Italian–English parallel text
È uno scherzo
It Is a Joke
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Sono le sette di mattina. La signora Berg è alle scale.
It is seven o’clock in the morning. Mrs Berg stands at the stairs.
«Questo è il tuo lavoro», dice. «Tutte. Usa acqua calda.»
“This is your job,” she says. “All of them. Use hot water.”
«Quante scale ci sono?»
“How many stairs are there?”
«Stanotte le tue mani possono dirlo.»
“Tonight your hands can say.”
Sono le otto. Nina pulisce il gradino venti.
It is eight o’clock. Nina is cleaning stair twenty.
Sono le dieci. Nina pulisce il gradino cinquanta.
It is ten o’clock. Nina is cleaning stair fifty.
Questo albergo è piccolo, ma ha molte, molte scale.
This hotel is small, but it has very many stairs.
Max entra. Ha neve nel pelo.
Max comes in. There is snow in his hair.
Sale le scale pulite. Ora non sono pulite.
He walks up the clean stairs. Now they are not clean.
Si siede sul gradino dieci.
He sits on stair ten.
La signora Berg esce da dietro il banco.
Mrs Berg comes out from behind her desk.
Guarda Max. Max guarda la signora Berg.
She looks at Max. Max looks at Mrs Berg.
Nina smette di lavorare. Lo sa. Sara e Max lo fanno ogni giorno.
Nina stops working. She knows this. Sara and Max do this every day.
Sara si ferma sempre per prima.
Sara always stops first.
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