Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, “Come along, Little Brother,” and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
モウグリは えだのあいだを とびうつるようになった。
- predicate:
- 飛び移る
He took his place at the Council Rock, too, when the Pack met, and there he discovered that if he stared hard at any wolf, the wolf would be forced to drop his eyes, and so he used to stare for fun.
モウグリは あそびで オオカミを みつめるようになった。
- predicate:
- 見つめる
At other times he would pick the long thorns out of the pads of his friends, for wolves suffer terribly from thorns and burs in their coats.
モウグリは なかまの とげを ぬくようになった。
- predicate:
- 抜く
He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop gate so cunningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a trap.
モウグリは きょうみぶかく むらびとを みるようになった。
- predicate:
- 見る
He loved better than anything else to go with Bagheera into the dark warm heart of the forest, to sleep all through the drowsy day, and at night see how Bagheera did his killing.
モウグリは バギーラと もりのおくへ いくことが いちばん すきだった。
- modifier:
- バギーラと森の奥へ行くことが
Bagheera killed right and left as he felt hungry, and so did Mowgli—with one exception.
モウグリのかりには れいがいがあった。
- predicate:
- 例外があった
As soon as he was old enough to understand things, Bagheera told him that he must never touch cattle because he had been bought into the Pack at the price of a bull’s life.
バギーラは うしに ふれてはならないと モウグリに おしえた。
- predicate:
- 教える
- 分別がつく(ふんべつがつく, discern / tell right from wrong)
The Japanese expression “ふんべつがつく” refers to the ability to judge situations sensibly, distinguish right from wrong, and behave appropriately based on maturity and common sense. It is often used when someone shows responsible decision‑making or acts with proper awareness of consequences.
“All the jungle is thine,” said Bagheera, “and thou canst kill everything that thou art strong enough to kill; but for the sake of the bull that bought thee thou must never kill or eat any cattle young or old. That is the Law of the Jungle.” Mowgli obeyed faithfully.
「だいかとなった おうしのために、おまえは ころしてはならない」
- modifier:
- 代価となった雄牛のために
And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.
モウグリは どんどん つよくなった。
- predicate:
- 強くなった
Mother Wolf told him once or twice that Shere Khan was not a creature to be trusted, and that some day he must kill Shere Khan.
ははオオカミは シア・カーンとはあいいれないことを モウグリに つたえた。
- modifier:
- シア・カーンとは相容れないことを
- 相容れない(あいいれない, incompatible / irreconcilable)
The Japanese expression “あいいれない” describes two ideas, values, or people that cannot coexist harmoniously because their beliefs or characteristics fundamentally conflict. It is often used when differences are so deep that compromise or mutual understanding becomes extremely difficult.
But though a young wolf would have remembered that advice every hour, Mowgli forgot it because he was only a boy—though he would have called himself a wolf if he had been able to speak in any human tongue.
モウグリは ははオオカミの ことばを わすれた。
- predicate:
- 忘れる
Referenced from: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
