what she bears with Mattie wonderful— I’ve seen that myself. But sometimes the two of them get going at each other, and then Ethan’s face’d break your heart... When I see that, I think it’s him that suffers most... anyhow it ain’t Zeena, because she ain’t got the time... It’s a pity,

German bears: ist versehen mit, Bären, Bärenartige Raubtiere. compulsions: Zwänge. considering: erwägend, berücksichtigend, betrachtend, in Anbetracht, erachtend, entsprechend, ansehend. cranky: launenhaft, schrullenhaft. doctors: Doktoren, Ärzte. horrible: entsetzlich, schrecklich, gräßlich, abscheulich, furchtbar, grausig, fürchterlich, garstig,

widerwärtig, unheimlich, unangenehm. miracle: Wunder, Wundertat, Mirakel, Mysterium. moisture: Feuchtigkeit, Nässe. nowhere: nirgends, Nirgendwo, nirgens, nirgendwohin. pity: Mitleid, Bemitleiden, Erbarmen, Schade, Mitleid haben, Sich erbarmen, Mitgefühl. rightly: richtig, mit recht. soured: versauert.

spells: Buchstabiert. stayed: blieb, bliebst, blieben, bliebt, geblieben. suffers: leidet. sweeter: süßer. unsteady: unsicher, unbeständig, unstetig, wackelig, unstabil, unsolide, unzuverlässig, schwankend. wiped: wischtet, wischtest, gewischt, wischte, wischten, streiftet ab, abgestreift, streiften ab, streifte ab, streiftest ab.

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though,” Mrs. Hale ended, sighing, “that they’re all shut up there’n that one kitchen. In the summertime, on pleasant days, they move Mattie into the parlour, or out in the door-yard, and that makes it easier... but winters there’s the fires to be thought of; and there ain’t a dime to spare up at the Fromes.’“ Mrs. Hale drew a deep breath, as though her memory were eased of its long burden, and she had no more to say; but suddenly an impulse of complete avowal seized her.% She took off her spectacles again, leaned toward me across the bead-work table-cover, and went on with lowered voice: “There was one day, about a week after the accident, when they all thought Mattie couldn’t live. Well, I say it’s a pity she did. I said it right out to our minister once, and he was shocked at me. Only he wasn’t with me that morning when she first came to... And I say, if she’d ha’ died, Ethan might ha’ lived; and the way they are now, I don’t see’s there’s much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard; ‘cept that down there they’re all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues.”

German breath: Atem, Hauch, Atemzug, Schnaufer, Inhalation, Einatmung, Aspiration. burden: Last, Belasten, Bürde, Belastung, Beauftragen, Ladung, Beladen, Gewicht, Aufladen, Auftragen, Fuhre. deep: tief, dunkel. dime: Dimes, Zehncentstück, das Zehncentstück, Dime. drew: zeichnetet, zeichnetest, zeichneten, zeichnete, malte,

zeichnetest ab, malten, zeichnetet ab, zeichneten ab, zeichnete ab, maltest. eased: erleichterte. ended: beendet, endete, zu Ende sein. graveyard: Friedhof, Kirchhof, Gottesacker. pleasant: angenehm, erfreulich, behaglich, herrlich, freundlich, vergnügt, nett, gefällig, spaßig, wohltuend, vergnüglich. quiet: ruhig, still, leise, beruhigen, Ruhe, sanft, Stille, unbesorgt, Kalme,

Frieden, fromm. shocked: schockiert, erschüttert. shut: schließen, geschlossen, zumachen, verschließen, zu, verriegeln, abdichten, abschliessen, zusperren, isolieren, sperren. sighing: seufzen. spare: verschonen, sparen, Ersatzteil, übrig, schonen, Ersatz, ersparen, nachsichtig sein, sparsam, achten, erübrigen. summertime: Sommerzeit.

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GLOSSARY abandoned: verlassen, verließt, verließest, verließen, verließ, herrenlos, aufgegeben, gabt auf, gaben auf, gab auf, gabst auf abbreviated: kürztet ab, kürztest ab, abgekürzt, kürzten ab, kürzte ab, verkürztet, verkürztest, verkürzten, verkürzte, verkürzt abhorred: verabscheutet, verabscheutest, verabscheuten, verabscheute, verabscheut abhorrent: verabscheuungswürdig, abscheulich, zuwider, verhasst ability: Fähigkeit, Vermögen, Befähigung, Können, Tauglichkeit, Kapazität, Fertigkeit, Kraft, Leistungsfähigkeit, Tüchtigkeit, Sachverstand abreast: nebeneinander, Seite an Seite abrupt: plötzlich, brüsk, schroff, abrupt, abgebrochen, barsch, abgerissen, abschüssig, grob, hastig, unvermutet absence: Abwesenheit, Fehlen, Manko, Nichtvorhandensein, Absenz, Verzug, Versäumnis, Fehler absorb: absorbieren, absorbiere, absorbierst, absorbiert, aufsaugen, sauge auf, aufnehmen, saugt auf, saugen auf, saugst auf, nehmt auf absorbed: absorbiert, absorbierte, absorbiertest, absorbiertet, absorbierten, saugtet auf, saugtest auf, saugten auf, saugte auf, aufgesaugt, nahmst auf abstract: abstrakt, Zusammenfassung, zusammenfassen, begrifflich, Abstrakte, Abriß, abstrahieren, theoretisch, entziehen, abhalten, folgern accelerated: beschleunigtest, beschleunigten, beschleunigtet, beschleunigt, beschleunigte, beeilte, beeiltet, beeiltest, beeilten, beeilt, schneller gemacht accepted: nahmen an, nahmt an,

nahm an, nahmst an, angenommen, akzeptierten, akzeptierte, akzeptiertest, akzeptiertet, akzeptiert, anerkannt accepting: annehmend, akzeptierend, entgegennehmend, hinnehmend, akzeptieren accident: Unfall, Zufall, Missgeschick, Schicksalsschläge, Unglück, Unglücksfall, Widerwärtigkeiten, Schicksalsschlag, Havarie accompanying: begleitend, zuzüglich, geleitend accounts: berechnet, Geschäftsbücher, Rechnungsführung, Buchführung, Buchhaltung, Konten accumulated: akkumulierten, akkumuliert, akkumuliertest, akkumulierte, akkumuliertet, sammelten an, sammeltest an, angesammelt, sammeltet an, sammelte an, häufte an accuracy: Genauigkeit, Exaktheit, Präzision, Pünktlichkeit, Akkuratesse, Treffgenauigkeit, Richtigkeit, die Genauigkeit accusation: Anklage, Beschuldigung, Anschuldigung, Anzeige accustomed: gewöhnt, gewöhnte, gewöhntet, gewöhntest, gewöhnten, gewohnt, üblich, angewöhnt, gewöhnten an, gewöhntest an, gewöhntet an ache: schmerzen, schmerz, Weh, wehe tun, sich sehnen, sich ersehnen, lechzen nach, ersehnen, Schmerz verursachen ached: schmerzte, geschmerzt aching: schmerzend, schmerzhaft acquaintances: Bekannte, Bekanntschaften, die Bekanntschaft, Reisebekanntschaften acquired: erworben, erwarbt, erwarbst, erwarb, erwarben acquirements: Erlangung,

Erwerbungen acquitted: sprachen frei, sprachst frei, sprach frei, freigesprochen, spracht frei acres: Morgen actual: tatsächlich, wirklich, effektiv, eigentlich, real, faktisch, heutig, indertat, allerdings, denn, selbstverständlich add: zufügen, fügt zu, füge zu, fügen zu, fügst zu, addieren, addiert, addiere, addierst, hinzufügen, beifügen adding: zufügend, addierend, beifügend, ergänzend, anfügend, beigebend address: Adresse, Anschrift, adressieren, ansprechen, Ansprache, Anrede, die Adresse, Hausadresse addressed: adressiert adjoining: angrenzend, anstoßend, benachbart adjunct: Zusatz, Beigabe, Komplement, Vervollständigung, Ergänzung adjured: beschwor adjusting: anpassend, einstellend, justierend, Peilung, abstimmend, Einschätzung, Einstellung admiration: Bewunderung admired: bewunderte, bewundertet, bewunderten, bewundert, bewundertest admit: zulassen, lassen zu, laßt zu, laß zu, läßt zu, lasse zu, gestehen, gestatten, erlauben, einlassen, eingestehen admonished: ermahntet, ermahntest, ermahnten, ermahnt, ermahnte adrift: treibend advance: Vorschuss, Fortschritt, fortschreiten, Avancieren, Fortschritt machen, proponieren, vorschlagen, borgen, Vorschiessen, verfrühen, Darlehen advanced: fortgeschritten, erweitert, vorgerückt, höher, vorgeschritten

Edith Wharton advancing: vorrückend, anmarschierend, aufkommend, aufmarschierend, aufziehend, fortschreitend advantage: Vorteil, Nutzen, Interesse, Vorzug advertising: Werbung, anzeigend, Reklame, inserierend, Annoncierend affability: Leutseligkeit, Freundlichkeit, Umgänglichkeit affairs: Angelegenheiten, Angelegenehiten, Beschäftigungen, Geschäfte, Tätigkeiten affected: beeinflußtest, beeinflußten, beeinflußtet, beeinflußte, beeinflußt, berührten, berührtest, berührte, berührtet, geziert, berührt affecting: beeinflussend, berührend, betreffend, bewegend, ergreifend, einwirkend, rührend, angreifen, antasten afford: erlauben, erlaube, leisten, gestatten, produzieren, erzeugen, erlaubt, erlaubst, hervorbringen aflame: in Flammen afoot: zu Fuß, im Gange, in gang, auf den Beinen afore: zuvor afraid: ängstlich, bange, bang, besorgt, Angst haben, zaghaft, scheu, feige, eingeschüchtert afternoon: Nachmittag, Mittag, der Nachmittag afterward: nachher, später, danach aggrieved: betrübt, gekränkt agitation: Bewegung, Aufruhr, Agitation, Aufstand, Hektik, Ruhelosigkeit, Streß, Krawall, Nervosität, Tumult, Getümmel agriculture: Landwirtschaft, Ackerbau, Landwirtschaftsbetrieb, landwirtschaftlicher Betrieb ahead: voraus, voran, vorwärts, zuvor, vorne, vorauf, hervor, früher aid: Hilfe, Beistand, helfen, Beihilfe, Handreichung, Hilfeleistung, Mithilfe, Unterstützung, Hilfsmittel, Hilfe leisten, beistehen ailing: kränklich, Kränkeln, leidend, kränkelnd ailments: Krankheiten, Leiden, Unpäßlich aimlessly: ziellos aims: zielt, ziele, richtet alert: wachsam, aufgeweckt, munter, wach, aufmerksam, Alarm, flink, hurtig, wacker, vorsichtig, umsichtig alertness: Wachsamkeit alien: fremd, außerirdisch, ausländisch, Ausländer, fremder, außerirdische, fremde, widerwärtig aligned: ausgerichtet, richtetet aus,

richtete aus, richteten aus, richtetest aus alimony: Alimente, Unterhalt, Unterhaltszahlung alive: lebendig, lebend, belebt, existierend, am Leben allusion: Anspielung, Wink, Fingerzeig, Hinweis, Tip allusions: Anspielungen almshouse: Altersheim alone: allein, alleine, einzig, nur, bloß, alleinig, einsam aloud: laut, lauthals, lautstark, unsanft, tosend, streng, steif, schwierig, schrill, schnell, sauer alteration: Änderung, Veränderung, Abänderung, Wechsel, Umstellung, Abwechsellung, Wandlung, Verwandlung, Umwandlung, Metamorphose, Abwechslung alterations: Abänderungen, Veränderungen alternately: abwechselnd alternative: alternativ, Alternative, abwechselnd amazement: Verwunderung, Verblüffung, Erstaunen ambitious: ehrgeizig, ambitiös, eifrig, enorm, großartig, tollkühn amused: amüsiert, amüsierte, amüsierten, amüsiertest, amüsiertet, belustigtest, belustigten, belustigtet, belustigt, belustigte, unterhalten amusement: Unterhaltung, Vergnügen, Belustigung, Vergnügung, Amüsement anaesthetic: Betäubend, Betäubungsmittel, Narkose, Betäubung anchored: verankert ancient: alt, uralt, antik, altertümlich, ehemalig andrew: Andreas anecdote: Anekdote anew: von neuem, erneut, aufs Neue, wieder, abermalig, abermals anger: Ärger, Zorn, Groll, Wut, Ingrimm, ärgern, Verärgerung angle: Winkel, Ecke, Grad, Angeln angles: Winkel, Angeln anguish: Pein, Qual, Schreckhaftigkeit, Angst angular: eckig, winklig, kantig, mit Ecken animal: Tier, Tierisch, Animalisch animals: Tiere, Getier animosity: Feindseligkeit, Animosität, Haß, Feindschaft ankles: Knöchel announce: ankündigen, kündige an, kündigst an, kündigen an, kündigt an, verkünden, anmelden,

105 verkünde, verkündest, verkündet, anzeigen announcement: Bekanntmachung, Ankündigung, Anzeige, Ansage, Bekanntgabe, Anmeldung, Mitteilung, Benachrichtigung, Ausspruch, Verzeichnung, Verlautbarung answered: geantwortet answering: antwortend, Anrufbeantwortung antipathy: Antipathie, Abneigung, Widerwille anybody: irgendjemand, jemand, jeder, irgendeiner, irgendwer, einer, irgend einer, ein gewisser anyhow: irgendwie, sowieso, trotzdem, auf irgendeine Weise, immerhin apart: abgesondert, einzeln, auseinander, abseits, getrennt, entzwei, separat, besonders, extra, besonder, beiseite apologetically: entschuldigend, apologetisches, sich rechtfertigend, bedauernd, apologetisch apparently: anscheinend, scheinbar, offenbar, offensichtlich, so zu sehen, dem Anschein nach, unverkennbar, augenscheinlich appealed: berufen appearance: Erscheinung, Aussehen, Anschein, Erscheinen, Äußere, Anblick, Schein, Augenschein, Erscheinungsbild, Auftritt, Ansehen appearing: Erscheinend, auftretend appetite: Appetit, Eßlust, Magenknurren, Hungergefühl, Hunger apply: anwenden, wendet an, wende an, wenden an, wendest an, verwenden, gelten, sich bewerben, gelte, geltet, gilt applying: anwendend, geltend, zutreffend, verwendend, Immatrikulation, Einschreibung, bewerbend, auflegend, Anmelden, Eintragung appointed: ernannt, ernannte, ernannten, ernanntest, ernanntet, bestimmte appointment: Ernennung, Verabredung, Berufung, Bestimmung, Verhältnis, Liebesverhältnis, Date, Rendezvous, Bestellung, Termin apprehensions: Festnahmen apprenticeship: Lehre, Lehrzeit, Lehrstelle approached: genähert approaching: nähernd arcade: Säulengang, Arkade,

106 Säulenhalle, Säulengalerie, Bogengang, Galerie arch: Bogen, Gewölbe, Wölbung, Biegung, Rundung argue: streiten, streite, streitest, streitet, disputieren, argumentieren, argumentiere, argumentierst, argumentiert, sich streiten, disputiere argument: Argument, Beweisgrund, Diskussion, Auseinandersetzung, Wortstreit, Streitgespräch, Streit arid: trocken, dürr, ausgedörrt arm: Arm, Bewaffnen, Rüsten, Waffe, Waffnen, Abzweigung, Armlehne aromatic: aromatisch arrest: verhaften, festnehmen, Festnahme, Haft, Verhaftung, Arrest, Arestieren, vorläufige Festnahme, erfassen, fassen, arrestieren arrival: Ankunft, Eintreffen, Versorgung, Kommen arts: Künste ash: Asche, Esche, Esch ashamed: beschämt, enttäuscht, verschämt aside: Beiseite, Abseits, daneben, seitlich, zur Seite asleep: schlafend assented: stimmte zu assist: assistieren, assistiert, assistierst, assistiere, helfen, helfe, hilfst, hilf, helft, beistehen, stehen bei assistant: Assistent, Gehilfe, Adjunkt, Helfer, Mitarbeiter, Dienstgehilfe, Sekundant, Knecht, stellvertretend, Hilfskraft, Hilfe associations: Vereine assumed: angenommen, nahm an, nahmen an, nahmt an, nahmst an, vorausgesetzt assurance: Versicherung, Zusicherung, Assekuranz assure: versichern, versichere, versicherst, versichert, versichre, zusichern, sichere zu, sichre zu, sichert zu, sicherst zu, sichern zu assured: versichertet, versichert, versicherte, versichertest, versicherten, sichertest zu, sichertet zu, sicherten zu, sicherte zu, zugesichert, sicher asthmatic: asthmatisch, engbrüstig astonishment: Erstaunen, Verwunderung, Aufsehen, Wunder, Staunen, Befremdung astray: verloren, verirren, fehlgehen astride: rittlings, breitbeinig ate: aßt, aßest, Aßen, Aß, speisten, speistet, speiste, speistest

Ethan Frome atmosphere: Atmosphäre, Stimmung, Erdatmosphäre, Sphäre, Atmospähre attach: befestigen, befestigt, befestigst, befestige, anheften, Attach, heftet an, heftest an, heften an, hefte an, beifügen attached: befestigt, befestigtest, befestigte, befestigtet, befestigten, heftetest an, angeheftet, heftetet an, heftete an, hefteten an, hingt an attended: besuchtest, besucht, besuchte, besuchten, besuchtet, pflegtest, pflegtet, pflegten, gepflegt, pflegte, wohntest bei attic: Dachboden, Mansarde, Dachkammer, Boden, Speicher, Dachgeschoß, Dachstübchen, Dachstube, der Dachboden, Lagerboden, Hängeboden attitude: Haltung, Einstellung, Verhalten, Standpunkt, Position, Gesinnung attracted: angezogen, zogt an, zogst an, zogen an, zog an, lockten, gelockt, locktet, locktest, lockte attracting: anziehend, lockend auction: Auktion, Versteigerung, Versteigern, auktionieren audacity: Verwegenheit audible: hörbar, vernehmbar, vernehmlich, hellhörig august: August, erhaben aunt: Tante, die Tante austere: streng, entsagend, nüchtern, mäßig, ernst, sachlich, schlicht, einfach, sparsam, ärmlich aver: behaupten, behauptet, behaupte, behauptest averted: abgewandt, wandtet ab, wandtest ab, wandten ab, wandte ab avoid: vermeiden, vermeide, vermeidet, vermeidest, ausweichen, meiden, meide, meidest, meidet, entweichen, entgegen avoided: vermied, vermieden, vermiedest, vermiedet, mied, miedet, miedest, mieden, gemieden avowal: Bekenntnis avowed: bekannte, bekanntet, bekannten, bekannt, bekanntest, erklärt awful: furchtbar, schrecklich, miserabel, elend awhile: eine Weile awkward: unbeholfen, unangenehm, ungeschickt, linkisch, peinlich, mißlich, ungünstig, täppisch, schwierig, ungelenk, unbequem awkwardly: ungeschickt awkwardness: Ungeschicklichkeit, Ungeschicktheit, Unbeholfenheit

baby: Säugling, Baby, Kleinkind, Dingelchen, Kind, Kindchen backed: zurückgegangen, gesichert background: Hintergrund, Nulleffekt, Grundhelligkeit badly: schlecht, dringend baffled: verwirrte, betreten, betroffen, entsetzt, erschüttert, erstaunt, baff, fassungslos, perplex, bestürzt, verblüfft bag: Sack, Beutel, Tasche, Tüte balance: Saldo, Gleichgewicht, Bilanz, Balance, Ausgleich, balancieren, Waage, ausgleichen, Abgleich, gleiche aus, Ausgeglichenheit ball: Ball, Kugel, Knäuel, Fußball, Globus, Gala, Köpfchen, Großer Ball, Party, Sphäre, Tanzfest balm: Balsam, Melisse bandbox: Hutschachtel bands: Kapellen banishment: Verbannung, Geisterbeschwörung, Exil, Beschwörung, Deportation banks: Banken bare: bloß, nackt, entblößen, kahl, auskleiden, aufdecken, entblößt, enthüllen, freilegen, offen hinlegen, bloßlegen bared: entkleidete barely: kaum, knapp bargained: handelte barked: bellte barn: Scheune, Stall, Hütte, Lagerhütte, Scheuer, Bude, die Scheune, Bauernscheuer, Baracke barn-door: Scheunentor barred: gesperrt, sperrte, sperrten, sperrtest, sperrtet barren: unfruchtbar, öde, fruchtlos, trocken, karg, dürr, welk, schäbig, schal, schofel, steril barricade: Barrikade, verbarrikadieren, Sperrung, Straßensperre, Verhau, verrammeln, blockieren, Absperrung, Wegsperre, verstellen, sperren bars: Stäbe, sperrt, Barren basement: Kellergeschoß, Keller, Untergeschoss, Souterrrain bathed: badete, badeten, badetest, badetet, gebadet battered: abgenutzt, zerschlagen, geschlagen battery: Batterie, Akkumulator, Stromspeicher, Akku, die Batterie bay: Bucht, Bai, Bellen, Erker, Rotfuchs, Meerbusen, Lorbeer, Fjord beach: Strand, der Strand beading: Einsicken, Perlstickerei beaming: strahlend, abstrahlend,

Edith Wharton blank, glatt, glimmend, schimmernd beans: Bohnen bear: Bär, tragen, ertragen, aushalten, gebären, Baissier, hervorbringen, Baissespekulant, einziehen, ausharren, leiden bearing: Lager, tragend, Peilung bears: ist versehen mit, Bären, Bärenartige Raubtiere bearskin: Bärenmütze beat: schlagen, schlag, hauen, Schwebung, klopfen, Runde, einen Klaps geben beating: Schlagen, Klopfen beauty: Schönheit, Pracht, Hübschheit bedded: gebettet bedroom: Schlafzimmer, das Schlafzimmer, Schlafraum bedrooms: Schlafzimmer, Schlafräume bees: Bienen befitting: ziemend beforehand: im Voraus, vorher, zuvor begged: bat, batet, baten, gebeten, batest, betteltet, betteltest, gebettelt, bettelte, bettelten, ersuchtet begin: anfangen, fangt an, fängst an, fangen an, fange an, beginnen, beginne, beginnt, beginnst, anbrechen, breche an begun: angefangen, Begonnen, begann, aufgenommen, angebrochen beleaguered: belagert, belagerte, belagerten, belagertest, belagertet believed: glaubten, glaubtest, geglaubt, glaubte, glaubtet believes: glaubt bells: Klingeln, Schellen belt: Gürtel, Gurt, Riemen, Band, Hosengürtel, Treibriemen bend: biegen, Kurve, beugen, Biegung, krümmen, verbiegen, sich beugen, Krümmung, neigen, Drehung, hinneigen bending: Biegen, Umkehr, Umgestaltung, Umbruch, Umbiegen, Trendwende, Kenterung, Umschlag, biegend, Änderung, Abwandlung beneath: unter, unterhalb, darunter, unten, neben benevolence: Wohlwollen, Güte, Wohltätigkeit, Wohltat, Milde, Gnade, Entgegenkommen, Barmherzigkeit bent: Gebogen, verbogen, krumm, gekrümmt, verneigt, vorüber gebogen, umgebogen, geneigt, gewölbt, gewunden

benumbed: betäubt, betäubtet, betäubtest, betäubten, betäubte beside: neben, an, außer, bei, zu besides: außerdem, außer, neben, darüber, übrigens, zudem, namentlich, fort, sonstig, weiter, zusätzlich bewildered: verwirrten, verwirrtest, verwirrte, verwirrt, verwirrtet, irre, geistig durcheinander, fassungslos bible: Bibel, Heilige Schrift bicycle: Fahrrad, Rad, Rover, Zweirad, Fahrräder, das Fahrrad big-boned: grobknochig, grobschlächtig bigger: größer, höhere, grossere biggest: grösste, höchste bind: binden, verbinden, einbinden, mit der Schlinge fangen, festknüpfen, festschnallen, festmachen, festbinden, ketten, knebeln, ködern bird: Vogel, der Vogel birds: Vögel, Geflügel biscuits: Kekse, Gebäck bite: Biss, beißen, bissen, zubeissen, anbeißen, Happen, stechen, schneiden, Knacks bits: die Bits, Bits bitter: bitter, herb, bitterlich bitterness: Bitterkeit, Verbitterung, Groll blackberry: Brombeere blackness: Schwärze, Schwarz sein blame: Tadel, beschuldigen, schuld, Vorwürfe machen, vorwerfen, Vorwurf, verklagen, imputieren, Vergehen, zur Last legen, zuschreiben blanketed: verdeckte blankets: Decken, Bettdecken blankly: leer blazing: aufflammend, lodernd, brennend bleak: kahl, öde, düster, trübe, dunkel, freudlos, trostlos, widerwärtig blew: blies blight vereiteln, blies, blasen, wehen blinking: blinkend, Blinken bliss: Glück, Seligkeit, Wonne, Köstlichkeit, Glückseligkeit, Herrlichkeit, Schwein, Vortrefflichkeit, Großartigkeit blizzard: Schneesturm blocked: blockiert, gesperrt, sperrte, verstopft bloodless: blutlos, unblutig bloomed: blühte blotched: fleckig, beklecksen, beschmiert blow: Schlag, blasen, Hieb, wehen,

107 pfeifen, Streich, flöten, leichter Schlag, Klaps, Handschlag, Handschläge blown: geblasen, geschneuzt blue: blau, traurig, trübsinnig, schlüpfrig blueberries: Heidelbeeren blueberry: Heidelbeere, Blaubeere, Waldbeere bluish: bläulich blunder: Fehler, Schnitzer, schlittern, Fehlschüsse, Verstoß, glitschen, Versehen, Irrtum, Mangel, Mißgriff, Schwäche blur: verwischen, Unklarheit, Verschleierung blush: erröten, Schamröte, Röten, Errötung, Hitzewallung, rot werden blushed: rot angelaufen, erröten, errötet, errötete boards: Bretter boast: prahlen, Prahlerei, angeben, aufschneiden, renommieren, großeRedeführen, rühmen, sich brüsten, brüsten, ausposaunen, sich mit etwas brüsten boastfulness: Überheblichkeit bodily: körperlich, leiblich, physisch boles: Baustämme bolt: Bolzen, Riegel, Schraube, Durchgehen, Schloß, Verriegeln, Blitz, Bolz, Mutterbolzen, Zuriegeln, Verschluß bonnet: Haube, Motorhaube, Mütze, Kapotte, Kappe, Kapotthut bony: knöchern, knochig, grätig, knochendürr, dürr, hager, knochenartig, ausgezehrt, abgemagert, spindeldürr, voller Gräten booted: gestiefelt, gebootet, gestartet boots: Stiefel, Kofferräume, Stiefeletten bore: bohren, langweilen, Bohrung, verdrießen, Langweiler, Bohrloch, Bohrer borrowing: Entlehnung, Entlehnend, Borgend, Anleihe, Übernahme bottle: Flasche, Einmachen, Abfüllen, Konservieren, Füllen, Anzapfen, auf Flaschen ziehen, Einbüchsen, die Flasche bottom: Boden, Grund, Hintern, Unterseite, Gesäß, unten, Popo, Arsch boughs: Äste bought: gekauft, kaufte bound: gebunden, begrenzen, Grenze, abgrenzen, eindämmen, einschränken, Schranke, beschränken boundaries: Grenzen

108 bounding: begrenzend bout: Runde, Kampf bow: bogen, Bug, sich verneigen, Verbeugung, Bügel, biegen, Reverenz, Geigenstock, Geigenbogen, Handbogen, Handbögen bowed: verbeugte, gebeugt bowl: Schale, Schüssel, Becken, Napf, Gefäß, Pokal, Leuchtenschale, Kugel, Wanne, Becher, Bowle box: Schachtel, Kasten, Boxen, Kiste, Dose, Büchse, Karton, Gefäß, Krug, Buchsbaum, Truhe boyhood: Jugend, Kindheit boyish: jungenhaft, knabenhaft, bubenhaft, kindische boys: Jungen bragging: Prahlerei, Aufschneiderei, Angabe, Angeberei, Prahlend, Flunkerei, Protzerei, Prahlen, Windmacherei, Großtuer, Bluff brain: Gehirn, Hirn, Verstand brambles: Brombeersträucher branch: Zweig, Ast, Filiale, Abteilung, Zweigniederlassung, Verzweigen, Zweigstelle, Verzweigung, Fach, Springen, Zweiggeschäft branches: Zweige, Äste, Baumzweige bread: Brot, Panieren, Weizenbrot break: Pause, brechen, Bruch, zerbrechen, Unterbrechung, unterbrechen, abbrechen, aufbrechen, Ruhepause, kaputtmachen, Riss breakfast: Frühstück, Frühstücken, das Frühstück breaking: Bruch, Zerstörung, unterbrechend, brechend breast: Brust, Busen, Mutterbrust breath: Atem, Hauch, Atemzug, Schnaufer, Inhalation, Einatmung, Aspiration breathe: atmen, atmest, atmet, atme breathing: atmend, Atmen, Atmung breathlessly: atemlos breed: züchten, Rasse, aufziehen, erziehen, brüten, heranbilden, kultivieren, umbauen, bilden, aufbauen, umgestalten breeze: Brise, Hauch, Briese, Wind brewing: Brauend, Zusammenbrauend brick: Ziegelstein, Backstein, Ziegel, Baustein, Stein bridesmaid: Brautjungfer bridged: überbrückte, überbrückt bridle: Zaum, Zaumzeug, Zügel, zügeln, Gürtelschen, Leine, Lenkseil, Riemen, Gängelband, Gürtel, Kopfgeschirr

