Book 10: 《鄉黨》 Xiang Dang (In the Village)
《鄉黨》 Passage 10.9
Legge Translation (1861)
When he had been assisting at the prince's sacrifice, he did not keep the flesh which he received overnight. The flesh of his family sacrifice he did not keep over three days. If kept over three days, people could not eat it.Word by word
- 祭 jì
to take part in a sacrifice, perform sacrificial rites
- 於 yú
coverb marking location: at, in
- 公 gōng
duke, ruler, one's lord
Translators split between a literal title (prince, duke, lord) and an abstracted reading of the occasion as official or public.
- 不 bù
not
- 宿 sù
to keep overnight, let meat sit past the night
- 肉 ròu
meat, flesh
- 祭 jì
sacrificial, of a sacrifice
- 肉 ròu
meat, flesh
- 不 bù
not
- 出 chū
to exceed, go beyond a time limit
- 三日 sān rì
three days
- 三 three
- 日 day
- 出 chū
to exceed, go beyond a time limit
Translators split between framing this as exceeding a limit (over, more than, beyond) and as time elapsing (lapsed, after).
- 三日 sān rì
three days
- 三 three
- 日 day
- 不 bù
not
- 食 shí
to eat
- 之 zhī
it, object pronoun referring to the meat
- 矣 yǐ
final particle marking completed action or a resulting state
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