第六十八回 · 胡說亂道 Talking Wild And Loose — Journey to the West

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胡說亂道 Talking Wild And Loose

長zhǎng老lǎo又yòu道dào：「你nǐ那nà曾céng見jiàn《素sù問wèn》、《難nàn經jīng》、《本běn草cǎo》、《脈mài訣jué》是shì甚shèn般bān章zhāng句jù，怎zěn生shēng註zhù解jiě？就jiù這zhè等děng胡hú說shuō亂luàn道dào，會huì甚shén麼me懸xuán絲sī診zhěn脈mài？」长zhǎng老lǎo又yòu道dào：「你nǐ那nà曾céng见jiàn《素sù问wèn》、《难nàn经jīng》、《本běn草cǎo》、《脉mài诀jué》是shì甚shèn般bān章zhāng句jù，怎zěn生shēng注zhù解jiě？就jiù这zhè等děng胡hú说shuō乱luàn道dào，会huì甚shén么me悬xuán丝sī诊zhěn脉mài？」

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長zhǎng老lǎo又yòu道dào：「你nǐ那nà曾céng見jiàn《素sù問wèn》、《難nàn經jīng》、《本běn草cǎo》、《脈mài訣jué》是shì甚shèn般bān章zhāng句jù，怎zěn生shēng註zhù解jiě？长zhǎng老lǎo又yòu道dào：「你nǐ那nà曾céng见jiàn《素sù问wèn》、《难nàn经jīng》、《本běn草cǎo》、《脉mài诀jué》是shì甚shèn般bān章zhāng句jù，怎zěn生shēng注zhù解jiě？

The Elder said again, "When did you ever see what sort of chapter and verse are in the Plain Questions, the Classic of Difficult Issues, the Materia Medica or the Rhymes of the Pulse, or how they are annotated?

難 reads nàn in 難經, where it is a noun — a difficult question put and answered. It is one of only two occurrences in the chapter, and the other, in the proclamation, is the adverb nán. 甚 standing alone takes shèn, and 長 is zhǎng in 長老.

就jiù這zhè等děng胡hú說shuō亂luàn道dào，會huì甚shén麼me懸xuán絲sī診zhěn脈mài？」就jiù这zhè等děng胡hú说shuō乱luàn道dào，会huì甚shén么me悬xuán丝sī诊zhěn脉mài？」

"Talking wild and loose like this — what do you know of taking a pulse by threads?"

甚 takes shén before 麼, four characters after the bare shèn — both readings inside one speech.

總評 Commentary

Four titles, and they are the real curriculum: the Plain Questions for theory, the Classic of Difficult Issues for the hard cases, the Materia Medica for drugs, the Rhymes of the Pulse for diagnosis. Tripitaka is not being vague. He is naming the syllabus his disciple has not read.

胡說亂道 answers the 胡柴 of the audience hall. The court called Pilgrim's recitation rubbish and was corrected by its own physician; his master now says the same thing, and will be answered with three hairs.