Bagheera stretched himself at full length and half shut his eyes. “Little Brother,” said he, “feel under my jaw.”
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
「わたしの アゴのしたを さわってみろ」
- predicate:
- 触る
Mowgli put up his strong brown hand, and just under Bagheera’s silky chin, where the giant rolling muscles were all hid by the glossy hair, he came upon a little bald spot.
バギーラの あごのしたで、モウグリは けのないばしょを みつけた。
- modifier:
- 毛のない場所を
“There is no one in the jungle that knows that I, Bagheera, carry that mark—the mark of the collar; and yet, Little Brother, I was born among men, and it was among men that my mother died—in the cages of the king’s palace at Oodeypore.
「だれもしらない、くびわの あとだ。
わたしは にんげんのなかで うまれた」
- 毛色が違う（けいろがちがう, different / distinct）
The Japanese expression “けいろがちがう” literally means “the fur color is different,” but figuratively it describes someone or something that is **different in type, background, style, or character** from the usual group. It is often used when pointing out that a person has a unique approach, an unusual origin, or a distinct personality compared to others.
It was because of this that I paid the price for thee at the Council when thou wast a little naked cub.
「このために、わたしは だいかを しはらった」
- predicate:
- 支払う
Yes, I too was born among men.
「わたしも にんげんのなかに うまれた」
I had never seen the jungle.
「わたしは ジャングルを みたことがなかった」
They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera—the Panther—and no man’s plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away.
「わたしは ロックを こわして、にげだした」
- predicate:
- 壊す
- 逃げ出す
And because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan. Is it not so?”
「にんげんの やりかたを まなんでいたから、
わたしは シア・カーンよりも つよい」
- predicate:
- 強い
“Yes,” said Mowgli, “all the jungle fear Bagheera—all except Mowgli.”
「ジャングルの みんなは バギーラを おそれる。モウグリをのぞいて」
- subject:
- 皆は
“Oh, thou art a man’s cub,” said the Black Panther very tenderly.
「おまえは にんげんのこだ」
- predicate:
- 人間の仔だ
“And even as I returned to my jungle, so thou must go back to men at last—to the men who are thy brothers—if thou art not killed in the Council.”
「おまえは にんげんのもとへ かえらなければならない」
- predicate:
- 帰る
“But why—but why should any wish to kill me?” said Mowgli.
「どうして わたしを ころしたいんだ？」
“Look at me,” said Bagheera. And Mowgli looked at him steadily between the eyes.
モウグリは バギーラを みつめた。
The big panther turned his head away in half a minute.
バギーラは かおを そむけた。
- predicate:
- 背ける
“That is why,” he said, shifting his paw on the leaves. “Not even I can look thee between the eyes, and I was born among men, and I love thee, Little Brother.
「わたしでさえ みつめあうことができない」
- predicate:
- 見つめ合う
The others they hate thee because their eyes cannot meet thine; because thou art wise; because thou hast pulled out thorns from their feet—because thou art a man.”
「ほかのものたちは おまえを きらう。
おまえが にんげんだから」
“I did not know these things,” said Mowgli sullenly, and he frowned under his heavy black eyebrows.
「わたしは そのりゆうが わからなかった」
Referenced from: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling