Book 5: 《公冶長》 Gong Ye Chang
《公冶長》 Passage 5.2
Legge Translation (1861)
Of Nan Rong he said that if the country were well governed he would not be out of office, and if it were ill-governed, he would escape punishment and disgrace. He gave him the daughter of his own elder brother to wife.Word by word
- 子謂 zǐ wèi
the master, remarking on (someone), said
- 子 the Master, Confucius
- 謂 said of, remarked about (someone)
- 南容 nán róng
Nan Rong, a disciple of Confucius (the appellation of Nangong Kuo 南宮适)
- 南 Nan, first syllable of the disciple's personal name Nan Rong
- 容 Rong, second syllable of the disciple's personal name Nan Rong
- 邦 bāng
state, country, realm
- 有道 yǒu dào
possesses the Way, is well governed
- 有 to have, possess
- 道 the Way, right moral-political order
- 不 bù
not, negates the following verb
- 廢 fèi
set aside, dismissed from office, passed over
- 邦 bāng
state, country, realm
- 無道 wú dào
lacks the way, is misgoverned, has fallen into disorder
- 無 to lack, be without
- 道 the Way, right moral-political order
- 免 miǎn
escape, avoid, be spared (from something bad)
- 於 yú
preposition marking the object avoided: from
- 刑戮 xíng lù
punishment and execution, corporal and capital penalties
- 刑 punishment, corporal penalty
- 戮 execution, being put to death as punishment
- 以…妻 yǐ … qì
give (a woman) in marriage, make (her) a wife to someone
- 以 marks the following noun as the means taken: with, using
- 妻 to give (a woman) in marriage, make a wife of
- 其 qí
possessive pronoun: his
- 兄 xiōng
elder brother
- 之 zhī
possessive particle: 's, of
- 子 zǐ
daughter, child
- 之 zhī
him, third-person object pronoun
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