第三十回 · 妖魔陪禮 The Demon Makes Amends — Journey to the West

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妖魔陪禮 The Demon Makes Amends

那nà妖yāo見jiàn沙shā僧sēng說shuō得de雄xióng壯zhuàng，遂suì丟diū了le刀dāo，雙shuāng手shǒu抱bào起qǐ公gōng主zhǔ道dào：「是shì我wǒ一yì時shí粗cū鹵lǔ，多duō有yǒu衝chōng撞zhuàng，莫mò怪guài莫mò怪guài。」遂suì與yǔ他tā挽wǎn了le青qīng絲sī，扶fú上shàng寶bǎo髻jì，軟ruǎn款kuǎn溫wēn柔róu，怡yí顏yán悅yuè色sè，撮cuō哄hǒng著zhe他tā進jìn去qù了le，又yòu請qǐng上shàng坐zuò陪péi禮lǐ。那nà妖yāo见jiàn沙shā僧sēng说shuō得de雄xióng壮zhuàng，遂suì丢diū了le刀dāo，双shuāng手shǒu抱bào起qǐ公gōng主zhǔ道dào：「是shì我wǒ一yì时shí粗cū卤lǔ，多duō有yǒu冲chōng撞zhuàng，莫mò怪guài莫mò怪guài。」遂suì与yǔ他tā挽wǎn了le青qīng丝sī，扶fú上shàng宝bǎo髻jì，软ruǎn款kuǎn温wēn柔róu，怡yí颜yán悦yuè色sè，撮cuō哄hǒng著zhe他tā进jìn去qù了le，又yòu请qǐng上shàng坐zuò陪péi礼lǐ。

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那nà妖yāo見jiàn沙shā僧sēng說shuō得de雄xióng壯zhuàng，遂suì丟diū了le刀dāo，雙shuāng手shǒu抱bào起qǐ公gōng主zhǔ道dào：「是shì我wǒ一yì時shí粗cū鹵lǔ，多duō有yǒu衝chōng撞zhuàng，莫mò怪guài莫mò怪guài。」那nà妖yāo见jiàn沙shā僧sēng说shuō得de雄xióng壮zhuàng，遂suì丢diū了le刀dāo，双shuāng手shǒu抱bào起qǐ公gōng主zhǔ道dào：「是shì我wǒ一yì时shí粗cū卤lǔ，多duō有yǒu冲chōng撞zhuàng，莫mò怪guài莫mò怪guài。」

Seeing how stoutly Sha the Monk spoke, the demon flung down his blade, lifted the princess up in both arms, and said: "It was my own moment’s coarseness — I gave much offense; do not hold it against me, do not hold it against me."

說得雄壯 takes the structural 得 (de), "spoke so stoutly, so valiantly." 粗鹵 is 粗魯, "crude, rough-mannered." Sha’s defense has, to all appearance, satisfied the fiend, and his fury reverses in an instant.

遂suì與yǔ他tā挽wǎn了le青qīng絲sī，扶fú上shàng寶bǎo髻jì，軟ruǎn款kuǎn溫wēn柔róu，怡yí顏yán悅yuè色sè，撮cuō哄hǒng著zhe他tā進jìn去qù了le，又yòu請qǐng上shàng坐zuò陪péi禮lǐ。遂suì与yǔ他tā挽wǎn了le青qīng丝sī，扶fú上shàng宝bǎo髻jì，软ruǎn款kuǎn温wēn柔róu，怡yí颜yán悦yuè色sè，撮cuō哄hǒng著zhe他tā进jìn去qù了le，又yòu请qǐng上shàng坐zuò陪péi礼lǐ。

Then he smoothed her dark tresses for her and set her jeweled coiffure to rights, and — all gentleness and warmth, his face softened with pleasure — coaxed her back inside, inviting her to the seat of honor to make his amends.

青絲 ("dark silk") is a poetic word for a woman’s black hair; 寶髻 her jeweled hair-knot. In 撮哄著 ("cajoling, coaxing") the durative 著 is read zhe. The doting husband returns as abruptly as he had vanished.

總評 Commentary

The demon’s instant swing from murderous fury to doting tenderness completes his portrait as a creature of volatile appetite: his affection and his violence are equally sudden, equally shallow. Sha’s speech prevails not by moral force but because it hands the demon a face-saving version of events he can accept.

The tender vocabulary here — 挽青絲, 軟款溫柔, 怡顏悅色 — mirrors and reverses the physiognomy of rage from an earlier passage (怒目攢眉, 咬牙切齒), so that the demon’s two moods read as mere changes of weather over the same shallow ground.