“君子博学而日参省乎己”是《荀子·劝学》中的一句,其中的“参”字,中学语文课本释为“验,检查”,读为“cān”。笔者认为,课本这样注解是欠妥的。这里的“参”应释为“三”,读为‘Sān”。理由如次:首先,从句意看,释“参”为“检查”与下义“省”字相联,在意义上就复沓累赘了。因为《辞源》、《古汉语常用字典》在“省”字 Xǐng 音下也都释为“检查”。而我们又不能将“参省”作同义复词处理,因为古汉语中的同义复词,多成为现代汉语中的双音词,而现代汉语中并无‘参省”一词,且其他古代典籍及《荀子.》其他篇目中亦皆不见“参省”同义连用的。相反,如果我们释“参”为“三”,不仅可以避免以上这种意义上的重复,而且使文意更畅达。“三”在古汉语中多用为虚数词,表示次数多。这样,“日参省乎己”我们就可以译为‘每天多次地检查自己”,这比按中学课本的释法译为“每天检查自己”,在意 “Gentleman erudite Japanese Senate” is “Xunzi Encouraging Learning” in a sentence, the “Senate”, high school language textbook interpreted as “inspection, inspection,” read as “cān.” The author believes that textbooks such comments are defective. Here the “Senate” should be interpreted as “three”, read as “Sān.” The reasons are as follows: First of all, from the sentence meaning, the interpretation of “Senate” as “check” and the lower meaning of the word “ Because ”the source“, ”Dictionary of ancient Chinese“ in the ”province“ word Xǐng tone are also interpreted as ”check.“ And we can not be ”Senate“ Synonymous word processing, because the ancient Synonymous complex words in Chinese become more and more disyllabic words in modern Chinese, but there is no ”Senate“ in modern Chinese, and ”Senate“ is not found in other ancient books and other articles of Xunzi. Synonymous On the contrary, if we interpret ”Senate“ as ”three“, we can not only avoid the repetition in the above sense but also make the text more accessible. ”Three“ in ancient Chinese multi-use as an imaginary number, said the number of times. In this way, ”Japanese seniors“ can be translated as ”checking ourselves repeatedly many times a day,“ which translates to ”checking oneself everyday" rather than interpreting it according to the textbooks of secondary schools.