私にはたゞ卒業したといふ自覺がある丈で、是から何をしやうといふ目的もなかつた。返事にためらつてゐる私を見た時、奧さんは「教師？」と聞いた。それにも答へずにゐると、今度は、「ぢや御役人？」と又聞かれた。私も先生も笑ひ出した。
translation
I was just thinking that I had graduated, and I had no intention of doing anything from now on. When she saw me hesitating to answer, she asked, "Are you a teacher?" When I didn't answer, he asked me again, "Are you a government official?" Both my teacher and I burst into laughter.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 卒業: graduation (そつぎょう), completion (of a course), moving on (from), outgrowing (something), leaving (a group, company, etc.) | 丈: only (だけ), just, merely, simply, no more than | 是: here (ここ), this place, this point, here, now |
| 目的: purpose (もくてき), goal, aim, objective, intention | 返事: reply (へんじ), answer, response | 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook | 教師: teacher (classroom) (きょうし) |
| 今度: this time (こんど), now, next time, another time, shortly | 先生: teacher (せんせい), instructor, master, sensei, title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc. | 笑: laugh (わらい), laughter, smile, sneer, sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.) | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) |