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第六十一回
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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

潑老剝皮
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

潑老剝皮 You Wretched Old Flayed Hide

jièjìnqiánluàndào:「lǎoshìshényàngréngǎnliàngxiǎoyàozǒukàn。」jièjìnqiánluàndào:「lǎoshìshényàngréngǎnliàngxiǎoyàozǒukàn。」


逐句解 Line by line

jièjìnqiánluàndào:「lǎo jièjìnqiánluàndào:「lǎo

Eight Rules came up and cursed him wildly: "You wretched old flayed hide!

剝皮, "flayed hide", is left at the literary . The colloquial reading of the character would suit the flavour of the abuse better, and the question is the same one raised by at 血皮脹 earlier; the character is unguarded and this edition has no precedent either way, so the site is recorded rather than settled.

shìshényàngréngǎnliàngxiǎoyàozǒukàn。」 shìshényàngréngǎnliàngxiǎoyàozǒukàn。」

"What sort of person are you, to dare take that one's measure? Do not run — look to the rake!"

The retort is better than it looks: the Bull King asked how big the Great Sage was, and Eight Rules asks what sort of creature the Bull King is, to presume to judge size at all. 那個 is the pointing , picking up the taunt from the line before. 甚樣 takes the question word shén; is liàng, to gauge.


總評 Commentary

Eight Rules answers for his brother, and the retort is better than it looks. The Bull King asked how big a fellow the Great Sage was; Eight Rules asks what sort of creature the Bull King is, to presume to judge size at all. The question is turned rather than answered.

The manner is his own. 潑老剝皮 — you wretched old flayed hide — is street abuse of a kind neither the Great Sage nor the local god produces anywhere in this chapter, and the novel prints it unedited, as it printed 血皮脹的遭瘟 a few passages back. He is the party's only vulgarian and the book is consistent about it.