第六十三回 · 停杯問何 He Sets Down The Cup — Journey to the West

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停杯問何 He Sets Down The Cup

那nà萬wàn聖shèng龍lóng王wáng正zhèng與yǔ九jiǔ頭tóu駙fù馬mǎ飲yǐn酒jiǔ，忽hū見jiàn他tā兩liǎng個gè來lái，即jí停tíng杯bēi問wèn何hé禍huò事shì。那nà兩liǎng個gè即jí告gào道dào：「昨zuó夜yè巡xún探tàn，被bèi唐táng僧sēng、孫sūn行xíng者zhě掃sǎo塔tǎ捉zhuō獲huò，用yòng鐵tiě索suǒ拴shuān鎖suǒ。今jīn早zǎo見jiàn國guó王wáng，又yòu被bèi那nà行xíng者zhě與yǔ豬zhū八bā戒jiè抓zhuā著zháo我wǒ兩liǎng個gè，一yí個gè割gē了le耳ěr朵duǒ，一yí個gè割gē了le嘴zuǐ唇chún，拋pāo在zài水shuǐ中zhōng，著zhuó我wǒ來lái報bào，要yào索suǒ那nà塔tǎ頂dǐng寶bǎo貝bèi。」遂suì將jiāng前qián後hòu事shì細xì說shuō了le一yí遍biàn。那nà万wàn圣shèng龙lóng王wáng正zhèng与yǔ九jiǔ头tóu驸fù马mǎ饮yǐn酒jiǔ，忽hū见jiàn他tā两liǎng个gè来lái，即jí停tíng杯bēi问wèn何hé祸huò事shì。那nà两liǎng个gè即jí告gào道dào：「昨zuó夜yè巡xún探tàn，被bèi唐táng僧sēng、孙sūn行xíng者zhě扫sǎo塔tǎ捉zhuō获huò，用yòng铁tiě索suǒ拴shuān锁suǒ。今jīn早zǎo见jiàn国guó王wáng，又yòu被bèi那nà行xíng者zhě与yǔ猪zhū八bā戒jiè抓zhuā着zháo我wǒ两liǎng个gè，一yí个gè割gē了le耳ěr朵duǒ，一yí个gè割gē了le嘴zuǐ唇chún，抛pāo在zài水shuǐ中zhōng，着zhuó我wǒ来lái报bào，要yào索suǒ那nà塔tǎ顶dǐng宝bǎo贝bèi。」遂suì将jiāng前qián后hòu事shì细xì说shuō了le一yí遍biàn。

逐句解 Line by line

那nà萬wàn聖shèng龍lóng王wáng正zhèng與yǔ九jiǔ頭tóu駙fù馬mǎ飲yǐn酒jiǔ，忽hū見jiàn他tā兩liǎng個gè來lái，即jí停tíng杯bēi問wèn何hé禍huò事shì。那nà万wàn圣shèng龙lóng王wáng正zhèng与yǔ九jiǔ头tóu驸fù马mǎ饮yǐn酒jiǔ，忽hū见jiàn他tā两liǎng个gè来lái，即jí停tíng杯bēi问wèn何hé祸huò事shì。

The Myriad Sage Dragon King was just then drinking with his nine-headed son-in-law when he saw the two of them come in; he set down his cup at once and asked what disaster this was.

駙馬 is the title of a ruler's son-in-law, and the chapter uses it twenty-one times. 九頭 identifies him as the Nine-Headed Worm named in the deposition taken in the chapter before this one, where he was described but never seen. 正…忽 sets an action in progress against the thing that interrupts it. 那 is deictic, nà.

那nà兩liǎng個gè即jí告gào道dào：「昨zuó夜yè巡xún探tàn，被bèi唐táng僧sēng、孫sūn行xíng者zhě掃sǎo塔tǎ捉zhuō獲huò，用yòng鐵tiě索suǒ拴shuān鎖suǒ。那nà两liǎng个gè即jí告gào道dào：「昨zuó夜yè巡xún探tàn，被bèi唐táng僧sēng、孙sūn行xíng者zhě扫sǎo塔tǎ捉zhuō获huò，用yòng铁tiě索suǒ拴shuān锁suǒ。

The two made their report at once: "Last night, on our round of inspection, we were taken by the Tang Monk and Sun the Pilgrim as they swept the pagoda, and bound fast with iron chains.

巡探 is the duty they were assigned, the patrol of the pagoda that their deposition in the chapter before this one describes. 被 marks the passive, and the whole report is built on it: everything in this speech is something done to them. 那 is deictic. The segment is mid-speech and does not close its quotation.

今jīn早zǎo見jiàn國guó王wáng，又yòu被bèi那nà行xíng者zhě與yǔ豬zhū八bā戒jiè抓zhuā著zháo我wǒ兩liǎng個gè，一yí個gè割gē了le耳ěr朵duǒ，一yí個gè割gē了le嘴zuǐ唇chún，拋pāo在zài水shuǐ中zhōng，著zhuó我wǒ來lái報bào，要yào索suǒ那nà塔tǎ頂dǐng寶bǎo貝bèi。」今jīn早zǎo见jiàn国guó王wáng，又yòu被bèi那nà行xíng者zhě与yǔ猪zhū八bā戒jiè抓zhuā着zháo我wǒ两liǎng个gè，一yí个gè割gē了le耳ěr朵duǒ，一yí个gè割gē了le嘴zuǐ唇chún，抛pāo在zài水shuǐ中zhōng，着zhuó我wǒ来lái报bào，要yào索suǒ那nà塔tǎ顶dǐng宝bǎo贝bèi。」

This morning we were brought before the king, and then that Pilgrim and Zhu Eight Rules seized the pair of us — the ears cut from one and the lip from the other — and threw us into the water, sending us to report that they demand the treasure from the pagoda's crown."

The two 著 in this segment take different readings and both are supplied by position. 抓著 is zháo, the achieved contact of a grip that closes on its object; 著我來報 is zhuó, the causative that dispatches another to act — the same reading it took in Pilgrim's own order at 著他即送. 中 at 水中 is zhōng, and both 那 are the deictic nà.

遂suì將jiāng前qián後hòu事shì細xì說shuō了le一yí遍biàn。遂suì将jiāng前qián后hòu事shì细xì说shuō了le一yí遍biàn。

And so they told the whole affair, first and last, over in detail.

將 is the disposal marker jiāng, taking the affair as the object of the telling. 一遍 takes 一 at yí before the falling 遍 biàn. A short narrator's clause of this kind is not a quotation-closing tail, so it stands as a segment of its own rather than folding back into the speech before it.

總評 Commentary

The Dragon King is drinking with his son-in-law when the news arrives, which is very nearly where the deposition in the chapter before this one left him — a household at its ease on stolen goods. He sets the cup down. It is a small gesture and the text gives it its own verb rather than passing over it.

The report is delivered twice: once in direct speech, and then again in the narrator's compression — 遂將前後事細說了一遍, they told the whole affair, first and last, over in detail. The text lets a character give the short version aloud and then notes that the long version was also given, so that nothing is owed to the reader and nothing has to be repeated.

What the two fiends say is accurate, which is worth noticing, since they have every reason to soften it and do not. They name their captors, the method, the mutilation and the demand, in that order. Their whole usefulness to Pilgrim was that they would carry the message straight, and they do.