French–English parallel text
Le Lièvre et ses oreilles
The Hare and His Ears
Aesop
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Un lion avait été gravement blessé par les cornes d’une chèvre qu’il mangeait. Il était furieux. Comment un animal qu’il avait choisi pour son repas osait-il porter des choses aussi dangereuses que des cornes et l’égratigner pendant qu’il mangeait !
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!
Il a donc ordonné à tous les animaux avec des cornes de quitter son pays dans les vingt-quatre heures.
So he ordered all animals with horns to leave his land within twenty-four hours.
Cet ordre a rempli les animaux de terreur. Tous les malheureux qui avaient des cornes ont commencé à faire leurs bagages et à partir.
The order filled the animals with terror. All the unlucky ones who had horns began to pack up and move out.
Même le lièvre, qui n’a pas de cornes, comme vous le savez, et qui n’avait rien à craindre, a passé une nuit agitée, en faisant des rêves horribles sur le terrible lion.
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.
Et quand il est sorti de son terrier sous les premiers rayons du soleil du matin et a vu l’ombre de ses longues oreilles pointues, il a été saisi par une peur terrible.
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.
« Au revoir, voisin Grillon, a-t-il crié. Je pars. Il va sûrement dire que mes oreilles sont des cornes, peu importe ce que je lui dirai. »
“Goodbye, neighbor Cricket,” he called. “I’m leaving. He’ll surely say my ears are horns, no matter what I tell him.”
Ne donnez pas à vos ennemis la moindre raison d’attaquer votre réputation.
Don’t give your enemies even the smallest reason to attack your good name.
Vos ennemis vont saisir n’importe quelle excuse pour vous attaquer.
Your enemies will grab any excuse to attack you.
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