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  1. 富贵不能淫,贫贱不能移,威武不能屈。

    Neither riches nor honours can corrupt him ; neither poverty nor humbleness can make him swerve from principle ; and neither threats nor forces can subdue him .

  2. 富贵不能淫,贫贱不能移,威武不能屈,此之谓大丈夫。(《孟子》)

    He whom riches and honours cannot corrupt nor poverty and obscurity divert , whom neither threats nor violence itself can bend & he it is that I call a great man .

  3. 所以,孟子理想的道德人格是“富贵不能淫,贫贱不能移,威武不能屈”,具有大义凛然的道义感。

    Thus , the ideal moral personality of Mencius is that one should never be " corrupted by neither riches nor honors , shaken by neither poverty nor adversity , faltered by neither threats nor force . "