父が變な黄色いものを嘔いた時、私はかつて先生と奧さんから聞かされた危險を思ひ出した。「あゝして長く寐てゐるんだから胃も惡くなる筈だね」と云つた母の顏を見て、何も知らない其人の前に涙ぐんだ。
translation
When my father vomited a strange yellow thing, I remembered the danger my teacher and wife had once told me. Seeing my mother's face say, ``You've been sleeping for a long time, so your stomach must be sick, aren't you?''
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 父: father (あて), father (かそ), father (かぞ), father (しし), father (ちち) | 變: strange (へん), odd, peculiar, weird, curious | 黄色: yellow (おうしょく), yellow (きいろ), yellow (こうしょく), amber, amber | 嘔: getting nauseated (むかつき), getting angry |
| 奧: inner part (おく), interior, back (of a drawer, one’s throat, etc.), depths (e.g. of a forest), recesses (e.g. of a cave) | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) | 長: height (たき), height (たけ), stature, stature, length (esp. of clothing) | 胃: stomach (い), Chinese “stomach” constellation (one of the 28 mansions) |
| 筈: should (be) (はず), bound (to be), expected (to be), must (be), nock (of a bow) | 母: mother (あも), mother (いろは), mother (おも), mother (かか), mother (はは) | 顏: face (かお), face (がん), visage, visage, look | 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook |
| 知: wisdom (ち), jnana (higher knowledge) | 前: point (さき), tip, end, nozzle, head (of a line) | 涙: tear (なだ), tear (なみた), tear (なみだ), tear (なんだ), tears |