Book 6: 《雍也》 Yong Ye (As for Yong)
《雍也》 Passage 6.3
Legge Translation (1861)
The Duke Ai asked which of the disciples loved to learn. Confucius replied to him: "There was Yan Hui; HE loved to learn. He did not transfer his anger; he did not repeat a fault. Unfortunately, his appointed time was short and he died; and now there is not such another. I have not yet heard of any one who loves to learn as he did."Word by word
- 哀公 āi gōng
Duke Ai (ruler of the state of Lu)
- 哀 Ai, the epithet component of Duke Ai's title
- 公 duke, ruler's title
- 問 wèn
to ask
- 弟子 dì zǐ
disciple, student
- 弟 disciple, student (junior follower)
- 子 disciple, follower
- 孰 shú
who, which one
- 為 wéi
to be, is deemed
為 here is a copula ('is/be said to be'), not the verb 'to do'.
- 好學 hào xué
to love learning, be fond of study
- 好 to love, be fond of
- 學 learning, study
- 孔子 kǒng zǐ
Confucius (Master Kong)
- 孔 Kong, surname of Confucius
- 子 master, honorific title for a teacher
- 對曰 duì yuē
to reply, answer
- 對 to reply, respond (to a superior)
- 曰 to say, said
- 有 yǒu
there was, there existed
- 顏回 yán huí
Yan Hui (disciple of Confucius, famed for loving learning)
- 顏 Yan, surname of Yan Hui
- 回 Hui, given name of Yan Hui
- 者 zhě
particle after a name in the frame 有…者: a certain, one called
- 好學 hào xué
to love learning, be fond of study
- 好 to love, be fond of
- 學 learning, study
- 不 bù
not
- 遷怒 qiān nù
to displace anger onto others, vent anger on the wrong person
- 遷 to shift, move, displace
- 怒 anger
- 不 bù
not
- 貳過 èr guò
to repeat a mistake, make the same mistake twice
- 貳 to repeat, do a second time
- 過 fault, mistake, transgression
- 不幸 bù xìng
unfortunately, by ill luck
- 不 not (negates the following word)
- 幸 fortunate, lucky
- 短命 duǎn mìng
to be short-lived, have one's life cut short
- 短 short (of a lifespan)
- 命 life, allotted lifespan, fate
- 死 sǐ
to die
- 矣 yǐ
final particle marking completed action
- 今 jīn
now, at present
- 也 yě
medial particle marking a pause after a topicalized phrase
- 則 zé
consequential particle: then, in that case
- 亡 wú
there is no longer such a person, none exists
亡 is here 無 and read wú, 'there is none' (朱熹: 亡, 與無同; so 楊伯峻 and seven translators); Slingerland alone keeps the literal wáng, 'gone'.
- 未聞 wèi wén
to not yet have heard (of)
- 未 not yet
- 聞 to hear, hear of, learn of
- 好學 hào xué
to love learning, be fond of study
- 好 to love, be fond of
- 學 learning, study
- 者 zhě
nominalizing particle: one who, those who
- 也 yě
final particle of assertion
English closes the statement with a period or exclamation mark instead.
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