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cí ㄘˊ (4.1): 推辭，不接受。 Refuse, not accept.
| 《·》: | 原思為之宰，與之粟九百，辭。 | | Yuan Si being made governor of his town by the Master, he gave him nine hundred measures of grain, but Si declined them. | | 《·》: | 我不貫與小人乘，請辭。 | | I am not accustomed to drive for a mean man. I beg leave to decline the office. | | 《·》: | 世之所謂賢士，伯夷、叔齊，伯夷、叔齊辭孤竹之君，而餓死於首陽之山，骨肉不葬 | | Among those whom the world calls men of ability and virtue were (the brothers) Bo-yi and Shu-Qi. They declined the rule of Gu-zhu, and died of starvation on the hill of Shou-yang, leaving their bones and flesh unburied. | | 《·》: | 不辟粱肉，若有酒醴則辭。 | | He, did not even decline the grain and flesh that might be set before him, but wine and new wine he declined. | | 《·》: | 孫叔敖死，王果以美地封其子，而子辭，請寢之丘，故至今不失。 |
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