在Facebook上關注我們，隨時得到最新消息 在Twitter上關注我們，隨時得到最新消息 在新浪微博上關注我們，隨時得到最新消息 在豆瓣上關注我們，隨時得到最新消息
中國哲學書電子化計劃
Back Forward
道家 -> 莊子 -> 外篇 -> 達生 -> 10

孔子觀於呂梁，Confucius was looking at the cataract near the gorge of Lu,
縣水三十仞， which fell a height of 240 cubits,
流沫四十里， and the spray of which floated a distance of forty li,
黿鼉魚龞之所不能游也。(producing a turbulence) in which no tortoise, gavial, fish, or turtle could play.
見一丈夫游之，He saw, however, an old man swimming about in it,
以為有苦而欲死也，as if he had sustained some great calamity, and wished to end his life.
使弟子並流而拯之。 Confucius made his disciples hasten along the stream to rescue the man;
數百步而出， and by the time they had gone several hundred paces,
被髮行歌而游於塘下。he was walking along singing, with his hair dishevelled, and enjoying himself at the foot of the embankment.
孔子從而問焉， Confucius followed and asked him,
曰： saying,
「吾以子為鬼， 'I thought you were a sprite;
察子則人也。but, when I look closely at you, I see that you are a man.
請問蹈水有道乎？」Let me ask if you have any particular way of treading the water.'
曰： The man said,
「亡， 'No,
吾無道。 I have no particular way.
吾始乎故， I began (to learn the art) at the very earliest time;
長乎性，as I grew up, it became my nature to practise it;
成乎命。 and my success in it is now as sure as fate.
與齊俱入， I enter and go down with the water in the very centre of its whirl,
與汩偕出， and come up again with it when it whirls the other way.
從水之道而不為私焉。I follow the way of the water, and do nothing contrary to it of myself
此吾所以蹈之也。」 - this is how I tread it.'
孔子曰： Confucius said,
「何謂始乎故， 'What do you mean by saying that you began to learn the art at the very earliest time;
長乎性，that as you grew up, it became your nature to practise it,
成乎命？」 and that your success in it now is as sure as fate?'
曰： The man replied,
「吾生於陵而安於陵， 'I was born among these hills and lived contented among them
故也；- that was why I say that I have trod this water from my earliest time.
長於水而安於水，I grew up by it, and have been happy treading it
性也； - that is why I said that to tread it had become natural to me.
不知吾所以然而然，I know not how I do it, and yet I do it
命也。」 - that is why I say that my success is as sure as fate.'

喜歡我們的網站？請支持我們的發展。網站的設計與内容(c)版權2006-2024。如果您想引用本網站上的内容，請同時加上至本站的鏈接：https://ctext.org/zh。請注意：嚴禁使用自動下載軟体下載本網站的大量網頁，違者自動封鎖，不另行通知。沪ICP备09015720号-3若有任何意見或建議，請在此提出。