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有宿處了
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

有宿處了 There Is Lodging Here

師shī徒tú們men正zhèng然rán講jiǎng論lùn,忽hū見jiàn一yí座zuò山shān莊zhuāng不bù遠yuǎn。行xíng者zhě道dào:「好hǎo了le,有yǒu宿sù處chù了le。」長zhǎng老lǎo問wèn:「在zài何hé處chù?」师shī徒tú们men正zhèng然rán讲jiǎng论lùn,忽hū见jiàn一yí座zuò山shān庄zhuāng不bù远yuǎn。行xíng者zhě道dào:「好hǎo了le,有yǒu宿sù处chù了le。」长zhǎng老lǎo问wèn:「在zài何hé处chù?」


逐句解 Line by line

師shī徒tú們men正zhèng然rán講jiǎng論lùn,忽hū見jiàn一yí座zuò山shān莊zhuāng不bù遠yuǎn。 师shī徒tú们men正zhèng然rán讲jiǎng论lùn,忽hū见jiàn一yí座zuò山shān庄zhuāng不bù远yuǎn。

Master and disciples were still in the middle of this discussion when a mountain farmstead came into sight, not far off.

正然 marks something still going on when it gets interrupted — the "just as" of a scene cut. 論 is lùn here, to discuss.

行xíng者zhě道dào:「好hǎo了le,有yǒu宿sù處chù了le。」 行xíng者zhě道dào:「好hǎo了le,有yǒu宿sù处chù了le。」

Pilgrim said, "Good — there is somewhere to stay."

Both 了 are the little completion marker le, and each needs its own instruction to the transcriber because the character occurs twice in one short line.

長zhǎng老lǎo問wèn:「在zài何hé處chù?」 长zhǎng老lǎo问wèn:「在zài何hé处chù?」

The Elder asked, "Where?"

Three characters of speech, and the line still stands alone rather than being tucked into a neighbour: it names its speaker and shuts its own quotation marks, which is what keeps even the shortest replies separate. 長 is zhǎng in 長老, "elder" — senior, not long.


總評 Commentary

The farmstead turns up precisely when the argument has run out of steam, which is this book's habitual timing. No one remarks on the coincidence and the story does not ask us to.

Tripitaka's three-character question is worth noticing for how little of it there is. Pilgrim announces the find, Eight Rules says nothing, and the Elder asks only where. He has been worried for a whole scene and now wants an address, not a conversation.