解析例
#001:
孟子見梁惠王
Mencius saw King Hui of Liang.
#002:
亦有仁義而已矣
[I] surely have benevolence and righteousness (to offer you) and that's all.
#003:
不違農時
[If one] does not go against the proper seasons of agriculture,
#004:
未有仁義而遺其親者也
There has never been one who was benevolent and righteous yet abandoned his parents.
#005:
非我也，兵也
It was not I, it was the weapon.
#006:
是不為也，非不能也
This is not-doing, it is not not-being-able.
#007:
畏天者也
...is one who fears Heaven.
#008:
叟之所知也
It is what your reverence well knows.
#009:
夫非盡人之子與
Are we not all the sons of some man?
#010:
其正色邪
Is it its true colour?
#011:
然而至此極者命也夫
That nonetheless I have reached this extremity, is fate, is it not?
#012:
此文王之勇也
This was King Wén’s courage.
#013:
是亦走也
This was also running away.
#014:
皆古聖人也
They were all sages of old.
#015:
是乃仁術也
This indeed is the technique of rén.
#016:
乃夫子也。吾貺子。
It was you (and no one else). I will reward you.
#017:
即不忍其觳觫，若無罪而就死地，故以羊易之
It was indeed that I could not bear its trembling, like an innocent person going to the place of execution, and so changed it for a sheep.
#018:
必若桀紂者也
... will necessarily be one like Jié or Zhōu.
#019:
子誠齊人也
You are truly a man of Qí.
#020:
固所願也
It is certainly what I want.
#021:
今之樂猶古之樂也
The music of today is like the music of old (from the point of view of the argument).
#022:
萬乘之國弒其君者必千乘之家
The one who murders the ruler of a country of ten thousand chariots will certainly be (the head of) a family of a thousand chariots.
#023:
是亂國已
One can tell that this is a disordered country.
#024:
（君子曰）此亦妄人也已矣
The gentleman will say, ‘I now realize that this is indeed a wild, reckless fellow.’
#025:
孟子為卿於齊
Mencius was a minister of state in Qí.
#026:
子為誰
sir make who = Who are you?
#027:
不為不多矣
not make not many PERFECT = is (already) not not-many.
#028:
人皆可以為堯舜
Men can all be a Yao or Shun.
#029:
老而無妻曰鰥
To be old and without a wife is called ‘guān.’
