Canonical Classics ← 第四十五回
第四十五回
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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.

雨夠了
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雨夠了 “Rain Enough”

guówángchuánzhǐdào:「gòulegòuleshífēnzàiduōyòuyǎnhuàilemiáofǎnwéiměi。」fènglóuxiàtīngshìguānmàoláibào:「shèngsēnggòule。」xíngzhěwényánjiāngjīnbàngwǎngshàngyòuzhǐguówángchuánzhǐdào:「gòulegòuleshífēnzàiduōyòuyǎnhuàilemiáofǎnwéiměi。」fènglóuxiàtīngshìguānmàoláibào:「shèngsēnggòule。」xíngzhěwényánjiāngjīnbàngwǎngshàngyòuzhǐ


逐句解 Line by line

guówángchuánzhǐdào:「gòulegòule guówángchuánzhǐdào:「gòulegòule

That king passed down a decree: “The rain is enough, the rain is enough;

那國王: = . 傳旨 "to pass down a command."

shífēnzàiduōyòuyǎnhuàilemiáofǎnwéiměi。」 shífēnzàiduōyòuyǎnhuàilemiáofǎnwéiměi。」

any more, and it would drown the young crops, and turn to no good.”

渰壞了 (yǎn) "to flood and ruin." 禾苗 "the seedling grain," the young crop the elders came about. 反為不美: = wéi, to become -- "would turn out badly instead." He is right, and it is the one genuinely competent thing he does all chapter.

fènglóuxiàtīngshìguānmàoláibào:「shèngsēnggòule。」 fènglóuxiàtīngshìguānmàoláibào:「shèngsēnggòule。」

Below the Five-Phoenix Tower, an attending officer spurred his horse through the rain to report, “Holy monk, the rain is enough.”

聽事官 "the officer in attendance." 策馬冒雨 "whipping his horse on through the rain," which is a nice detail: the messenger gets soaked delivering the news that there has been enough rain.

xíngzhěwényánjiāngjīnbàngwǎngshàngyòuzhǐ xíngzhěwényánjiāngjīnbàngwǎngshàngyòuzhǐ

Pilgrim, hearing it, pointed the gold-banded cudgel up once again.

將金箍棒: = jiāng. 往上又一指: = .


總評 Commentary

The rain is not merely produced, it is regulated. The king calls a halt because any more would drown the seedlings, and Wukong turns it off with a point of the stick.

That is the real demonstration, and it is easy to read past. Anyone might get lucky with a storm. Starting one on cue, holding it for a morning, and stopping it the moment the crops have had enough is not luck, and the clearing that follows will put the matter beyond argument.