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恩重如山
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恩重如山 Kindness Heavy As A Mountain

國guó王wáng道dào:「神shén僧sēng恩ēn重zhòng如rú山shān,寡guǎ人rén酬chóu謝xiè不bú盡jìn。好hǎo歹dǎi進jìn此cǐ一yí巨jù觥gōng,朕zhèn有yǒu話huà說shuō。」行xíng者zhě道dào:「有yǒu甚shén話huà說shuō了le,老lǎo孫sūn好hǎo飲yǐn。」国guó王wáng道dào:「神shén僧sēng恩ēn重zhòng如rú山shān,寡guǎ人rén酬chóu谢xiè不bú尽jìn。好hǎo歹dǎi进jìn此cǐ一yí巨jù觥gōng,朕zhèn有yǒu话huà说shuō。」行xíng者zhě道dào:「有yǒu甚shén话huà说shuō了le,老lǎo孙sūn好hǎo饮yǐn。」


逐句解 Line by line

國guó王wáng道dào:「神shén僧sēng恩ēn重zhòng如rú山shān,寡guǎ人rén酬chóu謝xiè不bú盡jìn。 国guó王wáng道dào:「神shén僧sēng恩ēn重zhòng如rú山shān,寡guǎ人rén酬chóu谢xiè不bú尽jìn。

The king said, "The divine monk's kindness is heavy as a mountain, and Our thanks can never be exhausted.

恩重如山 — kindness heavy as a mountain — opens a figure the king will close at the very end of his confession. 重 is zhòng, heavy. In 酬謝不盡 the 盡 is raised to jìn, so the 不 in front of it comes out bú rather than bù.

好hǎo歹dǎi進jìn此cǐ一yí巨jù觥gōng,朕zhèn有yǒu話huà說shuō。」 好hǎo歹dǎi进jìn此cǐ一yí巨jù觥gōng,朕zhèn有yǒu话huà说shuō。」

"At all events take this great goblet — We have something to say."

And here the wine becomes a price. Take the goblet, because I have something to tell you. 好歹 is the everyday "in any case, whatever comes of it".

行xíng者zhě道dào:「有yǒu甚shén話huà說shuō了le,老lǎo孫sūn好hǎo飲yǐn。」 行xíng者zhě道dào:「有yǒu甚shén话huà说shuō了le,老lǎo孙sūn好hǎo饮yǐn。」

Pilgrim said, "Say what you have to say, and Old Sun will drink the better for it."

The bargain is accepted in the same breath in which it is noticed. 甚 is shén, the question word — bare 甚 standing in for 甚麼 — not the shèn of "very" that the same character took a moment ago.


總評 Commentary

"Kindness heavy as a mountain" opens a figure the king will close at the very end of his confession, hundreds of characters later, with the weight of Mount Tai. The whole account is framed by it.

Then the transaction is made explicit: take this goblet, because I have something to tell you. Pilgrim accepts in the same breath in which he notices — say what you have to say and Old Sun will drink the better for it — and the evening turns from a banquet into an interview.