第六十九回 · 播土揚塵 Dust Flung Up And Scattered — Journey to the West

原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

播土揚塵 Dust Flung Up And Scattered

行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「那nà妖yāo精jīng還hái是shì不bú害hài你nǐ；若ruò要yào害hài你nǐ，這zhè裡lǐ如rú何hé躲duǒ得de？」正zhèng說shuō間jiān，只zhǐ見jiàn那nà正zhèng南nán上shàng，呼hū呼hū的de吹chuī得de風fēng響xiǎng，播bō土tǔ揚yáng塵chén。行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「那nà妖yāo精jīng还hái是shì不bú害hài你nǐ；若ruò要yào害hài你nǐ，这zhè里lǐ如rú何hé躲duǒ得de？」正zhèng说shuō间jiān，只zhǐ见jiàn那nà正zhèng南nán上shàng，呼hū呼hū的de吹chuī得de风fēng响xiǎng，播bō土tǔ扬yáng尘chén。

逐句解 Line by line

行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「那nà妖yāo精jīng還hái是shì不bú害hài你nǐ；行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「那nà妖yāo精jīng还hái是shì不bú害hài你nǐ；

Pilgrim laughed and said, "That monster is not really out to harm you;

還 is hái, really.

若ruò要yào害hài你nǐ，這zhè裡lǐ如rú何hé躲duǒ得de？」若ruò要yào害hài你nǐ，这zhè里lǐ如rú何hé躲duǒ得de？」

"if he wanted to harm you, how could you hide down here?"

Unanswerable, and cruel. Four months of building work demolished in one line, standing at the mouth of the thing with the man who ordered it. 躲得 takes the light de of possibility.

正zhèng說shuō間jiān，只zhǐ見jiàn那nà正zhèng南nán上shàng，呼hū呼hū的de吹chuī得de風fēng響xiǎng，播bō土tǔ揚yáng塵chén。正zhèng说shuō间jiān，只zhǐ见jiàn那nà正zhèng南nán上shàng，呼hū呼hū的de吹chuī得de风fēng响xiǎng，播bō土tǔ扬yáng尘chén。

Even as he spoke, there came from due south a howling wind that flung up the earth and raised the dust.

正說間 — in the very act of speaking. The narrator hangs the wind on the end of Pilgrim's sentence with no transition whatever. 吹得風響 takes the light de before its result, and 的 is the light de.

總評 Commentary

Pilgrim's remark is unanswerable and it is cruel. The monster is not really trying to harm you — because if he were, what good would this hole be? Four months of building work demolished in a line, standing at the mouth of the thing with the man who ordered it.

And then, in the very act of speaking, the wind comes from due south. The narrator hangs it on the end of Pilgrim's sentence with no transition at all.