Canonical Classics ← 第六十三回
第六十三回
èrsēngdàngguàinàolónggōng
qúnshèngchúxiéhuòbǎobèi

Two Monks Quell a Fiend and Make Havoc in the Dragon Palace · A Host of Sages Puts Down the Evil and Recovers the Treasure

打得粉碎
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

打得粉碎 Smashed Into Powder

zhèchǎngbèijièdàimàopíngdefěnsuìshānshùguàndediāolíngzhèchǎngbèijièdàimàopíngdefěnsuìshānshùguàndediāolíng


逐句解 Line by line

zhèchǎngbèijièdàimàopíngdefěnsuìshānshùguàndediāolíng zhèchǎngbèijièdàimàopíngdefěnsuìshānshùguàndediāolíng

In that bout Eight Rules smashed the tortoiseshell screen into powder and dashed the coral trees down to ruin.

Both here are the linking de and both specs are given by position: 打得粉碎 and 摜得凋零 are verb-plus-complement, stating what the striking and the dashing came to. 一場 takes at before the dipping chǎng. 凋零 is properly used of flowers dropping, so the coral is being wrecked in the vocabulary of a garden.


總評 Commentary

One sentence, and it comes after the poem rather than before it — so the destruction is described twice, once in verse as doors and windows ruined and once in prose as two specific objects broken. The prose is more expensive. A tortoiseshell screen and coral trees are the furnishings of a wealthy house, not the fittings of a fortress.

The verbs are chosen for their objects. The screen is struck and goes to powder; the coral is dashed down and goes to pieces the way a flowering branch does. 凋零 belongs to falling blossom, and applying it to coral treats the dragon palace as a garden being stripped.