第六十二回 · 隨身器械 We Have Our Own Weapons — Journey to the West

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隨身器械 We Have Our Own Weapons

那nà國guó王wáng道dào：「二èr位wèi長zhǎng老lǎo既jì不bú用yòng人rén馬mǎ，可kě用yòng兵bīng器qì？」八bā戒jiè笑xiào道dào：「你nǐ家jiā的de兵bīng器qì，我wǒ們men用yòng不bù得de，我wǒ弟dì兄xiōng自zì有yǒu隨suí身shēn器qì械xiè。」國guó王wáng聞wén說shuō，即jí取qǔ大dà觥gōng來lái，與yǔ二èr位wèi長zhǎng老lǎo送sòng行xíng。孫sūn大dà聖shèng道dào：「酒jiǔ不bù吃chī了le，只zhǐ教jiào錦jǐn衣yī衛wèi把bǎ兩liǎng個gè小xiǎo妖yāo拿ná來lái，我wǒ們men帶dài了le他tā去qù做zuò鑿záo眼yǎn。」國guó王wáng傳chuán旨zhǐ，即jí時shí提tí出chū。那nà国guó王wáng道dào：「二èr位wèi长zhǎng老lǎo既jì不bú用yòng人rén马mǎ，可kě用yòng兵bīng器qì？」八bā戒jiè笑xiào道dào：「你nǐ家jiā的de兵bīng器qì，我wǒ们men用yòng不bù得de，我wǒ弟dì兄xiōng自zì有yǒu随suí身shēn器qì械xiè。」国guó王wáng闻wén说shuō，即jí取qǔ大dà觥gōng来lái，与yǔ二èr位wèi长zhǎng老lǎo送sòng行xíng。孙sūn大dà圣shèng道dào：「酒jiǔ不bù吃chī了le，只zhǐ教jiào锦jǐn衣yī卫wèi把bǎ两liǎng个gè小xiǎo妖yāo拿ná来lái，我wǒ们men带dài了le他tā去qù做zuò凿záo眼yǎn。」国guó王wáng传chuán旨zhǐ，即jí时shí提tí出chū。

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那nà國guó王wáng道dào：「二èr位wèi長zhǎng老lǎo既jì不bú用yòng人rén馬mǎ，可kě用yòng兵bīng器qì？」那nà国guó王wáng道dào：「二èr位wèi长zhǎng老lǎo既jì不bú用yòng人rén马mǎ，可kě用yòng兵bīng器qì？」

The king said, "Since the two elders will have no men and horses, will they have weapons?"

那 is the pointing one here, four segments after two that ask questions. The king is still trying to equip an expedition, and this is the third time he is refused. 不 lifts to bú before the falling tone of 用.

八bā戒jiè笑xiào道dào：「你nǐ家jiā的de兵bīng器qì，我wǒ們men用yòng不bù得de，我wǒ弟dì兄xiōng自zì有yǒu隨suí身shēn器qì械xiè。」八bā戒jiè笑xiào道dào：「你nǐ家jiā的de兵bīng器qì，我wǒ们men用yòng不bù得de，我wǒ弟dì兄xiōng自zì有yǒu随suí身shēn器qì械xiè。」

Eight Rules laughed. "Your weapons are no use to us. My brother and I have our own arms about us."

用不得 is the cannot-be-done shape and takes the light linking de. 隨身器械, arms carried on the body, is a plain statement and also a boast: a rake got from heaven, and a rod that used to be the pillar holding down the eastern sea.

國guó王wáng聞wén說shuō，即jí取qǔ大dà觥gōng來lái，與yǔ二èr位wèi長zhǎng老lǎo送sòng行xíng。国guó王wáng闻wén说shuō，即jí取qǔ大dà觥gōng来lái，与yǔ二èr位wèi长zhǎng老lǎo送sòng行xíng。

When the king heard that he sent at once for a great goblet, to drink the two elders on their way.

觥 is a large horn-shaped wine vessel. Having failed to give them troops or weapons, the king offers the one thing a host has left.

孫sūn大dà聖shèng道dào：「酒jiǔ不bù吃chī了le，只zhǐ教jiào錦jǐn衣yī衛wèi把bǎ兩liǎng個gè小xiǎo妖yāo拿ná來lái，我wǒ們men帶dài了le他tā去qù做zuò鑿záo眼yǎn。」孙sūn大dà圣shèng道dào：「酒jiǔ不bù吃chī了le，只zhǐ教jiào锦jǐn衣yī卫wèi把bǎ两liǎng个gè小xiǎo妖yāo拿ná来lái，我wǒ们men带dài了le他tā去qù做zuò凿záo眼yǎn。」

Sun the Great Sage said, "No more wine. Only have the Embroidered-Uniform Guard bring out the two small fiends. We will take them along to work through."

做鑿眼 comes back from the pagoda, where Pilgrim first gave it as his reason for not killing them. The phrase turns up nowhere else in the archive, and both of its appearances are his.

國guó王wáng傳chuán旨zhǐ，即jí時shí提tí出chū。国guó王wáng传chuán旨zhǐ，即jí时shí提tí出chū。

The king gave the order, and they were brought out at once.

Eight characters, a short narrator clause standing on its own. The prisoners the chapter caught on a roof at midnight are now state property, produced under warrant and handed over.

總評 Commentary

Three offers are made and three are turned down: no troops, no weapons, no stirrup-cup. The king has nothing these two want and keeps trying to give it to them anyway, which is the most sympathetic he has been in the whole chapter.

What Pilgrim does want is the prisoners, and he asks for them in the same words he used on the tenth storey — something to work through, the way you work through a chisel-hole to reach what is behind it. The creatures he spared for their evidence are now going along as guides, which is exactly what he said they were for.