YOU SAID:
I heard several cats ate the man.
INTO JAPANESE
その男は何匹か猫が食んだのを聞いた。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The man heard that some cats had eaten.
INTO JAPANESE
この言葉を聞いて、青年は悲しみながら立ち去った。たくさんの資産を持っていたからである。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
INTO JAPANESE
この言葉を聞いて、青年は悲しみながら立ち去った。たくさんの資産を持っていたからである。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.