出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·疾贪》。欲,想。表,仪表,这句话指身体。下,指下属。先之身,先要求自己。要想影子正,就要先把自己的身子站直;要想下属清廉,自己要先做出表率。这句话以正影先正身为喻,说明正人先正己的道理。
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
解释:信任是百姓、国家赖以生存的根基,不能失信于民。