曾子曰，可以托六尺之孤，可以寄百里之命，临大节，而不可夺也，君子人与，君子人也。
Modern Chinese Guide
曾子说：可以把年幼的孤儿托付给他，可以把国家的命运交付给他，面临生死存亡的大关头也不动摇屈服。这样的人是君子吗？是君子啊。
James Legge Translation
The philosopher Tsang said, "Suppose that there is an individual who can be entrusted with the charge of a young orphan prince, and can be commissioned with authority over a state of a hundred li, and whom no emergency however great can drive from his principles:—is such a man a superior man? He is a superior man indeed."
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。