释义 |
 | 焉 | | yān | 代副助 | | 1 here, this: | | 心不在焉 with one's attention elsewhere; absent-minded |
2 [in rhetorical questions] to or in what place; in what respect; for what; how: | | 焉能不去? How could I possibly not go? | | 未知生,焉知死? If you know nothing about life, what can you know about death? |
II 副 [preceded by an expression of condition] not unless; then and only then: | | 必知乱之所自起,焉能治之。 You have to know how the trouble arose before you can deal with it. |
1 [indicating an affirmative tone]: | | 幸勿哂焉。 Please don't laugh at me. | | 天何言哉? 四时行焉,百物生焉。 (《论语》) What does Heaven ever say? Yet there are the four seasons going round and the hundred things coming into being. |
2 [referring to an important element placed at the beginning of the sentence] to, on, in, from, by, or than it: | | 寡人之于国也,尽心焉耳矣。 (《孟子》) As for my attitude towards the state, I do indeed devote my whole attention to it. |
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