Original source spelling · punctuation belongs to the digital witness · pronunciation tools follow your language focus.
A route through this passage
37 Han characters · 29 distinct forms · 6 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
- Establish the frame. Read the surrounding chapter. Who speaks, what is being discussed, and which earlier words supply the context?
- Test one unit.
辟之是猶伏而咶天，
Mark a possible predicate and its participants. Record what you have supplied rather than found explicitly in the text. - Reconstruct the argument. Connect the units in your own words. Where does a description, question, contrast, or consequence depend on your interpretation?
Investigate 8 written forms in this passage
Matched by spelling. These are candidate reading procedures, not assigned grammatical analyses.
Watch recurrence: 而 × 3 也 × 2 俞 × 2 時 × 2 詘 × 2 則 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
Computed from this exact witness · Contextual interpretation awaits editorial review. The guide is a set of reading prompts, not a translation. Sources & methods
Make this passage yours.
Use the reading guide above, build your interpretation, then test what you can recover. Your notes and schedule stay on this device.
1 · Explain it in your own words
2 · Recover the wording
Select a source unit, then hide the passage and reconstruct it. This checks textual recall, not understanding.
3 · Explain, then revisit
Without the source in front of you, explain the passage’s main point and one choice you made in reading it. Then reopen the text and check the evidence.
Rate your understanding yourself. These reminders use a simple schedule; they do not certify mastery.
Study controls are loading. Reading prompts and source links work without JavaScript.
Shared wording
Computed exact phrases in the pinned witnesses. These links do not assign a sense or assert borrowing.
荀子 · 彊國篇第十六之是猶伏辟之是猶伏而咶天，救經而引其足也；說必不行矣，俞務而俞遠。為人臣者不恤己行之不行，苟富利而已矣
荀子 · 正論篇第十八說必不行子案不然：獨詘容為己，慮一朝而改之，說必不行矣。譬之是猶以塼塗塞江海也，以僬僥而戴太山也，蹎跌碎折不待頃矣。二三子之善於子宋子者
荀子 · 正論篇第十八說必不行曰：「人之情欲是已。」曰：「若是，則說必不行矣。以人之情為欲此五綦者而不欲多，譬之是猶以人之情為欲富貴而不欲貨也，好美而惡西施也
Follow a connection
Shared teaching construction · an editorial learning connection, not evidence of common authorship or origin.
Select a character to find its other occurrences in these texts.
Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 荀子 · Xunzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Xun Kuang; the received collection contains multiple textual layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3a0002 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3a0002_007.txt, lines 298–304. XUN 7:5:2, Beida p. 85; Knoblock 2:63
- Version
e18a27621ef434940a368defd29e00eee205dfd2- Reuse
- CC BY-SA 4.0. Text extraction and teaching additions share this licence.
- Text policy
- Source spelling and punctuation retained. Encoding headers, page markers, paragraph markers, whitespace, and leading section numbers are removed from the reading view. No silent script conversion or textual correction.
- Teaching
- zimai · AI-assisted editorial notes. English renderings are excerpt-level reading aids, not a full published translation. Editorial pilot · not independently reviewed.
Source-file SHA-256: 89c71818e04adaf7ca774260acf990e49dd47fa8b2c41ec833db466b31850e0d. A source comment that cites a translator is an upstream reference, not the attribution of a translation imported here.