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知疼著熱
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

知疼著熱 She Who Knew His Pain

國guó王wáng遂suì命mìng玉yù聖shèng宮gōng取qǔ出chū。取qǔ出chū即jí遞dì與yǔ國guó王wáng。國guó王wáng見jiàn了le,叫jiào了le幾jǐ聲shēng「知zhī疼téng著zháo熱rè的de娘niáng娘niang」,遂suì遞dì與yǔ行xíng者zhě。行xíng者zhě接jiē了le,套tào在zài肐gē膊bó上shàng。国guó王wáng遂suì命mìng玉yù圣shèng宫gōng取qǔ出chū。取qǔ出chū即jí递dì与yǔ国guó王wáng。国guó王wáng见jiàn了le,叫jiào了le几jǐ声shēng「知zhī疼téng着zháo热rè的de娘niáng娘niang」,遂suì递dì与yǔ行xíng者zhě。行xíng者zhě接jiē了le,套tào在zài肐gē膊bó上shàng。


逐句解 Line by line

國guó王wáng遂suì命mìng玉yù聖shèng宮gōng取qǔ出chū。 国guó王wáng遂suì命mìng玉yù圣shèng宫gōng取qǔ出chū。

The king thereupon ordered the Jade Sage Palace Lady to fetch them out.

玉聖宮 appears here and nowhere else in the chapter, and she is given no introduction at all — the establishment has more consorts in it than the story has been mentioning, and one of them is sent to fetch the lost woman's jewellery.

取qǔ出chū即jí遞dì與yǔ國guó王wáng。 取qǔ出chū即jí递dì与yǔ国guó王wáng。

She fetched them out and handed them straight to the king.

Seven characters, and 取出 is repeated from the sentence before it so that the fetching is told twice — ordered, then done — with nothing in between. She does not speak.

國guó王wáng見jiàn了le,叫jiào了le幾jǐ聲shēng「知zhī疼téng著zháo熱rè的de娘niáng娘niang」,遂suì遞dì與yǔ行xíng者zhě。 国guó王wáng见jiàn了le,叫jiào了le几jǐ声shēng「知zhī疼téng着zháo热rè的de娘niáng娘niang」,遂suì递dì与yǔ行xíng者zhě。

The king looked at them and cried out several times, "My lady, who knew my aches and felt my fevers!" — and then handed them to Pilgrim.

著 is zháo in 知疼著熱, a state come into rather than one held — the same reading as 著惱 and 著忙. The phrase is a set one for somebody who attends to another person's body when it hurts, and the king uses it as a form of address.

行xíng者zhě接jiē了le,套tào在zài肐gē膊bó上shàng。 行xíng者zhě接jiē了le,套tào在zài肐gē膊bó上shàng。

Pilgrim took them and slipped them onto his own arm.

套 is to slip a ring-shaped thing over something. Nine characters, no comment, and the bracelets are now on the arm of the person who intends to use them.


總評 Commentary

The handover takes four sentences and three pairs of hands: a consort fetches them, the king holds them, Wukong puts them on. Nobody but the king says anything, and what he says is addressed to none of the people in the room.

The form of address he cries out carries the weight of the scene. Not queen, not consort — she who knew my aches and felt my fevers, which is the language of nursing rather than of rank. The chapter has told us he is ill and never told us for how long; the phrase is describing a marriage rather than a court.

And the passage ends with no acknowledgement at all. The bracelets go onto Wukong's arm in nine characters, the king is left standing, and the chapter moves on. It is the same shape as the wine cup: the king produces something at real cost and it is simply taken.