sad tree italian fairy tale Flashcards

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Al centro di un giardino di rose cresceva un melo dai rami contorti. Le rose del giardino erano sempre di buonumore e facevano a gara per vedere chi faceva sbocciare i fiori più belli.

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An apple tree with twisted branches grew in the center of a rose garden. The roses in the garden were always in a good mood and competed to see who made the most beautiful flowers bloom.

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Anche il melo si sforzava per far sbocciare rose dai suoi rami, ma tutti i suoi sforzi erano inutili.

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The apple tree also struggled to make roses bloom from its branches, but all its efforts were in vain.

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Non devi preoccuparti” gli disse una rosa che cresceva vicino a lui. “È questione di concentrazione. Tu concentrati sul fiore che vorresti far sbocciare e ce la farai“.

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You don’t have to worry,” a rose growing next to him told him. “It’s a question of concentration. You concentrate on the flower you would like to blossom and you will succeed ”.

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e ce la farai

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and you will make it

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Dai tempo al tempo” disse un’altra rosa. “Anche io durante il mio primo anno di vita ho prodotto soltanto un fiore rinsecchito“.

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Give time to time “said another rose. “I too, during my first year of life, produced only one dried flower“.

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Nonostante i consigli delle rose, l’albero non faceva altro che foglie ed era sempre più triste. Un giorno si posò sui suoi rami un passero e vedendo che il melo piangeva gli chiese: “Cosa c’è che non va?“

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Despite the advice of the roses, the tree did nothing but leaves and was increasingly sad. One day a sparrow landed on its branches and seeing that the apple tree was crying, asked him: “What’s wrong?”

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Un giorno si posò sui suoi rami un passero e vedendo che il melo piangeva gli chiese: “Cosa c’è che non va?“

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One day a sparrow landed on its branches and seeing that the apple tree was crying, asked him: “What’s wrong?”

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Non riesco a fare le rose” rispose lui.

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I cant make roses

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“Ma tu sei un melo, non sei un cespuglio di rose” cinguettò il passero. “Il tuo destino è molto diverso da quello delle rose di questo giardino.

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“But you are an apple tree, you are not a rosebush” chirped the sparrow. “Your fate is very different from that of the roses in this garden

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Tornerò da te in autunno e ti dimostrerò che avevo ragione”.

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I will come back to you in the autumn and I will prove to you that I was right ”.

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Il melo non diede molto peso a quelle parole. Passò l’estate e arrivò l’autunno.

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The apple tree didn’t give much weight to those words. Summer passed and autumn arrived.

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Una mattina il melo si svegliò e scoprì che le rose intorno a lui erano appassite, mentre sui suoi rami scintillavano tantissimi piccoli frutti tondi e scintillanti.

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One morning the apple tree woke up and found that the roses around it had withered, while on its branches there were many small, round and sparkling fruits.

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Erano le sue mele, pronte per essere raccolte.

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They were his apples, ready to be picked.

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L’albero comprese le parole del passero e capì che i suoi frutti, così diversi dalle rose, non erano da meno.

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The tree understood the words of the sparrow and understood that its fruits, so different from roses, were no different.

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Egli era semplicemente diverso da loro.

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He was simply different than them

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Quella mattina il passero tornò a posarsi sui suoi rami e il melo lo ringraziò offrendogli una delle sue mele.

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That morning the sparrow returned to rest on its branches and the apple tree thanked it by offering it one of its apples.

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Da quel giorno il giardino divenne davvero un luogo felice.

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From that day on, the garden truly became a happy place.