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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

潑夯豕彘
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拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

潑夯豕彘 Rascally And Clumsy Swine

那nà九jiǔ頭tóu蟲chóng將jiāng公gōng主zhǔ安ān藏cáng在zài內nèi,急jí取qǔ月yuè牙yá鏟chǎn,趕gǎn至zhì前qián宮gōng,喝hè道dào:「潑pō夯hāng豕shǐ彘zhì!怎zěn敢gǎn欺qī心xīn驚jīng吾wú眷juàn族zú?」那nà九jiǔ头tóu虫chóng将jiāng公gōng主zhǔ安ān藏cáng在zài内nèi,急jí取qǔ月yuè牙yá铲chǎn,赶gǎn至zhì前qián宫gōng,喝hè道dào:「泼pō夯hāng豕shǐ彘zhì!怎zěn敢gǎn欺qī心xīn惊jīng吾wú眷juàn族zú?」


逐句解 Line by line

那nà九jiǔ頭tóu蟲chóng將jiāng公gōng主zhǔ安ān藏cáng在zài內nèi,急jí取qǔ月yuè牙yá鏟chǎn,趕gǎn至zhì前qián宮gōng,喝hè道dào:「潑pō夯hāng豕shǐ彘zhì! 那nà九jiǔ头tóu虫chóng将jiāng公gōng主zhǔ安ān藏cáng在zài内nèi,急jí取qǔ月yuè牙yá铲chǎn,赶gǎn至zhì前qián宫gōng,喝hè道dào:「泼pō夯hāng豕shǐ彘zhì!

The Nine-Headed Worm stowed the princess safely away within, snatched up his crescent-moon spade, hurried to the front hall and shouted, "You rascally, clumsy swine!

藏 at 安藏 is cáng, to stow away, not the zàng of the scripture-baskets. 將 is the disposal marker jiāng and 喝道 keeps 喝 at hè. 豕彘 doubles two literary words for pig where the vernacular would have said 豬 once, which is what makes it an insult rather than a description.

怎zěn敢gǎn欺qī心xīn驚jīng吾wú眷juàn族zú?」 怎zěn敢gǎn欺qī心xīn惊jīng吾wú眷juàn族zú?」

How dare you so far forget yourself as to terrify my household?"

A quote-closing tail at exactly eight graphs, and the threshold for joining one backwards is UNDER eight — the third time this chapter has landed on that boundary and been declined. 欺心 is to act against one's own conscience. 吾 is the literary pronoun; 眷族 is the household by blood. No graph in this segment stands in any guard roster.


總評 Commentary

The first thing the Nine-Headed Worm does is put the princess somewhere safe, and only then reach for his weapon. It is a small piece of characterisation the novel does not comment on: the creature that has been described as a monster twice over behaves, at the moment of attack, like the head of a family.

The insult is literary and the grievance is domestic. 豕彘 stacks two book-words for pig; 眷族 is the word for one's own kin. He is not accusing Eight Rules of theft or trespass but of frightening his relations, which is, on the facts, exactly what has happened.