Canonical Classics ← 第六十八回
第六十八回
朱zhū紫zǐ國guó唐táng僧sēng論lùn前qián世shì
孫sūn行xíng者zhě施shī為wéi三sān折zhé肱gōng

At Purpuria the Tang Monk Discourses on a Former Life · Pilgrim Sun Practises as a Thrice-Broken Arm

下回分解
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

下回分解 To Be Continued

畢bì竟jìng這zhè去qù不bù知zhī看kàn出chū甚shén麼me病bìng來lái,用yòng甚shén麼me藥yào品pǐn。欲yù知zhī端duān的dì,且qiě聽tīng下xià回huí分fēn解jiě。毕bì竟jìng这zhè去qù不bù知zhī看kàn出chū甚shén么me病bìng来lái,用yòng甚shén么me药yào品pǐn。欲yù知zhī端duān的dì,且qiě听tīng下xià回huí分fēn解jiě。


逐句解 Line by line

畢bì竟jìng這zhè去qù不bù知zhī看kàn出chū甚shén麼me病bìng來lái,用yòng甚shén麼me藥yào品pǐn。 毕bì竟jìng这zhè去qù不bù知zhī看kàn出chū甚shén么me病bìng来lái,用yòng甚shén么me药yào品pǐn。

There is no telling what sickness he will make out from this, nor what medicines he will use.

甚 takes shén before 麼 at both sites, closing a chapter that has run the character through both its readings more than a dozen times.

欲yù知zhī端duān的dì,且qiě聽tīng下xià回huí分fēn解jiě。 欲yù知zhī端duān的dì,且qiě听tīng下xià回huí分fēn解jiě。

If you would know the truth of it, listen to the next chapter and it will be explained.

的 reads dì in 端的, the older spoken word for what is actually so — the second and last of the chapter's two, the first being the eunuch's promise at the drum tower. 分 is fēn, to divide out or set forth.


總評 Commentary

The closer names the two things the chapter has withheld: what is wrong with the king, and what will be done about it. Everything up to here has been about getting into the room.

端的 comes round for the second time, two thousand characters after the first. A court eunuch used it at the drum tower to mean they would soon find out the truth; the storyteller uses it here to promise the reader the same thing, and then defers it to the next chapter.

What this chapter has actually delivered is a monkey who stole a royal proclamation to avoid buying vinegar, and who is now walking into a sick king's private apartments with three tail hairs and no medical training whatever.