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The Unicorn in the Garden
ပန္းျခံထဲမွ ယူနီကြန္း
James Thurber

ေမာင္ႏွမေလးတို႔ေရ....အေမရိကန္ စာေရးဆရာႀကီး James Thurber ရဲ႕ The Unicorn in the Garden ဆိုတဲ့ ကမ႓ာေက်ာ္ပံုျပင္ေလးကို ေျပာျပမယ္ေနာ္....

Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden.
တစ္ခုေသာ ေနသာသည့္နံနက္ခင္းမွာ မီးဖိုေခ်ာင္မွာ ၾကက္ဥေမႊေၾကာ္ နံနက္စာထိုင္စားေနတဲ့ ေယာက္်ားဟာ ေမာ့ၾကည့္လိုက္ေတာ့ ေရႊေရာင္ခ်ိဳပါတဲ့ ယူနီကြန္းအျဖဴတစ္ေကာင္ဟာ သူ႔ရဲ႕ုျခံထဲမွာ ႏွင္းဆီပန္းေတြကို တိတ္ဆိတ္စြာ ကိုက္ျဖတ္စားေနတာကိုေတြ႕သတဲ့။

The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her. "There's a unicorn in the garden," he said. "Eating roses."
ေယာက္်ားဟာ သူ႔ရဲ႕မိန္းမအိပ္ေနတဲ့ အိပ္ခန္းေပၚကိုတက္သြားၿပီး သူမကိုနွိဳးလိုက္တယ္။ "ပန္းျခံထဲမွာ ယူနီကြန္းတစ္ေကာင္၊ ႏွင္းဆီပန္းေတြကို စားေနတယ္" လို႔သူကေျပာျပသတဲ့။

She opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him. "The unicorn is a mythical beast," she said, and turned her back on him.
မိန္းမဟာ သူ႔ကို မ်က္ေထာက္နီႀကီးနဲ႔ တစ္ခ်က္ၾကည့္လိုက္ၿပီး "ယူနီကြန္းဆိုတာ ဒ႑ာရီထဲမွာသာရွိတဲ့ တိရစၧာန္" လို႔ေျပာၿပီး သူ႔ကိုေၾကာေပးကာျပန္အိပ္ေလတယ္။

The man walked slowly downstairs and out into the garden. The unicorn was still there; he was now browsing among the tulips.
ေယာက္်ားဟာ ျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္း ေအာက္ထပ္ကို ဆင္းလာၿပီး ပန္းျခံထဲကိုသြားေလရဲ႕။ ယူနီကြန္းက ရွိေနေသးတယ္၊ ႏွင္းပန္းေလးေတြကို စားေနတယ္။

. "Here, unicorn," said the man and pulled up a lily and gave it to him. The unicorn ate it gravely.
"ေရာ့ ဒီမွာစား" လို႔ေျပာၿပီး ေယာက္်ားက ႏွင္းပန္းတစ္ပြင့္ကိုခူးၿပီး ယူနီကြန္းကို ေကၽြးလိုက္တယ္။ ယူနီကြန္းကလည္း တျမံဳ႕ျမံဳ႕နဲ႔ဝါးေနတာေပါ့။

With a high heart, because there was a unicorn in his garden, the man went upstairs and roused his wife again.
သူ႔ရဲ႕ပန္းျခံထဲမွာ ယူနီကြန္းတစ္ေကာင္ေရာက္ေနတာမို႔ မာန္တက္ေနတဲ့ေယာက္်ားဟာ အိမ္အေပၚထပ္ကိုတက္သြားၿပီး သူ႔မိန္းမကို ထပ္ၿပီးအိပ္ရာမွနွိဳးျပန္တယ္တဲ့။

"The unicorn," he said, "ate a lily."
"ယူနီကြန္းက ႏွင္းပန္းကိုစားတယ္" လို႔သူကေျပာျပတယ္။

His wife sat up in bed and looked at him, coldly. "You are a booby," she said, "and I am going to have you put in a booby-hatch."
မိန္းမဟာ အိပ္ရာမွာထထိုင္ၿပီး သူ႔ကိုစိမ္းစိမ္းႀကီးၾကည့္လိုက္ကာ "နင္ဟာ အ႐ူးပဲ၊ ငါ နင့္ကို အ႐ူးေထာင္ထဲပို႔မယ္" လို႔ေျပာခ်လိုက္သတဲ့။

