」子貢對曰：「賜不能識也。
Zhao Jianzi100 once asked Zigong.
」簡子不悅曰：「夫子事孔子數十年，終業而去之，寡人問子，子曰，『不能識』，何也？
“I am unable to know the answer,” Zigong replied.
“You served him more than twenty years,” said Jianzi, displeased, “and, when you completed your studies, you left; yet, when I ask you about him, you say that you are unable to know.
」子貢曰：「賜譬渴者之飲江海，知足而已。
Why?” “I might be compared to a thirsty man drinking from the rivers and oceans,” said Zigong.
孔子猶江海也，賜則奚足以識之。
“I know only when my thirst is quenched.
」簡子曰：「善哉，子貢之言也！」
Kongzi is like the rivers and oceans.
How could I be capable of knowing the answer?” “Zigong speaks skillfully indeed!” observed Zhao Jianzi.