Book 6: 《雍也》 Yong Ye (As for Yong)
《雍也》 Passage 6.14
Legge Translation (1861)
Ziyou being governor of Wucheng, the Master said to him: "Have you got good men there?" He answered: "There is Tantai Mieming, who never in walking takes a short cut, and never comes to my office, excepting on public business."Word by word
- 子游 zǐ yóu
Ziyou, a disciple of Confucius
- 子 prefix of a courtesy name, as in 子路 and 子貢; not the title Master
- 游 used phonetically in the disciple's name Ziyou
- 為 wéi
to serve as, act in the role of
- 武城 wǔ chéng
Wucheng, a town in the state of Lu
- 武 used phonetically in the place name Wucheng
- 城 used phonetically in the place name Wucheng
- 宰 zǎi
steward, local governor of a town
- 子曰 zǐ yuē
the Master said
- 子 the Master, Confucius (honorific title)
- 曰 said
- 女 rǔ
you (second-person pronoun)
- 得 dé
to get, find, obtain
- 人 rén
capable person, worthy man
- 焉 yān
there, in that place (locative pronoun)
- 爾乎 ěr hū
sentence-final particle cluster marking an emphatic question
- 爾 final particle reinforcing an assertion
- 乎 interrogative final particle
- 曰 yuē
said, replied
- 有 yǒu
there is, there exists
- 澹臺滅明 tán tái miè míng
Tantai Mieming, a disciple of Confucius
- 澹 used phonetically in the disciple's name Tantai Mieming
- 臺 used phonetically in the disciple's name Tantai Mieming
- 滅 used phonetically in the disciple's name Tantai Mieming
- 明 used phonetically in the disciple's name Tantai Mieming
澹臺 is the surname, 滅明 the given name; Roberts transliterates the surname as Dandai.
- 者 zhě
nominalizing particle: the one called, the one who
者 nominalizes the preceding name, licensing the description that follows; English renders this either as "named" or with a relative clause "who".
- 行 xíng
to walk, to go on foot
- 不 bù
not
- 由徑 yóu jìng
to take a shortcut, go by a side path
- 由 to go by way of, to proceed via
- 徑 a narrow path, a shortcut
- 非 fēi
except for, unless it is
- 公事 gōng shì
public business, official affairs
- 公 public, official
- 事 affair, business, matter
- 未嘗 wèi cháng
never (yet), not once
- 未 not yet
- 嘗 ever, at any time (with preceding 未: never before)
- 至 zhì
to arrive, come to
- 於 yú
to, at (marking the place reached)
- 偃之 yǎn zhī
Yan's, my (Ziyou referring to himself by his given name)
- 偃 Yan, Ziyou's given name, used here as self-reference
- 之 possessive particle: 's
Ziyou names himself as 偃 (Yan) rather than saying "I," a self-effacing convention; English renders the name-plus-之 as a possessive "my" or, in Roberts's recast sentence, the object pronoun "me."
- 室 shì
room, chamber
- 也 yě
final particle of assertion
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