Ethan Frome brief: kurz, Schriftsatz, instruieren, benachrichtigen bright: hell, blank, gescheit, leuchtend, klug, intelligent, licht, heiter, helle, aufgeweckt, frisch bringing: Bringend, mitbringend, Anbringend, überbringend, einbringend brings: bringt, bringt mit, bringt ein, überbringt, bringt an brink: Rand, Kante, Grat, Saum brisk: lebhaft, flink, flott, frisch, forsch, hurtig, munter, wach, gewandt, aufgeweckt, rasch brittle: Spröde, zerbrechlich, knackend, mürbe, knusprig, brüchig, bröcklig broad: Breit, weit, deutlich, umfassend, globaal, gesamt, hell, im Großen und Ganzen, Breite broke: pleite, brach, bankrott, mit leerer Tasche, blank, abgebrannt broken: kaputt, gebrochen, zerbrochen, defekt, kaputtgebrochen, geknickt, durchgebrochen bronze: Bronze, Erz, bräunen, bronzen, ehern brooding: Brut, brütend, Sippschaft, Zeug, Pöbel, Plebs, Pack, Lumpengesindel, Grübeln, Grübelei, Gesindel brown: braun, bräunen brows: Brauen brush: Bürste, Pinsel, bürsten, fegen, putzen, Besen, Unterholz, Scheuerbürste, Handfeger, Feger brushed: gebürstet, bürstete brushing: Bürstend brutally: brutal buck: Bock, Dollar, bocken, Hirschbock, Hirschböcke, Hirsch buggy: Kinderwagen builder: Erbauer, Bauunternehmer, Baumeister, Bauherr, Bauarbeiter built: gebaut, aufgebaut bulbs: Glühbirnen, Zwiebeln bunch: Bündel, Bund, Büschel, Haufen, Bündeln, Strauß, Menge, Klumpen, Berg, Faszikel bundled: band zusammen, gebündelt, zusammengepackt bundles: Bündel, Büsche, Sträucher burden: Last, Belasten, Bürde, Belastung, Beauftragen, Ladung, Beladen, Gewicht, Aufladen, Auftragen, Fuhre buried: begruben, beerdigt, beerdigte, beerdigten, beerdigtest, beerdigtet, begrub, vergrubst, begrubst, begrubt, vergraben burn: brennen, brandwunde,

verbrennen, Brandfleck, anbrennen, Verbrennung, zünden, Brandverletzung, entbrennen, Zündung burned: gebrannt, brannte, verbrannt burning: brennend, verbrennend, Verbrennung, Brandverletzung, anbrennend, Brandwunde burnt: verbrannt, angebrannt, gebrannt, brennen, verbrennen burst: platzen, bersten, zerplatzen, zerspringen, Explosion, explodieren, Bruch, Ausbruch bursts: zerplatzt, platzt, ausbrüche bushes: Gebüsch, Büsche, Strauch, Busch, Büschel, Buschwerk, Hölzer, Staude, Sträucher, Unterholz, Kopf busy: besetzt, belegt, beschäftigt, geschäftig, emsig, fleißig, belebt, betriebsam butterflies: Schmetterlinge butterfly: Schmetterling, Falter, der Schmetterling buying: Kaufen, Kauf calculation: Berechnung, Kalkulation, Kalkül, Zählung calendar: Kalender, Zeitrechnung calico: Kattun, Kaliko calling: rufend, Anrufend, heißend, aufrufend, Rufen, Berufung, Anrufung, Ruf, Zurufen, Schreien, Vokation candle: Kerze, Licht, Wachskerze, Wachslicht candlestick: Leuchter, Kerzenhalter, Kerzenständer candy: Bonbon, Kandis, Süßigkeiten, Kandieren, Kandiszucker, Süßigkeit, Leckereien, Nascherei, Naschwerk, Verzuckern, Leckerei cap: Kappe, Mütze, Haube, Deckel, bedecken, Barett, Hut, Knallplätzchen, Kopfbedeckung, Decke, Käppchen capable: fähig, tüchtig, imstande, kompetent, tauglich, kapabel, kundig, geübt, geschult, gescheit, fachmännisch capitulating: kapitulierend cared: sorgte carefully: sorgfältig, vorsichtig careless: achtlos, nachlässig, sorglos, unvorsichtig, fahrlässig, leichtsinnig carelessly: sorglos, nachlässig caress: liebkosen, streicheln, Liebkosung, kosen, Umarmung, Streicheleinheit, Reiz, knuddeln, Knuddel, kitzeln, Kitzel caressed: gewollt, liebkosen, geliebt, liebkoste caring: Sorgend carpenter: Zimmermann, Tischler,

Edith Wharton Schreiner carpenters: Zimmerleute carpet: Teppich, Fußbodenbelag, Belag, Decke carried: getragen, trugt, trug, trugst, trugen, gebracht carrying: tragend cash: Bargeld, Bar, Kasse, Kontant, Einlösen, in bar, Zu Geld machen, Zahlungsmittel, Versilbern, Barvermögen, Kassengeld casting: Gießen, Guss, Abguss, Gussteil, Rollenverteilung, Gußstück, Rollenbesetzung, Gießerei, Besetzung casual: beiläufig, zufällig, gelegentlich, flüchtig, unverbindlich, informell, inoffiziell, ungezwungen cat: Katze, Kater, die Katze catalogue: Katalog, Verzeichnis, Katalogisieren, katalogisierst, katalogisiere, katalogisiert catch: fangen, fangt, fange, fängst, erwischen, erwischt, erwische, erwischst, Fang, ertappen, ertappt caught: gefangen, fing, fingst, fingt, fingen, erwischt, erwischte, erwischten, erwischtest, erwischtet, ertappten caused: verursacht, veranlasste cautiously: vorsichtig cavalry: Kavallerie, Reiterei cease: aufhören, verzichten, zurücktreten, etwas aufgeben, ausscheiden, ablassen ceased: aufgehört, hörte auf ceasing: beendend, endend certainty: Gewissheit, Sicherheit, Bestimmtheit, Überzeugung, Zuversicht, Pfand, Garantie cessation: Stillstand, Einstellung chafed: gerieben chain: Kette, Anketten, Ketten, Fessel, Reihe, Verketten, Reihenfolge, die Kette, Serie, Verkettung, Folge chair: Stuhl, Lehrstuhl, Sessel, Wohnzimmersessel, Vorsitz, Sitzplatz, Sitzbank, Sitz chairs: Stühle, Sessel, Sitzplätze, Sitzbänke challenge: Herausforderung, herausfordern chances: Chancen, Gelegenheiten, Zufälle changed: geändert chaotically: chaotisch character: Charakter, Zeichen, Natur, Figur, Person, Merkzeichen, Kennzeichen, Kennung, Gemüt, Wink, Form charged: geladen, aufgeladen,

belastet, trächtig charmed: entzückte charred: machte rein, verkohlt chart: Diagramm, Schaubild, Tabelle, Karte cheap: billig, minderwertig, preiswert check: Kontrolle, kontrollieren, prüfen, Scheck, Schach, überprüfen, zügeln, nachsehen, nachprüfen, Prüfung, abgeben checked: kontrolliert, kariert, geprüft checking: Kontrolle, überprüfung, Prüfung, abzählen cheek: Backe, Wange cheeks: Backen cheep: Piepsen cheerfully: fröhlich, heiter cherry: Kirsche chest: Brust, Kiste, Kasten, Brustkorb, Truhe, Brustkasten, Lade, Busen, Thorax, Rumpf, Kommode chief: Chef, Häuptling, Hauptsächlich, Oberhaupt, Haupt, Vorsteher, Anführer, Herr, Leiter, Befehlshaber chill: Kälte, Erkältung, Kühle, erstarren, Schnupfen chilling: die Abkühlung, kalt, Kälte verbreitend, Kühlen chimney: Schornstein, Kamin, Esse, der Schornstein chin: Kinn, das Kinn, Kinnbacken china: China, Porzellan chirped: zwitscherten, gechirpt, gezirpt, zirpte choir: Chor, Singakademie, Gesangsvereinigung, Singchor choked: würgte chord: Akkord, Saite, Sehne chose: wählte, wählten, wähltet, wähltest, gewählt, lasen aus, suchten aus, suchtest aus, suchte aus, last aus, lasest aus chosen: gewählt, ausgewählt, auserkoren, ausgelesen, ausgesucht, bevorzugt, erwählt, auserlesen, auserwählt christian: christlich, Christ, kirchlich chronicle: Chronik, Aufzeichnung chuckled: gluckste churn: buttern, Butterfass, umruhren, schüren, anschüren, bewegen circles: Kreise, Runden, Zirkel circuit: Schaltung, Stromkreis, Schaltkreis, Kreislauf, Verkettung, Kreis, Rundstrecke cited: zitiertet, zitiertest, zitierten, zitierte, zitiert, führte an, führtet an, angeführt, führten an, führtest an, erwähnt cities: Städte clan: Sippe, Stamm, Klan, Abkunft,

109 Haufen, Gezücht, Geschlecht, Bande, Horde clapped: geklatscht clasped: bedrängt, bange, beklemmt, eingeklemmt classic: klassisch, Klassiker clean: sauber, rein, reinigen, reinige, reinigst, reinigt, säubern, putzen, putzt, säubere, säubre cleaning: Reinigend, Reinigen, Reinigung, putzend, säubernd, Säuberung, Waschen, Saubermachen, Sauber machen, Abputzend, Saubermachend cleared: abgeräumt, lichtete, geklärt clearest: hellste clearing: Lichtung, Verrechnungsverkehr, Clearing, Rodung, Auslösen, Frei machen clearness: Deutlichkeit, Klarheit clenched: biß zusammen climate: Klima climb: klettern, steigen, ersteigen, klimmen, erklettern, aufsteigen, hinaufgehen climbed: geklettert, erkletterte climbing: Klettern, Steigend, Kletternd, Bergsteigen, Ansteigend clock: Uhr, Taktgeber, Takt, Taktgenerator, Stoppen, die Uhr, Standuhr closed: schloß, geschlossen, schloßt, schlossen, schlossest, verschlossest, verschloßt, verschlossen, verschloß, machtet zu, abgeschlossen closely: dicht, eng, nah closer: näher clothes: Kleider, kleidet, Kleidung, kleidet an, bekleidet, Sommersachen, Kledage, Zeug, kleidet ein cloud: Wolke, Trüben, Schatten clouds: Wolken, Bewölkung cloudy: bewölkt, wolkig, trüb, trübe, unklar clue: Hinweis, Anhaltspunkt, Indiz, Spur, Wink, Verweisung, Tip, Fingerzeig clump: Büschel, Klumpen clumps: Gruppiert clumsy: unbeholfen, ungeschickt, schwerfällig, plump, täppisch, taktlos, stümperhaft, stelzbeinig, schlapp, schlaff, schlacksig clung: klammerte, angeschmiegt cluster: Cluster, Bündel, Büschel, Haufen, Anhäufung, Gruppe, Traube, anhäufen, Bund, Faszikel clutched: packte clutching: packend coal: Kohle, Steinkohle, Kohlen, Steinkohlen

110 coarse: grob, ungeschliffen, rauh, abgestanden, arg, barsch, grobkörnig, unflätig, holperig, obszön, ungehobelt coast: Küste coasters: Küstenfahrer coasting: Auslauf, Küstenschiffahrt coat: Mantel, Anstrich, Paletot, Fell, bedecken, Überzieher, Überrock, Umkleiden, Schicht coats: Anstriche, Jacken coax: schmeicheln, schmeichele, schmeichelst, schmeichelt, schmeichle, Koaxialkabel cobwebs: Spinngewebe, Spinngeweben, Spinnengeweben cocoon: Kokon coffee: Kaffee, der Kaffee coffins: Särge cold: Kälte, kalt, Erkältung, Schnupfen, frostig, kahl, füchterlich, frost, dürr, wüst, rauh collar: Kragen, Halsband, Leine, Zügel, der Kragen, Halskragen, kleineKragen, Zaum, Longe, Bund collect: sammeln, sammelt, sammelst, sammle, sammele, einsammeln, sammeln ein, sammele ein, sammelst ein, sammelt ein, sammle ein colloquially: umgangssprachlich colonnade: Kolonnade, Säulengang colourless: farblos, glanzlos, ungefärbt colt: Fohlen, Füllen, Hengstfohlen comb: Kamm, kämmen, frisieren, der Kamm combatants: Kämpfer combination: Kombination, Verbindung, Zusammensetzung, Zusammenschluß comfort: Komfort, Behaglichkeit, trösten, Bequemlichkeit, Trost, Ermutigung, Gemütlichkeit, Trost spenden, unterstützen, Zuspruch, Ermunterung comfortless: trostlos command: Befehl, Kommando, kommandieren, Gebot, befehlen, gebieten, Anweisung, befehligen, Weisung, Dienstbefehl, dirigieren commanded: befahl, befohlene commemorated: gedacht, gedachtet, gedachtest, gedachten, gedachte commercial: kommerziell, kaufmännisch, Gewerblich, Werbespot, geschäftlich, Reklame, Reklamefilm, Werbefilm, Werbung, wirtschaftlich, dienstlich commonplace: Alltäglich, banal, fade, Gemeinplatz, trivial, abgedroschen commotion: Aufregung,

Ethan Frome Erschütterung, Skandal, Sensation, aufheben, Ärgernis, Aufruhr communicated: teiltest mit, teiltet mit, teilten mit, teilte mit, mitgeteilt, kommuniziertet, kommuniziertest, kommunizierten, kommunizierte, kommuniziert communicating: Mitteilend, kommunizierend communication: Kommunikation, Mitteilung, Bekanntmachung, Verkehr, Auskunft, Bericht, Verbindung, Nachricht communion: Kommunion communities: Gemeinschaften, Gemeinden companion: Gefährte, Begleiter, Kamerad, Genosse, Geselle, Kumpel, Gefährtin, Macker, Freund comparable: vergleichbar comparative: Vergleichend, verhältnismäßig, relativ, Komparativ, ziemlich comparatively: vergleichsweise, verhältnismäßig compassion: Mitleid, Mitgefühl, Erbarmen, Anteilnahme compel: zwingen, zwinge, zwingst, zwingt, nötigen, pressen, zwängen, forcieren compelled: zwang, gezwungen, zwangst, zwangen, zwangt, erzwungen compensation: Kompensation, Entschädigung, Ausgleich, Abfindung, Vergütung, Schadensersatz, Schadenersatz, Ersatz, Kostenerstattung, Gegenleistung, Kompensieren complain: klagen, klage, sich beklagen, klagt, klagst, sich beschweren, reklamieren, verklagen, sichbeschweren, reklamiert, reklamiere complainingly: klagen, klagend complaints: Klagen, Beschwerden completely: vollständig, völlig, ganz, vollkommen, gänzlich, total, komplett, vollzählig complex: Komplex, kompliziert, Gebilde, aufwendig, umständlich, Haus complications: Verwicklungen, Komplikationen compliment: Kompliment, komplimentieren, Komplimente machen, Höflichkeiten erweisen composure: Gelassenheit, Gefaßtheit comprehension: Verständnis compulsions: Zwänge compunction: Gewissensbisse, Bedenken

conceal: verbergen, verbirgst, verbergt, verberge, verbirg, verheimlichen, verheimlicht, verheimlichst, verheimliche, verstecken, verhehlen conceded: zugestanden, gestandet zu, gestand zu, gestanden zu, gestandst zu conceive: denkt aus, empfange, empfangen, empfängst, empfangt, entwickele, denkst aus, konzipiert, begreift, sich vorstellen, entwickelst concession: Konzession, Zugeständnis conclusions: Schlüsse conclusive: schlüssig, entscheidend, endgültig, triftig, wirksam condition: Bedingung, Zustand, Kondition, Vorbehalt, Klausel, Beschaffenheit, Voraussetzung, Konditionieren, Lage, Gemütszustand, Form conditional: bedingt, konditional, bedingt durch cones: Kegel conferred: konferiertest, verliehen, konferiertet, übertrug, konferierte, konferiert, konferierten confidence: Vertrauen, Zuversicht, Fiduz, Zutrauen confined: begrenzte, begrenzt confirmed: bestätigtest, bestätigtet, bestätigten, bestätigte, bestätigt, bekräftigtest, bekräftigtet, bekräftigten, bekräftigte, bekräftigt, konfirmierte conformity: Übereinstimmung, Konformität, Ähnlichkeit confused: verwirrten, verwirrt, verwirrte, verwirrtest, verwirrtet, verwechseltet, verwechseltest, verwechselten, verwechselte, verwechselt, konfus confusedly: verworren confusing: verwirrend, verwechselnd congregational: gemeinde conical: kegelförmig, konisch conjectures: Vermutungen, Vermutet conjoined: verbandet, verbunden, verbandest, verbanden, verband connected: verbunden, verbandest, verbandet, verbanden, verband, angeschlossen, schloß an, schlossen an, schlossest an, schloßt an, verknüpft connecticut: Connecticut connecting: verbindend, anschließend, verknüpfend, koppelnd, verbinden, verbunden connection: Verbindung, Anschluss, Zusammenhang, Verband, Beziehung, Liga, Vertrag, Konnex,

Edith Wharton Allianz, Band, Binde conquest: Eroberung conscious: bewusst, sehr bewußt, bei Bewusstsein, wissentlich consciously: bewusst consciousness: Bewusstsein, Bewußtheit, Besinnung, Gewissenhaftigkeit consecrated: segnete consequences: Folgen, Konsequenzen, Wirkung, Effekte consequently: folglich, infolgedessen, konsequent, somit, mithin, demzufolge, deshalb considering: erwägend, berücksichtigend, betrachtend, in Anbetracht, erachtend, entsprechend, ansehend consolation: Trost, Vertröstung, Tröstung consolatory: tröstend, tröstlich conspicuously: auffallend conspire: sich verschwören, verschwören constrained: gezwungen, zwangt, zwang, zwangen, zwangst constraint: Zwang, Nötigung consultations: Beratungen consumed: verbraucht, verbrauchte, verbrauchten, verbrauchtest, verbrauchtet, verzehrtet, verzehrte, verzehrten, konsumierte, verzehrtest, konsumiertet contact: Kontakt, Berührung, Verbindung, Anschluß, verbinden, Beziehung, Kontaktelement, Bindeglied contagion: Ansteckung, Infektion contemplation: Betrachtung, erneutes Erwägen contemptuously: verächtlich, verachtungsvoll contended: gestritten, disputierte content: Inhalt, zufrieden, Gehalt contented: zufrieden, befriedigt, befriedigte contents: Inhalt, womit etwas gefüllt ist continuance: Dauer continued: fuhrt fort, fuhrst fort, fuhr fort, fortgesetzt, fuhren fort, fortgefahren, setzten fort, setztest fort, setztet fort, setzte fort, machtet weiter contracted: zusammengezogen, vertrag geschlossen contrary: Entgegengesetzt, Gegenteil, zuwider, Gegenstück, Gegensatz, verkehrt, Antipode, Kontrast, widerwärtig contrast: Kontrast, Gegensatz, Gegensätzlichkeit, Gegensätze

conveyed: versandt convict: verurteilen, Verurteilte, Sträfling, Zuchthäusler, Gefangene convicted: verurteilte conviction: Überzeugung, Standpunkt, Anschauung, Ansicht, Auffassung, Denkweise, Gesinnung, Überführung, Verurteilung, Glaube convinced: überzeugten, überzeugtest, überzeugtet, überzeugte, überzeugt, bewußt convivial: gastlich, gesellig, festlich conviviality: die Fröhlichkeit, die Geselligkeit, Festliche Stimmung, Fröhlichkeit, Geselligkeit copy: Kopie, kopieren, Abschrift, Exemplar, abschreiben, Abdruck, Nachbildung, nachmachen, nachbilden, nachahmen, imitieren cords: Schnüre, Bindfäden, Drähte, Seile corner: Ecke, Winkel, die Ecke corners: Ecken corresponding: entsprechend, korrespondierend, demgemäß, kongruent counsels: rät count: zählen, Zählung, abzählen, Graf, rechnen, kalkulieren, erachten, Zählereignis, Zählimpuls, passen, berechnen countenance: Antlitz, Gesicht, Anblick, Szene, Schauspiel, Miene, Gesichtsausdruck counter: Zähler, Ladentisch, Theke, Schalter, Hinterkappe counterpane: die Tagesdecke, Steppdecke, Tagesdecke courage: Mut, Tüchtigkeit, Schneidigkeit, Rüstigkeit cousin: Vetter, Kusine, Cousin, Base, Cousine, Neffe covered: bedeckt, gedeckt, zugedeckt, bedeckte, eindeckt, überdacht, überdeckt, abgedeckt, überlegen covert: Versteckt, verstohlen, versteck cowered: kauerten, kauerte, kauertet, kauertest, gekauert, hockte cows: Kühe cracked: gekracht, geknackt crackle: prasseln, rascheln, knistern, bersten, reißen, zerreißen, knabberen, zerspringen cracks: kracht, Knallen, Bruchstellen, Brüche, Anreißen, Risse craned: hob mit einem Kran, vorgestreckt, gestreckt craning: vorstrecken, mit einem Kran hebend cranky: launenhaft, schrullenhaft crape: Trauerflor crash: Absturz, Krach,

111 Zusammenbruch, verunglücken, Zusammenstoß, vergehen, untergehen, umkommen, sterben, Schuß, Plumps crawl: kriechen, krabbeln crazy: verrückt, toll, wahnsinnig, irre, übergeschnappt, ausgeflippt creases: Falten creature: Geschöpf, Lebewesen, Kreatur, Gebilde, Erzeugnis creatures: Geschöpfe creeper: Kriecher, Kriechpflanze crept: kroch, krocht, krochst, krochen, gekrochen, schlichen, schlicht, schlichst, schlich, geschlichen crest: Kamm, Gipfel, Gipfelpunkt, Haube crib: Krippe, Abschreiben, Christstall cried: geschrieen, schrie cries: schreit crimson: Karmesinrot, Karmesin, purpurrot crippled: verkrüppelt, krüppelhaft, gebrechlich crisply: knusprig criticism: Kritik, Bemängelung, Kritische Bemerkung, Kommentar crooked: krumm, unehrlich cropped: abgeschnitten, bebaut croquet: Krocket cross: Kreuz, böse, Kreuzung, übertreten, quer, Kreuzchen, durchkreuzen, überqueren, kreuzen, arg, übergeben crossed: gekreuzt crouched: gekauert, kauertet, kauertest, kauerten, kauerte, hocktet, hocktest, hockten, hockte, gehockt crude: Roh, grob, ungehobelt, barsch, arg, rauh cruelty: Grausamkeit crushing: Zertrümmerung, Zermalmung, zerdrückend, Schmähung, Quetschung cry: weinen, Schrei, schreien, heulen, Ruf, kreischen, jammern, wehklagen, brüllen, rufen crying: schreiend, schreiende, Weinen crystal: Kristall, Aus Kristall culprits: Schuldigen cups: Tassen cure: Heilung, heilen, kurieren, genesen, Heilmittel, Kur, behandeln, wiederherstellen, gesunden curfew: Ausgangssperre, Abendglocke, Sperrstunde, Ausgangsverbot, Ausgehverbot curiosity: Neugierde, Neugier, Seltenheit, Kuriosität, Kuriosum, Seltsames Exemplar, Wißbegier,

112 Sehenswürdigkeit, Neugierigkeit, Exentrizität curiously: neugierig curled: lockig, gelockt, kraus curls: Locken curtain: Vorhang, Gardine curtly: knapp, kurz curve: Kurve, Krümmung, Bogen, Rundung, biegen, sich neigen, knicken, Linie, sichbeugen, sichverbeugen, sichverneigen curves: kurven, krümmung, beigung, kurve cushion: Kissen, Polster, polstern, das Kissen, Kopfkissen cushioned: polsterte custard: Eierkrem, Eiercreme, Pudding custom: Sitte, Brauch, Gewohnheit, Angewohnheit, Gebrauch, Usus, Maßgeschneidert, Gepflogenheit cutter: Schneidemaschine, Kutter, Zuschneider, Messer, Locher, Mäher cutting: Schneiden, Schnitt, abschneidend, schneidend, Sprößling, Schnipsel, Sproß, Schuß, Schößling, ausschnitt, Trieb dabbled: bespritzte daily: Täglich, alltäglich, Wochentag dance: tanzen, Tanz, Ball, Tänzchen danced: getanzt, tanzte dancers: Tänzer dancing: Tanzend, Tanzen dangerous: gefährlich, heikel, unbestimmt, schwierig, besorglich, riskant, prekär, mißlich, brenzlig dangled: baumeltet, gebaumelt, baumeltest, baumelten, baumelte dared: wagtet, wagten, wagte, gewagt, wagtest daring: wagend, wagemutig, gewagt, Tollkühnheit, Wagemut, Kühnheit, Schneidigkeit, sich Getrauen, verwegen, Schneid, Mut haben dark: dunkel, finster, Dunkelheit, düster, Dünkel, trübe, Finsternis, Düsterheit darkened: verdunkeltet, verdunkeltest, verdunkelten, verdunkelte, verdunkelt, dunkelten, gedunkelt, dunkeltet, dunkeltest, dunkelte darkish: dunkel, schwärzlich darkly: dunkel darkness: Dunkelheit, Finsternis, Halbdunkel, Dämmerlicht, Dämmerung dart: Pfeil, Wurfpfeil, Satz darted: schleuderte dashed: geschlagen dawn: Morgendämmerung, Dämmern, Tagesanbruch, Anbruch,

Ethan Frome Beginn, Dämmerung, Anbrechen, Tagen, Morgenstunde, Morgengrauen, Anfangen daylight: Tageslicht dazzled: geblendet, verblendet dazzling: blendend, schwindelerregend deadly: tödlich deadness: Leblosigkeit dealt: gehandelt deceiving: betrügend, täuschend, hintergehend decent: anständig, ehrbar, sittsam, dezent, schicklich, menschenwürdig, ordentlich, korrekt, sauber, tugendhaft, höflich deciduous: abfallend decisions: Entscheidungen declaring: deklarierend, erklärend declivity: Abhang deep: tief, dunkel deepened: vertieftest, vertiefte, vertieftet, vertieften, vertieft deepening: Vertiefend, Vertiefung, Aushöhlung deeper: tiefer deeply: tief, zutiefst, weh defect: Defekt, Fehler, Mangel, überlaufen, Mißstand definable: definierbar definite: bestimmt, definitiv, endgültig, eindeutig, klar, unumstößlich, unwiederbringlich, permanent, unwiderruflich definition: Definition, Begriffsbestimmung, Bestimmung, Bestimmtheit, Auflösung, Attribut, Adverbiale defy: herausfordern, fordern heraus, forderst heraus, trotzen, fordere heraus, fordert heraus degenerate: entarten, entarte, entartet, entartest, ausarten, arte aus, degenerieren, artest aus, artet aus, arten aus, degeneriert degrees: Grad deigned: geruhtet, geruhtest, geruhten, geruhte, geruht delayed: verzögert, verzögerte, verspätet deliberately: absichtlich, vorsätzlich, absichtliche delicacy: Delikatesse, Leckerbissen, Feinheit, Zierlichkeit, Zartgefühl, Takt, Nascherei, Leckerei, Erquickung, Erfrischung, Dünne delicate: zart, delikat, fein, heikel, zierlich, empfindlich, sanft, feinfühlig, verletzbar, quetschbar, lecker delicately: empfindlich, lecker delirious: irreredend

delivered: liefertet, liefertest, lieferten, geliefert, lieferte, lieferte aus, liefertet aus, liefertest aus, lieferten aus, ausgeliefert, liefertet ab delivery: Lieferung, Auslieferung, Abgabe, Ablieferung, Zustellung, Entbindung, Übergabe, Geburt, Anlieferung, Beförderung, Aushändigung demands: verlangt, fragt, Inanspruchnahme demonstration: Demonstration, Kundgebung, Vorführung, Äußerung demurred: zögerte dense: dicht, gedrängt, kurz hintereinander, geschlossen departing: abreisend, abfahrend, fortgehend departure: Abfahrt, Abreise, Abgang, Abzug, Abflug, Start, Abmarsch, Aufbruch, Abweichung depending: abhängend, abhängig von depth: Tiefe, Höhe depths: Tiefen descend: herunterkommen, kommt herunter, kommst herunter, kommen herunter, komme herunter, herabsteigen, absteigen, abstammen descended: abstammen, kam herunter, heruntergekommen, kamen herunter, kamst herunter, stieg ab, kamt herunter, abgestammt descending: absteigend, abstammend, absteigen, Absitzen, Abstieg, herunterkommend, Herabsteigen descent: Abstieg, Abstammung, Herkunft, Abhang, Niedergang, Abfall descriptions: Beschreibungen, Beschreibung desert: Wüste, Einöde, verlassen, wüst, überlassen, Wildnis, unterlassen, entäußern, fortlassen, öde deserted: verlassen, menschenleer, öde, ausgestorben desertion: Fahnenflucht, Verlassen, Desertion, Abtrennung, Desertition desire: Wunsch, wünschen, Begierde, begehren, Verlangen, Lust, Begehr, hoffen, Gier, herbeisehnen, erwarten desk: Pult, Schreibtisch, Tisch, der Schreibtisch desolately: wüst despair: Verzweiflung, verzweifeln, Schwermut, Ratlosigkeit, Mutlosigkeit, Lebensmüdigkeit, Trübsal

Edith Wharton despaired: verzweifelte despairing: verzweifelnd desperate: Verzweifelt, hoffnungslos, ratlos desperation: Verzweiflung, Verzweifelung, Hoffnungslosigkeit, Erschütterung, Zerrüttung destitute: mittellos, bettelarm, notleidend, arm, bedürftig, brotlos, total verarmt, verarmt destroy: zerstören, zerstört, zerstörst, zerstöre, vernichten, zertrümmern, umbringen, zugrunde richten, verheeren, verderben, umreißen destruction: Zerstörung, Vernichtung, Verheerung, Verwüstung, Verderben, Fall detached: trenntest ab, trennten ab, abgetrennt, trenntet ab, trennte ab, abgelöst, losgelöst, gelöst, freistehend detachment: Abteilung, Ablösung, Detachement, Trennung, Loslösung detail: Detail, Einzelheit, Besonderheit, Eigenart, Einzelteil, Sonderbarkeit, Ausschnitt detained: abgehalten, setztet fest, zurückgehalten, setztest fest, setzten fest, setzte fest, hieltet zurück, hieltet fest, hieltest zurück, hieltest fest, hielten zurück detaining: abhaltend, festhaltend, festsetzend, zurückhaltend, hindernd detecting: Entdeckend, erkennend devastated: verwüstetest, verwüsteten, verwüstete, verwüstet, verwüstetet developed: entwickelt, entwickelte, entwickelten, entwickeltest, entwickeltet, entfaltetet, entfaltetest, entfalteten, entfaltete, entfaltet, entdeckt devious: abwegig, verschlagen devote: widmen, widmet, widmest, widme, zueignen, weihen devoted: anhänglich, widmete, widmeten, gewidmet, widmetest, widmetet, ergeben, hingebungsvoll, zugetan diamond: Diamant, Karo, Stern difficulties: Schwierigkeiten diffusion: Diffusion, Streuung, Verbreitung, Zerstreuung digging: Grabend, wühlend, Erdarbeiten dignity: Würde, Anstand dim: dunkel, dämmerig, trübe, schwach, abblenden, finster, vage, schattenhaft, schimmerhaft, schummerig, düster dime: Dimes, Zehncentstück, das

Zehncentstück, Dime diminished: vermindert, verminderten, vermindertest, verminderte, vermindertet dimness: Düsterkeit dinner: Abendessen, Diner, Mittagessen, Abendmahlzeit, Festessen, Hauptmahlzeit dip: eintauchen, tauchen, eintunken, tunken, untertauchen, Dip, Senkung, Neigung dipped: eingetaucht dipper: Schöpflöffel, Wasseramsel, Kelle directed: gerichtet, adressiert, zugespitzt direction: Richtung, Kurs, Leitung, Vorschrift, Anweisung, Direktionen, Vorstände disapproval: Missbilligung, Missfallen discern: erkennen, erkenne, erkennt, erkennst discerned: erkannten, erkannt, erkannte, erkanntest, erkanntet disclosure: Offenlegung, Enthüllung, Offenbarung, Aufschluß discomfiture: Niederlage disconsolately: trostlos, niedergeschlagen, trostlose, untröstlich discontent: Unzufriedenheit, Unzufrieden discontented: unzufrieden, missmutig discover: entdecken, entdeckt, entdeckst, entdecke, auffinden, finden, finde, enthüllen, abdecken, ausfindig machen, finde auf discovered: entdeckt, entdeckte, entdeckten, entdecktest, entdecktet, fanden auf, fandest auf, fandet, fandest, gefunden, fandet auf discoveries: Entdeckungen discovery: Entdeckung, Erfindung discursively: abschweifende discussion: Diskussion, Besprechung, Auseinandersetzung, Gespräch, Aussprache, Streitgespräch, Debatte disdainfully: verachtungsvolle, verachtungsvoll, verachtenswert, verächtlich disease: Krankheit, Erkrankung disfavour: Ungefallen, das Missfallen, die Abneigung, die Ungunst, Mißbilligen disguises: verkleidet, Deckmäntel disgust: Ekel, Ekeln, Empören, Abstoß, Übelkeit dish: Schüssel, Gericht, Schale, Speise, Teller, Schälchen, Schüsselchen

