「子供でもあると好いんですがね」と奧さんは私の方を向いて云つた。私は「左右ですな」と答へた。然し私の心には何の同情も起らなかつた。子供を持つた事のない其時の私は、子供をただ蒼蠅いものゝ樣に考へてゐた。
translation
"I hope you're a child too," she said, turning to me. "Left and right," I replied. But no sympathy arose in my heart. At that time, I had never had a child, and I thought of children simply as if they were ugly things.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 子供: child (こども), children | 好: friendship (ぎ), friendship (よしび), friendship (よしみ), friendly relations, friendly relations | 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) | 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) |
| 左右: left and right (さう), left and right (さゆう), left and right (そう), right and left, right and left | 答: answer (こたえ), reply, response, answer, solution | 然: -like (ぜん), so (さ), like that, in that way, like that (しか) | 心: mind (こころ), heart, spirit, the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.), heart (しん) |
| 同情: sympathy (どうじょう), compassion, pity | 起: source (おこり), origin, cause, beginning, genesis | 持: draw (in go, poetry contest, etc.) (じ), tie | 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident |
| 考: thought (こう), report on one’s investigation into …, deceased father |