第六十八回 · 萬千之喜 A Thousand Joys For My Lord — Journey to the West

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萬千之喜 A Thousand Joys For My Lord

當dāng分fēn了le四sì個gè太tài監jiān、六liù個gè校xiào尉wèi，更gèng不bú待dài宣xuān召zhào，徑jìng入rù朝cháo，當dāng階jiē奏zòu道dào：「主zhǔ公gōng萬wàn千qiān之zhī喜xǐ。」那nà國guó王wáng正zhèng與yǔ三sān藏zàng膳shàn畢bì清qīng談tán，忽hū聞wén此cǐ奏zòu，問wèn道dào：「喜xǐ自zì何hé來lái？」当dāng分fēn了le四sì个gè太tài监jiān、六liù个gè校xiào尉wèi，更gèng不bú待dài宣xuān召zhào，径jìng入rù朝cháo，当dāng阶jiē奏zòu道dào：「主zhǔ公gōng万wàn千qiān之zhī喜xǐ。」那nà国guó王wáng正zhèng与yǔ三sān藏zàng膳shàn毕bì清qīng谈tán，忽hū闻wén此cǐ奏zòu，问wèn道dào：「喜xǐ自zì何hé来lái？」

逐句解 Line by line

當dāng分fēn了le四sì個gè太tài監jiān、六liù個gè校xiào尉wèi，更gèng不bú待dài宣xuān召zhào，徑jìng入rù朝cháo，當dāng階jiē奏zòu道dào：「主zhǔ公gōng萬wàn千qiān之zhī喜xǐ。」当dāng分fēn了le四sì个gè太tài监jiān、六liù个gè校xiào尉wèi，更gèng不bú待dài宣xuān召zhào，径jìng入rù朝cháo，当dāng阶jiē奏zòu道dào：「主zhǔ公gōng万wàn千qiān之zhī喜xǐ。」

So four eunuchs and six guardsmen were told off, and without waiting to be summoned they went straight into court and reported at the foot of the steps: "A thousand thousand joys for our lord!"

當 appears twice with the same reading dāng doing different work — first 'thereupon', then 'at' the steps. 分 is fēn here, to divide a body of men, and not the fèn share the officials offered a passage ago.

那nà國guó王wáng正zhèng與yǔ三sān藏zàng膳shàn畢bì清qīng談tán，忽hū聞wén此cǐ奏zòu，問wèn道dào：「喜xǐ自zì何hé來lái？」那nà国guó王wáng正zhèng与yǔ三sān藏zàng膳shàn毕bì清qīng谈tán，忽hū闻wén此cǐ奏zòu，问wèn道dào：「喜xǐ自zì何hé来lái？」

The king had just finished the meal and was talking quietly with Tripitaka when he heard the report, and asked, "Whence comes this joy?"

The narrative picks up the thread it closed some two thousand two hundred characters back, and finds the two of them exactly where it left them: still at the table, still talking.

總評 Commentary

更不待宣召 — they do not wait to be summoned. A palace runs on being summoned, and ten men have just walked past that rule because a monkey told them to fetch their king.

And the king is mid-conversation. The chapter shut the door on that meal deliberately, and reopens it to show that nothing has happened there at all while a proclamation was stolen, a pig arrested and a delegation sent across the city.