113 dishes: Geschirr, Gerichte, Eßgeschirr dismay: in Bestürzung versetzen, Schrecken, Niedergeschlagenheit, Konsternieren, Bestürzt machen, Bestürzung dismissing: entlassend, verabschiedend, abweisend, einrückend, einmarschierend display: Anzeige, Auslage, Ausstellung, Bildschirm, prunken, ausstellen, anzeigen, zeigen, darstellen, aushängen, darbieten disposal: Beseitigung, Verfügung, Entsorgung, Erledigung, Inklination, Lust, Anordnung disposed: aufgelegt, geneigt, angeordnet, verfügte, gestimmt disquieted: beunruhigt, beunruhigte, beunruhigten, beunruhigtest, beunruhigtet disquieting: beunruhigend disregarded: unbeachtet gelassen, mißachtete distance: Abstand, Entfernung, Distanz, Ferne, Weite, Strecke distances: Abstände, Entfernungen distant: entfernt, fern, abstehend, entlegen, weit distinct: deutlich, ausgeprägt, verschieden, klar, anschaulich, bestimmt distinction: Unterscheidung, Auszeichnung, Vornehmheit, Würde distinctly: verschieden, klar distinctness: Deutlichkeit distinguish: unterscheiden, unterscheidet, unterscheide, unterscheidest, auszeichnen, zeichnet aus, hervorheben, zeichnen aus, zeichnest aus, auseinanderhalten, zeichne aus distress: Bedrängnis, Qual, betrüben, Not, Elend distressed: trübsinnig, quälte, schwermütig, bekümmert, betrübt, gedrückt, trübselig, traurig, verdrießlich, trüb distributing: verteilend, austeilend disturbances: Störungen disturbed: störte, störtest, störten, gestört, störtet, geniert, genierte, genierten, geniertet, geniertest disturbing: störend, beunruhigend, genierend disunited: trennte divided: teiltest, teiltet, geteilt, teilten, teilte, dividiertet, dividiertest, dividierten, dividierte, dividiert, entzweit divined: ahnte voraus diving: Tauchen, Tauchend

114 divorce: Scheidung, Ehescheidung, scheiden, trennen divorced: geschieden dizzy: schwindlig, schwindelig, schwindelerregend, duselig doctoring: verarztend, Doktoren doctors: Doktoren, Ärzte documents: Dokumente, Unterlagen, Urkunden, Scheine, Dokument dollar: Dollar dollars: Dollars dome: Kuppel, Dom, Haube, Gewölbe, Gewölbedach domesticity: Häuslichkeit doors: Türen doorstep: die Türstufe, Türstufe, Türschwelle, Eingangsstufe, Eingangsstufen dormant: ruhend, schlafend, schlummernd doubt: Zweifel, bezweifeln, zweifeln, Bedenken, anzweifeln doubted: zweifelte, angezweifelt doubtful: fraglich, zweifelhaft, unsicher doubtless: zweifellos doubts: Zweifel doughnuts: Krapfen, Ringförmige Objekte downcast: niedergeschlagen dozed: geschlummert, schlummertet, schlummertest, schlummerten, schlummerte, döstet, gedöst, dösten, döste, döstest dozing: schlummernd, dösend, Nickerchen, Schläfchen, Dösen drag: ziehen, zieht, ziehe, ziehst, schleppen, schleppst, schleppt, schleppe, nachschleppen, zerren, dreggen dragged: zog, zogt, gezogen, zogst, zogen, geschleppt, schleppte, schleppten, schlepptest, schlepptet dragging: ziehend, schleppend, ziehen, Schlepperei, nachschleppend, mit einer Dregge absuchen, gründliches Durchsuchen, Dreggen, Abtasten, Absuchen drain: entwässern, Abfluss, ablassen, Ablauf, drainieren, abfließen, abtropfen, Gully, leeren, ausstoßen, Abflußrohr drank: trank, getrunken draught: Zug, Schluck, Luftzug draughts: Dame spielen, Damsteinespiel, Damespiele, Damspielsteine draw: zeichnen, zeichnest, zeichnet, zeichne, ziehen, abzeichnen, malen, malt, zeichnen ab, schöpfen, malst drawback: Nachteil, Schattenseite

Ethan Frome drawer: Schublade, Lade, Zeichner, Schubfach, Aussteller, Trassant, Tischlade drawers: Schubfächer, Schubladen, Schubläden, Unterhose, Zeichner drawing: Zeichnend, Zeichnung, Ziehung, Ziehen, abzeichnend, malend, schöpfend, Verlosung, Auslosung drawl: dehnt, Schleppend Sprache, Gedehntes sprechen, Gedehnte Sprache, Dehnen, dehne, Affektiert sprechen, Sprechen schleppend, dehnst drawn: gezeichnet, abgezeichnet, gemalt, unentschieden, gezogen, geschöpft dread: Furcht, fürchten, Scheu, angst, Ängstlichkeit, Bangigkeit, zurückschrecken, scheuen dreadfully: schrecklich dream: Traum, träumen, herbeisehnen, schwärmen, wähnen dreamed: träumte dreams: Träumt, Träume dreamy: verträumt, träumerisch drenched: durchnässt dress: Kleid, anziehen, ankleiden, kleiden, bekleiden, verbinden, Kleidung, sichanziehen, das Kleid, Robe, anlegen dressed: kleidete, gekleidet, piekfein, korrekt, hübsch, gepflegt, schick, angezogen, angekleidet, angetan, elegant dresser: Kommode, Anrichte, Ankleider, Spültisch, Aufwaschtisch, Abwaschtisch drew: zeichnetet, zeichnetest, zeichneten, zeichnete, malte, zeichnetest ab, malten, zeichnetet ab, zeichneten ab, zeichnete ab, maltest dried: getrocknet, abgetrocknet, trocknete drift: Abdrift, Drift, Treibstrom, abweichen, Durchschlag, Jähzorn, langsames Abwandern, Richtung, Tendenz, Treiben drifts: treibt, Verwehungen drily: trocken, unverfroren drink: trinken, Getränk, saufen, Trank, zechen, Schluck, Alhohol trinken drinking: Trinken, Trinkend drive: fahren, fährst, fahrt, fahre, Laufwerk, treiben, antreiben, treibt an, treibt, treibst an, treibst driven: gefahren, getrieben, angetrieben, zurückgelegt, gesteuert driving: fahrend, treibend, antreibend, fahren

drone: Drohne, brummen, dröhnen, quengeln droning: brummend drooping: schlaff drop: Tropfen, Fallen, fallen lassen, Abfall, Schnaps, sickern, sausen, senken, sinken, aus Zink, zinken dropped: gefallen, abgeworfen dropping: abwerfend, Abwerfen, fallenlassend drops: tropfen, tropft drove: Fuhr, fuhrst, fuhren, fuhrt, trieben an, triebt an, triebt, triebst an, triebst, trieben, trieb an drowning: ertrinkend, ertrinken, ertränkend drowsy: schläfrig, schlaftrunken, dumpf, schlaff, dösig, dumpfig, duselig, stumpfsinnig, verschlafen, betäubt drug: Droge, Rauschgift, Arzneimittel, Medikament, narkotisieren, betäuben, Arznei drumming: Trommelnd dry: trocken, trocknen, dörren, austrocknen, abtrocknen, dürr, langweilig, kühl, gleichgültig, dorren, nüchtern drying: trocknend, trocknen, abtrocknend, Abtrocknen due: fällig, schuldig, gebührend dull: stumpf, matt, stumpfsinnig, trübe, dumpf, glanzlos, schwach, dumm, trüb, langweilig, fade dumb: stumm, sprachlos, doof, dumm dusk: Dämmerung, Abenddämmerung, Zwielicht duties: Pflichten, Steuern duty: Pflicht, Verpflichtung, Gebühr, Abgabe, Steuer, Aufgabe, Zoll, Betriebszeit, Amt, Obliegenheit, Schuldigkeit dwelled: wohnte, wohntet, wohntest, gewohnt, wohnten dwellers: Bewohner dwelling: Wohnung, wohnend, Behausung, Wohnhaus dwindling: Schwindend, Schwund dyed: gefärbt dying: Sterbend, krepierend, Absterben, Sterben, Hinscheiden eagerly: eifrig eagerness: Eifer, Habsucht, Gierde, Gier, Gelüst eagle: Adler, Aar, der Adler ear: Ohr, Ähre, das Ohr earn: verdienen, verdiene, verdienst, verdient, gewinnen, erringen earning: verdienend, verdienen ears: Ohren earshot: Hörweite

Edith Wharton earth: Erde, erden, Erdboden, Land, Grund, Erdball, die Erde, Boden, Terrain earthly: irdisch, weltlich, erdhaft, terrestrisch ease: Bequemlichkeit, Leichtigkeit, lindern, mildern eased: erleichterte easier: leichter eastern: östlich, orientalisch easygoing: unbekümmert eat: essen, iß, esse, ißt, eßt, speisen, speist, speise, fressen, genießen, verspeisen eating: Essend, speisend eats: Ißt, speist eaves: Traufe ebb: ebbe, ebben ebullition: Überschäumen echo: Echo, Widerhall, widerhallen, widerschallen, Klankwiderhall, hallen, echoen, schallen echoed: widerhallt echoes: Echos eddies: Wirbel edge: Kante, Rand, Schneide, Saum, Ufer, Flanke, Grat, Gestade, Einfassen, Ecke, Bord edged: scharf edges: Kanten, Ränder, Säume efficiency: Leistungsfähigkeit, Wirkungsgrad, Wirksamkeit, Effizienz, Nutzeffekt, Tüchtigkeit effort: Bemühung, Anstrengung, Mühe, Versuch, Leistung, Aufwand, schwere Einspannung, Bemühen, enorme Anstrengung, Mühsal efforts: Bemühungen, Kraftanstrengungen, Anstrengungen, Anstrengung effrontery: Frechheit egypt: Ägypten elaborate: ausarbeiten, grob, weitgehend, maßlos, kunstvoll, kompliziert, durchgearbeitet, ausgereift, ausgeklügelt elapse: vergehen, verstreichen elasticity: Elastizität, Dehnbarkeit, Spannkraft, Verformbarkeit, Dehnung elbow: Ellbogen, Ellenbogen, Knie, Hohlleiterkrümmer, der Ellbogen electric: elektrisch elements: Elemente, Anfangsgründe, Alphabet eleven: elf elm: Ulme, Rüster elms: Ulmen elongating: verlängernd eloquence: Beredsamkeit, Sprachgewandtheit, Redegewandtheit, Außdruckskraft

eluded: wich aus, wicht aus, wichst aus, wichen aus, ausgewichen embarrassed: verlegen, gehindert, unbehaglich, umbequem, verwirrte, lästig, betreten, unbequem, unangenehm embarrassment: Verlegenheit, Geniertheit, Lästiges, Scham, Scheu, Schüchternheit, Zaghaftigkeit, Hemmnis embers: Glut embodied: verkörpertet, verkörpert, verkörperte, verkörperten, verkörpertest emerged: aufgetaucht, tauchte auf, tauchten auf, tauchtest auf, tauchtet auf, auseinandergezogen emitted: emittiertest, emittiertet, emittierten, emittierte, emittiert, ausgegeben, in die Atmosphäre gebracht emotion: Rührung, Gefühl, Ergriffenheit, Bewegung, Gemütserregung, Emotion, Empfindung, Bewogenheit emotions: Gefühle, Emotionen employer: Arbeitgeber, Unternehmer employers: Arbeitgeber emporium: Einkaufszeile, Stapelplatz, Handelsplatz, Einkaufszentrum, der Laden, der Handelsplatz, das Warenhaus, das Handelszentrum, Emporium empty: leer, entleeren, inhaltslos, ausleeren, unausgefüllt, unbesetzt, ohne Inhalt, offen, leeren, ledig, hohl enable: aktivieren, aktiviere, aktivierst, aktiviert, ermöglichen enables: aktiviert, ermöglicht enabling: aktivierend, ermöglichend enchanted: bezaubert, bezaubertet, bezaubertest, bezauberte, bezauberten encircled: kreistest ein, kreisten ein, kreistet ein, eingekreist, kreiste ein enclosed: beiliegend, schlossest ein, schloßt ein, schlossen ein, schloß ein, eingeschlossen, anbei, beigefügt, beigelegt, beigeschlossen, inliegend enclosing: Einschließend, Umschließend, beilegend enclosure: Beilage, Anlage, Gehäuse, Umzäunung, Koppel, Umhüllung ended: beendet, endete, zu Ende sein endless: endlos, unendlich, langedauernd, ewig, unübersehbar, grenzenlos, ellenlang, lang, langwierig, unabsehbar, jahrelang ends: enden, endet endurance: Ausdauer, Dauer, Standhaftigkeit enemies: Feinde

115 enemy: Feind, Feindlich engage: einlegen, engagieren, lege ein, legt ein, legst ein, legen ein, engagiert, engagierst, engagiere, belegen, einstellen engaged: besetzt, beschäftigt, legte ein, legtet ein, legtest ein, engagierte, sich befassen, sich beschäftigen, engagierten, engagiertest, legten ein engineer: Ingenieur, Techniker, Pionier engineering: Ingenieurwesen, Technik, Maschinenbau, Technisch engraving: gravierend, Gravieren, Gravüre, Gravierung, Gravur, Eingravierend, Stich, einmeißelnd, Stahlstich, Kupferstecherarbeit, Gravierarbeit enlarged: vergrößertet, vergrößertest, vergrößerten, vergrößerte, vergrößert entered: tratet ein, trat ein, traten ein, eingetreten, tratest ein, kamt herein, kamst herein, kamen herein, hereingekommen, kam herein, trugen ein entertainment: Unterhaltung entranced: verzückt envelope: Umschlag, Briefumschlag, Hülle, Kuvert, Kolben, der Briefumschlag, Briefkuvert, Verhüllen, Envelope, Schutzumschlag envy: Neid, beneiden, beneidest, beneide, beneidet, Mißgunst, Jalousie, Haß, Eifersucht epidemic: Epidemisch, Epidemie, Seuche epitaph: Grabschrift, Grabinschrift equipment: Ausrüstung, Ausstattung, Einrichtung, Apparatur, Gerät, Ausrüstungsstück, Verzierung, Zierde, Girlande, Ausstattungsstück, Ausrüstungsgegenstände equivalent: Äquivalent, gleichwertig, Entsprechung, Ersatz, Gegenwert, entsprechend, gleichviel, Umschreibung, Wiedergabe, Darstellung erratic: erratisch, unberechenbar, unstet, unregelmäßig, wandernd escaped: tastenkombination mit Escape, entwichen, entkam, entging, abgehauen, entgangen establishment: Einrichtung, Gründung, Etablissement, Unternehmen, Niederlassung, Errichtung ether: Äther

116 evasion: Umgehung, Ausweichen, Hinterziehung eve: Vorabend evenings: Abende everybody: jeder, jedermann, aller, alle, jedes, jeglicher, jede, einjeder, ein jeder evident: offensichtlich, augenscheinlich, einleuchtend, klar, gläsern, das ist klar wie Klosbrühe, evident, ersichtlich, erkennbar, eindeutig, derb evidently: offensichtlich, augenscheinlich evil: Übel, böse, schlecht, schlimm, boshaft evocation: Hervorrufen evoked: rieft hervor, hervorgerufen, rief hervor, riefst hervor, riefen hervor exacting: anspruchsvoll, noch genauer, genau, anstrengend exaggerated: übertriebst, übertrieb, übertrieben, übertriebt, bauschte auf, bauschten auf, bauschtest auf, bauschtet auf, aufgebauscht, hyperbolisch, übertreibend exaltation: Erhöhung, Erhebung, Verlockung, Verzückung, Verleitung, Verführung, Trance, Geistesverführung, Fröhlichkeit, Exaltation, Begeisterung examine: prüfen, untersuchen, prüfe, prüft, prüfst, examinieren, inspizieren, überprüfen, nachsehen, überprüfe, überprüfst examined: prüfte, geprüft, prüftet, prüften, prüftest, überprüftet, überprüft, überprüfte, überprüften, überprüftest, kontrollierte exanimate: leblos except: ausgenommen, außer, ausschließen, ausnehmen, unter Ausschluß von, aussperren, ausgeschloßen exception: Ausnahme, Ausschluß exceptional: außergewöhnlich, außerordentlich, äußerst, ungewöhnliche, höchst exchanged: umgetauscht, ausgewechselt, tauschte um excitement: Erregung, Aufregung, Anregung exclaimed: ausgerufen, rief aus, riefen aus, riefst aus, rieft aus exclamations: Ausrufe excruciating: qualvoll excursions: Ausflüge, Schulausflüge excuse: entschuldigen, Entschuldigung, Ausrede, Ausflucht, verzeihen, Verzeihung, Pardon

Ethan Frome exercise: Übung, Aufgabe, üben, Bewegung, Ausübung, Anwendung, Schulung, Training, Fingerübung, Exerzitium, exerzieren exhausted: erschöpft, gerädert, abgehetzt, schachmatt, ausgebraucht exhaustion: Erschöpfung exhilaration: Erheiterung expanding: erweiternd, ausdehnend, expandierend, Anschwellung, Ausdehnung expanse: Ausdehnung, Fläche expectancy: Erwartung expecting: erwartend expedition: Expedition, Forschungsreise, Erkundigung, Erkundung, Erkundungsfahrt, Erkundungsgang, Erkundungsgänge, Erkundungszug, Erkundungszüge expeditions: Expeditionen expenses: Spesen, Kosten, Unkosten, Ausgabe, Auslagen, Aufwand, Aufwendungen, Auslage, Ausgaben expensive: teuer, kostspielig, lieb, hold, kostbar, wert explained: erklärtet, erklärt, erklärte, erklärten, erklärtest, erläutert, erläutertet, erläutertest, erläuterte, erläuterten, dargelegt explanation: Erklärung, Aufklärung, Erläuterung, Aufschluß, Informationen, Kommentar, Meinungsbericht, Reportage, genauere Auslegung, Aufklärungen, Aufschlüsse explosions: Explosionen exposed: ungeschützt, herausgestellt, belichtetet, belichtetest, belichtet, belichtete, belichteten, enttarntest, legtet bloß, legtest bloß, legten bloß express: ausdrücken, drückt aus, drückst aus, drücken aus, drücke aus, Express, bekunden, äußern, äußre, bekundet, bekundest expressed: drücktest aus, ausgedrückt, drückten aus, drückte aus, drücktet aus, äußerte, bekundetet, bekundetest, bekundeten, bekundete, bekundet expression: Ausdruck, Äußerung, Miene, Redensart, Sprichwort, Bezeichnung, Gesicht, Redewendung, Äußere, Aussehen, Formulierung expressive: ausdrucksvoll, expressiv, sprechend exquisite: vorzüglich, Auslese, köstlich, reizent, erlesen, ausgewählt, ausgesucht, ausgelesen extend: ausstrecken, erweitern, ausbreiten, streckt aus, erstrecken,

erweitere, breitet aus, erweitert, strecke aus, breitest aus, streckst aus extinguished: löschtet, löschte aus, löschten, löschten aus, gelöscht, löschtest aus, löschte, löschtet aus, löschtest, ausgelöscht, abgelöscht extra: extra, besonders, zusätzlich, Zugabe, beigeordnet, Statistin, Statist, beigefügt, Figurant extremities: Äußerst Notfall, Extremitäten, Äußerste, Gliedmaßen, Äußerst Ende, Extremität exultantly: frohlockend faced: konfrontiert, gegenüberstehen, blicken, dreistigkeit, gegenübergestanden, äußer Gestalt, gesichts, miene, oberfläche, schauen in Richtung, stirn faces: Gesichter facetious: witzig, scherzend, scherzhaft facial: im Gesicht facing: Verkleidung, Verblendung, Überzug, Belag, Außenschicht faction: Splitterpartei, Fraktion, Partei, Gruppierung facts: Tatsachen faculty: Fakultät, Fähigkeit faded: verblasst, verblaßtet, verblaßtest, verblaßte, verblaßten, erblaßten, welk, erblaßte, erblaßt, fahl, erblaßtet failed: misslungen, scheiterte, durchgefallen failing: fehlerhafte, Stockung, Abwesenheit, scheiternd failure: Ausfall, Misserfolg, Versagen, Mißlingen, Fehlschlag, Fiasko, Scheitern, Versäumnis, Versager, Defekt, Bruch faint: Schwach, matt, ohnmächtig werden, in Ohnmacht fallen, Ohnmacht, flau, hinfällig, lustlos, lahm, gelinde, kränklich faintly: schwach fair: Messe, gerecht, blond, Jahrmarkt, schön, billig, angemessen, ehrlich, Markt, Kirchweih, anständig fairly: ziemlich, ehrlich, ganz, anständig, beträchtlich, erheblich, angemessen, verhältnismäßig, natürlich, relativ, ordentlich faith: Glaube, Vertrauen, Zuversicht, Glauben fallen: gefallen, gefällt, abgestürzt, abgesunken falling: fallend, fällend, absinkend, abstürzend falls: Fällt, Abstürze, stürzt ab, sinkt ab

Edith Wharton false: falsch, unwahr, unaufrichtig, unrichtig, fehlerhaft, hinterhältig, unrecht, schief, unzutreffend, ungenau, tückisch falsifies: fälscht, verfälscht faltered: geschwankt familiar: vertraut, familiär, geläufig, gewohnt, bekannt, solide, zuverlässig, solvabel, glaubwürdig, glaubhaft, vertraulich familiarities: Vertrautheiten families: Familien fancied: wähnte fancy: Phantasie, sich einbilden, Laune, wähnen, lecker finden, träumen, erdichten, sich vorstellen, mögen, gerne essen, gerne trinken fancying: wähnend fantastic: phantastisch, fantastische, fantastisch, imposant, imponierend, hervorragend, großartige, großartig, grandios, gewaltig, überwältigend fantastically: phantastisch fares: Fahrpreise, Fahrgelder farm: Bauernhof, Gut, Farm, Landgut, Besitzung, Bewirtschaften, Verpachten, Pachten, der Bauernhof, Bauernhaus, Bauerngehöft farmhouse: Bauernhaus, Bauerngehöft far-reaching: weitreichend farther: weiter, ferner fascinated: faszinierten, fasziniertest, faszinierte, fasziniert, fasziniertet, bezauberte, angekettet, fesselte, fesselten, fesseltest, fesseltet fast: schnell, fasten, geschwind, fest, rasch, widerstandsfähig, gediegen, hurtig, feststehend, schleunig, hastig fastened: befestigten, befestigtest, befestigte, befestigt, befestigtet fastening: Befestigend, Fest machen, Befestigung faster: schneller fate: Schicksal, Verhängnis, Geschick, Los, Bestimmung, Fügung, Los des Lebens fated: vom Schicksal bestimmt fatuity: Einfältigkeit, Albernheit fault: Fehler, Verwerfung, Störung, Vergehen, Schuld, Übel, Bruch fault-finding: Krittelei favour: Gunst, Gefälligkeit, Gefallen, begünstigen, bevorzugen, Huld, Gnade, jemand begunstigen, Schenkung, Dienst, Sold favourite: Favorit, Günstling, Liebling, Günstlinge, Bevorzugte fear: angst, Furcht, befürchten, fürchten, sich ängstigen, zagen, sich ängsten, die Angst, Ängstlichkeit feared: befürchtete, gefürchtet

fearing: Befürchtend, fürchtend fears: Schreckbilder, Schrecken, befürchtet, Ängste, Schreckgespenster february: Februar fed: ernährte, ernährtest, ernährten, fütterte, fütterten, ernährtet, füttertest, füttertet, Gefüttert, gespeist, speistet feed: speisen, füttern, ernähren, speist, ernährst, füttere, füttre, fressen, füttert, nähren, ernährt feeding: speisend, fütternd, ernährend, Ernährung, fressend, Zuführung, Fütterung, weidend, Essen, Fressen, Nahrung feelings: Gefühle, Gefühlen, Stimmungen feigned: geheuchelt, vorgeblich, heuchelten, unnatürlich, unecht, künstlich, heuchlerisch, gekünstelt, heucheltet, heucheltest, vorgeschützt feint: Verstellung, Scheinangriff, Finte, Scheinmanöver felicitous: glücklich, treffend, gelungen felling: fällend fellow: Gefährte, Kamerad, Mann, Kerl, Herr, Subjekt fellows: Gefährten, Kameraden, Kollegen female: weiblich, Frau, Weibchen, Weib, Buchse, Frauchen, Weibschen fence: Zaun, Fechten, Einzäunung, Umzäunung, Gatter, Hindernis, Gitter, Einfriedung, Drahtgitter, Bucht, Balustrade fern: Farn, Farnkraut fetch: holen, bringen, holst, hole, bringt, Abruf, bringe, bringst, holt, eintragen, heranbringen fetched: gebracht, brachten, holtest, brachtest, brachte, geholt, brachtet, holtet, holte, holten fetching: holend, bringend, Abholen, reizend, attraktiv fewer: weniger fiction: Fiktion fiddler: Geiger, Spielmann, Betrüger, Schwindler fidgety: zappelig, unruhig fields: Felder, Auen, Äcker fierce: grimmig, heftig, scharf, wild, grell, hitzig, intens, leidenschaftlich, ungestüm fiery: feurig, glühend, inbrünstig, leidenschaftlich, sehnlich fifty: fünfzig fight: Kampf, kämpfen, Streit, streiten, Getratsch, Geseire, Rauferei, Gequengel, Genörgel,

117 Gezänk, Schlacht filled: gefüllt, abgefüllt, füllte filling: Füllung, Plombe, Sättigend, Abfüllend, fett, Füllmaße, Füllstoff, schwer, schwerverdaulich, Zahnfüllung, Füllsel finding: gründend, Finden, Fund finer: feiner finger: Finger, Befühlen, tasten, fühlen, abtasten fingers: Finger, die Finger finish: beenden, beendet, beende, beendest, enden, endet, endest, ende, erledigen, ausarbeiten, Schluß finished: fertig, beendete, beendetet, beendeten, beendet, beendetest, geendet, endetet, endetest, endeten, endete fired: gefeuert fires: Feuert firm: fest, Firma, feststehend, stabil, widerstandsfähig, haltbar, standhaft, befestigt, hart, gesetzt, gediegen first-rate: vorzüglich, erstklassig, erstrangig, herausragend, oberst, vortrefflich, oberste fist: Faust, Fäustchen fitful: unbeständig, ruckartig fits: paßt, die Art, anfälle, art fitted: zugeschnitten, tailliert fix: befestigen, befestigt, befestige, befestigst, reparieren, fixieren, festsetzen, fixiere, anberaumen, setze fest, setzt fest fixed: fest, befestigt, festgelegt, befestigtet, befestigtest, befestigte, befestigten, fix, repariert, fixiert, fixierte fixing: Befestigend, festsetzend, Befestigung, Fixierend, reparierend flagged: gekennzeichnet flame: Flamme, Flammen flaming: Flammend, feurig, brennend, ansteckend, glühend flanks: Flanken, Flankiert flannel: Flanell, Flannel, Aus Flanell, Molton, Flanellen flapped: schlug flash: blitz, aufblitzen, aufleuchten, blinken, blitzen, Lichtzeichen, zucken, Pfeil, Lichtsignal, Strahl flashed: leuchtete auf, aufgeblitzt flashes: blitze, blitzt, blinkt flat: flach, platt, Wohnung, eben, schal, glatt, Mietwohnung, Kulisse, Etagenwohnung, Appartement, geplatzteReifen flats: Flächen flattened: abgeflacht, plattetet ab, plattetest ab, plattete ab, platt, planierte, abgeplattet, platteten ab

118 fleck: Fleck fleecy: wollig, flauschig fleeting: flüchtig flew: flog, flogst, flogt, flogen flickering: flackernd, flimmern, flackern, funkeln, glänzen, glitzern, lichtsignal, lichtzeichen, schimmer flight: Flug, Flucht, Flugreise flights: Flüge fling: schleudern, werfen, schmeißen, schlingen, schwingen, pfeffern flinging: werfend, schleudern, schleudernd flit: flirten, herumflattern, liebeln, tändeln floating: schwimmend, fließend, gleitend, treibend, Treiben, schwebend, gleiten flooded: überflutet floods: fluten floundered: zappelte flour: Mehl flowed: geflossen flowing: fließend, Fließen flung: geschleudert flush: bündig, spülen, Wallung, Hitzewallung, Röte flushed: scheuchte auf, errötet, durchflutet, ausgespült flutter: Flattern, Geleier, wappern, Vibrieren, Vibration, tändeln, liebeln, herumflattern, flirten, Gejammer fluttering: Flatternd, Geschwirr flux: Fluß, Flußmittel, Strom, Schmelzmittel, Ausfluß flying: fliegend, Fliegen fog: Nebel, Schleier, der Nebel, Dunst foist: aufreden, aufschwatzen folded: gefaltet, umgeklapt folks: Leute, Menschen fond: zärtlich, verliebt, liebevoll foot: Fuß, Fußende, Füßchen, Pfote, Bein footing: Fundament forced: erzwungen, gezwungen forcing: zwängend, treibend forebodings: Vorahnungen forehead: Stirn, die Stirn forenoon: Vormittag foresaw: sah voraus, sahen voraus, sahst voraus, saht voraus, sah ab, sahst ab, saht ab, sahen ab foreseen: vorausgesehen, abgesehen foreshortened: verkürzt, zeichnete perspektivisch, verkürztet, verkürztest, verkürzten, verkürzte forest: Wald, Forst, Holz, Waldung, der Wald forget: vergessen, vergiß, vergeßt, vergißt, vergesse, verlernen forgetful: vergesslich

