第七十回 · 撒開解數 He Opened Out His Moves — Journey to the West

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撒開解數 He Opened Out His Moves

那nà行xíng者zhě慌huāng了le手shǒu腳jiǎo，丟diū了le金jīn鈴líng，現xiàn出chū本běn像xiàng，掣chè出chū金jīn箍gū如rú意yì棒bàng，撒sā開kāi解xiè數shù，往wǎng前qián亂luàn打dǎ。那nà妖yāo王wáng收shōu了le寶bǎo貝bèi，傳chuán號hào令lìng，教jiào：「關guān了le前qián門mén。」眾zhòng妖yāo聽tīng了le，關guān門mén的de關guān門mén，打dǎ仗zhàng的de打dǎ仗zhàng。那nà行xíng者zhě難nán得dé脫tuō身shēn，收shōu了le棒bàng，搖yáo身shēn一yí變biàn，變biàn作zuò個gè痴chī蒼cāng蠅yíng兒ér，釘dīng在zài那nà無wú火huǒ石shí壁bì上shàng。那nà行xíng者zhě慌huāng了le手shǒu脚jiǎo，丢diū了le金jīn铃líng，现xiàn出chū本běn像xiàng，掣chè出chū金jīn箍gū如rú意yì棒bàng，撒sā开kāi解xiè数shù，往wǎng前qián乱luàn打dǎ。那nà妖yāo王wáng收shōu了le宝bǎo贝bèi，传chuán号hào令lìng，教jiào：「关guān了le前qián门mén。」众zhòng妖yāo听tīng了le，关guān门mén的de关guān门mén，打dǎ仗zhàng的de打dǎ仗zhàng。那nà行xíng者zhě难nán得dé脱tuō身shēn，收shōu了le棒bàng，摇yáo身shēn一yí变biàn，变biàn作zuò个gè痴chī苍cāng蝇yíng儿ér，钉dīng在zài那nà无wú火huǒ石shí壁bì上shàng。

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那nà行xíng者zhě慌huāng了le手shǒu腳jiǎo，丟diū了le金jīn鈴líng，現xiàn出chū本běn像xiàng，掣chè出chū金jīn箍gū如rú意yì棒bàng，撒sā開kāi解xiè數shù，往wǎng前qián亂luàn打dǎ。那nà行xíng者zhě慌huāng了le手shǒu脚jiǎo，丢diū了le金jīn铃líng，现xiàn出chū本běn像xiàng，掣chè出chū金jīn箍gū如rú意yì棒bàng，撒sā开kāi解xiè数shù，往wǎng前qián乱luàn打dǎ。

Pilgrim lost hands and feet together, dropped the golden bells, showed his own shape, whipped out the gold-banded As-You-Will rod, opened out his whole repertoire of strokes and laid about him towards the front.

解 is xiè inside 解數, a fighter's whole repertoire of moves — the 1716 dictionary files this reading separately from the jiě of untying and understanding, under a heading that sounds like the word for crab. 慌了手腳 is to lose the use of hands and feet from fright, and the disguise goes with them.

那nà妖yāo王wáng收shōu了le寶bǎo貝bèi，傳chuán號hào令lìng，教jiào：「關guān了le前qián門mén。」那nà妖yāo王wáng收shōu了le宝bǎo贝bèi，传chuán号hào令lìng，教jiào：「关guān了le前qián门mén。」

The fiend king gathered up his treasure, gave out the word of command and had it cried: "Shut the front gate!"

號 is hào, an order given out. Note what he does first: he picks the bells up off the ground, and only then closes the mountain.

眾zhòng妖yāo聽tīng了le，關guān門mén的de關guān門mén，打dǎ仗zhàng的de打dǎ仗zhàng。众zhòng妖yāo听tīng了le，关guān门mén的de关guān门mén，打dǎ仗zhàng的de打dǎ仗zhàng。

The host of fiends heard it, and those for shutting the gate shut it and those for fighting fought.

關門的關門，打仗的打仗 is a colloquial way of distributing a job — those for shutting the gate shut it, those for fighting fought — stated by repeating the task on both sides of 的. Fourteen characters, and the whole garrison is deployed.

那nà行xíng者zhě難nán得dé脫tuō身shēn，收shōu了le棒bàng，搖yáo身shēn一yí變biàn，變biàn作zuò個gè痴chī蒼cāng蠅yíng兒ér，釘dīng在zài那nà無wú火huǒ石shí壁bì上shàng。那nà行xíng者zhě难nán得dé脱tuō身shēn，收shōu了le棒bàng，摇yáo身shēn一yí变biàn，变biàn作zuò个gè痴chī苍cāng蝇yíng儿ér，钉dīng在zài那nà无wú火huǒ石shí壁bì上shàng。

Pilgrim, finding it hard to get clear, put up his rod, gave his body a shake, turned into a dull little fly and fixed himself on a piece of the stone wall the fire had not reached.

難得脫身 takes dé: hard to manage it. 痴蒼蠅兒 is a stupid little fly, and the adjective is doing work — a clever-looking insect on a wall would get looked at twice.

總評 Commentary

The disguise ends the way it began, with a shake of the body, and it ends because he cannot fight in it. He drops the bells first, then the shape, then reaches for the rod — the order of a man being overtaken by events — and the sentence names his hands and feet before it names anything he does with them.

Then the door is shut, and that is the demon's only good move in the chapter. He does not chase, or shout, or loose the bells. He picks up his property and locks the mountain, and everything after this passage happens inside a closed cave.

Wukong's answer is to become a stupid fly and sit on a cold patch of wall. He has put down a vanguard in seven lines of verse, crossed three thousand li in a whistle and walked into the enemy's audience chamber beating a gong; the position he is in now is one that none of it can get him out of.