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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

平平息焰
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平平息焰 The Flames Lie Down

孫sūn大dà聖shèng執zhí著zhe扇shàn子zi,行xíng近jìn山shān邊biān,盡jìn氣qì力lì揮huī了le一yí扇shàn,那nà火huǒ焰yàn山shān平píng平píng息xī焰yàn,寂jì寂jì除chú光guāng。行xíng者zhě喜xǐ喜xǐ歡huān歡huān,又yòu搧shān一yí扇shàn,只zhǐ聞wén得dé習xí習xí瀟xiāo瀟xiāo,清qīng風fēng微wēi動dòng。第dì三sān扇shàn,滿mǎn天tiān雲yún漠mò漠mò,細xì雨yǔ落luò霏fēi霏fēi。孙sūn大dà圣shèng执zhí着zhe扇shàn子zi,行xíng近jìn山shān边biān,尽jìn气qì力lì挥huī了le一yí扇shàn,那nà火huǒ焰yàn山shān平píng平píng息xī焰yàn,寂jì寂jì除chú光guāng。行xíng者zhě喜xǐ喜xǐ欢huān欢huān,又yòu搧shān一yí扇shàn,只zhǐ闻wén得dé习xí习xí潇xiāo潇xiāo,清qīng风fēng微wēi动dòng。第dì三sān扇shàn,满mǎn天tiān云yún漠mò漠mò,细xì雨yǔ落luò霏fēi霏fēi。


逐句解 Line by line

孫sūn大dà聖shèng執zhí著zhe扇shàn子zi,行xíng近jìn山shān邊biān,盡jìn氣qì力lì揮huī了le一yí扇shàn,那nà火huǒ焰yàn山shān平píng平píng息xī焰yàn,寂jì寂jì除chú光guāng。 孙sūn大dà圣shèng执zhí着zhe扇shàn子zi,行xíng近jìn山shān边biān,尽jìn气qì力lì挥huī了le一yí扇shàn,那nà火huǒ焰yàn山shān平píng平píng息xī焰yàn,寂jì寂jì除chú光guāng。

The Great Sage, with the fan in his hand, went up to the edge of the mountain and swung it once with all his strength; and the Mountain of Flames put its fire down level and still, and its glare was quietly gone.

Eight characters answer the whole chapter, and the doubled words make the fire go out gradually rather than at a stroke. 盡 holds at jìn. (一扇 counts one act of fanning, so 一 is a numeral and shifts to yí before the falling tone of 扇.)

行xíng者zhě喜xǐ喜xǐ歡huān歡huān,又yòu搧shān一yí扇shàn,只zhǐ聞wén得dé習xí習xí瀟xiāo瀟xiāo,清qīng風fēng微wēi動dòng。 行xíng者zhě喜xǐ喜xǐ欢huān欢huān,又yòu搧shān一yí扇shàn,只zhǐ闻wén得dé习xí习xí潇xiāo潇xiāo,清qīng风fēng微wēi动dòng。

Pilgrim, delighted, fanned once more, and there was only a soft rustling and whispering, and a clear breeze faintly stirring.

習習瀟瀟 is two doubled words for the sound of a light wind, and 微動 keeps it faint. The strict split between 搧 shān, the verb, and 扇 shàn, the object, runs through the chapter's last sentences exactly as it ran through its first.

第dì三sān扇shàn,滿mǎn天tiān雲yún漠mò漠mò,細xì雨yǔ落luò霏fēi霏fēi。 第dì三sān扇shàn,满mǎn天tiān云yún漠mò漠mò,细xì雨yǔ落luò霏fēi霏fēi。

At the third stroke the sky filled with spreading cloud, and a fine rain came drifting down.

Thirteen characters of consequence with no verb of agency at all: the subject of the sentence is the weather. 落 holds at luò. Three strokes of the fan put out a fire that has burned for centuries, and the novel spends four characters on each.


總評 Commentary

Three strokes of the fan, four characters each, and the thing that has organised three chapters is over. 平平息焰,寂寂除光 — the fire is put down level and its glare quietly removed, and the doubled words make the going out gradual rather than sudden.

The second stroke brings wind and the third brings rain, and the grammar lets the weather take over: 滿天雲漠漠,細雨落霏霏 has no agent in it at all. After a chapter in which every event was somebody's doing, the ending happens to the sky.

The Great Sage's part in it is 喜喜歡歡 — delighted, doubled, the same cheerful carelessness that lost him the fan in the opening passage. He has learned nothing, and it no longer matters, which is its own kind of comment.