宪xiàn问wèn耻chǐ。子zǐ曰yuē，邦bāng有yǒu道dào谷gǔ，邦bāng无wú道dào谷gǔ，耻chǐ也yě。

Modern Chinese Guide

原宪问什么是耻辱。孔子说：国家政治清明时做官领俸禄，国家政治黑暗时也照样做官领俸禄，这就是耻辱。

James Legge Translation

Hsien asked what was shameful. The Master said, "When good government prevails in a state, to be thinking only of salary; and, when bad government prevails, to be thinking, in the same way, only of salary;—this is shameful."

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。

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