Ethan Frome forgot: vergaßt, vergass, vergaßen, vergaßest, vergessen forgotten: vergessen fork: gabele, Gabelung, Verzweigung, gabeln, die Gabel, Flußarm forked: gegabelt, gabelförmig, gespalten forlorn: verlassen, einsam, verloren, öde, vereinsamt formed: gebildet formless: formlos, unförmig formula: Formel forth: heraus, hervor, weiter, vorwärts fortnight: Vierzehn Tage fortunate: glücklich, massel, hit, günstig, glücksfälle, glücksfall, fortuna, glückhaft, gelingen, erfolg, unerwartetes Glück fortunes: Vermögen, Glücksfälle fox: Fuchs, der Fuchs fragments: Bruchstücke fragrance: Duft, Aroma, Wohlgeruch frame: Rahmen, einrahmen, Gestell, Einfassung, der Rahmen, Gestalt, einfassen, Bandsprosse, einsäumen, Riegel, Spant framed: umrahmte, umrahmt frankly: offen, freiheraus, aufrichtig freed: Befreit, frei, befreite freedom: Freiheit, die Freiheit, Ungebundenheit, Unabhängigkeit, Selbständigkeit frequent: häufig, frequentieren, häufig aufsuchen, häufig besuchen frequently: oft, häufig fresh: frisch, neu, unberührt, grün, frech fret: Handbohrer, sich abquälen, Nagelbohrer, kleiner Bohrer, sich abmühen, Fritt fretful: verdrießlich, weinerlich, ärgerlich friendly: freundlich, freundschaftlich, befreundet, freundliche frightened: erschrocken, erschrakt, erschrakst, erschraken, erschrak, schüchterte ein, schüchtertest ein, eingeschüchtert, schüchterten ein, schüchtertet ein, geängstigt fro: zurück, her frosty: frostig, eisig frown: die Stirn runzeln, Stirnrunzeln, runzeln, Falten ziehen, mißbilligen frowning: missbilligend, die Stirne runzelnd, kraus frozen: gefroren, eingefroren fugitive: Flüchtling, Flüchtig fulfilling: erfüllend, ableistend

fuller: Voller fumble: fummeln, fummle, herumdoktern, herumfingern, fummelt, fummele, fummelst fumbling: umhertastend, fummelnd, linkisch, tastend funds: Geldmittel, Fonds, Mittel, Kapital funeral: Begräbnis, Beerdigung, Beisetzung, Bestattung funny: komisch, lustig, drollig, spaßig, amüsant, spaßhaft, witzig, gelungen, hübsch, reizend, unterhaltend fur: Pelz, Fell, Tierhaut, Pelzwerk, Pelzrand, Belag, Anlaufen, Balg furiously: wild, wütend furniture: Möbel, Hausgerät, Mobilär furrows: Furchen fust: muffiger Geruch gaiety: Fröhlichkeit, Frohsinn, Lustigkeit gaily: unbekümmert gained: gewonnen gait: Gang, Gangart gale: Sturm, Sturmwind, Wind gales: Stürme gallantly: galant, tapfer, ritterlich, galante gaps: Lücken garments: Gewänder, Ausstaffierung, Bekleidung, Kleider, Kleidung, Zeug, Ausstattung garrison: Garnison, Besatzung gash: Schmisse gasp: Keuchen, schnaufen gate: Tor, Gatter, Pforte, Schranke, Sperre, Flugsteig, Bahnschranke gates: Tore gather: sammeln, einsammeln, zusammentragen, ernten, sich versammeln, versammeln, pflücken, ansammeln, auflesen, bündeln, deduzieren gathered: sammelte, versammelte gathering: Versammlung, Sammeln, Erfassung, Zusammenkunft, Schwarm, Einholen, Einziehen, Zusammensein, Gewühl, Masse, Menge gaunt: hager, mager, wüste, traurig, öde, düster, dünn gauze: Gaze, Mull, Verbandmull, Kompresse, Verbandgaze, Gazebinde gay: fröhlich, heiter, schwul, lustig, vergnügt, homosexuell, munter, Schwule, euphorisch, strahlend, wohlgemut gaze: anstarren, starren, starr sehen, starr schauen, Blick gazed: gestarrt, starrte an

Edith Wharton generation: Generation, Erzeugung, Geschlecht genial: freundlich, großartig genially: freundlich, heiter genius: Genie, Genius, Genialer Kopf, Besonders heller Kopf, Genialität, Pionierkorps gentleman: Herr, Ehrenmann genuine: echt, authentisch, unverfälscht, wahr, wirklich, in der Tat, aufrecht, das stimmt, allerdings, ehrlich, einfach geranium: Geranie german: Deutsch, Deutscher, Deutsche, Germane, deutsche Sprache gesture: Geste, Gebärde, Handbewegung, Zeichen, Wink, Signal gestures: Gesten, Gebärden gets: bekommt, holt ghostly: geisterhaft gipsy: Zigeuner glad: froh, erfreut, freudig glades: Lichtungen glance: blicken, Augenaufschlag, Augenaufschläge, Augenblicke glanced: blickte glancing: blickend, überblicken glare: Blendung, Glanz, anblitzen, glänzen glaring: grell, kraß, scharf, spitz, schroff, schrill, schreiend, hell, grell beleuchtet, anblitzend glassy: gläsern, glasig, glasartig, glasklar, glashell, durchsichtig glazed: glasiert, verglast, geglänst gleam: Schimmer, glänzen, Schein, Abglanz, Angewohnheit gleamed: glänzte, schimmerte glee: Frohlocken, die Fröhlichkeit, Freuden, Freude, Fröhlichkeit glide: gleiten, rutschen, glitschen, Gleitflug, segelfliegen glided: geglitten, glitt glimmer: Schimmern, Schimmer, Glimmen, Blinken, Dämmern, Flimmern glimmering: schimmernd, Blinken, flimmernd, Glänzen, Leuchten glimpse: Blick, flüchtiger Eindruck glimpses: Blicke, Erblickt flüchtig glistening: glitzernd glitter: Glitzern, Funkeln gloom: Trübsinn, Dunkelheit gloried: triumphierte glorified: verherrlicht, verherrlichtet, verherrlichtest, verherrlichten, verherrlichte glorying: triumphierend glow: glühen, Glut, brennen, Leuchten, Feuer, erglühen, Inbrunst

glowed: glühte glue: Leim, kleben, leimen, Klebstoff, Kleber, heften, anheften, ankleben, anleimen, festheften, festkleben glued: geklebt, gummiert, geleimt goal: Ziel, Tor, Zielpunkt, Zweck, Anstoß, Treffer, Torschuß, Abstoß gold: Gold, Golden, das Gold golden: golden, farbedesGoldes, goldblond, goldglanz, goldfarbig, goldfarben good-bye: Abschied gooseberry: Stachelbeere gradually: allmählich, nach und nach, stufenweise, sukzessive, im Laufe der Zeit, mit der Zeit grand: großartig, gewaltig, gross, grandios, ansehnlich, prachtvoll granite: Granit, Granitartig, Graniten grasp: greifen, Griff, ergreifen, Verständnis, Stich, Nehmen, angreifen grasped: packte, packte zu grasping: habgierig, zupackend, packend grasses: Gräser grating: Rasterung, knirschend, Gitter, kratzend gratitude: Dankbarkeit, Dank, Erkenntlichkeit, Danken, Würdigung, Achtung, Anerkenntnis, Anerkennung, Bewertung, Erkennung, Erkenntnis grave: Grab, ernst, Gruft, gemütlich, gewichtig, kritisch, schlicht, sittsam, gemäßigt, schlimm, bedeckt graves: Gräber graveyard: Friedhof, Kirchhof, Gottesacker gravity: Schwerkraft, Schwere, Gravitation gray: Grau grayish: gräulich grays: ergraut greasy: fettig, schmierig, fett, geil, schmuddelig, schlüpfrig, schweinisch, schmutzig, schmalzig, fettähnlich, feist greatest: besten, größte greeted: grüßtet, gegrüßt, grüßte, grüßten, grüßtest, begrüßt, begrüßte, begrüßten, begrüßtest, begrüßtet greeting: Gruß, Begrüßung, Grüßend, begrüßend grew: wuchst, wuchs, wuchsen, wuchsest, wuchs an, wuchst an, wuchsest an, wuchsen an grey: grau greyish: gräulich, graulich greys: Grau grievance: Beschwerde, Mißstand

119 grim: grimmig, verbissen, verkniffen, hart grimly: grimmig grit: Kies, Grus, Schutt grizzled: grauhaarig, ergraut groaned: gestöhnt, stöhnte grocer: Krämer, Lebensmittelhändler, Kolonialwarenhändler groceries: Lebensmittel, Lebensmittelgeschäfte, Materialwaren, Kolonialwaren groped: tastetet, tastetest, tasteten, tastete, getastet, tappte, getappt, tapptet, tappten, tapptest groping: tastend, tappend grotesquely: grotesken grouped: gruppiert growing: wachsend, anwachsend growl: knurren, Brummen, grunzen, nörgeln growled: geknurrt growling: Knurren, Knurrend, Grummen grown: gewachsen, angewachsen grudged: beneidete, missgönnt grunt: Grunzen guard: Wache, Garde, Wächter, bewachen, behüten, schützen, Schaffner, Aufseher, Gardist, hüten, Kondukteur guess: raten, Vermutung, erraten, vermuten, Mutmaßung, enträtseln, voraussetzen, Schätzung, schätzen guessed: geraten, vermutete guests: Gäste, Tischgäste guided: geführt, geleitet, gelenkt gulp: schluck, schlucken gurgling: gurgelnd gusts: Böen, Windstöße ha: prevailing opinion, ha habit: Gewohnheit, Angewohnheit, Gebrauch, Kutte, Gewand, Gepflogenheit, Usus, Anwendung, Kirchengewand, Verwendung, Benutzung habitable: bewohnbar habits: Gewohnheiten habitually: ständig, gewöhnlich, gewohnt hail: Hagel, hageln, anreden, anrufen, ansprechen hailed: gehagelt hale: Gesund, Rüstig halls: Hallen, Säle, Zuschauerräume handier: handlicher handkerchief: Taschentuch, Schnupftuch handle: griff, Henkel, Handgriff, Stiel, Heft, handhaben, behandeln, Knauf, Handhabe, Gefäß, Ohr handsome: hübsch, gutaussehend, schön, stattlich, ansehnlich, fiffig,

120 gescheit, geschickt, schlau, gut aussehend, pfiffig handy: handlich, bequem, griffig, gelegen, gemächlich, geschickt, praktisch hang: hängen, aufhängen, erhängen, henken, anhängen hanging: Hängen, Hängend happen: geschehen, geschiehst, geschieh, gescheht, geschehe, passieren, passiert, passiere, passierst, sich ereignen, vorkommen happens: geschieht, passiert happier: glücklicher happiness: Glück, Fröhlichkeit hardest: härteste hardly: kaum, hart, schwerlich hardship: Not, Mühsal, Härte harmless: harmlos, ungefährlich harmonium: Harmonium harmony: Harmonie, Eintracht, Die Harmonie, Wohlklang harness: Geschirr, anspannen, Kabelbaum, Joch, Gespann, Gurtwerk, vorspannen, spannen harsh: herb, rau, barsch, adstringierend, grob, hart, unwirsch, brummig, brutal, zusammenziehend, schroff haste: Eile, Hast, Geschwindigkeit hastened: geeilt, eilte, eilten, eiltest, eiltet hastily: hastig, eilig, schnell, vorschnell, rasch, geschwind hat: Hut, der Hut, Hütchen hatched: ausgebrütet hate: hassen, Hass, Feindschaft hated: gehaßt, verhaßt, unbeliebt hauled: geschleppt hauling: Schleppend, Abschleppen, Schleppen haze: Dunst, Nebel, Schleier, Wegen, Nebelichkeit, Kleinigkeiten tadeln, Hauch, Duft, Anflug, Schikanieren headed: betitelt, köpfig headlong: kopfüber heads: Köpfe headstone: Grabstein, Grundstein, der Eckstein, der Grundstein, der Grabstein healthy: gesund, heil, gesundheitsförderlich hearing: hörend, Gehör, Hören, Anhörung, Hearing, Gehörsinn, Gesetzhörung, erfahrend, vernehmend heartburn: Sodbrennen, Pyrosis, Magenbrennen hearth: Herd, Kamin, Feuerstelle, Esse hearts: Herzen heat: Hitze, Wärme, heizen, Glut,

Ethan Frome erhitzen, erwärmen, Inbrunst, Feuer, Hitzigkeit, Läufigkeit, Brunst heavens: Himmel heavily: schwer, schwerlich heaving: hebend, hochhebend heavy: schwer, bleischwer, schwer wie Blei, dick, stark heeded: beachtet heedless: achtlos, unachtsam heels: Absätze, Fersen, Hacken, Schuhabsätze height: Höhe, Größe, Gipfel, Anhöhe, Ausmaß hell: Hölle, Inferno, Finsternis, Dschehenna hello: Hallo, Guten tag helped: half, geholfen helping: Helfend, Portion helpless: hilflos, ratlos, unvermögend, ohnmächitg, machtlos, kraftlos, wehrlos, unbemittelt helplessly: hilflos helplessness: Hilflosigkeit, Hilfebedürftigkeit, Ratlosigkeit hemlock: Schierling hemming: säumend henceforth: künftig, fortan, ab jetzt, von nun an, in Zukunft hero: Held, Heroe, Heros hers: ihr, ihre, ihrer, ihres hesitated: zögertet, zögerte, zögerten, gezögert, zögertest, zauderten, zauderte, gezaudert, zaudertest, zaudertet, gezagt hesitating: zögernd, zaudernd, zagend, unschlüssig, unentschlossen, unentschieden, unbeständig, zögern, wankelmütig, schwankend hesitatingly: zögern, zögernd hesitation: Zögern, Unschlüssigkeit, Schwanken, Schwankung, Unentschlossenheit, Bedenken, Verzögerung, Zweifel, Zwiespalt hid: verstecktet, verstecktest, versteckten, versteckte, verheimlichtet, verhehlten, verhehlte, verhehltest, verhehltet, verheimlichte, verheimlichten hidden: versteckt, verborgen, verhehlt, verheimlicht, geborgen, heimlich hide: verstecken, verstecke, versteckst, versteckt, verbergen, Fell, verhehlen, verheimlichen, verhehle, bergen, verhehlst hiding-place: Schlupfwinkel, Ecke highest: höchste hill: Hügel, Anhöhe, Halde, Kleine Höhe, Kleiner Hügel hills: Hügel

hillside: Abhang, Hang, Steilung, Halde hindered: hinderte, gehindert, hinderten, hindertet, hindertest, behindertet, behindert, behinderte, behinderten, behindertest, erschwertet hint: Hinweis, Andeutung, Tipp, durchschimmern, anspielen auf, anspielen, durchscheinen hinted: angedeutet hints: hinweise, Andeutungen hire: mieten, mietet, mietest, miete, heuern, dingen, heuerst, heuere, dinge, heuert, dingst hired: mietete, gemietet, mieteten, mietetest, mietetet, dingtest, heuertet, heuerte, geheuert, heuertest, dingtet hitch: Ruck, Haken, Problem, Zweifel, festmachen, Schererei, Zögern, Unschlüssigkeit, Schwankung, Unentschlossenheit hitherto: bisher holding: haltend, halten, Besitz, Abhalten hollow: hohl, höhle, Hohlraum hollowing: aushöhlend hollows: Hohlräume, Hohl, Höhlen homelike: heimelig, gemütlich, heimisch homing: heimkehrend hoop: Reifen, Reif, Ring, Band hoped: hoffte, gehofft, hofften, hofftest, hofftet hopeful: Hoffnungsvoll hopefully: hoffentlich, hoffnungsvoll hopes: hofft horrible: entsetzlich, schrecklich, gräßlich, abscheulich, furchtbar, grausig, fürchterlich, garstig, widerwärtig, unheimlich, unangenehm horror: Gräuel, Abscheu, Horror, Schrecken, Spinnkopf, Spuck horse: Pferd, das Pferd, Roß, Gaul horses: Pferde hot: heiß, warm, scharf household: Haushalt housekeeping: Haushaltung, Hauswirtschaft, Haushaltsführung, Haushalten housework: Hausarbeit huddled: gepresst huge: riesig, gewaltig, ungeheuer, immens, enorm, unglaublich, unaussprechlich, großartig, titanisch, groß, grandios hugging: Umarmend hulk: Klotz humble: demütig, bescheiden, einfach, unterwürfig, niedrig,

Edith Wharton kleinlaut, gering humbled: gedemütigt, demütigte, demütigt, bescheiden humming: Trällern, Summend, Geräusch, Gesumm hung: gehangen hungry: hungrig hunt: Jagd, jagen, Jagt, jagst, jage, suchen, erbeuten, ernähren, füttern, verpflegen, speisen hunted: gejagt, jagte, jagten, jagtest, jagtet hurried: beeilt, hastig, eilig hurriedly: eilig hurry: eilen, Eile, sich beeilen, beeilen, sputen, hast, Tempo machen, pressieren, schnell, jagen, hasten hurt: verletzen, schmerzen, schaden, verwunden, sichverwunden, jemandem Schmerzen zufügen, wehe tun, Schmerz tun, Schmähung, schädigen, Schmerz verursachen hush: still hyacinth: Hyazinthe hypnotising: hypnotisieren ice: Eis, Speiseeis, Sahneeis, Gefrorene, Gefrorenes, Glasieren icicles: Eiszapfen icy: eisig, eiskalt, frostig, schauderhaft, kaltschnäuzig, kalt, grausig, grauenerregend, steinern, gräßlich, scheußlich kalt identity: Identität, Gleichheit idle: faul, untätig, nutzlos, Leerlauf, nicht belegt, müßig, leerlaufen, freilaufen, träge, unbeschäftigt, arbeitsscheu ignorance: Unwissenheit, Unkenntnis ignore: ignorieren, ignoriert, ignoriere, ignorierst, überhören, nicht berücksichtigen, überhöre, überhörst, unbeachtet lassen, vernachlässigen, aufopfern ignored: ignoriert, ignorierten, ignoriertest, ignoriertet, ignorierte, überhörte, überhörten, überhörtet, überhört, überhörtest ill: krank, übel, schlecht, schlimm illness: Krankheit, Erkrankung, Übel, Unwohlsein, Leiden, Periode, Unpäßlichkeit, Regel, Menstruation illuminated: erleuchtet, erleuchtetet, erleuchtetest, erleuchteten, erleuchtete illuminating: erleuchtend, aufschlußreich illusion: Täuschung, Illusion, Einbildung, Wahn, Fata Morgana, Einbildungskraft, Vorstellung, Augentäuschung, Wahnidee, Wahnbild, Fiktion

image: Bild, Abbild, Abbildung, Image, Figur, Ebenbild, Bildnis, Gestalt, Abbilden, Ansicht images: Bilder imagination: Einbildung, Vorstellung, Einbildungskraft, Vorstellungskraft, Phantasie imagine: sich einbilden, sich vorstellen, erdichten imagined: stelltet vor, maltest aus, maltet aus, nahm an, nahmen an, nahmst an, nahmt an, stellte vor, stelltest vor, gedacht, vermutet immeasurably: unermeßlich immediate: unverzüglich, unmittelbar, sofortig, direkt immensities: Unermeßlichkeit imminent: bevorstehend, drohende, unmittelbar bevorstehend, bevorstehen immobility: Unbeweglichkeit, Immobilität imparted: weitergegeben impartially: unparteiisch, parteilos impatient: ungeduldig, rastlos, ruhelos, rührig, steif, unruhig, zappelig, flatterhaft, unbeständig impatiently: ungeduldig imperceptible: unmerklich, unbemerkbar implications: Verwicklungen, Implikationen implied: angedeutet, bedeutet, bedeutete, bedeuteten, bedeutetest, bedeutetet, inbegriffen, impliziert, besagte, implizierte, impliziertest implored: flehten an, flehte an, flehtest an, flehtet an, angefleht imploring: anflehend, inständig imply: bedeuten, andeuten, bedeutet, implizieren, bedeutest, bedeute, implizierst, impliziert, impliziere, bezeichnen import: importieren, Einfuhr, einführen, Import impossibility: Unmöglichkeit impossible: Unmöglich, ausgeschlossen, unvereinbar, unverträlich, nichtausführbar, imaginär, hoffnungslos, aussichtslos impression: Eindruck, Abdruck, Effekt, Wirkung, Eindrücke, Auflage impressions: Eindrücke impressive: eindrucksvoll, imponierend, beeindruckend, überwältigend, imposant, ergreifend imprisonment: Gefangenschaft, Haft, Freiheitsstrafe, Gefängnisstrafe, Freiheitsentzug, Haftstrafe, Gewahrsam, Einsperren, Gefangennahme, Gefangenhaltung imprudence: Unvorsichtigkeit,

121 Unklugheit impudent: unverschämt, frech, dreist impulse: Impuls, Antrieb, Trieb, Andrang, Kraftimpulsgröße, Andrift impulses: Impulse inadequate: unzulänglich, unangemessen, inadäquat, mangelhaft, unzureichend inarticulate: undeutlich, unartikuliert incalculable: unberechenbar, unermeßlich, unabsehbar incarnation: Inkarnation, Verkörperung incessant: ununterbrochen, unaufhörlich, unablässig, ständig incident: Zwischenfall, Ereignis, Vorfall, Störungsanlaß, Begebenheit, Einfallend, Vorkommnis incidents: Vorfälle, Zwischenfälle, Ereignisse incisively: schneidend inclination: Neigung, Inklination, Neigungswinkel, Lust, Gefälle, Geneigtheit, Gesinnung, Deklination, Zuneigung, Einstellung, Trend included: schloß ein, schloßt ein, eingeschlossen, schlossest ein, schlossen ein, enthielt, enthalten, enthieltet, enthielten, enthieltest, einbezogen increased: erhöht, angewachsen increasing: zunehmend, ansteigend, mehr und mehr, in zunehmendem Maße, steigend, sich vergrößernd, anwachsend increasingly: zunehmend incredible: unglaublich, unglaubhaft incredulity: Ungläubigkeit incredulous: ungläubig indelicate: taktlos indentured: verpflichtete vertraglich indescribable: unbeschreiblich indifference: Gleichgültigkeit, Indifferenz, Empfindungslosigkeit, Unempfindlichkeit, Phlegma, Kaltblütigkeit, Gefühllosigkeit, Gedankenlosigkeit indifferent: gleichgültig, indifferent, egal, abgestumpft, teilnahmslos, unparteiisch, unmotiviert, uninterressiert, ungerührt, teilnamslos, einerlei indifferently: gleichgültig indignantly: empört indignation: Empörung, Entrüstung, Ärger indistinct: unklar, undeutlich, trübe, ungewiß, undurchsichtig, unbestimmt, schuftig, obskur, haarig, finster, faul indistinctly: undeutlich

122 indolent: träge, faul, indolent, behäbig, schwerfällig indoors: innen, im Hause, drinnen induced: induziert, induzierten, induziertest, induzierte, induziertet, veranlaßt, veranlaßte, veranlaßten, veranlaßtet, veranlaßtest ineffectual: unwirksam, ineffektiv inefficiency: Unzweckmäßigkeit inertia: Trägheit, Massenträgheit inevitable: Unvermeidlich, unabwendbar, notwendig, zwangsläufig, unweigerlich, umvermeidbar inexorable: unerbittlich, herrisch, unaufhaltsam, unnachsichtig, herrschsüchtig, hart, gnadenlos, rücksichtslos, hartherzig inexperienced: unerfahren, unbewandert inexpressibly: unaussprechlich inferences: Folgerungen infinitely: unendlich inflamed: entflammt, entflammte, entflammten, entflammtest, entflammtet, brenzlich inflection: Flexion, Biegung, Beugung inflict: zufügen, fügst zu, fügen zu, füge zu, fügt zu, auferlegen, zubringen informant: Informant, Informantin infrequent: selten ingenious: genial, erfinderisch, ausgeklügelt, sinnreich, geistreich, klug, tüchtig, geschult, geübt, gewandt, handlich ingratiatingly: liebenswürdig, einschmeicheln, schmeichlerisch initiation: Initiierung, Einleitung, Initiation injunction: Gerichtliche Verfügung, Einstweilige Verfügung injured: verletzt, verletztet, verletztest, verletzte, verletzten, beschädigt, beschädigte, beschädigten, beschädigtet, havariert, ramponiert inlaid: eingelegt inn: Wirtshaus, Gasthaus, Herberge, Gasthof, Café, Bauernwirtshaus, Bauerngasthaus, Ausschank, Gastwirtschaft, Ausflugslokal, Schankwirtschaft inner: innerlich, inwendig, innere, intern, seelisch innocuous: harmlos innumerable: unzählig, zahllos insatiable: unersättlich, unstillbar insensibly: unempfindlich insinuations: Andeutungn, Andeutungen

Ethan Frome insisted: beharrtet, drangt an, drangst an, drangen an, drang an, beharrten, beharrte, beharrt, angedrungen, beharrtest, bestanden auf inspection: Kontrolle, Inspektion, Prüfung, Besichtigung, Überprüfung, Untersuchung, Abnahme, Kenntnisnahme, Musterung, Kontrolldienst instances: Belegstellen, Fälle, Instanzen, Umstände instant: Augenblick, Moment, sofortig instantly: sofort, sogleich, gleich, augenblicklich instead: stattdessen, dafür, anstelle, anstatt, statt, anstatt dessen instilled: brachte bei, träufelte ein, flößtet ein, flößtest ein, flößten ein, beigebracht, erzog an, brachten bei, brachtest bei, brachtet bei, erzogen an instinct: Instinkt, Trieb, Naturtrieb instinctive: instinktiv, instinktmäßig instinctively: instinktiv instincts: Instinkte, Impuls, Anregung, Antriebe, Antrieb instrument: Instrument, Werkzeug, Gerät, Urkunde instruments: Instrumente insubstantial: unwirklich insurmountable: unüberwindlich, unüberbrückbar, unbesiegbar, unschlagbar intangible: unfassbar intense: intensiv, heftig, stark, gewaltig intensely: intensiv intenser: intensiver intensify: intensivieren, verstärken, intensivierst, intensiviere, intensiviert, verschärfen, stärken intention: Absicht, Plan, Vorhaben, Vorsatz, Entschluß, Endzweck, Intention, Augenmerk, Ziel, Zweck intentions: Absichten, Vorsatze, Vorhabene, Absichte intently: eifrig inter: zwischen intercourse: Verkehr interested: interessiert, aufmerksam, interessenten, teilnehmend, andächtig, teilnahmsvoll interfere: eingreifen, sich einmischen, bemühen interrupted: unterbrochen interval: Intervall, Abstand, Zeitabstand, Tonabstand, Logarithmisches Frequenzintervall intervals: Zwischenräume, Pausen, Tonabstände, Zeitzwischenräume

intervene: einschreiten, schreite ein, schreitet ein, dazwischentreten, schreitest ein, eingreifen, schreiten ein, greife ein, greifen ein, greifst ein, greift ein intervened: schrittest ein, schrittet ein, schritten ein, schritt ein, eingeschritten, traten dazwischen, tratet dazwischen, trat dazwischen, tratest dazwischen, griff ein, dazwischengetreten intervention: Intervention, Eingriff, Eingreifen, Einmischung intestinal: Darm intimacy: Vertrautheit, Intimität, Innigkeit, Vertraulichkeit intolerable: unerträglich, intolerabel, untragbar intoxicating: berauschend intricate: kompliziert, verwickelt intruder: Eindringling, Einschleicher, Infiltrantin, Fremdkörper, Zudringling, Einbrecher, Infiltrant invited: lud ein, ludst ein, luden ein, eingeladen, ludet ein inward: innerlich, inner, innere, seelisch, nach innen, inwendig, innen, hinein, intern inwardly: innerlich irish: irisch, Irländisch iron: Eisen, Bügeln, Eisern, Bügeleisen, Plätten, Aus eisen, Glätten, Plätteisen, Glattbügeln, Ausbügeln ironic: ironisch ironically: ironisch irony: Ironie irrationally: irrational irresolutely: unschlüssig, unentschlossen irresponsible: unverantwortlich, verantwortungslos irretrievable: unwiederbringlich isolated: isoliertet, isolierte, isoliert, isolierten, isoliertest, abgesondert, abgelegen, abgeschieden isolation: Absonderung, Isolierung, Isolation, Vereinsamung, Entkopplung, Isoliertheit ivy: Efeu jacket: Jacke, Jackett, Sakko, Männerrock, Schutzumschlag, Umschlag, Mantel, Joppe, Hülle, Einhüllen, die Jacke jaws: Rachen, Maul, Fresse, Schnauze, Schnabel, Schlund, Klappe, Mund jealousy: Eifersucht, Neid, Mißgunst jerk: Ruck, reißen, zucken, zerren, Ruckweise, erschüttern, anziehen jerked: gezerrt jerking: zerrend

Edith Wharton jingle: Klimpern, Klingeln, Klirren jockeys: Betrügt, Jockeis jogged: getrottet jogging: Trottend, Rüttelnd join: verbinden, verbindet, verbinde, verbindest, gesellen, fügen, fügst, verknüpfen, Geselle, gesellst, fügt joke: Scherz, Spaß, Witz, scherzen, Jux, Streich, Täuschung, spaßen, Späßchen, Ulk, Keckheit joked: gescherzt jolly: Vergnügt, lustig, fröhlich, heiter journey: Reise, Fahrt, Tour, Überfahrt, Seereise, Passage, Fußwanderung joy: Freude, Genuß, Wonne joyous: freudig, fröhlich judge: Richter, beurteilen, urteilen, richten, Preisrichter jug: Krug, Kanne, Kännchen, Behälter, Besteck, Karaffe, Hafen, Topf jump: Sprung, springen, Absprung, Hindernis, Steigung, überspringen jumped: gesprungen, sprang junction: Anschluss, Verbindung, Knotenpunkt, Kreuzung, Zusammenfluss, Union, Gleisanschluß, Übergang, Verbindungsstelle, Anschlußstelle, Verkehrskreuzung justifies: rechtfertigt keen: Scharf, eifrig, flink, gewandt, hurtig, gescheit, leidenschaftlich, munter, pfiffig, frisch, gewitzt keeping: behaltend, Aufbewahrend, bewahrend, Haltend, aufhaltend, behütend, hütend keeps: behält, bewahrt auf, bewahrt, hütet, behütet, hält auf ketch: Ketsch, die Ketsch key: Schlüssel, taste, Tonart, Paßfeder, Lösung, Tonleiter, Klaviertaste, Gamme kick: treten, Fußtritt, Tritt, Stoß, stoßen, ausschlagen, strampeln, stampfen, Kick, hauen, trampeln kidney: Niere, die Niere kill: töten, ermorden, umbringen, fertigmachen, erledigen killed: getötet, abgeschossen, gelöscht kills: tötet kin: Verwandtschaft kinder: Gütiger kind-hearted: mild, wohltuend, sanft, sanftmütig, wohlwollend, gutherzig, gutartig, großzügig, freigebig, weitherzig, gutmütig kindled: entzündetest, zündetet an, entzündete, entzündet, zündeten an,

zündete an, angezündet, entzündetet, zündetest an, entzündeten, entflammt kindly: freundlich, gütig, freundlicherweise kindness: Freundlichkeit, Liebenswürdigkeit, Güte, Wohlwollen kiss: Kuss, küssen, der Kuss kissed: geküßt, küsste kissing: Küssend kitchen: Küche knee: Knie, das Knie, Krummholz kneeling: Kniend, Hinkniend, Kniebeugung, Kniefall knees: Kniet knitted: gestrickt, strickte knocked: geschlagen, geklopft knoll: Niedriger Hügel knot: Knoten, Knutt, Knüpfen, Knäuel, Wickel, Strenges Garn, Schlinge, Laufknoten, Knorren knowing: wissend, kennend knows: weiß, kennt label: Etikett, Marke, kennzeichnen, Aufkleber, etikettieren, Kennsatz, Schild, Kennzeichen, Etikette, Anhänger, Beschriftung laboratory: Laboratorium, Labor, Versuchsanstalt laden: beladen laid: legtet, legte, legtest, legten, gelegt lain: gelegen lake: See, der See, Süßwassersee lame: Lahm, hinkend, träge, verkrüppelt, verstümmelt, lähmen lameness: Lahmheit, Lähmung lamp: Lampe, die Lampe, Laterne lamplight: Lampenlicht landing: Landung, Absatz, Treppenabsatz, Flur, Fallen, Anlegen, Stürzen, Während der Landung aufsetzen landlady: Vermieterin, Wirtin, Hauswirtin, Zimmervermieterin landmark: Grenzstein, Wahrzeichen, Markstein landmarks: Grenzsteine landscape: Landschaft, Querformat, Land, die Landschaft lane: Gasse, Weg, Fahrbahn, Fahrspur languid: matt, träge, müde, lustlos, lässig, nachlässig, freudlos, arbeitsscheu, denkfaul, schleppend, flau languidly: matt lank: strähnig, glatthaarig, gerade, dünn, schlicht, schmächtig lantern: Laterne, Leuchte, Beleuchtungsgerät

