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The Corpse-Fiend Thrice Mocks Tang Tripitaka · The Holy Monk in Wrath Banishes the Handsome Monkey King

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唐僧望見 Tripitaka Spies the Woman

sānzàngjiànlejiào:「jièshāsēngkōngcáishuōzhèkuàngrénkànzǒuchūrénláile?」jièdào:「shīshāsēngzuòzheděnglǎozhūkànkànlái。」sānzàngjiànlejiào:「jièshāsēngkōngcáishuōzhèkuàngrénkànzǒuchūrénláile?」jièdào:「shīshāsēngzuòzheděnglǎozhūkànkànlái。」


逐句解 Line by line

sānzàngjiànlejiào:「jièshāsēngkōngcáishuōzhèkuàngrénkànzǒuchūrénláile?」 sānzàngjiànlejiào:「jièshāsēngkōngcáishuōzhèkuàngrénkànzǒuchūrénláile?」

Tripitaka, seeing her, called out: "Eight Rules! Sha Monk! Wukong said just now that this wilderness held no one — but look, there's a person coming out over there!"

A neat dramatic irony: the elder cites Wukong's own report of desolation — "no one here" — as grounds for marvelling at the woman, so that the very emptiness which should breed suspicion breeds only curiosity. Here 那裡 is deictic: Tripitaka is pointing at the woman he already sees, so the clause is an exclamatory statement ("look, there's someone coming out over there!"), not a genuine question — hence 那 (nà) (fourth tone), as against the interrogative or indefinite 那裡 (nǎ lǐ) "where / somewhere." The 了 (le) of 見了 / 來了 marks completed aspect.

jièdào:「shīshāsēngzuòzheděnglǎozhūkànkànlái。」 jièdào:「shīshāsēngzuòzheděnglǎozhūkànkànlái。」

Said Eight Rules, "Master, you and Sha Monk sit tight — let old Hog go and take a look."

坐著 "stay seated," 著 (zhe) (durative). 老豬 (lǎo zhū) "old Hog," Bajie's self-deprecating yet boastful way of naming himself. His eagerness to "go take a look" is the first sign of the appetite the next passages will expose.


總評 Commentary

The passage turns on a sharp irony of citation: Tripitaka repeats Wukong's plain truth — that the wilderness is empty of decent folk — and treats it not as a warning but as a wonder. The master's misreading begins here, before any illusion has even been tested; he is primed to be curious where he ought to be wary.

Bajie's quick volunteering to "take a look" sets the comic-lecherous interlude in motion. His readiness stands in pointed contrast to the absent Wukong, whose fire-eyes would have pierced the disguise at a glance — the party's true safeguard is precisely the disciple who is not there.