Canonical Classics ← 第四十五回
第四十五回
三sān清qīng觀guàn大dà聖shèng留liú名míng
車chē遲chí國guó猴hóu王wáng顯xiǎn法fǎ

At the Abbey of the Three Pure Ones the Great Sage leaves his name; in the Kingdom of Cart-Slow the Monkey King displays his magic.

該讓我了
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該讓我了 “Now Yield to Me”

吩fēn咐fù已yǐ畢bì,遂suì按àn下xià雲yún頭tóu,把bǎ毫háo毛máo一yì抖dǒu,收shōu上shàng身shēn來lái。那nà些xiē人rén肉ròu眼yǎn凡fán胎tāi,那nǎ裡lǐ曉xiǎo得de。行xíng者zhě遂suì在zài傍páng邊biān高gāo叫jiào道dào:「先xiān生shēng請qǐng了le。四sì聲shēng令lìng牌pái俱jù已yǐ響xiǎng畢bì,更gèng沒méi有yǒu風fēng雲yún雷léi雨yǔ,該gāi讓ràng我wǒ了le。」吩fēn咐fù已yǐ毕bì,遂suì按àn下xià云yún头tóu,把bǎ毫háo毛máo一yì抖dǒu,收shōu上shàng身shēn来lái。那nà些xiē人rén肉ròu眼yǎn凡fán胎tāi,那nǎ里lǐ晓xiǎo得de。行xíng者zhě遂suì在zài傍páng边biān高gāo叫jiào道dào:「先xiān生shēng请qǐng了le。四sì声shēng令lìng牌pái俱jù已yǐ响xiǎng毕bì,更gèng没méi有yǒu风fēng云yún雷léi雨yǔ,该gāi让ràng我wǒ了le。」


逐句解 Line by line

吩fēn咐fù已yǐ畢bì,遂suì按àn下xià雲yún頭tóu,把bǎ毫háo毛máo一yì抖dǒu,收shōu上shàng身shēn來lái。 吩fēn咐fù已yǐ毕bì,遂suì按àn下xià云yún头tóu,把bǎ毫háo毛máo一yì抖dǒu,收shōu上shàng身shēn来lái。

His instructions given, he then pressed down his cloud-head, gave his hair a shake, and drew it back onto his body.

吩咐已畢 "his orders finished." 按下雲頭 "pressed the cloud down," the standard way of landing. 一抖: the third tone of 抖 keeps 一 at yì. 收上身來 "drew it back into himself" -- the hair-double reabsorbed.

那nà些xiē人rén肉ròu眼yǎn凡fán胎tāi,那nǎ裡lǐ曉xiǎo得de。 那nà些xiē人rén肉ròu眼yǎn凡fán胎tāi,那nǎ里lǐ晓xiǎo得de。

Those people, with their mortal eyes and common flesh, how could they have known any of it?

那些: 那 = nà. 那裡曉得: 那 = nǎ, the questioning reading used rhetorically -- "how were they to know?"; 得 = de. 肉眼凡胎 "eyes of flesh and a common womb," the fixed phrase for ordinary mortals who cannot see what is really going on. It is used here almost kindly.

行xíng者zhě遂suì在zài傍páng邊biān高gāo叫jiào道dào:「先xiān生shēng請qǐng了le。 行xíng者zhě遂suì在zài傍páng边biān高gāo叫jiào道dào:「先xiān生shēng请qǐng了le。

Pilgrim then, at the side, called out loudly, “Sir, if you please.

傍邊: 傍 = páng, at the side. 行者: 行 = xíng. 先生請了 "after you, sir" -- the same courtesy he used to usher the immortal onto the altar, now used to usher him off it.

四sì聲shēng令lìng牌pái俱jù已yǐ響xiǎng畢bì,更gèng沒méi有yǒu風fēng雲yún雷léi雨yǔ,該gāi讓ràng我wǒ了le。」 四sì声shēng令lìng牌pái俱jù已yǐ响xiǎng毕bì,更gèng没méi有yǒu风fēng云yún雷léi雨yǔ,该gāi让ràng我wǒ了le。」

The four strokes of your command-tablet have all sounded and done, and still there is no wind, cloud, thunder, or rain — you ought to yield to me.”

俱已響畢 "all sounded and done with." 更沒有: 更 = gèng; 沒 = méi. 該讓我了 "you ought to give way to me now."


總評 Commentary

Wukong lands, reabsorbs his double, and none of it has been visible from the tower. What the court has seen is a man crack a tablet four times to no effect at all.

The narrator's aside about 肉眼凡胎 -- mortal eyes, common flesh -- is the novel telling us plainly that the audience in this story is watching the wrong thing. Everyone is looking at the platform. The contest was decided in the air.

And then, with the same "after you, sir" he used to send the immortal up, he asks him to come down. The courtesy is identical and the meaning has reversed completely.