伯父が見舞に來たとき、父は何時迄も引き留めて歸さなかつた。淋しいからもつと居て呉れといふのが重な理由であつたが、母や私が、食べたい丈物を食べさせないといふ不平を訴たへるのも、其目的の一つであつたらしい。
translation
When my uncle came to visit me, my father stopped him and never returned. One of the main reasons was that I wanted to stay longer because I was lonely, but it seems that one of the reasons was that my mother and I complained about not letting them eat what they wanted.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 伯父: uncle (おじ), uncle (しゅくふ), uncle (はくふ), uncle (one’s father’s older brother) (えおじ) | 見舞: visiting ill or distressed people (みまい), writing get-well letters, get-well gifts, get-well letters, expression of sympathy | 父: father (あて), father (かそ), father (かぞ), father (しし), father (ちち) | 何時迄: how long? (いつまで), till when? |
| 留: ruble (Russian currency) (ルーブリ), ruble (Russian currency) (ルーブル), rouble, rouble, stationary point (りゅう) | 居: residence (きょ), being (somewhere) (い), sitting | 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 | 重: chief (おも), main, principal, important, main secondary or supporting role (in kyogen) |
| 母: mother (あも), mother (いろは), mother (おも), mother (かか), mother (はは) | 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 食: food (し), food (しょく), food (じき), foodstuff, foodstuff | 不平: discontent (ふへい), dissatisfaction, complaint, grievance |
| 一: one (いち), 1, best, first, foremost |