이솝우화 제 129화 파리와 꿀단지 (Perry 80. The Flies in the Honey)

올드코난 (Old Conan)이 재해석하는 현대판 이솝우화 (Aesop's Fables, Aesopica) => 원 저작자: Aesop; 참고 번역본 저자: 조지 파일러 타운센드(George Fyler Townsend, 1814-1900) 외 / 현재 알려진 이솝우화들을 현대적으로 해석해  소개해 드리겠습니다.

올드코난의 이솝우화 제 129화 파리와 꿀단지 (Perry 80. The Flies in the Honey)

꿀단지를 발견한 파리들은 처음에는 조금씩 맛을 보기 시작하다 단맛에 빠져 계속해서 꿀을 핥아 먹었다. 그러다 파리들의 날개들이 꿀에 달라붙고 말았다. 파리들은 놀라서 빠져나오려했지만 이미 늦었다. 파리들은 후회하며 이렇게 말했다. “어리석게도 잠깐의 단맛을 느끼려다 목숨을 잃고 마는구나!”

즐거움에는 고통이 따르는 법이다.

[올드코난 한마디]

이 이야기는 한순간의 쾌락을 탐닉하지마라는 경고를 담았다. 여기에는 마약이나, 성적 자극 등이 포함되는데, 이런 것에 빠지게 되면 이성을 잃게 되고 결국 타인과 자신을 망치게 되는 것이다. 잠깐의 즐거움이 더 큰 불행을 가져올 수 있는 것이다.

[영어 문장]

Perry 80. The Flies in the Honey

Flies were attracted to a honey jar. They ate greedily. But, their feet and wings got covered with the honey so they could not get free. They died.

Too much of a good thing can be bad.

A number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey. They entered and ate greedily. While feeding, however, their feet and wings got covered with the honey and they could not get free and so died.

1.Townsend version

A number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper’s room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, “O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.”

Moral: Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.

2. L’Estrange version

There was a whole swarm of wasps got into a honey-pot, and there they cloy’d and clamm’d themselves, till there was no getting out again; which brought them to understand in the conclusion, that they had pay’d too deare for their sweet-meats.

Moral: Loose pleasures become necessary to us by the frequent use of them, and when they come once to be habitual, there’s no getting clear again.

3. Aesop For Children

A jar of honey was upset and the sticky sweetness flowed out on the table. The sweet smell of the honey soon brought a large number of Flies buzzing around. They did not wait for an invitation. No, indeed; they settled right down, feet and all, to gorge themselves. The Flies were quickly smeared from head to foot with honey. Their wings stuck together. They could not pull their feet out of the sticky mass. And so they died, giving their lives for the sake of a taste of sweetness.

Moral: Be not greedy for a little passing pleasure. It may destroy you. 

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