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第二十五回
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The Immortal Zhenyuan Pursues and Seizes the Scripture-Seeking Monk · Sun the Pilgrim Makes Great Havoc at the Five-Villages Abbey

長老埋怨
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長老埋怨 The Master Complains

zhǎnglǎolèiyǎnshuāngchuíyuànsāndào:「děngchuǎngchūhuòláiquèdàilèizàishòuzuìzhèshìzěnde?」xíngzhědào:「qiěxiūbàoyuàn便biànxiānyòucéngchīdàozhuǎnjiēzěnde?」tángsēngdào:「suīráncéngquèbǎngdeshēnshàngténgli。」shāsēngdào:「shīháiyǒupéibǎngdezàizhèli。」xíngzhědào:「dōuyàorǎngzàitínghuìérzǒu。」zhǎnglǎolèiyǎnshuāngchuíyuànsāndào:「děngchuǎngchūhuòláiquèdàilèizàishòuzuìzhèshìzěnde?」xíngzhědào:「qiěxiūbàoyuàn便biànxiānyòucéngchīdàozhuǎnjiēzěnde?」tángsēngdào:「suīráncéngquèbǎngdeshēnshàngténgli。」shāsēngdào:「shīháiyǒupéibǎngdezàizhèli。」xíngzhědào:「dōuyàorǎngzàitínghuìérzǒu。」


逐句解 Line by line

zhǎnglǎolèiyǎnshuāngchuíyuànsāndào:「děngchuǎngchūhuòláiquèdàilèizàishòuzuìzhèshìzěnde?」 zhǎnglǎolèiyǎnshuāngchuíyuànsāndào:「děngchuǎngchūhuòláiquèdàilèizàishòuzuìzhèshìzěnde?」

That elder, tears streaming from both eyes, reproached his three disciples: "You have stirred up this calamity, and dragged me into suffering punishment here—how has it come to this?"

The master weeps and blames his disciples, which is what he does. 淚眼雙垂, tears from both eyes. 闖出禍來, chuǎng chū huò lái, is blundering into trouble — is barging in where you should not. 帶累, dragging somebody else into it.

xíngzhědào:「qiěxiūbàoyuàn便biànxiānyòucéngchīdàozhuǎnjiēzěnde?」 xíngzhědào:「qiěxiūbàoyuàn便biànxiānyòucéngchīdàozhuǎnjiēzěnde?」

The Pilgrim said, "Now, no reproaches—if there was a beating, it was I who was beaten first; you were not beaten at all, so what is there to sigh and moan about?"

And Wukong's reply is a masterpiece of missing the point on purpose. 你又不曾吃打 — you didn't actually get hit — is unanswerable and entirely beside the question. 倒轉嗟呀 takes as dào, "on the contrary," with , jiē, to sigh. 報怨 here is grumbling, reproaching.

tángsēngdào:「suīráncéngquèbǎngdeshēnshàngténgli。」 tángsēngdào:「suīráncéngquèbǎngdeshēnshàngténgli。」

The Tang Monk said, "Though I was not beaten, still my body aches with the binding."

Sanzang concedes the point and then produces a smaller, better one: he is still tied up. 綁得身上疼 takes the linking , de, marking degree — bound so tight it hurts.

shāsēngdào:「shīháiyǒupéibǎngdezàizhèli。」 shāsēngdào:「shīháiyǒupéibǎngdezàizhèli。」

Wujing said, "Master, there are those bound along with you here too."

Wujing's single line, and it is the driest thing anyone says in the chapter. 陪綁, péi bǎng, is being tied up alongside somebody — the word for a person brought out to the execution ground to watch. is hái, "besides, as well."

xíngzhědào:「dōuyàorǎngzàitínghuìérzǒu。」 xíngzhědào:「dōuyàorǎngzàitínghuìérzǒu。」

The Pilgrim said, "All of you, stop your clamour—rest a while longer, and then we'll be on our way."

And Wukong, who has been planning since the ropes went on, tells everyone to be quiet and wait a bit. is dōu, "all of you"; 會兒 takes the diminutive suffix , ér.


總評 Commentary

Four people tied to pillars in the dark, bickering. Sanzang cries and blames everyone; Wukong points out that nobody actually hit him; Sanzang says the ropes hurt; Wujing observes that some of us are tied up too. It is a family in a broken-down car, and the novel knows it.

Wujing's line is the one to notice. 師父還有陪綁的在這裡哩 — Master, there are people being tied up alongside you over here. He opens his mouth exactly twice in this chapter, and both times it is something like this: the quiet member of the party pointing out, without complaint, that he is also present.

Underneath the comedy the scene is doing its job. Wukong's last line — stop the noise, wait a little, then we walk — tells the reader that the ropes were never the problem, and turns the whole captivity into a delay.