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攜著行者 He Takes Pilgrim By The Hand
行者道:「陛下不棄,可攜老孫去看那避妖樓一番,何如?」那國王即將左手攜著行者出席。眾官一齊起身。行者道:「陛下不弃,可携老孙去看那避妖楼一番,何如?」那国王即将左手携着行者出席。众官一齐起身。
逐句解 Line by line
行者道:「陛下不棄,可攜老孫去看那避妖樓一番,何如?」
行者道:「陛下不弃,可携老孙去看那避妖楼一番,何如?」
Pilgrim said, "If Your Majesty does not disdain it, might you take Old Sun to see this Demon-Avoiding Tower?"
Put with elaborate deference by a man who has just been offered the throne. 看 keeps kàn.
那國王即將左手攜著行者出席。
那国王即将左手携着行者出席。
The king at once took Pilgrim by the left hand and led him from the table.
And the banquet is abandoned mid-course. 將 is jiāng, taking an object forward; 著 marks the leading-by-the-hand as ongoing.
眾官一齊起身。
众官一齐起身。
The officials all rose together.
The whole court gets up because the king has.
Pilgrim asks to see it, with elaborate deference from a man who has just been offered a throne, and the king takes him by the left hand and leads him away from the table mid-course.
The court gets up because the king has. A line of pure choreography, and the banquet that took a whole department of state to assemble is simply abandoned where it stands.