JLPT N1Proverbs
韓信の股くぐり
- Meaning
- 大志を抱く者は目先の屈辱に耐えるということ
- Explanation
- From the legend that Han Xin, who later became a great general, silently endured in his youth the humiliation of crawling between a ruffian's legs, it teaches that a person with great ambition bears the small disgrace of the moment. Contrary to c3, which says one should not accept humiliation, it is a saying that values endurance for a greater goal.
Original Japanese explanation
後に名将となる韓信が若い頃、無頼漢の股をくぐる屈辱に黙って耐えた故事から、大きな志を抱く者は目先の小さな恥辱を忍ぶという教え。屈辱は受けるなと説く c3 とは逆で、大目的のための忍耐を尊ぶことばです。
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