第六十四回 · 土地送齋 How Did You Come Here — Journey to the West

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土地送齋 How Did You Come Here

須xū臾yú間jiān，八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng俱jù到dào邊biān前qián道dào：「師shī父fù，你nǐ怎zěn麼me得dé到dào此cǐ也yě？」三sān藏zàng扯chě住zhù行xíng者zhě道dào：「徒tú弟dì啊a，多duō累lèi了le你nǐ們men了le。昨zuó日rì晚wǎn間jiān見jiàn的de那nà個gè老lǎo者zhě，言yán說shuō土tǔ地dì送sòng齋zhāi一yí事shì，是shì你nǐ喝hè聲shēng要yào打dǎ，他tā就jiù把bǎ我wǒ擡tái到dào此cǐ方fāng。须xū臾yú间jiān，八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng俱jù到dào边biān前qián道dào：「师shī父fù，你nǐ怎zěn么me得dé到dào此cǐ也yě？」三sān藏zàng扯chě住zhù行xíng者zhě道dào：「徒tú弟dì啊a，多duō累lèi了le你nǐ们men了le。昨zuó日rì晚wǎn间jiān见jiàn的de那nà个gè老lǎo者zhě，言yán说shuō土tǔ地dì送sòng斋zhāi一yí事shì，是shì你nǐ喝hè声shēng要yào打dǎ，他tā就jiù把bǎ我wǒ擡tái到dào此cǐ方fāng。

逐句解 Line by line

須xū臾yú間jiān，八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng俱jù到dào邊biān前qián道dào：「師shī父fù，你nǐ怎zěn麼me得dé到dào此cǐ也yě？」须xū臾yú间jiān，八bā戒jiè、沙shā僧sēng俱jù到dào边biān前qián道dào：「师shī父fù，你nǐ怎zěn么me得dé到dào此cǐ也yě？」

In a moment Eight Rules and Sha Monk were both at his side. "Master, how did you come to be here?"

得 heads a clause of its own in 得到, to arrive at, and takes dé. 須臾間 is the shortest measure of time the chapter uses.

三sān藏zàng扯chě住zhù行xíng者zhě道dào：「徒tú弟dì啊a，多duō累lèi了le你nǐ們men了le。三sān藏zàng扯chě住zhù行xíng者zhě道dào：「徒tú弟dì啊a，多duō累lèi了le你nǐ们men了le。

Tripitaka caught hold of Pilgrim. "Disciple! I have put you all to a great deal of trouble.

累 is lèi, the 緣坐 band of implicating or burdening someone else, and this is its second occurrence in the chapter — the first was said to Eight Rules on the ridge. The character had been held as a fixed value at the heaping-up reading until these two sites forced the split.

昨zuó日rì晚wǎn間jiān見jiàn的de那nà個gè老lǎo者zhě，言yán說shuō土tǔ地dì送sòng齋zhāi一yí事shì，是shì你nǐ喝hè聲shēng要yào打dǎ，他tā就jiù把bǎ我wǒ擡tái到dào此cǐ方fāng。昨zuó日rì晚wǎn间jiān见jiàn的de那nà个gè老lǎo者zhě，言yán说shuō土tǔ地dì送sòng斋zhāi一yí事shì，是shì你nǐ喝hè声shēng要yào打dǎ，他tā就jiù把bǎ我wǒ擡tái到dào此cǐ方fāng。

"That old man we saw last evening, who spoke of the local god bringing a meal — when you shouted that you would strike him, he simply carried me off to this place.

喝 is hè, to shout, and points back to Pilgrim's 喝一聲 at the temple; the automatic reading gives the drinking value at both. Tripitaka is being scrupulously accurate here: the abduction did follow immediately on the shout.

總評 Commentary

The disciples ask the obvious question and get an account that runs for eight segments. It is the chapter's own summary of itself, delivered by the person who was there, and what it leaves out is as informative as what it includes.

He begins by blaming nobody and by getting the sequence right. The old man spoke, Pilgrim shouted, and the abduction followed at once. That is exactly what happened, and it quietly concedes that the disguise had been seen through before anything went wrong.