若い頃、消防士や野球の選手になりたかったことなどなかったと記憶している。

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English Translation

I don't recall ever wanting to be a fireman or a baseball player as a youth.

Furigana

若(わか)い頃(ころ)、消防士(しょうぼうし)や野球(やきゅう)の選手(せんしゅ)になりたかったことなどなかったと記憶(きおく)している。

Romanji

Wakai koro, shōbōshi ya yakyū no senshu ni naritakatta koto nado nakatta to kiokushiteiru.

Words

若い (わかい)

young; youthful; immature; green; low (number); small

頃 (ころ、ごろ)

(approximate) time; around; about; toward; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season

消防士 (しょうぼうし)

fireman; firefighter

や (や)

such things as (non-exhaustive list related to a specific time and place); and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; as soon as; punctuational exclamation in haiku, renga, etc.; interjection expressing surprise; hi; plain copula; yes; what?; indicates a question

野球 (やきゅう)

baseball

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

選手 (せんしゅ)

player (in game); team member

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

成る (なる)

to become; to get; to grow; to be; to reach; to attain; to result in; to prove to be; to consist of; to be composed of; to succeed; to be complete; to change into; to be exchanged for; to play a role; to be promoted; to do ...

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

等 (など)

et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth; or something; the likes of

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

記憶 (きおく)

memory; recollection; remembrance; storage