其日は丁度同じ時間に講義の始まる時間割になつてゐたので、二人はやがて一所に宅を出ました。今朝から昨夕の事が氣に掛つてゐる私は、途中でまたＫを追窮しました。けれどもＫはやはり私を滿足させるやうな答をしません。私はあの事件に就いて何か話す積ではなかつたのかと念を押して見ました。Ｋは左右ではないと強い調子で云ひ切りました。昨日上野で『其話はもう止めやう』と云つたではないかと注意する如くにも聞こえました。Ｋはさういふ點に掛けて鋭どい自尊心を有つた男なのです。不圖其所に氣のついた私は突然彼の用ひた『覺悟』といふ言葉を連想し出しました。すると今迄丸で氣にならなかつた其二字が妙な力で私の頭を抑え始めたのです。
translation
On that day, the lectures were scheduled to start at exactly the same time, so the two eventually left the house together. Since this morning, I've been thinking about what happened last night, and on the way, I tracked down K again. But K still doesn't give me an answer that satisfies me. I made sure I didn't have to say something about that incident. K said emphatically that it wasn't left or right. It sounded like a warning to someone who had told him yesterday in Ueno, "Let's stop talking about that." K is a man with a keen sense of self-respect. Suddenly I was reminded of the word "Kakugo" that he used. Then, the two characters, which until now hadn't bothered me, began to hold my head down with a strange force.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 丁度: exactly (ちょうど), precisely, just, right, opportunely | 同: the same (どう), the said, likewise | 時間: time (じかん), hour, period, class, lesson | 講義: lecture (こうぎ) |
| 二人: two persons (ににん), two persons (ふたり), two people, two people, pair | 一所: one place (いっしょ), one place (ひとところ), the same place, the same place, one person | 宅: house (たく), home, one’s house, one’s home, one’s husband | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) |
| 昨夕: yesterday evening (さくゆう), last night | 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident | 氣: spirit (き), mind, heart, nature, disposition | 掛: credit (かけ), money owed on an account, bill, hanger, holder |
| 途中: on the way (とちゅう), en route, in the middle of, midway, halfway | Ｋ: K (ケイ), K (ケー), k, k, kilo- | 追窮: investigation (e.g. academically, of the unknown) (ついきゅう), close inquiry (enquiry) | 滿足: satisfaction (まんぞく), contentment, gratification, sufficient, satisfactory |
| 事件: event (じけん), affair, incident, case, plot | 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing | 話: talk (はなし), speech, chat, conversation, topic | 積: product (せき), volume, area |
| 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook | 左右: left and right (さう), left and right (さゆう), left and right (そう), right and left, right and left | 強: a little over (きょう), a little more than, strength, the strong, powerhouse | 調子: tune (ちょうし), tone, key, pitch, time |
| 昨日: yesterday (きのう), yesterday (さくじつ) | 上野: Kōzuke (former province located in present-day Gunma Prefecture) (こうずけ) | 上野: Kōzuke (former province located in present-day Gunma Prefecture) (こうずけ) | 注意: attention (ちゅうい), notice, heed, care, caution |
| 鋭: sharpness (えい), sharp weapon, blade, fine soldier | 自尊心: self-esteem (じそんしん), self-respect, self-importance, conceit, pride | 有: existence (ゆう), possession, having, limited company, bhava (becoming, existence) (う) | 男: man (おっこ), man (おとこ), male, male, fellow |
| 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) | 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) | 突然: abrupt (とつぜん), sudden, unexpected | 彼: that (あ), that (あれ), that (アレ), that thing, that thing |
| 言葉: language (けとば), language (ことば), dialect, dialect, word | 連想: association (of ideas) (れんそう), being reminded (of something), suggestion | 今迄: until now (いままで), so far, up to the present | 丸: circle (まる), circle (マル), entirety, entirety, whole |
| 妙: strange (みょう), weird, odd, curious, wonder | 力: force (ちから), strength, might, vigour, vigor | 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) | 抑: in the first place (そもそも), to begin with, from the start, originally, ab initio |