Portuguese–English parallel text
O Lobo e o Grou
The Wolf and the Crane
Aesop
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Um Lobo tinha se banqueteado com muita avidez, e um osso tinha ficado preso atravessado na garganta dele. Ele não conseguia fazê-lo subir nem descer e, claro, não conseguia comer nada. Naturalmente, essa era uma situação terrível para um Lobo ganancioso.
A Wolf had been feasting too greedily, and a bone had stuck crosswise in his throat. He could get it neither up nor down, and of course he could not eat a thing. Naturally that was an awful state of affairs for a greedy Wolf.
Então, ele correu até a Cegonha-grou. Tinha certeza de que ela, com seu longo pescoço e bico, conseguiria facilmente alcançar o osso e puxá-lo para fora.
So away he hurried to the Crane. He was sure that she, with her long neck and bill, would easily be able to reach the bone and pull it out.
“Eu vou recompensar você muito bem”, disse o Lobo, “se você tirar aquele osso para mim.”
“I will reward you very handsomely,” said the Wolf, “if you pull that bone out for me.”
A Grou, como você pode imaginar, estava muito apreensiva em colocar a cabeça na garganta de um Lobo. Mas ela tinha uma natureza ambiciosa, então fez o que o Lobo pediu para ela fazer.
The Crane, as you can imagine, was very uneasy about putting her head in a Wolf’s throat. But she was grasping in nature, so she did what the Wolf asked her to do.
Quando o Lobo sentiu que o osso tinha sumido, ele começou a se afastar.
When the Wolf felt that the bone was gone, he started to walk away.
“Mas e a minha recompensa?”, chamou a Grou, ansiosa.
“But what about my reward!” called the Crane anxiously.
“O quê!”, rosnou o Lobo, virando-se rapidamente. “Você ainda não a recebeu? Não basta eu ter deixado você tirar a sua cabeça da minha boca sem arrancá-la de uma mordida?”
“What!” snarled the Wolf, whirling around. “Haven’t you got it? Isn’t it enough that I let you take your head out of my mouth without snapping it off?”
Não espere recompensa por servir aos perversos.
Expect no reward for serving the wicked.
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