Mencius replied: classical Chinese translation /wenyanwenfanyi/ "Your Majesty, you like war, so I'll take war as an example." The drums were ringing and the fighting was fierce. The defeated soldiers threw down their helmets and fled with their weapons. Some ran hundreds of steps before stopping, while others stopped after running fifty steps. Do you think it's okay for people who run 50 steps to laugh at people who run 100 steps? "
Liang said, "No way. He just didn't escape a hundred paces away, but he also fled! "
Mencius said: "Your Majesty, since you know this truth, you don't have to expect the people in your country to increase compared with those in neighboring countries. As long as it doesn't go against the farming season, the food won't be finished; If the dense fishing nets don't enter the pond, fish and turtles can't finish eating aquatic products; When trees are cut down regularly, wood will be inexhaustible. Food and fish are inexhaustible, and wood is inexhaustible, so that ordinary people can support their families and bury the dead without regret. It is the beginning of king to die for the people without regret. "
"Next to the five-acre residential field, mulberry trees are planted, and fifty-year-old people can wear silk; Chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs are kept in season, and people over 70 can often eat meat. One hundred mu of land planted by one family will not be cultivated in the farming season, and there will be no famine in a family of several. Pay attention to the education of rural schools, emphasize the principle of filial piety to the elders, and let the gray-haired old people no longer appear on the road with their heads on their shoulders. People over 70 can wear silk to eat fish, and ordinary people are not short of clothes and food. No one will ever do this without becoming the king of the world. "
"Now, pigs and dogs eat people's food and don't know how to stop it. People who starve to death appear on the road and don't know how to help the hungry. When people die, they say,' It doesn't matter to me, it's because the years are bad'. What's the difference between killing people and saying,' It has nothing to do with me, but was killed by a weapon'? Your majesty, if you can't blame the famine year, then people all over the world will flock to you. "
To annotate ...
(1) beam: that is, Mingying. When he was in office, he moved the capital from Anyi (so the address was in the west of Yuncheng, Shanxi) to Daliang (now south of Chengguan River), so Wei was also called Liang and Wang Wei was also called.
(2) I am widowed: a man with little virtue is a humble title of the ancient monarch.
(3) Yu: preposition, for.
(4) Pay attention to your ears: you are really tired. Wholeheartedly, they are all auxiliary words at the end of the sentence, overlapping and enhancing the tone.
(5) Hanoi: the place north of the Yellow River in Henan today.
(6) Fierce: The grain harvest is not good, and there are famine years.
(7) at: to.
(8) Hedong: The place east of the Yellow River is in the southwest of Shanxi today. The Yellow River flows through Shanxi Province from north to south, so the area east of the Yellow River in Shanxi Province is called Hedong.
(9) Millet: Millet, shelled millet, also refers to grain.
(10) The same thing: the same thing.
(1 1) check: check.
(12) Politics: those in power.
(13) Nothing: nothing at all. ...
(14) Add less: Less. Plus: more. In ancient times, the population was small. In order to increase the labor force and expand the number of soldiers, it is a good thing to hope that the population will increase.
(15) Yes: Answer.
(16) Wang Zhanxing: Your Majesty likes to fight. Good: I like it.
(17) Please: means "Please allow me".
(18) metaphor: metaphor, explanation.
(19) Fill in: onomatopoeic words, imitating drums.
(20) Drum: Drumming. Drums, verbs, drums. There is no meaningful interlayer. The usage of the word "zhi" below is the same.
(2 1) The weapons of the two armies have been in contact, which means that the battle has begun. Soldiers, weapons, weapons. Blade, knife, sword, etc. It's already started. Meet, touch, confront.
(22) A: Armor, an ancient combat suit, was decorated with metal sheets to protect the body.
(23) Go: Run, here refers to escape.
(24) Some people.
(25) Then: conjunction, then.
(26)?
(27) Straight: preach "talent", just, but.
(28) Yes: pronoun, referring to the above-mentioned "fifty steps and then stop".
(29) if.
(30) Then: conjunction, just right.
(3 1) None: Pass "No" and don't.
(32) hope
(33) Yu: ratio.
(34) violation: violation, delay. This refers to the delay.
(35) hours: season.
(36) Valley: The general term for grain.
(37) victory: complete and exhausted.
(38) Counting: dense net.
(39) Zhen: Deep.
(40) Jin: Xunzi.
(4 1) according to the season.
(42) Medical care: providing for the living.
(43) Funeral: A funeral for the dead.
(44) regret: regret.
(45) Wang Dao: Governing the country with benevolence and righteousness is the political proposition of Confucianism.
(46) Start: Start.
(47) Five mu: Five mu in the pre-Qin period was about two cents per mu now.
Trees: planting ...
(49) Clothes and silk: Wear clothes made of silk. Clothes, wear.
(50) Dolphin: Piglet.
(5 1) Bi: pig.
(52) Livestock: Livestock.
(53) One: auxiliary words.
(54) None: No, don't.
(55) Lose: It means "miss" with "catch" below.
(56) Sincerity: Caution, here refers to serious engagement.
(57) Deficiency: all refer to schools. Shang (Yin) dynasty called Xu, Zhou dynasty called Yu.
(58) Teaching: Enlightenment.
(59) Shen: Repeatedly stated.
(60) Filial piety: In ancient times, respecting parents was "filial piety" and loving brothers was "filial piety".
(6 1) Meaning: truth.
(62) Those who win white clothes can't bear to wear them on the road: gray-haired old people don't carry or lift things on the road. It means that young people know how to be filial to the elderly and have come to do it for them. Gray hair. Grant: through the "point". Negative, carrying things. Dai, take something.
(63) CoCo Lee: People.
However, this (so) is.
(65) Nothing is also: preposition object, "Nothing is also".
(66) food: verb, eat.
(67) food: noun, food.
(68) Check: Convergence. Stop, restrain yourself.
Tu: On the road, on the road.
(70) Hunger: People who starve to death.
(7 1) method: it refers to opening the granary and helping the people.
(72) years old: reach maturity.
(73) Soldiers: weapons.
(74) None: No, don't.
(75) sin: strange, strange.
S: Then, then.
(77) to: to, here refers to surrender.