子曰，吾犹及史之阙文也，有马者，借人乘之，今亡矣夫。
白话导读
孔子说：我还赶得上见到史官对有疑问的地方存而不写、有马的人肯借给别人骑用的时代，如今这种谨慎的风气没有了啊。
James Legge 英译
The Master said, "Even in my early days, a historiographer would leave a blank in his text, and he who had a horse would lend him to another to ride. Now, alas! there are no such things."
译注：James Legge 公版英译，1893 年原版。
注释
- 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。