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第五十九回
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孫sūn行xíng者zhě一yí調tiáo芭bā蕉jiāo扇shàn

Tripitaka's Road Is Blocked at the Mountain of Flames · Sun the Pilgrim Contrives the First Fetching of the Banana-Leaf Fan

認得叔叔
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認得叔叔 Do You Know Your Uncle Now

行xíng者zhě卻què才cái收shōu了le手shǒu腳jiǎo道dào:「你nǐ才cái認rèn得dé叔shū叔shū麼me?我wǒ看kàn牛niú大dà哥gē情qíng上shàng,且qiě饒ráo你nǐ性xìng命mìng。快kuài將jiāng扇shàn子zi拿ná來lái我wǒ使shǐ使shǐ。」羅luó剎chà道dào:「叔shū叔shū,有yǒu扇shàn,有yǒu扇shàn,你nǐ出chū來lái拿ná了le去qù。」行xíng者zhě道dào:「拿ná扇shàn子zi我wǒ看kàn了le出chū來lái。」羅luó剎chà即jí叫jiào女nǚ童tóng拿ná一yì柄bǐng芭bā蕉jiāo扇shàn,執zhí在zài傍bàng邊biān。行xíng者zhě却què才cái收shōu了le手shǒu脚jiǎo道dào:「你nǐ才cái认rèn得dé叔shū叔shū么me?我wǒ看kàn牛niú大dà哥gē情qíng上shàng,且qiě饶ráo你nǐ性xìng命mìng。快kuài将jiāng扇shàn子zi拿ná来lái我wǒ使shǐ使shǐ。」罗luó刹chà道dào:「叔shū叔shū,有yǒu扇shàn,有yǒu扇shàn,你nǐ出chū来lái拿ná了le去qù。」行xíng者zhě道dào:「拿ná扇shàn子zi我wǒ看kàn了le出chū来lái。」罗luó刹chà即jí叫jiào女nǚ童tóng拿ná一yì柄bǐng芭bā蕉jiāo扇shàn,执zhí在zài傍bàng边biān。


逐句解 Line by line

行xíng者zhě卻què才cái收shōu了le手shǒu腳jiǎo道dào:「你nǐ才cái認rèn得dé叔shū叔shū麼me? 行xíng者zhě却què才cái收shōu了le手shǒu脚jiǎo道dào:「你nǐ才cái认rèn得dé叔shū叔shū么me?

Only then did Pilgrim draw in his hands and feet. 'So you know your uncle now, do you?'

收了手腳, gathered in hands and feet. 認得叔叔麼 is a taunt built out of the kinship word she has just used under duress, and 得 is the dé of achieving something.

我wǒ看kàn牛niú大dà哥gē情qíng上shàng,且qiě饒ráo你nǐ性xìng命mìng。 我wǒ看kàn牛niú大dà哥gē情qíng上shàng,且qiě饶ráo你nǐ性xìng命mìng。

'For the sake of Elder Brother Bull's feelings I will spare your life.'

看…情上 is "in consideration of the feelings of." The sworn brotherhood he argued for through two long scenes and abandoned when it failed is produced again — now as the grounds of a pardon he is granting rather than a favour he is begging.

快kuài將jiāng扇shàn子zi拿ná來lái我wǒ使shǐ使shǐ。」 快kuài将jiāng扇shàn子zi拿ná来lái我wǒ使shǐ使shǐ。」

'Be quick and fetch the fan for me to use.'

將 is the handling word jiāng. The demand is the same nine characters he has been repeating since the door, unaltered by the fact that he is now inside her.

羅luó剎chà道dào:「叔shū叔shū,有yǒu扇shàn,有yǒu扇shàn,你nǐ出chū來lái拿ná了le去qù。」 罗luó刹chà道dào:「叔shū叔shū,有yǒu扇shàn,有yǒu扇shàn,你nǐ出chū来lái拿ná了le去qù。」

The Rākṣasī said, 'Uncle — there is a fan, there is a fan. Come out and take it.'

有扇,有扇, doubled, in the same shape as her 渴了,渴了 a little earlier. You should hear the eagerness in it. What she is offering, as the next chapter will establish, is not the fan.

行xíng者zhě道dào:「拿ná扇shàn子zi我wǒ看kàn了le出chū來lái。」 行xíng者zhě道dào:「拿ná扇shàn子zi我wǒ看kàn了le出chū来lái。」

Pilgrim said, 'Bring out the fan and let me see it, and I'll come out.'

He asks for proof before he leaves, which is prudent, and it will do him no good at all. 看 is kàn.

羅luó剎chà即jí叫jiào女nǚ童tóng拿ná一yì柄bǐng芭bā蕉jiāo扇shàn,執zhí在zài傍bàng邊biān。 罗luó刹chà即jí叫jiào女nǚ童tóng拿ná一yì柄bǐng芭bā蕉jiāo扇shàn,执zhí在zài傍bàng边biān。

The Rākṣasī at once told the maid to bring a banana-leaf fan and hold it there at her side.

一柄芭蕉扇, "one banana-leaf fan" — the measure word 柄 and the indefinite 一 are doing quiet work here, since "the fan" would be a lie. 傍 is bàng, beside. Pilgrim asked to see the fan, and what he is being shown is a fan.


總評 Commentary

你才認得叔叔麼 — so you know your uncle now, do you. The taunt is built out of the word she used while begging, and it is the exact inversion of the scene at the door, where he claimed a relationship and she refused it in two questions. He has won the argument by a route that has nothing to do with argument.

The pardon is granted 看牛大哥情上, in consideration of Elder Brother Bull's feelings. The sworn brotherhood is back, and it has changed function completely: it was a plea when he needed something, and it is now the grounds on which he is generously declining to kill her.

Her answer — 有扇,有扇, there is a fan, there is a fan — has the same eager doubling as her 渴了,渴了 earlier, and a reader coming to the chapter fresh will hear only relief in it. What she has the maid bring out is 一柄芭蕉扇, a banana-leaf fan, with that indefinite article doing quiet and careful work.

Pilgrim asks to see it before he comes out, which is prudent and useless. He is about to inspect a forgery he has no means of recognising, having never seen the real one except in use.