私は思想上の問題に就いて、大いなる利益を先生から受けた事を自白する。然し同じ問題に就いて、利益を受けやうとしても、受けられない事が間々あつたと云はなければならない。先生の談話は時として不得要領に終つた。其日二人の間に起つた郊外の談話も、此不得要領の一例として私の胸の裏に殘つた。
translation
I confess that I have received great benefits from my teacher regarding ideological issues. However, with regard to the same problem, I must say that there were times when I could not receive benefits even when I tried to receive them. Sensei's discourse ended at times in an unsatisfying way. The out-of-town conversation that took place between the two of them that day also remained in my mind as an example of this imperative.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 思想: thought (しそう), idea, ideology | 上: above (うえ), over, up, top, summit | 問題: question (e.g. on a test) (もんだい), problem, problem (e.g. societal, political), question, issue |
| 利益: profit (りえき), profit (りやく), gains, gains, benefit | 先生: teacher (せんせい), instructor, master, sensei, title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc. | 受: vedana (sensation) (じゅ) | 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident |
| 然: -like (ぜん), so (さ), like that, in that way, like that (しか) | 同: the same (どう), the said, likewise | 間々: occasionally (まま), now and then, sometimes | 談話: talk (だんわ), conversation, dialogue, informal expression of opinion, off-the-cuff remarks |
| 不得要領: vague (ふとくようりょう), ambiguous, noncommittal, off-point | 終: end (おわり), ending, close, conclusion, end of (one’s) life | 二人: two persons (ににん), two persons (ふたり), two people, two people, pair | 間: space (between) (あいだ), space (between) (あわい), gap, gap, interval |
| 郊外: suburb (こうがい), residential area on the outskirt of a city, commuter belt | 要領: point (ようりょう), gist, essentials, tenets, outline | 不得要領: vague (ふとくようりょう), ambiguous, noncommittal, off-point | 一例: example (いちれい), an instance |
| 裏: inside (うち), within, while (e.g. one is young), during, within (e.g. a day) |