REFERENCE MATTERswer Keys and Translations, Lessons 1-11 oie: As you might expect, considering the flexibilities and ambiguities of literary Chinese, giving English rendering of our lesson texts involves some leeway. I have made certain decisions in regards to tense and number, for example. Use your best common sense in comparing my Lesson 1: A FEW PROVERBS ie who knows his fate does not resent Heaven; one who knows himself does not resent others. i: The contrast here between © and A: A should not be interpreted simply as “people.” tte ‘ev/misfortune arises from wanting to obtain [things]; good fortune arises from self-control. sagely person leads his ears and eyes by means of his mind/heart; the petty person leads his fidheart by means of his ears and eyes. ts sf] one who does good, Heaven rewards/repays him with virtue/favors. [As for] one who does i, Heaven rewards/repays him with misfortune ie the emphatic coverb structure here could result in a clumsier but more accurate translation: sor] one who does good, it is with virtue that Heaven rewards him.” RCISES Practice (#4): Lae 2 ALE + RES366 + Answer Keys and Translations, Lessons mu 4 BG 5. BIH 1-4. Practice (ff): ee a 2. LEIS 3. ABBR > 1.6. Practice (J in emphasis position): 1 FA ARAILLA 2 MAREN, 3 AC ARAL A Lesson 2: Yer More Prov ERBS Text #1 The gentleman/superior man has worries/concerns that last all his life, but/so he does not i short-termvimmediate disasters. He acts in accordance with the Way; he speaks in accordance wi Principle. Though he is delighted, he is not any more lenient; though he is angry, he does not nal things any more difficult. state [or state and household] fight and do not share, only th ssi iness arise from them. When the Way go ‘Swny and the times go astray, only then do/does grand strategies/resourcefulness arise from them EXERCISES 2.2. Practice (long phrases with 2): x, An era of planning benevolence or an era of plotting against benevolence or an era planning and benevolence 2 The disaster of going against the Way or Worrying about going against the Way or disaster of returning to the Way, etc 3-A filial lord who leads his 4-A good people who know @ compliant lord 5. Afilial son does not lose family principles that possess justice 6. The whole world obeys a lord who practices vite 2 The whole world vies to obey a lord who practices virtue & he whole world vies to obey a lord who practices virtue by means of kindness anf justice, 9: The angry son did not know how to obey the words of the gentleman/superior man,