它画的是什么它畫的是什麼What it draws
两根长杆并排立着,一条绳从左边横过去,到右边折下来,再横回左边,再折下来,一共缠了三道。绳把两根杆箍在一起,杆就直了。兩根長桿並排立著,一條繩從左邊橫過去,到右邊折下來,再橫回左邊,再折下來,一共纏了三道。繩把兩根桿箍在一起,桿就直了。Two long shafts stand side by side, and a cord crosses them from the left, turns down at the right, runs back to the left, turns down again — three passes in all. The cord clamps the two shafts together, and the shafts come straight.
字形解说字形解說The character explained
画的是矫正的办法:两根杆合起来夹住,绳一道道缠紧,弯的就被逼直了。《说文》说“弗,撟也”,“撟”正是把弯的扳直,这一句和字形对得上。卜辞里“弗”不再讲缚杆,专作否定词用:“弗其受年”“弗雨”。要留心的是,卜辞里的否定词不止一个,“不”“勿”“弗”“毋”各有分工,分工到底怎么划,学者至今说法不一——有人认为“弗”后面的动词带着一个不说出来的宾语,有人认为“弗”是“不”加上代词合成的一个音;这一层是语法上的争论,和字形是什么无关。
畫的是矯正的辦法:兩根桿合起來夾住,繩一道道纏緊,彎的就被逼直了。《說文》說「弗,撟也」,「撟」正是把彎的扳直,這一句和字形對得上。卜辭裡「弗」不再講縛桿,專作否定詞用:「弗其受年」「弗雨」。要留心的是,卜辭裡的否定詞不止一個,「不」「勿」「弗」「毋」各有分工,分工到底怎麼劃,學者至今說法不一——有人認為「弗」後面的動詞帶著一個不說出來的賓語,有人認為「弗」是「不」加上代詞合成的一個音;這一層是語法上的爭論,和字形是什麼無關。
What is drawn is the remedy for a bend: put two shafts together, wind the cord tight pass after pass, and the crooked timber is forced straight. 說文 says “弗 is 撟”, and 撟 is exactly to lever something bent back into line, which fits the picture. On the bones 弗 has left the workshop behind and serves only as a negative: 弗其受年, 弗雨. Worth knowing is that the divinations use more than one negative — 不, 勿, 弗 and 毋 divide the work between them — and how that division runs is still argued: some hold that the verb after 弗 carries an object left unsaid, others that 弗 is 不 fused with a pronoun. That argument is about grammar, not about what the character draws.