學校を卒業するのを普通の人間として當然のやうに考へてゐた私は、それを豫期以上に喜こんで呉れる父の前に恐縮した。
translation
As a normal human being, I thought it was only natural to graduate from school, so I felt ashamed in front of my father, who was more than happy about it.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 學校: school (がっこう) | 卒業: graduation (そつぎょう), completion (of a course), moving on (from), outgrowing (something), leaving (a group, company, etc.) | 普通: normal (ふつう), ordinary, regular, usual, common | 人間: human being (にんげん), human, person, man, mankind |
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 以上: not less than … (いじょう), … and over, … and above, … and upwards, … or more | 呉: go (ご), soy beans soaked and mashed to a creamy paste (ingredient of tofu and soy milk), Wu (region in China, south of the lower Yangtze), Wu (kingdom in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era; 902-937 CE), Southern Wu | 父: father (あて), father (かそ), father (かぞ), father (しし), father (ちち) |
| 恐縮: feeling (much) obliged (きょうしゅく), being (very) grateful, being thankful, feeling sorry (for troubling someone), feeling ashamed (e.g. of an error) |