123 larch: Lärche, Lärchenbaum largely: größtenteils, weitgehend, mehrenteils, groß larger: größer lashes: peitscht lashing: peitschend, Zurring latch: Klinke, Riegel, Verschluß, Schnappschloß lately: kürzlich, letztlich, neuerdings, neulich lateness: Verspätung latent: verborgen, latent, potentiell latter: Letztere, Letzte laugh: lachen, lache, grinsen, schallen, lächeln, kichern, glucksen laughed: gelacht laughing: lachend, lachen, gekicher, lacher, gelächter, kichern laughter: Gelächter, Lachen, Lächeln, Lache, Grinsen lawyer: Rechtsanwalt, Jurist, Advokat, Anwalt, Rechtsgelehrter layer: Schicht, Ebene, Lage, Ableger, Erdschicht, Scheibe, Absenker lays: legt lazy: faul, träge, arbeitsscheu leaden: bleiern leader: Führer, Chef, Leiter, Anführer, Befehlshaber, Vorspann, Hauptmann, Oberhaupt, Konzertmeister, Häuptling, Leader leaf: Blatt leafless: blattlos, kahl, entblättert leak: Leck, lecken, Undichtigkeit, undichte Stelle, Loch, Öffnung, entweichen, auslaufen, Punktion lean: mager, lehnen, anlehnen, stützen, sich lehnen, hager, unterstützen, stemmen, sich stützen, knapp, anlegen leaned: gelehnt leaning: Lehnend, Anlehnen, schief, lehnen learn: lernen, lernt, lernst, lerne, erlernen, studieren, hören, horchen, aneignen, erlernst, erlerne learned: gelernt, lernte, lerntet, lerntest, lernten, gelehrt, gebildet, lernen, gesittet, erlerntest, erlernten learning: Lernend, Lernen, Gelehrtheit, Aneignen, erlernend, Kenntnis, Sachverstand, Anlernen, Wissen least: geringste, wenigste, kleinste, am wenigsten, wenigst leather: Leder, Ledern, Putzen, das Leder leaves: verläßt, Blätter, überläßt, läßt zurück, bricht auf, baumblatt, Laub, blättchen, Blatt lectures: vorträge ledge: Leiste, Fenstersims

124 legs: Beine leisure: Muße, Freizeit lend: leihen, leihe, leihst, leiht, verleihen, verleiht, verleihst, verleihe, borgen, borgt, borgst length: Länge, Umfang lent: Geliehen, lieht, lieh, liehen, liehst, verlieht, verliehst, verliehen, verlieh, Fastenzeit, geborgt letting: Lassend, vermietend, Vermietung libraries: Bibliotheken, Sammlungen lids: Deckel, Lider lie: liegen, lügen, lüge, fabulieren, Unwahrkeit, Täuschung, Schwindelei, Schummelei, Lage, Irreführung, gelegen sein lift: Aufzug, heben, aufheben, Fahrstuhl, Lift, anheben, erheben, steigen, hochheben, zücken, Stimulans lifted: angehoben, abgehoben lifting: hebend, Stapellauf, heben lighted: beleuchtet, angemacht, angezüundet lighter: Feuerzeug, Leichter, Schute, Funke, Taschenfeuerzeug, gemildert lighting: Beleuchtung, Belichtung, Ausleuchtung lightly: leicht lights: Lichter, Lichten liked: gemocht, beliebt likeness: Ähnlichkeit, Bildnis, Konterfei limbs: Glieder, Gliedmaßen, Teil, Glied limit: Grenze, begrenzen, beschränken, einschränken, Limit, Schranke, Begrenzung, Grenzwert, Beschränkung, Obergrenze limited: begrenzt, beschränkt, limitiert, bedingt limp: hinken, humpeln, schlaff lineaments: Gesichtszüge lined: liniiert, liniert linger: verweilen, verweilst, verweilt, verweile, sich aufhalten, bleiben, zögern, dauern, stehenbleiben, fortdauern, fortwähren lingered: verweilt, verweiltet, verweiltest, verweilte, verweilten linked: verknüpft lips: Lippen listen: zuhören, höre zu, hörst zu, hören zu, hört zu, hören, anhören, hörst an, hören an, höre an, hört an listened: hörte zu, hörten zu, hörtest zu, zugehört, hörtet zu, angehört, hörte an, hörten an, hörtest an, hörtet an, horchte listening: zuhörend, anhörend, horchend, Anhören, Zuhören,

Ethan Frome Hören listless: lustlos, schlaff, langsam, teilnahmslos, freudlos, schwerfällig, träge, schlapp, mißvergnügt, matt, lahm lit: erleichtert, beleuchtet, erleuchtet lived: lebtet, lebtest, gelebt, lebten, lebte, wohntest, wohnten, gewohnt, wohnte, wohntet, haustet lively: lebhaft, lebendig, munter, witzig, flott, geistreich, heiter, Herzhaftigkeit, sinnreich livery: Livree load: Last, laden, Ladung, Belastung, beladen, aufladen, belasten, einladen, Bürde, Fuhre, befrachten loaded: geladen, beladen, belastet loading: Laden, Beladung, Belastung, Ladung, Verladung, Beladen, Einschiffung, Frachtgut, Ladend, Verladen loathing: Verabscheuend, Ekel localized: lokalisiert, lokalisierte, lokalisierten, lokalisiertet, lokalisiertest locked: verschlossen, gesperrt, abgesperrt, geschlossen, abgeschlossen, verschloß, fest verschlossen, dicht locket: Medaillon lodge: beherbergen, einreichen, unterbringen, einquartieren, Häuschen, wohnen, hausen, Hütte, leben, Loge, akkomodieren lodged: logierte, logiert, gelagert log: protokollieren, Protokoll, Logbuch, Log, Klotz, Scheit logs: Holzblöcke, Klötze, Schlagholz lonelier: einsamer loneliness: Einsamkeit, Verlassenheit, Einsamkeitsgefühl lonely: einsam lonesome: einsam longed: gesehnt longer: Länger longing: Sehnsucht, Verlangen, Sehnsüchtig, Schmachten, Verlangt, Sich sehnen nach, Sehnen, Sehnend, Begierde, Begehren longitude: Länge, Geographische Länge loomed: türmte sich auf, zich abgezeichnet looming: aufragend, sich abzeichnend loosely: locker, lose loses: verliert losing: verlierend, Verlust loth: abgeneigt, unwillig lots: Mengen loud: laut, lautstark, geräuschvoll, schreiend, lärmend, lärmig

lounging: faulenzend loutish: flegelhaft, hochgewachsen, stümperhaft, läppisch, aufgeschossen, lümmelhaft, großwüchsig loved: geliebt, liebte, beliebt lovely: Lieblich, reizend, hübsch, schön, entzückend, hold, anmutig, allerliebst, herrlich, lieb, niedlich lovers: Geliebte loves: liebt lowered: senktet, senkte, senktest, gesenkt, senkten, ließt herunter, ließest herunter, heruntergelassen, ließen herunter, ließ herunter lowering: senkend, Absenkung, Herunterlassen, drohend, herunterlassend, Senkung luck: Glück, Verhängnis, Fügung, Schicksal, Los, Geschick, Chance lucky: glücklich lumbago: Hexenschuß, Lumbago lumber: Bauholz, Holz, Nutzholz lump: Klumpen, Stück, Masse, Kloß, Fragment, Bruchstück, Tölpel, Holzschuh, Fleck, Klecks, Knoten lumps: Klumpen lungs: Lunge, Lungen, Atmungsorgan lustre: Glanz lustrous: glänzend luxuriated: schwelgte luxury: Luxus, Üppigkeit, Aufwand, Wollust, Wonne, Überfluß, Stattlichkeit, Reichtum, Prunk, Pracht, Luxusartikel lying: Liegend, Verlogen, Lügnerisch, fraudulös, betrügerisch, trügerisch, unzuverlässig, lügenhaft mad: wahnsinnig, verrückt, toll, irre, böse madness: Wahnsinn, Verrücktheit, Idiotie, Unsinn, Unklugheit, Torheit, Tollheit, Schelmerei, Irrsinn, Dummheit, Schalkhaftigkeit magic: Magie, magisch, Zauberei, Zauberkunst, Zauber, Bezauberung, Hexerei, zauberisch, die Magie, Zaubern magnified: vergrößert mahogany: Mahagoni, Mahagonibaum maidenhood: die Jungfernschaft, die Jungfräulichkeit, die Jungmädchenzeit, die Mädchenzeit, Jungfernschaft, Mädchenzeit mail: Post, Versenden, Aufgeben, Briefpost, Aufgabe eines Poststückes, zugesandten Briefe malice: Arglist, Bosheit, gehässige Bemerkung, Zorn, Wut, Verachtung, Stichelei, Sarkasmus, Grimm,

Edith Wharton Gehässigkeit, Bösartigkeit managed: verwaltetet, verwaltet, verwaltetest, verwalteten, verwaltete, bewältigtet, kriegtet hin, steuerte, steuerten, steuertest, steuertet mangers: Krippen manhood: Männlichkeit, Mannesalter manner: Weise, Art, Manier, Art und Weise, Auftreten manoeuvred: manövrieren mansion: Villa, Herrenhaus manufacturer: Hersteller, Produzent, Erzeuger, Fabrikant, Fabrikbesitzer, Hervorbringer, Darsteller marked: markiert, merklich, gekennzeichnet marriage: Ehe, Hochzeit, Heirat, Trauung, Eheschließung, Hochzeitsfest, Hochzeitsfeier, Verbindung married: verheiratet, heiratete, heirateten, geheiratet, heiratetest, heiratetet marrow: Mark, Knochenmark, Kern marry: heiraten, heiratet, heiratest, heirate, sich verheiraten, sich vermählen, in den Ehestand treten, sich verehelichen marrying: heiratend mass: masse, Messe, Menge, Gottesdienst, Haufen, Stapel, Dienst master: Meister, Maestro, Herr, Magister, Master, beherrschen, Gebieter, Wirt, Druckvorlage, Lehrer, erlernen mastered: beherrscht mastery: Herrschaft, Beherrschung, Meisterschaft mat: Matte, Matt, Vorleger, Untersetzer, Untersatz, Unterlage, Strohsitz, streiten, sich prügeln, Setdeckchen, kämpfen match: Streichholz, Zündholz, Wettkampf, Spiel, Partie, Schlacht, Spielchen, Spielraum, Streit, Übereinstimmung, vermitteln matches: Streichhölzer, Kämpfe maternally: mütterlich matt: matt, bleich, farblos matters: Bedeutet, Materien mattress: Matratze, die Matratze maze: Labyrinth, Irrgarten meagre: mager meal: Mahlzeit, Essen, Mehl, Mahl, Graupe, Speise, Fraß meaning: Bedeutung, Sinn, Tendenz, Wert, Meinung, Plan, Inhalt, Bezeichnung, Verstand, Tragweite, Wichigkeit meanings: Bedeutungen meant: gemeint, bedeutete

meanwhile: unterdessen, inzwischen, indessen, indes, währenddessen, mittlerweile, einstweilen, in der Zwischenzeit, zwischenzeitlich measure: Maß, Maßnahme, messen, abmessen, Maßeinheit, aufmessen, Maßregel measured: gemessen, bemessen, maßvoll, passend, abgemessen reden, abgemessen measuring: Messen, Messend, Messung, Abmessen meat: Fleisch, Braten, das Fleisch mechanically: mechanisch meddle: sich einmischen medicine: Medizin, Arznei, Medikament, Arzneimittel, Heilmittel meditated: meditiertet, meditiertest, meditierten, meditierte, meditiert, nachgedacht meditative: nachdenklich, versponnen medium: Mittel, Medium, durchschnittich, Mitte, Umgebung, Datenträger, Paragnost, Vermittlung medley: Potpourri, Gemisch melancholy: Schwermut, Melancholie, wehmütig, Trübsinn, Wehmut, schwermütig, melancholisch, Traurigkeit, trübsinnig, Tiefsinn mellower: reifer melodies: Melodien melt: schmelzen, Schmelze, tauen, auftauen, ineinander überlaufen, gießen, verwischen, sich verwischen, abtauen, verschwimmen melted: geschmolzen melting: Schmelzen, schmelzend, Tauwetter, Abtauen memories: Erinnerungen, Souvenirs, Andenken memory: Erinnerung, Gedächtnis, Andenken, Speicher, Erinnerungsvermögen menaces: droht mend: reparieren, flicken, ausbessern, wiederherstellen mending: Ausbesserung, Reparierend mental: geistig, seelisch, mental mention: Erwähnung, nennen, erwähnen, ausschreiben, bekanntgeben, benennen, mitteilen, Meldung machen von, titulieren, erklären, informieren mercy: Barmherzigkeit, Gnade, Mitleid, Nachsicht mere: Bloß, Nur, Rein merely: lediglich, bloß

125 merged: mischtet, gemischt, mischtest, fusionierten, fusioniertest, fusioniertet, fusioniert, mischten, mischte, fusionierte merino: die Merinowolle, Merino, Merinoschaf message: Nachricht, Meldung, Botschaft, Mitteilung, Bekanntmachung, Auskunft metal: Metall, Metallisch, das Metall, metallen, Dose, Büchse, Blech, Konserve metallic: metallisch, metallartig methods: Methoden mice: Mäuse microscopic: mikroskopisch midnight: Mitternacht, Gespensterstunde mien: Miene mild: mild, sanft, leicht mildly: sanft, mild, milde mildness: Milde mile: Meile milk: Milch, Melken, die Milch milky: milchig, milchartig mill: Mühle, Fabrik, fräsen, Mahlen millions: Millionen mine: Bergwerk, meiner, Grube, Mine, meines, mein, Zeche, meine, der meine, verminen, die meine mingled: mischtest, gemischt, mischte, mischten, mischtet, kunterbunt, mengte, mengten, mengtest, mengtet, gemengt minute: Minute, winzig, die Minute miracle: Wunder, Wundertat, Mirakel, Mysterium mirror: Spiegel, Spiegeln, Widerspiegeln, Lampenglas, Glaswerk, Glaswaren, Gläser, der Spiegel, Spiegelglas mis: Informationsverwaltungssystem, Meile, mi, miß, un miserable: elend, jämmerlich, erbärmlich, miserabel, schlecht, unglücklich, traurig, arm, gräßlich, böse, unpäßlich miserably: elend, jämmerlich misery: Elend, Not, Leid, Unglück, Schlamassel, Schicksalsschläge, Schicksalsschlag, Misere, Mißgeschick misfortune: Mißgeschick, Unglück, Pech misfortunes: Mißgeschick, Rückschläge, Unfall misgivings: Befürchtungen misleading: irreführend missed: vermisste missing: fehlend, verschwunden, vermisst, verloren, vergangen

126 mist: Nebel, Dunst, Dampf, Qualm, Schleier mite: Milbe, Zecke moaned: gestöhnt, stöhnte mock: verspotten, verspottet, spotten, verspottest, verspotte, spottet, spotte, spottest, foppen, äffen, nachahmen mocked: verspottet, verspottetet, verspottetest, verspotteten, verspottete, gespottet, spottetest, spotteten, spottete, spottetet moisture: Feuchtigkeit, Nässe molasses: Melasse, Sirup, Zuckerrübensirup momentary: augenblicklich, momentan, vorübergehend, monentele, augenblickliche moments: Momente, Augenblicke monotonous: monoton, eintönig monstrous: ungeheuer, mißgestaltet, monströs, abscheulich, ungeheuerlich, riesig, widerlich, gräßlich, ekelerregend, abscheuerregend, grundhäßlich mood: Stimmung, Laune, Humor, Gemutszustand moon: Mond, der Mond moral: moralisch, sittlich, Moral moreover: außerdem, zudem, überdies, ferner, übrigens, weiter, fort mornings: Morgen morrow: Folgender Tag morsel: Bissen mortal: sterblich, tödlich mortgaged: verpfändet, nahm eine Hypothek auf mosses: Moose motion: Bewegung, Antrag, Resolution motionless: bewegungslos, regungslos, reglos, still motions: Bewegungen motives: Motiv, Beweggrund, Ansporne, Antriebe mount: montieren, besteigen, anbringen, ersteigen, erklimmen, erklettern, Berg, anpassen, adaptieren, aufstellen mountain: Berg, der Berg, Gebirge mounted: beritten mounting: Montage, Einbau, Ersteigend, Halterung, Zusammenstellung, Montierung, Schiffslafette, Bestückung mounts: Untersätze, montiert, beschlägt, Berge mournful: traurig, trauervoll mouse: Maus, die Maus, Feldmaus, Mäuse moustache: Schnurrbart

Ethan Frome movements: Bewegungen moving: bewegend, ergreifend, beweglich, rührend muffled: umhüllt mumbling: murmelnd murmured: gemurmelt muscles: Muskeln musicians: Musiker mute: Stumm, sprachlos, zudichten mysterious: geheimnisvoll, mysteriös, rätselhaft, sonderbar mysteriously: geheimnisvoll nailed: genagelt nap: Schläfchen, Nickerchen, Schlummern, Noppe narrow: eng, schmal, knapp, enge, sich verengen, verengen, Landenge, Verengerung, Engpässe, engermachen, verschmälern narrowed: verengt narrow-mindedness: Engstirnigkeit, Spießbürgerlichkeit, Kleinlichkeit, Borniertheit, Beschränktheit, Kleinmütigkeit native: einheimisch, angeboren, Eingeborene, Eingeborener, autochthon, Einheimische, bodenständig, Ureinwohner, Autochthone, eingeboren, Einwohner natives: Eingeborene nearer: näher nearest: nächste, nächst nearness: Nähe, Nachbarschaft, Umgebung neck: Hals, Nacken, Genick, ficken, miteinander schlafen, Liebe machen, Geschlechtsverkehr haben, sich lieben, bumsen, Ausschnitt necks: Hälse needle: Nadelt, die Nadel, Stecknadel needles: Nadeln needlework: Näherei, Handarbeit, Nähzeug negative: negativ, verneinend, ablehnend neglecting: vernachlässigend neighbour: Nachbar, Nachbarin neighbourhood: Nachbarschaft, Quartier, Stadtviertel, Viertel neighbours: Nachbarn, Umwohnenden neither: weder, keiner, keine, keines, auch nicht, noch, niemand nerve: Nerv nervous: nervös, aufgeregt, reizbar, erhitzt nest: Nest, nisten, Horst, verschachteln, einnisten neutralising: neutralisieren nevertheless: trotzdem, dennoch, nichtsdestoweniger, doch, jedoch,

trotz, nichtsdestotrotz, gleichwohl, aber, allerdings, dessenungeachtet newspapers: Zeitungen nibbled: geknabbert, knabberte niche: Nische, Hohlräume, Höhlung, Kasse, Spalte, Mauernische, Höhle, Gewächshäuser, Aushöhlung, Höhle im mauer nigh: nahe nightfall: Nachteinbruch, Einbruch der Dunkelheit nightly: nächtlich nights: Nächte nimbly: flink nobody: Niemand, Keiner, Keine, Keines nod: nicken, Kopfnicken, grüßen, ja knicken, winken nodded: schlafen, sich neigen, geschlafen, genickt, wippen, nicken noon: Mittag, der Mittag northerly: nördlich norway: Norwegen nose: Nase, die Nase, Geruch, Geruchsnerv, Gerüche, Duft, Geruchssinn noses: Nasen notable: bemerkenswert, Standesperson, Beachtenswert, beträchtlich note: Notiz, Note, Anmerkung, Aufzeichnung, notieren, anmerken, Vermerk, Kommentar, Geldschein, Karte, Eintragung notes: die Mitschrift, Aufzeichnungen, Notizen, hinweise, effekte, der Anhang, anhang zur Bilanz, Anmerkungen, Anleihen, der Konzernanhang notice: bemerken, Benachrichtigung, Bekanntmachung, wahrnehmen, Notiz, Ankündigung, Anzeige, merken, Bemerkung, Plakat, Aushang noticed: bemerkt, notierte notion: Begriff, Ahnung, Idee, Vorstellung, Auffassung, Denkweise, Verständnis, Gedanke, Gedächtnis nourishment: Nahrung, Ernährung, Nahrungsmittel, Ätzung, Futter nowadays: Heutzutage, heute, aktuell, zur Zeit, derzeitig, gegenwärtig, heutig, gegenwartig nowhere: nirgends, Nirgendwo, nirgens, nirgendwohin nucleus: Kern, Zellkern, Atomkern, Mittelpunkt, Obststein, Schwerpunkt, Zentrum nurse: Krankenschwester, pflegen, Kindermädchen, Schwester, Krankenpfleger, Amme, stillen,

Edith Wharton Wärterin, Krankenpflegerin, Schwesterchen, versorgen nursing: Krankenpflege, Pflege, Stillen, Versorgung, Betreuung, Einrichtung, Fürsorge, Pflegend, Sorge nuzzled: schmiegtest, schmiegtet, geschmiegt, hätschelte, schmiegte, schmiegten o: Oxygenium, Sauerstoff oath: Eid, Schwur, Fluch oats: Hafer, Getreide obediently: gehorsam obeying: gehorchend, befolgend object: Objekt, Gegenstand, Ding, widersprechen, protestieren, Ziel, bestreiten, Zweck objection: Einwand, Einspruch, Widerspruch, Einwendung, Protest, Beschwerde, Bedenken, Klage, Verteidigungsschrift, Beanstandung obliged: verpflichtet, verpflichtetet, verpflichtete, verpflichteten, verpflichtetest, verbunden oblique: schräg, schief, Indirekt, obliquus, abhängig obliterated: löschtet aus, löschte aus, löschten aus, löschtest aus, ausgelöscht obscure: dunkel, obskur, schmierig, schuftig, teuflisch, unbedeutend, unbekannt, veruntreuen, unheimlich, fragwürdig, unklar obscurer: unklarer, unbekannter obscurity: Dunkelheit, Finsternis, Undeutlichkeit, Düsterheit observation: Beobachtung, Anschauung, Bemerkung, Vermerk, Äußerung, Tadel, Observation, Interesse, Aufmerksamkeit, Ansicht, Beobachten observer: Beobachter, Observator, Betrachter observing: beobachtend, aufmerksam, bemerkend obstacles: Hindernisse obstinate: hartnäckig, starrsinnig, eigensinnig, starrköpfig, stur, halsstarrig, trotzig, widerspenstig, widerhaarig, schwerhandhabbar, widersetzlich obstinately: stur obstruction: Obstruktion, Hindernis, Sperrung, Hemmung, Stockung, Verstopfung, Erstöpfung in das Körper, Behinderung obtain: bekommen, erhalten, erhältst, erhaltet, erhalte, bekommst, bekomme, bekommt, einholen, kriegen, holt ein obtained: bekamt, bekam, bekamst, bekommen, erhielt, erhieltet,

bekamen, erhielten, erhalten, erhieltest, holtet ein occasion: Anlass, Gelegenheit, Veranlassung, Ereignis, Mal occasional: gelegentlich, okkasionell occasionally: gelegentlich, zuweilen occasions: Gelegenheiten occurred: geschehen, geschahst, geschahen, geschah, geschaht, vorgekommen, kam vor, kamen vor, kamst vor, kamt vor, fandet statt odd: ungerade, seltsam, sonderbar, wunderlich, kurios, merkwürdig, befremdend, eigenartig, uneben odour: Geruch, Gestank, Hauch offence: Beleidigung, Vergehen, Straftat, Delikt, Strafbare Handlung offering: Gabe, Opfergabe, Opfer offers: Angebote, bietet older: älter oldest: alteste, senior, älteste ominous: ominös, unheilvoll, bedrohlich, ahnungsvoll, drohend, unheilverkündend, verhängnisvoll omissions: Auslassungen onto: auf, hinaus opaque: undurchsichtig, opak, dunkel opened: öffnetet, geöffnet, öffnetest, öffnete, öffneten, machten auf, machtet auf, machtest auf, machte auf, aufgemacht, schlugt auf opening: öffnend, Öffnung, Eröffnung, aufmachend, Loch, aufschlagend, öffnen, Lichtung, eröffnend, Freigabe, Ausschalten openings: Öffnungen openly: offen, öffentlich, aufrichtig, aus vollem Halse, aus voller Kehle, freimütig, geradeheraus, unverhohlen, rundheraus operations: Betriebe, Vorgang, Produktion versus Marketing, Operation, Handhabung, Geschäftstätigkeit, Gang, der Ablauf, Betrieb, Bedienung, Arbeitsweise opinion: Meinung, Stellungnahme, Ansicht, Gutachten, Auffassung, Anschauung, Urteil, Standpunkt, Meinungsäußerung, Gutdünken, Glaube opportunities: Gelegenheiten, Potenz, Möglichkeiten, Kraft, Stärke, Energie, Dynamik, Chancen, Gelegenheit zur Verwesentlichung, Gewalt opposite: gegenüber, Gegenteil, entgegengesetzt, Gegensatz, an, jenseits, Gegenübergestellte, gegenüberstehend, gegenüberliegend, im Jenseits,

127 verkehrt oppression: Unterdrückung, Beklemmung, Beklommenheit, Angst, Tyrannei oppressive: drückend, bedrückend, schwül, stickig, gewaltsam, erstickend, beklemmend, beklemmt, bedrängt, bange opulence: Reichtum, Üppigkeit oracle: Orakel orchard: Obstgarten ordered: angefordert, geordert, angeordnet, angeschrieben orders: Bestellungen, Ausschüsse ordinary: Gewöhnlich, alltäglich, Normal, einfach, durchschnittlich, üblich organ: Orgel, Organ ornaments: Verzierungen, Schmuckstücke, Schmucksteine, Schmucksachen, Juwelierarbeit, Schmuck, Bijouterien otherwise: sonst, andernfalls, entgegengesetzt, anders, andersherum, ansonsten, dagegen, Gegenteils, hingegen, im Gegensatz ought: sollte, sollen outburst: Ausbruch outdoors: Draußen, im Freien outer: äußer, äußere outline: Umriss, Skizze, Kontur, Entwurf, Silhouette, Leitfaden, Abriss, Grundriß, kurz zusammenfassen, Schattenriß, Außenlinie outlined: umissen, skizziert out-of-doors: außer Hause, auswärts overcame: überwältigtet, überwältigtest, überwältigten, überwältigte, überwandest, überwand, überwandet, überwanden, übermanntest, übermannten, übermanntet overcome: überwältigen, überwinden, überwältige, überwältigt, überwältigst, überwinde, überwindet, überwindest, überwunden, bewältigen, übermannen overhanging: hervorstehend overhead: oben, Overhead, Folie, Unkosten, hier oben, Gemeinkosten, oberirdisch overnight: über Nacht, am Vorabend overtake: überholen, überhole, überholst, überholt, überraschen overtook: überholten, überholte, überholtest, überholtet owed: geschuldet, schuldete, schuldeten, schuldetest, schuldetet owl: Eule, die Eule, Kauz owner: Eigentümer, Inhaber, Besitzer,

128 Besitzerin, Inhaberin, Lizenzinhaber, Eigentümerin ownership: Eigentum, Besitz, Eigentumsrecht pace: Schritt, Gangart, Tempo, Galopp, gehen, bummeln, spazierengehen, wandeln, trödeln, schlendern, Schreiten packed: mit Sack und Pack, erwischt, gepackt, vollgeladen pain: Schmerz, Pein, Schmerzen, Qual, Kummer, Leid, Weh, Mühe painful: schmerzhaft, schmerzlich, peinlich pains: Sorgen paint: malen, Farbe, anstreichen, streichen, bemalen, lackieren, Lack, färben, Anstrich, die Farbe pair: Paar, zwei Stück, zwei Personen die zusammen gehören pale: blass, bleich, fahl, Pfahl, hell, matt, welk, weiß, verwaschen, glanzlos paled: umschlossen, blass werden, bleich machen, einzäunen, verblassen paleness: Farblosigkeit, Blässe, bläßlich aussehen palm: Palme, Handfläche, Handteller pan: Pfanne, Schwenken, Trog pane: Scheibe, Raute, Quadrat, Pepita, Viereck panel: Paneel, Platte, Täfeln, Gremium, Panel, Forum, Tafel pang: Schmerz, Stechen panorama: Panorama, Rundblick, Ausblick, Aussicht panted: gekeucht, keuchte panting: Keuchend pantomime: Pantomime, Mimenspiel, Mimik papers: Papiere, Papierkram parallel: parallel, gleichlaufend, synchron, Parallele, Paralelle paralysed: gelähmt, lähmte, lähmten, lähmtet, lähmtest, lahm parlour: Salon, Wohnzimmer, Aula parted: auseinandergegangen, getrennt parting: Abschied, Trennung partly: teils, teilweise, zum Teil partner: Teilhaber, Partner, Gesellschafter, Teilnehmer, Kompagnon pass: passieren, vergehen, vorübergehen, ablaufen, verbringen, reichen, Ausweis, überholen, Pass, bestehen, Passierschein passage: Durchgang, Passage, Korridor, Gang, Durchfahrt, Überfahrt, Flur, Passus, Kreuzungsstelle, Kreuzung,

Ethan Frome Mischung passed: angepasst, darüber passing: Übergang, Verfallen, Verstreichen, vorübergehend, überholen passion: Leidenschaft, Passion, Glut, Feuer, Inbrunst, Lust passions: Leidenschaften, Begeisterung, Inbrünste, Passionen passively: passiv paste: Pasta, Paste, Teig, kleben, einfügen, Kleister, dickflüssige Salbe, Nudeln, Klebstoff patches: Flecke patent: Patent, Patentiert, Gesetzlich geschützt, Patentieren path: Pfad, Weg, Steg, Fußweg, Bahn, Steig pathological: pathologisch, krankhaft patted: geklapst, betätschelt patterns: Muster, Schemata, Schemas, Modellblätter pauper: Arme pause: Pause, pausieren, Unterbrechung, zögern paused: pausiert pauses: pausiert, pausen pausing: Pausieren, pausierend pavement: Bürgersteig, Pflaster, Gehweg, Trottoir pawed: scharrte paws: Pfoten, Klauen, Tatzen paying: bezahlend, zahlend, entrichtend, auszahlend, lohnend, einträglich payment: Zahlung, Bezahlung, Abzahlung, Begleichung, Auszahlung, Entgeld, die Akontierung, Einzahlung, Abzahlen, Abtragen, Vergütung pays: bezahlt, zahlt, entrichtet, zahlt aus peace: Frieden, Friede, Ruhe, Friedlichkeit, Stille peaceful: friedlich, friedfertig, einträchtig, geruhsam, gemütlich peak: Spitze, Gipfel, Zacke, Zipfel, Zinke, Kulm, Höhepunkt, Stift, der Gipfel, Felsenspitze pebbly: kieselig, kiesig peculiarly: eigenartig, eigen peering: guckend peg: Pflock, Keil, Zapfen, Nagel, Stift, Bolz, Spieß, Feder, Griffel, Haken, Nadel pen: Feder, Kugelschreiber, Verschlag, Stifte, Stift, Stall, Schreibstifte, Hütte penetrate: durchdringen, dringe durch, dringt durch, dringst durch, dringen durch, eindringen, dringen ein, dringe ein, dringt ein, dringst

ein, penetrieren penetrating: durchdringend, eindringend, penetrant, penetrierend, eindringlich, aufdringlich perceptible: wahrnehmbar, merklich perception: Wahrnehmung, Empfindung, Eindruck, Perzeption, Sinnlichkeit, Emotion, Auffassung, Augenaufschlag, Blick perfectly: perfekt, vollkommen, völlig performed: führte aus, führten aus, ausgeführt, führtest aus, führtet aus, aufgeführt, geleistet, durchgeführt, führten auf, führtest auf, leistetet perfunctory: flüchtig, oberflächlich peril: Gefahr, Risiko peristyle: Säulengang, die Säulenhalle permanent: ständig, dauerhaft, permanent, fest, beständig, bleibend, dauernd, unablässig, unabänderlich, stetig, unveränderlich permitted: zulässig, erlaubt perpendicular: senkrecht, Senkrechte, Lot, perpendikulär perpetually: endlos, unaufhörlich, ständig, fortwährende, dauernd, ewig persisted: beharrt, beharrte, beharrten, beharrtest, beharrtet persons: Personen, Leute persuaded: überredete, überredetet, überredeten, überredet, überredetest, überzeugt, überzeugte, überzeugten, überzeugtest, überzeugtet persuasion: Überredung, Überzeugung, Überzeugungskraft persuasively: überzeugend pets: Haustiere phase: Phase, Außenleiter, Stufe, Stadium, Phasenwinkel photograph: Foto, Photographie, photographieren, Lichtbild, fotografieren, Fotografie, Aufnahme phrase: Ausdrücken, Formulieren, Phrase, Satz, Redewendung, Ausdruck, einkleiden, Passus, Klausel, Fügung, in Worte fassen phrases: Phrasen physics: Physik, die Physik piano: Klavier, Piano, das Klavier pick: pflücken, pflücke, pflückst, pflückt, losreißen, klauben, stacheln, stechen, picken, Pickel, Auswahl picked: gepflückt, pflückten, pflückte, pflücktet, pflücktest, abgepflückt, genommen picking: Pflückend, Herausgreifend,

