E69 挂冠而去，归隐林泉

E69 挂冠而去，归隐林泉
2023.10.11
夏鹏
难度：CSE7
课程导读

上节课我们讲到，王安石被群臣疏远。在本节课中，我们会继续深入了解朝廷大臣们是如何回应王安石的。司马光对皇帝进行了怎么样的劝谏？其他大臣又有何举动表达对王安石的不满？一起进入今天的课程。

英文原文

Within a few weeks the purge of the censorate was complete.

With the six censors who had been cashiered in the previous year, the total of dismissed censors was now fourteen, eleven in the censorate and three in the palace.

Szema Kuang warned the Emperor in unmistakable terms.

Only three persons, Wang, Tseng Pu, and Lu Huiching, were for the new reform measures, and the entire court was against them.

"Is His Imperial Majesty going to make up the government and the nation with these three persons?"

Han Chi and Chang Fangping had quit in February; Szema Kuang had refused a post as privy councilor and was degraded in the same month; Fan Chen had left in anger.

In September the vacillating Chao Pien, the cabinet minister who had for a time been inclined to favor the new regime, now decided to resign.

He too pointed out that "the farmers' loans and the appointment of tax commissioner are by comparison small matters, but the choice of the right men to assist the Emperor in his government is a matter of far greater consequence."

A few months later, aged, fatalistic, imperturbable Tseng Kungliang, who had ascribed Wang's rise to power to "God's will," resigned in disgust, giving old age as his excuse, but in reality partly under fire from the critics.

By December 1070, Wang Anshih was formally made premier and was placed in an unchallenged position at the head of the whole government.

In June of the following year Ouyang Shiu resigned all his posts in the government and went to live in retirement.

生词好句

1.unmistakable
英 [ˌʌnmɪˈsteɪkəbl]美 [ˌʌnmɪˈsteɪkəbl]
adj. 不会弄错的（well-defined, clearly-said）

2.Tseng Pu
曾布

3.Lu Huiching
吕惠卿

4.Han Chi
韩琦

5.Chang Fangping
张方平

6.Fan Chen
范镇

7.vacillating
英 ['væsɪleɪtɪŋ]美 ['væsɪleɪtɪŋ]
adj. 犹豫的（hesitant）

8.Chao Pien
赵抃

9.by comparison
相比而言

10.fatalistic
英 [ˌfeɪtəˈlɪstɪk]美 [ˌfeɪtəˈlɪstɪk]
adj. 宿命论的
拓展:
fatalism n. 宿命论

11.imperturbable
英 [ˌɪmpəˈtɜːbəbl]美 [ˌɪmpərˈtɜːrbəbl]
adj. 沉着的，冷静的
拓展:
perturb v. 扰乱，打扰
perturbable adj. 易被扰动的

12.Tseng Kungliang
曾公亮

13.ascribe ... to
将......归结于......