[영어 원서 정복] 이솝우화(Aesop's Fables) - 003. The Wolf, the Dog, and the Collar

출처: Luara Gibbs trans., Aesop’s Fables, Oxford Univ Pr., 2008.

Fable 3

The Wolf, the Dog, and the Collar

A comfortably plump dog happened to run into a wolf. The wolf asked the dog where he had been finding enough food to get so big and fat. ‘It is a man,’ said the dog, ‘who gives me all this food to eat.’ The wolf then asked him, ‘And what about that bare spot there on your neck?’ The dog replied, ‘My skin has been rubbed bare by the iron collar which my master forged and placed upon my neck.’ The wolf then jeered at the dog and said, ‘Keep your luxury to yourself then! I don’t want anything to do with in, if my neck will have to chafe against a chain of iron!’

[NOTE]

Caxton (3.15) adds this epimythium: ‘Therefore there is no rychesess gretter than lyberte | For lyberte is better than alle the gold of the world.’

[어휘 풀이]

- collar: (개 등의 목에 거는) 목걸이

- plump: 통통한, 포동포동한

- happen to ...: 우연히[마침] ...하다

- run into ...: ...를 만나다

- bare: 벌거벗은, 맨-

- (barefoot: 맨발의, 맨발로)

- rub: 문지르다, 비비다

- forge: (쇠를) 벼리다, (쇠를 벼려서) 만들다, 위조하다

- jeer at ...: ...을 야유(揶揄)하다, 조롱하다

- chafe against... : ...에 (피부가) 쓸리다

- epimythium: 이야기 끝에 덧붙이는 말

- rychesess = richness, wealth

- lyberte = liberty

- alle = all