第三十二回 · 照驗影圖 The Portrait — Journey to the West

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照驗影圖 The Portrait

金jīn角jiǎo道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，你nǐ有yǒu些xiē性xìng急jí，且qiě莫mò忙máng著zhe。你nǐ若ruò走zǒu出chū門mén，不bù管guǎn好hǎo歹dǎi，但dàn是shì和hé尚shàng就jiù拿ná將jiāng來lái，假jiǎ如rú不bú是shì唐táng僧sēng，卻què也yě不bù當dāng人rén子zi。我wǒ記jì得de他tā的de模mú樣yàng，曾céng將jiāng他tā師shī徒tú畫huà了le一yí個gè影yǐng，圖tú了le一yí個gè形xíng。你nǐ可kě拿ná去qù，但dàn遇yù著zháo和hé尚shàng，以yǐ此cǐ照zhào驗yàn照zhào驗yàn。」又yòu將jiāng某mǒu人rén是shì某mǒu名míng字zì，一yì一yì說shuō了le。銀yín角jiǎo得dé了le圖tú像xiàng，知zhī道dào姓xìng名míng，即jí出chū洞dòng，點diǎn起qǐ三sān十shí名míng小xiǎo怪guài，便biàn來lái山shān上shàng巡xún邏luó。金jīn角jiǎo道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，你nǐ有yǒu些xiē性xìng急jí，且qiě莫mò忙máng着zhe。你nǐ若ruò走zǒu出chū门mén，不bù管guǎn好hǎo歹dǎi，但dàn是shì和hé尚shàng就jiù拿ná将jiāng来lái，假jiǎ如rú不bú是shì唐táng僧sēng，却què也yě不bù当dāng人rén子zi。我wǒ记jì得de他tā的de模mú样yàng，曾céng将jiāng他tā师shī徒tú画huà了le一yí个gè影yǐng，图tú了le一yí个gè形xíng。你nǐ可kě拿ná去qù，但dàn遇yù着zháo和hé尚shàng，以yǐ此cǐ照zhào验yàn照zhào验yàn。」又yòu将jiāng某mǒu人rén是shì某mǒu名míng字zì，一yì一yì说shuō了le。银yín角jiǎo得dé了le图tú像xiàng，知zhī道dào姓xìng名míng，即jí出chū洞dòng，点diǎn起qǐ三sān十shí名míng小xiǎo怪guài，便biàn来lái山shān上shàng巡xún逻luó。

逐句解 Line by line

金jīn角jiǎo道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，你nǐ有yǒu些xiē性xìng急jí，且qiě莫mò忙máng著zhe。你nǐ若ruò走zǒu出chū門mén，不bù管guǎn好hǎo歹dǎi，但dàn是shì和hé尚shàng就jiù拿ná將jiāng來lái，假jiǎ如rú不bú是shì唐táng僧sēng，卻què也yě不bù當dāng人rén子zi。金jīn角jiǎo道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，你nǐ有yǒu些xiē性xìng急jí，且qiě莫mò忙máng着zhe。你nǐ若ruò走zǒu出chū门mén，不bù管guǎn好hǎo歹dǎi，但dàn是shì和hé尚shàng就jiù拿ná将jiāng来lái，假jiǎ如rú不bú是shì唐táng僧sēng，却què也yě不bù当dāng人rén子zi。

Said Golden-Horn: "Brother, you're a bit hasty — don't rush off just yet. If you go out the gate and, heedless of good or ill, seize any monk you find, then should it not be the Tang Monk, it would not do at all.

Golden-Horn is the careful one. 性急, xìng jí, "hasty by temperament" — still the everyday way to call someone impatient. 不當人子 is a Ming expression of dismay, roughly "that would never do." 忙著 takes 著 as zhe; 拿將來 takes 將 as jiāng. Grab the wrong monk and the whole thing is spoiled.

我wǒ記jì得de他tā的de模mú樣yàng，曾céng將jiāng他tā師shī徒tú畫huà了le一yí個gè影yǐng，圖tú了le一yí個gè形xíng。我wǒ记jì得de他tā的de模mú样yàng，曾céng将jiāng他tā师shī徒tú画huà了le一yí个gè影yǐng，图tú了le一yí个gè形xíng。

I remember his likeness, and once had the master and his disciples drawn — a portrait made, a figure sketched.

So there is a portrait. 模樣, mú yàng, "likeness, appearance" — 模 read mú, the shape or mould, not the mó of a model to imitate. 畫了一個影，圖了一個形 is the same paired phrase the woodcutter used back at the warning, 畫影圖形 — the vocabulary of a wanted poster. 記得 takes 得 as de; 將他師徒 takes 將 as jiāng.

你nǐ可kě拿ná去qù，但dàn遇yù著zháo和hé尚shàng，以yǐ此cǐ照zhào驗yàn照zhào驗yàn。」你nǐ可kě拿ná去qù，但dàn遇yù着zháo和hé尚shàng，以yǐ此cǐ照zhào验yàn照zhào验yàn。」

Take it with you, and whenever you meet a monk, check him against it."

照驗, zhào yàn, "to check against, to verify" — a term from official practice, matching a person to a document. 遇著 takes 著 as zháo, the 著 of a thing successfully happening upon. Every monk you meet, hold him up against the picture.

又yòu將jiāng某mǒu人rén是shì某mǒu名míng字zì，一yì一yì說shuō了le。又yòu将jiāng某mǒu人rén是shì某mǒu名míng字zì，一yì一yì说shuō了le。

And he told him, one by one, which figure bore which name.

某人是某名字, mǒu rén shì mǒu míng zì, "which one is called what." The names go with the faces. 又將 takes 將 as jiāng.

銀yín角jiǎo得dé了le圖tú像xiàng，知zhī道dào姓xìng名míng，即jí出chū洞dòng，點diǎn起qǐ三sān十shí名míng小xiǎo怪guài，便biàn來lái山shān上shàng巡xún邏luó。银yín角jiǎo得dé了le图tú像xiàng，知zhī道dào姓xìng名míng，即jí出chū洞dòng，点diǎn起qǐ三sān十shí名míng小xiǎo怪guài，便biàn来lái山shān上shàng巡xún逻luó。

Silver-Horn, having got the portrait and learned the names, went out of the cave at once, mustered thirty little fiends, and came up onto the mountain to patrol.

巡邏, xún luó, "to patrol" — a genuine police-and-garrison term, still the modern word for a patrol. 得了圖像 takes 得 as dé, obtained. Thirty little fiends, one portrait, one roster of names. And Eight Rules is coming up the same mountain.

總評 Commentary

Golden-Horn checks his brother's eagerness with a procedural point that is also a plot device: seize the wrong monk and the whole thing is ruined, so take the portrait. He has had the master and disciples drawn from memory, and he briefs Silver-Horn on which face carries which name. This is exactly what the disguised Merit-Officer warned about at the start of the chapter — 畫影圖形，抄名訪姓, likenesses painted and names copied down — and the warning turns out to have been literal rather than colourful.

With the picture and the roster, Silver-Horn musters thirty little fiends and heads up the mountain. And the two lines of the chapter are now pointed straight at each other: the truant, who has been ordered back out to do the reconnaissance he faked, is walking up the same slope as a demon carrying a portrait of his face. Everything needed for the collision is in place. The rest is arithmetic.