子曰，君子无所争，必也射乎，揖让而升，下而飮，其争也君子。
Modern Chinese Guide
孔子说：君子没有什么可争的，如果一定要说有所争，那就是比射箭吧。比赛时相互作揖谦让，然后登堂；射完下来又互敬酒。这样的竞争才是君子式的竞争。
James Legge Translation
The Master said, "The student of virtue has no contentions. If it be said he cannot avoid them, shall this be in archery? But he bows complaisantly to his competitors; thus he ascends the hall, descends, and exacts the forfeit of drinking. In his contention, he is still the Chun-tsze."
Source: James Legge, public domain, 1893.
Notes
- 底本：Wikisource 整理的 James Legge《The Chinese Classics》公版中英文本（1893–1895）。
- 简体化：原文由繁体转为简体（OpenCC），与公版英译逐句对应。
- 白话参考底本：《白话论语读本》，张兆瑢、沈元起编译，上海广益书局1948 年新三版。