Spanish–English parallel text
El zorro y la cigüeña
The Fox and the Stork
Aesop
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Un día, el zorro pensó en una forma de divertirse a costa de la cigüeña. Siempre se estaba riendo del extraño aspecto de la cigüeña.
One day the fox thought of a way to have some fun at the stork’s expense. He was always laughing at the stork’s odd looks.
«Tienes que venir a cenar conmigo hoy», le dijo a la cigüeña, sonriendo para sí por la broma que le iba a gastar. La cigüeña aceptó feliz la invitación y llegó a tiempo, con mucho apetito.
“You must come and have dinner with me today,” he said to the stork, smiling to himself about the trick he was going to play. The stork happily accepted the invitation and arrived on time, very hungry.
Para cenar, el zorro sirvió sopa. Pero la puso en un plato muy poco profundo, y la cigüeña solo pudo mojarse la punta del pico. No pudo tomar ni una gota de sopa.
For dinner the fox served soup. But he put it in a very shallow dish, and all the stork could do was wet the very tip of his bill. He couldn’t get a drop of soup.
Pero el zorro se la tomó a lametones fácilmente y, para decepcionar todavía más a la cigüeña, fingió de forma muy exagerada que la disfrutaba.
But the fox lapped it up easily, and to make the stork even more disappointed, he made a big show of enjoying it.
La hambrienta cigüeña estaba muy disgustada por la broma, pero era tranquila y de buen carácter, y no vio nada bueno en enfadarse. En vez de eso, poco después, invitó al zorro a cenar a cambio.
The hungry stork was very unhappy about the trick, but he was calm and even-tempered, and he saw no good in getting angry. Instead, not long afterward, he invited the fox to dinner in return.
El zorro llegó justo a tiempo, y la cigüeña sirvió una cena de pescado que olía delicioso. Pero la sirvió en una jarra alta con un cuello muy estrecho.
The fox arrived right on time, and the stork served a fish dinner that smelled delicious. But he served it in a tall jar with a very narrow neck.
La cigüeña podía alcanzar la comida con facilidad gracias a su largo pico, pero el zorro solo pudo lamer la parte de fuera de la jarra y oler el delicioso aroma. Y cuando el zorro perdió la paciencia, la cigüeña dijo con calma:
The stork could easily reach the food with his long bill, but all the fox could do was lick the outside of the jar and sniff the delicious smell. And when the fox lost his temper, the stork said calmly:
«No gastes bromas a tus vecinos a menos que tú mismo puedas soportar el mismo trato».
Don’t play tricks on your neighbors unless you can take the same treatment yourself.
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