原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
含詞賦 With rhapsody
太保鬥虎
The Warden Fights the Tiger
過了山坡，又聽得呼呼風響。伯欽道：「長老休走，坐在此間。風響處，是個山貓來了，等我拿他家去管待你。」三藏見說，又膽戰心驚，不敢舉步。那太保執了鋼叉，拽開步，迎將上去。只見一隻斑斕虎，對面撞見，他看見伯欽，急回頭就走。這太保霹靂一聲，咄道：「那業畜那裡走！」那虎見趕得急，轉身掄爪撲來。這太保三股叉舉手迎敵。諕得個三藏軟癱在草地。這和尚自出娘肚皮，那曾見這樣凶險的勾當。太保與那虎在那山坡下，人虎相持，果是一場好鬥。但見：过了山坡，又听得呼呼风响。伯钦道：「长老休走，坐在此间。风响处，是个山猫来了，等我拿他家去管待你。」三藏见说，又胆战心惊，不敢举步。那太保执了钢叉，拽开步，迎将上去。只见一只斑斓虎，对面撞见，他看见伯钦，急回头就走。这太保霹雳一声，咄道：「那业畜那里走！」那虎见赶得急，转身抡爪扑来。这太保三股叉举手迎敌。諕得个三藏软瘫在草地。这和尚自出娘肚皮，那曾见这样凶险的勾当。太保与那虎在那山坡下，人虎相持，果是一场好斗。但见：
怒氣紛紛，狂風滾滾。怒气纷纷，狂风滚滚。
怒氣紛紛，太保沖冠多膂力；怒气纷纷，太保冲冠多膂力；
狂風滾滾，斑彪逞勢噴紅塵。狂风滚滚，斑彪逞势喷红尘。
那一個張牙舞爪，這一個轉步回身。那一个张牙舞爪，这一个转步回身。
三股叉擎天幌日，千花尾擾霧雲飛。三股叉擎天幌日，千花尾扰雾云飞。
這一個當胸亂刺，那一個劈面來吞。这一个当胸乱刺，那一个劈面来吞。
閃過的再生人道，撞著的定見閻君。闪过的再生人道，撞著的定见阎君。
只聽得那斑彪哮吼，太保聲狠。只听得那斑彪哮吼，太保声狠。
斑彪哮吼，振裂山川驚鳥獸；斑彪哮吼，振裂山川惊鸟兽；
太保聲狠，喝開天府現星辰。太保声狠，喝开天府现星辰。
那一個金睛怒出，這一個壯膽生嗔。那一个金睛怒出，这一个壮胆生嗔。
可愛鎮山劉太保，堪誇據地獸之君。可爱镇山刘太保，堪夸据地兽之君。
人虎貪生爭勝負，些兒有慢喪三魂。人虎贪生争胜负，些儿有慢丧三魂。
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過了山坡，又聽得呼呼風響。伯欽道：「長老休走，坐在此間。風響處，是個山貓來了，等我拿他家去管待你。」三藏見說，又膽戰心驚，不敢舉步。那太保執了鋼叉，拽開步，迎將上去。只見一隻斑斕虎，對面撞見，他看見伯欽，急回頭就走。這太保霹靂一聲，咄道：「那業畜那裡走！」那虎見趕得急，轉身掄爪撲來。這太保三股叉舉手迎敵。諕得個三藏軟癱在草地。這和尚自出娘肚皮，那曾見這樣凶險的勾當。太保與那虎在那山坡下，人虎相持，果是一場好鬥。但見：
过了山坡，又听得呼呼风响。伯钦道：「长老休走，坐在此间。风响处，是个山猫来了，等我拿他家去管待你。」三藏见说，又胆战心惊，不敢举步。那太保执了钢叉，拽开步，迎将上去。只见一只斑斓虎，对面撞见，他看见伯钦，急回头就走。这太保霹雳一声，咄道：「那业畜那里走！」那虎见赶得急，转身抡爪扑来。这太保三股叉举手迎敌。諕得个三藏软瘫在草地。这和尚自出娘肚皮，那曾见这样凶险的勾当。太保与那虎在那山坡下，人虎相持，果是一场好斗。但见：
When they had crossed the slope, they heard once more a whistling of wind. Boqin said: “Stay where you are, elder, and sit here a while. Where the wind whistles, a mountain-cat is coming; let me take him home to make you a meal.” At these words Sanzang's heart quailed again, and he dared not stir a step. The Guardian gripped his steel trident, strode forward, and went to meet it. There, face to face, he came upon a striped tiger, which, catching sight of Boqin, turned its head at once to flee. But the Guardian, with a crash like a thunderclap, bellowed: “Where are you off to, cursed beast!” The tiger, seeing itself hard pressed, wheeled about, brandished its claws, and sprang. The Guardian raised his three-pronged trident to meet the attack. Sanzang was so frightened he went limp and slumped down on the grass. This monk, since first he left his mother's womb, had never seen so perilous a business. The Guardian and the tiger, below that mountain slope, man and beast grappling together — it was truly a fine fight. Behold:
山貓 (shān māo), “mountain-cat,” is Boqin's rough hunter's word for the tiger. 那業畜, “cursed beast,” and 那裡走, “where are you off to,” catch his blunt, contemptuous ease with the animal that so terrifies the monk. The combat is then rendered in a formal rhapsody.
