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- Herausgeber: adlima GmbH
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Deutsch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024
Englisch Lernen mit klassischen Werken. Die Bücher dieser Reihe eignen sich für Jugendliche und Erwachsen, die mit klassischen Werken ihre Lesefähigkeit verbessern wollen. Englisch Niveaus A2 bis B2. Durchgehend in englischer Sprache. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte von einem Wissenschaftler. Er wird "der Zeitreisende" genannt. Er baut eine Zeitmaschine und reist in die Zukunft. Dort landet er im Jahr 802'701. In dieser Zukunftswelt gibt es zwei Arten von Menschen. Die Eloi leben oberirdisch. Sie sind schön, aber schwach und nicht sehr klug. Die Morlocks leben unter der Erde. Sie sind stärker und schlauer, aber auch furchteinflößend. Der Zeitreisende findet heraus, dass die Morlocks die Eloi kontrollieren und sogar fressen. Am Ende kämpft der Zeitreisende gegen die Morlocks, um zu seiner Zeitmaschine zurückzukehren. Er schafft es und kehrt in seine eigene Zeit zurück. Dort erzählt er seinen Freunden von seinen Abenteuern, aber sie glauben ihm nicht.
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Herbert George Wells
The Time Machine: Englisch Lektüre A2 - B2
Englisch Lernen mit klassischen Werken. Die Bücher dieser Reihe eignen sich für Jugendliche und Erwachsen, die mit klassischen Werken ihre Lesefähigkeit verbessern wollen. Englisch Niveaus A2 bis B2. Durchgehend in englischer Sprache.Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
The machine
The time traveller returns
Travelling in time
In the golden age
The sunset of humanity
A sudden blow
Explanation
The Morlocks
After the night has come
The green porcelain palace
In the dark
The trap of the white sphinx
The next vision
The return of the time traveller
After the story
Epilogue
Impressum
Introduction
The time traveller explains a mysterious thing to us. He is excited, and his eyes sparkle. We sit in comfortable chairs and listen to him. He says we must listen carefully. He will refute ideas that many believe to be true. He starts with geometry and says that it is based on a mistake.
Filby, who loves to debate, finds this hard to believe. The time traveller goes on to explain that lines without thickness and surfaces only exist in theory, not in reality. Everyone agrees. Then he asks whether a cube can exist without time. Filby doesn't understand what he means.
Filby thinks about it. The time traveller says that every real body has four dimensions: length, width, depth, and time. We often forget about time because our senses are limited. He explains that time is simply another dimension, like the three dimensions of space. Our consciousness moves along time.
A young man tries to light his cigar. He says that it is clear. The time traveller says that many people overlook this. Time is like a spatial dimension, but our consciousness only moves in time. He asks if everyone knows about the fourth dimension.
The mayor says he doesn't know.
The time traveller explains that space has three dimensions in mathematics: length, width and depth. These can be described with three planes, each at right angles to the other. He asks why there can't be a fourth dimension. He mentions that Professor Simon Newcomb recently spoke about this. You can represent a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional surface. Similarly, you can perhaps represent a four-dimensional object in three dimensions.
The mayor thinks about it and then says he understands. The time traveller says he has been working on the geometry of four dimensions. He shows portraits of a man at different ages as an example of four-dimensional representations.
The time traveller says that scientists know that time is a kind of space. He shows a weather map. A line on it shows the barometer movements. It does not run in the familiar spatial dimensions, but in the time dimension.
The doctor asks why we see time differently and cannot move in it as we can in other spatial dimensions. The time traveller answers that we cannot move freely in all spatial dimensions. We can move sideways, forward, and backward, but up and down only to a limited extent because of gravity. The doctor mentions balloons. But the time traveller says that before balloons existed, it was not possible. People couldn't move upwards freely back then.
The time traveller says that we can move in time. We think that we are trapped in the moment. But we are always moving away from it. Our thoughts move through time from birth to death. Just like when we fall from on high.
The psychologist says that we cannot move back and forth in time. But the time traveller disagrees. He says that when we remember something, we move back in time. We cannot stay in the past for long, but perhaps it will be possible to control time.
Filby doesn't believe in that. He says it is illogical. The time traveller replies that Filby may not be convinced. But he has a goal with his research, a machine that can travel in any direction of space and time. The young man is surprised and asks if it is a time travelling machine. The time traveller confirms that it is.
Filby just laughs at the time traveller's ideas. The time traveller says he has evidence from experiments. The psychologist thinks it is a good idea. Then you can travel back in time and check history. A young man says you can learn Greek directly from Homer and Plato. Another jokes that you can invest money and travel into the future. Then you can collect the interest.
Someone says that a communist society might then emerge. The psychologist thinks these are all crazy theories. The time traveller leaves the room to show his experiment. Everyone is curious to see what he has discovered. The doctor thinks it is just a trick. Filby begins to tell a story. But the time traveller returns before he has finished.
The machine
The time traveller holds a small, glittering metal device in his hand. It is as small as a watch and very finely made. It is made of ivory and a clear, crystal-like substance. He places it on a small table in front of the fire. A lamp and lots of candles in the room provide plenty of light. I sit close to the fire, Filby behind the time traveller. The doctor and the mayor are watching from the side, the psychologist from the left, and a young man is standing behind the psychologist. Everyone is watching intently.
The time traveller looks at us first and then at the device. The psychologist asks what it is. The time traveller says it is a model of a time travel machine. It looks strange. One part is particularly shiny. He points to a small white lever on the device.
The doctor gets up to take a closer look. He thinks it is beautifully made.
The time traveller says that he has been working on the device for two years. He explains that one lever moves the machine into the future and the other reverses the movement. The seat on it is for the time traveller. He will press the lever and the machine will disappear and travel into the future. He asks us to watch carefully and make sure there is no cheating.
After a short pause, the time traveller presses the lever. The machine turns, becomes indistinct, looks like a ghost, and then disappears. The table is empty. Everyone is silent. Filby is surprised. The psychologist looks under the table, but the time traveller just laughs.
The time traveller stands up and fills his pipe. The doctor asks if the machine has really travelled in time. The time traveller replies that he has a larger machine in the laboratory and is planning to travel himself. Filby asks if the machine has travelled to the future.
The time traveller says he doesn't know whether the machine has travelled to the future or the past. The psychologist thinks it must have travelled to the past. He says that if it has travelled to the future, it must still be here. I say that if it travelled to the past, we should have seen it earlier. The mayor thinks that is a good objection.
The time traveller says it is a question of perception. The psychologist explains that it is normal that we cannot see fast movements. If the machine is travelling through time very quickly, we may not see it. He moves his hand to where the machine was standing and laughs.
We look at the empty table for a while. Then the time traveller asks what we think. The doctor says it sounds plausible tonight, but tomorrow it might look different.
The time traveller asks if we want to see his time machine. He takes a lamp and leads us through a long corridor to his laboratory. There we see a larger version of the small device that disappeared earlier. The machine has parts made of nickel, ivory, and apparently also crystal. It is almost finished, only some crystal parts are still lying around.
The doctor asks the time traveller if he is serious or if it is a trick. The time traveller replies that he wants to explore time and is very serious about it.
