《论语·第十五章》卫灵公篇(上)

卫灵公问陈于孔子,孔子对曰:“俎豆之事,则尝闻之矣;军旅之事,未之学也。”明日遂行。

Duke Ling of Wei asked Confucius about battle array, Confucius replied, "I know only something about ritual, but nothing about military affairs." He left Wei the next day.

在陈绝粮,从者病莫能兴。子路愠见曰:“君子亦有穷乎?”子曰:“君子固穷,小人穷斯滥矣。”

Confucius was not supplied with food in the state of Chen, his followers became too weak to rise to their feet. Dissatified, Zi Lu came and said, "How can an intelligentleman fall in want?" The Master said, "An intelligentleman will do nothing wrong even if he is in want, while an uncultured man in want will break loose from all restraints."

子曰:“赐也,女以予为多学而识之者与?”对曰:“然,非与?”曰:“非也,予一以贯之。”

The Master said to Zi Gong, "Do you think I am a man who knows many things and keeps them in memory?" Zi Gong said, "Yes, is it not so?" The Master said, "No, I know only one in many and many in one."

子曰:“由,知德者鲜矣。”

The Master said to Zi Lu, "Few know what virtue is."

子曰:“无为而治者其舜也与!夫何为哉?恭己正南面而已矣。”

Emperor Shun ruled by non-interference, said the Master. Was it not so? What did he do but occupy the imperial throne reverently?

来源:翻译大王





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