第七十回 · 一齊攢簇 They Closed In Together — Journey to the West

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一齊攢簇 They Closed In Together

出chū來lái看kàn時shí，原yuán來lái是shì有yǒu來lái有yǒu去qù拿ná了le金jīn鈴líng兒ér哩li。妖yāo王wáng上shàng前qián喝hè道dào：「好hǎo賤jiàn奴nú，怎zěn麼me偷tōu了le我wǒ的de金jīn鈴líng寶bǎo貝bèi，在zài此cǐ胡hú弄nòng？」叫jiào：「拿ná來lái，拿ná來lái。」那nà門mén前qián虎hǔ將jiàng、熊xióng師shī、豹bào頭tóu、彪biāo帥shuài、獺tǎ象xiàng、蒼cāng狼láng、乖guāi獐zhāng、狡jiǎo兔tù、長cháng蛇shé、大dà蟒mǎng、猩xīng猩xīng，帥shuài眾zhòng妖yāo一yì齊qí攢cuán簇cù。出chū来lái看kàn时shí，原yuán来lái是shì有yǒu来lái有yǒu去qù拿ná了le金jīn铃líng儿ér哩li。妖yāo王wáng上shàng前qián喝hè道dào：「好hǎo贱jiàn奴nú，怎zěn么me偷tōu了le我wǒ的de金jīn铃líng宝bǎo贝bèi，在zài此cǐ胡hú弄nòng？」叫jiào：「拿ná来lái，拿ná来lái。」那nà门mén前qián虎hǔ将jiàng、熊xióng师shī、豹bào头tóu、彪biāo帅shuài、獭tǎ象xiàng、苍cāng狼láng、乖guāi獐zhāng、狡jiǎo兔tù、长cháng蛇shé、大dà蟒mǎng、猩xīng猩xīng，帅shuài众zhòng妖yāo一yì齐qí攒cuán簇cù。

逐句解 Line by line

出chū來lái看kàn時shí，原yuán來lái是shì有yǒu來lái有yǒu去qù拿ná了le金jīn鈴líng兒ér哩li。出chū来lái看kàn时shí，原yuán来lái是shì有yǒu来lái有yǒu去qù拿ná了le金jīn铃líng儿ér哩li。

When they came out to look, it turned out that There-and-Back had taken the golden bells.

原來是 marks something turning out otherwise than supposed, for the fourth time in this chapter. They came out to fight a fire and found a theft.

妖yāo王wáng上shàng前qián喝hè道dào：「好hǎo賤jiàn奴nú，怎zěn麼me偷tōu了le我wǒ的de金jīn鈴líng寶bǎo貝bèi，在zài此cǐ胡hú弄nòng？」妖yāo王wáng上shàng前qián喝hè道dào：「好hǎo贱jiàn奴nú，怎zěn么me偷tōu了le我wǒ的de金jīn铃líng宝bǎo贝bèi，在zài此cǐ胡hú弄nòng？」

The fiend king came forward and shouted: "You vile slave! How is it you have stolen my golden bells, my treasure, and are meddling with them here?"

喝 is hè, to shout, not the hē of drinking. 胡弄 is to fool about with a thing — a remarkably small word for what has just happened to his pavilion.

叫jiào：「拿ná來lái，拿ná來lái。」叫jiào：「拿ná来lái，拿ná来lái。」

He called: "Take him! Take him!"

Five characters, standing alone. A unit that carries its own he-said and closes its own quotation never folds, however short it runs, and this is the shortest of that kind in the chapter.

那nà門mén前qián虎hǔ將jiàng、熊xióng師shī、豹bào頭tóu、彪biāo帥shuài、獺tǎ象xiàng、蒼cāng狼láng、乖guāi獐zhāng、狡jiǎo兔tù、長cháng蛇shé、大dà蟒mǎng、猩xīng猩xīng，帥shuài眾zhòng妖yāo一yì齊qí攢cuán簇cù。那nà门mén前qián虎hǔ将jiàng、熊xióng师shī、豹bào头tóu、彪biāo帅shuài、獭tǎ象xiàng、苍cāng狼láng、乖guāi獐zhāng、狡jiǎo兔tù、长cháng蛇shé、大dà蟒mǎng、猩xīng猩xīng，帅shuài众zhòng妖yāo一yì齐qí攒cuán簇cù。

Then the tiger generals and bear commanders at the gate, the leopard-heads and tiger-cub marshals, the otters and elephants, the grey wolves and knowing roebuck, the cunning hares, the long serpents, the great pythons and the gorillas led out the host of fiends and closed in all together.

將 is jiàng, a commander, and 長 is cháng, long, of the snake. 帥 falls twice, sixteen characters apart, first as a marshal and then as the verb to lead. 攢 is cuán, to gather into a mass — its fourth appearance in the chapter, and the second in this compound after the alchemy poem's clustering of the five phases.

總評 Commentary

The last sentence is the muster poem being spent. Eleven creatures are named and every one of them stood in the verse that described the gate guard. The order is nearly but not quite the same: two adjacent pairs have swapped places. The poem was an inventory and this is the invoice, copied out with two transpositions.

It is worth remembering what Wukong did the last time he saw that list. He counted them at about five hundred from a standstill, decided not to go forward, and turned back down the road to fetch a disguise. There is no disguise now — the name has been shouted out as a thief's, and the whole muster is coming at him at once.

And the gorilla is in it. The poem ended by noting that gorillas understand human speech, which is how Wukong was challenged at the gate and how the name got him in. The same creature is now in the party sent to take him.