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子夏曰：仕而優則學，學而優則仕。Zixia said: When one in office has energy to spare, he should learn; when one who learns has energy to spare, he should take office.
白Plain Chinese
子夏说，做官尽了职责尚有余力，就去学习，学习有余力，就去做官。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Zhu Xi; it will be checked when the chapter is covered.
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Connections
- Other books
- Read alongside (Yikonglu)Three Character Classic 30: “Already in office, he studied all the harder” (彼既仕，学且勤): whatever energy is left over from office should still go to study.
- Read alongside (Yikonglu)Three Character Classic 38: “Learn when young, act when grown” (幼而学，壮而行): learning and doing take turns for a whole lifetime.
- People
- Disputed reading
- Yikonglu reads it as “A”. See our note
Relationship map of the whole book · The Analects, AI-reconstructed edition (PDF)
Close reading and checking
For readers who want to go deeper or check our work: key words in the commentary, what other commentators say, textual variants, the commentaries in their own words with facsimile pages, pronunciation and corrections. Tap a heading to open it.
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Our base text is Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries (above). Here are other commentaries side by side: for old commentaries, the first line of the sub-commentary with a link to the woodblock scan; for modern editions, one short quoted translation for comparison. The “compared with Zhu Xi” notes are written by Yikonglu, not quoted.
皇侃《论语义疏》Liang dynasty · 1750 Japanese woodblock edition · juan 十
“亦勸學也。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 杨伯峻《论语译注》 | same | settled | 优为有余力，先尽仕学本事再及其余；非成绩优秀即应授官，也非任官即可不学。 | |
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同训优为余力，任职有余学更深、学有余仕验更广，各须先尽当下之事，非考试优秀便当然做官。 |
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