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zhī ㄓ (4.2): 助词：用于主语和谓语之间，取消句子的独立性。 Auxiliary word: used between subject and predicate, cancels independence of a clause.
| 《·》: | 大故，有之必然，1无之必不2然，若见之成见也。 | | It is a part, like having a starting point. 'Major reason': having this, it will necessarily [be so]; lacking [this, necessarily it will not] be so. Like the appearing bringing about the seeing. | | 《·》: | 子曰：“不患人之不己知，患不知人也。” | | The Master said, "I will not be afflicted at men's not knowing me; I will be afflicted that I do not know men." | | 《·》: | 故王之不王，不为也，非不能也。 | | Therefore your Majesty's not exercising the royal sway, is because you do not do it, not because you are not able to do it. | | 《》: | 天下皆知美之为美，斯恶已 | | All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is. | | 《·》: | 且白马非马，乃仲尼之所取。 | | 《·》: | 北山愚公长息曰：“汝心之固，固不可彻，曾不若孀妻弱子。” |
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