The man, who never liked the words "booby" and "booby-hatch," and who liked them even less on a shining morning when there was a unicorn in the garden, thought for a moment.
"အ႐ူး" တို႔ "အ႐ူးေထာင္" တို႔ဆိုတဲ့စကားေတြကို ဘယ္ေတာ့ကမွ သေဘာမက်တဲ့သူ ေယာက္်ားဟာ သူ႔ရဲ႕ပန္းျခံထဲမွာ ယူနီကြန္းတစ္ေကာင္ေရာက္ေနတဲ့ ဒီလိုေနသာေနတဲ့နံနက္ခ်ိန္ခါမ်ိဳးမွာ ပိုလို႔ေတာင္သေဘာမက်တာမို႔ သူဟာ ခဏစဥ္းစားလိုက္တယ္။

. "We'll see about that," he said. He walked over to the door. "He has a golden horn in the middle of his forehead, "he told her.
"ေတြ႕ၾကေသးတာေပါ့ကြာ" လို႔သူကေျပာၿပီး တံခါးဘက္ကိုေလွ်ာက္သြားတယ္။ "သူ႔ရဲ႕ နဖူးအလယ္မွာ ေရႊေရာင္ခ်ိဳနဲ႔ဟ" လို႔ သူ႔မိန္းမကိုလွမ္းေျပာလိုက္တယ္။

Then he went back to the garden to watch the unicorn; but the unicorn had gone away. The man sat among the roses and went to sleep.
ၿပီးေနာက္ သူဟာ ယူနီကြန္းကိုၾကည့္ဖို႔ ပန္းျခံထဲကိုျပန္သြားေပမဲ့ ယူနီကြန္းက မရွိေတာ့ဘူးတဲ့။ ေယာက္်ားဟာ ႏွင္းဆီပန္းေတြၾကားထိုင္ခ်လိုက္ၿပီး အိပ္ေပ်ာ္သြားေလသတဲ့။

And as soon as the husband had gone out of the house, the wife got up and dressed as fast as she could. She was very excited and there was a gloat in her eye.
ေယာက္်ားျဖစ္သူ အိမ္အျပင္ကိုထြက္သြားတယ္ဆိုတာနဲ႔ပဲ မိန္းမဟာ အိပ္ရာကထ၊ အဝတ္အစားအျမန္လဲပါေလေရာ။ သူဟာ အရမ္းကို စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားေနၿပီး မ်က္လံုးေပၚမွာလည္း မသတီစရာအရိပ္အေယာင္ေတြ႕ရေလရဲ႕။

She telephoned the police and she telephoned the psychiatrist; she told them to hurry to her house and bring a strait-jacket.
သူဟာ ရဲကိုဖုန္းဆက္ၿပီး စိတ္ေရာဂါအထူးကု ဆရာဝန္ကိုလည္းဖုန္းဆက္လိုက္ကာ သူ႔ရဲ႕အိမ္ကို ျမန္ျမန္လာခဲ့ၾကပါ၊ စိတ္မႏွံ ့သူကို ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ဖို႔ ဂ်ာကင္အကၤ်ီလိုဝတ္စံုကိုလည္း ယူခဲ့ပါလို႔ ေျပာသတဲ့။

When the police and the psychiatrist arrived they sat down in chairs and looked at her, with great interest.
ရဲေတြနဲ႔ စိတ္ေရာဂါအထူးကုတို႔ ေရာက္လာေတာ့ သူတို႔ဟာ ခံုမွာထိုင္ၿပီး မိန္းမကို စိတ္ဝင္တစားၾကည့္ၾကေလရဲ႕။

"My husband," she said, "saw a unicorn this morning." The police looked at the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist looked at the police.
"ကၽြန္မရဲ႕ ေယာက္်ားက ဒီေန႔မနက္ ယူနီကြန္းတစ္ေကာင္ကိုေတြ႕တယ္" လို႔သူကေျပာျပလိုက္တယ္။ ရဲေတြက စိတ္ေရာဂါအထူးကုကိုၾကည့္လိုက္ၿပီး စိတ္ေရာဂါအထူးကုက ရဲေတြကိုၾကည့္လိုက္သတဲ့။

