EXAMPLE OF NARRATIVE TEXT / CONTOH TEKS NARRATIVE : THE FOX AND THE CROW / SEEKOR GAGAK DAN RUBAH

THE FOX AND THE CROW

A crow, perched in a tree with a piece of cheese in his beak, attracted the eye and nose of a fox. "If you can sing as prettily as you sit," said the fox, "then you are the prettiest singer within my scent and sight." The fox had read somewhere, and somewhere, and somewhere else, that praising the voice of a crow with a cheese in his beak would make him drop the cheese and sing. But this is not what happened to this particular crow in this particular case.

"They say you are sly and they say you are crazy," said the crow, having carefully removed the cheese from his beak with the claws of one foot, "but you must be nearsighted as well. Warblers wear gay hats and colored jackets and bright vest, and they are a dollar a hundred. I wear black and I am unique.

"I am sure you are," said the fox, who was neither crazy nor nearsighted, but sly. "I recognize you, now that I look more closely, as the most famed and talented of all birds, and I fain would hear you tell about yourself, but I am hungry and must go."

"Tarry awhile," said the crow quickly, "and share my lunch with me." Whereupon he tossed the cunning fox the lion's share of the cheese, and began to tell about himself. "A ship that sails without a crow's nest sails to doom," he said. "Bars may come and bars may go, but crow bars last forever. I am the pioneer of flight, I am the map maker. Last, but never least, my flight is known to scientists and engineers, geometricians, and scholar, as the shortest distance between two points. Any two points," he concluded arrogantly.

"Oh, every two points, I am sure," said the fox. "And thank you for the lion's share of what I know you could not spare." And with this he trotted away into the woods, his appetite appeased, leaving the hungry crow perched forlornly in the tree.

TERJEMAHAN

SEEKOR GAGAK DAN RUBAH

Seekor gagak, bertengger di pohon dengan sepotong keju di paruhnya, menarik mata dan hidung seekor rubah. "Jika Anda bisa menyanyi manis saat Anda duduk," kata rubah, "maka Anda adalah penyanyi tercantik dalam aroma saya dan melihat." Rubah telah membaca di suatu tempat, dan di suatu tempat, dan di tempat lain, yang memuji suara gagak dengan keju di paruhnya akan membuat dia menjatuhkan keju dan bernyanyi. Tapi ini bukan apa yang terjadi ini gagak tertentu dalam kasus ini.

"Mereka mengatakan Anda licik dan mereka mengatakan Anda gila," kata gagak, setelah hati-hati dihapus keju dari paruhnya dengan cakar dari satu kaki, "tapi Anda harus rabun juga. Warblers memakai topi gay dan jaket berwarna dan rompi cerah, dan mereka adalah seratus dolar. aku memakai hitam dan saya unik.

"Saya yakin Anda," kata rubah, yang tidak gila atau rabun jauh, tapi licik. "Saya mengenali Anda, sekarang aku melihat lebih dekat, sebagai yang paling terkenal dan berbakat dari semua burung, dan aku fain akan mendengar Anda menceritakan tentang diri Anda, tapi aku lapar dan harus pergi."

"Tinggallah sebentar," kata gagak dengan cepat, "dan berbagi makan siang dengan saya." Lalu ia melemparkan rubah licik bagian terbesar dari keju, dan mulai menceritakan tentang dirinya. "Sebuah kapal yang berlayar tanpa sarang layar gagak untuk kehancuran," katanya. "Bar bisa datang dan bar mungkin pergi, tapi linggis terakhir selamanya. Akulah pelopor penerbangan, saya pembuat peta. Terakhir, tetapi tidak pernah sedikit, penerbangan saya diketahui para ilmuwan dan insinyur, geometricians, dan sarjana, sebagai jarak terpendek antara dua titik. Setiap dua poin, "pungkasnya angkuh.

"Oh, setiap dua poin, saya yakin," kata rubah. "Dan terima kasih atas bagian terbesar dari apa yang saya tahu Anda tidak bisa mengampuni." Dan dengan ini ia berlari jauh ke dalam hutan, nafsu makannya diredakan, meninggalkan gagak lapar bertengger sedih di pohon.