There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan’s question to Akela: “What have the Free People to do with a man’s cub?”
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
わかいオオカミが アキーラに いいかえした。
- predicate:
- 言い返す
Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother.
もしも こどもの けんりに いぎがあるなら、
２めいが そのこを まもらなければならない。
- modifier:
- 異議があるなら
- subject:
- ２名が
- predicate:
- 守る
“Who speaks for this cub?” said Akela. “Among the Free People who speaks?”
「だれが このこを べんごする？」
- predicate:
- 弁護する
There was no answer and Mother Wolf got ready for what she knew would be her last fight, if things came to fighting.
へんじが なかった。
- subject:
- 返事が
- 腹をくくる（はらをくくる, resolve / decide firmly）
The Japanese expression “はらをくくる” means to mentally prepare yourself and make a firm, unwavering decision, especially when facing a difficult or unavoidable situation. It is often used when someone accepts the risks or consequences and chooses to move forward with determination.
Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council—Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey—rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
そのとき、バルーが こえをあげた。
- predicate:
- 声をあげる
“The man’s cub—the man’s cub?” he said. “I speak for the man’s cub.
「わたしが にんげんのこを べんごする」
- predicate:
- 弁護する
There is no harm in a man’s cub.
「にんげんのこは あぶなくない」
- predicate:
- 危なくない
I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
「わたしの はなしは しんじつだ」
- subject:
- 私の話は
Let him run with the Pack, and be entered with the others.
「かれを このむれに むかえいれろ」
- predicate:
- 迎え入れる
I myself will teach him.”
「わたしが かれを おしえる」
- predicate:
- 教える
“We need yet another,” said Akela. “Baloo has spoken, and he is our teacher for the young cubs. Who speaks besides Baloo?”
「まだ べつのものが ひつようだ」
Referenced from: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling