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analects

/an-l-ekts/US // ˈæn lˌɛkts //UK // (ˈænəˌlɛkts) //

方言,论语,肛学,肛肠学

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Definitions

n.名词(复数) plural noun
  1. 1
    • : selected passages from the writings of an author or of different authors.

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Examples

  • He wrote: “Analects,” etc., and is credited with having compiled the “Ancient Poems.”

  • We are told in the Confucian Analects that the master said, “The accomplished scholar is not a utensil.”

  • The doctrine of the sage is clearly expressed in the Analects, and amounts only to courtesy and propriety.

  • But by this method one misses much of the characterisation which is such an attractive feature of the Analects.

  • The works of Mencius abound, like the Confucian Analects, in sententious utterances.