私はある意味から見て實際彼の輕蔑に價してゐたかも知れません。彼の眼の着け所は私より遙かに高いところにあつたとも云はれるでせう。私もそれを否みはしません。然し眼だけ高くつて、外が釣り合はないのは手もなく不具です。私は何を措いても、此際彼を人間らしくするのが專一だと考へたのです。いくら彼の頭が偉い人の影像で埋まつてゐても、彼自身が偉くなつて行かない以上は、何の役にも立たないといふ事を發見したのです。私は彼を人間らしくする第一の手段として、まづ異性の傍に彼を坐らせる方法を講じたのです。さうして其所から出る空氣に彼を曝した上、錆び付きかゝつた彼の血液を新らしくしやうと試みたのです。
translation
From a certain point of view, I may have actually taken advantage of his disrespect. It could be said that his eye contact was much higher than mine. I will not deny it either. However, it is helpless and handicapped if only the eyes are high and the outside is out of proportion. Above all else, I thought it best to make him human. He discovered that no matter how much his head was filled with images of great men, it would be of no use unless he himself became great. The first method I took to make him human was to make him sit next to the opposite sex. After exposing him to the air from that place, I tried to refresh his rusty blood.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 意味: meaning (いみ), significance, sense | 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook | 價: price (あたい), cost, value, worth, merit |
| 彼: that (あ), that (あれ), that (アレ), that thing, that thing | 眼: eye (め), eyeball, eyesight, sight, vision | 着: arrival (ちゃく), arriving at …, counter for items or suits of clothing, nth place (in a race), counter for moves | 所: place (とこ), place (ところ), spot, spot, scene |
| 否: no (ひ), the noes, no (いや), no (いな), nay | 然: -like (ぜん), so (さ), like that, in that way, like that (しか) | 外: outside (そと), outside (と), exterior, exterior, the open (air) | 釣: fishing (つり), angling, change (for a purchase), clickbaiting, trolling |
| 手: hand (て), arm, forepaw, foreleg, handle | 不具: deformity (ふぐ), distortion, disability, cripple, word written at the end of a letter | 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing | 人間: human being (にんげん), human, person, man, mankind |
| 頭: counter for large animals (e.g. head of cattle) (とう), counter for insects in a collection, counter for helmets, masks, etc., head (あたま), head (かしら) | 偉: greatness (い), tremendous (えら), huge | 人: -ian (e.g. Italian) (じん), -ite (e.g. Tokyoite), -er (e.g. performer, etc.), person working with …, man | 影像: silhouette (えいぞう) |
| 行: line (of text) (ぎょう), row, verse, carya (austerities), samskara (formations) | 以上: not less than … (いじょう), … and over, … and above, … and upwards, … or more | 役: war (えき), war (えだち), campaign, campaign, battle | 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident |
| 手段: means (しゅだん), way, measure | 異性: the opposite sex (いせい), isomerism | 傍: near (そく), near (そば), near (はた), close, close | 方法: method (ほうほう), process, manner, way, means |
| 其所: there (place relatively near listener) (そこ), there (place just mentioned), that place, then (of some incident just spoken of), that (of point just raised) | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) | 曝: bleaching (さらし), soaking, bleached cotton (esp. wrapped around the torso), doxxing, doxing | 付: furnished with (つき), furnished with (づき), furnished with (ツキ), including, including |
| 新: new (しん), neo-, newness, novelty, Gregorian calendar | 試: testing (し), experiment, test, examination, exam |