第三十回 · 獃子溷跡 Bajie Slips In — Journey to the West

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獃子溷跡 Bajie Slips In

八bā戒jiè道dào：「且qiě是shì好hǎo受shòu用yòng，且qiě是shì好hǎo受shòu用yòng，怪guài道dào他tā不bù肯kěn做zuò和hé尚shàng，只zhǐ要yào來lái家jiā哩li，原yuán來lái有yǒu這zhè些xiē好hǎo處chù，許xǔ大dà的de家jiā業yè，又yòu有yǒu這zhè多duō的de小xiǎo猴hóu伏fú侍shì。若ruò是shì老lǎo豬zhū有yǒu這zhè一yí座zuò山shān場chǎng，也yě不bú做zuò甚shén麼me和hé尚shàng了le。如rú今jīn既jì到dào這zhè裡lǐ，卻què怎zěn麼me好hǎo？必bì定dìng要yào見jiàn他tā一yí見jiàn是shì。」那nà獃dāi子zi有yǒu些xiē怕pà他tā，又yòu不bù敢gǎn明míng明míng的de見jiàn他tā，卻què往wǎng草cǎo崖yá邊biān溜liū阿ā溜liū的de，溜liū在zài那nà一yì千qiān二èr三sān百bǎi猴hóu子zi當dāng中zhōng擠jǐ著zhe，也yě跟gēn那nà些xiē猴hóu子zi磕kē頭tóu。八bā戒jiè道dào：「且qiě是shì好hǎo受shòu用yòng，且qiě是shì好hǎo受shòu用yòng，怪guài道dào他tā不bù肯kěn做zuò和hé尚shàng，只zhǐ要yào来lái家jiā哩li，原yuán来lái有yǒu这zhè些xiē好hǎo处chù，许xǔ大dà的de家jiā业yè，又yòu有yǒu这zhè多duō的de小xiǎo猴hóu伏fú侍shì。若ruò是shì老lǎo猪zhū有yǒu这zhè一yí座zuò山shān场chǎng，也yě不bú做zuò甚shén么me和hé尚shàng了le。如rú今jīn既jì到dào这zhè里lǐ，却què怎zěn么me好hǎo？必bì定dìng要yào见jiàn他tā一yí见jiàn是shì。」那nà呆dāi子zi有yǒu些xiē怕pà他tā，又yòu不bù敢gǎn明míng明míng的de见jiàn他tā，却què往wǎng草cǎo崖yá边biān溜liū阿ā溜liū的de，溜liū在zài那nà一yì千qiān二èr三sān百bǎi猴hóu子zi当dāng中zhōng挤jǐ着zhe，也yě跟gēn那nà些xiē猴hóu子zi磕kē头tóu。

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八bā戒jiè道dào：「且qiě是shì好hǎo受shòu用yòng，且qiě是shì好hǎo受shòu用yòng，怪guài道dào他tā不bù肯kěn做zuò和hé尚shàng，只zhǐ要yào來lái家jiā哩li，原yuán來lái有yǒu這zhè些xiē好hǎo處chù，許xǔ大dà的de家jiā業yè，又yòu有yǒu這zhè多duō的de小xiǎo猴hóu伏fú侍shì。八bā戒jiè道dào：「且qiě是shì好hǎo受shòu用yòng，且qiě是shì好hǎo受shòu用yòng，怪guài道dào他tā不bù肯kěn做zuò和hé尚shàng，只zhǐ要yào来lái家jiā哩li，原yuán来lái有yǒu这zhè些xiē好hǎo处chù，许xǔ大dà的de家jiā业yè，又yòu有yǒu这zhè多duō的de小xiǎo猴hóu伏fú侍shì。

Bajie said: "What ease and plenty! What ease and plenty! No wonder he wouldn't be a monk and only wanted to come home — with such good things here, so grand an estate, and all these little monkeys to wait on him.

Bajie's reaction to the crisis of the pilgrimage is envy. 怪道 is "no wonder"; 家業 is a family estate, the whole property and standing of a household; 伏侍 is to wait upon somebody. The vernacular sentence-final 哩 is li.

若ruò是shì老lǎo豬zhū有yǒu這zhè一yí座zuò山shān場chǎng，也yě不bú做zuò甚shén麼me和hé尚shàng了le。若ruò是shì老lǎo猪zhū有yǒu这zhè一yí座zuò山shān场chǎng，也yě不bú做zuò甚shén么me和hé尚shàng了le。

If old Pig had a mountain-domain like this, he'd give up being a monk too."

山場 is a mountain-domain, an estate in the hills — and here 場 is read chǎng, because this is a real place, unlike the cháng of 一場 counting an episode or a bout. 甚麼 takes 甚 as shén. He has just said out loud that he would give up the quest for real estate.

如rú今jīn既jì到dào這zhè裡lǐ，卻què怎zěn麼me好hǎo？必bì定dìng要yào見jiàn他tā一yí見jiàn是shì。」如rú今jīn既jì到dào这zhè里lǐ，却què怎zěn么me好hǎo？必bì定dìng要yào见jiàn他tā一yí见jiàn是shì。」

Now that I've come this far, what's the best way? I really must see him."

He talks himself into facing the monkey he is afraid of.

那nà獃dāi子zi有yǒu些xiē怕pà他tā，又yòu不bù敢gǎn明míng明míng的de見jiàn他tā，卻què往wǎng草cǎo崖yá邊biān溜liū阿ā溜liū的de，溜liū在zài那nà一yì千qiān二èr三sān百bǎi猴hóu子zi當dāng中zhōng擠jǐ著zhe，也yě跟gēn那nà些xiē猴hóu子zi磕kē頭tóu。那nà呆dāi子zi有yǒu些xiē怕pà他tā，又yòu不bù敢gǎn明míng明míng的de见jiàn他tā，却què往wǎng草cǎo崖yá边biān溜liū阿ā溜liū的de，溜liū在zài那nà一yì千qiān二èr三sān百bǎi猴hóu子zi当dāng中zhōng挤jǐ着zhe，也yě跟gēn那nà些xiē猴hóu子zi磕kē头tóu。

The blockhead, being somewhat afraid of him and not daring to show himself openly, slipped and slunk along by the grassy cliff-edge, wormed his way in among the twelve or thirteen hundred monkeys, and kowtowed along with them.

溜阿溜的 is slinking, sliding along; 當中 takes 中 as zhōng; in 擠著 the 著 is zhe. All three instances of 那 are pointing nà. A pig the size of a man burrows into a crowd of monkeys and starts kowtowing along with them, and imagines this will work.

總評 Commentary

The reaction is pure comic self-revelation. Faced with Wukong's estate, Bajie's first thought is not the mission but envy — such ease, such property, such servants — and he says frankly that he would give up the monkhood for the like. Then the furtive slinking into the ranks and kowtowing along with the monkeys, because he dare not face Wukong directly, sets the recognition scene up with a clown's cowardice.