| text | 孔子登東山而小魯，登太山而小天下。 |
|---|---|
| header | 句子 |
| text-pinyin | 孔子登東山而小魯[kǒng zǐ dēng dōng shān ér xiǎo lǔ]， 登太山而小天下[dēng tài shān ér xiǎo tiān xià]。 |
| englishtrans | Confucius ascended the eastern hill, and Lu appeared to him small. He ascended the Tai mountain, and all beneath the heavens appeared to him small. (literally: Confucius climbed eastern ountain and then deemed small Lu; he climbed Taishan and then deemed small all under heaven) |
| notes | Pattern: XY = to regard Y as X |
| src | Mencius 7.23 |
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