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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

釘鈀放光
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

釘鈀放光 The Rake Gives Off Light

行xíng者zhě復fù身shēn爬pá上shàng宮gōng殿diàn觀guān看kàn。左zuǒ首shǒu下xià有yǒu光guāng彩cǎi森sēn森sēn,乃nǎi是shì八bā戒jiè的de釘dīng鈀pá放fàng光guāng。使shǐ個gè隱yǐn身shēn法fǎ,將jiāng鈀pá偷tōu出chū,到dào牌pái樓lóu下xià,叫jiào聲shēng:「八bā戒jiè,接jiē兵bīng器qì。」行xíng者zhě复fù身shēn爬pá上shàng宫gōng殿diàn观guān看kàn。左zuǒ首shǒu下xià有yǒu光guāng彩cǎi森sēn森sēn,乃nǎi是shì八bā戒jiè的de钉dīng钯pá放fàng光guāng。使shǐ个gè隐yǐn身shēn法fǎ,将jiāng钯pá偷tōu出chū,到dào牌pái楼lóu下xià,叫jiào声shēng:「八bā戒jiè,接jiē兵bīng器qì。」


逐句解 Line by line

行xíng者zhě復fù身shēn爬pá上shàng宮gōng殿diàn觀guān看kàn。 行xíng者zhě复fù身shēn爬pá上shàng宫gōng殿diàn观guān看kàn。

Pilgrim turned back and crawled up into the palace hall to look.

觀看 takes 觀 at guān and 看 at kàn, the ordinary sense of looking, exactly as it did at the first rhapsody's introducer. 復身 is to turn the body back the way it came, and the crab is still crawling.

左zuǒ首shǒu下xià有yǒu光guāng彩cǎi森sēn森sēn,乃nǎi是shì八bā戒jiè的de釘dīng鈀pá放fàng光guāng。 左zuǒ首shǒu下xià有yǒu光guāng彩cǎi森sēn森sēn,乃nǎi是shì八bā戒jiè的de钉dīng钯pá放fàng光guāng。

On the left there was a dense brightness — it was Eight Rules' nine-tined rake giving off light.

鈀 stands at pá by the corpus-wide ruling, where pypinyin gives bǎ. 的 holds de. 森森 is properly of trees standing thick, borrowed here for light that comes in a mass rather than a beam, and it is what makes the weapon findable in a hall the searcher cannot see the whole of.

使shǐ個gè隱yǐn身shēn法fǎ,將jiāng鈀pá偷tōu出chū,到dào牌pái樓lóu下xià,叫jiào聲shēng:「八bā戒jiè,接jiē兵bīng器qì。」 使shǐ个gè隐yǐn身shēn法fǎ,将jiāng钯pá偷tōu出chū,到dào牌pái楼lóu下xià,叫jiào声shēng:「八bā戒jiè,接jiē兵bīng器qì。」

He worked a spell to hide his body, stole the rake out, went down to the ceremonial arch, and called, "Eight Rules — catch your weapon."

將 is the disposal marker jiāng and 鈀 again pá. 隱身法 is a second disguise laid over the first: he is already a crab, and now he is an invisible one. The novel does not remark on the doubling.


總評 Commentary

The rake is found because it shines. That is a property the novel has established elsewhere and uses here as a plot mechanism: a magic weapon in a dark hall is its own beacon, and the searcher does not have to search. Three segments cover the entire theft.

隱身法 is worth noticing because it is redundant and the text lets it be. He is already disguised as a crab, moving among crabs; making himself invisible as well is belt and braces. It also means that for the length of this passage there is nothing in the hall to see at all — an invisible crab carrying a rake down a corridor.