Book 11: 《先進》 Xian Jin (Former Eras)
《先進》 Passage 11.4
Legge Translation (1861)
The Master said: "Hui gives me no assistance. There is nothing that I say in which he does not delight."Word by word
- 子曰 zǐ yuē
the Master said
- 子 Master, honorific title for Confucius
- 曰 said, spoke (introduces a direct quotation)
- 回 huí
Hui, Yan Hui (Confucius's disciple)
- 也 yě
topic-marking particle
- 非 fēi
not, is not (negates the predicate)
- 助 zhù
to help, assist
- 我 wǒ
me, I (first-person pronoun)
- 者 zhě
nominalizing particle: one who, that which
- 也 yě
final particle marking assertion
English closes the judgment with a period instead of a separate word.
- 於 yú
with regard to, concerning
- 吾 wú
I, me (first-person pronoun)
- 言 yán
words, what I say
- 無所不 wú suǒ bù
there is nothing that is not..., double-negative construction meaning 'in every case'
- 無 there is not, lacks (negative existential)
- 所 nominalizing particle: that which, what
- 不 not (negates the following verb)
無所不 + verb is a fixed double-negative idiom; the verb it wraps, 說, is glossed separately.
- 說 yuè
pleased, delighted
Loangraph for 悅 (pleased); Roberts renders more freely as 'finds inspiration in'.
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