Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the night of the Pack Meeting took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock—a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
ちちオオカミは かぞくを カウンシルロックへ つれていった。
- modifier:
- 家族を
Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
アキーラは じぶんの いわのうえで ねそべっていた。
- predicate:
- 寝そべる
- 腕自慢(うでじまん, show‑off / boastful about skill)
The Japanese expression “うでじまん” refers to a person who proudly shows off their skills, abilities, or craftsmanship. It is often used when someone confidently demonstrates what they are good at or boasts about their talent in front of others.
The Lone Wolf had led them for a year now.
そのローンウルフは オオカミたちを みちびいてきた。
- predicate:
- 導く
He had fallen twice into a wolf trap in his youth, and once he had been beaten and left for dead; so he knew the manners and customs of men.
かれは にんげんというものを しっていた。
- modifier:
- 人間というものを
There was very little talking at the Rock.
カウンシルロックでは、かいわが ほとんどなかった。
The cubs tumbled over each other in the center of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat, and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a cub, look at him carefully, and return to his place on noiseless feet.
としうえの オオカミは こどもを かくにんした。
- predicate:
- 確認する
Sometimes a mother would push her cub far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked.
ははおやは じぶんのこを つきあかりのなかに おしだした。
- predicate:
- 押し出す
Akela from his rock would cry: “Ye know the Law—ye know the Law. Look well, O Wolves!”
「よくみろ、オオカミたちよ!」
And the anxious mothers would take up the call: “Look—look well, O Wolves!”
「よくみろ、オオカミたちよ!」
At last—and Mother Wolf’s neck bristles lifted as the time came—Father Wolf pushed “Mowgli the Frog,” as they called him, into the center, where he sat laughing and playing with some pebbles that glistened in the moonlight.
ちちオオカミは モウグリを サークルのなかに おしだした。
Akela never raised his head from his paws, but went on with the monotonous cry: “Look well!”
「よくみろ!」
A muffled roar came up from behind the rocks—the voice of Shere Khan crying: “The cub is mine. Give him to me. What have the Free People to do with a man’s cub?”
シア・カーンが いった。
「そのこは わたしのものだ」
Akela never even twitched his ears.
アキーラは みみを うごかさなかった。
All he said was: “Look well, O Wolves! What have the Free People to do with the orders of any save the Free People? Look well!”
「よくみろ、オオカミたちよ!
フリーピープルは フリーピープルだけに したがう」
- predicate:
- 従う
Referenced from: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
