Translation examples
And then there is singing over the speaker. Siren singing.
Dann ertönt Gesang aus dem Lautsprecher. Sirenengesang.
Evangelina liked to listen to him sing; she would lie quietly with her eyes closed, as if she were hearing the voices of sirens: Sing me some more . . . sing me some more. . . . While he was a prisoner, he had more than enough time to think about her, to remember everything about her, about the pact of forbidden desire they had shared since they were children.
Evangelina hörte ihm stets andächtig zu und saß dann schweigend und mit geschlossenen Augen da, als hörte sie Sirenengesang, sing weiter, mehr… Während seiner Haft hatte er Gelegenheit, viel an sie zu denken, sich lebhaft an jede einzelne ihrer Gesten zu erinnern und an die Komplizenschaft der verbotenen Begierde, die sie von Kindheit an verbunden hatte.
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