The Wolf and the Lamb.
A Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the Lamb himself his right to eat him. He then addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf: "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf: "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." On which the Wolf seized him, and ate him up, saying: "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations."
교훈: The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust.
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A Wolf was drinking at a spring on a hillside. On looking up he saw a Lamb just beginning to drink lower down. “There’s my supper,” thought he, “if only I can find some excuse to seize it.” He called out to the Lamb, “How dare you muddle my drinking water?”
“No,” said the Lamb; “if the water is muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me.”
“Well, then,” said the Wolf, “why did you call me bad names this time last year?”
“That cannot be,” said the Lamb; “I am only six months old.”
“I don’t care,” snarled the Wolf; “if it was not you, it was your father;” and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb and ate her all up.
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📚 단어 및 표현
astray 길을 잃고[잃은]; 잘못된 길에 빠져[빠진]
fold (우리 안의) 양떼
violent 난폭한, 폭력적인
plea 애원, 간청, 변명, 핑계, 구실
address (남에게) 말을 걸다
sirra(h) (고어) 야, 이봐, 이놈아 (손아랫사람·아이들을 향하여 감질을 내거나 경멸 따위를 나타내어 부르는 말).
grossly 크게, 심하게
insult 모욕하다, 모독하다, …에게 무례한 짓을 하다
bleat (양·염소·송아지가 떨리는 목소리로) 매애매애 울다.
mournful 애절한, 구슬픈, 슬프게 하는.
pasture 목장, 방목장, 목초지
good sir 선생님
exclaim 외치다, 소리치다(cry out); 큰 소리로 말하다.
supperless 저녁을 먹지 않는(거른)
refute 논박하다, 반박하다, 잘못을 지적하다
imputation (과실·죄 따위를 남에게) 돌리기, 씌우기,비난, 비방, 허물, 오명
tyrant 폭군, 전제 군주; 독재자, 압제자
oppressor 압제자, 박해자
excuse 변명, 이유,구실, 핑계 거리
muddle 흙탕물을 만들다
muddy 흙탕물의, 탁한
call somebody a (bad) name …를 나쁘게 말하다[흉보다]
snarl (개 등이) (이빨을 드러내며) 으르렁거리다
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