关键句“小知不及大知，小年不及大年”出现在小虫嘲笑大鹏寓言之后。“及”一词的解释，《辞源》中有：追上；达到；趁；继；推及；比得上。按照前文对《逍遥游》义理的分析，此处应取“比得上”之意。冯友兰的译文为：“Small knowledge is not to be compared with the great nor a short life to a long one”。并未明确显示出庄子对大知与小知的态度，译文的语义色彩偏于中性，较客观。如果这句话译为“Little wits cannot keep up with great；the short-lived cannot keep up with the long-lived”，则更适合于庄周原文的义理。
3.逍遥观：庄周——无待方逍遥
