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第六十三回
二èr僧sēng蕩dàng怪guài鬧nào龍lóng宮gōng
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Two Monks Quell a Fiend and Make Havoc in the Dragon Palace · A Host of Sages Puts Down the Evil and Recovers the Treasure

剁成幾斷
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剁成幾斷 Chopped Into Several Pieces

那nà駙fù馬mǎ聞wén言yán,即jí使shǐ月yuè牙yá鏟chǎn,帶dài龍lóng孫sūn往wǎng外wài殺shā來lái。這zhè八bā戒jiè舉jǔ鈀pá迎yíng敵dí,且qiě戰zhàn且qiě退tuì,跳tiào出chū水shuǐ中zhōng。這zhè岸àn上shàng齊qí天tiān大dà聖shèng與yǔ七qī兄xiōng弟dì一yì擁yōng上shàng前qián,槍qiāng刀dāo亂luàn扎zhā,把bǎ個gè龍lóng孫sūn剁duò成chéng幾jǐ斷duàn肉ròu餅bǐng。那nà驸fù马mǎ闻wén言yán,即jí使shǐ月yuè牙yá铲chǎn,带dài龙lóng孙sūn往wǎng外wài杀shā来lái。这zhè八bā戒jiè举jǔ钯pá迎yíng敌dí,且qiě战zhàn且qiě退tuì,跳tiào出chū水shuǐ中zhōng。这zhè岸àn上shàng齐qí天tiān大dà圣shèng与yǔ七qī兄xiōng弟dì一yì拥yōng上shàng前qián,枪qiāng刀dāo乱luàn扎zhā,把bǎ个gè龙lóng孙sūn剁duò成chéng几jǐ断duàn肉ròu饼bǐng。


逐句解 Line by line

那nà駙fù馬mǎ聞wén言yán,即jí使shǐ月yuè牙yá鏟chǎn,帶dài龍lóng孫sūn往wǎng外wài殺shā來lái。 那nà驸fù马mǎ闻wén言yán,即jí使shǐ月yuè牙yá铲chǎn,带dài龙lóng孙sūn往wǎng外wài杀shā来lái。

The son-in-law, hearing it, took up his crescent-moon spade and came fighting out with the dragon grandsons.

那 is deictic. 即使 here is not the concessive even-if but two separate graphs — at once, and to use — and the spade is the same weapon named in the first description of him.

這zhè八bā戒jiè舉jǔ鈀pá迎yíng敵dí,且qiě戰zhàn且qiě退tuì,跳tiào出chū水shuǐ中zhōng。 这zhè八bā戒jiè举jǔ钯pá迎yíng敌dí,且qiě战zhàn且qiě退tuì,跳tiào出chū水shuǐ中zhōng。

Eight Rules raised his rake to meet them, fighting and giving ground by turns, and leapt out of the water.

鈀 is pá and 中 is zhōng. 且戰且退 — fighting and retreating at once — is the manoeuvre, and it is the manoeuvre he was told to perform: the whole of his part is to lose ground in a useful direction.

這zhè岸àn上shàng齊qí天tiān大dà聖shèng與yǔ七qī兄xiōng弟dì一yì擁yōng上shàng前qián,槍qiāng刀dāo亂luàn扎zhā,把bǎ個gè龍lóng孫sūn剁duò成chéng幾jǐ斷duàn肉ròu餅bǐng。 这zhè岸àn上shàng齐qí天tiān大dà圣shèng与yǔ七qī兄xiōng弟dì一yì拥yōng上shàng前qián,枪qiāng刀dāo乱luàn扎zhā,把bǎ个gè龙lóng孙sūn剁duò成chéng几jǐ断duàn肉ròu饼bǐng。

On the bank the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and the seven brothers rushed forward together, spears and blades stabbing every way, and chopped a dragon grandson into so many lumps of minced meat.

扎 keeps zhā, the free verb to stab. The corpus reads the same graph zhá inside the fixed binome 掙扎, and the split is of a kind this chapter has met twice already — a set compound keeping its conventional reading while the free morpheme takes its own. 一擁 takes 一 at yì. No graph here stands in any guard roster.


總評 Commentary

The ambush works exactly as designed, and the design is not flattering to anybody. Eight Rules goes in, kills a mourner, is chased out, gives ground on purpose, and eight armed immortals fall on whatever follows him. The dragon grandson who comes out first is dead before the passage ends.

剁成幾斷肉餅 is the most physical thing in the chapter. 肉餅 is minced meat pressed into cakes — a kitchen word — and putting it at the end of a line about spears and blades makes the killing domestic rather than martial.

The arithmetic is worth stating. 七兄弟 here counts Erlang together with his six, so eight are waiting on the bank with Pilgrim among them, while one pig does the work in the water. Against the eight, the household has a son-in-law and whatever grandsons are left.