“My quarry. A man’s cub went this way,” said Shere Khan. “Its parents have run off. Give it to me.”
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
「にんげんの こを わたしに わたせ」
- predicate:
- 渡す
Shere Khan had jumped at a woodcutter’s campfire, as Father Wolf had said, and was furious from the pain of his burned feet.
シア・カーンは いかりくるっていた。
- predicate:
- 怒り狂う
But Father Wolf knew that the mouth of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to come in by.
いりぐちが せますぎて トラは はいれない。
Even where he was, Shere Khan’s shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man’s would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.
シア・カーンの りょうかたと まえあしは つっかえていた。
- subject:
- 両肩と前足は
“The Wolves are a free people,” said Father Wolf.
「オオカミは じゆうな みんぞくだ」
- predicate:
- 自由な民族だ
“They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer.
「オオカミは トラには したがわない」
- predicate:
- 従う
The man’s cub is ours—to kill if we choose.”
「このこは われわれのものだ」
- subject:
- この仔は
“Ye choose and ye do not choose! What talk is this of choosing? By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues? It is I, Shere Khan, who speak!”
「はなしているのは シア・カーンだ！」
The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder.
オオカミのほらあなは トラのこえで いっぱいになった。
Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.
ははオオカミが とびだした。
- predicate:
- 飛びだす
“And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri—mine to me! He shall not be killed.
「にんげんの こは わたしのものだ」
He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs—frog-eater—fish-killer—he shall hunt thee!
「かれは おまえを かることになる！」
Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world! Go!”
「たちされ」
Father Wolf looked on amazed.
ちちオオカミは おどろいて みていた。
He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment’s sake.
かれは つまをむかえたひのことを わすれかけていた。
- modifier:
- 妻を迎えた日のことを
Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death.
シア・カーンは ははオオカミにたいして たちむかうことができなかった。
- predicate:
- 立ち向かう
- 地の利がある（ちのりがある, advantage / local advantage）
The Japanese expression “ちのりがある” refers to having a geographical or situational advantage based on location. It is often used when someone benefits from being familiar with the area, having easier access, or being positioned in a way that gives them a strategic edge.
So he backed out of the cave mouth growling, and when he was clear he shouted:
かれは ほらあなから はなれた。
- predicate:
- 離れる
“Each dog barks in his own yard!
「どのいぬも じぶんのなわばりでは ほえるものだ！」
- modifier:
- 自分の縄張りでは
We will see what the Pack will say to this fostering of man-cubs.
「オオカミの むれがなんていうか みてやろう」
The cub is mine, and to my teeth he will come in the end, O bush-tailed thieves!”
「さいごには、かれは わたしのくちに はいるだろう」
Referenced from: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling