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第六十一回
豬zhū八bā戒jiè助zhù力lì破pò魔mó王wáng
孫sūn行xíng者zhě三sān調tiáo芭bā蕉jiāo扇shàn

Zhu Eight Rules Lends His Strength to Defeat the Demon King · Sun the Pilgrim Contrives the Third Fetching of the Banana-Leaf Fan

快拿扇來
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快拿扇來 Bring Out The Fan Quickly

說shuō不bù了liǎo,八bā戒jiè趕gǎn上shàng罵mà道dào:「我wǒ把bǎ你nǐ個gè結jié心xīn癀huáng!快kuài拿ná出chū扇shàn來lái,饒ráo你nǐ性xìng命mìng。」那nà牛niú王wáng只zhǐ得dé回huí頭tóu,使shǐ寶bǎo劍jiàn又yòu戰zhàn八bā戒jiè。说shuō不bù了liǎo,八bā戒jiè赶gǎn上shàng骂mà道dào:「我wǒ把bǎ你nǐ个gè结jié心xīn癀huáng!快kuài拿ná出chū扇shàn来lái,饶ráo你nǐ性xìng命mìng。」那nà牛niú王wáng只zhǐ得dé回huí头tóu,使shǐ宝bǎo剑jiàn又yòu战zhàn八bā戒jiè。


逐句解 Line by line

說shuō不bù了liǎo,八bā戒jiè趕gǎn上shàng罵mà道dào:「我wǒ把bǎ你nǐ個gè結jié心xīn癀huáng! 说shuō不bù了liǎo,八bā戒jiè赶gǎn上shàng骂mà道dào:「我wǒ把bǎ你nǐ个gè结jié心xīn癀huáng!

Before he had done speaking, Eight Rules came up cursing: "You knot-hearted murrain!

Eight Rules cuts straight across the speech before it is finished. 說不了 takes 了 as liǎo, the verb "to finish", under a "can/cannot" frame with 不 — not the light le the character carries almost everywhere else. Nothing marks the site: 了 is dipping-tone as liǎo and unstressed as le, and 不 is bù before either. 癀 huáng is a murrain, a cattle disease, which makes the insult species-specific in the way all this chapter's abuse is.

快kuài拿ná出chū扇shàn來lái,饒ráo你nǐ性xìng命mìng。」 快kuài拿ná出chū扇shàn来lái,饶ráo你nǐ性xìng命mìng。」

"Bring out the fan quickly and I will spare your life."

饒 is to spare or pardon. The offer is the same one the local god made a passage earlier, stripped of its cosmology and reduced to a threat between two fighters.

那nà牛niú王wáng只zhǐ得dé回huí頭tóu,使shǐ寶bǎo劍jiàn又yòu戰zhàn八bā戒jiè。 那nà牛niú王wáng只zhǐ得dé回huí头tóu,使shǐ宝bǎo剑jiàn又yòu战zhàn八bā戒jiè。

The Bull King could only turn back, and fought Eight Rules with his sword again.

只得 takes dé, the settled "have no choice but". 回頭 is literal here rather than figurative: he had broken and run in the previous passage, and is now turned at bay.


總評 Commentary

Eight Rules cuts across the Bull King's speech before it is finished, and the interruption is the point. 說不了 marks that the grievance about the son, the concubine and the wife was still being stated when a rake arrived. The novel gives the demon his case and then declines to let him complete it.

What replaces the argument is four characters of ultimatum. Where the local god had offered cosmology — three realms informed, ten directions in support — Eight Rules offers only 饒你性命, I will spare your life. The reduction is honest about what the pilgrims are actually doing here.