Book 10: 《鄉黨》 Xiang Dang (In the Village)
《鄉黨》 Passage 10.26
Legge Translation (1861)
When he was about to mount his carriage, he would stand straight, holding the cord. When he was in the carriage, he did not turn his head quite round, he did not talk hastily, he did not point with his hands.Word by word
- 升車 shēng chē
to mount, climb into a carriage
- 升 to mount, climb up into (a carriage)
- 車 carriage, chariot
- 必 bì
always, invariably
- 正 zhèng
straight, upright, correct (of posture)
- 立 lì
to stand
- 執綏 zhí suí
to grasp, hold onto the mounting-strap
- 執 to hold, grasp firmly
- 綏 mounting-cord, strap for pulling oneself up into a carriage
- 車中 chē zhōng
in, inside the carriage
- 車 carriage, chariot
- 中 inside, within (the carriage)
- 不 bù
not
- 內顧 nèi gù
turn the head to look back, glance behind
- 內 inward, back, toward the interior
- 顧 to look back, turn to look
Translators split on whether 內 points backward (behind oneself) or inward/around (inside the carriage).
- 不 bù
not
- 疾言 jí yán
speak hastily, speak rapidly
- 疾 hasty, rapid (of manner or speech) — also read by some translators as loud, raised in pitch
- 言 to speak, talk
疾 covers both speed and volume of speech; translators divide between reading it as hasty/rapid and as loud.
- 不 bù
not
- 親 qīn
personally, with his own hand
- 指 zhǐ
to point, point at, indicate
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