Edith Wharton Abpflückend pickle: einlegen, einsalzen, pökeln, Beize, einkochen, Essiggurke, einmachen, konservieren, einpökeln pickles: Gurken und Zwiebel im Essig, Essigfrüchte picnic: Picknick, picknicken pictured: dargestellt pie: Torte, Pastete, Törtchen, Kuchen pieces: Stücke pierce: durchbohren, durchbohre, durchbohrt, durchbohrst, stechen, steche, stecht, anstechen, aufpicken, durchstechen, stichst pies: Torten pike: Hecht, Spitze, Spieß, Pike pillow: Kopfkissen, Kissen, Polster, das Kissen pin: Stecknadel, Stift, Nadel, Kegel, anheften, Anstecknadel, Zapfen, zustecken, Pin, festheften, kleine Nadel pinched: gekniffen, gestohlen pine: Kiefer, Föhre, Pinie, Fichte, Kiefernholz, Föhrenholz pined: befestigt pines: Kiefern pink: rosa, Nelke, rosafarben, rosafarbig pipe: Rohr, Pfeife, Röhre, Schlauch, Leitung pitch: Pech, Tonhöhe, Wurf, Abstand, Neigung, Steigung, stampfen, Teilung, Ton, Teer, werfen pitched: geworfen, warf pitied: bemitleidet pity: Mitleid, Bemitleiden, Erbarmen, Schade, Mitleid haben, Sich erbarmen, Mitgefühl placed: platziert placidly: ruhig plain: Ebene, einfarbig, einfach, klar, deutlich, schlicht, gängig, gewöhnlich, glatt, ordinär, nichthäßlich plaintive: klagend plaintively: traurig planning: Planung, Planend planted: gepflanzt, angepflanzt plaster: Pflaster, Gips, Verputzen, Verputz, bewerfen, Gipsen, Heftpflaster, in Stuck arbeiten, stukadoren, kalken plasters: Pflaster, Verputzt, Mörtel plate: Teller, Platte, Tafel, Plattieren, Tafelsilber, Anode, Fundamentplatte, Klischee, Grundplatte, Schüssel, Silberbesteck plates: Platten, Schüsseln, Teller platform: Bahnsteig, Plattform, Podium, Podest, Tribüne, Schwelle, Programm, Estrade, Kai,

Bretterboden, Erhöhung played: spielten, spieltet, spielte, gespielt, spieltest, spieltest ab, spielten ab, abgespielt, spielte ab, spieltet ab pleaded: plädiert pleadings: Plädiert pleasant: angenehm, erfreulich, behaglich, herrlich, freundlich, vergnügt, nett, gefällig, spaßig, wohltuend, vergnüglich pleasantries: Scherze pleased: zufrieden, erfreut pleasure: Vergnügen, Genuss, Freude, Lust, Gefallen, Wohlgefallen pledge: Bürgschaft, Pfand, Verpfändung, verpfänden plenty: Überfluß, Fülle, Menge plight: Zwangslage plot: Verschwörung, Komplott, Grundstück, Handlung, Parzelle, Intrige, zeichnen, Flurstück, ein Komplott schmieden, Umtrieb, aufzeichnen plumb: Lot, Füllung, loten, senkrecht, Plombierung, Senkblei plunge: Eintauchen, stürzen, tauchen plunged: getaucht pocket: Tasche, Ablagefach, die Tasche, Hosentasche, Fach poignancy: Schärfe poignant: scharf, rührend pointing: Fugen, Mauern fugen poked: geschürt, stieß pond: Teich, Weiher, Tümpel, Pfütze, der Teich ponderous: schwerfällig, schwerwiegend porch: Veranda, Vorhalle, Säulenhalle, Portikus, Haustürnische portico: Säulengang positively: positiv possess: besitzen, besitze, besitzt possession: Besitz, Eigentum, Besitztum, Gut, Besitzung, Besessenheit possibilities: Möglichkeiten postage: Porto, Postgebühr, Frankatur, Frankierkosten, Zustellgebühr, Portwein, Gebühr postpone: verschieben, aufschieben, verschiebe, schieben auf, schiebe auf, verschiebt, schiebt auf, schiebst auf, verschiebst, vertagen, vertagt pouch: Beutel, Sack poured: gegossen pouring: der Abguss, der Abstich, der Roheisenabstich, gießen, giessend, strömend, das Abstechen poverty: Armut, Elend, Not powders: Pulver

129 powerful: gewaltig, mächtig, einflußreich, kraftvoll, stark, leistungsfähig, vermögend powerless: kraftlos, machtlos, ohnmächtig, schlapp, schlaff practical: praktisch, brauchbar, angewandt, real, leicht, simpel, wirklich precedent: Präzedenzfall, Vorhergehend preceding: vorausgehend, vorangehend, vorhergehend, fortschreitend, früher, vorig precision: Genauigkeit, Präzision, Exaktheit preclude: ausschließen, schließe aus, schließen aus, schließt aus predominated: vorgeherrscht, herrschte vor, herrschten vor, herrschtest vor, herrschtet vor preface: Vorwort, Einleitung, Vorrede premature: verfrüht, vorzeitig, frühzeitig, voreilig, frühreif, ungelegen, nicht im richtigen Moment, vorschnell preparations: Vorbereitungen preparing: vorbereitend, bereitend, zubereitend, Vorbereiten, Zubereiten, Anrichten, Herrichten, zurichtend presence: Anwesenheit, Gegenwart, Beisein presently: gegenwärtig, bald, jetzt presents: Geschenke preserve: einmachen, konservieren, einlegen, bewahren, erhalten, Konserve, aufbewahren, einkochen, wahren, bergen, behalten preserved: beibehalten, aufbewahrt, bewahrt, konserviert preserves: Eingemachte, Konfekt, Konfitüre, Konserven pressed: gepresst, gedrückt pressing: Pressung, dringend prestige: Prestige, Ansehen, Blendwerk presume: voraussetzen, annehmen, vermuten, setzt voraus, setzen voraus, setze voraus, vermutet, vermutest, vermute, schätzen, denken pretence: Vortäuschung, Preziosität, Illusion, Geziertheit, Geschraubtheit, Fassade, Verlogenheit, Vorschützung, Ziererei, Anspruch, Anschein pretences: Vortäuschungen, Vorspielungen pretending: Vorgebend, Vortäuschend, heuchelnd, heuchlerisch

130 pretext: Vorwand, Ausflucht, Scheingrund, Umschweif pretty: hübsch, ziemlich, nett, schön prevailed: geherrscht, herrschtet, herrschte, herrschten, herrschtest pricked: angestochen, aufgestochen pride: Stolz, Hochmut, Hoffahrt princess: Prinzessin, Fürstin principle: Prinzip, Grundsatz prisoner: Gefangener, Gefangene, Häftling, Arrestant privilege: Privileg, Vorrecht, Vergünstigung, Privilegium, Privilegieren, bevorzugen, begünstigen, Vorzug, Vorzugsrecht probability: Wahrscheinlichkeit, Wahrscheinlich probable: Wahrscheinlich, vermutlich, mutmaßlich, voraussichtlich, glaubhaft produced: produziertest, erzeugten, produzierten, produziertet, erzeugtet, erzeugtest, produziert, erzeugt, produzierte, erzeugte, brachte hervor professor: Professor, Akademiker profile: Profil, Umriß, Durchmesser, Schnitt, profilieren, Durchschnitt, Querschnitt profiting: profitierend profound: tief, tiefschürfend, gründlich, tiefsinnig, weise, innig, zärtlich, profund, tiefgründig, tiefgehend, tiefdenkend projected: sich herumtreiben, werfen, vorspringen, vorhergesagt, versetzen, projizieren, projektierte, projekt, planen, plan, geplant projecting: Projektion, vorspringend prolong: verlängern, ausdehnen, verlängert, verlängre, verlängere, verlängerst, dehnt aus, dehne aus, dehnen aus, dehnst aus, recken prolongation: Verlängerung, Erneuerung prominences: Prominenzen prompted: abgefragt pronounce: aussprechen, sprechen aus, sprichst aus, sprecht aus, spreche aus, sprich aus, fällen pronounced: sprach aus, ausgesprochen, spracht aus, sprachst aus, sprachen aus, ausgeprägt proof: Beweis, Nachweis, Sicher, Ausweis, Probe, Erweis, Probedruck, Probeabzug, Fest, Beleg, Andruck properties: Eigenschaften proposed: vorgeschlagen, schlugt vor, schlugst vor, schlugen vor, schlug vor, beantragte, beantragt,

Ethan Frome beantragtet, beantragten, beantragtest, vorgestellt propped: gestützt, stützte proprietor: Besitzer, Inhaber, Eigentümer prospect: Aussicht, Schürfen prospered: gediehst, gediehen, gedieht, gedieh, glücktest, geglückt, glückten, glückte, glücktet protection: Schutz, Protektion, Bewahrung, Beschützung, Geborgenheit, Schirm, Sicherheit, Beschützen, Protrektion, Abblenden, Abdecken protest: Einspruch, protestieren, Protest, anfechten, beanstanden, Widerspruch, Gegenrede, Einspruch erheben proud: stolz, hochmütig, gönnerhaft, trotzig, stattlich, selbstgefällig, selbstbewußt, ruhmreich, aufgebläht, anmaßend, grandios prove: beweisen, beweise, beweist, nachweisen, belegen, erweisen, vorweisen, prüfen, erweist, erweise, erhärten provocation: Herausforderung, Provokation provoke: reizen, reize, reizt, provozieren, aufreizen, herausfordern, aufhetzen, fordere heraus, fordern heraus, forderst heraus, fordert heraus provoked: reiztet, reizten, reiztest, gereizt, reizte, reizten auf, reizte auf, herausgefordert, provoziertest, provozierten, provozierte prudence: Umsicht, Besonnenheit, Klugheit puckered: blasig, runzelte, runzelten, runzeltest, runzeltet, gerunzelt pull: ziehen, ziehe, zieht, ziehst, zerren, zerre, zerrst, zerrt, reißen, Anziehen, reißt pulled: gezogen, zogst, zogen, zog, zogt, gezerrt, zerrtet, zerrtest, zerrte, zerrten, riß pulling: Ziehend, zerrend, reißend, Verreißend, Ziehen, verziehend pulse: Puls, Impuls pulses: Stromstoß, Stromstösse punctually: pünktlich purchasers: Erwerber pure: rein, pur, sauber, blank, lauter, nicht verschnitten, reinlich, glockenrein, unverfälscht, unvermischt, ausschließlich purple: Purpur, lila, purpurn, violett, purpurrot, lilafarbig, veilchenfarbig purpose: Zweck, Absicht, Ziel, Bestimmung push: schieben, stoßen, Stoß,

drücken, dringen, treiben, Drücker, Trieb, Knopf, rücken pushed: angestoßen pushing: einstoßend, Geschupse, Gedränge puss: Miezekatze, die Mieze, das Miezchen putting: stellend, Setzend, steckend puzzled: verwirrt quarrels: Steitigkeiten, Zankt, Kräche, Streitereien quarter: Viertel, Stadtviertel, Quartier, Stadtteil, Stadtbezirk, Einquartieren quavered: getrillert queer: seltsam, sonderbar, verdächtig, komisch, eigenartig, schwul querulous: Zickig, verdrossen, schnauzig, kratzbürstig, bissig querulously: quengelig, streitsüchtig, verdrossene quest: Suche, Suchen, Nachsuchung questioned: hinterfragt, gefragt quick: schnell, rasch, hurtig, geschwind, flüchtig, prompt, flott, kurz, wach quicken: beschleunigen, beschleunigst, beschleunigt, beschleunige quickened: beschleunigte, beschleunigtet, beschleunigtest, beschleunigt, beschleunigten quicker: schneller quiet: ruhig, still, leise, beruhigen, Ruhe, sanft, Stille, unbesorgt, Kalme, Frieden, fromm quietly: ruhig, leise, still, kalm quilt: Steppdecke, Steppen, Daunendecke, Wattieren, Federbett, Deckbett quilted: gesteppt, wattierte, wattiert quiver: zittern, beben, Köcher, zucken, brennen, klopfen, unruhig warten auf etwas radiate: strahlen, strahle, strahlt, strahlst, ausstrahlen, strahlt aus, strahlst aus, strahlen aus, strahle aus, etwas ausstrahlen, leuchten rag: Lappen, Fetzen, Lumpen, kleiner Lappen, einem die Fuchstaufe erteilen, Flicken, Hader, Stoffetzen, Stofflappen, wertlose Zeug, Wisch railroad: Eisenbahn, Bahn railway: Eisenbahn, Bahn, Gleis, Schienenweg, Bahngleis rain: Regen, regnen, der Regen rainy: regnerisch, verregnet, trüb, naß, trübe raise: heben, erhöhen, aufziehen, erheben, Erhöhung, aufheben, anheben, erziehen, herbeiziehen,

Edith Wharton hinzuziehen, bilden raised: aufgezogen, errichtet, erhoben, angehoben, erhaben raising: sich erhebend, Erhöhung, aufbringend, steigernd rambles: streift umher ran: lieft, liefst, liefen, lief, rannten, rannte, ranntet, ranntest, eilte, eiltet, eiltest rang: klingen, läuten, klingelte, klingeln, geläutet, geklungen, läutete, geklingelt, klang rapid: Schnell, rasch, geschwind, hurtig, Schnelle, Stromschnelle rapidly: schnell rapt: versunken rapture: Entzücken, Begeisterung rare: selten, rar, blutig, außergewöhnlich, knapp, seltsam rat: Ratte rattled: gerasselt raw: roh, rau, arg ray: Strahl, Rochen, Schimmer, bescheinen, bestrahlen, Chemotherapie geben, Streifen, Roggen, erleuchten rays: Strahlen razor: Rasiermesser, Rasierapparat, Rasierklinge reach: erreichen, reichen, Reichweite, erzielen, erlangen, reichen bis, greifen, langen nach reached: erreicht reaching: Reichend, Erreichen, Erreichend reaction: Reaktion, Gegenwirkung reading: Lesend, Lesen, Lesung, Lektüre, Ablesung, lautend, einlesend, Ablesen reality: Wirklichkeit, Realität, Gewißheit, Wesenheit, Wahrheit, Festigkeit, Essenz, Halt reared: aufgezogen reassured: beruhigt, beruhigtet, beruhigtest, beruhigten, beruhigte, versicherte rebellion: Aufstand, Rebellion, Aufruhr, Erhebung, Revolte, Auflehnung, Volksaufstand, Volkserhebung recalled: wiedergerufen receive: empfangen, empfangt, erhalten, empfange, empfängst, erhältst, erhalte, erhaltet, bekommen, annehmen, entgegennehmen received: empfing, empfingen, empfingst, empfingt, empfangen, erhieltest, erhalten, erhieltet, erhielten, erhielt receiving: empfangend, erhaltend, empfang, Hehlerei, Annahme, in

Empfangnahme recite: vortragen, trage vor, tragen vor, trägst vor, rezitieren, tragt vor, rezitiere, rezitiert, rezitierst, Gedichten vortragen, deklamieren recklessness: Rücksichtslosigkeit, Leichtsinn reckon: rechnen, rechnest, rechne, rechnet, zählen, meinen recognised: Erkannt, anerkannt recommended: empfahlt, empfahl, empfahlen, empfahlst, empfohlen, priesen an, angepriesen, priest an, pries an reconsider: erneut erwägen recreation: Erholung, Umänderung, Rekreation, Pause, Entspannung, Metamorphose, Änderung recrimination: Gegenbeschuldigung, Gegenklage reddening: Rötung redder: Roter reduced: reduzierte, reduzierten, reduziertest, reduziertet, reduziert, vermindert, verminderten, vermindertet, verminderte, vermindertest, mäßigte reel: Spule, Haspel, Rolle, Garnrolle, Spühle, Filmspühle refinement: Verfeinerung, Veredelung, Feinheit, Raffinesse, Raffinement, Finesse reflected: reflektierten, reflektiertest, reflektierte, reflektiert, reflektiertet, abgespiegelt reflecting: reflektierend, abspiegelnd reflection: Reflexion, Spiegelbild, Abglanz, Widerspiegelung, Reflektion, Spiegelung, Widerschein, Wiederspiegeln, Gegenbild, Widerhall, Besinnung reflectively: reflektierend reflectors: Reflektoren refreshing: auffrischend, erfrischend, erquickend refuge: Zuflucht, Schutz, Hort, Luftschutzraum, Ruhepunkt, Schlupfloch, Schlupfwinkel, Unterkunft, Unterschlupf, Unterstand, Zufluchtstätte refusal: Weigerung, Ablehnung, Verweigerung, Absage refused: abgewiesen, verweigerte regained: zurückerobert, gewann wieder, wiedergewonnen, gewannen wieder, gewannt wieder, gewannst wieder regaled: verwöhntest, gefeiert, spendiert, spendierte, spendierten, spendiertest, spendiertet, verwöhnt, geehrt, verwöhnten, ehrtet regard: Achtung, betrachten,

131 berücksichtigen, berücksichtigt, betrachtet, betrachtest, betrachte, berücksichtige, berücksichtigst, ansehen, siehst an regretted: bedauerte regular: regelmäßig, normal, regulär, gewöhnlich, gleichmäßig, ständig, regelrecht, geregelt, durchgehend, Berufssoldat, reglär regularly: regelmäßig, oft, gleichmäßig, den Regeln gemäß, häufig, in einem festen Rythmus reigned: regierte rein: Zügel reins: Zügel, Zäume rejection: Ablehnung, Rückweisung, Ruckweisung, Verdammnis, Abweisung, Verwerfung, Zurückweisung rejoined: vereinigte, erwiderte relapse: Rückfall, Einsturz, Zusammenbruch, Schwäche, zurückfallen, Depression, Einstürzen, Flaute, Niedergang, Rückgang relation: Beziehung, Verhältnis, Zusammenhang, Verbindung, Relation, Verwandtschaft, Verwandte, Verbundenheit, Verband, Schicksalsverbundenheit, Hinsicht relatives: Verwandte, Verwandtschaft, Angehörigen relaxed: entspannt, entspanntet, entspanntest, entspannten, entspannte, aufgelockert relaxing: entspannend, ausspannend relentless: unerbittlich, unnachgiebig, unfreiwillig, gezwungen, steif, zwangsmäsig, zwanghaft relic: Reliquie, Relikt, Überbleibsel relief: Erleichterung, Linderung, Ablösung, Relief, Hilfe, Entlastung, Milderung, Entsatz, Unterstützung relieved: erleichterten, erleichterte, erleichtertest, erleichtertet, erleichtert reluctance: Abneigung, Magnetischer Widerstand, Widerstreben reluctant: widerwillig, widerstrebend, unwillig, zögernd reluctantly: widerstrebend, ungern, widerwillig, unwillig, widerspenstig, zögernd remain: bleiben, bleibst, übrig bleiben, bleibe, bleibt, zurückbleiben, bleiben zurück, bleibst zurück, bleibt zurück, bleibe zurück remained: blieb, bliebst, blieben, geblieben, bliebt, bliebst zurück,

132 zurückgeblieben, bliebt zurück, blieben zurück, blieb zurück remains: Bleibt, Rest, Reste, Überrest, Restant, Restposten, Restbestand, Nachlaß, Überbleibsel, Überreste, Verbleibt remark: Bemerkung, Anmerkung, Kommentar, bemerken, Äußerung, Tadel remarked: merkte remedies: Heilmittel remedy: Abhilfe, Heilmittel, Mittel, abhelfen, beheben, heben, aufwickeln, aufrollen, Arznei, anmachen, eindrehen remembered: gedachtet, erinnertest, erinnerten, erinnert, gedachtest, gedachten, gedachte, gedacht, erinnertet, erinnerte, bedachten reminded: erinnert, erinnerte, erinnerten, erinnertest, erinnertet reminding: erinnernd reminiscent: erinnernd remote: Entfernt, abgelegen, entlegen, fern, weit, vereinsamt removing: entfernend, beseitigend, fortschaffend, Ausnehmen, Amputieren, abtragend, Abnehmen, Entfernen renew: erneuern, erneuere, erneuerst, erneuert, erneure, verlängern renewed: erneuert, erneuerte, erneuerten, erneuertest, erneuertet, renovierd rent: Miete, mieten, Pacht, vermieten, Pachtzins, verleihen, Mietzins repairs: Wiederherstellung, Erhaltung, Erneuerung, repariert, Restauration, Sanierung repeated: wiederholtest, wiederholten, wiederholte, wiederholt, wiederholtet, abermalig repeating: wiederholend, Wiederholung repercussions: Rückwirkungen repetition: Wiederholung, Repetition, Wiederfolte Übung, Repetieren repining: murrend replaced: ersetztet, ersetztest, ersetzten, ersetzte, ersetzt, wechselten aus, ausgewechselt, wechselte aus, wechseltest aus, wechseltet aus replenish: ergänzen, auffüllen replied: antwortete reply: Antwort, antworten, erwidern, entgegnen, Erwiderung, beantworten, Beantwortung, Entgegnung replying: antwortend, erwiderung reproachful: vorwurfsvoll repugnant: abstoßend, widerlich

Ethan Frome request: Ersuchen, Gesuch, Bitte, Ansuchen, bitten, Anfrage, Anforderung, anfordern, Aufforderung, Gebet, einen Antrag machen resentment: Ärger, Verstimmung, Mißgunst, Ressentiment resentments: Verstimmungen reserve: reservieren, Reserve, vorbehalten, zurückbehalten, bestellen, freihalten, belegen, beiseite legen, auf die Seite legen, offenhalten, zur Seite legen resist: widerstehen, widerstehst, widerstehe, widersteht, sich versetzen, Widerstand leisten resistance: Widerstand, Resistenz, Gegenwehr, Widerstandsbewegung, Widerstandsfähigkeit resisted: widerstandet, widerstanden, widerstandst, widerstand resolute: entschlossen, entschieden, energisch, entschlußfähig, bestimmt, resolut, tatkräftig resolution: Auflösung, Resolution, Lösung, Beschluss, Entschlossenheit, Ergebnis, Bestimmtheit, Antwort, Entschluss, Tapferkeit, Sicherheit resolve: vornehmen, beabsichtigen, lösen resorting: erholungs, flüchtend respected: geachtet, angesehen, respektiert respond: antworten, antwortest, antwortet, antworte, reagieren, ansprechen, reagierst, reagiere, reagiert, beantworten, erwidern rested: geruht, ausgeruht restlessly: rastlose, ruhelos, unruhig restlessness: Unruhe, Rastlosigkeit restore: wiederherstellen, stellt wiederher, stellst wiederher, stellen wiederher, stelle wiederher, in Ordnung bringen, instandsetzen, reparieren restored: stellten wiederher, stellte wiederher, wiederhergestellt, stelltet wiederher, stelltest wiederher restrained: hielt zurück, hielten zurück, hieltest zurück, hieltet zurück, zurückgehalten, beherrschtet, beherrscht, beherrschte, beherrschten, beherrschtest, verlegen resulting: resultierend, folgend, Fortfließen retarding: verlangsamen, verzögernd reticence: Verschwiegenheit, Zurückhaltung, Stille, Stillschweigen, Schweigsamkeit, Verschlossenheit reticent: verschwiegen,

zurückhaltend retired: pensioniert, pensionierte, pensioniertet, pensionierten, pensioniertest, zog zurück, im Ruhestand, schieden aus, schied aus, zurückgetreten, schiedest aus retort: Retorte, erwidern retreat: Rückzug, Abzug, Exerzitien, Exerzitienhaus, Exerzitienhäuser, Freizeit retreating: zurückziehend, zurücktretend, zurückziehen returned: zurückgekehrt returning: die Rückkehr, Rückkehr, zurückkehrend revealed: offenbart, offenbarte, offenbarten, offenbartest, offenbartet, aufgedeckt revealing: offenbarend, aufschlußreich, aufdeckend revellers: Spaßvögel revelry: Ausgelassene Lustbarkeit reverberated: hallte, strahltet zurück, zurückgestrahlt, warft zurück, zurückgeworfen, warfst zurück, warfen zurück, warf zurück, strahltest zurück, strahlten zurück, strahlte zurück reverberations: Echos reverently: ehrerbietig revolt: Aufstand, revoltieren, Revolte, Aufruhr, rebellieren, auflehnen, sich empören, Empörung rheumatism: Rheumatismus, Gelenkrheumatismus, Rheuma ribbon: Band, Farbband, Schleife, Farbbänder, Bändchen rich: reich, reichhaltig, ausgiebig, vermögend, fett ride: Reiten, fahren, Fahrt, Ritt, Spazierritt, Spazierfahrt ridge: Kamm, Grat, Kante, Nocken, Gebirgskamm, Gesims, Giebelspitze, First, Hügelrücken, Nock, Rand riding: Reiten, herumreitend, reitend rightly: richtig, mit recht rigid: starr, steif, unbeugsam, streng, stelzbeinig, standhaft, straff, stier, unerschütterlich, starrköpfig, unverwandt rigidity: Steifheit, Starrheit, Starre, Starrsinn, Steife, Störrigkeit, Rigidität, Härte, Steifigkeit, Schwierigkeit rim: Rand, Felge, Radkranz, Saum, Eckchen, Rändchen, Grat, Kante ring: Ring, klingeln, läuten, tönen, klingen, schallen, anklingeln, anläuten, hallen, der Ring, Klang ringed: beringt rings: Ringe rise: Steigen, aufstehen, sich erheben,

Edith Wharton aufgehen, Anstieg, Erhöhung, ansteigen, Zunahme, Steigerung, sträuben, sich stellen risen: auferstanden, angestiegen, Anstieg, aufstehen, aufsteigen, Erhebung, Gestiegen, Heben, sich erheben, steigen, Steigerung rising: aufgehend, Steigen, steigend, Anschwellen, Anwachsen, Sich erheben, Hinaufkommen, Erhebung, Emporkommen rival: Rivale, Konkurrent, konkurrieren, Gegner, Nebenbuhler, wetteifern, Gegenspieler roads: Straßen, Strecken, Wege roadside: Straßenrand roan: rötlichgrau, Rotschimmel rock: Fels, Felsen, wiegen, schaukeln, Gestein, Stein, Felsenpartie, Klippe, erschüttern, Steinmasse, balancieren rocking: schaukelnd roll: Rolle, Brötchen, rollen, Semmel, schlingern, Walze, wickeln, wälzen, Schrippe, Tonneau, Kaiserbrötchen rolled: gerollt rolling: Rollen, rollend, Wanken roof: Dach, mit einem Dach versehen, Gewölbe, das Dach roots: Wurzel, Wurzeln rosy: rosig, rosenfarbig rough: rau, roh, holperig, arg, borstig, brummig, uneben, ungefähr, unwirsch, grob roughest: rauhste, rauhsten roused: geweckt, weckten, wecktest, weckte, wecktet routine: Routine, Erfahrung, Praxis, Geübtheit, Alltagstrott row: Reihe, Rudern, Zeile, Kette, Reihenfolge, Schlange, Tour, Kahnfahrt rub: reiben, frottieren, abreiben, einreiben, rubbeln rubbed: gerieben rubbing: Reiben, Reibend ruddy: rot ruffled: zerzaust, sträubte rug: Teppich, Brücke, Deckchen, Vorleger ruin: Ruine, verderben, Ruin, Trümmer, ruinieren, umbringen, Trümmerhaufen, vergiften, verheeren, verleiden, vergällen rummaged: durchsuchte runners: Läufer rupture: Bruch, brechen, Ruptur, Schisma, Spaltung rural: ländlich, bäuerlich rush: hetzen, Eile, eilen, Andrang, Gedränge, hasten, Anstürmen, jagen, Gedrängtheit, Getreibe, Hast rushed: gehetzt

rustling: Raschelnd, Sausen, Gesause, Geräusch, Rauschen ruth: das Mitleid, das Leid sacred: heilig, geweiht sacrificed: geopfert, aufgeopfert sacrilege: Sakrileg, Frevel, Sakrilegium, Entweihung, Entheiligung sad: traurig, schlimm, betrüblich, vergrämt, trist, düster sadness: Traurigkeit, Betrübnis safely: sicher, wohlbehalten safer: sicherer safety: Sicherheit, Sicherheitsfaktor, Sicherung, Protektion, Schutz sagging: sackend sale: Verkauf, Ausverkauf, Schlußverkauf, Vertrieb, Veräusserung, Debit, Absatz, Abnahme, der Schlussverkauf sallow: bleich, fahl, teigig, farblos, blaß, blässlich saloon: Kneipe, Salon, Limousine saner: gescheiter sang: sangt, sangst, Sangen, Sang, Gesungen sank: sanken sap: Saft, abbrechen, abreißen, niederreißen, abtragen, wegreißen, abwracken, zerlegen, aushöhlen, verschrotten sarcastic: sarkastisch, scharf, anzüglich, gehässig, schneidend, bissig, ätzend, stoppelig, stachlig, beißend sardonically: hämisch, höhnisch, sardonische satisfaction: Befriedigung, Genugtuung, Zufriedenstellung, Erfüllung, Sympathie, Vergnügen, Wiedergutmachungsleistung, Wohlwollen, Zufriedenheit satisfied: befriedigtet, befriedigtest, befriedigten, befriedigte, befriedigt, zufrieden, satt, gesättigt, gefüllt, voll satisfy: befriedigen, befriedigt, befriedigst, befriedige, zufrieden stellen, genügen, stillen saturday: Samstag, Sonnabend, Sabbat saucers: Untertassen savage: wild, grausam, Wilde savings: Ersparnis, Ersparnisse, Abspeicherungen, Guthaben, Spargroschen, Einsparung sawdust: Sägemehl, Sägespäne, Holzmehl sawmill: Sägewerk, Sägerei, Sägemühle scale: Skala, Maßstab, Schuppe, Tonleiter, Waage, Zunder, die Waage, Ausmass, Kalkablagerung,

