gedruckte Fassung (Amazon)
Hundert Jahre oder mehr ist's wohl her, daß der Blitz in sie einschlug und sie von oben bis unten auseinanderspellte, und ebensolange schon geht der Pflug über die Stätte; früher aber stand einige hundert Schritte vor dem ersten Hause des Dorfes auf dem grünen Rasenhügel eine alte mächtige Buche; so ein Baum, wie jetzt gar keine mehr wachsen, weil Tiere und Menschen, Pflanzen und Bäume immer kleiner und erbärmlicher werden.
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Printed Edition (Amazon). It's at least one hundred years or more since lightning struck and split it apart from top to bottom, and for just as long, this site has been worked over by the plough; in former times, on the green, grassy hill, a few hundred paces from the first house in the village, there was a mighty beech tree, a tree, the like of which no longer grows because animals, people, plants and trees are becoming increasingly punier and more pathetic.
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Printed Edition (Amazon). It's at least one hundred years or more since lightning struck and split it apart from top to bottom, and for just as long, this site has been worked over by the plough; in former times, on the green, grassy hill, a few hundred paces from the first house in the village, there was a mighty beech tree, a tree, the like of which no longer grows because animals, people, plants and trees are becoming increasingly smaller and more pitiful.
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Merlin57 • 16784
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Freut mich Wendy, dass dir die Traumbuche gefällt, somit kommst du auch mal wieder zum Übersetzen :-)
by anitafunny 7 years, 2 months ago:)
by bf2010 7 years, 2 months ago:-)
by lollo1a 7 years, 2 months agoDanke Bernard - dein Vorschlag gefällt mir :-)
by Merlin57 7 years, 2 months agoGreat!
by bf2010 7 years, 2 months agoJust a tiny suggestion in the last part:
becoming increasingly punier and more piteous/pathetic ?
(the idea behind "kleiner und erbärmlicher" is the old belief that the world has degenerated from the times of the Gods and heroes who were mighty and strong to our generation which is weak and pathetic)?