蒙學漢文初階 第三十八課 Beginning Chinese - Entry Level Lesson #38 諸生課畢 some students lesson done 或遊園 or tour/travel garden 或遊野 or tour/travel wilderness/field/open_space/rural_countryside 眾人同遊則樂 group people same/together tour/travel then happy 各人獨遊則不樂 each person tour/travel then not happy Some students on finishing their class would either go to the gardens or to the woods for fun. If going together, then it is a joyful event. If each would go alone, then it would not be so. Notes: 1. 遊 does not really mean tour or travel. In this context, it means to go and have fun. Such are the simplistic joys of the past. 2. 野 has many meanings. It also includes "feral", "limit" and "boundary". In this particular context, it means some place where no human work is at hand. Most probably by an area nearby the woods or forest. It cannot be too far off a place since they are doing it every day. We cannot translate "gardens" into parks because at that time so such concept as a public park exists.