私は未亡人に會つて來意を告げました。未亡人は私の身元やら學校やら專問やらに就いて色々質問しました。さうして是なら大丈夫だといふ所を何所かに握つたのでせう、何時でも引つ越して來て差支ないといふ挨拶を即坐に與へて呉れました。未亡人は正しい人でした、又判然した人でした。私は軍人の妻君といふものはみんな斯んなものかと思つて感服しました。感服もしたが、驚ろきもしました。此氣性で何處が淋しいのだらうと疑ひもしました。
translation
"I met with the widow and told her my intentions." The widow asked me many questions about my identity, about my school, about my subject. And since I had some idea that everything would be fine, I was immediately greeted with a greeting saying that I could move in at any time. The widow was a righteous man, and a clear man. I wondered if all military wives were like that, and I admired them. I was impressed, but also surprised. I wondered what it was that made me feel lonely.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 未亡人: widow (みぼうじん) | 身元: (one’s) identity (みもと), background, upbringing, birth (and parentage), (one’s) character | 學校: school (がっこう) |
| 質問: question (しつもん), inquiry, enquiry | 質問: question (しつもん), inquiry, enquiry | 是: here (ここ), this place, this point, here, now | 大丈夫: safe (だいじょうぶ), safe (だいじょぶ), secure, secure, sound |
| 何所: where (いずく), where (いずこ), where (いづこ), where (いどこ), where (どこ) | 何時: when (いつ), at what time, how soon, normal times, ordinary days | 引: -off (price reduction) (びき), discount, -coated, -plated | 越: Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE) (えつ), Guangdong Province (China), Canton, Kwangtung, Vietnam |
| 呉: go (ご), soy beans soaked and mashed to a creamy paste (ingredient of tofu and soy milk), Wu (region in China, south of the lower Yangtze), Wu (kingdom in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era; 902-937 CE), Southern Wu | 正: (logical) true (せい), regular, 10^40, ten thousand undecillion, original | 人: -ian (e.g. Italian) (じん), -ite (e.g. Tokyoite), -er (e.g. performer, etc.), person working with …, man | 判然: clear (はんぜん), distinct, evident, definite |
| 妻君: one’s wife (さいくん), wife (of someone below the speaker in rank), someone else’s daughter (めぎみ), one’s wife | 感服: admiration (かんぷく), being impressed (by) | 何處: where (いずく), where (いずこ), where (いづこ), where (いどこ), where (どこ) | 疑: doubt (ぎ), distrust, suspicion (of) |