第三十三回 · 攝眾入洞 Seizing the Company into the Cave — Journey to the West

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攝眾入洞 Seizing the Company into the Cave

那nà魔mó十shí分fēn兇xiōng猛měng，使shǐ口kǒu寶bǎo劍jiàn，流liú星xīng的de解xiè數shù滾gǔn來lái，把bǎ個gè沙shā僧sēng戰zhàn得de軟ruǎn弱ruò難nán搪táng，回huí頭tóu要yào走zǒu。早zǎo被bèi他tā逼bī住zhù寶bǎo杖zhàng，掄lūn開kāi大dà手shǒu，撾zhuā住zhù沙shā僧sēng，挾xié在zài左zuǒ脅xié下xià；將jiāng右yòu手shǒu去qù馬mǎ上shàng拿ná了le三sān藏zàng，腳jiǎo尖jiān兒er鉤gōu著zhe行xíng李lǐ，張zhāng開kāi口kǒu咬yǎo著zhe馬mǎ鬃zōng；使shǐ起qǐ攝shè法fǎ，把bǎ他tā們men一yí陣zhèn風fēng，都dōu拿ná到dào蓮lián花huā洞dòng裡lǐ，厲lì聲shēng高gāo叫jiào道dào：「哥gē哥ge！這zhè和hé尚shàng都dōu拿ná來lái了le。」那nà魔mó十shí分fēn凶xiōng猛měng，使shǐ口kǒu宝bǎo剑jiàn，流liú星xīng的de解xiè数shù滚gǔn来lái，把bǎ个gè沙shā僧sēng战zhàn得de软ruǎn弱ruò难nán搪táng，回huí头tóu要yào走zǒu。早zǎo被bèi他tā逼bī住zhù宝bǎo杖zhàng，抡lūn开kāi大dà手shǒu，挝zhuā住zhù沙shā僧sēng，挟xié在zài左zuǒ胁xié下xià；将jiāng右yòu手shǒu去qù马mǎ上shàng拿ná了le三sān藏zàng，脚jiǎo尖jiān儿er钩gōu着zhe行xíng李lǐ，张zhāng开kāi口kǒu咬yǎo着zhe马mǎ鬃zōng；使shǐ起qǐ摄shè法fǎ，把bǎ他tā们men一yí阵zhèn风fēng，都dōu拿ná到dào莲lián花huā洞dòng里lǐ，厉lì声shēng高gāo叫jiào道dào：「哥gē哥ge！这zhè和hé尚shàng都dōu拿ná来lái了le。」

逐句解 Line by line

那nà魔mó十shí分fēn兇xiōng猛měng，使shǐ口kǒu寶bǎo劍jiàn，流liú星xīng的de解xiè數shù滾gǔn來lái，把bǎ個gè沙shā僧sēng戰zhàn得de軟ruǎn弱ruò難nán搪táng，回huí頭tóu要yào走zǒu。那nà魔mó十shí分fēn凶xiōng猛měng，使shǐ口kǒu宝bǎo剑jiàn，流liú星xīng的de解xiè数shù滚gǔn来lái，把bǎ个gè沙shā僧sēng战zhàn得de软ruǎn弱ruò难nán搪táng，回huí头tóu要yào走zǒu。

The fiend was fierce beyond measure: wielding his precious sword, its meteor-swift passes came rolling in, until Sha Monk, worn weak and hard put to parry, turned to flee.

流星的解數 (liú xīng de xiè shù) is sword-work coming in as fast as falling stars, 解數 being the same set of fighting moves Pilgrim showed off at the top of the chapter -- the storyteller pays the demon the compliment of the same word. 戰得軟弱難搪 (zhàn de ruǎn ruò nán táng), "fought until he was weak and could hardly fend it off"; 搪 (táng) is to parry.

早zǎo被bèi他tā逼bī住zhù寶bǎo杖zhàng，掄lūn開kāi大dà手shǒu，撾zhuā住zhù沙shā僧sēng，挾xié在zài左zuǒ脅xié下xià；將jiāng右yòu手shǒu去qù馬mǎ上shàng拿ná了le三sān藏zàng，腳jiǎo尖jiān兒er鉤gōu著zhe行xíng李lǐ，張zhāng開kāi口kǒu咬yǎo著zhe馬mǎ鬃zōng；使shǐ起qǐ攝shè法fǎ，把bǎ他tā們men一yí陣zhèn風fēng，都dōu拿ná到dào蓮lián花huā洞dòng裡lǐ，厲lì聲shēng高gāo叫jiào道dào：「哥gē哥ge！早zǎo被bèi他tā逼bī住zhù宝bǎo杖zhàng，抡lūn开kāi大dà手shǒu，挝zhuā住zhù沙shā僧sēng，挟xié在zài左zuǒ胁xié下xià；将jiāng右yòu手shǒu去qù马mǎ上shàng拿ná了le三sān藏zàng，脚jiǎo尖jiān儿er钩gōu着zhe行xíng李lǐ，张zhāng开kāi口kǒu咬yǎo着zhe马mǎ鬃zōng；使shǐ起qǐ摄shè法fǎ，把bǎ他tā们men一yí阵zhèn风fēng，都dōu拿ná到dào莲lián花huā洞dòng里lǐ，厉lì声shēng高gāo叫jiào道dào：「哥gē哥ge！

At once the fiend pinned the staff fast, swung his great hand around, seized Sha Monk and clamped him under his left arm; with his right hand he plucked Tripitaka from the horse, hooked the baggage on his toe-tips, and, opening his mouth, gripped the horse's mane in his teeth; then, working a spell of snatching, he bore them all off on a gust of wind into the Lotus-Flower Cave, and cried in a great voice: "Brother!

Read this sentence as choreography and it is grotesque and funny at once: Sha Monk clamped under one arm (挾在左脅下, "under the left flank"), Tripitaka lifted off with the other hand, the luggage hooked on 腳尖兒 (jiǎo jiān er), the toe-tips, and the horse's mane gripped in his teeth. Four limbs, four captives. 攝法 (shè fǎ) is a fetching-spell, magic for moving things you have hold of, and 蓮花洞 is the Lotus-Flower Cave, the lair the rest of the episode will revolve around.

這zhè和hé尚shàng都dōu拿ná來lái了le。」这zhè和hé尚shàng都dōu拿ná来lái了le。」

"I've caught all these monks and brought them here."

都 (dōu), "the whole lot." The younger brother announces his haul, and for the second time in the chapter he is about to be told he has got it wrong.

總評 Commentary

Sha Monk is overmatched in a few strokes. The fiend pins his staff and then, in one continuous and faintly octopus-like motion, sweeps up the entire party: Sha Monk under an arm, Tripitaka off the horse in the other hand, luggage hooked on his toes, horse's mane in his teeth. The catalogue of grasping limbs is grimly funny and completely efficient -- a plan closing on its prey with nothing left over.

A fetching-spell carries them off on the wind to the Lotus-Flower Cave, the lair that will govern the rest of the episode, and the demon hails his brother with the news. The reversal that began when Pilgrim was pinned is now complete: the party that set out under Monkey's protection has been delivered whole into the enemy's hands, all but the one still buried.