Then more than half the Pack yelled: “A man! A man! What has a man to do with us? Let him go to his own place.”
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
「モウグリを にんげんの ばしょへ もどせ」
- predicate:
- 戻す
“And turn all the people of the villages against us?” clamored Shere Khan.
「むらの にんげんすべてを てきにまわすのか？」
- predicate:
- 敵に回す
“No, give him to me. He is a man, and none of us can look him between the eyes.”
「だれも かれを しょうめんから みれない」
- modifier:
- 正面から
Akela lifted his head again and said, “He has eaten our food. He has slept with us. He has driven game for us. He has broken no word of the Law of the Jungle.”
「かれは ジャングルのほうを やぶっていない」
- predicate:
- 破る
“Also, I paid for him with a bull when he was accepted. The worth of a bull is little, but Bagheera’s honor is something that he will perhaps fight for,” said Bagheera in his gentlest voice.
「わたしは おうしを しはらった」
- 義理堅い（ぎりがたい, loyal / dutiful）
The Japanese expression “ぎりがたい” describes someone who strongly values obligations, social bonds, and moral responsibility. It is often used when a person keeps promises, repays favors, or acts with loyalty and integrity even when it is difficult or inconvenient.
“A bull paid ten years ago!” the Pack snarled. “What do we care for bones ten years old?”
「われわれは １０ねんまえの ほねに きょうみがない」
- predicate:
- 興味がない
“Or for a pledge?” said Bagheera, his white teeth bared under his lip. “Well are ye called the Free People!”
「やくそくに きょうみがないのか？」
“No man’s cub can run with the people of the jungle,” howled Shere Khan. “Give him to me!”
「にんげんのこどもは ジャングルのたみと はしれない」
- modifier:
- ジャングルの民と
“He is our brother in all but blood,” Akela went on, “and ye would kill him here!
「かれは われわれの きょうだいだ」
- predicate:
- 兄弟だ
In truth, I have lived too long.
「わたしは ながく いきすぎた」
- predicate:
- 生きる
Some of ye are eaters of cattle, and of others I have heard that, under Shere Khan’s teaching, ye go by dark night and snatch children from the villager’s doorstep.
「おまえたちは かちくを たべていて、
にんげんの こどもを つかまえている」
- predicate:
- 食べる
- 捕まえる
Therefore I know ye to be cowards, and it is to cowards I speak.
「わたしは おまえたちが ひきょうものであると しっている」
It is certain that I must die, and my life is of no worth, or I would offer that in the man-cub’s place.
「わたしの いのちに かちがあるなら、
わたしは モウグリのいばしょに じぶんのいのちを さしだす」
But for the sake of the Honor of the Pack,—a little matter that by being without a leader ye have forgotten,—I promise that if ye let the man-cub go to his own place, I will not, when my time comes to die, bare one tooth against ye. I will die without fighting.
「わたしは たたかわずに しぬ」
- modifier:
- 戦わずに
That will at least save the Pack three lives.
「すくなくとも、３つの いのちが たすかるだろう」
- predicate:
- 助かる
More I cannot do; but if ye will, I can save ye the shame that comes of killing a brother against whom there is no fault—a brother spoken for and bought into the Pack according to the Law of the Jungle.”
「モウグリには いっさい つみがない」
- predicate:
- 罪がない
“He is a man—a man—a man!” snarled the Pack. And most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail was beginning to switch.
「おおくの オオカミたちが シア・カーンのまわりに あつまりはじめた」
“Now the business is in thy hands,” said Bagheera to Mowgli. “We can do no more except fight.”
「われわれは たたかうしかない」
Referenced from: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling