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道家 -> 莊子 -> 外篇 -> 天地 -> 15

百年之木，From a tree a hundred years old
破為犧尊，a portion shall be cut and fashioned into a sacrificial vase, with the bull figured on it,
青黃而文之， which is ornamented further with green and yellow,
其斷在溝中。 while the rest (of that portion) is cut away and thrown into a ditch.
比犧尊於溝中之斷， If now we compare the sacrificial vase with what was thrown into the ditch,
則美惡有間矣， there will be a difference between them as respects their beauty and ugliness;
其於失性一也。 but they both agree in having lost the (proper) nature of the wood.
跖與曾、史，行義有間矣，So in respect of their practice of righteousness there is a difference between (the robber) Zhi on the one hand, and Zeng (Shen) or Shi (Qiu) on the other;
然其失性均也。 but they all agree in having lost (the proper qualities of) their nature.
且夫失性有五：Now there are five things which produce (in men) the loss of their (proper) nature.
一曰五色亂目， The first is (their fondness for) the five colours which disorder the eye,
使目不明； and take from it its (proper) clearness of vision;
二曰五聲亂耳， the second is (their fondness for) the five notes (of music),
使耳不聰； which disorder the ear and take from it its (proper) power of hearing;
三曰五臭薰鼻， the third is (their fondness for) the five odours which penetrate the nostrils,
困惾中顙； and produce a feeling of distress all over the forehead;
四曰五味濁口， the fourth is (their fondness for) the five flavours,
使口厲爽；which deaden the mouth, and pervert its sense of taste;
五曰趣舍滑心， the fifth is their preferences and dislikes,
使性飛揚。which unsettle the mind, and cause the nature to go flying about.
此五者，皆生之害也。 These five things are all injurious to the life;
而楊、墨乃始離跂自以為得，and now Yang and Mo begin to stretch forward from their different standpoints, each thinking that he has hit on (the proper course for men).
非吾所謂得也。But the courses they have hit on are not what I call the proper course.
夫得者困， What they have hit on (only) leads to distress
可以為得乎？- can they have hit on what is the right thing?
則鳩鴞之在於籠也，亦可以為得矣。If they have, we may say that the dove in a cage has found the right thing for it.
且夫趣舍聲色以柴其內，Moreover, those preferences and dislikes, that (fondness for) music and colours, serve but to pile up fuel (in their breasts);
皮弁、鷸冠、搢笏、紳修以約其外，while their caps of leather, the bonnet with kingfishers' plumes, the memorandum tablets which they carry, and their long girdles, serve but as restraints on their persons.
內支盈於柴柵， Thus inwardly stuffed full as a hole for fuel,
外重纆繳， and outwardly fast bound with cords,
睆睆然在纆繳之中而自以為得，when they look quietly round from out of their bondage, and think they have got all they could desire,
則是罪人交臂、歷指，they are no better than criminals whose arms are tied together, and their fingers subjected to the screw,
而虎豹在於囊檻， or than tigers and leopards in sacks or cages,
亦可以為得矣。 and yet thinking that they have got (all they could wish).

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