第五十八回 · 三藏悔恨 Sha Monk Reports Back — Journey to the West

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三藏悔恨 Sha Monk Reports Back

卻què說shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng自zì花huā果guǒ山shān辭cí他tā兩liǎng個gè，又yòu行xíng了le三sān晝zhòu夜yè，回huí至zhì本běn莊zhuāng，把bǎ前qián事shì對duì唐táng僧sēng說shuō了le一yí遍biàn。唐táng僧sēng自zì家jiā悔huǐ恨hèn道dào：「當dāng時shí只zhǐ說shuō是shì孫sūn悟wù空kōng打dǎ我wǒ一yí棍gùn，搶qiǎng去qù包bāo袱fú，豈qǐ知zhī卻què是shì妖yāo精jīng假jiǎ變biàn的de行xíng者zhě。」却què说shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng自zì花huā果guǒ山shān辞cí他tā两liǎng个gè，又yòu行xíng了le三sān昼zhòu夜yè，回huí至zhì本běn庄zhuāng，把bǎ前qián事shì对duì唐táng僧sēng说shuō了le一yí遍biàn。唐táng僧sēng自zì家jiā悔huǐ恨hèn道dào：「当dāng时shí只zhǐ说shuō是shì孙sūn悟wù空kōng打dǎ我wǒ一yí棍gùn，抢qiǎng去qù包bāo袱fú，岂qǐ知zhī却què是shì妖yāo精jīng假jiǎ变biàn的de行xíng者zhě。」

逐句解 Line by line

卻què說shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng自zì花huā果guǒ山shān辭cí他tā兩liǎng個gè，又yòu行xíng了le三sān晝zhòu夜yè，回huí至zhì本běn莊zhuāng，把bǎ前qián事shì對duì唐táng僧sēng說shuō了le一yí遍biàn。却què说shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng自zì花huā果guǒ山shān辞cí他tā两liǎng个gè，又yòu行xíng了le三sān昼zhòu夜yè，回huí至zhì本běn庄zhuāng，把bǎ前qián事shì对duì唐táng僧sēng说shuō了le一yí遍biàn。

Now it is told that Sha Monk, having taken his leave of the two of them at the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, travelled another three days and nights, returned to the farmstead, and set out the whole prior matter to the Tang Monk, one time through.

卻說, now it is told — the storyteller's hinge for swinging from one thread to another. 說了一遍 uses the same 一遍, one time through, that has governed every recital in the chapter.

唐táng僧sēng自zì家jiā悔huǐ恨hèn道dào：「當dāng時shí只zhǐ說shuō是shì孫sūn悟wù空kōng打dǎ我wǒ一yí棍gùn，搶qiǎng去qù包bāo袱fú，豈qǐ知zhī卻què是shì妖yāo精jīng假jiǎ變biàn的de行xíng者zhě。」唐táng僧sēng自zì家jiā悔huǐ恨hèn道dào：「当dāng时shí只zhǐ说shuō是shì孙sūn悟wù空kōng打dǎ我wǒ一yí棍gùn，抢qiǎng去qù包bāo袱fú，岂qǐ知zhī却què是shì妖yāo精jīng假jiǎ变biàn的de行xíng者zhě。」

The Tang Monk, repenting to himself, said: "At the time I said only that it was Sun Wukong who struck me with his cudgel and carried off the bundle. How was I to know it was in fact a fiend falsely changed into the Pilgrim?"

當時 takes dāng, at that time. 豈知 — how was I to know? — is the formula for realising too late, and it is as close as the master comes to an apology.

總評 Commentary

The scene shifts, and the register shifts with it: from the Hall of Divine Mists to a farmhouse, from formal memorials to a man admitting he was wrong. Tripitaka's 自家悔恨 is the first stirring of sympathy the chapter has allowed toward Wukong, and it arrives while Wukong is somewhere else and cannot hear it.

The remorse is also narrower than it first looks. What Tripitaka regrets is a factual mistake: he thought the blow came from Wukong, and it did not. He does not revisit the expulsion that came before the blow, which was his own doing and the cause of everything since. 豈知 admits ignorance, not fault.