That being the case, Yan argued, as head of the household he was obliged to see that young people got correct instruction at home, and what he wrote, he felt, should at least be more enlightening than what could be gleaned from wives and slave girls.
既然這樣，身為家長的他，為子孫講幾句道理，總是比婢女、老婆的話來得高明點吧。