Shere Khan was always crossing his path in the jungle, for as Akela grew older and feebler the lame tiger had come to be great friends with the younger wolves of the Pack, who followed him for scraps, a thing Akela would never have allowed if he had dared to push his authority to the proper bounds.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
シア・カーンは いつも かれのゆくてを さえぎった。
- modifier:
- 彼の行く手を
Then Shere Khan would flatter them and wonder that such fine young hunters were content to be led by a dying wolf and a man’s cub.
そのとき、シア・カーンは わかいオオカミたちを おだてた。
- predicate:
- おだてる
“They tell me,” Shere Khan would say, “that at Council ye dare not look him between the eyes.”
シア・カーンは わかいオオカミたちの はんかんをあおった。
- predicate:
- 反感をあおる
And the young wolves would growl and bristle.
わかいオオカミたちは けをさかだてた。
- predicate:
- 毛を逆立てる
Bagheera, who had eyes and ears everywhere, knew something of this, and once or twice he told Mowgli in so many words that Shere Khan would kill him some day.
バギーラは モウグリに けいこくした。
- predicate:
- 警告する
- 耳が早い（みみがはやい, quick to hear / well‑informed）
The Japanese expression “みみがはやい” refers to someone who learns news, rumors, or information faster than others. It is often used when a person is very alert, socially connected, or has a knack for picking up information before it becomes widely known.
Mowgli would laugh and answer: “I have the Pack and I have thee; and Baloo, though he is so lazy, might strike a blow or two for my sake. Why should I be afraid?”
「わたしは こわがるひつようがない」
- predicate:
- 怖がる必要がない
It was one very warm day that a new notion came to Bagheera—born of something that he had heard.
バギーラは あたらしい かんがえを おもいついた。
- predicate:
- 思いつく
Perhaps Ikki the Porcupine had told him; but he said to Mowgli when they were deep in the jungle, as the boy lay with his head on Bagheera’s beautiful black skin, “Little Brother, how often have I told thee that Shere Khan is thy enemy?”
「シア・カーンは おまえの てきだ」
- predicate:
- お前の敵だ
“As many times as there are nuts on that palm,” said Mowgli, who, naturally, could not count.
「なんども きいた」
“What of it? I am sleepy, Bagheera, and Shere Khan is all long tail and loud talk—like Mao, the Peacock.”
「シア・カーンは しっぽがながくて うるさいだけだ」
“But this is no time for sleeping.
「ねむっているひまはない」
Baloo knows it; I know it; the Pack know it; and even the foolish, foolish deer know. Tabaqui has told thee too.”
「シア・カーンは おまえのてきだと、 みんなが しっている」
“Ho! ho!” said Mowgli. “Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a naked man’s cub and not fit to dig pig-nuts.
「タバキが さいきん やってきて、しつれいなことを いった」
But I caught Tabaqui by the tail and swung him twice against a palm-tree to teach him better manners.”
「わたしは タバキのしっぽを つかんで、ふりまわした」
- predicate:
- つかむ
- 振り回す
“That was foolishness, for though Tabaqui is a mischief-maker, he would have told thee of something that concerned thee closely.
バギーラは モウグリを しかった。
- predicate:
- しかる
Open those eyes, Little Brother. Shere Khan dare not kill thee in the jungle. But remember, Akela is very old, and soon the day comes when he cannot kill his buck, and then he will be leader no more.
「アキーラが おうしを かれないときが やってくる」
- subject:
- アキーラが雄牛を狩れない時が
Many of the wolves that looked thee over when thou wast brought to the Council first are old too, and the young wolves believe, as Shere Khan has taught them, that a man-cub has no place with the Pack. In a little time thou wilt be a man.”
「わかいオオカミたちは シア・カーンのいうことを しんじている」
“And what is a man that he should not run with his brothers?” said Mowgli.
「にんげんとは なんだ？」
“I was born in the jungle. I have obeyed the Law of the Jungle, and there is no wolf of ours from whose paws I have not pulled a thorn. Surely they are my brothers!”
「わたしは オオカミの きょうだいだ」
Referenced from: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling