第六十四回 · 分開荊棘 Eight Rules Parts The Thorns — Journey to the West

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分開荊棘 Eight Rules Parts The Thorns

八bā戒jiè道dào：「不bù打dǎ緊jǐn，等děng我wǒ使shǐ出chū鈀pá柴chái手shǒu來lái，把bǎ釘dīng鈀pá分fēn開kāi荊jīng棘jí，莫mò說shuō騎qí馬mǎ，就jiù擡tái轎jiào也yě包bāo你nǐ過guò去qù。」三sān藏zàng道dào：「你nǐ雖suī有yǒu力lì，長cháng遠yuǎn難nán熬áo，卻què不bù知zhī有yǒu多duō少shǎo遠yuǎn近jìn，怎zěn生shēng費fèi得de這zhè許xǔ多duō精jīng神shén？」行xíng者zhě道dào：「不bù須xū商shāng量liáng，等děng我wǒ去qù看kàn看kàn。」將jiāng身shēn一yí縱zòng，跳tiào在zài半bàn空kōng看kàn時shí，一yí望wàng無wú際jì。八bā戒jiè道dào：「不bù打dǎ紧jǐn，等děng我wǒ使shǐ出chū钯pá柴chái手shǒu来lái，把bǎ钉dīng钯pá分fēn开kāi荆jīng棘jí，莫mò说shuō骑qí马mǎ，就jiù擡tái轿jiào也yě包bāo你nǐ过guò去qù。」三sān藏zàng道dào：「你nǐ虽suī有yǒu力lì，长cháng远yuǎn难nán熬áo，却què不bù知zhī有yǒu多duō少shǎo远yuǎn近jìn，怎zěn生shēng费fèi得de这zhè许xǔ多duō精jīng神shén？」行xíng者zhě道dào：「不bù须xū商shāng量liáng，等děng我wǒ去qù看kàn看kàn。」将jiāng身shēn一yí纵zòng，跳tiào在zài半bàn空kōng看kàn时shí，一yí望wàng无wú际jì。

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八bā戒jiè道dào：「不bù打dǎ緊jǐn，等děng我wǒ使shǐ出chū鈀pá柴chái手shǒu來lái，把bǎ釘dīng鈀pá分fēn開kāi荊jīng棘jí，莫mò說shuō騎qí馬mǎ，就jiù擡tái轎jiào也yě包bāo你nǐ過guò去qù。」八bā戒jiè道dào：「不bù打dǎ紧jǐn，等děng我wǒ使shǐ出chū钯pá柴chái手shǒu来lái，把bǎ钉dīng钯pá分fēn开kāi荆jīng棘jí，莫mò说shuō骑qí马mǎ，就jiù擡tái轿jiào也yě包bāo你nǐ过guò去qù。」

Eight Rules said, "No matter. Let me bring out my brushwood-clearing stroke and part the brambles with my muckrake — never mind riding a horse, I warrant I could carry you through in a sedan chair."

Eight Rules names his technique before he uses it. 鈀柴手 names a stroke by what it does — the one that clears brushwood — and the English keeps the compound rather than paraphrasing it out of existence. 鈀 is fixed at pá across the corpus.

三sān藏zàng道dào：「你nǐ雖suī有yǒu力lì，長cháng遠yuǎn難nán熬áo，卻què不bù知zhī有yǒu多duō少shǎo遠yuǎn近jìn，怎zěn生shēng費fèi得de這zhè許xǔ多duō精jīng神shén？」三sān藏zàng道dào：「你nǐ虽suī有yǒu力lì，长cháng远yuǎn难nán熬áo，却què不bù知zhī有yǒu多duō少shǎo远yuǎn近jìn，怎zěn生shēng费fèi得de这zhè许xǔ多duō精jīng神shén？」

Tripitaka said, "You may have the strength, but it is hard to endure over a long stretch, and there is no knowing how far it runs. How could you spend so much vigour on it?"

長遠 takes cháng, the measurement; the automatic reading gives zhǎng here as it did at 長嶺 two passages back. 難 is nán, the ordinary word for hard going, and not the nàn of catastrophe — Tripitaka is worried about stamina, not disaster.

行xíng者zhě道dào：「不bù須xū商shāng量liáng，等děng我wǒ去qù看kàn看kàn。」行xíng者zhě道dào：「不bù须xū商shāng量liáng，等děng我wǒ去qù看kàn看kàn。」

Pilgrim said, "There is no need to deliberate. Let me go and take a look."

商量 is read shāng liáng, both characters in their sense of weighing something up. The clipped everyday pronunciation is declined in favour of the full tone.

將jiāng身shēn一yí縱zòng，跳tiào在zài半bàn空kōng看kàn時shí，一yí望wàng無wú際jì。将jiāng身shēn一yí纵zòng，跳tiào在zài半bàn空kōng看kàn时shí，一yí望wàng无wú际jì。

He flung up his body and sprang into mid-air; and when he looked, there was no end to it as far as sight reached.

將 is the disposal marker at jiāng, taking the body as its object — he does something *to* himself. Both instances of 一, before 縱 and before 望, shift tone mechanically against whatever follows.

總評 Commentary

Eight Rules volunteers in the voice he keeps for volunteering: brisk, faintly boastful, and immediately concrete. He names the stroke, names the tool, and finishes with a piece of comic overreach — not merely a horse but a sedan chair. The rake that has been a weapon for the whole journey is about to become a garden implement.

Tripitaka's reply is the objection of a man who has been on the road a long time. He does not doubt the strength; he doubts it will last over a distance nobody has measured, and the word he picks for the difficulty is the everyday one for hardship rather than the heavier one for calamity. This is a worry about supply lines, not a premonition.

Pilgrim ends the exchange by declining to have it. He will not deliberate; he will look. The leap into the air and the flat report that follows — no end to it as far as sight reached — set up the rhapsody that comes next, and leave the chapter's problem exactly where Eight Rules has offered to solve it.