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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

低著頭走
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

低著頭走 Walk With Your Head Down

三sān藏zàng只zhǐ叫jiào:「不bú要yào撞zhuàng禍huò,低dī著zhe頭tóu走zǒu。」八bā戒jiè遵zūn依yī,把bǎ個gè蓮lián蓬péng嘴zuǐ揣chuāi在zài懷huái裡lǐ;沙shā僧sēng不bù敢gǎn仰yǎng視shì;惟wéi行xíng者zhě東dōng張zhāng西xī望wàng,緊jǐn隨suí唐táng僧sēng左zuǒ右yòu。三sān藏zàng只zhǐ叫jiào:「不bú要yào撞zhuàng祸huò,低dī着zhe头tóu走zǒu。」八bā戒jiè遵zūn依yī,把bǎ个gè莲lián蓬péng嘴zuǐ揣chuāi在zài怀huái里lǐ;沙shā僧sēng不bù敢gǎn仰yǎng视shì;惟wéi行xíng者zhě东dōng张zhāng西xī望wàng,紧jǐn随suí唐táng僧sēng左zuǒ右yòu。


逐句解 Line by line

三sān藏zàng只zhǐ叫jiào:「不bú要yào撞zhuàng禍huò,低dī著zhe頭tóu走zǒu。」 三sān藏zàng只zhǐ叫jiào:「不bú要yào撞zhuàng祸huò,低dī着zhe头tóu走zǒu。」

Tripitaka could only call out, "Do not go courting trouble. Keep your heads down and walk."

著 is the weak zhe that marks an action held in progress — heads kept down while walking. The machine offers zhù, which belongs to writing and authorship and has nothing to do with either sense this chapter uses.

八bā戒jiè遵zūn依yī,把bǎ個gè蓮lián蓬péng嘴zuǐ揣chuāi在zài懷huái裡lǐ; 八bā戒jiè遵zūn依yī,把bǎ个gè莲lián蓬péng嘴zuǐ揣chuāi在zài怀huái里lǐ;

Eight Rules did as he was told, and tucked that lotus-pod snout of his away inside his shirt;

揣 is chuāi, to stow something inside one's clothes, not chuǎi, to size a thing up. 蓮蓬嘴 — a snout like a lotus seed-head, all holes and knobs — is the standing epithet for the pig's face.

沙shā僧sēng不bù敢gǎn仰yǎng視shì; 沙shā僧sēng不bù敢gǎn仰yǎng视shì;

Sha Monk did not dare to raise his eyes;

Six characters against thirteen on either side: the shortest of the three responses and the only one with no second clause. The source ends it with a semicolon like its neighbours, and that is why it is kept separate from them.

惟wéi行xíng者zhě東dōng張zhāng西xī望wàng,緊jǐn隨suí唐táng僧sēng左zuǒ右yòu。 惟wéi行xíng者zhě东dōng张zhāng西xī望wàng,紧jǐn随suí唐táng僧sēng左zuǒ右yòu。

only Pilgrim looked this way and that, keeping close at the Tang Monk's side.

The source cuts this sentence into three at its semicolons, and the three stay apart. The first two do not match in depth — one carries a clause of obedience before its action, the other a bare negative — and this third opens with 惟, which turns against what came before rather than continuing it.


總評 Commentary

Three disciples, three responses, and the grammar sorts them out. Eight Rules obeys by hiding the offending part of himself, Sha Monk obeys by not looking up, and Pilgrim does not obey at all — he looks everywhere, and stays close.

The instruction itself is worth noticing. Tripitaka does not tell them to behave; he tells them not to be seen. His anxiety in this kingdom is always about attracting notice, and it will turn out to be well founded for reasons he has not begun to guess.