[이솝우화] 왕을 달라고 한 개구리들 🐸 THE FROGS ASKING FOR A KING 🐸 王様を欲しがるカエルたち

 

옛날 옛적에 개구리들은 자신들을 다스려줄 왕이 없다는 것에 불만을 품고 있었습니다. 
그래서 그들은 주피터에게 사절단을 보내 자신들에게 왕을 내려달라고 요청했습니다.

주피터는 그들의 어리석은 요청을 비웃으며, 나무토막 하나를 연못에 던지며 그것이 그들의 왕이 될 것이라고 말했습니다. 
개구리들은 커다란 물소리에 깜짝 놀라 깊은 물속으로 도망쳤지만, 시간이 지나자 나무토막이 가만히 있는 것을 보고 하나둘씩 다시 수면으로 올라왔습니다. 
그리고 점차 대담해진 개구리들은 나무토막 위에 앉기까지 하며 그것을 우습게 여기게 되었습니다.

결국 개구리들은 이런 왕은 자신들의 위엄에 모욕이라며 다시 주피터에게 사절을 보내, 게으른 왕을 치우고 더 훌륭한 왕을 달라고 요청했습니다. 
짜증이 난 주피터는 이번에는 황새를 보냈고, 황새는 도착하자마자 개구리들을 잡아먹기 시작했습니다.

🌱 교훈: 
불필요한 불평은 더 나쁜 결과를 가져올 수 있다. 현재에 만족할 줄 알아야 한다.

 

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THE FROGS ASKING FOR A KING

Time was when the Frogs were discontented because they had no one to rule over them: so they sent a deputation to Jupiter to ask him to give them a King. 

 

Jupiter, despising the folly of their request, cast a log into the pool where they lived, and said that that should be
their King. 

 

The Frogs were terrified at first by the splash, and scuttled away into the deepest parts of the pool; but by and by, when
they saw that the log remained motionless, one by one they ventured to the surface again, and before long, growing bolder, they began to feel such contempt for it that they even took to sitting upon it.

 

Thinking that a King of that sort was an insult to their dignity, they sent to Jupiter a second time, and begged him to take away the sluggish King he had given them, and to give them another and a better one. 

 

Jupiter, annoyed at being pestered in this way, sent a Stork to rule over them, who no sooner arrived among them than he began to catch and eat the Frogs as fast as he could.

 

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王様を欲しがるカエルたち 🐸 

昔々、カエルたちは自分たちには支配者がいないことに不満を抱いていました。
そこで、彼らはジュピターに使いを送り、自分たちにも王様を与えてほしいと願いました。

ジュピターは彼らの愚かな願いをあざ笑い、大きな丸太を池に投げ入れて「これがあなたたちの王だ」と言いました。
カエルたちは大きな水しぶきに驚いて池の奥深くへ逃げましたが、やがて丸太が動かないことに気づき、次第に水面に戻ってきました。
そして次第に大胆になり、ついには丸太の上に乗るようになり、それを馬鹿にし始めました。

そこでカエルたちは再びジュピターに願い、怠け者の王を取り除き、もっと立派な王をくださいと頼みました。
苛立ったジュピターは今度はコウノトリを王として送り、コウノトリは到着するとすぐにカエルたちを次々と捕まえて食べてしまいました。

🌱 教訓: 
無用な不満は、より悪い結果を招くことがある。今ある幸せに満足すべきだ。