Canonical Classics ← 第五十八回
第五十八回
二èr心xīn攪jiǎo亂luàn大dà乾qián坤kūn
一yì體tǐ難nán修xiū真zhēn寂jì滅miè

Two Minds Throw the Great Cosmos into Confusion · One Body Cannot Cultivate the True Nirvana

去見玉帝
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字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

去見玉帝 On To The Jade Emperor

道dào罷bà,那nà行xíng者zhě也yě似sì這zhè般bān這zhè般bān說shuō了le一yí遍biàn。眾zhòng天tiān神shén看kàn夠gòu多duō時shí,也yě不bù能néng辨biàn。他tā兩liǎng個gè吆yāo喝hè道dào:「你nǐ們men既jì不bù能néng認rèn,讓ràng開kāi路lù,等děng我wǒ們men去qù見jiàn玉yù帝dì!」道dào罢bà,那nà行xíng者zhě也yě似sì这zhè般bān这zhè般bān说shuō了le一yí遍biàn。众zhòng天tiān神shén看kàn够gòu多duō时shí,也yě不bù能néng辨biàn。他tā两liǎng个gè吆yāo喝hè道dào:「你nǐ们men既jì不bù能néng认rèn,让ràng开kāi路lù,等děng我wǒ们men去qù见jiàn玉yù帝dì!」


逐句解 Line by line

道dào罷bà,那nà行xíng者zhě也yě似sì這zhè般bān這zhè般bān說shuō了le一yí遍biàn。 道dào罢bà,那nà行xíng者zhě也yě似sì这zhè般bān这zhè般bān说shuō了le一yí遍biàn。

When he had done speaking, that Pilgrim likewise recited the same such and such all over again.

The narrator will not write the duplicate speech out a second time and fobs us off with a formula: 似這般這般, in this manner and that. 似 is sì throughout the project.

眾zhòng天tiān神shén看kàn夠gòu多duō時shí,也yě不bù能néng辨biàn。 众zhòng天tiān神shén看kàn够gòu多duō时shí,也yě不bù能néng辨biàn。

The host of heavenly spirits looked their fill for a good long while, and they too could not distinguish them.

看夠多時, looked their fill for a good long time — the third authority beaten, and beaten by exactly the same means as the first two.

他tā兩liǎng個gè吆yāo喝hè道dào:「你nǐ們men既jì不bù能néng認rèn,讓ràng開kāi路lù,等děng我wǒ們men去qù見jiàn玉yù帝dì!」 他tā两liǎng个gè吆yāo喝hè道dào:「你nǐ们men既jì不bù能néng认rèn,让ràng开kāi路lù,等děng我wǒ们men去qù见jiàn玉yù帝dì!」

The two of them shouted: "Since you cannot tell either, clear the road and let us go and see the Jade Emperor!"

Both of them shout it, in one voice. 吆喝 takes hè, to shout, under the chapter 52 ruling; the automatic reading gives hē, which belongs to drinking.


總評 Commentary

The narrator's shortcut is itself a piece of characterisation. 似這般這般說了一遍 refuses to write the second speech out, and the refusal is not laziness but exhaustion. The duplication has become so regular that a formula will do. The reader is being trained to expect the echo, which is what will make its eventual breaking land.

The demand that closes the passage is the first time the pair speak in genuine concert rather than one after the other. 你們既不能認 — since you cannot tell either — turns the gods' failure into a shared grievance and a claim of right. The impostor has worked out that being indistinguishable is not his problem but his protection, and he can now press for a higher court in the same breath as his original.