Japanese–English parallel text
漁師とおかみ
The Fisherman and His Wife
Brothers Grimm
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昔、あるところに漁師がいた。海辺の豚小屋のような汚い小屋で、妻と二人で暮らしていた。
There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside.
漁師は毎日、朝から晩まで魚を釣りに出かけた。ある日のこと、彼が浜辺に座って釣り竿を持ち、きらめく波を見ながらウキを見つめていると、突然ウキが深く水の中へ引き込まれた。引き上げてみると、大きな魚が釣れた。
The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish.
だが、その魚がこう言った。「お願いです、命を助けてください。私は本当の魚ではなく、魔法をかけられた王子なのです。水に戻して、逃がしてください」「おやまあ」
But the fish said, ‘Pray let me live! I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince: put me in the water again, and let me go!’ ‘Oh, ho!’
と男は言った。「そんなにたくさんは話さなくていいよ。口をきく魚になんて、関わり合いたくないからね。だから、さあ、早く泳いでお行き」
said the man, ‘you need not make so many words about the matter; I will have nothing to do with a fish that can talk: so swim away, sir, as soon as you please!’
男は魚を水の中に戻してやった。魚はまっすぐ底へと潜っていき、波の上に長い血の筋を残した。
Then he put him back into the water, and the fish darted straight down to the bottom, and left a long streak of blood behind him on the wave.
漁師が小屋の妻のもとへ帰ると、大きな魚を釣ったこと、その魚が自分は魔法をかけられた王子だと言ったこと、そして言葉を話すのを聞いて逃がしてやったことを話した。「何かお願いをしなかったの?」
When the fisherman went home to his wife in the pigsty, he told her how he had caught a great fish, and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince, and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again. ‘Did not you ask it for anything?’
と妻は言った。「あたしたちはこんなひどい豚小屋でみじめに暮らしているのよ。戻って、小さな小ぎれいな家がほしいと魚に言ってきておくれ」
said the wife, ‘we live very wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty pigsty; do go back and tell the fish we want a snug little cottage.’
漁師はあまり気が進まなかった。それでも海辺へ行ってみると、水は黄色や緑色に濁っていた。彼は水際へ立ち、こう言った。
The fisherman did not much like the business: however, he went to the seashore; and when he came back there the water looked all yellow and green. And he stood at the water’s edge, and said:
「海の魚よ、私の言うことを聞いておくれ。妻のイルサビルが勝手を言って、お前に願い事をしてこいと私をよこしたのだ」
‘O man of the sea! Hearken to me! My wife Ilsabill Will have her own will, And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!’
すると魚が泳いできて、こう言った。「それで、妻の望みは何ですか。何がほしいのですか」「ああ」
Then the fish came swimming to him, and said, ‘Well, what is her will? What does your wife want?’ ‘Ah!’
と漁師は言った。「お前を捕まえたとき、逃がす前に何か頼むべきだったと妻が言うんだ。豚小屋に住むのはもう嫌で、小さな小ぎれいな家がほしいそうだ」
said the fisherman, ‘she says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for something before I let you go; she does not like living any longer in the pigsty, and wants a snug little cottage.’
「では家にお帰りなさい」と魚は言った。「もうその家にいますよ」。男が家に帰ると、こぎれいな小さな家の戸口に妻が立っていた。「入って、入ってよ」と妻は言った。「前にいた汚い豚小屋より、ずっといいでしょう?」
‘Go home, then,’ said the fish; ‘she is in the cottage already!’ So the man went home, and saw his wife standing at the door of a nice trim little cottage. ‘Come in, come in!’ said she; ‘is not this much better than the filthy pigsty we had?’
そこには居間と寝室と台所があった。家の裏には小さな庭があり、いろいろな花や果物が植えられていた。さらに奥の中庭には、アヒルやニワトリがたくさんいた。「ああ」
And there was a parlour, and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind the cottage there was a little garden, planted with all sorts of flowers and fruits; and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and chickens. ‘Ah!’
と漁師は言った。「これで本当に幸せに暮らせるね」「そうできるようにやってみるわ」と妻は言った。
said the fisherman, ‘how happily we shall live now!’ ‘We will try to do so, at least,’ said his wife.
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