In hewing [the wood for] an axe-handle, how do you proceed? Without [another] axe it cannot be done. In taking a wife, how do you proceed? Without a go-between it cannot be done.
伐柯伐柯、其则不远。 我觏之子、笾豆有践。
In hewing an axe-handle, in hewing an axe-handle, The pattern is not far off. I see the lady, And forthwith the vessels are arranged in rows.
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158. 伐柯 - Fa Ke
Date: 2021-03-15 10:28 am (UTC)取妻如何、匪媒不得。
In hewing [the wood for] an axe-handle, how do you proceed?
Without [another] axe it cannot be done.
In taking a wife, how do you proceed?
Without a go-between it cannot be done.
伐柯伐柯、其则不远。
我觏之子、笾豆有践。
In hewing an axe-handle, in hewing an axe-handle,
The pattern is not far off.
I see the lady,
And forthwith the vessels are arranged in rows.