Korean–English parallel text
내기
The Bet
Anton Chekhov
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내기
The Bet
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어느 어두운 가을밤이었다. 늙은 은행가는 서재를 서성거리며 15년 전 어느 가을 저녁에 자신이 열었던 파티를 회상하고 있었다. 그곳에는 똑똑한 사람들이 많았고 흥미로운 대화가 오갔다.
It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn evening. There had been many clever men there, and there had been interesting conversations.
다른 이야기들 중에서도 그들은 사형 제도에 관해 이야기했다. 많은 언론인과 지식인이 포함되어 있던 손님 대다수는 사형 제도를 반대했다.
Among other things they had talked of capital punishment. The majority of the guests, among whom were many journalists and intellectual men, disapproved of the death penalty.
그들은 그러한 처벌 방식이 시대에 뒤떨어지고 비도덕적이며, 기독교 국가에는 어울리지 않는다고 여겼다. 그들 중 일부는 사형을 어디서나 종신형으로 대체해야 한다는 의견을 가졌다.
They considered that form of punishment out of date, immoral, and unsuitable for Christian States. In the opinion of some of them the death penalty ought to be replaced everywhere by imprisonment for life.
“저는 여러분의 의견에 동의하지 않습니다.” 주최자인 은행가가 말했다. “저는 사형도 종신형도 겪어 보지 않았지만, 선험적으로 판단해 본다면 사형이 종신형보다 더 도덕적이고 인도적입니다.
“I don’t agree with you,” said their host the banker. “I have not tried either the death penalty or imprisonment for life, but if one may judge a priori, the death penalty is more moral and more humane than imprisonment for life.
사형은 사람을 즉시 죽이지만, 종신형은 사람을 서서히 죽입니다. 몇 분 만에 목숨을 끊는 사형 집행인과 여러 해에 걸쳐 목숨을 앗아가는 사형 집행인 중 어느 쪽이 더 인도적입니까?”
Capital punishment kills a man at once, but lifelong imprisonment kills him slowly. Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years?”
“둘 다 똑같이 비도덕적입니다.” 손님 중 한 사람이 말했다. “둘 다 생명을 빼앗는다는 동일한 목적을 지니고 있으니까요. 국가는 신이 아닙니다. 원한다고 해서 되돌려줄 수도 없는 것을 빼앗을 권리는 없습니다.”
“Both are equally immoral,” observed one of the guests, “for they both have the same object—to take away life. The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.”
손님 중에는 스물다섯 살의 젊은 변호사도 있었다. 의견을 묻자 그는 이렇게 말했다.
Among the guests was a young lawyer, a young man of five-and-twenty. When he was asked his opinion, he said:
“사형 선고와 종신형 선고는 똑같이 비도덕적이지만, 사형과 종신형 중 하나를 선택해야 한다면 저는 분명 후자를 택할 것입니다. 어떻게든 살아가는 것이 아예 살지 않는 것보다는 나으니까요.”
“The death sentence and the life sentence are equally immoral, but if I had to choose between the death penalty and imprisonment for life, I would certainly choose the second. To live anyhow is better than not at all.”
열띤 토론이 벌어졌다. 당시에는 더 젊고 다혈질이었던 은행가가 갑자기 흥분하여 주먹으로 식탁을 내리치며 그 젊은이에게 소리쳤다.
A lively discussion arose. The banker, who was younger and more nervous in those days, was suddenly carried away by excitement; he struck the table with his fist and shouted at the young man:
“그렇지 않소! 당신이 5년 동안 독방에 갇혀 있지 못한다는 쪽에 200만을 걸겠소.”
“It’s not true! I’ll bet you two millions you wouldn’t stay in solitary confinement for five years.”
“진심이시라면,” 젊은이가 말했다. “그 내기를 받아들이겠습니다. 하지만 5년이 아니라 15년 동안 머물겠습니다.”
“If you mean that in earnest,” said the young man, “I’ll take the bet, but I would stay not five but fifteen years.”
“15년이라고요? 좋소!” 은행가가 외쳤다. “여러분, 내가 200만을 걸겠소!”
“Fifteen? Done!” cried the banker. “Gentlemen, I stake two millions!”
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