私はもう少し先迄同じ道を辿つて行きたかつた。すると襖の陰で「あなた、あなた」といふ奧さんの聲が二度聞こえた。先生は二度目に「何だい」といつた。奧さんは「一寸」と先生を次の間へ呼んだ。二人の間に何んな用事が起つたのか、私には解らなかつた。それを想像する餘裕を與へない程早く先生は又座敷へ歸つて來た。
translation
I wanted to follow the same path a little further. Then, behind the fusuma, I heard my wife say twice, "You, you." Sensei asked for the second time, "What is it?" Oku-san called Sensei to the next room. I didn't understand what business was going on between them. Sensei returned to the tatami room so quickly that I didn't even have time to think about it.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 少: small (しょう), little, few | 道: road (みち), path, street, lane, passage | 行: line (of text) (ぎょう), row, verse, carya (austerities), samskara (formations) |
| 陰: (the) negative (e.g. pole) (いん), yin (in Chinese divination), hidden place, unseen part, private location | 奧: inner part (おく), interior, back (of a drawer, one’s throat, etc.), depths (e.g. of a forest), recesses (e.g. of a cave) | 聲: voice (こえ), singing (of a bird), chirping (of an insect), hoot, voice | 二度: again (ふたたび), once more, a second time, two times (にど), twice |
| 二度目: the second time (にどめ) | 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing | 一寸: one sun (approx. 3.03 cm) (いっすん), little bit (of time, distance, etc.), a little (ちょいと), a little (ちょっと), a little (ちょと) | 次: next (つぎ), following, subsequent, stage, station |
| 二人: two persons (ににん), two persons (ふたり), two people, two people, pair | 用事: tasks (ようじ), things to do, errand, business (to take care of), affairs | 起: source (おこり), origin, cause, beginning, genesis | 解: solution (of an equation, inequality, etc.) (かい), root (e.g. of a polynomial), solution (to a given problem), answer, explanation |
| 座敷: tatami room (ざしき), tatami mat room, formal Japanese room, dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends) |