第二十三回 · 盡知回報 Wukong Flies Back — Journey to the West

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盡知回報 Wukong Flies Back

八bā戒jiè也yě不bú放fàng馬mǎ，將jiāng馬mǎ拉lā向xiàng前qián來lái。怎zěn知zhī孫sūn大dà聖shèng已yǐ一yì一yí盡jìn知zhī，他tā轉zhuǎn翅chì飛fēi來lái，現xiàn了le本běn相xiàng，先xiān見jiàn唐táng僧sēng道dào：「師shī父fù，悟wù能néng牽qiān馬mǎ來lái了le。」長zhǎng老lǎo道dào：「馬mǎ若ruò不bù牽qiān，恐kǒng怕pà撒sā歡huān走zǒu了le。」行xíng者zhě笑xiào將jiāng起qǐ來lái，把bǎ那nà婦fù人rén與yǔ八bā戒jiè說shuō的de勾gōu當dàng，從cóng頭tóu說shuō了le一yí遍biàn，三sān藏zàng也yě似sì信xìn不bú信xìn的de。八bā戒jiè也yě不bú放fàng马mǎ，将jiāng马mǎ拉lā向xiàng前qián来lái。怎zěn知zhī孙sūn大dà圣shèng已yǐ一yì一yí尽jìn知zhī，他tā转zhuǎn翅chì飞fēi来lái，现xiàn了le本běn相xiàng，先xiān见jiàn唐táng僧sēng道dào：「师shī父fù，悟wù能néng牵qiān马mǎ来lái了le。」长zhǎng老lǎo道dào：「马mǎ若ruò不bù牵qiān，恐kǒng怕pà撒sā欢huān走zǒu了le。」行xíng者zhě笑xiào将jiāng起qǐ来lái，把bǎ那nà妇fù人rén与yǔ八bā戒jiè说shuō的de勾gōu当dàng，从cóng头tóu说shuō了le一yí遍biàn，三sān藏zàng也yě似sì信xìn不bú信xìn的de。

逐句解 Line by line

八bā戒jiè也yě不bú放fàng馬mǎ，將jiāng馬mǎ拉lā向xiàng前qián來lái。八bā戒jiè也yě不bú放fàng马mǎ，将jiāng马mǎ拉lā向xiàng前qián来lái。

Bajie, not grazing the horse at all, took the horse and led it back to the front.

將馬拉 “took the horse and led it,” 將 the disposal jiāng. Bajie's errand, of course, was never the horse.

怎zěn知zhī孫sūn大dà聖shèng已yǐ一yì一yí盡jìn知zhī，他tā轉zhuǎn翅chì飛fēi來lái，現xiàn了le本běn相xiàng，先xiān見jiàn唐táng僧sēng道dào：「師shī父fù，悟wù能néng牽qiān馬mǎ來lái了le。」怎zěn知zhī孙sūn大dà圣shèng已yǐ一yì一yí尽jìn知zhī，他tā转zhuǎn翅chì飞fēi来lái，现xiàn了le本běn相xiàng，先xiān见jiàn唐táng僧sēng道dào：「师shī父fù，悟wù能néng牵qiān马mǎ来lái了le。」

Little did he know the Great Sage had learned it all, point by point; wheeling on his wings, Monkey flew back, resumed his true form, and going first to the Tang Monk said, “Master, Wuneng is bringing the horse.”

一一盡知 “knew it all, one thing after another.” Here the second 一 reads yí: the sandhi anticipates 盡 (fixed to jìn in this corpus), whose fourth tone lowers the preceding 一; the first 一 of the reduplication stays yì. 現了本相 “resumed his true form,” 相 xiàng (“form, appearance”). 悟能 is Bajie's religious name.

長zhǎng老lǎo道dào：「馬mǎ若ruò不bù牽qiān，恐kǒng怕pà撒sā歡huān走zǒu了le。」长zhǎng老lǎo道dào：「马mǎ若ruò不bù牵qiān，恐kǒng怕pà撒sā欢huān走zǒu了le。」

The elder said, “If the horse weren't led, I feared it might frisk off.”

長老 zhǎng lǎo. 撒歡 “to frolic, kick up its heels.” Tripitaka's innocent remark sets up Wukong's report.

行xíng者zhě笑xiào將jiāng起qǐ來lái，把bǎ那nà婦fù人rén與yǔ八bā戒jiè說shuō的de勾gōu當dàng，從cóng頭tóu說shuō了le一yí遍biàn，三sān藏zàng也yě似sì信xìn不bú信xìn的de。行xíng者zhě笑xiào将jiāng起qǐ来lái，把bǎ那nà妇fù人rén与yǔ八bā戒jiè说shuō的de勾gōu当dàng，从cóng头tóu说shuō了le一yí遍biàn，三sān藏zàng也yě似sì信xìn不bú信xìn的de。

Pilgrim burst out laughing, and told over from the beginning the whole business between the woman and Bajie; Tripitaka listened as if half believing, half not.

行者 xíng zhě; 笑將起來 “to break into laughter,” 將 the complement jiāng. 勾當 (gòudàng) “the doings, the affair.” 似信不信 “as if believing and not believing,” 似 sì. 三藏 zàng.

總評 Commentary

The dragonfly returns. Having watched the whole of Bajie's back-gate wooing, Wukong resumes his shape and hurries to Tripitaka — first with an innocent announcement (“Wuneng is bringing the horse”), then, laughing, with the full report of what passed between Bajie and the widow. Bajie, meanwhile, comes trudging back with the horse he never grazed, oblivious that his every word has been overheard.

The line 一一盡知 — Monkey “knew it all, point by point” — is the pivot of the covert test. Where the widow's public offer was withstood to her face, Bajie's private appetite has now been witnessed in secret; the disciple who thought himself unobserved is about to be confronted with his own words.

Tripitaka's reaction is finely understated: he listens 似信不信, as if half believing and half not. The Master's reluctance to credit the worst of his disciple is at once charitable and slightly comic — the reader, who has seen everything, knows Monkey's account is exact — and it leaves Bajie's exposure to unfold, a little longer, at its own pace.