私は又彼に向つて、彼の戀を何う取り扱かふ積かと尋ねました。それが單なる自白に過ぎないのか、又は其自白についで、實際的の效果をも收める氣なのかと問ふたのです。然るに彼は其所になると、何にも答へません。默つて下を向いて歩き出します。私は彼に隱し立をして呉れるな、凡て思つた通りを話して呉れと頼みました。彼は何も私に隱す必要はないと判然斷言しました。然し私の知らうとする點には、一言の返事も與へないのです。私も往來だからわざ／＼立ち留まつて底迄突き留める譯に行きません。ついそれなりに爲てしまひました。
translation
I turned to him again and asked how he handled his love affairs. I asked if that was just a mere confession, or if that confession would also have a practical effect. But when he gets there, he doesn't answer anything. I look down and start walking. I asked him not to hide and tell him what he thought. He made it clear that he didn't have to hide anything from me. However, when I tried to find out, he didn't give me a single answer. I'm also a commuter, so I don't deliberately stop and go to the bottom. I ended up doing it in its own way.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 彼: that (あ), that (あれ), that (アレ), that thing, that thing | 戀: (romantic) love (こい) | 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing |
| 積: product (せき), volume, area | 尋: fathom (じん), fathom (ひろ) | 自白: confession (じはく), admission | 過: surplus- (か), excess-, over-, per- (chemical with more of a certain element than found in other compounds of the same constituents) |
| 自白: confession (じはく), admission | 氣: spirit (き), mind, heart, nature, disposition | 問: question (とい), query, counter for questions (もん) | 然: -like (ぜん), so (さ), like that, in that way, like that (しか) |
| 答: answer (こたえ), reply, response, answer, solution | 下: below (した), down, under, younger (e.g. daughter), bottom | 歩: pawn (ふ), step (ほ), stride, counter for steps, walking (あゆみ) | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) |
| 凡: about (おおよそ), roughly, approximately, generally, on the whole | 通: authority (つう), expert, connoisseur, well-informed person, counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc. | 話: talk (はなし), speech, chat, conversation, topic | 必要: necessary (ひつよう), needed, essential, indispensable, necessity |
| 知: wisdom (ち), jnana (higher knowledge) | 一言: single word (いちげん), single word (いちごん), single word (ひとこと), a few words, a few words | 返事: reply (へんじ), answer, response | 留: ruble (Russian currency) (ルーブリ), ruble (Russian currency) (ルーブル), rouble, rouble, stationary point (りゅう) |
| 爲: good (ため), advantage, benefit, welfare, sake |