先生は大學出身であつた。是は始めから私に知れてゐた。然し先生の何もしないで遊んでゐるといふ事は、東京へ歸つて少し經つてから始めて分つた。私は其時何うして遊んでゐられるのかと思つた。
translation
The teacher was from a university. I knew this from the beginning. However, it wasn't until after I returned to Tokyo that I realized that Sensei was doing nothing and just playing around. I wondered how I could play around then.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 先生: teacher (せんせい), instructor, master, sensei, title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc. | 大學: university (だいがく), college, former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators), the Great Learning (one of the Four Books) | 出身: one’s origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school) (しゅっしん) | 出身: one’s origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school) (しゅっしん) |
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 知: wisdom (ち), jnana (higher knowledge) | 然: -like (ぜん), so (さ), like that, in that way, like that (しか) | 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing |
| 東京: Tokyo (とうきょう), Tokyo (とうけい) | 少: small (しょう), little, few | 分: minute (unit of time) (ふん), fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains), one-tenth (ぶ), one percent (one-tenth of a wari), 3 mm (one-tenth of a sun) |