German–English parallel text
Der Hase und seine Ohren
The Hare and His Ears
Aesop
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Ein Löwe war von den Hörnern einer Ziege, die er gerade fraß, schwer verletzt worden. Er war wütend. Wie konnte ein Tier, das er für seine Mahlzeit ausgewählt hatte, es wagen, so gefährliche Dinge wie Hörner zu tragen und ihn beim Fressen zu kratzen!
A lion had been badly hurt by the horns of a goat he was eating. He was furious. How dare an animal he had picked for his meal wear such dangerous things as horns and scratch him while he ate!
Deshalb befahl er allen Tieren mit Hörnern, sein Land innerhalb von vierundzwanzig Stunden zu verlassen.
So he ordered all animals with horns to leave his land within twenty-four hours.
Der Befehl erfüllte die Tiere mit Schrecken. All die Unglücklichen, die Hörner hatten, begannen zu packen und wegzuziehen.
The order filled the animals with terror. All the unlucky ones who had horns began to pack up and move out.
Sogar der Hase, der, wie ihr wisst, keine Hörner hat und nichts zu befürchten hatte, verbrachte eine unruhige Nacht und träumte schreckliche Träume von dem furchtbaren Löwen.
Even the hare, who has no horns, as you know, and had nothing to fear, had a restless night, dreaming awful dreams about the terrible lion.
Und als er im frühen Morgensonnenschein aus seinem Bau kam und den Schatten seiner langen, spitzen Ohren sah, erfasste ihn ein furchtbarer Schrecken.
And when he came out of his burrow in the early morning sunshine and saw the shadow of his long, pointed ears, he was seized by a terrible fright.
„Auf Wiedersehen, Nachbar Grille!“, rief er. „Ich gehe fort. Er wird sicher sagen, dass meine Ohren Hörner sind, ganz egal, was ich ihm sage.“
“Goodbye, neighbor Cricket,” he called. “I’m leaving. He’ll surely say my ears are horns, no matter what I tell him.”
Gib deinen Feinden nicht einmal den kleinsten Grund, deinen guten Ruf anzugreifen.
Don’t give your enemies even the smallest reason to attack your good name.
Deine Feinde werden jede Ausrede nutzen, um dich anzugreifen.
Your enemies will grab any excuse to attack you.
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