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.

供獻俱空
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

供獻俱空 The Offerings All Gone

虎hǔ力lì大dà仙xiān道dào:「沒méi有yǒu歹dǎi人rén,如rú何hé把bǎ供gòng獻xiàn都dōu吃chī了le?」鹿lù力lì大dà仙xiān道dào:「卻què像xiàng人rén吃chī的de勾gòu當dàng,有yǒu皮pí的de都dōu剝bō了le皮pí,有yǒu核hé的de都dōu吐tǔ出chū核hé,卻què怎zěn麼me不bú見jiàn人rén形xíng?」虎hǔ力lì大dà仙xiān道dào:「没méi有yǒu歹dǎi人rén,如rú何hé把bǎ供gòng献xiàn都dōu吃chī了le?」鹿lù力lì大dà仙xiān道dào:「却què像xiàng人rén吃chī的de勾gòu当dàng,有yǒu皮pí的de都dōu剥bō了le皮pí,有yǒu核hé的de都dōu吐tǔ出chū核hé,却què怎zěn么me不bú见jiàn人rén形xíng?」


逐句解 Line by line

虎hǔ力lì大dà仙xiān道dào:「沒méi有yǒu歹dǎi人rén,如rú何hé把bǎ供gòng獻xiàn都dōu吃chī了le?」 虎hǔ力lì大dà仙xiān道dào:「没méi有yǒu歹dǎi人rén,如rú何hé把bǎ供gòng献xiàn都dōu吃chī了le?」

Tiger-Power the Immortal said, “There are no rogues about — how is it the offerings have all been eaten up?”

沒有: 沒 = méi. 供獻: 供 = gòng, the food set out for the gods. 都 = dōu, "all" -- and all of it is gone.

鹿lù力lì大dà仙xiān道dào:「卻què像xiàng人rén吃chī的de勾gòu當dàng,有yǒu皮pí的de都dōu剝bō了le皮pí,有yǒu核hé的de都dōu吐tǔ出chū核hé,卻què怎zěn麼me不bú見jiàn人rén形xíng?」 鹿lù力lì大dà仙xiān道dào:「却què像xiàng人rén吃chī的de勾gòu当dàng,有yǒu皮pí的de都dōu剥bō了le皮pí,有yǒu核hé的de都dōu吐tǔ出chū核hé,却què怎zěn么me不bú见jiàn人rén形xíng?」

Deer-Power the Immortal said, “It looks like the doing of men who eat: whatever had skin has been peeled of its skin, whatever had a pit has had the pit spat out — yet why is there no human shape to be seen?”

Deer-Power turns detective, and his reasoning is sound. 勾當: 當 = dàng, business or doings, with a faint smell of something shady about it. 都 = dōu twice over, "in every case." Peeled skins, spat-out stones -- gods do not need to spit out stones. He has the evidence exactly right and draws the wrong conclusion from it.


總評 Commentary

Three immortals stand over a stripped altar working out what happened, and Deer-Power is very nearly brilliant about it. Fruit that had skin has been skinned. Fruit that had a pit has had the pit spat out. Whatever ate this had hands and a mouth.

What defeats him is the last step. He can see that something with a body did the eating and he can see no body, so instead of concluding that the body is hiding he concludes that the eater had no body at all. The scene turns on a failure of imagination dressed up as piety, and the next passage will collect on it.