比喻为人做事很正派firmly upright and honest

• 有些“行不由径”的文学批评家，要说这不是诗，是宣传的标语，根本不是文学。

  Some puritanical academic critics want to say that this is not poetry, that it is propaganda slogans and fundamentally not literature.

• 许宗衡也许当年是一身正气，行不由径，想堂堂正正地走人间正道。

  Perhaps this year Xu Zongheng is an upright figure on the straight and narrow wishing to openly and honestly take the correct path.