怒氣紛紛，狂風滾滾。
怒气纷纷，狂风滚滚。
Wrath in billows; wild wind in surges.
The rhapsody is built on two refrains — “wrath in billows” for the man, “wild wind in surges” for the beast — which recur and interweave through the fight.
怒氣紛紛，太保沖冠多膂力；
怒气纷纷，太保冲冠多膂力；
Wrath in billows: the Guardian, his hair bristling at his cap, of mighty thews;
沖冠 (chōng guān), the hair “bristling against the cap,” is the classic image of towering rage.
狂風滾滾，斑彪逞勢噴紅塵。
狂风滚滚，斑彪逞势喷红尘。
wild wind in surges: the striped tiger, flaunting its force, spewing the red dust.
斑彪 (bān biāo), the “striped tiger,” is a poetic name for the beast, used throughout the rhapsody.
那一個張牙舞爪，這一個轉步回身。
那一个张牙舞爪，这一个转步回身。
That one bares its fangs and flails its claws; this one shifts his footing and turns his body.
三股叉擎天幌日，千花尾擾霧雲飛。
三股叉擎天幌日，千花尾扰雾云飞。
The three-pronged trident lifts to heaven and dazzles the sun; the many-flowered tail stirs the mist and sends the clouds flying.
這一個當胸亂刺，那一個劈面來吞。
这一个当胸乱刺，那一个劈面来吞。
This one thrusts wildly at the breast; that one comes face-on to devour.
閃過的再生人道，撞著的定見閻君。
闪过的再生人道，撞著的定见阎君。
Who dodges clear is born again into the world of men; who takes the blow will surely meet King Yama.
閻君 (Yán jūn), King Yama, is the lord of the dead — to “meet” him is to die.
只聽得那斑彪哮吼，太保聲狠。
只听得那斑彪哮吼，太保声狠。
One heard only the striped tiger's roaring, and the Guardian's savage shout.
斑彪哮吼，振裂山川驚鳥獸；
斑彪哮吼，振裂山川惊鸟兽；
The striped tiger's roar rent the hills and streams and startled the birds and beasts;
太保聲狠，喝開天府現星辰。
太保声狠，喝开天府现星辰。
the Guardian's shout split open the courts of Heaven and laid bare the stars.
那一個金睛怒出，這一個壯膽生嗔。
那一个金睛怒出，这一个壮胆生嗔。
That one, its golden eyes bulging with fury; this one, his stout heart swelling with wrath.
可愛鎮山劉太保，堪誇據地獸之君。
可爱镇山刘太保，堪夸据地兽之君。
Admirable, the Guardian Liu of the Mountain; worthy of praise, the ground-holding lord of the beasts.
據地獸之君, “the ground-holding lord of the beasts,” is the tiger, king of its domain — the couplet pairs the two combatants as equals, each a sovereign of his kind.
人虎貪生爭勝負，些兒有慢喪三魂。
人虎贪生争胜负，些儿有慢丧三魂。
Man and tiger, each greedy of life, contend for victory; let there be the slightest slackening, and one loses his three souls.
三魂 (sān hún), the “three souls” of Daoist belief, stand for life itself; the least lapse in the struggle means death.
總評 Commentary
The chapter's terror returns, but transformed: where Sanzang could only faint and be saved, Boqin meets the tiger head-on, and the beast that has been the chapter's presiding horror is now merely a “mountain-cat” to a hunter's contempt. The combat is given a full rhapsody, one of the novel's characteristic battle-pieces, built on interlaced refrains — “wrath in billows” for the man, “wild wind in surges” for the tiger — that alternate and echo as the two close. The verse magnifies both to cosmic scale (the trident “dazzles the sun,” the shout “lays bare the stars”) and, pointedly, matches them as equals: the hunter a “Guardian of the Mountain,” the tiger a “ground-holding lord of the beasts,” each a sovereign of his kind, each “greedy of life.” Set against the fainting monk on the grass, the fight measures the distance between Sanzang's helplessness and the ordinary human courage that now protects him — a courage that will, in the next passage, dispatch the tiger and carry the pilgrim to shelter.