第二十五回 · 塵埃驚悔 Despair Among the Attendants — Journey to the West

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塵埃驚悔 Despair Among the Attendants

他tā兩liǎng個gè倒dǎo在zài塵chén埃āi，語yǔ言yán顛diān倒dǎo，只zhǐ叫jiào：「怎zěn的de好hǎo？怎zěn的de好hǎo？害hài了le我wǒ五wǔ莊zhuāng觀guàn裡lǐ的de丹dān頭tóu，斷duàn絕jué我wǒ仙xiān家jiā的de苗miáo裔yì，師shī父fù來lái家jiā，我wǒ兩liǎng個gè怎zěn的de回huí話huà？」明míng月yuè道dào：「師shī兄xiōng莫mò嚷rǎng，我wǒ們men且qiě整zhěng了le衣yī冠guān，莫mò要yào驚jīng張zhāng了le這zhè幾jǐ個gè和hé尚shàng。這zhè個gè沒méi有yǒu別bié人rén，定dìng是shì那nà個gè毛máo臉liǎn雷léi公gōng嘴zuǐ的de那nà廝sī，他tā來lái出chū神shén弄nòng法fǎ，壞huài了le我wǒ們men的de寶bǎo貝bèi。他tā两liǎng个gè倒dǎo在zài尘chén埃āi，语yǔ言yán颠diān倒dǎo，只zhǐ叫jiào：「怎zěn的de好hǎo？怎zěn的de好hǎo？害hài了le我wǒ五wǔ庄zhuāng观guàn里lǐ的de丹dān头tóu，断duàn绝jué我wǒ仙xiān家jiā的de苗miáo裔yì，师shī父fù来lái家jiā，我wǒ两liǎng个gè怎zěn的de回huí话huà？」明míng月yuè道dào：「师shī兄xiōng莫mò嚷rǎng，我wǒ们men且qiě整zhěng了le衣yī冠guān，莫mò要yào惊jīng张zhāng了le这zhè几jǐ个gè和hé尚shàng。这zhè个gè没méi有yǒu别bié人rén，定dìng是shì那nà个gè毛máo脸liǎn雷léi公gōng嘴zuǐ的de那nà厮sī，他tā来lái出chū神shén弄nòng法fǎ，坏huài了le我wǒ们men的de宝bǎo贝bèi。

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他tā兩liǎng個gè倒dǎo在zài塵chén埃āi，語yǔ言yán顛diān倒dǎo，只zhǐ叫jiào：「怎zěn的de好hǎo？他tā两liǎng个gè倒dǎo在zài尘chén埃āi，语yǔ言yán颠diān倒dǎo，只zhǐ叫jiào：「怎zěn的de好hǎo？

The two of them lay sprawled in the dust, their words all in a tangle, crying only, "What are we to do?

倒在塵埃 (dǎo zài chén'āi) "fell sprawling in the dust," with 倒 (dǎo) "to topple, fall"—not the 倒 (dào) "to reverse." 語言顛倒 (yǔyán diāndǎo) "their speech turned topsy-turvy," 顛倒 likewise taking 倒 (dǎo).

怎zěn的de好hǎo？怎zěn的de好hǎo？

"What are we to do?

怎的好 — "what is to be done?", the boys' panic-stricken refrain, doubled for effect.

害hài了le我wǒ五wǔ莊zhuāng觀guàn裡lǐ的de丹dān頭tóu，斷duàn絕jué我wǒ仙xiān家jiā的de苗miáo裔yì，師shī父fù來lái家jiā，我wǒ兩liǎng個gè怎zěn的de回huí話huà？」害hài了le我wǒ五wǔ庄zhuāng观guàn里lǐ的de丹dān头tóu，断duàn绝jué我wǒ仙xiān家jiā的de苗miáo裔yì，师shī父fù来lái家jiā，我wǒ两liǎng个gè怎zěn的de回huí话huà？」

"He has ruined the elixir-head of our Five-Villages Abbey, cut off the very lineage of our immortal house! When the master comes home, how are we two to answer him?"

丹頭 (dāntóu) "the elixir-head," the seed and source of the abbey's alchemical treasure—here the manfruit tree. 苗裔 (miáoyì) "the shoots and offspring, the lineage." The abbey word 觀 (guàn) takes the temple reading.

明míng月yuè道dào：「師shī兄xiōng莫mò嚷rǎng，我wǒ們men且qiě整zhěng了le衣yī冠guān，莫mò要yào驚jīng張zhāng了le這zhè幾jǐ個gè和hé尚shàng。明míng月yuè道dào：「师shī兄xiōng莫mò嚷rǎng，我wǒ们men且qiě整zhěng了le衣yī冠guān，莫mò要yào惊jīng张zhāng了le这zhè几jǐ个gè和hé尚shàng。

Bright Moon said, "Elder brother, do not cry out. Let us first set our caps and gowns to rights, and take care not to alarm these several monks.

莫嚷 (mò rǎng) "do not shout." 整了衣冠 (zhěngle yīguān) "to straighten one's cap and gown," with 冠 (guān) the noun "cap," distinct from the verb 冠 (guàn) "to cap, to crown." 驚張 (jīngzhāng) "to alarm, to startle."

這zhè個gè沒méi有yǒu別bié人rén，定dìng是shì那nà個gè毛máo臉liǎn雷léi公gōng嘴zuǐ的de那nà廝sī，他tā來lái出chū神shén弄nòng法fǎ，壞huài了le我wǒ們men的de寶bǎo貝bèi。这zhè个gè没méi有yǒu别bié人rén，定dìng是shì那nà个gè毛máo脸liǎn雷léi公gōng嘴zuǐ的de那nà厮sī，他tā来lái出chū神shén弄nòng法fǎ，坏huài了le我wǒ们men的de宝bǎo贝bèi。

"This is the work of no one else—it is surely that hairy-faced, thunder-god-mouthed fellow. He came and worked a spirit-magic and destroyed our treasure.

毛臉雷公嘴 (máo liǎn Léigōng zuǐ) "hairy-faced and thunder-god-mouthed"—the abbey's epithet for Wukong, whose simian features recall the beaked thunder-deity 雷公 (Léigōng). 那廝 (nà sī) "that fellow," contemptuous. 出神弄法 (chū shén nòng fǎ) "to send out a spirit and work magic."

總評 Commentary

With the tree destroyed, the perspective shifts to the two boy-attendants, whose comic terror gives the chapter its second movement. Their lament names the enormity in the abbey's own terms—the manfruit tree is the 丹頭 ("elixir-head") and the 苗裔 ("lineage") of an immortal house—so that a monkey's fit of pique registers as the severing of a sacred bloodline.

Bright Moon, the cooler head, at once diagnoses the culprit: the 毛臉雷公嘴 ("hairy-faced, thunder-god-mouthed") fellow. The epithet, recurring throughout the novel, likens Wukong to the beaked thunder-god 雷公—a fixed comic image of his fearsome, half-simian face.