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第四十四回
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The Dharma-Body in Its Primal Cycle Meets the Powers of Cart-Slow · The Upright Heart Ferries Demon and Fiend Past the Spinal Pass

藏訖問潔
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藏訖問潔 Hidden, but Clean?

xíngzhědào:「cángdehǎome?」jièdào:「cáng便biàncángdehǎozhǐshìzànxiēshuǐláileyǒuxiēyānzàngchòuxiūèxīn。」xíngzhěxiàodào:「qiěláishòuyòngdànzhīgānjìngshēnzichūménli。」xíngzhědào:「cángdehǎome?」jièdào:「cáng便biàncángdehǎozhǐshì𪷽zànxiēshuǐláileyǒuxiēyānzàngchòuxiūèxīn。」xíngzhěxiàodào:「qiěláishòuyòngdànzhīgānjìngshēnzichūménli。」


逐句解 Line by line

xíngzhědào:「cángdehǎome?」 xíngzhědào:「cángdehǎome?」

Pilgrim said: "Have you hidden them well?"

is cáng, to hide; is the light de.

jièdào:「cáng便biàncángdehǎozhǐshìzànxiēshuǐláileyǒuxiēyānzàngchòuxiūèxīn。」 jièdào:「cáng便biàncángdehǎozhǐshì𪷽zànxiēshuǐláileyǒuxiēyānzàngchòuxiūèxīn。」

Eight Rules said: "As for hiding, they're hidden well enough — only some water splashed up and dirtied my clothes, and there's a filthy stench, so don't be squeamish about it."

Both instances of are cáng, the hide-verb, not the zàng of 三藏. 醃臟 is filthy, foul — and 惡心, to be disgusted, is the same word a modern Chinese speaker uses for nausea. He is telling his brother not to be squeamish while dripping.

xíngzhěxiàodào:「qiěláishòuyòng xíngzhěxiàodào:「qiěláishòuyòng

Pilgrim laughed: "Very well — come and enjoy yourself.

也罷, "very well then" — is the verb , a shrug, not the light ba that softens a request.

dànzhīgānjìngshēnzichūménli。」 dànzhīgānjìngshēnzichūménli。」

Though I wonder whether we'll get out the door with a clean body."

The dry line that turns out to be the plot. Whether they get out of here clean is precisely the question, and the answer arrives three passages later in the form of a lychee stone. in 可得 is full ; is gān, clean; is the light zi; is before .


總評 Commentary

A short beat of consequences before the eating resumes. The gods are hidden well enough, at the price of a robe soaked in what was in the pit, and Bajie tells his brother not to be squeamish about a smell he is himself carrying.

Wukong's dry answer — he wonders whether they will get out of the door with a clean body — sounds like a joke about the stink and is in fact the plot. They will not.