Korean–English parallel text
벨벳 토끼 인형
The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams
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Opening the reader…
옛날에 벨벳으로 만든 토끼 인형이 하나 있었는데, 처음에는 정말 멋진 모습이었다. 토끼답게 포동포동하고 통통했다. 털에는 갈색과 흰색 얼룩무늬가 있었고, 수염은 진짜 실로 되어 있었으며, 귀 안쪽은 분홍색 공단으로 덧대어져 있었다.
There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen.
크리스마스 아침에 토끼가 두 앞발 사이에 호랑가시나무 잔가지를 끼운 채 소년의 양말 꼭대기에 쏙 꽂혀 있을 때의 모습은 참으로 사랑스러웠다.
On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy’s stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming.
양말 속에는 견과류, 오렌지, 장난감 기차, 초콜릿 아몬드, 태엽 쥐 같은 다른 물건들도 있었지만, 토끼가 그중에서 단연 최고였다.
There were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy engine, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit was quite the best of all.
소년은 적어도 두 시간 동안은 토끼를 무척 아꼈다. 하지만 이모들과 삼촌들이 저녁을 먹으러 왔고, 포장지를 바스락거리며 상자를 뜯는 소리가 요란하게 울려 퍼졌다. 그리고 온갖 새 선물을 구경하느라 신이 난 나머지 벨벳 토끼는 잊히고 말았다.
For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.
오랫동안 토끼는 장난감 벽장 속이나 아이방 바닥에서 지냈고, 아무도 토끼를 별로 신경 쓰지 않았다. 토끼는 태생이 수줍음이 많았고 벨벳으로만 만들어진 탓에, 값비싼 장난감 몇몇은 대놓고 토끼를 쌀쌀맞게 대했다.
For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
태엽 장난감들은 무척 우월한 척하며 다른 장난감들을 모두 깔보았다. 그들은 현대적인 생각으로 가득 차 있었고, 자신이 진짜인 척 행세했다.
The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real.
두 철을 지내는 동안 페인트칠이 거의 다 벗겨진 모형 배도 그들의 말투를 흉내 내며, 기회만 생기면 자기 밧줄 장치를 전문 용어로 설명하려 들었다.
The model boat, who had lived through two seasons and lost most of his paint, caught the tone from them and never missed an opportunity of referring to his rigging in technical terms.
토끼는 자신이 무엇의 모형이라고 주장할 수 없었다. 진짜 토끼가 존재한다는 사실조차 몰랐기 때문이었다. 토끼는 다른 토끼들도 자기처럼 온통 톱밥으로 채워져 있을 거라고 생각했다. 그리고 톱밥은 요즘 유행에 뒤떨어진 것이라 현대적인 모임에서는 입에 올려서도 안 된다고 이해하고 있었다.
The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.
상이군인들이 만든 관절 목각 사자 티머시조차도, 더 넓은 시야를 가졌어야 마땅한데도 거들먹거리며 자신이 정부와 연줄이 있는 척 굴었다.
Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government.
그런 장난감들 사이에서 불쌍한 어린 토끼는 자신이 아주 보잘것없고 평범하다고 느낄 수밖에 없었다. 토끼에게 친절하게 대해 준 유일한 존재는 가죽 말뿐이었다.
Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse.
가죽 말은 아이방의 그 어떤 장난감보다도 오래 살았다. 나이가 너무 많아서 갈색 가죽 털이 군데군데 벗겨져 솔기가 드러났고, 꼬리 털은 대부분 구슬 목걸이를 꿰는 데 뽑혀 나간 상태였다.
The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.
가죽 말은 지혜로웠다. 수많은 태엽 장난감이 줄지어 들어와 거들먹거리고 뽐내다가, 이윽고 태엽이 망가져 사라져 가는 모습을 똑똑히 보았기 때문이었다. 그래서 그들이 한낱 장난감일 뿐이며, 결코 다른 무언가가 될 수 없음을 잘 알고 있었다.
He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and would never turn into anything else.
아이방의 마법은 아주 신비롭고 놀라워서, 가죽 말처럼 나이 들고 지혜로우며 경험이 많은 장난감만이 그 마법을 온전히 이해했다.
For nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.
나나가 방을 치우러 오기 전, 아이방 난로 울타리 옆에 나란히 누워 있던 어느 날 토끼가 물었다. “‘진짜’라는 게 뭐예요? 몸속에서 윙윙거리는 소리가 나고 손잡이가 튀어나와 있다는 뜻인가요?”
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
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