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遞與扇子
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遞與扇子 He Hands Over The Fan

那nà女nǚ子zǐ與yǔ老lǎo孫sūn結jié了le一yì場cháng乾gān夫fū妻qī,是shì老lǎo孫sūn設shè法fǎ騙piàn將jiāng來lái的de。」牛niú王wáng道dào:「卻què是shì生shēng受shòu了le。哥gē哥ge勞láo碌lù太tài甚shèn,可kě把bǎ扇shàn子zi我wǒ拿ná。」孫sūn大dà聖shèng那nǎ知zhī真zhēn假jiǎ,也yě慮lǜ不bù及jí此cǐ,遂suì將jiāng扇shàn子zi遞dì與yǔ他tā。那nà女nǚ子zǐ与yǔ老lǎo孙sūn结jié了le一yì场cháng干gān夫fū妻qī,是shì老lǎo孙sūn设shè法fǎ骗piàn将jiāng来lái的de。」牛niú王wáng道dào:「却què是shì生shēng受shòu了le。哥gē哥ge劳láo碌lù太tài甚shèn,可kě把bǎ扇shàn子zi我wǒ拿ná。」孙sūn大dà圣shèng那nǎ知zhī真zhēn假jiǎ,也yě虑lǜ不bù及jí此cǐ,遂suì将jiāng扇shàn子zi递dì与yǔ他tā。


逐句解 Line by line

那nà女nǚ子zǐ與yǔ老lǎo孫sūn結jié了le一yì場cháng乾gān夫fū妻qī,是shì老lǎo孫sūn設shè法fǎ騙piàn將jiāng來lái的de。」 那nà女nǚ子zǐ与yǔ老lǎo孙sūn结jié了le一yì场cháng干gān夫fū妻qī,是shì老lǎo孙sūn设shè法fǎ骗piàn将jiāng来lái的de。」

"That woman and old Sun made a dry match of it for a while, and old Sun contrived a way to cheat it out of her."

乾夫妻 is a marriage in name only, and 乾 takes gān — the "dry, bare, nominal" sense of 乾魚 and 乾淨, not the qián of 乾坤, heaven and earth. 女子 keeps the full zǐ, against the light zi of 扇子 twice in the next line. In 騙將來, 將 is jiāng.

牛niú王wáng道dào:「卻què是shì生shēng受shòu了le。哥gē哥ge勞láo碌lù太tài甚shèn,可kě把bǎ扇shàn子zi我wǒ拿ná。」 牛niú王wáng道dào:「却què是shì生shēng受shòu了le。哥gē哥ge劳láo碌lù太tài甚shèn,可kě把bǎ扇shàn子zi我wǒ拿ná。」

The Bull King said: "That was hard work indeed. Elder brother has laboured far too much — let me carry the fan for you."

The trap, and it is beautifully sprung: not a demand but an offer of help. 生受 is to be put to trouble on someone else's behalf, said in sympathy. 甚 is the intensifier shèn, "excessively", not the question word shén of 甚麼.

孫sūn大dà聖shèng那nǎ知zhī真zhēn假jiǎ,也yě慮lǜ不bù及jí此cǐ,遂suì將jiāng扇shàn子zi遞dì與yǔ他tā。 孙sūn大dà圣shèng那nǎ知zhī真zhēn假jiǎ,也yě虑lǜ不bù及jí此cǐ,遂suì将jiāng扇shàn子zi递dì与yǔ他tā。

How was the Great Sage to know true from false? His thought did not reach so far, and he thereupon handed the fan over to him.

那 here is the rhetorical one, standing for 哪 — "how was he to know?" It is the harder of the two non-pointing sites in these passages to spot, because it sits in front of a verb rather than in front of 裡. 遂 needs no correction at this site, having been wrong five passages earlier before 了.


總評 Commentary

The request is beautifully judged. It is not a demand, and it is not a trick that has to succeed on its own strength — it is an offer of help, framed as concern for a tired man, made by someone who has already established himself as a brother sent out to meet him. 哥哥勞碌太甚 gives the Great Sage a reason to hand the fan over that flatters him while he does it.

那知真假 is the storyteller's judgement, and he puts it as a question rather than a verdict. The Great Sage is not being stupid here, and the book does not say he is. He is a man to whom no reason to look has presented itself, which is exactly the condition the whole deception was built to preserve.

也慮不及此 does the real work of the sentence. His thinking did not reach this far — not that he thought and thought wrongly, but that the thought was never started. It is the same failure the proverb named two passages ago, now stated without the figure of speech: the cat that has won does not look behind it.