Korean–English parallel text
행복한 왕자
The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
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사람들은 그를 정말 많이 칭찬했다.
He was very much admired indeed.
“풍향계만큼이나 아름답군요.” 예술적 안목이 있다는 평판을 얻고 싶어 하던 한 시의원이 말했다. 그리고 사람들이 자기를 비현실적인 사람으로 생각할까 봐 두려워 덧붙였다. “다만 실용성은 좀 떨어지지만요.” 사실 그는 전혀 비현실적인 사람이 아니었다.
“He is as beautiful as a weathercock,” remarked one of the Town Councillors who wished to gain a reputation for having artistic tastes; “only not quite so useful,” he added, fearing lest people should think him unpractical, which he really was not.
“너는 왜 행복한 왕자처럼 굴지 못하니?” 떼를 쓰며 우는 어린 아들에게 분별 있는 어머니가 물었다. “행복한 왕자는 어떤 일로도 울 생각을 하지 않는단다.”
“Why can’t you be like the Happy Prince?” asked a sensible mother of her little boy who was crying for the moon. “The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.”
“세상에 정말 행복한 사람이 있다니 다행이군.” 실의에 빠진 한 남자가 아름다운 동상을 바라보며 중얼거렸다.
“I am glad there is some one in the world who is quite happy,” muttered a disappointed man as he gazed at the wonderful statue.
“천사처럼 보여요.” 밝은 진홍빛 망토와 깨끗한 흰색 앞치마를 두른 자선 학교 아이들이 대성당에서 나오며 말했다.
“He looks just like an angel,” said the Charity Children as they came out of the cathedral in their bright scarlet cloaks and their clean white pinafores.
“너희가 어떻게 아니?” 수학 선생님이 말했다. “너희는 천사를 한 번도 본 적이 없잖니.”
“How do you know?” said the Mathematical Master, “you have never seen one.”
“아, 하지만 꿈속에서 보았어요.” 아이들이 대답했다. 수학 선생님은 눈살을 찌푸리며 엄한 표정을 지었다. 그는 아이들이 꿈꾸는 것을 좋아하지 않았다.
“Ah! but we have, in our dreams,” answered the children; and the Mathematical Master frowned and looked very severe, for he did not approve of children dreaming.
어느 날 밤, 도시 위로 작은 제비 한 마리가 날아왔다. 친구들은 여섯 주 전에 이미 이집트로 떠났지만, 제비는 가장 아름다운 갈대와 사랑에 빠져 뒤에 남아 있었다.
One night there flew over the city a little Swallow. His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stayed behind, for he was in love with the most beautiful Reed.
제비는 초봄에 커다란 노란 나비를 쫓아 강을 따라 날아가다가 갈대를 만났다. 갈대의 날씬한 허리에 반해 말을 걸려고 멈추어 섰던 것이다.
He had met her early in the spring as he was flying down the river after a big yellow moth, and had been so attracted by her slender waist that he had stopped to talk to her.
“당신을 사랑해도 될까요?” 곧바로 본론으로 들어가는 것을 좋아하던 제비가 말했다. 그러자 갈대는 깊이 고개를 숙여 인사했다. 제비는 날개로 물을 스치며 은빛 물결을 일으키고, 갈대의 주위를 빙빙 돌았다.
“Shall I love you?” said the Swallow, who liked to come to the point at once, and the Reed made him a low bow. So he flew round and round her, touching the water with his wings, and making silver ripples.
이것이 제비의 구애였고, 여름 내내 이어졌다.
This was his courtship, and it lasted all through the summer.
“참 우스꽝스러운 사랑이야.” 다른 제비들이 지저귀었다. “그 갈대는 돈도 없고 친척만 너무 많잖아.” 사실 강에는 갈대가 가득했다. 가을이 오자 다른 제비들은 모두 날아갔다.
“It is a ridiculous attachment,” twittered the other Swallows; “she has no money, and far too many relations”; and indeed the river was quite full of Reeds. Then, when the autumn came they all flew away.
친구들이 떠나자 제비는 외로워졌고, 사랑하는 갈대에게도 싫증이 나기 시작했다. “그녀는 대화가 통하지 않아.” 제비가 말했다. “게다가 늘 바람과 추파를 던지니 바람둥이인 것 같아.”
After they had gone he felt lonely, and began to tire of his lady-love. “She has no conversation,” he said, “and I am afraid that she is a coquette, for she is always flirting with the wind.”
실제로 바람이 불 때마다 갈대는 더없이 우아하게 고개를 숙였다. “가정적이라는 점은 인정하지만, 나는 여행을 좋아해. 그러니 내 아내도 여행을 좋아해야 해.” 제비는 말을 이었다.
And certainly, whenever the wind blew, the Reed made the most graceful curtseys. “I admit that she is domestic,” he continued, “but I love travelling, and my wife, consequently, should love travelling also.”
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