My thread for asking for translations and so

Sultan said:

教えるは一時の優越感、教えないは一生の優越感。

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Mike Cash said:

What?

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Sultan said:

Is the sentence strange or I should have signed it with "could please translate the following sentence"?

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Sultan said:

教えるは一時の優越感、教えないは一生の優越感。

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Toritoribe said:

It must be a parody of a proverb 聞くは一時の恥、知らぬは一生の恥 To ask may be a moment's shame, but not to ask and to remain ignorant is an everlasting shame. The meaning is "to teach may be a moment's sense of superiority, but not to teach is an everlasting sense of superiority."

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Toritoribe said:

It's grammatical as classical Japanese. (The nominalizer is not necessary.)
一時 means "a moment/for a while/for the time being" there. The reading is いっとき in the proverb.
一時の英語・英訳 - goo辞書 英和和英

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Toritoribe said:

It's just because that's a Jananese-Engish dictionary. いちじ and いっとき are both used even now. (いちじ is more common, though.)
いっとき【一時】の意味 - goo国語辞書

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Toritoribe said:

The latter. The point you need to check to interpret the meaning is whether the verb is intransitive/non-volitional 決まった/決まる or transitive/volitional 決めた/決める.

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Toritoribe said:

quiet, gentle, obedient or like that

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Toritoribe said:

Then, that means you already got the answer before asking it, no? At least, it's better to write your idea first and ask if it's correct or not, don't you think so?

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