"He told me it ate a lily," she said. The psychiatrist looked at the police and the police looked at the psychiatrist.
"ယူနီကြန္းက ႏွင္းပန္းကိုစားတယ္လို႔ သူက ကၽြန္မကိုေျပာတယ္" လို႔သူကေျပာလိုက္တယ္။ စိတ္ေရာဂါအထူးကုက ရဲေတြကိုၾကည့္လိုက္ၿပီး ရဲေတြက စိတ္ေရာဂါအထူးကုကိုၾကည့္လိုက္သတဲ့။

"He told me it had a golden horn in the middle of its forehead," she said. At a solemn signal from the psychiatrist, the police leaped from their chairs and seized the wife.
"ယူနီကြန္းရဲ႕ နဖူးအလယ္မွာ ေရႊေရာင္ခ်ိဳရွိတယ္လို႔လည္း သူက ကၽြန္မကိုေျပာေသး" လို႔မိန္းမကေျပာသတဲ့။ စိတ္ေရာဂါအထူးကုဆရာဝန္က ေလးနက္စြာ မ်က္ရိပ္ျပလိုက္တာနဲ႔ပဲ ရဲေတြဟာ ထိုင္ေနရာကေန ဝုန္းကနဲထလာၾကကာ မိန္းမကိုဝိုင္းဖမ္းခ်ဳပ္ၾကသတဲ့ကြယ္။

They had a hard time subduing her, for she put up a terrific struggle, but they finally subdued her. Just as they got her into the strait-jacket, the husband came back into the house.
ခမ်ာမွာ အသည္းအသန္႐ုန္းကန္တာေၾကာင့္ ရဲေတြဟာ ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲနဲ႔ မိန္းမကို ၿငိမ္ေအာင္ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ရတာ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလးလုပ္ယူရသတဲ့ကြယ္။ မိန္းမကို သူတို႔ ဂ်ာကင္ဝတ္စံုထဲကိုထည့္အၿပီးမွာပဲ ေယာက္်ားဟာ အိမ္ထဲကို ျပန္ဝင္လာပါေလေရာ။

"Did you tell your wife you saw a unicorn?" asked the police. "Of course not," said the husband. "The unicorn is a mythical beast."
"ခင္ဗ်ားမိန္းမကို ခင္ဗ်ား ယူနီကြန္းတစ္ေကာင္ေတြ႕ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ေျပာလိုက္သလား" လို႔ရဲက သူ႔ကိုေမးေတာ့ "ဘယ္ကလာဗ်ာ...ယူနီကြန္းဆိုတာ ဒ႑ာရီထဲမွာသာရွိတဲ့ တိရစၧာန္" လို႔ေယာက္်ားကျပန္ေျဖလိုက္သတဲ့ကြယ္။

"That's all I wanted to know," said the psychiatrist. "Take her away. I'm sorry, sir, but your wife is as crazy as a jay bird."
"ကၽြန္ေတာ္ သိခ်င္တာကလည္း ဒါပါပဲ။ သူ႔ကိုေခၚသြားၾကေတာ့ေဟ့။ စိတ္မေကာင္းပါဘူးဗ်ာ၊ ခင္ဗ်ားရဲ႕မိန္းမက သြက္သြက္လည္ေအာင္႐ူးေနတာ" လို႔စိတ္ေရာဂါအထူးကုကေျပာျပသတဲ့။

So they took her away, cursing and screaming, and shut her up in an institution. The husband lived happily ever after.
ဒီလိုနဲ႔ သူတို႔ဟာ ဆဲဆိုေအာ္ဟစ္ေနတဲ့ မိန္းမကိုေခၚယူသြားၾကၿပီး အ႐ူးေထာင္ထဲမွာ ပိတ္ထားလိုက္ၾကသတဲ့ေလ။ ေယာက္်ားျဖစ္သူဟာ ဘဝတစ္ေလွ်ာက္လံုး ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္စြာနဲ႔ ေနထိုင္သြားေလေတာ့သတည္းလို႔...ဒီပံုျပင္ေလးကို အဆံုးသတ္လိုက္ပါတယ္ကြယ္။

Moral: Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
ဥပေဒသ။ ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကိုယ္လည္း သိပ္မထင္နဲ႔၊ မၿပီးခင္လည္း ဗမာမျမင္ေစနဲ႔။
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