133 Gamme scanned: tasteten ab, tastetest ab, tastetet ab, abgetastet, tastete ab, überflogen, überflog, überflogt, überflogst scant: winzig, winzig klein, verschwindend klein, sehr klein, sehr gering, geringfügig scarcely: kaum, fast kein, schwerlich, knapp, gering, fast keine scared: erschrocken scarf: Schal, Halstuch scattered: streute, streutet, streutest, streuten, gestreut, zerstreute, zerstreut, zerstreutest, zerstreutet, zerstreuten, verstreut scattering: Streuung, streuend, zerstreuend scene: Szene, Schauplatz, Bühne scent: Geruch, Aroma, Duft, Fährte, Parfümieren, Wittern, Atem, Parfüm, Geschmack schoolhouse: Schule scintillating: funkelnd scissors: Schere scored: gefurcht, Errungenschaft, geriffelt, genarbt scowl: finster blicken, starren, finster Blick, böse Gesicht, blicken finster scrambled: verschlüsselt scrap: Fetzen, Schrott, verschrotten, sich raufen, sich keilen, Hader, Lappen, schlagen, bestreiten, bekämpfen, balgen scrape: Kratzen, schaben, abkratzen, radieren, schrapen scraping: Kratzend scraps: Verschrottet scratched: gekratzt, gelöscht screen: Bildschirm, Schirm, Leinwand, Raster, abschirmen, Vorhang, Gitter, Vergitterung, Kulisse, Drahtgitter, Gitterzaun scrub: Schrubben, abscheuern, scheuern, putzen scrupulously: ängstlich, bedenkliche, genau, gewissenhaft sculpture: Skulptur, Bildhauerei, Hauen, Meisseln, Bildhauerkunst, Skulptieren, Plastik, Bildwerk, Bild, Bildhauerwerk, Bildnis search: Suche, suchen, durchsuchen, Durchsuchung, Fahndung, absuchen, Erkundung, forschen, Expedition, Erkundungszüge, Erkundungszug searching: suchend, suchen seat: Sitz, Sitzplatz, Platz, Setzen, Brille, der Sitz, Sessel, Einpassen, Sitzbank, Sitzfläche, Sitzgelegenheit seated: gesetzt, sitzend, seßhaft seats: Sitze, Sitzplätze, Sitzbänke

134 seclusion: Abgeschiedenheit, Abgeschlossenheit, Zurückgezogenheit secret: Geheimnis, geheim, heimlich, verborgen, Hehl, verstohlen, Mysterium, Geheimnisvolle, Rätselhafte secreted: abgesondert, sonderten ab, sondertest ab, sonderte ab, sondertet ab secretive: verschlossen secretly: heimlich, geheim, im geheimen, unter der Hand, doppelzüngig, heimtückisch, verstohlen, hinterlistig, illegal, nicht erlaubt, tückisch sedentary: sesshaft, sitzend seductive: verführerisch, verlockend seed: Samen, Saat, säen, Same, Samenkorn, Kern seeing: sehend, sägend, wahrnehmend seek: suchen, suche, suchst, sucht, ausschauen nach, aufsuchen seeking: Suchend seeming: scheinend, scheinbar sees: Sieht, sägt seething: siedend, Kochen, kochend, Sieden segregation: Absonderung, Trennung, Teilung, Scheidung, Segregation, Bruch, Unterbrechung, Einschnitt seized: ergriff, ergriffen, ergrifft, ergriffst, griff, gegriffen, griffen, griffst, grifft, zog ein, zogen ein seldom: selten self-control: Selbstbeherschung, Kontrolle, Beherschung sell: verkaufen, verkauft, verkaufst, verkaufe, veräußern, veräußerst, vertreiben, veräußert, veräußere, veräußre, auktionieren send: senden, schicken, schicke, sendet, sende, schickt, sendest, schickst, einsenden, abschicken, schickt ab sending: Schickend, Sendend, Sendung, abschickend, einsendend, Übermittlung, Übersendung, Postsendung, zusendend, übersendend, Versendend sends: sendet, schickt, schickt ab, sendet ein, übersendet, versendet, sendet ab, sendet zu senior: älter, leitend, Senior sensation: Sensation, Empfindung, Sinn, Aufsehen sensations: Sensationen, Empfindungen senseless: bewusstlos, unvernünftig, sinnlos, unsinnig, blöde, unklug,

Ethan Frome gedankenlos, dämlich, besinnungslos, töricht, dumm sensibility: Sensibilität, Empfindlichkeit sensitive: empfindlich, empfindsam, sensibel, feinfühlig, einfühlsam, empfänglich, sensitiv sentence: Satz, Verurteilen, Urteil, Verurteilung, Phrase, Verdammen, Vakuum, Urteilsspruch, Strafe, Siehe unten, Redensart sentient: empfindungsfähig, empfindend sentimental: sentimental, empfindsam, melodramatisch, gefühlvoll, gefühlsduselig, rührselig sentiments: Empfindungen, Gefühle separate: abgesondert, separat, absondern, trennen, scheiden, Getrennt, abtrennen, einzeln, zerlegen, teilen, gesondert sequel: Folge seriously: ernst, ernsthaft, schwer seriousness: Ernst, Ernsthaftigkeit, Schwere serpents: Schlangen servant: Diener, Dienstbote, Knecht, Bursche, Bedienstete, Dienerin, Bediente, Dienstmädchen, Gehilfe, Magd, Stallknecht serve: bedienen, dienen, bedient, bedienst, bediene, auftragen, dient, Dienst, diene, tragen auf, trägst auf served: bedientet, bedientest, bedient, bediente, bedienten, gedient, dientest, dienten, diente, dientet, trugst auf serviceable: dienlich, betriebsfähig, gebrauchsfähig, einsatzfähig, brauchbar sets: Sätze setting: Einstellung, Fassung, setzend, Justierung, Fassung eines Juwels, Setzen settle: beilegen, besiedeln, legen bei, ebnen, besiedelst, besiedelt, besiedle, tilgen, egalisieren, sinken, sich niederlassen settled: legten bei, besiedelten, besiedelt, besiedeltest, beigelegt, legtet bei, legtest bei, besiedelte, legte bei, besiedeltet, sich niedergelassen habende settlement: Siedlung, Ansiedlung, Niederlassung, Erledigung, Abmachung, Abrechnung, Beilegung, Schlichtung, Regelung, Kolonie, Einigung settles: besiedelt, legt bei settling: Besiedelnd, Beseitigung, Abwickeln, beilegend, Abrechnen, Erledigen

sewed: genäht, hefteten, heftetest, heftetet, heftete sewing: Vernähend, Nähend, Stickerei, heftend shade: Schatten, schattieren, Schattierung, Farbton, Nuance, Abstufung, beschatten, Ton, Leuchtenschirm shaded: beschattet, schattierte shadow: Schatten, Schemen, schattieren, Hirngespinst shadows: Schatten, Schattenbilder, Schattenrisse, Schemen shadowy: schattenhaft, schattig shafts: Stiele, Deichseln shaggy: zottig, struppig, gezottelt, haarig, rauhhaarig shake: schütteln, schüttelt, schüttle, schüttelst, schüttele, erschüttern, erschüttre, erschütterst, erschüttert, erschüttere, rütteln shaken: geschüttelt, erschüttert, gebebt, gerüttelt shame: Scham, Schande, schade, Pfui shamed: beschämte, schämte sich shape: Form, Gestalt, formen, gestalten, bilden, Wuchs, Statur, Positur, kneten, Erscheinung, Figur shapeless: formlos shapes: gestalten sharp: scharf, herb, grell, schlau, schrill, schneidend, scharfsinnig, Kreuz, bündig, aufgeweckt, gerieben sharpened: schleifte, schleiften, schleiftest, geschleift, schleiftet, schärftest, schärften, schärfte, geschärft, schärftet, gewetzt sharpening: schleifend, schärfend, wetzend, anspitzend, Verschärfung, Schärfung, schärfen, Anspitzen sharply: scharf, scharfäugig shattered: zerschmettertest, zerschmettertet, zerschmetterten, zerschmettert, zerschmetterte, zerrüttet, zerschmetterd, zertrümmerd shave: rasieren, Rasur, sich rasieren, barbieren shaving: Rasierend, Rasieren, Span shawl: Schal, Umschlagetuch, Umhängetuch, Kopftuch, Umhang, Haartuch, Shawl, Halstuch shed: Schuppen, schupptet, schupptest, schuppten, schuppte, schuppt, schuppst, geschuppt, schuppe, vergießen, vergießt sheds: schuppt, vergiesst, gießt, Berghütte sheepish: blöde, verlegen, treudoof, schafsköpfig, Schafartig, dämlich, einfältig

Edith Wharton sheet: Blatt, Bogen, Laken, Bettlaken, Tafel, Bettuch, Blech, Betttuch, Bettwäsche, Leinenwäsche, Bettlinnen shelf: Regal, Brett, Einlegeboden, Bord, Bordbrett, Schrankfach, das Regal, Fach, Wandbrett shelter: Schutz, Asyl, Zuflucht, bergen, beschützen, Obdach, sich verstecken, Freistätte, Schirmdach, schirmen, Heim shelves: Schrankfächer shield: Schild, Abschirmung, abschirmen, Schirm shift: Schicht, Verschiebung, verschieben, sich verlagern, Versatz, Änderung, Verlagerung shine: leuchten, scheinen, glänzen, schein, schimmern, Glanz, strahlen, Schimmer, blinken, glühen shines: klettert hinauf shining: glänzend, strahlend, leuchtend, glimmend shirt: Hemd, Bluse, Trikot, Oberhemd shiver: zittern, zucken, beben, Splitter, Frösteln, schlottern, bibbern, Erschütterung, frieren, schaudern, Schauer shivered: geschaudert shivering: schaudernd shock: Schock, schlag, erschüttern, Stoß, rütteln, Erschütterung, schütteln, Anstoß, schüttern, Anstoß erregen shocked: schockiert, erschüttert shone: schien, geschienen shook: schütteltest, schütteltet, schüttelten, Schüttelte, erschüttertest, erschüttertet, erschütterten, Erschütterte, rütteltest, bebtet, bebtest shooting: schiessend, Schießen, Abschießen, erschießend, Abfeuern, Beschießung, Emporschießend shortened: verkürzte, verkürzt, verkürzten, kürztet, verkürztest, kürzte, gekürzt, verkürztet, kürztest, kürzten, abgekürzt shortest: kürzeste shortly: kurz, bald, in Kürze shot: schossest, geschossen, schossen, schoßt, schoß, Schuss, Schrot, schießen, todgeschossen, Kugel, geexicutierd shoulder: Schulter, Achsel, schultern, tragen, die Schulter, Bankett, Seitenstreifen shouldered: geschultert shoulders: Schultern shouted: geschrieen shouts: schreit

showing: Zeigend, aufweisend, Aufführung, weisend, vorführend, Vorstellung, Zeigen, Festlichkeit, Glanz, großsprecherisch, Vormachen shred: Fetzen, zerfetzen, Stückchen shreds: Zerschnitzelt shrill: schrill, grell, höllisch, schroff, gellend, anzüglich, eindringlich, durchdringend, scharf klingend shrivelled: geschrumpft shrunken: geschrumpft, eingefallen, eingelaufen shudder: schaudern, Schauder, sich gruseln, sich grausen, grausen shuddering: schaudernd shunned: gemieden, mieden, miedest, mied, miedet shut: schließen, geschlossen, zumachen, verschließen, zu, verriegeln, abdichten, abschliessen, zusperren, isolieren, sperren shy: Scheu, schüchtern, kopfscheu, verlegen, befangen shyness: Schüchternheit, Scheu, Verschlossenheit, Zurückhaltung, Zaghaftigkeit, Verlegenheit, Scheuheit, Geniertheit sick: krank, übel, geschmacklos, makaber sicker: kranker sickliness: Kränklichkeit, Krankhaftigkeit sickly: kränklich, krank, blass, übel, ungesund, widerlich, schlecht, eklig, ekelhaft sickness: Krankheit, Übelkeit sides: Seiten sideway: Seitenweg sideways: seitwärts, seitlich siege: Belagerung, Belag, Belagern sighed: geseufzt sighing: seufzen sight: Anblick, Sicht, Sehen, Sichten, Aspekt, Aussehen, Gesicht, Sehvermögen sighted: gesichtet sign: Zeichen, Vorzeichen, unterschreiben, Schild, Anzeichen, Kennzeichen, Beweis, Abzeichen, signieren, Wink, Wahrsagung signal: Signal, Zeichen, signalisieren, Wink, Fingerzeig, anzeigen, Kennzeichen signed: unterzeichnet, gezeichnet significance: Bedeutung, Wichtigkeit, Signifikanz, Gewicht, Bedeutsamkeit, Wert, Tragweite, Stellenwert signs: das Zeichen, Hinweisschilder, Innenplakatierung, Schilder, die Beschriftung

135 silence: Stille, Schweigen, Ruhe, Stillschweigen, das Schweigen auferlegen silent: schweigend, still, schweigsam, verschwiegen, ruhig, geräuschlos, stillschweigend silently: schweigend, still, geräuschlos, lautlos silhouettes: Schattenbilder silver: Silber, silbern, versilbern, silbrig, das Silber simplest: einfachste sinews: Sehnen singing: singend, Gesang, Singen, Pfeifen sinister: unheimlich, böse, finster, unheilverkündend, düster, widerlich, schuftig, bösartig, gespensterhaft, gespenstig, gespenstisch sink: sinken, Spülbecken, Ausguss, senken, versenken, untergehen, versinken, einsinken, Waschtisch, Waschbecken, untertauchen sinking: Senkung sipping: nippend sit: sitzen, sitzt, sitze, brüten, sich setzen sitting: sitzend, Sitzen, Sitzung, verbleibend, Tagung skies: Himmel skill: Geschicklichkeit, Fertigkeit, Fähigkeit, Können, Geschick, Gewandtheit, Kunst, Könnerschaft, Kenntnisse, Wissen, Tüchtigkeit skin: Haut, Fell, Pelz, Abdecken, Häuten, Balg, Enthäuten, Schale, schinden, Schälen, die Haut skirting: Ecke, Fußbodenleiste, Eckstoß sky: Himmel slab: Platte, Tafel, Schwarte, Grundplatte slack: flau, schlaff, entspannen, locker, lose, lustlos, entladen nach der Arbeit slacken: nachlassen, lockern, verringern, schmälern, reduzieren, mäßigen, einschränken, zurückdrehen, zurückschicken, zurücksenden, rückgängig machen slammed: zugeschlagen slant: Neigung, schräge slanted: geneigt slate: Schiefer, Schiefertafel slatternly: liederlich, schlampig slaving: abschuftend, schuftend sled: Schlitten sledge: Schlitten, schlittenfahren, Schlitten fahren sleds: Schlittert sleep: schlafen, schlaf, schlafe,

136 schläfst, schlaft, schlummern sleet: Schneeregen, graupeln sleety: graupelig sleeve: Ärmel, Manschette, Hülse, Muffe, Muff sleigh: Schlitten, Pferdeschlitten sleighs: schlittet slid: glitt ab, glitt slide: Dia, gleiten, Rutschbahn, rutschen, Rodelbahn, Schlitten, Rutsche, Diapositiv slight: geringfügig, Gering, leicht, klein, schwach, Kränkung, schmächtig slighter: geringer slightly: etwas, leicht, schwach, ein wenig, einigermaßen slim: schlank, dünn slip: gleiten, rutschen, ausrutschen, glitschen, ausgleiten, Schlupf, Schlicker, schlittern, schleudern, unterkleid, beleg slipped: ausgerutscht slippery: glitschig, schlüpfrig, glatt, aalglatt, rutschig, rutschgefährlich, schleudergefährlich slipping: schlüpfend, Ausrutschen, ausgleitend slope: Abhang, Neigung, Gefälle, Hang, Halde, Schräge, Steigung, Böschung, Helling, leicht abfallend, Senkung sloped: geneigt, abgeschrägt slopes: Abhänge, Neigt sich slow: langsam, träge, verlangsamen slowly: langsam sluggish: träge, faul, schleppend, langsam slumbering: schlummernd smaller: kleiner, geringer, kürzer smart: schlau, klug, pfiffig, gewitzt, gerieben, clever, flott, verschmitzt, gewiegt, glatt, listig smash-up: Zerschmetterung, Zertrümmerung smelt: Stint, gerochen, schmelzen smile: Lächeln, glucksen smiled: gelächelt smiling: Lächelnd smoke: Rauch, Rauchen, raucht, rauchst, rauche, der Rauch, qualmen, aufrauchen, qualme, qualmst, qualmt smoking: rauchend, Rauchen, Räuchern, qualmend smooth: glatt, glätten, eben, flach, ebnen, geschmeidig, ausbügeln, ausgleichen, ausstreichen, bügeln, sämig smoothed: geglättet, glättete smoothness: Glätte, Glattheit smote: quälte

Ethan Frome smothered: erstickte smothering: erstickend snatched: gegriffen snipped: geschnippelt, geschnippt snow: Schnee, Schneien, der Schnee snowed: geschneit snows: Schneit, Schnee snowy: verschneit, schneeig, schlackig, schneebedeckt sobbed: geschluchzt sobbing: Schluchzen, Schluchzend, Weinen, Jammern, Geweine, Geschluchtze, Geheul sober: nüchtern, dienstlich, sachlich, objektiv, mäßig, geschäftlich, ernüchtern, abstinent sobs: Schluchzt sociability: Geselligkeit sociable: Gesellig, umgänglich, kontaktfreudig, unterhaltsam, unterhaltend, sozialkaritativ, freundlich sofa: Sofa, Couch, Kanapee, Divan, Sitzbank, Bank soft: weich, sanft, leise, nachgiebig, süß, schlaff, weich anfühlend, weichlich soil: Boden, Beschmutzen, Erde, Beflecken, Flecken, Sudeln, Erdboden, Grund, Besudeln, kleksen, verunreinigen soiled: verschmutzt, fleckig, beschmutzt, unlauter, unsauber, verunreinigt solace: Trost, Erleichterung, Trösten, aushilfe, Linderung sold: verkauftet, verkauftest, verkauft, verkauften, verkaufte, veräußert, veräußerten, veräußertest, veräußertet, veräußerte sole: sohle, Seezunge, einzig, alleinig, Fußsohle, besohlen, Schuhsohle, allein, bloß solemnly: festlich, ernst, feierlich solitary: Einsam, allein, abgelegen, alleinig, bloß, solitär, nur, einzig, einzeln lebend sombre: düster somebody: Jemand, Einer, Irgendwer, Irgend einer, Ein gewisser somewhere: irgendwo, irgendwohin, an irgendeinem Ort sooner: eher, früher soothe: beruhigen, beruhigt, beruhige, beruhigst, besänftigen, lindern, beschwichtigen, drosseln, lindere, linderst, lindert sorrel: Sauerampfer sought: suchtet, suchtest, suchten, gesucht, suchte

soul: Seele, Gemüt sounded: getönt sounding: schallend, erklingend, sondierend, klangreich, klingend, tönend sour: sauer, herb, bitter, bitterlich, unwirsch, brummig sources: Quellen soured: versauert spaced: beabstandet spare: verschonen, sparen, Ersatzteil, übrig, schonen, Ersatz, ersparen, nachsichtig sein, sparsam, achten, erübrigen spark: Funke, Funken, Fünkchen sparkling: funkelnd, brilliant, blendend, leuchtend, Sprudeln spasm: Krampf, Spasmus speaker: Sprecher, Redner, Lautsprecher, Referent, Einführer, Vortragender, Ansager, Lektor, Importeur speaking: Sprechend, Redend spears: Speere specified: spezifiziert, spezifiziertest, spezifiziertet, spezifizierten, spezifizierte, angegeben, gabt an, gabst an, gaben an, gab an speck: Körnchen, Sprenkel, Tüpfel, Fleck spectacles: Brille, Schauspiele, Augengläser spectator: Zuschauer, Beobachter, Zuschauer im Publikum, Publikumsmitglied spectators: Zuschauer spectral: spektral, gespenstisch, geisterhaft speech: Rede, Sprache, Ansprache, Vortrag, Wort, Lesung, Konzert speechless: sprachlos, stumm, schweigend, dumm speed: Geschwindigkeit, Tempo, Eile, Schnelligkeit, Hast, Drehzahl, Reisegeschwindigkeit, Fahrgeschwindigkeit spells: Buchstabiert spend: ausgeben, verbringen, gebe aus, geben aus, verbringt, gibst aus, gebt aus, verbringe, gib aus, verbringst, aufwenden spent: verbrachtet, gaben aus, gabt aus, verbracht, verbrachte, gabst aus, verbrachten, verbrachtest, gab aus, ausgegeben, verbraucht spine: Rückgrat, Wirbelsäule, Dorn, Rücken, Stachel spinning: Spinnen, Spinnerei spirit: Geist, Seele, Genius, Spiritus spirits: Spirituosen, Gebräu, Schnaps, Schnapps, Branntwein, Geister, Getränk, Spirituose, Sprit, Alkohol

Edith Wharton spite: Boshaftigkeit spoke: sprachen, sprachst, Sprach, spracht, Speiche, Spake spoken: gesprochen, gesagt spot: Fleck, Punkt, Stelle, Flecken, Platz, Klecks, Stätte, beflecken, Ort, Werbespot, Tupf sprang: gesprungen, sprang, herstammen von, springen spread: ausbreiten, Ausbreitung, Spannweite, streichen, Verbreitung, schmieren, Aufstrich, bestreichen, verteilen, weiterwuchern, gespreitzt spreading: Ausbreitung, Verbreitung, Güterverteilung, Distribution, Verteilung, Zwangsbewirtschaftung sprightly: lebhaft, munter spring: Feder, Frühling, Quelle, springen, Frühjahr, Sprung, Lenz, Born, Triebfeder, federn springing: Federung springy: federnd, elastisch spruce: Fichte, Tanne, gepflegt, Edeltanne, schleimig sprung: herstammen von, sprang, springen, gesprungen spume: der Schaum, die Gischt, Schaum spun: schnell drehen, versponnen, verspinnen, verspann, spinnen, sich drehen, kreiseln, herumwirbeln, gesponnen, sich schnell drehen squalid: schmutzig, armselig square: Quadrat, platz, Viereck, quadratisch, viereckig, Karree, rechtwinklig, Winkel, quadrieren, anständig, vierschrötig stability: Stabilität, Dauerhaftigkeit, Standfestigkeit, Haltbarkeit, Beständigkeit stable: Stall, stabil, dauerhaft, fest, Pferdestall, feststehend, Rennstall, beständig, firm, widerstandsfähig, stallen stables: Ställe staggering: schwankend, grundlos, atemberaubend, instabil, flatterhaft, wackelig, wechselhaft, wandelbar, veränderlich, unzuverlässig, unsolide stained: befleckt, fleckig, unsauber, beschmutzt, gefleckt stainless: rostfrei, fleckenfrei, unbeflekt, rein, ansteckungsfrei stains: flecken staircase: Treppenhaus, Treppe, Aufgang, Stiege stairs: Treppe, Treppen, Stiege stall: Stand, Stall, Bude, Verkaufsstand, Box, Ausstellungsstand, Verkaufsbude, abwürgen

stalls: Ställe, Stände stammered: gestottert stamped: frankiert, gestempelt, abgestempelt, freigemacht stamping: stempeln, Stempelung, Prägung, Abstempeln, einstampfend standing: stehend, Stehen, stillstehend, gerade, Ansehen, aufrecht star: Stern, Könner, der Stern stare: starren, anstarren, stieren, anglotzen stared: gestarrt starless: sternenlos, sternlos stars: Sterne starting: Start, startend, Anstimmen, Anschneiden, Anlauf, Anfangen, Einsetzen, Anfahrt, Anheben, Angehen, anfahrend startled: schrecktet auf, schreckte auf, schreckten auf, schrecktest auf, aufgeschreckt, aufgeschrocken, aufgefahren starved: hungerte, gehungert, hungertet, hungerten, hungertest, verhungertest, verhungerten, verhungerte, verhungert, verhungertet starving: hungernd, Verhungernd stayed: blieb, bliebst, blieben, bliebt, geblieben steadied: stellte sicher steadily: ständig, zuverlässig, ununterbrochen, stet steady: Ständig, stetig, beständig, fest, ununterbrochen, zuverlässig, wiederholt, turnusmäßig, fortwährend, gleichmäßig, regelmäßig stealing: Stehlend stealthily: verstohlen, heimlich steam: Dampf, dampfen, Dunst steaming: dampfend, dämpfen steep: Steil, abschüssig, einweichen, gepfeffert, weicht ein, weichst ein, weichen ein, weiche ein steeple: Kirchturm steeply: steil steer: steuern, lenken, führen, ochse, richten, dirigieren steering: Steuerung, Lenkung, Steuervorrichtung, Steuernd, Bewirtschaftung, Angestellten stenography: Stenographie, Kurzschrift, Steno, Stenogramm step: schritt, Stufe, treten, Tritt, Ablaufschritt, Staffel, Maßnahme, steppe, steigen, schreiten stepladder: Küchentreppe, Leiter, Stehleiter step-ladder: Stehleiter stepped: gestuft

137 steps: Freitreppe, Treppe sternly: streng, ernst stewed: geschmort, gedämpft stiff: Steif, starr, hart, schwierig, spröde, fest stiffened: versteiftest, versteift, versteifte, versteiften, versteiftet stiffening: Versteifung, versteifend, Steif werdend, Erstarrung stiffly: steif stifled: erstickt, erstickte, erstickten, ersticktest, ersticktet stillness: Stille sting: stechen, Stachel, Stich, sticheln, stecken, strecken, stacheln, spritzen, verletzen, Pik, einstechen stinging: stechend, stachlig stirring: mitreißend stockier: untersetzter stocking: Strumpf, Kniestrumpf stoicism: Stoizismus, Gleichmut stole: Stola, Stahl, Stolle stolid: stur, phlegmatisch stomach: Magen, der Magen, verbeißen, verschlucken, verwinden stone: Stein, Steinern, Steinigen, Kern, Irden, pennen, der Stein, entkernen stony: steinig, steinartig stoop: sich bücken, sich krümmen, krumm gehen, hängen, biegen stooping: bückend stopped: hielt an, hörtest auf, hörten auf, hieltet an, hörte auf, hörtet auf, hieltest an, hielten an, angehalten, aufgehört, stoppte stopping: aufhörend, Anhaltend, stoppend, Haltend, bremsend, abstellend, Ausscheiden, stoppen, aufhaltend, Aufhören store: Geschäft, Laden, aufbewahren, Speicher, lagern, speichern, Lager, ablegen, zurücklegen, bergen, Magazin storerooms: Schuppen, Verschläge storm: Sturm, stürmen, bestürmen, anstürmen, Unwetter, der Sturm stormed: gestürmt storms: Stürmen stormy: stürmisch stove: Ofen, Herd, Feuerung, Erwärmung, Heizung straight: gerade, direkt, unmittelbar, aufrecht, unverfälscht, geradlinig, offen, rein, rundheraus, gradlinig, kerzengerade straighten: gerade machen, gerade werden, ausrichten, geradebiegen straightened: richtetest aus, richteten aus, richtete aus, gestrafft, geradegezogen, geradegemacht, gerade geworden, richtetet aus,

138 geradegebogen, straffte, strafften straightening: gerade werdend straightforward: einfach, geradeheraus, aufrichtig, einfältig, offen strained: gespannt, angestrengt, spannte an, angespannt, gehetzt, gereizt, gestreßt straining: anstrengend, Verrenkung, Verstauchung, anspannend, Zerrung strains: Anstrengungen, strengt an strands: Strände, Strandet, Stränge strange: seltsam, fremd, sonderbar, wunderlich, kurios, merkwürdig, fremdartig, komisch, absonderlich, ausländisch, befremdend stranger: Fremder, Fremdling, Fremde stray: herrenlos, streunen, streunend, verirrt, abirren strayed: abgeirrt streak: Streifen, Strich stream: Bach, Strom, Strömung, Strömen, Fluß, Fließendes Gewässer, Stream, Guß streamer: Serpentine, Papierschlange streaming: Strömend, flüssig, fließend strength: Stärke, Kraft, Festigkeit, Gewalt, Muskelkräfte, Muskelkraft stretch: strecken, dehnen, spannen, aufziehen, Dehnbarkeit, beziehen, bespannen, ausweiten, Ausdehnung, anspannen, Strecke stretched: gedehnt, ausgestreckt, aufgespannt stretches: streckt stretching: Dehnen strewn: gestreut stricken: heimgesucht, verwundet, streiken, stoßen, leidenden, leidend, gestrichen, gestreikt, angeschlagen, leidende stride: schreiten, Schritt, ausschreiten, treten, Tritt strides: schreit, schritte strike: Streik, streiken, Streichen, schlagen, treffen, klopfen, indenAusstandtreten, imponieren, hauen, greifen, schlag striking: auffallend, eindrucksvoll, ungewöhnlich, schlagend, unverkennbar, prononciert, beachtenswert, hervorragend, plakativ, bemerkenswert, anschlagend strip: Streifen, Binde, Blende, Tafelschen, häuten, abdecken, Banderole, befreien, Streifchen strode: schritt, überschreiten, Schreiten, ausschreiten, übersteigen,

Ethan Frome stiefelte, stiefeln, schreitete, gestiefelt, geschritten, durchschreiten stroke: Schlag, Strich, streicheln, Hub, Takt, Streich, Schlaganfall, Hieb, Infarkt, Liebkosen, Stoß stroking: Streichelnd stronger: stärker struck: angeschlagen struggle: Kampf, ringen, kämpfen, sich sträuben, Schlacht, sich wehren, Auseinandersetzung, abwehren, Ringkampf, zappeln, Wettkampf struggled: gekämpft struggling: Ringen stubble: Stoppel, Bartstoppeln stubbly: stoppelig stuck: eingeklemmt, verklemmt, festgeklebt, gesteckt, festsitzend, bedrängt stud: Stiftschraube, Hengst, Gestüt, Pfosten, Springer, Deckhengst, Gestüthengst student: Student, Schüler, Studentin, Kursist, Kursistin, Teilnehmer, Schülerin stuff: stopfen, Zeug, Stoff, füllen, ausstopfen, material, Substanz, präparieren, hineinstopfen, vollstopfen, pfropfen stuffed: ausgestopft, gefüllt, vollgestopft, stopfst, voll stumbled: gestolpert stunted: hemmen, trick, verkrüppelt, verkümmert, verkümmert sein, in der Entwicklung gehemmt, vorführen Stunts, flugkunststück, kunststück stupidly: dumm subdue: überwältigen, unterwerfen, überwältigst, überwältigt, unterwirfst, unterwirf, unterwerft, unterwerfe, überwältige, überwinden, bezwingen subdued: unterwarft, unterwarfen, unterwarfst, überwältigtet, unterwarf, überwältigte, überwältigten, überwältigtest, unterworfen, überwältigt, eingezogen submerged: unter Wasser submit: unterwerfen, bezwingen, überwältigen, unterbreiten, einreichen submitting: vorschlagend subsequent: folgend, nachfolgend, später, nachvolgend, nachstehend, kommend, anschließend succeeded: gelangt, gelungen, gelangst, gelangen, gelang succeeding: gelingend, erzielen, folgend, gelingen, erfolg

succumbed: erlagt, erlegen, erlagen, erlag, erlagst sucked: gesaugt sudden: plötzlich, jäh, abrupt, unerwartet suffered: litt, littst, littet, litten, gelitten suffering: leidend, Leiden suffers: leidet sufficient: genügend, ausreichend, hinreichend, auskömmlich, zulänglich, ziemlich, befriedigend, genug, hinlänglich sufficiently: genügend, genug, ausreichend, hinlänglich, ziemlich suffocated: erstickt, erstickte, erstickten, ersticktest, ersticktet suffused: bedeckte suggested: schlugen vor, schlugst vor, schlug vor, schlugt vor, vorgeschlagen, suggeriert, suggerierte, suggeriertest, suggeriertet, deutetest an, suggerierten suggestion: Vorschlag, Andeutung, Suggestion, Wink suit: Anzug, Kostüm, anpassen, Prozess, Gewand, fügen, Farbe, geziemen, klage, Sakkoanzug, Smoking suited: geeignet, gefolgt sullen: mürrisch, verdrießlich, mißmutig sum: Summe, Betrag, Addition, Aneinanderreihung, Rechenaufgabe, Ergebnis summertime: Sommerzeit sun: Sonne, die Sonne sundays: Sonntag sunless: dunkel sunlight: Sonnenlicht sunlit: sonnenbeschienen, sonnenbestrahlt, sonnig sunrise: Sonnenaufgang sunset: Sonnenuntergang, Abendrot, Sonnenstand sunup: Sonnenaufgang superiority: Übermacht, Überlegenheit, Überheblichkeit, Superiorität, Mehrheit, Majorität, Überzahl superseded: ersetzte, ersetztet, ersetztest, ersetzt, ersetzten supervision: Überwachung, Aufsicht, die Aufsicht führen, Kontrolle, Supervision, Übersehen, Beaufsichtigen, Beaufsichtigung supper: Abendessen, Souper, Abendmahl supplement: Ergänzung, Zusatz, Nachtrag, ergänzen, Beilage, Zuschlag, Erweiterung, supplieren

