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魔揀行者
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魔揀行者 The Fiend Picks Pilgrim

那nà怪guài急jí回huí頭tóu,抹mǒ了le他tā一yì眼yǎn,道dào:「師shī父fù啊a,我wǒ被bèi那nà猛měng虎hǔ諕xià怕pà了le,見jiàn這zhè晦huì氣qì色sè臉liǎn的de師shī父fù,愈yù加jiā驚jīng怕pà,不bù敢gǎn要yào他tā馱tuó。」三sān藏zàng叫jiào道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ馱tuó罷ba。」行xíng者zhě連lián聲shēng答dá應yìng道dào:「我wǒ馱tuó,我wǒ馱tuó。」那nà妖yāo就jiù認rèn定dìng了le行xíng者zhě,順shùn順shùn的de要yào他tā馱tuó,再zài不bù言yán語yǔ。沙shā僧sēng笑xiào道dào:「這zhè個gè沒méi眼yǎn色sè的de老lǎo道dào。我wǒ馱tuó著zhe不bù好hǎo,顛diān倒dǎo要yào他tā馱tuó。他tā若ruò看kàn不bú見jiàn師shī父fù時shí,三sān尖jiān石shí上shàng,把bǎ觔jīn都dōu摜guàn斷duàn了le你nǐ的de哩li。」那nà怪guài急jí回huí头tóu,抹mǒ了le他tā一yì眼yǎn,道dào:「师shī父fù啊a,我wǒ被bèi那nà猛měng虎hǔ諕xià怕pà了le,见jiàn这zhè晦huì气qì色sè脸liǎn的de师shī父fù,愈yù加jiā惊jīng怕pà,不bù敢gǎn要yào他tā驮tuó。」三sān藏zàng叫jiào道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ驮tuó罢ba。」行xíng者zhě连lián声shēng答dá应yìng道dào:「我wǒ驮tuó,我wǒ驮tuó。」那nà妖yāo就jiù认rèn定dìng了le行xíng者zhě,顺shùn顺shùn的de要yào他tā驮tuó,再zài不bù言yán语yǔ。沙shā僧sēng笑xiào道dào:「这zhè个gè没méi眼yǎn色sè的de老lǎo道dào。我wǒ驮tuó着zhe不bù好hǎo,颠diān倒dǎo要yào他tā驮tuó。他tā若ruò看kàn不bú见jiàn师shī父fù时shí,三sān尖jiān石shí上shàng,把bǎ觔jīn都dōu掼guàn断duàn了le你nǐ的de哩li。」


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那nà怪guài急jí回huí頭tóu,抹mǒ了le他tā一yì眼yǎn,道dào:「師shī父fù啊a,我wǒ被bèi那nà猛měng虎hǔ諕xià怕pà了le,見jiàn這zhè晦huì氣qì色sè臉liǎn的de師shī父fù,愈yù加jiā驚jīng怕pà,不bù敢gǎn要yào他tā馱tuó。」 那nà怪guài急jí回huí头tóu,抹mǒ了le他tā一yì眼yǎn,道dào:「师shī父fù啊a,我wǒ被bèi那nà猛měng虎hǔ諕xià怕pà了le,见jiàn这zhè晦huì气qì色sè脸liǎn的de师shī父fù,愈yù加jiā惊jīng怕pà,不bù敢gǎn要yào他tā驮tuó。」

The fiend turned his head sharply, threw Sha Monk a glance, and said: "Master, I've been frightened out of my wits by that fierce tiger — and the sight of this ill-omened, dark-faced monk alarms me all the more. I dare not have him carry me."

抹了他一眼 (mǒ le tā yì yǎn) is a quick sideways look, a glance wiped across someone. 諕怕 (xià pà) uses the borrowed 諕 for 嚇 again. 晦氣色臉 (huì qì sè liǎn) is "a face the color of bad luck" -- Sha Monk's dark, grim looks, which the demon now finds conveniently terrifying.

三sān藏zàng叫jiào道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ馱tuó罷ba。」 三sān藏zàng叫jiào道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ驮tuó罢ba。」

Tripitaka called: "Wukong, you carry him."

The master, obliging a frightened old man, reassigns the burden -- and hands the demon the one carrier he was angling for all along. Every kindness in this scene lands exactly where the fiend aimed it.

行xíng者zhě連lián聲shēng答dá應yìng道dào:「我wǒ馱tuó,我wǒ馱tuó。」 行xíng者zhě连lián声shēng答dá应yìng道dào:「我wǒ驮tuó,我wǒ驮tuó。」

Pilgrim answered at once, again and again: "I'll carry him, I'll carry him."

連聲答應 (lián shēng dá yìng), "agreed with one cry after another" -- 應 read yìng, "to answer," which is also the reading that will matter enormously once the treasure-gourds start calling people by name. Pilgrim's eagerness is not innocence. He saw through the costume some time ago.

那nà妖yāo就jiù認rèn定dìng了le行xíng者zhě,順shùn順shùn的de要yào他tā馱tuó,再zài不bù言yán語yǔ。 那nà妖yāo就jiù认rèn定dìng了le行xíng者zhě,顺shùn顺shùn的de要yào他tā驮tuó,再zài不bù言yán语yǔ。

The monster thereupon settled on Pilgrim, meekly consenting to be carried by him, and said no more.

認定 (rèn dìng), "to fix on, to settle upon." 順順的 (shùn shùn de), "all meekness, perfectly biddable" -- the sudden docility of someone who has got what he came for.

沙shā僧sēng笑xiào道dào:「這zhè個gè沒méi眼yǎn色sè的de老lǎo道dào。我wǒ馱tuó著zhe不bù好hǎo,顛diān倒dǎo要yào他tā馱tuó。他tā若ruò看kàn不bú見jiàn師shī父fù時shí,三sān尖jiān石shí上shàng,把bǎ觔jīn都dōu摜guàn斷duàn了le你nǐ的de哩li。」 沙shā僧sēng笑xiào道dào:「这zhè个gè没méi眼yǎn色sè的de老lǎo道dào。我wǒ驮tuó着zhe不bù好hǎo,颠diān倒dǎo要yào他tā驮tuó。他tā若ruò看kàn不bú见jiàn师shī父fù时shí,三sān尖jiān石shí上shàng,把bǎ觔jīn都dōu掼guàn断duàn了le你nǐ的de哩li。」

Sha Monk laughed: "This purblind old Daoist! Better I should carry him — instead he wants that one. Let him once lose sight of the Master, and on some three-pointed rock he'll have every sinew in your body smashed to bits."

沒眼色 (méi yǎn sè) is "no eye for people," a failure to read a room. 顛倒 (diān dǎo) here means "the wrong way round, perversely," 倒 read dǎo. 摜斷 (guàn duàn) is to dash something down and snap it, and 觔 is the edition's form of 筋, sinew. Sha Monk's parting joke turns out to be an accurate forecast.


總評 Commentary

The demon's choice of carrier is the pivot of the whole scene. He feigns fresh terror at Sha Monk's dark, forbidding face, and the compassionate master duly reassigns the job to Pilgrim -- which was the object all along, since it is the Great Sage he intends to burden and then crush. The tell is his manner afterwards: all compliance, and not another word.

Pilgrim's eager "I'll carry him, I'll carry him" and Sha Monk's laughing aside make clear that the disciples are not deceived for a moment. Sha Monk's grim little prophecy -- that the purblind old Daoist will find his sinews smashed on a rock the moment the master is out of sight -- turns the demon's scheme inside out and sets up the contest of tricks to come. The comedy cuts both ways: each side is congratulating itself on having outwitted the other.