Japanese–English parallel text
嘘つきの少年と狼
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Aesop
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イソップ童話「羊飼いの少年と狼」。ある羊飼いの少年が、村から遠くない暗い森のそばで主人の羊の番をしていた。やがて少年は、牧草地での生活をひどく退屈に感じるようになった。
The Æsop for Children The Shepherd Boy & the Wolf A Shepherd Boy tended his master’s Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. Soon he found life in the pasture very dull.
退屈しのぎにできることといえば、犬に話しかけるか、羊飼いの笛を吹くことくらいだった。
All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd’s pipe.
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ある日、羊と静かな森を眺めながら、もし狼が現れたらどうしようかと考えていた少年は、退屈を紛らわせるための作戦を思いついた。
One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself.
主人からは、狼が群れを襲ったら助けを呼ぶように言われており、そうすれば村人たちが追い払ってくれるはずだった。
His Master had told him to call for help should a Wolf attack the flock, and the Villagers would drive it away.
そこで少年は、狼らしき姿など何一つ見当たらなかったにもかかわらず、村の方へ向かって全力で「狼だ!狼が出たぞ!」と叫んだ。
So now, though he had not seen anything that even looked like a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, “Wolf! Wolf!”
思惑通り、叫び声を聞いた村人たちは仕事を放り出し、大騒ぎで牧草地へと駆けつけた。しかし着いてみると、少年は村人たちに仕掛けたいたずらに腹を抱えて笑っていた。
As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture. But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.
数日後、羊飼いの少年は再び「狼だ!狼が出たぞ!」と叫んだ。村人たちはまたしても助けに駆けつけたが、再び笑いものにされるだけだった。
A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, “Wolf! Wolf!” Again the Villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again.
それからある日の夕暮れ、太陽が森の向こうに沈み、影が牧草地に忍び寄る頃、本物の狼が茂みから飛び出し、羊たちに襲いかかった。
Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the Sheep.
恐怖に駆られた少年は「狼だ!狼が出たぞ!」と叫びながら村へ走った。しかし村人たちはその叫び声を聞いても、以前のように助けに走ろうとはしなかった。「もう二度と騙されはしないぞ」と彼らは言った。
In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting “Wolf! Wolf!” But though the Villagers heard the cry, they did not run to help him as they had before. “He cannot fool us again,” they said.
狼は少年の羊を何頭も殺すと、森の中へと消えていった。
The Wolf killed a great many of the Boy’s sheep and then slipped away into the forest.
嘘つきは、真実を語ったときでさえ信じてもらえない。
Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth.
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