席を立たうとした時に、先生は急に私をつらまへて、「時に御父さんの病氣は何うなんです」と聞いた。私は父の健康に就いて殆んど知る所がなかつた。何とも云つて來ない以上、惡くはないのだらう位に考へてゐた。
translation
When I was about to leave my seat, the teacher suddenly asked me, "What is your father's illness?" I knew very little about my father's health. As long as he couldn't say anything, I assumed that it wasn't all bad.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 席: seat (せき), location (of a gathering, etc.), place, position, post | 時: time (とき), hour, moment, occasion, case | 先生: teacher (せんせい), instructor, master, sensei, title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc. | 急: sudden (きゅう), abrupt, unexpected, urgent, pressing |
| 御父: daddy (おとう), father, husband | 病氣: illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold) (びょうき), disease, sickness, bad habit, bad behaviour | 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing | 父: father (あて), father (かそ), father (かぞ), father (しし), father (ちち) |
| 殆: quite (ほとほと), utterly, really, completely | 知: wisdom (ち), jnana (higher knowledge) | 所: place (とこ), place (ところ), spot, spot, scene | 以上: not less than … (いじょう), … and over, … and above, … and upwards, … or more |
| 位: throne (くらい), crown, (nobleman’s) seat, government position, court rank | 考: thought (こう), report on one’s investigation into …, deceased father |