子曰，色厉而内荏，譬诸小人，其犹穿窬之盗也与。
白话导读
孔子说：外表严厉而内心怯懦的人，用小人来打比方，大概就像那挖墙洞钻空子的盗贼吧。
James Legge 英译
The Master said, "He who puts on an appearance of stern firmness, while inwardly he is weak, is like one of the small, mean people;—yea, is he not like the thief who breaks through, or climbs over, a wall?"
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。