第五十一回 · 一圈套盡，火部空回 One Ring Takes the Whole of It — Journey to the West

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一圈套盡，火部空回 One Ring Takes the Whole of It

那nà妖yāo魔mó見jiàn火huǒ來lái時shí，全quán無wú恐kǒng懼jù。將jiāng圈quān子zi望wàng空kōng拋pāo起qǐ，唿hū喇lā一yì聲shēng，把bǎ這zhè火huǒ龍lóng、火huǒ馬mǎ、火huǒ鴉yā、火huǒ鼠shǔ、火huǒ槍qiāng、火huǒ刀dāo、火huǒ弓gōng、火huǒ箭jiàn，一yì圈quān子zi又yòu套tào將jiāng下xià去qù，轉zhuǎn回huí本běn洞dòng，得dé勝shèng收shōu兵bīng。那nà妖yāo魔mó见jiàn火huǒ来lái时shí，全quán无wú恐kǒng惧jù。将jiāng圈quān子zi望wàng空kōng抛pāo起qǐ，唿hū喇lā一yì声shēng，把bǎ这zhè火huǒ龙lóng、火huǒ马mǎ、火huǒ鸦yā、火huǒ鼠shǔ、火huǒ枪qiāng、火huǒ刀dāo、火huǒ弓gōng、火huǒ箭jiàn，一yì圈quān子zi又yòu套tào将jiāng下xià去qù，转zhuǎn回huí本běn洞dòng，得dé胜shèng收shōu兵bīng。

逐句解 Line by line

那nà妖yāo魔mó見jiàn火huǒ來lái時shí，全quán無wú恐kǒng懼jù。那nà妖yāo魔mó见jiàn火huǒ来lái时shí，全quán无wú恐kǒng惧jù。

The fiend, when he saw the fire coming, had no fear in him at all.

那妖魔 takes nà. Eleven characters answer a rhapsody of a hundred and fifty-one.

將jiāng圈quān子zi望wàng空kōng拋pāo起qǐ，唿hū喇lā一yì聲shēng，把bǎ這zhè火huǒ龍lóng、火huǒ馬mǎ、火huǒ鴉yā、火huǒ鼠shǔ、火huǒ槍qiāng、火huǒ刀dāo、火huǒ弓gōng、火huǒ箭jiàn，一yì圈quān子zi又yòu套tào將jiāng下xià去qù，轉zhuǎn回huí本běn洞dòng，得dé勝shèng收shōu兵bīng。将jiāng圈quān子zi望wàng空kōng抛pāo起qǐ，唿hū喇lā一yì声shēng，把bǎ这zhè火huǒ龙lóng、火huǒ马mǎ、火huǒ鸦yā、火huǒ鼠shǔ、火huǒ枪qiāng、火huǒ刀dāo、火huǒ弓gōng、火huǒ箭jiàn，一yì圈quān子zi又yòu套tào将jiāng下xià去qù，转zhuǎn回huí本běn洞dòng，得dé胜shèng收shōu兵bīng。

He threw the ring up into the empty air, and with a whoosh it took the fire-dragons, fire-horses, fire-crows, fire-rats, fire-spears, fire-blades, fire-bows and fire-arrows — the whole of them gathered down in one ring again. Then he turned back to his own cave, victorious, and drew off his troops.

The eight fire-things are named again in exactly the order the rhapsody named them, so the swallowing reads as the inventory being run back through. 將圈子 uses 將, read jiāng, to introduce what is thrown, and 套將下去 wedges the same character inside the verb; both instances of 圈子 end in the light zi; 得勝 takes dé; 一聲 and 一圈子 both give yì.

總評 Commentary

Fifty-six characters undo two hundred and forty-two. It is the same joke as in the twelfth passage, told at greater length and therefore more coldly: the longer the book spends building a force, the less time the ring needs to remove it.

The eight fire-things are named again in the order the rhapsody named them. Nothing is described this time — the list is simply run back through, which is what being swallowed looks like from the outside.