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Scene 1 · Intermediate
Oglinda vrăjitorului cel rău
The wicked magician's mirror
Romanian
Ascultați! Începe o poveste la sfârșitul căreia poate vom înțelege mai multe decât acum. A fost odată un vrăjitor nespus de rău. Se bucura peste măsură fiindcă inventase o oglindă neobișnuită: în ea, lucrurile bune se micșorau până aproape dispăreau, iar cele urâte și nefolositoare păreau de zece ori mai rele.
English translation
Listen! A story is beginning, and by the end of it, perhaps we’ll understand more than we do now. Once upon a time there was an exceedingly wicked wizard. He was overjoyed because he had invented an unusual mirror: in it, good things shrank until they almost disappeared, while ugly and useless things seemed ten times worse.
Romanian
O priveliște minunată arăta în oglindă ca spanacul fiert. Oamenii frumoși apăreau atât de deformați, încât nici prietenii nu i-ar fi recunoscut. Un simplu pistrui părea să se întindă peste nas și gură, iar un gând bun se arăta ca o strâmbătură pe chip. Vrăjitorul chicotea, încântat de invenția lui.
English translation
A wonderful view looked like boiled spinach in the mirror. Beautiful people appeared so disfigured that even their friends wouldn’t have recognized them. A tiny freckle seemed to spread across someone’s nose and mouth, and a kind thought showed up as a scowl on their face. The wizard chuckled, delighted with his invention.
Romanian
Elevii școlii sale de vrăjitorie au răspândit vestea. Ei susțineau că oglinda arăta, în sfârșit, lumea și oamenii așa cum erau cu adevărat.
English translation
The pupils at his school of magic spread the news. They claimed that at last the mirror showed the world and its people as they truly were.
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