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第六十七回
zhěngjiùtuóluóchánxìngwěn
tuōhuìdàoxīnqīng

Rescuing Tuoluo, the Meditative Nature Is Stilled · Escaping the Filth, the Heart of the Way Is Clean

有宿處了
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

有宿處了 There Is Lodging Here

shīmenzhèngránjiǎnglùnjiànzuòshānzhuāngyuǎnxíngzhědào:「hǎoleyǒu宿chùle。」zhǎnglǎowèn:「zàichù?」shīmenzhèngránjiǎnglùnjiànzuòshānzhuāngyuǎnxíngzhědào:「hǎoleyǒu宿chùle。」zhǎnglǎowèn:「zàichù?」


逐句解 Line by line

shīmenzhèngránjiǎnglùnjiànzuòshānzhuāngyuǎn shīmenzhèngránjiǎnglùnjiànzuòshānzhuāngyuǎn

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. is lùn here, to discuss.

xíngzhědào:「hǎoleyǒu宿chùle。」 xíngzhědào:「hǎoleyǒu宿chùle。」

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

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

zhǎnglǎowèn:「zàichù?」 zhǎnglǎowèn:「zàichù?」

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. 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.