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揪扯進房
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揪扯進房 Bajie Is Led In

xíngzhědào:「dāiziyàozhěxiāokǒuniángzhījiàoleduōshǎoyòushìshénmenòngchéngkuàikuàideyīngchéngdàixiémenchīxiējiǔshìhǎochù。」zhīshǒujiūzhejièzhīshǒuchězhùréndào:「qīnjiādài婿jìn。」dāizijiǎoérdeyàowǎngzǒurénhuàntóng:「zhǎnzhuōpáiwǎnzhāiguǎndàisānwèiqīnjiālǐngfáng。」xiāngyòufēnfupáodīngpáiyánshèyànmíngchénhuìqīntóngyòulǐngmìngsānzhòngchīlezhāidōuzàizuòānxiēxíngzhědào:「dāiziyàozhěxiāokǒuniángzhījiàoleduōshǎoyòushìshénmenòngchéngkuàikuàideyīngchéngdàixiémenchīxiējiǔshìhǎochù。」zhīshǒujiūzhejièzhīshǒuchězhùréndào:「qīnjiādài婿jìn。」dāizijiǎoérdeyàowǎngzǒurénhuàntóng:「zhǎnzhuōpáiwǎnzhāiguǎndàisānwèiqīnjiālǐngfáng。」xiāngyòufēnfupáodīngpáiyánshèyànmíngchénhuìqīntóngyòulǐngmìngsānzhòngchīlezhāidōuzàizuòānxiē


逐句解 Line by line

xíngzhědào:「dāiziyàozhěxiāokǒuniángzhījiàoleduōshǎoyòushìshénmenòngchéng xíngzhědào:「dāiziyàozhěxiāokǒuniángzhījiàoleduōshǎoyòushìshénmenòngchéng

Pilgrim said, "Blockhead, don't bluster — your mouth has called her 'Ma'am' who knows how many times already; what do you mean, 'it won't do'?"

者囂 is to bluster, to make a show. 你那口裡, out of that mouth of yours, takes as ; 甚麼 is shén me. Wukong will not let the performance stand for a second time.

kuàikuàideyīngchéngdàixiémenchīxiējiǔshìhǎochù。」 kuàikuàideyīngchéngdàixiémenchīxiējiǔshìhǎochù。」

"Hurry up and say yes — and stand us some wedding-wine into the bargain; that would be no bad thing."

應承, to assent, with as yīng; 帶攜, to take others along, to stand them something; 喜酒 is wedding wine — and to this day, drinking somebody's 喜酒 is how Chinese says attending their wedding.

zhīshǒujiūzhejièzhīshǒuchězhùréndào:「qīnjiādài婿jìn。」 zhīshǒujiūzhejièzhīshǒuchězhùréndào:「qīnjiādài婿jìn。」

With one hand he gripped Bajie, with the other he seized the woman, and said, "Mother-in-law, take your son-in-law inside."

揪著, gripping, takes the running (zhe). 親家母 is the mother on the other side of the match. The comedy has turned physical: Monkey has a fistful of each of them and is putting their hands together himself.

dāizijiǎoérdeyàowǎngzǒu dāizijiǎoérdeyàowǎngzǒu

The blockhead, his feet shuffling and reluctant, made as if to go along.

腳兒趄趄, feet faltering and unsteady, with as the suffix; 往那裡走, to go off that way, with as . The dragging feet are for the audience. The direction of travel is not in doubt.

rénhuàntóng:「zhǎnzhuōpáiwǎnzhāiguǎndàisānwèiqīnjiā rénhuàntóng:「zhǎnzhuōpáiwǎnzhāiguǎndàisānwèiqīnjiā

The woman at once called the serving-lads: "Wipe down the tables and chairs, set out the evening meal, and attend to our three wedding-guests."

童子, serving-lads, takes as the full noun . 展抹 is to wipe down; 鋪排晚齋, lay out the evening meatless meal, reads as the verb , to spread; 管待, to look after guests.

lǐngfáng。」 lǐngfáng。」

"I will take our son-in-law off to his room."

姑夫 is used here in the familiar sense of the daughter's husband. 房裡去, lead him off to the room.

xiāngyòufēnfupáodīngpáiyánshèyànmíngchénhuìqīn xiāngyòufēnfupáodīngpáiyánshèyànmíngchénhuìqīn

On the other side she gave orders besides to the cooks to lay on a banquet, for the marriage-gathering next morning.

一壁廂 is meanwhile, on the other side. 庖丁 is the cook — the word comes from the famous cook in Zhuangzi whose blade never blunted because he cut along the joints. 排筵設宴, spread the mats and set the feast; 明晨會親, the two families meeting next morning. She is ordering a banquet for a wedding she has no intention of holding.

tóngyòulǐngmìng tóngyòulǐngmìng

The several serving-lads received their orders and withdrew.

童子 again with as the full noun ; as . 領命訖, having received the order, with meaning done, completed.

sānzhòngchīlezhāidōuzàizuòānxiē sānzhòngchīlezhāidōuzàizuòānxiē

The three of them ate their meal, hastily made up their beds, and all settled to rest in the guest-quarters — of which no more.

急急鋪鋪, hurriedly spreading out the bedding, with as the verb ; as dōu. 不題, no more of this — the storyteller's way of closing one thread to pick up another, and here it shuts the door on three sleeping monks and leaves us alone with Bajie.


總評 Commentary

Wukong refuses to let the pretence stand. He throws it back once more — your mouth has called her Ma'am who knows how many times, so what do you mean it cannot be done — and sweetens the shove with the promise of wedding wine for everybody else. The exposure is complete. Bajie's own words, overheard at the gate, have left him nowhere to stand.

The comedy turns physical. Monkey takes a hand of each and puts them together, telling the widow plainly to take her son-in-law inside; and Bajie, feet dragging, makes his token show of reluctance while going exactly where he is led. The distance between his shuffling feet and his willing heart is the joke, and the novel does not need to point at it.

The passage closes in brisk domestic bustle — tables wiped, the evening meal laid, a banquet ordered for a morning that will never come, and three pilgrims eating and bedding down in the guest quarters. The storyteller's no-more-of-this shuts the frame on them and leaves Bajie to be led off alone into the interior of the house, and into the trap.