第六十六回 · 抓腸蒯腹 Clawing Gut And Scraping Belly — Journey to the West

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抓腸蒯腹 Clawing Gut And Scraping Belly

那nà行xíng者zhě乘chéng此cǐ機jī會huì，一yì轂gǔ轆lù鑽zuān入rù咽yān喉hóu之zhī下xià，等děng不bù得de好hǎo歹dǎi，就jiù弄nòng手shǒu腳jiǎo：抓zhuā腸cháng蒯kuǎi腹fù，翻fān根gēn頭tóu，豎shù蜻qīng蜓tíng，任rèn他tā在zài裡lǐ面miàn擺bǎi佈bù。那nà妖yāo精jīng疼téng得de傞suō牙yá徠lái嘴zuǐ，眼yǎn淚lèi汪wāng汪wāng，把bǎ一yí塊kuài種zhòng瓜guā之zhī地dì，滾gǔn得de似sì個gè打dǎ麥mài之zhī場chǎng。口kǒu中zhōng只zhǐ叫jiào：「罷bà了le，罷bà了le，誰shuí人rén救jiù我wǒ一yí救jiù？」那nà行xíng者zhě乘chéng此cǐ机jī会huì，一yì毂gǔ辘lù钻zuān入rù咽yān喉hóu之zhī下xià，等děng不bù得de好hǎo歹dǎi，就jiù弄nòng手shǒu脚jiǎo：抓zhuā肠cháng蒯kuǎi腹fù，翻fān根gēn头tóu，竖shù蜻qīng蜓tíng，任rèn他tā在zài里lǐ面miàn摆bǎi布bù。那nà妖yāo精jīng疼téng得de傞suō牙yá徕lái嘴zuǐ，眼yǎn泪lèi汪wāng汪wāng，把bǎ一yí块kuài种zhòng瓜guā之zhī地dì，滚gǔn得de似sì个gè打dǎ麦mài之zhī场chǎng。口kǒu中zhōng只zhǐ叫jiào：「罢bà了le，罢bà了le，谁shuí人rén救jiù我wǒ一yí救jiù？」

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那nà行xíng者zhě乘chéng此cǐ機jī會huì，一yì轂gǔ轆lù鑽zuān入rù咽yān喉hóu之zhī下xià，等děng不bù得de好hǎo歹dǎi，就jiù弄nòng手shǒu腳jiǎo：抓zhuā腸cháng蒯kuǎi腹fù，翻fān根gēn頭tóu，豎shù蜻qīng蜓tíng，任rèn他tā在zài裡lǐ面miàn擺bǎi佈bù。那nà行xíng者zhě乘chéng此cǐ机jī会huì，一yì毂gǔ辘lù钻zuān入rù咽yān喉hóu之zhī下xià，等děng不bù得de好hǎo歹dǎi，就jiù弄nòng手shǒu脚jiǎo：抓zhuā肠cháng蒯kuǎi腹fù，翻fān根gēn头tóu，竖shù蜻qīng蜓tíng，任rèn他tā在zài里lǐ面miàn摆bǎi布bù。

Pilgrim seized the chance, rolled straight down past the throat, and without waiting to see how things stood set to work with hands and feet — clawing at the guts, scraping the belly, turning somersaults and standing on his head, doing as he pleased in there.

咽 is yān, the throat — not the yàn of swallowing, which the same character takes in other compounds. 乘 is chéng, to seize a chance, against the shèng of the Three Vehicles earlier in the chapter, and 得 is toneless here, in 等不得 — could not wait.

那nà妖yāo精jīng疼téng得de傞suō牙yá徠lái嘴zuǐ，眼yǎn淚lèi汪wāng汪wāng，把bǎ一yí塊kuài種zhòng瓜guā之zhī地dì，滾gǔn得de似sì個gè打dǎ麥mài之zhī場chǎng。那nà妖yāo精jīng疼téng得de傞suō牙yá徕lái嘴zuǐ，眼yǎn泪lèi汪wāng汪wāng，把bǎ一yí块kuài种zhòng瓜guā之zhī地dì，滚gǔn得de似sì个gè打dǎ麦mài之zhī场chǎng。

The fiend was in such pain that his teeth were bared and his mouth twisted and his eyes ran with tears, and he rolled a whole patch of melon ground into something like a threshing floor.

場 is chǎng here — 打麥之場 is a threshing floor, a real place, and the character takes the rising tone in that sense. Both 得 are toneless, marking a result.

口kǒu中zhōng只zhǐ叫jiào：「罷bà了le，罷bà了le，誰shuí人rén救jiù我wǒ一yí救jiù？」口kǒu中zhōng只zhǐ叫jiào：「罢bà了le，罢bà了le，谁shuí人rén救jiù我wǒ一yí救jiù？」

He only cried out, "It is over, it is over — will nobody save me?"

罷了 is read bà le, a fixed phrase meaning it is all over. The fiend's cry — will nobody save me — is the question Monkey has been asking the whole chapter, now in the mouth of the one who caused it.

總評 Commentary

The fight the chapter could not win from outside is won from inside in three segments, and it is won without a weapon. Monkey's rod is not mentioned; he uses hands and feet, and the verbs are those of a child at play — somersaults and handstands — performed in a stomach.

The melon patch rolled into a threshing floor is the chapter's best single image. Maitreya planted that ground as a trap and the fiend has flattened it in his agony, and the comparison turns a scene of planting into one of harvest.

Will nobody save me closes the chapter's circle of petition. Monkey has asked Wudang, Xuyi and finally a Buddha for exactly this, at length and in verse. The fiend asks it of nobody in particular, in seven characters, and is answered at once.