第四十五回 · 令牌風起 The Tablet Cracks, Wind Stirs — Journey to the West

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令牌風起 The Tablet Cracks, Wind Stirs

那nà底dǐ下xià兩liǎng三sān個gè道dào士shì拿ná過guò一yí個gè執zhí符fú的de像xiàng生shēng、一yí道dào文wén書shū，亦yì點diǎn火huǒ焚fén之zhī。那nà上shàng面miàn乒pīng的de一yì聲shēng令lìng牌pái響xiǎng，只zhǐ見jiàn那nà半bàn空kōng裡lǐ悠yōu悠yōu的de風fēng色sè飄piāo來lái。那nà底dǐ下xià两liǎng三sān个gè道dào士shì拿ná过guò一yí个gè执zhí符fú的de像xiàng生shēng、一yí道dào文wén书shū，亦yì点diǎn火huǒ焚fén之zhī。那nà上shàng面miàn乒pīng的de一yì声shēng令lìng牌pái响xiǎng，只zhǐ见jiàn那nà半bàn空kōng里lǐ悠yōu悠yōu的de风fēng色sè飘piāo来lái。

逐句解 Line by line

那nà底dǐ下xià兩liǎng三sān個gè道dào士shì拿ná過guò一yí個gè執zhí符fú的de像xiàng生shēng、一yí道dào文wén書shū，亦yì點diǎn火huǒ焚fén之zhī。那nà底dǐ下xià两liǎng三sān个gè道dào士shì拿ná过guò一yí个gè执zhí符fú的de像xiàng生shēng、一yí道dào文wén书shū，亦yì点diǎn火huǒ焚fén之zhī。

Below, two or three Daoists took up a talisman-bearing effigy and a document and likewise set fire to them.

那底下: 那 = nà. 像生 "a lifelike figure," the paper effigy. 亦點火焚之 "likewise set light to them."

那nà上shàng面miàn乒pīng的de一yì聲shēng令lìng牌pái響xiǎng，只zhǐ見jiàn那nà半bàn空kōng裡lǐ悠yōu悠yōu的de風fēng色sè飄piāo來lái。那nà上shàng面miàn乒pīng的de一yì声shēng令lìng牌pái响xiǎng，只zhǐ见jiàn那nà半bàn空kōng里lǐ悠yōu悠yōu的de风fēng色sè飘piāo来lái。

From above came the crack of the command-tablet, and there — in the mid-air — a breath of wind came drifting slowly on.

那上面 and 那半空: 那 = nà. 乒 (pīng) is the sound of the tablet cracking down. 風色 "the stir of wind" -- not a gust but the look of the air changing, which is a finer observation than the scene strictly needs.

總評 Commentary

The tablet cracks and the wind comes, exactly on schedule. For one passage the Daoist rite appears to work.

The novel holds that illusion deliberately. Bajie is about to panic, the reader is given a beat of genuine doubt, and only then does the story cut away to what Wukong is doing about it. Withholding the explanation for a page is the whole reason the reversal lands.