"(Translation) 諧謔"의 두 판 사이의 차이

2018년 7월 19일 (목) 08:19 기준 최신판

Primary Source
	Title
	English	Witty stories
	Chinese	諧謔(Witty stories)
	Korean(RR)	해학
	Text Details
	Genre
	Type
	Author(s)	Yi Su-gwang 李睟光 (Chibong yusŏl 芝峯類說)
	Year
	Source
	Key Concepts
	Translation Info
	Translator(s)	Participants of 2018 Summer Hanmun Workshop (Intermediate Training Group)
	Editor(s)
	Year	2018

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  • 諧謔 (해학, Witty stories)(2)

Original Script

Translation

Student Translation : (Kyrie)

In the past, Yu Paekyong ^[1] successively served as each of the nine ministers. ^[2] He was extremely poor. He was going to operate (a business) as a way to get one tenth. There was a ghost close by who laughed heartily. It is said that a poor man owned one jar. At night he slept inside the jar. In his mind he calculated and said: "If I sell it I can get two jars. Certainly the two jars can transform and become four jars. Its profits will be endless." Therefore he was happy and danced. Without realising what he did the jar broke. Considering this, in general people's poverty and wealth, and acquisitions and loses all have their fixed share and are things which cannot be recklessly pursued.

Once their was a general who feared his wife. He thought, "Of the faithful men in the world, no one is like me." He wanted to test it among other people. Therefore he set up two flags, blue and white, in the courtyard. He gave an order saying, "Those men who are faithful, go to the blue flag. Those men who are not faithful, go to the white flag." At this, among the soldiers some went left and some went right. There was one soldier who stood alone in the middle and did not move. The General thought it strange and asked him. The soldier replied and said: "My wife once warned me and said: 'If a crowd of men gather then the talk will necessarily reach the topic of women. Be careful that you don't go there.' For this reason I do not dare to disobey, and that's why." The General thereby went down to the courtyard. He pulled the soldier to the upper seat and said: "In regards to today's matter, you become the General."

Once there was a literati who kept one wife and one concubine and he had them pluck his white hair. The concubine carefully plucked only the white ones, but the wife hated that he wanted to charm the concubine. So she removed the hairs that were black. In one morning the black and white hairs were all gone. He looked like an old granny. For an entire year he was not brave enough to go out of there.

• Discussion Questions:

+In class we translated 將營什一之方 as "He was about to run a business that would bring him a 1/10 margin," but when I look at the characters I cannot find anything referring to a business or to what the 1/10 refers. Is this all understood from the meaning of 營?

(Petra) 營 reffers to 'to run a business', 什一 refers to the '1/10' - 什's meaning is the same as of 十.

(Kyrie) 1/10 of what though?

(JG) I understand it as a 10% profit, a 1/10 margin of profit.

[Julian] Just an aside—I think it's "not brave enough to go outside" here.
- I'd say we can take 敢 as 'to dare to...', hence, "He would not dare to go out".
(Kyrie) Thank you. I added "not."

(YO) 莫我若也, like 莫我如也, has the sense of "no one is as good as me / no one is better than I".

1. ↑ Since the author of this text was Korean, I have used the Korean pronunciation for the names that appear.
2. ↑ These were the nine high government officials in the royal court who followed the Three Excellencies in rank.