第六十七回 · 臭氣難聞 A Stench Past Bearing — Journey to the West

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臭氣難聞 A Stench Past Bearing

又yòu鬥dòu多duō時shí，不bù覺jué東dōng方fāng發fā白bái。那nà怪guài不bù敢gǎn戀liàn戰zhàn，回huí頭tóu就jiù走zǒu。行xíng者zhě與yǔ八bā戒jiè一yì齊qí趕gǎn來lái，忽hū聞wén得dé污wū穢huì之zhī氣qì逼bī人rén，乃nǎi是shì七qī絕jué山shān稀xī柿shì衕tòng也yě。八bā戒jiè道dào：「是shì那nà家jiā淘táo毛máo廁cè哩li？哏gén！臭chòu氣qì難nán聞wén。」行xíng者zhě侮wǔ著zhe鼻bí子zi，只zhǐ叫jiào：「快kuài趕gǎn妖yāo精jīng，快kuài趕gǎn妖yāo精jīng。」那nà怪guài物wù攛cuān過guò山shān去qù，現xiàn了le本běn像xiàng，乃nǎi是shì一yì條tiáo紅hóng鱗lín大dà蟒mǎng。又yòu斗dòu多duō时shí，不bù觉jué东dōng方fāng发fā白bái。那nà怪guài不bù敢gǎn恋liàn战zhàn，回huí头tóu就jiù走zǒu。行xíng者zhě与yǔ八bā戒jiè一yì齐qí赶gǎn来lái，忽hū闻wén得dé污wū秽huì之zhī气qì逼bī人rén，乃nǎi是shì七qī绝jué山shān稀xī柿shì同tòng也yě。八bā戒jiè道dào：「是shì那nà家jiā淘táo毛máo厕cè哩li？哏gén！臭chòu气qì难nán闻wén。」行xíng者zhě侮wǔ着zhe鼻bí子zi，只zhǐ叫jiào：「快kuài赶gǎn妖yāo精jīng，快kuài赶gǎn妖yāo精jīng。」那nà怪guài物wù撺cuān过guò山shān去qù，现xiàn了le本běn像xiàng，乃nǎi是shì一yì条tiáo红hóng鳞lín大dà蟒mǎng。

逐句解 Line by line

又yòu鬥dòu多duō時shí，不bù覺jué東dōng方fāng發fā白bái。又yòu斗dòu多duō时shí，不bù觉jué东dōng方fāng发fā白bái。

They fought on a good while longer, and before anyone marked it the east had turned white.

覺 is jué, to notice — 不覺 is "without anyone noticing." The dawn Pilgrim predicted arrives, and the text gives him no credit for it.

那nà怪guài不bù敢gǎn戀liàn戰zhàn，回huí頭tóu就jiù走zǒu。那nà怪guài不bù敢gǎn恋liàn战zhàn，回huí头tóu就jiù走zǒu。

The creature dared not press the fight, but turned its head and ran.

戀戰 is to cling to a fight past the point where it is worth having — exactly what Pilgrim said would stop happening once the sun was up.

行xíng者zhě與yǔ八bā戒jiè一yì齊qí趕gǎn來lái，忽hū聞wén得dé污wū穢huì之zhī氣qì逼bī人rén，乃nǎi是shì七qī絕jué山shān稀xī柿shì衕tòng也yě。行xíng者zhě与yǔ八bā戒jiè一yì齐qí赶gǎn来lái，忽hū闻wén得dé污wū秽huì之zhī气qì逼bī人rén，乃nǎi是shì七qī绝jué山shān稀xī柿shì同tòng也yě。

Pilgrim and Eight Rules gave chase together, and all at once a foul air came at them and pressed close. This was the Thin Persimmon Lane of Seven Perfections Hill.

得 in 聞得 is the full verb dé. The lane was described to them on their first evening and this is the first time they actually meet it.

八bā戒jiè道dào：「是shì那nà家jiā淘táo毛máo廁cè哩li？哏gén！臭chòu氣qì難nán聞wén。」八bā戒jiè道dào：「是shì那nà家jiā淘táo毛máo厕cè哩li？哏gén！臭chòu气qì难nán闻wén。」

Eight Rules said, "Whose privy is being dredged out here? Ugh! The stink is past bearing."

哏 stands as a single character with its own full stop — a bare grunt of disgust, so it joins its neighbours rather than standing alone, and the four-character tail that shuts the quotation folds in after it. 難 is the adverb nán.

行xíng者zhě侮wǔ著zhe鼻bí子zi，只zhǐ叫jiào：「快kuài趕gǎn妖yāo精jīng，快kuài趕gǎn妖yāo精jīng。」行xíng者zhě侮wǔ着zhe鼻bí子zi，只zhǐ叫jiào：「快kuài赶gǎn妖yāo精jīng，快kuài赶gǎn妖yāo精jīng。」

Pilgrim covered his nose and only called, "After the demon, quick! After the demon!"

著 is the marker zhe. The doubled shout is the same shape as the knocking at the gate, and here it is being used to stop a subject being discussed.

那nà怪guài物wù攛cuān過guò山shān去qù，現xiàn了le本běn像xiàng，乃nǎi是shì一yì條tiáo紅hóng鱗lín大dà蟒mǎng。那nà怪guài物wù撺cuān过guò山shān去qù，现xiàn了le本běn像xiàng，乃nǎi是shì一yì条tiáo红hóng鳞lín大dà蟒mǎng。

The creature bolted over the hill and showed its true form: a great red-scaled python.

攛 is to shoot or bolt. 現了本像 — "showed its original shape" — is the standard formula by which this book ends a creature's disguise.

總評 Commentary

Dawn comes exactly when Pilgrim said it would and the text gives him no credit whatever. The creature runs, the two of them follow, and the chase leads straight into the obstacle the whole first half of the chapter was spent describing.

The smell reaches them before the lane is named, which reverses the order of the old man's account — he named the place first and explained the smell afterwards. Eight Rules reacts in one character and then in four. His 哏 is the only single-character unit anywhere in this chapter's three hundred and forty.

Then the disguise ends. Everything the villagers reported — the wind, the eating, the two lamps in the air, the spear with no shaft — resolves into one animal, and the resolution takes nineteen characters.