第六十七回 · 卻又難也 Hard That Way Too — Journey to the West

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卻又難也 Hard That Way Too

三sān藏zàng下xià馬mǎ，道dào：「悟wù空kōng，怎zěn生shēng著zhuó力lì麼me？」行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「眼yǎn下xià就jiù要yào過guò山shān，卻què也yě是shì難nán；若ruò說shuō再zài開kāi條tiáo路lù，卻què又yòu難nán也yě。須xū是shì還hái從cóng舊jiù衚hú衕tòng過guò去qù，只zhǐ恐kǒng無wú人rén管guǎn飯fàn。」三sān藏zàng下xià马mǎ，道dào：「悟wù空kōng，怎zěn生shēng着zhuó力lì么me？」行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「眼yǎn下xià就jiù要yào过guò山shān，却què也yě是shì难nán；若ruò说shuō再zài开kāi条tiáo路lù，却què又yòu难nán也yě。须xū是shì还hái从cóng旧jiù胡hú同tòng过guò去qù，只zhǐ恐kǒng无wú人rén管guǎn饭fàn。」

逐句解 Line by line

三sān藏zàng下xià馬mǎ，道dào：「悟wù空kōng，怎zěn生shēng著zhuó力lì麼me？」三sān藏zàng下xià马mǎ，道dào：「悟wù空kōng，怎zěn生shēng着zhuó力lì么me？」

Tripitaka dismounted and said, "Wukong, how are we to set to?"

著 is zhuó again. The Elder gets down off his horse to ask. He has dismounted once before in this chapter, at the farmstead gate on the first evening, and both times it was to address somebody who could help him.

行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「眼yǎn下xià就jiù要yào過guò山shān，卻què也yě是shì難nán；若ruò說shuō再zài開kāi條tiáo路lù，卻què又yòu難nán也yě。行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「眼yǎn下xià就jiù要yào过guò山shān，却què也yě是shì难nán；若ruò说shuō再zài开kāi条tiáo路lù，却què又yòu难nán也yě。

Pilgrim laughed. "To go over the hill as it stands would be hard; and to talk of opening another road would be hard too.

Two halves of one sentence, cut by a semicolon and rejoined: a topic clause and a 卻…難 verdict on each side. 難 is the adverb nán both times.

須xū是shì還hái從cóng舊jiù衚hú衕tòng過guò去qù，只zhǐ恐kǒng無wú人rén管guǎn飯fàn。」须xū是shì还hái从cóng旧jiù胡hú同tòng过guò去qù，只zhǐ恐kǒng无wú人rén管guǎn饭fàn。」

"We must go through the old lane after all. My only fear is that there will be nobody to keep us in meals."

還 is hái, "after all." The objection is about catering — the second time in this chapter that Pilgrim has steered a difficulty towards food, after the cup of tea and the bowl of rice.

總評 Commentary

The Elder gets down off his horse to ask, and that gesture is the whole of his reaction to the weeping he did six segments earlier. He has stopped being carried and started paying attention.

Pilgrim concedes that both options are hard and then discards the second — not because it is harder but because it is not theirs to attempt. The old lane it is, and the difficulty gets restated as a supply problem.

只恐無人管飯 is the turn the whole passage exists for. Having refused silver, land and labour, he arrives at the one thing he asked for on the first evening — and asks for it again, larger.