孔夫子

I no longer wanted to be a minion following the words of my parents.

然而我没有意识到，几千年前的孔夫子思想早已经深深植根于中国家庭里。

SOME 2,500 years ago, one of Confucius's big ideas was the "rectification of names".

2500多年前的孔夫子有一个重要的思想："正名"。

I'm too ignorant, blunt and tactless, always getting hold of the wrong end of the stick.

"我是想：咱们是孔夫子搬家，净是输，心里真有点点干啥的。"

This is where the essence of not overriding the conversional norms lies.

我想，这大概就是孔夫子所说的&不逾矩&吧。

Min, Ja Geon (who was outstanding in his virtue): As I have followed the great Confucius throughout my life, I will trust and follow the way that he has now taken.

闵子鶱：既然我一生都完全地跟随我伟大的师父，我相信且会遵从孔夫子现今接受且行走的道路。

Confucius and Machiavelli's opposing stance on ruling a nation has each encountered different experiences in the historical development of the East and the West. Confucianism has been the creed in the East Asian region, yet Western countries seldom positively exalt Machiavellianism.

孔夫子与马基维利对治理的两套对立思维，在东、西历史发展上，各有不同的遭遇，孔子主义或儒教一直是东亚区域的显学，而西方国家却很少正面颂扬马基维利主义。

The first of these began about six hundred years before Christ, around the time of Confucius, and ended about four hundred years later with the destruction of Sinic feudalism and the formation of the first empire constructed on a system of bureaucratic control.

第一次革命是公元前六百年左右孔夫子的时代开始的，约四百年后，随着古代分封制的消灭和第一个实行官僚控制的帝国之建立而结束。

The philosopher at the center of this second overlooked story is Confucius, who has been making an extraordinary comeback in a land where, within living memory, he was officially excoriated as a retrograde thinker.

第二个被忽略的事件是一位哲学家——孔夫子和他不寻常的回归。在这片土地上，人们仍然记得他曾作为一名旧时代的思想者而遭到官员痛斥。

To me, that is what Confucius defines as "not overstepping the bounds".

我想，这大概就是孔夫子所说的&不逾矩&吧。

We should also watch for moments when, as happened briefly last May, patriotic fervor morphs into antigovernment backlashes, and officially sponsored Confucian-sounding calls for pursuit of a "harmonious society" are attacked by the public as nothing more than window dressing for a ruling group most of whose member care above all simply about keeping hold of the reins of power.

我们也应关注类似今年五月份，爱国热情转变为反政府呼声的短暂时期。官方为了追求&和谐社会&而冠冕堂皇的纪念孔夫子遭到来自公众的攻击，因为这只是统治集团的一种粉饰行为，他们中的绝大多数所关心的只是保住手中的权力。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失