《述而》 Passage 7.2

the Master said

• 子 the Master, i.e. Confucius
• 曰 said, spoke

silently, without speaking

Roberts alone reads this as withholding comment or judgment rather than plain silence.

to note, remember, retain in mind

• 而 conjunctive particle linking two clauses: and, and yet
• 識 to note, remember, retain in mind — Read as zhì 'to remember, record,' not shí 'to know, recognize.'

third-person object pronoun: it

to learn, study

without growing tired of it, insatiably

• 而 conjunctive particle linking two clauses: and, and yet
• 不 not
• 厭 to be tired of, sated with

而不 + verb is a common result-clause frame ('X-ing without becoming Y'); every translator renders the whole span idiomatically rather than word for word, so 而 draws no separate evidence here.

to teach, instruct others

• 誨 to teach, instruct
• 人 other people, others

Slingerland alone renders 誨 as 'encouraging' rather than 'teaching, instructing'.

without growing weary, untiringly

• 不 not
• 倦 weary, tired

what difficulty is there for me in this?, modest rhetorical question

• 何 what, introducing a rhetorical question here
• 有 to have, to exist, there is

Three readings: 包咸 in 何晏's 集解 takes 何有於我 as an assertion that these are found in the Master alone (so Ames & Rosemont 'is this not me?'); 朱熹 reads it as 何者能有於我, 'which of these can I claim?' (so Legge 'which one of these things belongs to me?'); 楊伯峻 and 錢穆 read 何有 as the stock 'what difficulty is there', followed by Slingerland, Peimin Ni, Roberts, Lau, Watson and Chin.

coverb: to, for

I, me

final particle marking exclamatory or interrogative force

English marks this through punctuation and mood rather than a word: Legge, Peimin Ni, and Ames & Rosemont end with a question mark (an open rhetorical question), while Slingerland, Roberts, Lau, Watson, and Chin end with a period (a flat assertion) — the same split reflected in how 何有 is read.