It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
ちちオオカミは ひるねから めをさました。
- predicate:
- 目を覚ます
Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
ははオオカミは こどもたちと いっしょにいた。
“Augrh!” said Father Wolf. “It is time to hunt again.”
「かりのじかんだ」
- modifier:
- 狩りの
He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined:
ちいさな かげが こえをあげた。
- predicate:
- 声をあげる
“Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.”
それは こううんを いのった。
- predicate:
- 祈る
It was the jackal—Tabaqui, the Dish-licker—and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
それは ジャッカルの タバキだ。
- 鼻つまみ者（はなつまみもの, pariah）
The Japanese term “はなつまみもの” refers to a person who is widely disliked, avoided, or considered unpleasant by others. It is used when someone’s behavior, attitude, or reputation causes people to keep their distance, treating them as an outcast or someone unwelcome in social situations.
But they are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way.
タバキは はっきょうしやすい。
- predicate:
- 発狂しやすい
Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
タバキが はっきょうするとき、
トラでさえ にげる。
We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee—the madness—and run.
にんげんは それを きょうけんびょうと よぶ。
- modifier:
- それを狂犬病と
“Enter, then, and look,” said Father Wolf stiffly, “but there is no food here.”
「ここに たべものは ない」
- subject:
- 食べ物は
“For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
「かわいた ほねは ごちそうだ」
- subject:
- 乾いた骨は
Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?”
「われわれは えりごのみしない」
- 選り好みしない（えりごのみしない, not picky）
The Japanese phrase “えりごのみしない” describes someone who is not picky and does not insist on specific preferences. It is used when a person accepts most options without complaining, showing flexibility or an easygoing attitude in choices such as food, plans, or daily decisions.
He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily.
かれは シカのほねを みつけて、かじった。
- predicate:
- 見つける
- かじる
Referenced from: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling