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細訴偷竊
Recounting the thefts to the captains
且說且行,徑入洞天深處。四健將打掃安歇,叩頭禮拜畢,俱道:「大聖在天這百十年,實受何職?」大聖笑道:「我記得才半年光景,怎麼就說百十年話?」健將道:「在天一日,即在下方一年也。」大聖道:「且喜這番玉帝相愛,果封做齊天大聖,起一座齊天府,又設安靜、寧神二司,司設仙吏侍衛。向後見我無事,著我看管蟠桃園。近因王母娘娘設蟠桃大會,未曾請我,是我不待他請,先赴瑤池,把他那仙品、仙酒,都是我偷吃了。走出瑤池,踉踉蹡蹡誤入老君宮闕,又把他五個葫蘆金丹也偷吃了。但恐玉帝見罪,方才走出天門來也。」眾怪聞言大喜。即安排酒果接風,將椰酒滿斟一石碗奉上。大聖喝了一口,即咨牙徠嘴道:「不好吃,不好吃。」崩、芭二將道:「大聖在天宮吃了仙酒、仙殽,是以椰酒不甚美口。常言道:『美不美,鄉中水。』」大聖道:「你們就是『親不親,故鄉人。』我今早在瑤池中受用時,見那長廊之下有許多瓶罐,都是那玉液瓊漿。你們都不曾嘗著,待我再去偷他幾瓶回來,你們各飲半杯,一個個也長生不老。」眾猴歡喜不勝。大聖即出洞門,又翻一觔斗,使個隱身法,徑至蟠桃會上,進瑤池宮闕,只見那幾個造酒、盤糟、運水、燒火的還鼾睡未醒。他將大的從左右脅下挾了兩個,兩手提了兩個,即撥轉雲頭回來,會眾猴在於洞中,就做個仙酒會,各飲了幾杯,快樂不題。且说且行,径入洞天深处。四健将打扫安歇,叩头礼拜毕,俱道:「大圣在天这百十年,实受何职?」大圣笑道:「我记得才半年光景,怎么就说百十年话?」健将道:「在天一日,即在下方一年也。」大圣道:「且喜这番玉帝相爱,果封做齐天大圣,起一座齐天府,又设安静、宁神二司,司设仙吏侍卫。向后见我无事,著我看管蟠桃园。近因王母娘娘设蟠桃大会,未曾请我,是我不待他请,先赴瑶池,把他那仙品、仙酒,都是我偷吃了。走出瑶池,踉踉蹡蹡误入老君宫阙,又把他五个葫芦金丹也偷吃了。但恐玉帝见罪,方才走出天门来也。」众怪闻言大喜。即安排酒果接风,将椰酒满斟一石碗奉上。大圣喝了一口,即咨牙徕嘴道:「不好吃,不好吃。」崩、芭二将道:「大圣在天宫吃了仙酒、仙殽,是以椰酒不甚美口。常言道:『美不美,乡中水。』」大圣道:「你们就是『亲不亲,故乡人。』我今早在瑶池中受用时,见那长廊之下有许多瓶罐,都是那玉液琼浆。你们都不曾尝著,待我再去偷他几瓶回来,你们各饮半杯,一个个也长生不老。」众猴欢喜不胜。大圣即出洞门,又翻一觔斗,使个隐身法,径至蟠桃会上,进瑶池宫阙,只见那几个造酒、盘糟、运水、烧火的还鼾睡未醒。他将大的从左右胁下挟了两个,两手提了两个,即拨转云头回来,会众猴在于洞中,就做个仙酒会,各饮了几杯,快乐不题。
逐句解 Line by line
且說且行,徑入洞天深處。
且说且行,径入洞天深处。
Chattering as they went, they passed deep into the cave-heaven.
四健將打掃安歇,叩頭禮拜畢,俱道:「大聖在天這百十年,實受何職?」
四健将打扫安歇,叩头礼拜毕,俱道:「大圣在天这百十年,实受何职?」
The Four Stalwart Generals tidied his quarters and saw him settled, and when the kowtows and bows were done, they all asked: 'In the hundred-odd years the Great Sage has been in heaven, what office did you really hold?'
大聖笑道:「我記得才半年光景,怎麼就說百十年話?」
大圣笑道:「我记得才半年光景,怎么就说百十年话?」
The Great Sage said with a laugh: 'I remember it as scarcely half a year — how is it you speak of a hundred-odd years?'
健將道:「在天一日,即在下方一年也。」
健将道:「在天一日,即在下方一年也。」
The Generals said: 'One day in heaven is a year here below.'
在天一日,即在下方一年: one day in heaven equals a year in the mortal world — the chapter’s key to the gulf between celestial and earthly time.
大聖道:「且喜這番玉帝相愛,果封做齊天大聖,起一座齊天府,又設安靜、寧神二司,司設仙吏侍衛。向後見我無事,著我看管蟠桃園。近因王母娘娘設蟠桃大會,未曾請我,是我不待他請,先赴瑤池,把他那仙品、仙酒,都是我偷吃了。走出瑤池,踉踉蹡蹡誤入老君宮闕,又把他五個葫蘆金丹也偷吃了。但恐玉帝見罪,方才走出天門來也。」
大圣道:「且喜这番玉帝相爱,果封做齐天大圣,起一座齐天府,又设安静、宁神二司,司设仙吏侍卫。向后见我无事,著我看管蟠桃园。近因王母娘娘设蟠桃大会,未曾请我,是我不待他请,先赴瑶池,把他那仙品、仙酒,都是我偷吃了。走出瑶池,踉踉蹡蹡误入老君宫阙,又把他五个葫芦金丹也偷吃了。但恐玉帝见罪,方才走出天门来也。」
The Great Sage said: 'It is my good fortune that the Jade Emperor took such a liking to me this time: he truly enthroned me as Great Sage Equal to Heaven, raised an Equal-to-Heaven residence, and set up two offices, Tranquillity and Spirit-Repose, each staffed with immortal clerks and guards. Later, seeing me idle, he set me to mind the Peach Garden. Lately, because the Queen Mother held the Grand Peach Feast and did not invite me, I did not wait for her invitation but went first to the Jade Pool, and her immortal viands and immortal wine I stole and ate, every one. Coming out of the Jade Pool, all a-stagger, I blundered into Lord Lao’s palace, and his five gourds of golden elixir I stole and ate as well. Then, fearing the Jade Emperor would charge me with the crime, I made my way out of the Heaven Gate just now.'
踉踉蹡蹡 (liàng liàng qiàng qiàng): staggering; 著我 = zhuó wǒ, causative "set me to."
眾怪聞言大喜。
众怪闻言大喜。
The throng of fiends, hearing this, was overjoyed.
即安排酒果接風,將椰酒滿斟一石碗奉上。
即安排酒果接风,将椰酒满斟一石碗奉上。
They at once laid out wine and fruit to wash off the dust of travel, and poured a full stone bowl of coconut wine and offered it up.
大聖喝了一口,即咨牙徠嘴道:「不好吃,不好吃。」
大圣喝了一口,即咨牙徕嘴道:「不好吃,不好吃。」
The Great Sage drank a mouthful, then grimaced, baring his teeth, and said: 'Not good to drink, not good to drink.'
咨牙徠嘴 (世德堂) = 齜牙咧嘴, to grimace baring the teeth; 徠 (U+5FA0) here stands for 咧, read liě.
崩、芭二將道:「大聖在天宮吃了仙酒、仙殽,是以椰酒不甚美口。常言道:『美不美,鄉中水。』」
崩、芭二将道:「大圣在天宫吃了仙酒、仙殽,是以椰酒不甚美口。常言道:『美不美,乡中水。』」
Beng and Ba, the two generals, said: 'In the Heavenly Palace the Great Sage drank immortal wine and ate immortal fare, and so the coconut wine is not much to his taste. As the saying goes: “Sweet or not, it’s the water of home.”'
Two folk-proverbs answer each other: 美不美,鄉中水 ("sweet or not, the water of home") and 親不親,故鄉人 ("kin or not, the folk of home").
大聖道:「你們就是『親不親,故鄉人。』我今早在瑤池中受用時,見那長廊之下有許多瓶罐,都是那玉液瓊漿。你們都不曾嘗著,待我再去偷他幾瓶回來,你們各飲半杯,一個個也長生不老。」
大圣道:「你们就是『亲不亲,故乡人。』我今早在瑶池中受用时,见那长廊之下有许多瓶罐,都是那玉液琼浆。你们都不曾尝著,待我再去偷他几瓶回来,你们各饮半杯,一个个也长生不老。」
The Great Sage said: 'And you are just “Kin or not, they’re the folk of home.” This morning, while I was enjoying myself at the Jade Pool, I saw beneath the long gallery a great many jars and pots, all of jade-fluid and jasper-broth. None of you has ever tasted it; let me go and steal a few jars back, and each of you shall drink half a cup, and every one of you will be long-living and unaging.'
眾猴歡喜不勝。
众猴欢喜不胜。
The monkeys were overjoyed beyond bearing.
大聖即出洞門,又翻一觔斗,使個隱身法,徑至蟠桃會上,進瑤池宮闕,只見那幾個造酒、盤糟、運水、燒火的還鼾睡未醒。
大圣即出洞门,又翻一觔斗,使个隐身法,径至蟠桃会上,进瑶池宫阙,只见那几个造酒、盘糟、运水、烧火的还鼾睡未醒。
The Great Sage went out of the cave-mouth at once, turned another somersault, worked an invisibility spell, and went straight to the Peach Feast; entering the Jade Pool palace, he saw those few brewers, lees-workers, water-carriers, and fire-tenders still snoring, not yet awake.
他將大的從左右脅下挾了兩個,兩手提了兩個,即撥轉雲頭回來,會眾猴在於洞中,就做個仙酒會,各飲了幾杯,快樂不題。
他将大的从左右胁下挟了两个,两手提了两个,即拨转云头回来,会众猴在于洞中,就做个仙酒会,各饮了几杯,快乐不题。
He clamped two of the largest jars under his arms, left and right, carried two more in his hands, turned his cloud about and came back; gathering the monkeys in the cave, he held an immortal-wine feast, and each drank a few cups — and there we leave their merriment.
總評 Commentary
The homecoming turns on the chapter’s great structural joke — 在天一日,即在下方一年 ("one day in heaven is a year below"). What the 心猿 experienced as a careless half-year of feasting and theft has cost his followers a hundred-odd years of waiting. The disproportion is not merely comic; it is the temporal sign of the gulf the whole episode has dramatized. The mind that treated the eternal peaches as a snack lives, itself, at a tempo wholly out of joint with the order it has violated.
Monkey’s recital of his crimes — peaches, wine, elixir, all 偷吃了 — is delivered not as confession but as boast, and ends in the most telling gesture of the chapter: he proposes to steal again, now for his followers’ sake (待我再去偷他幾瓶回來…一個個也長生不老). The trading proverbs frame the theft as homely loyalty. In the 丹 reading this is the unrefined mind at its most seductive: it converts transgression into fellowship and offers stolen immortality as a gift — distributing, counterfeit, to the cave the deathlessness it could not earn for itself.