[이솝우화] 배불러 빠져나오지 못한 여우 🦊 THE SWOLLEN FOX 🦊 お腹がふくれたキツネ（おなか が ふくれた きつね）

 

배가 고픈 여우 한 마리가 속이 비어 있는 나무 속에서 양치기들이 남겨둔 빵과 고기를 발견했습니다.

기뻐한 여우는 좁은 구멍으로 간신히 들어가 그 음식을 허겁지겁 모두 먹어치웠습니다.

하지만 나가려고 보니 배가 불러 구멍을 빠져나올 수 없었습니다.

여우는 자신의 불행을 한탄하며 낑낑거리고 신음했습니다.

그때 마침 지나가던 또 다른 여우가 무슨 일이냐고 물었습니다.

사정을 들은 여우는 이렇게 말했습니다.
“음… 방법은 하나야.
네 몸이 다시 예전처럼 줄어들 때까지 그 안에 있어야 해.
그러면 쉽게 빠져나올 수 있을 거야.”

✨ 교훈:
탐욕은 결국 자신을 곤란에 빠뜨린다.

 

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THE SWOLLEN FOX

A hungry Fox found in a hollow tree a quantity of bread and meat, which some shepherds had placed there against their return. 

Delighted with his find he slipped in through the narrow aperture and greedily devoured it all. But when he tried to get out again he found himself so swollen after his big meal that he could not squeeze through the hole, and fell to whining and groaning over his misfortune. 

Another Fox, happening to pass that way, came and asked him what the matter was;  and, on learning the state of the case, said,

"Well, my friend, I see nothing for it but for you to stay where you are till you shrink to your former size; you'll get out then easily enough."

 

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お腹がふくれたキツネ（おなか が ふくれた きつね） 🦊

お腹を空かせたキツネが空洞の木の中で、羊飼いたちが置いていったパンと肉を見つけました。

大喜びしたキツネは狭い穴から中に入り、その食べ物を夢中で全部食べてしまいました。

でも、出ようとしたとき、食べすぎて体がふくれてしまい穴を通れなくなってしまいました。

キツネは自分の不運を嘆きながらクンクン鳴いていました。

そこへたまたま別のキツネが通りかかり、事情を聞いた後、こう言いました。

「ふむふむ…方法は一つしかないよ。
元の大きさに戻るまでそこにいるしかない。
そうすれば、すんなり出られるはずさ。」

✨ 教訓:
欲張りは結局自分を困らせることになる。