「ある日私は久し振に學校の圖書館に入りました。私は廣い机の片隅で窓から射す光線を半身に受けながら、新着の外國雜誌を、あちら此方と引繰り返して見てゐました。私は擔任教師から專攻の學科に關して、次の週までにある事項を調べて來いと命ぜられたのです。然し私に必要な事柄が中々見付からないので、私は二度も三度も雜誌を借り替へなければなりませんでした。最後に私はやつと自分に必要な論文を探し出して、一心にそれを讀み出しました。すると突然幅の廣い机の向ふ側から小さな聲で私の名を呼ぶものがあります。私は不圖眼を上げて其所に立つてゐるＫを見ました。Ｋはその上半身を机の上に折り曲るやうにして、彼の顏を私に近付けました。御承知の通り圖書館では他の人の邪魔になるやうな大きな聲で話をする譯に行かないのですから、Ｋの此所作は誰でも遣る普通の事なのですが、私は其時に限つて、一種變な心持がしました。
translation
“One day, for the first time in a long time, I entered the school library. I sat in the corner of a large desk, half my body caught in the light from the window, and flipped over and over to read the latest foreign magazines. I was ordered by my assigned teacher to research a certain matter in the subject of the study by the next week. I had to refinance the magazine more than once, and finally I found the article I needed and began to read it with all my might. Someone called my name in a low voice from the side.I raised my eyes and saw K standing there.K leaned his upper body on the desk and I brought his face closer to mine.As you know, people don't talk in such a loud voice that it disturbs other people in the library, so K's gesture is a normal thing that anyone would do. However, at that time, I felt a kind of change.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 學校: school (がっこう) | 入: entering (いり), setting (of the Sun), containing, content, audience | 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 机: desk (つき), desk (つくえ) |
| 窓: window (まど) | 射: archery (しゃ), mapping, map, morphism, arrow | 光線: beam (こうせん), light ray | 半身: half the body (はんしん), half length, stance with legs in an L-shape, with one leg bent in front and other extended behind (martial arts, traditional theater) (はんみ) |
| 新着: new arrivals (しんちゃく), new acquisitions | 此方: this way (こち), this way (こちら), this way (こっち), this direction, this direction | 返: number of times (へん), reply, answer | 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook |
| 次: next (つぎ), following, subsequent, stage, station | 週: week (しゅう) | 事項: matter (じこう), item, facts | 調: pitch (ちょう), tone, key, time, tempo |
| 然: -like (ぜん), so (さ), like that, in that way, like that (しか) | 必要: necessary (ひつよう), needed, essential, indispensable, necessity | 事柄: matter (ことがら), thing, affair, circumstance | 中々: very (なかなか), considerably, easily, readily, fairly |
| 見付: approach (to a castle gate) (みつけ), front of a structural member | 二度: again (ふたたび), once more, a second time, two times (にど), twice | 三度: three times (さんど), thrice, third (interval), three times (みたび), thrice | 最後: end (さいご), conclusion, last, final, latest |
| 論文: thesis (ろんぶん), essay, treatise, paper, article | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) | 一心: one mind (いっしん), wholeheartedness, one’s whole heart | 突然: abrupt (とつぜん), sudden, unexpected |
| 側: near (そく), near (そば), near (はた), close, close | 小: smallness (しょう), small item, short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days), elementary school, smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name) | 聲: voice (こえ), singing (of a bird), chirping (of an insect), hoot, voice | 名: name (な), given name, title, fame, renown |
| 眼: eye (め), eyeball, eyesight, sight, vision | 上: above (うえ), over, up, top, summit | 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) | Ｋ: K (ケイ), K (ケー), k, k, kilo- |
| 折: opportunity (おり), chance, occasion, time, folding | 曲: composition (きょく), piece of music, song, track (on a record), tune | 彼: that (あ), that (あれ), that (アレ), that thing, that thing | 顏: face (かお), face (がん), visage, visage, look |
| 通: authority (つう), expert, connoisseur, well-informed person, counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc. | 他: another place (ほか), some other place, somewhere else, outside, another (person or thing) | 人: -ian (e.g. Italian) (じん), -ite (e.g. Tokyoite), -er (e.g. performer, etc.), person working with …, man | 邪魔: hindrance (じゃま), obstacle, nuisance, disturbance, interruption |
| 話: talk (はなし), speech, chat, conversation, topic | 行: line (of text) (ぎょう), row, verse, carya (austerities), samskara (formations) | 此所: here (ここ), this place, this point, here, now | 作: work (e.g. of art) (さく), production, harvest, cultivation, farming |
| 誰: who (た), who (たれ), who (だあれ), who (だれ) | 普通: normal (ふつう), ordinary, regular, usual, common | 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident | 限: end (きり), finish, place to stop, bound, limit |
| 變: strange (へん), odd, peculiar, weird, curious | 心持: feeling (こころもち), mood, sensation, disposition, mental attitude |