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含詞賦 With rhapsody
釘鈀讚
In Praise of the Rake
那怪認得是八戒，掣出寶刀，上前就砍。這獃子舉釘鈀按住道：「我的兒，休無禮，看鈀！」那怪笑道：「這和尚是半路上出家的。」八戒道：「好兒子，有些靈性。你怎麼就曉得老爺是半路出家的？」那怪道：「你會使這鈀，一定是在人家園圃中築地，把他這鈀偷將來也。」八戒道：「我的兒，你那裡認得老爺這鈀，我不比那築地之鈀。這是：那怪认得是八戒，掣出宝刀，上前就砍。这呆子举钉钯按住道：「我的儿，休无礼，看钯！」那怪笑道：「这和尚是半路上出家的。」八戒道：「好儿子，有些灵性。你怎么就晓得老爷是半路出家的？」那怪道：「你会使这钯，一定是在人家园圃中筑地，把他这钯偷将来也。」八戒道：「我的儿，你那里认得老爷这钯，我不比那筑地之钯。这是：
巨齒鑄來如龍爪，滲金妝就似虎形。巨齿铸来如龙爪，渗金妆就似虎形。
若逢對敵寒風灑，但遇相持火燄生。若逢对敌寒风洒，但遇相持火燄生。
能替唐僧消障礙，西天路上捉妖精。能替唐僧消障碍，西天路上捉妖精。
輪動煙霞遮日月，使起昏雲暗斗星。轮动烟霞遮日月，使起昏云暗斗星。
築倒泰山老虎怕，掀翻大海老龍驚。筑倒泰山老虎怕，掀翻大海老龙惊。
饒你這妖有手段，一鈀九個血窟窿。」饶你这妖有手段，一钯九个血窟窿。」
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那怪認得是八戒，掣出寶刀，上前就砍。
那怪认得是八戒，掣出宝刀，上前就砍。
The fiend, knowing him for Eight Rules, drew his precious sabre and came forward to hack at him.
掣出寶刀 (chè chū bǎo dāo), "drew his precious sabre." 那 nà; 認得 — 得 de.
這獃子舉釘鈀按住道：「我的兒，休無禮，看鈀！」
这呆子举钉钯按住道：「我的儿，休无礼，看钯！」
The blockhead raised his rake to fend it off and said: “My boy, mind your manners — mind the rake!”
我的兒 (wǒ de ér), "my boy" (mock-condescending) — 兒 ér. 釘鈀 — 鈀 pá.
那怪笑道：「這和尚是半路上出家的。」
那怪笑道：「这和尚是半路上出家的。」
The fiend laughed: “This monk took up the cloth halfway through life.”
半路出家 (bàn lù chū jiā), "to enter the religious life midway" — an amateur. 那 nà.
八戒道：「好兒子，有些靈性。你怎麼就曉得老爺是半路出家的？」
八戒道：「好儿子，有些灵性。你怎么就晓得老爷是半路出家的？」
Said Eight Rules: “Good boy, you’ve some wit about you. How did you know your lordship took the cloth halfway?”
好兒子 (hǎo ér zi), "good boy" — 兒 ér. 曉得 — 得 de.
那怪道：「你會使這鈀，一定是在人家園圃中築地，把他這鈀偷將來也。」
那怪道：「你会使这钯，一定是在人家园圃中筑地，把他这钯偷将来也。」
Said the fiend: “You know how to wield that rake — surely you were tamping earth in some man’s garden-plot and stole the rake away.”
園圃中築地 (yuán pǔ zhōng zhù dì), "tamping earth in a garden-plot." 那 nà; 中 zhōng; 偷將來 — 將 jiāng.
八戒道：「我的兒，你那裡認得老爺這鈀，我不比那築地之鈀。這是：
八戒道：「我的儿，你那里认得老爷这钯，我不比那筑地之钯。这是：
Said Eight Rules: “My boy, how would you know your lordship’s rake? Mine is nothing like that earth-tamping sort. This is —
你那裡認得 (nǐ nǎ lǐ rèn de), "how would you know" — rhetorical 那 nǎ; but 那築地之鈀 deictic nà. 兒 ér; 得 de.
巨齒鑄來如龍爪，滲金妝就似虎形。
巨齿铸来如龙爪，渗金妆就似虎形。
Its great teeth cast like a dragon’s claws; wrought and gold-inlaid to a tiger’s form.
巨齒鑄來 (jù chǐ zhù lái), "great teeth cast." 滲金妝就, "gold-infused and adorned." 似 sì.
若逢對敵寒風灑，但遇相持火燄生。
若逢对敌寒风洒，但遇相持火燄生。
Meeting a foe, it sends a cold wind flying; joined in the fray, it makes the fire-flames leap.
寒風灑 / 火燄生 (hán fēng sǎ / huǒ yàn shēng), "cold wind flying / fire-flames leaping." 相持 — 相 xiāng.
能替唐僧消障礙，西天路上捉妖精。
能替唐僧消障碍，西天路上捉妖精。
It can clear the Tang Monk’s obstacles away, and on the western road seize fiend and sprite.
消障礙 (xiāo zhàng’ài), "to clear obstacles." 捉妖精, "to seize fiends."
輪動煙霞遮日月，使起昏雲暗斗星。
轮动烟霞遮日月，使起昏云暗斗星。
Swung, it stirs mist and cloud to veil the sun and moon; wielded, it raises dark vapors to dim the Dipper’s stars.
輪動 (lún dòng), "to swing, whirl." 暗斗星 — 斗 dǒu (the Dipper).
築倒泰山老虎怕，掀翻大海老龍驚。
筑倒泰山老虎怕，掀翻大海老龙惊。
It tamps down Mount Tai till the old tiger quails; it heaves up the great sea till the old dragon starts.
築倒泰山 (zhù dǎo Tài shān), "tamps down Mount Tai" — 倒 dǎo. 掀翻大海, "heaves up the sea."
饒你這妖有手段，一鈀九個血窟窿。」
饶你这妖有手段，一钯九个血窟窿。」
For all your fiendish skill, one blow of this rake — and nine bloody holes.”
血窟窿 (xuè kū long), "bloody holes." 饒你, "for all your…"; 一鈀 — 鈀 pá.
總評 Commentary
Cornered, Eight Rules falls back on bravado, trading mocking insults with Silver-Horn (“my boy, mind your manners”) and rising, characteristically, to defend the honor of his rake when the fiend jibes that he must have stolen it from a garden. The exchange sets up a set-piece 讚 in praise of the weapon.
The rhapsody catalogues the nine-tooth rake in the heroic-martial register — its dragon-claw teeth, its power to raise cold winds and fire, to dim the sun and the Dipper, to topple Mount Tai and the sea-dragon, and to leave “nine bloody holes” at a blow. The grandeur is comically at odds with the timorous, boastful pig who wields it, but the rake is a genuine weapon of power, and the 讚 lends the coming fight a mock-epic dignity.