Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
ちちオオカミは はがゆさをかくさない トラのこえを きいた。
- modifier:
- 歯がゆさを隠さない
- 歯がゆい(はがゆい, frustrating)
The Japanese word “はがゆい” describes a feeling of frustration that comes from being unable to do something despite wanting to, or when things do not go as expected. It is used when someone feels impatient, powerless, or irritated because a situation cannot be controlled or resolved quickly.
“The fool!” said Father Wolf. “To begin a night’s work with that noise!
「おろかもの！」
Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?”
「えものは ワインガンガの ウシではない」
- subject:
- 獲物は
“H’sh. It is neither bullock nor buck he hunts to-night,” said Mother Wolf. “It is Man.”
「えものは にんげんだ」
- predicate:
- 人間だ
The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass.
トラのこえは ハミングのおとに かわっていた。
- predicate:
- 変わる
It was the noise that bewilders woodcutters and gypsies sleeping in the open, and makes them run sometimes into the very mouth of the tiger.
そのおとは にんげんを こんらんさせる。
- predicate:
- 混乱する
“Man!” said Father Wolf, showing all his white teeth. “Faugh! Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
「えものが たりないのか」
- predicate:
- 足りない
The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
ジャングルのほうは にんげんをたべることを きんじている。
- predicate:
- 禁じる
The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
にんげんをかれば ぶそうした にんげんが やってくる。
- modifier:
- 武装した
- 時間の問題(じかんのもんだい, a matter of time)
The phrase “じかんのもんだい” means that something is certain to happen eventually and only the timing is uncertain. It is used when an outcome is inevitable, and the speaker believes that waiting is the only factor before it becomes true or occurs.
Then everybody in the jungle suffers.
そのとき、ジャングルのすべてのものが ひがいをうける。
- predicate:
- 被害を受ける
The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.
にんげんは もっとも よわい。
They say too—and it is true—that man-eaters become mangy, and lose their teeth.
ひとをくうけものは はを うしなう。
- modifier:
- 歯を
Referenced from: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling