Italian–English parallel text
Il richiamo della foresta
The Call of the Wild
Jack London · retold (A2)
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Verso la natura selvaggia
Into the Wild
Buck non ha letto i giornali. Perciò non ha saputo del problema che stava arrivando. Stava arrivando per lui, e per ogni cane grande e forte con il pelo lungo e caldo sulla costa ovest.
Buck did not read the newspapers. So he did not know about the trouble that was coming. It was coming for him, and for every big, strong dog with long, warm hair on the west coast.
Lontano nel Nord, gli uomini hanno trovato l’oro. Il Klondike era una terra fredda nell’estremo nord del Canada, e l’oro era lì. Presto migliaia di uomini hanno viaggiato verso nord, e tutti volevano dei cani. Volevano cani pesanti con corpi forti per il duro lavoro e pelo folto contro il freddo.
Far away in the North, men found gold. The Klondike was a cold land in the far north of Canada, and the gold was there. Soon thousands of men were travelling north, and they all wanted dogs. They wanted heavy dogs with strong bodies for hard work and thick hair against the cold.
Buck ha vissuto in una grande casa nella soleggiata Santa Clara Valley, in California. La gente l’ha chiamata la tenuta del giudice Miller. Un giudice è l’uomo che decide in un tribunale. La casa stava tra alberi alti, con una veranda larga e fresca su tutti e quattro i lati. Dietro c’erano stalle, campi, alberi da frutto e una grande piscina. I figli del giudice hanno nuotato lì nei caldi pomeriggi.
Buck lived at a big house in the sunny Santa Clara Valley, in California. People called it Judge Miller’s place. A judge is the man who decides in a court of law. The house stood among tall trees, with a wide, cool veranda round all four sides. Behind it there were stables, fields, fruit trees and a big pool. The Judge’s sons swam there on hot afternoons.
Buck è stato il re di tutta questa terra. È nato qui, e ha vissuto qui per i quattro anni della sua vita. C’erano altri cani, ma non contavano. Toots, un piccolo carlino giapponese, e Ysabel, un cane messicano senza pelo, non hanno quasi mai lasciato la casa. I fox terrier hanno abbaiato molto, ma hanno vissuto nei canili.
Buck was the king of all this land. He was born here, and he lived here for the four years of his life. There were other dogs, but they did not count. Toots, a little Japanese pug, and Ysabel, a Mexican dog with no hair, almost never left the house. The fox terriers barked a lot, but they lived in the kennels.
L’intero posto era di Buck. Ha nuotato nella piscina ed è andato a caccia con i figli del giudice. Ha camminato con Mollie e Alice, le figlie del giudice, al mattino presto o la sera. Nelle notti d’inverno si è sdraiato ai piedi del giudice davanti al fuoco. Ha portato i nipotini del giudice sulla schiena e li ha fatti rotolare nell’erba. È stato re sopra ogni animale nel posto, e anche sopra le persone.
The whole place was Buck’s. He swam in the pool and went hunting with the Judge’s sons. He walked with Mollie and Alice, the Judge’s daughters, in the early morning or the evening. On winter nights he lay at the Judge’s feet in front of the fire. He carried the Judge’s little grandsons on his back and rolled them in the grass. He was king over every animal on the place, and over the people too.
Suo padre, Elmo, era un enorme San Bernardo, ed è andato ovunque con il giudice. Buck era un po’ più piccolo di Elmo, perché sua madre, Shep, era un cane da pastore scozzese. Ma pesava centoquaranta libbre. Una libbra è quasi mezzo chilo. Buck era orgoglioso, e forse un po’ troppo soddisfatto di sé. Ma non è mai stato pigro, e la caccia e il nuoto hanno mantenuto i suoi muscoli duri.
His father, Elmo, was a huge St. Bernard, and he went everywhere with the Judge. Buck was a little smaller than Elmo, because his mother, Shep, was a Scotch shepherd dog. But he weighed one hundred and forty pounds. A pound is almost half a kilo. Buck was proud, and perhaps a little too pleased with himself. But he was never lazy, and hunting and swimming kept his muscles hard.
Questo era Buck nell’autunno del 1897, quando l’oro del Klondike ha attirato uomini da tutto il mondo nel Nord ghiacciato. Ma Buck non ha letto i giornali. E non ha saputo che Manuel era un amico pericoloso.
This was Buck in the autumn of 1897, when the gold of the Klondike pulled men from all over the world into the frozen North. But Buck did not read the newspapers. And he did not know that Manuel was a dangerous friend.
Manuel era uno degli aiutanti del giardiniere, e ha amato fare giochi d’azzardo. Ha sempre creduto in un piano intelligente per vincere. Ma un piano del genere ha richiesto molti soldi. E un aiutante del giardiniere ha guadagnato pochissimo, e Manuel ha avuto una moglie e molti figli.
Manuel was one of the gardener’s helpers, and he loved to play games for money. He always believed in a clever plan to win. But a plan like that needed a lot of money. And a gardener’s helper earned very little, and Manuel had a wife and many children.
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