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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll · Chapter 1 · English → German · unedited output

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

Im nächsten Augenblick stürzte Alice hinterher, ohne auch nur einmal zu überlegen, wie sie wohl wieder herauskommen sollte.

“Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they’ll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!” (Which was very likely true.)

„Nun gut!“, dachte Alice bei sich, „nach einem solchen Sturz werde ich mir beim Hinunterfallen von Treppen nichts mehr denken! Wie tapfer mich wohl alle zu Hause finden werden! Warum, ich würde nicht einmal etwas davon erzählen, wenn ich vom Dach des Hauses fiele!“ (Was sehr wahrscheinlich stimmte.)

“What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I must be shutting up like a telescope.”

„Was für ein merkwürdiges Gefühl!“, sagte Alice; „ich muss mich wie ein Teleskop zusammenziehen.“

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What the translation reads like

  • Speech uses German low and high quotation marks „…“, with ‚…‘ for a quote inside a quote, as German publishers print them.
  • Recurring names become fixed terms from the glossary: the White Rabbit is capitalized like a name, as in das Weiße Kaninchen, whenever it is called by its full name.
  • The prose is standard written German in the past tense. Long English sentences are often kept as long German sentences instead of being split.
  • Some small English interjections are translated too literally. In the sample, Alice's “Why, I wouldn’t say anything” becomes „Warum, ich würde …“, where a German editor would choose an interjection instead of the question word. You can fix such spots in the built in editor.
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See it before you try it

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll · Chapter 1, sample · English → Simplified Chinese

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”

爱丽丝开始感到非常厌倦,她坐在姐姐旁边的河岸上,无事可做:她曾一两次偷看姐姐正在读的书,但书中没有图画或对话,“一本书没有图画或对话有什么用呢?”爱丽丝想。

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

于是她在心里琢磨着(尽管尽力思考,但炎热的天气让她昏昏欲睡,头脑迟钝),编一条雏菊花环的乐趣是否值得她费劲起身去采摘那些雏菊,就在这时,一只长着粉红色眼睛的白兔突然从她身边跑过。

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

那也没什么非常奇怪的;爱丽丝也不觉得听到兔子自言自语“哦,亲爱的!哦,亲爱的!我要迟到了!”有什么太不寻常的(后来她回想起来,才觉得当时本应感到奇怪,但那时一切似乎都很自然);但当真兔子从它的背心口袋里掏出一块表,看了看,然后匆忙赶路时,爱丽丝一下子站了起来,因为她脑海里闪过一个念头:她以前从未见过兔子有背心口袋,或者有表可以掏出来。她充满好奇,追着它跑过田野,幸运的是,她正好赶上看见它跳进篱笆下的一个大兔子洞里。

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Built for whole books

Names stay themselves

Before translating, we read through your book and build a glossary of people, places and special terms. Every request carries it, so “Mr. Darcy” is the same person on page 3 and page 300, and you can edit the glossary yourself.

Mr. Darcy → 达西先生Netherfield → 内瑟菲尔德Longbourn → 朗伯恩

Your book, not a rebuild

Translations are inserted into the original file, right after each paragraph. Chapters, images, footnotes, fonts and styles stay exactly where the publisher put them.

It is a truth universally acknowledged…凡是有钱的单身汉……

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How it works

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Questions, answered

How good is the German?

Grammatically solid and fluent, with good word choice for fiction. It stays close to the English, so it is easy to compare, and a few idioms come out more literal than a published translation would make them.

Is it good for learning German?

Yes. You read English you understand and then the German right below, sentence for sentence. It is a quick way to see how German handles word order and long sentences in real books.

Can I translate German books into English?

Yes. Upload a German ePub and choose English as the target.

Does it handle umlauts and ß on my e-reader?

Yes. The file is standard UTF-8 ePub and the German paragraphs are tagged as German, which also helps reading apps with hyphenation.