Canonical Classics ← 第六十一回
第六十一回
zhūjièzhùwáng
sūnxíngzhěsān調tiáojiāoshàn

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

打得粉碎
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打得粉碎 Smashed To Pieces

liǎnglǐngzheyīnbīngshàngqián使shǐdīnglūntiěbàngpīngpīngpāngpāngzuòyúndòngdeqiánméndefěnsuìxiàdewàitóuzhànzhànjīngjīngchuǎngbiānbàodào:「wángsūnkōngshuàizhòngqiánmén。」liǎnglǐngzheyīnbīngshàngqián使shǐdīnglūntiěbàngpīngpīngpāngpāngzuòyúndòngdeqiánméndefěnsuìxiàdewàitóuzhànzhànjīngjīngchuǎngbiānbàodào:「wángsūnkōngshuàizhòngqiánmén。」


逐句解 Line by line

liǎnglǐngzheyīnbīngshàngqián使shǐdīnglūntiěbàngpīngpīngpāngpāngzuòyúndòngdeqiánméndefěnsuì liǎnglǐngzheyīnbīngshàngqián使shǐdīnglūntiěbàngpīngpīngpāngpāngzuòyúndòngdeqiánméndefěnsuì

The two of them led the local god and the shadow-troops forward together, plying the rake and swinging the rod, clang and clatter, until they had smashed the front gate of the Cloud-Touching Cave to pieces.

The novel makes the noise audible: 乒乒乓乓, four characters of clang and clatter dropped into the middle of a sentence about rake and rod. 打得粉碎 takes the light linking de, hooking the verb to its result. 領著 takes the zhe that keeps the leading going. ( shifts to in 一齊, before a rising tone, and to in 一座, before a falling one.)

xiàdewàitóuzhànzhànjīngjīngchuǎngbiānbàodào:「wángsūnkōngshuàizhòngqiánmén。」 xiàdewàitóuzhànzhànjīngjīngchuǎngbiānbàodào:「wángsūnkōngshuàizhòngqiánmén。」

It frightened the headmen of the outer guard into trembling, and they rushed inside to report: "Great King, Sun Wukong has led a crowd and broken the front gate!"

is shuài, to lead, not the of 效率, a rate. is xià and the after it is the light linking one, hooking the fright to what it produced; the two corrections stand in adjacent characters. 戰戰兢兢 comes from the Book of Songs, of a man walking as if on thin ice.


總評 Commentary

The attack is on the door, and the novel makes the noise of it audible: 乒乒乓乓, four characters of clatter in the middle of a sentence about rake and rod. Nothing is fought here except a gate, and it comes down in one clause.

The report that follows is delivered by terrified functionaries, and the narrative is beginning to be told through the household's junior staff. First a gatekeeper who did not know the visitors' names, now headmen of the outer guard trembling their way inside with news. The Bull King's establishment is being dismantled from the outside in, and each stage is registered by whoever happens to be standing there.