[이솝우화] 새장 속 새와 박쥐 🐦 🦇 THE CAGE-BIRD AND THE BAT 🐦🦇 鳥かごの小鳥とコウモリ

노래하는 작은 새가 창가에 걸린 새장 속에 갇혀 살고 있었다.
그 새는 낮에는 침묵하고, 다른 새들이 잠든 밤에만 노래하는 습관이 있었다.

어느 날 밤, 한 마리 박쥐가 새장에 매달려 물었다.
“왜 낮에는 노래하지 않고, 밤에만 노래하니?”

작은 새가 대답했다.
“옛날에 낮에 노래하다가 내 노랫소리를 듣고 다가온 사냥꾼에게 덫에 걸려 잡힌 적이 있어. 
그 후로는 오직 밤에만 노래하지.”

그러자 박쥐가 말했다.
“지금은 아무 소용없는 짓이야. 잡히기 전에 그랬더라면 아직 자유로웠을 텐데.”

📝 교훈: 
일을 그르친 뒤에야 조심하는 것은 아무 소용이 없다.

 

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THE CAGE-BIRD AND THE BAT

A Singing-bird was confined in a cage which hung outside a window, and had a way of singing at night when all other birds were asleep. 

One night a Bat came and clung to the bars of the cage, and asked the Bird why she was silent by day and sang only at night. 

"I have a very good reason for doing so," 

said the Bird: 

"it was once when I was singing in the daytime that a fowler was attracted by my voice, and set his nets for me and caught me. 

Since then I have never sung except by night." 

But the Bat replied, 

"It is no use your doing that now when you are a prisoner: if only you had done so before you were caught, you might still have been free."

    Precautions are useless after the event.

 

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🐦🦇 鳥かごの小鳥とコウモリ

歌う小鳥が窓の外に吊るされた鳥かごの中に閉じ込められていた。
その小鳥は昼には沈黙し、ほかの鳥たちが眠る夜にだけ歌う習慣があった。

ある夜、一匹のコウモリが鳥かごにぶら下がり尋ねた。
「なぜ昼は歌わず、夜だけ歌うのだい？」

小鳥は答えた。
「昔、昼に歌っていたときに、猟師が私の声に引き寄せられて罠を仕掛け、捕まってしまったんだ。
それ以来、夜にしか歌わなくなったのさ。」

するとコウモリは言った。
「もう遅いよ。捕まる前にそうしていれば、まだ自由でいられたのに。」

📝 教訓: 
事が起きてから用心しても、もう手遅れである。