Italian–English parallel text
La lepre e le sue orecchie
The Hare and His Ears
Aesop
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Un leone era stato ferito gravemente dalle corna di una capra che stava mangiando. Era furioso. Come osava un animale che aveva scelto per il suo pasto portare cose così pericolose come le corna e graffiarlo mentre mangiava!
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!
Così ha ordinato a tutti gli animali con le corna di lasciare la sua terra entro ventiquattr’ore.
So he ordered all animals with horns to leave his land within twenty-four hours.
L’ordine ha riempito di terrore gli animali. Tutti gli sfortunati che avevano le corna hanno cominciato a fare i bagagli e ad andarsene.
The order filled the animals with terror. All the unlucky ones who had horns began to pack up and move out.
Persino la lepre, che non ha le corna, come sapete, e non aveva nulla da temere, ha passato una notte agitata, facendo brutti sogni sul terribile leone.
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.
E quando è uscita dalla sua tana alla luce del sole del primo mattino e ha visto l’ombra delle sue orecchie lunghe e a punta, è stata presa da un terribile spavento.
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.
«Addio, vicino Grillo», ha gridato. «Me ne vado. Dirà sicuramente che le mie orecchie sono corna, non importa cosa gli dica.»
“Goodbye, neighbor Cricket,” he called. “I’m leaving. He’ll surely say my ears are horns, no matter what I tell him.”
Non dare ai tuoi nemici nemmeno il più piccolo motivo per attaccare il tuo buon nome.
Don’t give your enemies even the smallest reason to attack your good name.
I tuoi nemici coglieranno qualsiasi scusa per attaccarti.
Your enemies will grab any excuse to attack you.
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