Yang Ho / 22

子曰,饱食终日,无所用心,难矣哉,不有博弈者乎,为之犹贤乎已。

Modern Chinese Guide

孔子说:整天吃饱了饭,什么心思也不用,这真难办啊!不是还有掷骰下棋一类游戏吗?做做这些,也比闲着无所事事强。

James Legge Translation

The Master said, "Hard is it to deal with him, who will stuff himself with food the whole day, without applying his mind to anything good! Are there not gamesters and chess players? To be one of these would still be better than doing nothing at all."

Notes and themes

  • 底本:Wikisource 整理的 James Legge《The Chinese Classics》公版中英文本。
  • 中文由繁体转为简体,后续白话解释需逐章审校。
  • 白话参考底本:《白话论语读本》,张兆瑢、沈元起编译,上海广益书局1948 年新三版。
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