それでも臆面なく色々の花が私の床を飾つて呉れました。尤も活方は何時見ても同じ事でした。それから花瓶もついぞ變つた例がありませんでした。然し片方の音樂になると花よりももつと變でした。ぽつん／＼糸を鳴らす丈で、一向肉聲を聞かせないのです。唄はないのではありませんが、丸で内所話でもするやうに小さな聲しか出さないのです。しかも叱られると全く出なくなるのです。
translation
"Even so, I didn't hesitate to decorate my floor with various flowers." Especially the way of life was the same no matter how many times I saw it. Also, the vase never changed. But when it came to the music of one side, it was even more different than the flowers. It's a length that makes you sing a single string, and you can't hear the human voice at all. It's not that they don't sing, but they make only a small voice, as if they were talking in a circle. Moreover, if you are scolded, you will not come out at all.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 臆面: shy face (おくめん) | 色々: various (いろいろ), all sorts of, variety of, various colors (colours) | 花: flower (はな), blossom, bloom, petal, cherry blossom | 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) |
| 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 | 尤: superb (ゆう), outstanding | 何時: when (いつ), at what time, how soon, normal times, ordinary days | 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook |
| 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident | 花瓶: (flower) vase (かびん), (flower) vase (かへい), (flower) vase (はながめ), vase used to hold flower offerings (often made of gilded copper) (けびょう) | 變: strange (へん), odd, peculiar, weird, curious | 例: example (れい), instance, illustration, case, precedent |
| 片方: one side (かたほう), one party, the other side, the other party, one (of a pair) | 音樂: music (おんがく) | 丈: only (だけ), just, merely, simply, no more than | 一向: intently (ひたすら), single-mindedly, devotedly, solely, earnestly |
| 丸: circle (まる), circle (マル), entirety, entirety, whole | 内所話: secret talk (ないしょばなし) | 小: smallness (しょう), small item, short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days), elementary school, smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name) | 聲: voice (こえ), singing (of a bird), chirping (of an insect), hoot, voice |
| 叱: shh! (しっ), sh!, shush!, shoo!, go away! | 全: all (ぜん), whole, entire, complete, total |