Book 15: 《衛靈公》 Wei Ling Gong (Duke Ling of Wey)
《衛靈公》 Passage 15.20
Legge Translation (1861)
The Master said: "The superior man dislikes the thought of his name not being mentioned after his death."Word by word
- 子曰 zǐ yuē
the Master said
- 子 master, teacher; honorific title, here referring to Confucius
- 曰 to say, said
- 君子 jūn zǐ
exemplary person, gentleman
- 君 lord, ruler; 君子 is literally a lord's son
- 子 son; 君子 is literally a lord's son, one of the ruling class, which the Analects makes a term of character
- 疾 jí
to dislike intensely, be distressed by
not the literal sense 'illness'; a verb of aversion here
- 沒世 mò shì
to the end of one's life, after death
- 沒 to end, come to an end (of a lifetime) — extended from the literal sense 'to sink, drown'
- 世 lifetime, generation, era
- 而 ér
coordinating conjunction: and, and yet
Roberts and Ames & Rosemont fuse 而...不 into 'without'.
- 名 míng
name, reputation
- 不 bù
not, negation
- 稱 chēng
to be known, mentioned, renowned for one's deeds
- 焉 yān
sentence-final particle of assertion
archaically a fusion of 於 + 之 ('in it, there'), but here functions as an emphatic final particle
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