German composition : $b A theoretical and practical guide to the art of translating English prose into German · Hermann Lange
Chapter 2
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About nine in the morning the signal gun was fired, which announced that the child was found (S. 4, N. 4), and for some time the suspense was dreadful. Was the child found a mangled corpse, or was it alive and well? Soon (App. § 14) a joyful shout proclaimed the safety of the child. A procession was formed by those engaged in the search. The child was placed upon a litter, hastily constructed from the boughs of trees (S. 36, N. 7, A), and borne in triumph at the head of the procession.
When they arrived at the brow of the hill, they stopped for a moment, and proclaimed their success with three loud and animated cheers. The mother could no longer restrain her feelings. She rushed into the street, clasped her child to her bosom, and wept aloud. Every eye was suffused with tears, and for a moment all was silent.
But suddenly some one gave a signal for a shout. One long, loud, and happy note of joy rose from the assembled multitude, who then dispersed to (S. 19, N. 7) return home and to resume their business.—JACOB ABBOTT.
+gegen.+
in the morning, +morgens+.
for — time, +eine Zeit lang+.
a = as a = +als+.
joyful shout, +Freudengeschrei+ (S. 76, N. 22, B).
Use the reflective form +sich bilden+; by, +von+.
+welche sich bei der Auffindung des Kindes beteiligt hatten.+
Use the attributive construction pointed out in S. 7, N. 3; constructed, +zusam´mengefügt+; from, +aus+.
+einher´tragen.+
+an.+
+Spitze+, f.
brow = top.
animated = fiery.
+Hurras.+
+auf.+
her = the.
Say ‘No eye was without tears (+thränenleer+)’.
Use the def. art.
+zu.+
happy — joy, form a comp. noun of the corresponding German terms ‘joy’ and ‘cry’.
+aus.+
+Menge+, f.
to resume business, +sich an sein Geschäft begeben+.
Section 100.
PERSPIRATION.
Perspiration is the evacuation of the juices of the body through the pores of the skin. It has been calculated (S. 4, N. 4) that there are above three hundred millions of pores in the glands of the skin which covers the body of a middle-sized man. Through these pores more than one half of what we eat and drink passes off by insensible perspiration. If we consume eight pounds of food in a day (App. § 9; S. 27, N. 8), five pounds of it (S. 4, N. 5, B) are insensibly discharged by perspiration. During a night of seven hours’ sleep we perspire about two pounds and a half. At an average we may estimate the discharge by sensible and insensible perspiration at from half an ounce to four ounces per hour. This (+Dies+) is a most wonderful part of the animal economy, and is absolutely necessary to our health, and even to our very existence.—THE REV. DR. DICK.
+Ausscheidung+, f.
‘(there) to be’, here +sich befinden+. Place the reflective pron. after the conjunction +daß+. The words ‘above — pores’ come after the relative clause ‘which — man’, after which place the verb +befinden+.
+die Hälfte.+
+entweichen.+
+mittelst.+
+unmerklich.+
+an.+
+aus´scheiden.+
Say ‘During a seven hours’ (+siebenstündig+) sleep’.
two pounds and a half, +drittehalb Pfund+.
may = can.
+durch.+
+auf.+
+bis.+
Use the superlative of the adv. +hoch+.
part — economy, +Einrichtung im tierischen Organismus+.
Substitute a relative pronoun for the conjunction ‘and’, which will improve the sentence very much.
+für.+
Section 101.
THE DRAMA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848.
