第六十八回 · 神聖功巧 Even Immortals Must Do This — Journey to the West

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神聖功巧 Even Immortals Must Do This

那nà兩liǎng班bān文wén武wǔ叢cóng中zhōng，有yǒu太tài醫yī院yuàn官guān，一yì聞wén此cǐ言yán，對duì眾zhòng稱chēng揚yáng道dào：「這zhè和hé尚shàng也yě說shuō得de有yǒu理lǐ。就jiù是shì神shén仙xiān看kàn病bìng，也yě須xū望wàng、聞wén、問wèn、切qiè，謹jǐn合hé著zhe神shén聖shèng功gōng巧qiǎo也yě。」那nà两liǎng班bān文wén武wǔ丛cóng中zhōng，有yǒu太tài医yī院yuàn官guān，一yì闻wén此cǐ言yán，对duì众zhòng称chēng扬yáng道dào：「这zhè和hé尚shàng也yě说shuō得de有yǒu理lǐ。就jiù是shì神shén仙xiān看kàn病bìng，也yě须xū望wàng、闻wén、问wèn、切qiè，谨jǐn合hé着zhe神shén圣shèng功gōng巧qiǎo也yě。」

逐句解 Line by line

那nà兩liǎng班bān文wén武wǔ叢cóng中zhōng，有yǒu太tài醫yī院yuàn官guān，一yì聞wén此cǐ言yán，對duì眾zhòng稱chēng揚yáng道dào：「這zhè和hé尚shàng也yě說shuō得de有yǒu理lǐ。那nà两liǎng班bān文wén武wǔ丛cóng中zhōng，有yǒu太tài医yī院yuàn官guān，一yì闻wén此cǐ言yán，对duì众zhòng称chēng扬yáng道dào：「这zhè和hé尚shàng也yě说shuō得de有yǒu理lǐ。

In the two files of civil and military officers there was an officer of the Imperial Medical Academy, and the moment he heard this he praised him before them all: "There is reason in what this monk says.

得 weakens to de, hooking 說 to 有理 — he speaks, and what he speaks has reason in it. 稱 is chēng, to declare or extol.

就jiù是shì神shén仙xiān看kàn病bìng，也yě須xū望wàng、聞wén、問wèn、切qiè，謹jǐn合hé著zhe神shén聖shèng功gōng巧qiǎo也yě。」就jiù是shì神shén仙xiān看kàn病bìng，也yě须xū望wàng、闻wén、问wèn、切qiè，谨jǐn合hé着zhe神shén圣shèng功gōng巧qiǎo也yě。」

"Even an immortal treating a sickness must look and listen and ask and feel, and hold carefully to the divine, the sagely, the skilled and the ingenious."

著 is the weak zhe here rather than the reading that sets somebody to a task — it means to keep holding to something. 神聖功巧 are the four grades of diagnostic mastery, matched one to each of the four examinations.

總評 Commentary

The one man in the room qualified to judge comes down on Pilgrim's side, and does it publicly. A monkey has recited the textbook to a court that called it rubbish, and the Academy's own officer confirms the recitation is correct.

神聖功巧 seals it. The four grades pair traditionally with the four examinations — divine for looking, sagely for listening, skilled for asking, ingenious for feeling — so the physician is not merely agreeing but supplying the technical frame Pilgrim left out.

Which means the court's objection has collapsed on expert evidence, and nobody has yet noticed that the applicant has proposed to do none of the four.