第三十一回 · 扛擡到洞口 Hauled to the Cave-Mouth — Journey to the West

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扛擡到洞口 Hauled to the Cave-Mouth

卻què說shuō那nà獃dāi子zi被bèi一yì窩wō猴hóu子zi捉zhuō住zhù了le，扛káng擡tái扯chě拉lā，把bǎ一yí件jiàn直zhí裰duō子zi揪jiū破pò。口kǒu裡lǐ勞láo勞láo叨dāo叨dāo的de，自zì家jiā念niàn誦sòng道dào：「罷bà了le，罷bà了le，這zhè一yí去qù有yǒu個gè打dǎ殺shā的de情qíng了le。」不bù一yì時shí，到dào洞dòng口kǒu。那nà大dà聖shèng坐zuò在zài石shí崖yá之zhī上shàng，罵mà道dào：「你nǐ這zhè囊náng糠kāng的de夯hāng貨huò！你nǐ去qù便biàn罷bà了le，怎zěn麼me罵mà我wǒ？」八bā戒jiè跪guì在zài地dì下xià道dào：「哥gē啊a，我wǒ不bù曾céng罵mà你nǐ；若ruò罵mà你nǐ，就jiù嚼jué了le舌shé頭tóu根gēn。我wǒ只zhǐ說shuō哥gē哥gē不bú去qù，我wǒ自zì去qù報bào師shī父fù便biàn了liǎo。怎zěn敢gǎn罵mà你nǐ？」却què说shuō那nà呆dāi子zi被bèi一yì窝wō猴hóu子zi捉zhuō住zhù了le，扛káng擡tái扯chě拉lā，把bǎ一yí件jiàn直zhí裰duō子zi揪jiū破pò。口kǒu里lǐ劳láo劳láo叨dāo叨dāo的de，自zì家jiā念niàn诵sòng道dào：「罢bà了le，罢bà了le，这zhè一yí去qù有yǒu个gè打dǎ杀shā的de情qíng了le。」不bù一yì时shí，到dào洞dòng口kǒu。那nà大dà圣shèng坐zuò在zài石shí崖yá之zhī上shàng，骂mà道dào：「你nǐ这zhè囊náng糠kāng的de夯hāng货huò！你nǐ去qù便biàn罢bà了le，怎zěn么me骂mà我wǒ？」八bā戒jiè跪guì在zài地dì下xià道dào：「哥gē啊a，我wǒ不bù曾céng骂mà你nǐ；若ruò骂mà你nǐ，就jiù嚼jué了le舌shé头tóu根gēn。我wǒ只zhǐ说shuō哥gē哥gē不bú去qù，我wǒ自zì去qù报bào师shī父fù便biàn了liǎo。怎zěn敢gǎn骂mà你nǐ？」

逐句解 Line by line

卻què說shuō那nà獃dāi子zi被bèi一yì窩wō猴hóu子zi捉zhuō住zhù了le，扛káng擡tái扯chě拉lā，把bǎ一yí件jiàn直zhí裰duō子zi揪jiū破pò。却què说shuō那nà呆dāi子zi被bèi一yì窝wō猴hóu子zi捉zhuō住zhù了le，扛káng擡tái扯chě拉lā，把bǎ一yí件jiàn直zhí裰duō子zi揪jiū破pò。

Now the Blockhead, seized by a whole swarm of monkeys, was hoisted and hauled and dragged this way and that, until his cassock was torn clean through.

獃子 (dāizi), "the Blockhead," is the narrator's standing epithet for Zhu Bajie. A 直裰 (zhíduō) is a monk's long, straight-seamed robe.

口kǒu裡lǐ勞láo勞láo叨dāo叨dāo的de，自zì家jiā念niàn誦sòng道dào：「罷bà了le，罷bà了le，這zhè一yí去qù有yǒu個gè打dǎ殺shā的de情qíng了le。」口kǒu里lǐ劳láo劳láo叨dāo叨dāo的de，自zì家jiā念niàn诵sòng道dào：「罢bà了le，罢bà了le，这zhè一yí去qù有yǒu个gè打dǎ杀shā的de情qíng了le。」

Muttering and grumbling to himself, he recited under his breath: "Done for, done for — this time there's surely a beating-to-death in it."

勞勞叨叨 (láoláo dāodāo) is an onomatopoeic reduplication for peevish, ceaseless muttering. 罷了 (bàle), "enough, it's finished."

不bù一yì時shí，到dào洞dòng口kǒu。不bù一yì时shí，到dào洞dòng口kǒu。

In no time at all they reached the cave-mouth.

不一時 (bù yìshí), "in less than a moment."

那nà大dà聖shèng坐zuò在zài石shí崖yá之zhī上shàng，罵mà道dào：「你nǐ這zhè囊náng糠kāng的de夯hāng貨huò！那nà大dà圣shèng坐zuò在zài石shí崖yá之zhī上shàng，骂mà道dào：「你nǐ这zhè囊náng糠kāng的de夯hāng货huò！

The Great Sage, seated atop the stone bluff, railed at him: "You chaff-stuffed lout!

囊糠 (nángkāng), literally "a bag of chaff" — empty, worthless. 夯貨 (hānghuò) is a coarse term of abuse, "oaf, blockish lump."

你nǐ去qù便biàn罷bà了le，怎zěn麼me罵mà我wǒ？」你nǐ去qù便biàn罢bà了le，怎zěn么me骂mà我wǒ？」

You might simply have gone on your way — why curse me?"

便罷了 (biàn bàle), "and that would have been the end of it."

八bā戒jiè跪guì在zài地dì下xià道dào：「哥gē啊a，我wǒ不bù曾céng罵mà你nǐ；若ruò罵mà你nǐ，就jiù嚼jué了le舌shé頭tóu根gēn。八bā戒jiè跪guì在zài地dì下xià道dào：「哥gē啊a，我wǒ不bù曾céng骂mà你nǐ；若ruò骂mà你nǐ，就jiù嚼jué了le舌shé头tóu根gēn。

Bajie, kneeling on the ground, said: "Brother, I never cursed you; had I cursed you, may I chew the very root of my tongue.

舌頭根 (shétóugēn), "the root of the tongue" — the pledge is a folk self-imprecation.

我wǒ只zhǐ說shuō哥gē哥gē不bú去qù，我wǒ自zì去qù報bào師shī父fù便biàn了liǎo。我wǒ只zhǐ说shuō哥gē哥gē不bú去qù，我wǒ自zì去qù报bào师shī父fù便biàn了liǎo。

I only said that if my brother would not go, I would go myself to report to our master, and there would be an end of it.

便了 (biànliǎo) carries the settling sense "and that settles it"; 了 is read liǎo in this collocation.

怎zěn敢gǎn罵mà你nǐ？」怎zěn敢gǎn骂mà你nǐ？」

How would I ever dare curse you?"

怎敢 (zěn gǎn), "how would I dare."

總評 Commentary

The chapter opens on pure farce. Wukong, still nursing the wound of his banishment, has set his monkeys to seize Bajie and drag him to the cave-mouth, and the comedy runs on a misunderstanding: convinced that Bajie cursed him behind his back on the road, the Great Sage stands on wounded dignity while the terrified pig scrambles to deny it.

The scene is built from the low-register vocabulary the novel reserves for Bajie — 獃子, 夯貨, the peevish reduplications of his muttering — and from his instant, self-abasing oaths. Beneath the humor, though, the machinery of the chapter's title is already turning: Bajie has come to "goad the Monkey King" (義激猴王), and Wukong's very touchiness about being mocked is the lever the pig will learn to pull.