Book 5: 《公冶長》 Gong Ye Chang
《公冶長》 Passage 5.17
Legge Translation (1861)
The Master said: "Yan Ping knew well how to maintain friendly intercourse. The acquaintance might be long, but he showed the same respect as at first."Word by word
- 子曰 zǐ yuē
the Master said
- 子 title 'Master', here referring to Confucius
- 曰 said, spoke
- 晏平仲 yàn píng zhòng
Yan Pingzhong (Yan Ying 晏嬰), chief minister of Qi; Ping is his posthumous title and Zhong his courtesy name
- 晏 surname Yan
- 平 Ping, posthumous title of Yan Ying (Yan Pingzhong)
- 仲 courtesy-name element Zhong, literally second-eldest son
Yan Ying died in 500 BCE after serving Dukes Ling, Zhuang and Jing of Qi; Legge shortens the name to Yan Ping.
- 善 shàn
good at, skilled in
- 與 yǔ
with, together with (coverb introducing the associate)
- 人 rén
people, others
- 交 jiāo
to interact with, socialize, maintain relations
- 久 jiǔ
a long time, long-standing (of an acquaintance)
- 而 ér
concessive conjunction: even so, still, yet, but
- 敬 jìng
to respect, treat with respect, reverence
- 之 zhī
third-person object pronoun: him, them
Refers to the people Yan Pingzhong deals with, as 朱熹 (citing 程子, 久而能敬) and most translators read it; 皇本 reads 久而人敬之, making others respect him, which Peimin Ni and Roberts follow.
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