Book 10: 《鄉黨》 Xiang Dang (In the Village)
《鄉黨》 Passage 10.17
Legge Translation (1861)
The stable being burned down, when he was at court, on his return he said: "Has any man been hurt?" He did not ask about the horses.Word by word
- 廄 jiù
stable, stall for horses
- 焚 fén
to burn, catch fire
- 子 zǐ
the Master, Confucius
Legge leaves the referent as the bare pronoun "he" rather than naming the Master or Confucius explicitly.
- 退 tuì
to withdraw, leave, return
- 朝 cháo
court, the ruler's court
- 曰 yuē
to say, said, introducing direct speech
Several translators render this as "asked" because the quoted speech is a question, though the character itself simply means "to say".
- 傷 shāng
to injure, hurt
- 人 rén
person, someone, anyone
the character itself is simply "person".
- 乎 hū
interrogative final particle
The question particle, and no translator gives it a word: what answers it is the verb jumped to the front — Legge's 'Has any man been hurt?', the others' 'Was anyone hurt?' — and that fronted auxiliary is recorded here as the particle's English.
- 不 bù
not
- 問 wèn
to ask about, inquire after
- 馬 mǎ
horse
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