私は時々妻に詫まりました。それは多く酒に醉つて遲く歸つた翌日の朝でした。妻は笑ひました。或は默つてゐました。たまにぽろ／＼と涙を落す事もありました。私は何方にしても自分が不愉快で堪らなかつたのです。だから私の妻に詫まるのは、自分に詫まるのと詰り同じ事になるのです。私はしまひに酒を止めました。妻の忠告で止めたといふより、自分で厭になつたから止めたと云つた方が適當でせう。
translation
"I sometimes apologized to my wife." It was the morning of the next day after I had come home too late, drunk. My wife laughed. Or it was silent. Occasionally, I would shed tears. Either way, I was displeased with myself and couldn't stand it. Therefore, apologizing to my wife is the same as apologizing to myself. I finally stopped drinking. Rather than saying that he stopped because of his wife's advice, it would be more appropriate to say that he stopped because he was sick of it.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 時々: sometimes (ときどき), occasionally, at times, from time to time, now and then | 妻: wife (つま), garnish (esp. one served with sashimi), trimmings, accompaniment, side (remark) | 多: multi- (た) |
| 翌日: next day (よくじつ) | 朝: morning (あさ), breakfast, dynasty (ちょう), reign, period | 妻: wife (つま), garnish (esp. one served with sashimi), trimmings, accompaniment, side (remark) | 笑: laugh (わらい), laughter, smile, sneer, sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.) |
| 涙: tear (なだ), tear (なみた), tear (なみだ), tear (なんだ), tears | 落: slip (おち), slip (オチ), omission, omission, upshot | 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident | 何方: which way (いずかた), which way (いずし), which way (いずち), which way (どち), which way (どちら) |
| 不愉快: unpleasant (ふゆかい), disagreeable, displeasing, uncomfortable, unhappy | 詰: stuffing (つめ), stuffing (づめ), packing, packing, end (esp. the foot of a bridge) | 同: the same (どう), the said, likewise | 忠告: advice (ちゅうこく), warning |
| 方: direction (かた), way, person, lady, gentleman |