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第五十五回
色sè邪xié淫yín戲xì唐táng三sān藏zàng
性xìng正zhèng修xiū持chí不bú壞huài身shēn

A Lustful Fiend Toys Wantonly with Tang Tripitaka · His Nature Upright, He Holds to His Cultivation and Keeps the Indestructible Body

師父有救
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師父有救 The Master Has a Rescuer

孫sūn大dà聖shèng才cái按àn雲yún頭tóu,對duì八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng道dào:「兄xiōng弟dì放fàng心xīn,師shī父fù有yǒu救jiù星xīng了le。」沙shā僧sēng道dào:「是shì那nǎ裡lǐ救jiù星xīng?」行xíng者zhě道dào:「才cái然rán菩pú薩sà指zhǐ示shì,教jiào我wǒ告gào請qǐng昴mǎo日rì星xīng官guān。老lǎo孫sūn去qù來lái。」八bā戒jiè侮wǔ著zhe嘴zuǐ哼hēng道dào:「哥gē啊a,就jiù問wèn星xīng官guān討tǎo些xiē止zhǐ疼téng的de藥yào餌ěr來lái。」行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào:「不bù須xū用yòng藥yào,只zhǐ似sì我wǒ昨zuó日rì疼téng過guò夜yè就jiù好hǎo了le。」沙shā僧sēng道dào:「不bú必bì煩fán絮xù,快kuài早zǎo去qù罷ba。」孙sūn大dà圣shèng才cái按àn云yún头tóu,对duì八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng道dào:「兄xiōng弟dì放fàng心xīn,师shī父fù有yǒu救jiù星xīng了le。」沙shā僧sēng道dào:「是shì那nǎ里lǐ救jiù星xīng?」行xíng者zhě道dào:「才cái然rán菩pú萨sà指zhǐ示shì,教jiào我wǒ告gào请qǐng昴mǎo日rì星xīng官guān。老lǎo孙sūn去qù来lái。」八bā戒jiè侮wǔ着zhe嘴zuǐ哼hēng道dào:「哥gē啊a,就jiù问wèn星xīng官guān讨tǎo些xiē止zhǐ疼téng的de药yào饵ěr来lái。」行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào:「不bù须xū用yòng药yào,只zhǐ似sì我wǒ昨zuó日rì疼téng过guò夜yè就jiù好hǎo了le。」沙shā僧sēng道dào:「不bú必bì烦fán絮xù,快kuài早zǎo去qù罢ba。」


逐句解 Line by line

孫sūn大dà聖shèng才cái按àn雲yún頭tóu,對duì八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng道dào:「兄xiōng弟dì放fàng心xīn,師shī父fù有yǒu救jiù星xīng了le。」 孙sūn大dà圣shèng才cái按àn云yún头tóu,对duì八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng道dào:「兄xiōng弟dì放fàng心xīn,师shī父fù有yǒu救jiù星xīng了le。」

The Great Sage Sun brought his cloud down and said to Bajie and Sha Monk, “Set your minds at rest, brothers. Our master has a rescuing star.”

救星 — a rescuing star — is the everyday word for a saviour, as dead a metaphor as "lifesaver" is in English. Here it happens to be literally true: the help being fetched is an officer of an actual constellation.

沙shā僧sēng道dào:「是shì那nǎ裡lǐ救jiù星xīng?」 沙shā僧sēng道dào:「是shì那nǎ里lǐ救jiù星xīng?」

Sha Monk said, “And what rescuing star is that?”

是那裡 is a question — what sort of, from where — so 那 is nǎ rather than the pointing nà. Sha Monk asks in the dead-metaphor sense.

行xíng者zhě道dào:「才cái然rán菩pú薩sà指zhǐ示shì,教jiào我wǒ告gào請qǐng昴mǎo日rì星xīng官guān。老lǎo孫sūn去qù來lái。」 行xíng者zhě道dào:「才cái然rán菩pú萨sà指zhǐ示shì,教jiào我wǒ告gào请qǐng昴mǎo日rì星xīng官guān。老lǎo孙sūn去qù来lái。」

Pilgrim said, “The Bodhisattva has just now given directions, and bids me go and petition the Star Officer of the Mao mansion. Old Monkey is off.”

教 is jiào in its causative use. The four-character tail joins backwards onto this line.

八bā戒jiè侮wǔ著zhe嘴zuǐ哼hēng道dào:「哥gē啊a,就jiù問wèn星xīng官guān討tǎo些xiē止zhǐ疼téng的de藥yào餌ěr來lái。」 八bā戒jiè侮wǔ着zhe嘴zuǐ哼hēng道dào:「哥gē啊a,就jiù问wèn星xīng官guān讨tǎo些xiē止zhǐ疼téng的de药yào饵ěr来lái。」

Bajie, with a hand still over his mouth, groaned, “Brother — while you are about it, beg the Star Officer for a little physic to stop the pain.”

侮著 is the ongoing-action zhe, and 侮 again stands for the character meaning to cover with the hand. 藥餌 is medicine taken by mouth.

行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào:「不bù須xū用yòng藥yào,只zhǐ似sì我wǒ昨zuó日rì疼téng過guò夜yè就jiù好hǎo了le。」 行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào:「不bù须xū用yòng药yào,只zhǐ似sì我wǒ昨zuó日rì疼téng过guò夜yè就jiù好hǎo了le。」

Pilgrim said with a laugh, “No physic is wanted. Do as I did yesterday — ache the night through and you will be well.”

似 is fixed corpus-wide as sì. 不須 takes bù before the first tone of 須. The remedy offered is "wait a night", which is easy advice from somebody already better.

沙shā僧sēng道dào:「不bú必bì煩fán絮xù,快kuài早zǎo去qù罷ba。」 沙shā僧sēng道dào:「不bú必bì烦fán絮xù,快kuài早zǎo去qù罢ba。」

Sha Monk said, “No need of all this chatter. Be off, and quickly.”

去罷 takes 罷 as the closing ba, not the verb bà of 言罷 — position decides. 煩絮 is wearisome talk.


總評 Commentary

救星 — a rescuing star — is a dead idiom in ordinary speech, meaning simply a saviour, and the novel brings it back to life by making it literal. The help Pilgrim has been sent to fetch is an officer of the Mao mansion, an actual star. Sha Monk's question, 是那裡救星, is asked in the idiomatic sense and answered in the astronomical one, and neither party remarks on it.

Bajie's request is the passage's joke and entirely in character: while you are up in heaven petitioning a constellation about a demon, ask him for something for my lip. Pilgrim's answer is unhelpful in a way that is also accurate — he did ache the night through and is now merely itching — and it has the flavour of a remedy prescribed by someone who has already recovered.

Sha Monk closes the scene in a single line of eleven characters, as he closed the council on the slope and the quarrel at cockcrow. The novel has settled into giving him this job: he speaks rarely, and almost always to stop his brothers talking and start them moving.