Edith Wharton suppleness: Geschmeidigkeit supplied: lieferte, ausgegeben, ausgeteilt supposed: vermeintlich, vermutete, vermuteten, vermutetest, vermutet, vermutetet, angeblich, vorausgesetzt, unterstellt supposing: vermutend supposition: Annahme, Voraussetzung, Vermutung, Mutmaßung surely: sicherlich, bestimmt, wohl, freilich, immerhin, ja, ja doch, allerdings, sicher, zwar surest: sicherste surface: Oberfläche, Fläche, Belag, Auftauchen, Bodenoberfläche, Bodenflächemaße, Ebene, First, Wipfel, Bodenfläche, Gipfel surgical: chirurgisch, operativ surprise: Überraschung, überraschen, überfallen, ertappen, Wunder, befremden, erwischen, etwas unerwartetes tun, Verwunderung, Aufsehen, Überrumpelung surprised: überrascht surprising: überraschend surrounded: umgaben, umgabst, umgab, umgabt, umgeben, umrungen, umrangt, umrangst, umrangen, umrang, umzingeltest suspect: verdächtigen, argwöhnen, vermuten, Verdächtige, fehlerverdächtig, ahnen, bezweifeln suspenders: Hosenträger, die Hosenträger suspicions: Verdacht, Verdachte, Verdächtigungen swallowed: geschluckt swallowing: verschlingung, schluckend swarthy: dunkel, dunkelhäutig swathed: wickelte ein sweat: Schweiß, schwitzen sweating: schwitzend, Schwitzen sweeps: flügel sweet: süß, Bonbon, herzig, süßschmeckend, Nachtisch, Dessert, lieb sweeter: süßer sweetness: Süßigkeit, Süße, Liebenswürdigkeit, Anmut, Lieblichkeit swelled: geschwollen, schwoll swept: gefegt swerve: entrinnen, Wende, flüchten, fliehen, entwischen, entweichen, entspringen, Drehung, entschlüpfen, Wendung, entfliehen swerved: wich aus swift: schnell, Rasch, geschwind, hurtig, flink, Turmschwalbe,

Mauersegler swiftness: Schnelligkeit swimming: schwimmend, schwimmen, Schwimmsport swinging: schlängelnd, schwankend, wackelig, schaukelnd swollen: geschwollen, angeschwollen, aufgedunsen, verschwollen swung: geschwungen, sich frei bewegen, sich drehen, schwingen, schaukeln, schwang symbolic: symbolisch sympathetic: sympathisch, mitfühlend, freundlich, fein, liebenswürdig, reizend, prima, nett, angenehm, erfreulich, süß sympathetically: mitfühlend, sympathisch, kongenial, teilnahmsvoll, verständnisvoll, wohlwollend, freundlich sympathy: Sympathie, Mitleid, Anteilnahme, Mitgefühl symptoms: Symptome taciturnity: die Schweigsamkeit, Verschlossenheit, Schweigsamkeit, die Verschlossenheit, die Wortkargheit tale: Erzählung, Geschichte tales: Geschichten talked: redetet, redetest, geredet, redeten, redete, sprach talker: Schwätzer tall: groß, hoch, lang, schlank, erhaben, stattlich, hochgewachsen taller: größer, länger, höher tangible: greifbar, konkret, fühlbar, handgreiflich, materiell, stofflich tangle: verwirren, Gewirr, Chaos tap: Hahn, zapfen, Kran, Wasserhahn, anzapfen, abzapfen, Zapfhahn, abnehmen, Gewindebohrer, Hähne, klopfen task: Aufgabe, Pensum, Auftrag, Task, Schularbeit, Arbeit tasks: Aufgaben taste: Geschmack, kosten, schmecken, probieren, abschmecken, Geschmackempfindung, testen, prüfen tastes: schmeckt tattered: zerlumpt, zerfetzte, zerrissen taught: lehrtet, gelehrt, lehrten, lehrte, lehrtest, unterrichtet, unterrichtete, unterrichteten, unterrichtetest, unterrichtetet, belehrt taunt: beschimpen, verspotten, sticheln tea: Tee teapot: Teekanne, die Teekanne

139 tears: Tränen technological: technologisch teeth: Zähne, Gebiss, zähnen, zahnen, Zahn telling: erzählend, befehlend, Erzählen, berichtend, sagend tells: erzählt, befiehlt, berichtet, sagt tempered: gemäßigt, temperierte, temperiert temples: Tempel, Schläfen tempted: versuchte, versuchten, versuchtest, versuchtet, versucht tend: abzielen tendency: Tendenz, Neigung, Absicht, Sinn, Lust, Inklination, Stimmung, Einstellung, Geneigtheit, Tenor tender: zart, Angebot, weich, Verdingung, anbieten, Anerbieten, empfindlich, mürbe, präsentieren, Submission, sorgfältig tenderness: Zärtlichkeit, Weichheit, Zuneigung, Innigkeit, Zartheit, Sanftheit, Sanftmut tendrils: Ranken tentatively: versuchsweise tents: Zelte, Stände tenuous: dünn terrified: erschrocken, zu Tode erschrocken, erschreckte, erschrakt, erschrakst, erschraken, erschrak, todesbang terror: Schrecken, Schreck, Grauen, Entzetzen, Entsetzen testified: bezeugtet, bezeugt, bezeugte, bezeugten, bezeugtest testing: Prüfung, Testen, Erprobung, Probe, Test, Tests, Examen texts: Texte thaw: Tauwetter, tauen, taust, taut, taue, auftauen, taut auf, tauen auf, taue auf, taust auf theatres: Theater, Schauspielhäuser theme: Thema, Thema eines Buches, Inhalt eines Buches thence: daher, von dort therapeutic: therapeutisch, heilkräftig thick: Dick, dicht, geschlossen, stark, gedrängt thickening: verdickend, Verdickung, Schwellung thimble: Fingerhut thin: dünn, mager, hager thinks: denkt thirst: Durst, Dürsten thoughtfully: nachdenklich, gedankenvoll thoughts: Gedanken, Dachte threatened: bedroht, bedrohtet, bedrohtest, bedrohten, bedrohte, drohten, gedroht, drohtet, drohtest, drohte

140 threats: Drohungen, Bedrohungen threshold: Schwelle, Drempel, Schwellwert threw: warf, geworfen thrice: dreimal, dreifach thrill: durchzucken, Nervenkitzel thrilling: spannend, aufregend, durchdringend thriving: gedeihend throat: Kehle, Gurgel, Hals, Rachen throb: klopfen throbbed: geklopft throng: Gedränge thronged: gedrängt, bedrängte throw: werfen, Wurf, schleudern throwing: Schmeißen thrust: Schub, stoßen, Schubkraft, treiben, Druck, Vorstoß, dringen, rücken, Stoß, Staudruck thrusting: Stoßen thumping: Stöße thunder: Donner, Donnern, tosen, ertönen, fallen, geifern, gewittern, grollen, grunzen, knallen, schleudern tick: Zecke, ticken, abhaken ticked: getickt ticking: Tickend, Drell, Inlett tide: Gezeiten, Ebbe und Flut, Tide, Gezeitenstrom tidy: ordentlich, sauber, geordnet, aufgeräumt, aufräumen, geordent, herb, gepflegt, tadellos, säuberlich tied: gebunden, verschnürte tight: dicht, fest, straff, knapp, eng, stramm, hauteng, angespannt, prall, zusammengedrängt, enganliegend tightened: verschärft, verschärftest, verschärftet, verschärften, verschärfte tightening: verschärfend tighter: fester till: Bis, Kasse, Geldkasten, Geldschublade, bis zu tilted: gekippt timber: Holz, Bauholz, Holzware, Nutzholz, holzig, hölzern, Holzwerk, holzartig, Gehölz timidly: furchtsam tin: Zinn, Dose, Blech, Verzinnen, Büchse, Blechbüchse, Konservenbüchse, Konserve tinge: Note, Tönung, Tönen tingled: geklungen tingling: prickelnd, klingend tiny: winzig tip: Spitze, Trinkgeld, Zipfel, Wink, Hinweis, Gipfel, Tipp, kippen, Stift, Indiz, Kippe tired: müde, ermüdet, leid, satt, matt, ermattet tobacco: Tabak, Kraut, Rauchtabak

Ethan Frome tokens: Zeichen tone: Ton, Tonus, Klang, Timbre, Klangfarbe tongue: Zunge, Sprache, die Zunge tongues: Zungen toothless: zahnlos torch: Fackel, Taschenlampe tore: Riss torn: zerrissen, gerissen, riss, eingerissen torrents: Sturzbäche, Sturzfluten torturing: folternd, Foltern tossed: geworfen totally: völlig, total touch: berühren, Berührung, anrühren, anfassen, Kontakt, betasten, Anflug, rühren, Spur, tasten, tangieren touched: verletzt, berührt, angeschlagen tough: zäh, schwierig, robust, hartnäckig, hart, grob, brutal, vierschrötig, stämmig, rüstig toward: zu, nach, gegen, in, an, betreffs, bezüglich towel: Handtuch, Frottéehandtuch, Frottiertuch, das Handtuch, Badetuch towns: Städte traces: spuren track: Spur, Gleis, Piste, Rennbahn, Fährte, Strecke, Hackenspur, Weiche, verfolgen, Eisenbahnweiche tracks: Spuren tragedy: Tragödie, Trauerspiel, Tragik, Tragödien, Tragisch tragic: tragisch, dramatisch train: Zug, abrichten, dressieren, trainieren, Eisenbahnzug, ausbilden, heranbilden, Zugabteil, üben, repetieren, proben trained: abgerichtet, ausgebildet, geübt, trainiert trains: Zuggarnitur tramp: trampeln, Landstreicher, Dachlose tramps: Vagabungen, Landstreicher, Dachlosen tranquil: ruhig, gelassen, still, ruhige, gemütlich transfixed: durchstochen transformed: wandelte um, umgewandelt, wandeltet um, wandeltest um, wandelten um, gestaltetet um, gestaltetest um, umgestaltet, gestalteten um, gestaltete um transparent: durchsichtig, transparent, gläsern, glasig, durchscheinend, erkennbar, glasartig, glashell transplanting: Verpflanzend

transport: Transport, befördern, transportieren, übertragen, Verkehr, Einschiffung, Verladung, Verschiffung, Versetzung travelled: gereist travellers: Reisende, Reisenden travelling: Umherreisend, Herumreisend, Reisend treasure: schatz, Tresor treated: behandelt, behandeld treble: dreifach, verdreifachen tree: Baum, der Baum trees: Bäume trembled: bangte, gezittert trembling: zitternd, Zittern, Erschütterung, Beben tremor: Zittern, Tremor, Beben tremulous: zitternd tribute: Tribut, Abgabe, Huldigung, Ehrung, Ehrengabe, Biegung trick: List, Kniff, Kunstgriff, Trick, Streich, Pfiffigkeit, Tücke, Ausflucht, Witzigkeit, Schlauheit, Narren tricky: kompliziert, verzwickt, knifflig, heikel, lästig, belastend, beschwerlich trim: garnieren, beschneiden, besetzen, Leiste, einfassen, Rand, Auflage, abschneiden, Tresse, Streifen, Krempe tripped: getrippelt trips: Abstecher triumph: Triumph, Triumphieren, Sieg, siegen trolley: Wagen, Lore, Trollen, Transportkarren, Stangenstromabnehmer, Draisine, Karren trot: Trab, trotten, traben, Trott trouble: Schwierigkeit, Problem, Störung, Unruhe, belästigen, stören, Mühe, Aufregung, beengen, genieren, lästig werden troubled: gestört, beunruhigt, aufgewühlt, trüb, unruhig, trübe troubles: Empörumg, Problem, Probleme, Schererei, Scherereien, Berührung, Aufruhr trudge: zuckeln, stapfen, trödeln, trotten, trudeln trunk: Rumpf, Koffer, Stamm, Rüssel, Torso, Baumstamm, Kofferraum, Ladenkästen, Strunk, Container trunks: Kofferräume truth: Wahrheit tuck: Falte, stecken, sich stürzen, die Falte, der Saum, Abnäher, die Süßigkeiten tuft: Büschel, Schopf, Quaste tugging: zerrend, zerren tumbler: Becher, Wasserglas tune: Melodie, Lied, stimmen,

Edith Wharton abstimmen, Weise, anpassen, Liedchen, adaptieren tuneful: melodisch tunes: Melodien, stellt an, stimmt turning: Drehend, kehrend, wendend, drechselnd, Drehen, umwendend, umdrehend, Schwenke, Schwenkungen, Gangbar, Drehung twice: zweimal, doppelt, zweimaal twilight: Dämmerung, Zwielicht, Abenddämmerung, Dämmerlicht, Finsternis, Halbdunkel, Glühen, Flimmern twinge: Stich twinkling: Glitzernd, Funkelnd twirl: kräuseln, wirbeln, ringeln, locken twisted: gedreht, verdreht, faltig, gewunden twisting: Krümmung, Verschlingung, Verdrillen, Verdrehung, verdrehend, Schlinge, sichschlängelnd, Windung, Schleife, schlängelnd, Kurve twitch: Zuckung, zupfen twitching: Zupfend twittering: zwitschernd ugliness: Hässlichkeit ugly: hässlich, unangenehm, widerwärtig, widerlich, unerfreulich, abstoßend, unschön ultimate: letzter, ultimativ, letzte, endgültig, äußerster, äußerste, äußerst unappetising: unappetitlich unapproachable: unzugänglich, unnahbar, unerreichbar, nicht sehr entgegenkommend unbidden: ungebeten, unaufgefordert uncertainly: unsicher unchanged: unverändert uncomprehending: verständnislos unconsciousness: Bewußtlosigkeit, Unbewußtheit, Besinnungslosigkeit unconstrained: zwanglos, variabel, ungezwungen, locker, entspannung uncouth: ungehobelt, flegelhaft, grob uncovered: aufgedeckt, unbedeckt, abgedeckt, enthüllt, deckte ab, enthüllten, deckten ab, enthülltest, decktest ab, enthülltet, enthüllte underground: unterirdisch, Untergrund, Untergrundbahn underneath: unter, unterhalb, unten, nach unten, hinunter, untenan, untendurch, unterwärts, darunter understood: verstandet, verstand, verstanden, verstandest, begriff, begrifft, begriffen, begriffst, erfaßtet, erfaßtest, erfaßten

undertaker: Leichenbestatter, Bestattungsinstitut, Bestattungsunternehmer undressed: entkleidetet, entkleidetest, entkleideten, entkleidete, entkleidet, ausgezogen, zog aus, zogen aus, zogst aus, zogt aus, unbekleidet undulations: Wellenformen unexpected: unerwartet, unverhofft, unvorhergesehen, unvermutet, nichtverdächtig, plötzlich, unverdächtig, unversehens unexpectedly: unerwartet, plötzlich, auf einmal, unvorhergesehen, unversehens, unvermutet, unverhofft, jählings unfamiliar: unbekannt, ungewohnt unfinished: unfertig, nicht fertig, unbearbeitet, unbeendet, unvollendet unfounded: grundlos, unbegründet, bodenlos, egal, einerlei, gedankenlos, gefühllos, gleichgültig, indifferent, mirnichtsdirnichts, schlampig unfriendly: unfreundlich ungrudgingly: neidlos unhappiest: unglücklichste unhappily: unglücklicherweise unhappiness: Elend, Unglück unhappy: unglücklich, unzufrieden, traurig unharness: abspannen, ausschirren, abschirren unhitch: aufknüpfen, zurückdrehen, tilgen, rückgängig machen, loshaken, lösen, entknoten, aufknoten, aufknöpfen, aufhaken, aufbinden unhooked: haktest auf, aufgehakt, hakte auf, hakten auf, haktet auf uninhabitable: unbewohnbar universal: universal, universell, allgemeingültig, durchgängig unlikely: unwahrscheinlich, ungleich unlit: düster, finster, gedrückt, trüb, trübe, unbeleuchtet, dunkel unloading: Entladung, ausladend, Entladen, Ausladung, abladend, Löschung unmoved: unbewegt, ungerührt unnoticed: unbemerkt, unbeachtet, verstohlen, ungesehen unpainted: nicht bemalt unperturbed: gelassen unreality: Unwirklichkeit unreasoning: vernunftlos unrolled: rolltet auf, rolltest auf, rollten auf, rollte auf, aufgerollt, abgerollt unseal: entsiegeln

141 unseen: Ungesehen, unsichtbar unshaded: unverdunkelt unskilled: ungelernt, unerfahren, ungeschult, ungeschickt, nicht geschult unsteady: unsicher, unbeständig, unstetig, wackelig, unstabil, unsolide, unzuverlässig, schwankend untenanted: unbewohnt untidy: unordentlich, chaotisch, nachlässig, schlampig machen, struppig, ungeordnet, ungepflegt machen, wüst untrained: unausgebildet, ungeschult, undressiert, ungeübt untrodden: unbetreten, nicht zugänglich, unberührt unusual: ungewöhnlich, unüblich, ungebräuchlich, ungewohnt, selten unusually: ungewöhnlich unwilling: widerwillig, nichtdienstwillig, ungefällig, nichthilfsbereit, abweisend, unfreundlich unwinding: abwickelnd, entspannend unworthy: unwürdig, würdelos upper: oberer, obere, Oberes, ober, höher uppermost: höchste, höchst, hervorragendste, bedeutendste, oberste, äußerst, vornehmste upright: Aufrecht, senkrecht, gerade, gerecht, Ständer, rechtschaffen, ehrlich, pur, treuherzig, offenherzig, offen upstairs: oben, nach oben, oben gelegen, steigend, oberes, obere, in eine höhere Etage, droben, aufwärts, ansteigend, herauf upward: aufwärts, ansteigend, empor, steigend urged: drängte, gedrängt urgent: dringend, dringlich, zwingend, notwendig, eilig, dringend nötig, vordringlich urging: Drängend, Antrieb, Andrag usual: üblich, gewöhnlich, allgemein, normal, gebräuchlich, herkömmlich, geläufig, gängig, alltäglich, einfach utmost: äußerst, alleräußerste utter: äußerst, äußern, ausschließen, leibhaftig, aussondern vacancy: Leere, Freie Stelle, Offene Stelle, Lücke, Stellenangebot vague: undeutlich, vage, unbestimmt, verschwommen, unklar, halblaut, schattenhaft, grob, dunkel, dumpfig, dumpf vaguely: unbestimmt, vage vain: eitel, vergeblich, eingebildet,

142 vergebens, hinfällig, nutzlos, leer vainly: vergeblich, eingebildet, vergebens valiantly: tapfer valise: Reisetasche, Kleiner Handkoffer, Handkoffer, Felleisen valley: Tal, Niederung, Senke, Bergtal, Mulde, das Tal valleys: Talen, Täler vanished: verschwunden, verschwandet, verschwandest, verschwanden, verschwand vapours: Dämpfe, Düfte varied: variiertet, variiertest, variierte, variierten, variiert, verschieden, abwechslungsreich, divers, wandeltet ab, wandelten ab, verschiedenartig variety: Sorte, Abart, Art, Varietät, Vielfalt, Variation, Auswahl, Vielfältigkeit, Verschiedenheit, Verschiedenartigkeit vault: Gewölbe, Tresor, Kuppel, Kuppelgewölbe, Bockspringen, Tresorraum vehemence: Vehemenz, Ungestüm, Leidenschaftlichkeit, Heftigkeit, Intensität, Bissigkeit, Brunst, Eifer, Grimmigkeit, Schärfe, Stachlichkeit vehemently: heftig, vehement veil: Schleier, Verschleiern, Verhüllen, Vertuschen, Voile, Verhehlen, Beschleiern veiling: Verschleiernd, Verschleierung veils: Schleier, Verschleiert, Vorhänge veins: Adern, Venen, Neigungen, Geäder velvet: Samt, Samten, Sammet, Samtartig, Velours venom: Gift, Gehässigkeit ventured: riskierte, gewagt version: Version, Ausgabe, Übersetzung, Fassung, Lesung vertical: senkrecht, vertikal, stehend, vertikale vexed: geärgert, ärgerte, ärgerten, ärgertest, ärgertet, verärgert vibration: Vibration, Schwingung, Erschütterung, Beben, Vibrieren victim: Opfer, Geschädigte, Dumme, Düpierte, Düpierter villagers: Dorfbewohner, Landmänner, Dorfeinwohner, Dörfler villages: Dörfer violence: Gewalt, Gewalttätigkeit, Heftigkeit, Gewalteinwirkung violent: heftig, gewalttätig, gewaltsam, stark, brutal, schwer, stoppelig, wild, schlimm, störrisch,

Ethan Frome schroff violently: heftig visible: sichtbar, erkennbar, spürbar, merklich, zu sehen, ersichtlich, augenscheinlich, bemerkbar, fühlbar vision: Vision, Gesicht, Vorstellung, Sicht, Erscheinung, Erkennen, Erkenntnis, Einfälle, Einfall, Erkennung, Gedanke vitality: Lebenskraft, Vitalität, Lebendigkeit vivid: lebhaft vocabulary: Wortschatz, Wörterverzeichnis, Wörterbuch, Vokabular, Sprachschatz, Redensart, Vokabel, Sprichwort, Ausdruck void: leer, nichtig, ungültig volcanic: vulkanisch, feuerspeiend volubility: Redegewandtheit volume: Volumen, Band, Umfang, Lautstärke, Druck, Inhalt, Jahrgang, Datenträger, Rauminhalt, Auflegung, Ausgabe vulgar: vulgär, ordinär, gewöhnlich, schäbig, trivial, üblich, schofel, geschmacklos, banal, abgeschmackt, verständlich wages: Lohn, Löhne, Gehalt, Gage, Arbeitslöhne, Salär wagon: Waggon, Wagen wailed: geklagt wainscot: Täfeln, Bekleiden, Täfelung, Verkleiden, Paneel wait: warten, warte, wartet, wartest, abwarten, Wartezeit, wartet ab, wartest ab, warten ab, warte ab, harren waited: wartete, warteten, wartetest, gewartet, wartetet, wartetest ab, warteten ab, wartetet ab, wartete ab, abgewartet waiting: wartend, Bedienung, abwartend, Warten, Dienst, abwarten wake: wecken, aufwecken, aufwachen, Kielwasser, erwachen, Totenwache, erwecken, Totenmesse, Wachtposten, Wache, Sog waking: Wachend, Bewachen, Beaufsichtigen, auf Streifegehen, Streifen, Patrouillieren walk: Spaziergang, gehen, laufen, spazieren gehen, spazieren, spazierst, spaziert, spaziere, Marsch, Gang, wandern walked: spazierten, ging, spazierte, spaziertest, spaziertet, spaziert walking: Spazierend, Gehend, Gehen walks: spaziert, wandert walls: Wände wan: blass, bleich wandering: wandernd, irrend,

umherstreifend, unstet, herumreisend wants: will warm: warm, erwärmen warmed: erwärmte, erwärmten, gewärmt warming: Wärmen, erwärmend warmly: warm, herzlich warmth: Wärme, Glut, Herzlichkeit, Hitze warn: warnen, warnt, warnst, warne, ermahnen warned: warntest, warnten, gewarnt, warntet, warnte warning: Warnung, warnend, Verwarnung warped: krumm, windschief, verzerrte, verbogen wash: waschen, wäschst, wascht, wasche, spülen, Wäsche, sich waschen, abbeuchen washing: Waschend, Waschen, Wäsche, Kleider, Kleidung wasting: verschwendend, vergeudend watch: Uhr, zusehen, beobachten, zuschauen, anblicken, ansehen, Armbanduhr, schauen, blicken, gucken, bewachen watched: gewacht watcher: Beobachter, der Schaulustige, der Wächter, die Beobachterin, die Schaulustige, Ein Schaulustiger, Schaulustige, Wächter, der Beobachter watchful: wachsam watching: Beobachtend watery: wässerig, wässrig, tränend, verlängert, schal, dünn wave: Welle, winken, Woge, schwenken, schwingen, wogen, mit der Hand grüßen, wiegen, wellen, die Welle, schlingen waved: gewellt, winkte zu waver: zögern, wanken, taumeln, wackeln, schwanken, zagen, zaudern wavered: wackeltest, zagte, wanktet, wanktest, wankten, wackeltet, zagten, zögertest, wankte, zagtest, zagtet wavering: Schwankend, unsolide, zögernd, wankend, wankelmütig, unzuverlässig, unschlüssig, unfest, instabil, unentschieden, unbeständig waves: Schwalle, Wellen waving: Welle, Wogen, Wellenlinie, Wellenbewegung weak: schwach, flau, empfindlich, kraftlos, gebrechlich, gelinde, matt, fein, schlaff, energielos, dünn weakly: schwach, schwächlich,

Edith Wharton kränklich weapons: Waffen, Kriegsgerät wear: tragen, Abnutzung, Verschleiss, Kleidung, aufhaben wearily: müde weariness: Müdigkeit weary: müde, abständlich, zurückhaltend, matt, lustlos, kühl weather: Wetter, Witterung, das Wetter wedding: Hochzeit, heiratend, Heirat, Vermählend, Hochzeitsfest, Hochzeitsfeier wedge: Keil, verkeilen weeping: weinend, Weinen, tränend weighed: wogen, wogt, gewogen, wog, wogst, wog ab, abgewogen, wogst ab, wogt ab, wogen ab weighing: Wiegend, abwägend, Wiegen, Wägung, wägend weight: Gewicht, Wucht, Schwere, Last, Gewichtsklasse, Bedeutung, Stärke weighted: gewogen, gewichtet welcome: Willkommen, begrüßen, begrüßst, begrüße, begrüßt, willkommen heißen, Empfang, erwünscht, Begrüßung, bewillkommen, bewirten wet: nass, naß machen, feucht, anfeuchten, befeuchten wheel: Rad, Lenkrad, Scheibe, das Rad whenever: wann auch immer, wann immer, sooft, wann whereabouts: Aufenthaltsort, zeitweiliger Aufenthaltsort whine: Heulen, langweilig sein, brüllen, heule, heulst, heult, schleppend sprechen, schreien, salbadern, herausschreien, lautauf schreien whining: wimmernd, Quengelei, heulend whinny: Wiehern whip: Peitsche, peitschen, quirlen, geißeln, Geißel, schlagen, kasteien, auspeitschen, Karbatsche, Reitpeitsche, stäupen whirl: wirbeln, sich drehen, kreiseln, quirlen, schwingen, Wirbel whirled: gewirbelt whisper: Flüstern, tuscheln, zischeln, säuseln, munkeln, Geflüster, lispeln whispered: geflüstert whispers: flüsterten, flüstern, flüstert whistle: Pfeife, pfeifen, Pfiff whistled: gepfiffen whiten: bleichen, weißen, bleichst, bleicht, weißt, weiße, weißst, bleiche whiteness: Weiße whiter: Weißer

whitewashed: tünchte, tünchtet, tünchtest, getüncht, tünchten wholly: gänzlich, ganz, gar widely: allgemein, weitgehend, weit, breit widow: Witwe width: Breite, Weite, die breite, Spannweite, Spannbreite, Schriftbreite wild: wild, verrückt, ausgelassen wind: Wind, wickeln, einwickeln, aufziehen, der Wind, rollen, winden window-pane: Fensterscheibe windows: Fenster, Glasscheiben winds: briesen, stürme, winde windy: windig wing: Flügel, Fittich, Tragfläche wings: Flügel winter: Winter, Winterlich, Überwintern winters: Winter wiped: wischtet, wischtest, gewischt, wischte, wischten, streiftet ab, abgestreift, streiften ab, streifte ab, streiftest ab wires: Drähte wisdom: Weisheit, Klugheit, Einsicht wished: gewünscht wishing: Wünschend wisps: Strähnen wistful: wehmütig woe: Wehe, Weh woke: wachte womanly: fraulich, weiblich wonder: Wunder, Verwunderung, staunen, sich wundern, sich fragen, erstaunen, verwundern, Aufsehen wondered: gewundert wondering: wundernd, staunend wonders: Wunder wood: Holz, Wald, das Holz, Hölzer wooded: bewaldet, bewachsen wooden: hölzern woods: Wald, Forst woody: waldig, holzig, bösartig, gemein wooing: Lockend wore: trug worked: knetetest, wirktest, wirkten, wirkte, gewirkt, knetetet, wirktet, kneteten, kneten, geknetet, bearbeitet worn: abgetragen, getragen, abgegriffen, vertreten, abgenutzt, abgewetzt worse: schlechter, Schlimmer, geringer worst: schlechteste, schlimmste, am schlimmsten wound: wunde, verwunden, verletzen, Verletzung, Verwundung, kränken, düpieren

143 wove: weben, webte wraith: Gespenst, das Gespenst wrapped: hüllte ein, eingewickelt, übernommen wrapper: Verpackung, Streifen, Banderole, Deckblatt, Kreuzband, Papierstreifen, Streifband, Umhüllung, Hülle wrapping: UmhÜllung, Verpackung, Kapsel, Gehäuse, Gefäß, Flugschreiber, Karton, Dose, Hülse, Dichtung, Büchse wrappings: Hüllen wraps: hüllen, hüllt ein wrath: Zorn, Wut, Erbitterung, Grimm, Gram wrinkles: Runzeln wrist: Handgelenk, das Handgelenk, Handwurzel, Puls writhing: krümmend, zappelnd writing: Schreibend, Schreiben, verfassend, Schrift, Schriftstück, abfassend, Text, Handschrift, Dokument, Abfassung wrung: gewrungen y: ig, Yttrium yard: Hof, Yard, Hofraum, Lagerplatz, Werft, Bahnhofsgelände yards: Höfe yellow: gelb, vergilben, Eigelb yield: Ertrag, nachgeben, Ausbeute, ergeben, weichen, weiche, weichst, abtreten, weicht, einbringen, Gewinn yielded: wicht, wichst, wichen, wich, gewichen, gab nach, brachtest ein, gewonnen, brachten ein, eingebracht, brachte ein yonder: jener, dort drüben, dahin, nach dort, dort, die, derjenige, hierhin, das, dorthin, da youngest: jüngst, geringst yours: euer, ihr, die deine, der Ihre, der euere, der deine, das deine, ihre, ihres youth: Jugend, Jüngling, Jugendliche, JungenLeute youths: Junge Leute, Jugend zero: null, Nullpunkt