私は理窟から出たとも統計から來たとも知れない、此陳腐なやうな母の言葉を默然と聞いてゐた。
translation
I silently listened to my mother's corny words, which could not have come from logic or statistics.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 理窟: theory (りくつ), reason, logic, (unreasonable) argument, strained logic | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) | 統計: statistics (とうけい) |
| 陳腐: stale (ちんぷ), hackneyed, cliched | 母: mother (あも), mother (いろは), mother (おも), mother (かか), mother (はは) | 言葉: language (けとば), language (ことば), dialect, dialect, word |