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有功之人 All Of Us Did The Work
我們在此合藥，俱是有功之人。只管受用去，再休多話。」咦！你看他弟兄們俱歡歡喜喜，徑入朝來。我们在此合药，俱是有功之人。只管受用去，再休多话。」咦！你看他弟兄们俱欢欢喜喜，径入朝来。
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我們在此合藥，俱是有功之人。
我们在此合药，俱是有功之人。
"We were here compounding the medicine. We are all men with merit in this.
And on the evidence of the night he has the better case of the two: he ground both drugs and scraped none of the soot. 合藥 is to compound a prescription.
只管受用去，再休多話。」
只管受用去，再休多话。」
"Just go and enjoy it, and let us have no more talk."
再休多話 settles the argument by declaring it settled, which is how most arguments end in this hostel.
咦！你看他弟兄們俱歡歡喜喜，徑入朝來。
咦！你看他弟兄们俱欢欢喜喜，径入朝来。
Ah! Look at them — the brothers all delight together, and away they go straight to court.
咦 is the storyteller's exclamation — a single character, roughly "ah" — with no subject and nothing predicated, which is what makes it an interjection rather than a command. 朝 is cháo.
The claim is then made plainly: they were all there compounding the medicine, so they all have merit in it. On the evidence of the night Sha the monk has the better case of the two — he ground both drugs and scraped none of the soot.
Then the argument is closed by declaring it closed, which is how most arguments end in this hostel, and a single syllable of storyteller's exclamation sends the brothers off to court.