第六十四回 · 飄飄蕩蕩 Borne Away On A Dark Wind — Journey to the West

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飄飄蕩蕩 Borne Away On A Dark Wind

那nà老lǎo者zhě見jiàn他tā打dǎ來lái，將jiāng身shēn一yì轉zhuǎn，化huà作zuò一yí陣zhèn陰yīn風fēng，呼hū的de一yì聲shēng，把bǎ個gè長zhǎng老lǎo攝shè將jiāng起qǐ去qù，飄piāo飄piāo蕩dàng蕩dàng，不bù知zhī攝shè去qù何hé所suǒ。慌huāng得de那nà大dà聖shèng沒méi跟gēn尋xún處chù，八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng俱jù相xiāng顧gù失shī色sè，白bái馬mǎ亦yì只zhǐ自zì驚jīng吟yín。三sān兄xiōng弟dì連lián馬mǎ四sì口kǒu，恍huǎng恍huǎng忽hū忽hū，遠yuǎn望wàng高gāo張zhāng，並bìng無wú一yì毫háo下xià落luò，前qián後hòu找zhǎo尋xún不bù題tí。那nà老lǎo者zhě见jiàn他tā打dǎ来lái，将jiāng身shēn一yì转zhuǎn，化huà作zuò一yí阵zhèn阴yīn风fēng，呼hū的de一yì声shēng，把bǎ个gè长zhǎng老lǎo摄shè将jiāng起qǐ去qù，飘piāo飘piāo荡dàng荡dàng，不bù知zhī摄shè去qù何hé所suǒ。慌huāng得de那nà大dà圣shèng没méi跟gēn寻xún处chù，八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng俱jù相xiāng顾gù失shī色sè，白bái马mǎ亦yì只zhǐ自zì惊jīng吟yín。三sān兄xiōng弟dì连lián马mǎ四sì口kǒu，恍huǎng恍huǎng忽hū忽hū，远yuǎn望wàng高gāo张zhāng，并bìng无wú一yì毫háo下xià落luò，前qián后hòu找zhǎo寻xún不bù题tí。

逐句解 Line by line

那nà老lǎo者zhě見jiàn他tā打dǎ來lái，將jiāng身shēn一yì轉zhuǎn，化huà作zuò一yí陣zhèn陰yīn風fēng，呼hū的de一yì聲shēng，把bǎ個gè長zhǎng老lǎo攝shè將jiāng起qǐ去qù，飄piāo飄piāo蕩dàng蕩dàng，不bù知zhī攝shè去qù何hé所suǒ。那nà老lǎo者zhě见jiàn他tā打dǎ来lái，将jiāng身shēn一yì转zhuǎn，化huà作zuò一yí阵zhèn阴yīn风fēng，呼hū的de一yì声shēng，把bǎ个gè长zhǎng老lǎo摄shè将jiāng起qǐ去qù，飘piāo飘piāo荡dàng荡dàng，不bù知zhī摄shè去qù何hé所suǒ。

The old man, seeing the blow come, gave his body a turn and became a gust of dark wind. With a rushing sound he caught the elder up and away, drifting and tossing, and there was no telling where he had carried him.

The second 將 is the spoken-language infix inside 攝將起去, which the corpus reads jiāng as it does in 打將進去 and its relatives; the first is the ordinary disposal marker. Both take the same value and neither is the jiàng of a general.

慌huāng得de那nà大dà聖shèng沒méi跟gēn尋xún處chù，八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng俱jù相xiāng顧gù失shī色sè，白bái馬mǎ亦yì只zhǐ自zì驚jīng吟yín。慌huāng得de那nà大dà圣shèng没méi跟gēn寻xún处chù，八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng俱jù相xiāng顾gù失shī色sè，白bái马mǎ亦yì只zhǐ自zì惊jīng吟yín。

The Great Sage was thrown into such alarm that he had nowhere to follow and search; Eight Rules and Sha Monk looked at each other and lost all colour; and the white horse could do nothing but whinny in fright.

慌得 links the verb to what came of it and takes the light de. 沒 is méi, the negative of having, not the mò of sinking. 相 is xiāng, mutual — they looked at each other, not at something else.

三sān兄xiōng弟dì連lián馬mǎ四sì口kǒu，恍huǎng恍huǎng忽hū忽hū，遠yuǎn望wàng高gāo張zhāng，並bìng無wú一yì毫háo下xià落luò，前qián後hòu找zhǎo尋xún不bù題tí。三sān兄xiōng弟dì连lián马mǎ四sì口kǒu，恍huǎng恍huǎng忽hū忽hū，远yuǎn望wàng高gāo张zhāng，并bìng无wú一yì毫háo下xià落luò，前qián后hòu找zhǎo寻xún不bù题tí。

The three brothers and the horse, four of them together, were dazed and bewildered. They gazed far off and strained their eyes high, and there was not the least trace of him. Of their searching back and forth we say no more.

四口 counts the horse in with the brothers using the classifier for mouths, which the English renders as "four of them together" rather than pressing the idiom. 不題 is the storyteller's formula for dropping a thread, matching the 且不說 that dropped the weeping monks near the start of the chapter.

總評 Commentary

The abduction takes one sentence and the reaction takes two. The old man turns, becomes wind, makes a noise, and the master is gone; there is no fight, because there is nothing to fight.

The reaction is arranged in descending order of composure and it ends on the horse. Pilgrim has nowhere to search, Eight Rules and Sha Monk lose their colour looking at each other, and the white horse whinnies in fright — and then the narrator counts all four together and calls them dazed. Giving the horse a share of the alarm is a small joke and also a real point: the dragon-horse is a person in this book, and it is frightened too.

The chapter has now taken its master away by a method none of the disciples can counter. Pilgrim's difficulty is not that he is outmatched but that there is nothing to strike, no direction to follow, and no trail. For once the Great Sage is left with nothing he can usefully do.