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且聽下回 And So the Chapter Closes
畢竟不知怎麼救得唐僧，且聽下回分解。毕竟不知怎么救得唐僧，且听下回分解。
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畢竟不知怎麼救得唐僧，且聽下回分解。
毕竟不知怎么救得唐僧，且听下回分解。
And in the end there is no knowing how the Tang Monk was to be rescued; give ear to the next chapter, and it shall be told.
救得: 得 is dé, marking can or cannot — "how he might be got out." 分解: 分 is fēn, "to divide and explain." This is the formula that closes every chapter of the novel, and it is kept here in a passage of its own.
The storyteller's closing formula, unchanged from the hundred other chapters that carry it. Its job is to leave the audience hanging, and Chapter Forty-Eight is one of the places where it earns its keep: the protagonist is under a stone lid at the bottom of a river, the three who might get him out are standing on the bank with their weapons, and nothing whatever has been resolved.