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三個鈴鐺
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

三個鈴鐺 Those Three Bells Of Yours

或huò者zhě就jiù有yǒu些xiē寶bǎo貝bèi,你nǐ因yīn外wài我wǒ,也yě不bú教jiào我wǒ看kàn見jiàn,也yě不bù與yǔ我wǒ收shōu著zhe。且qiě如rú聞wén得dé你nǐ有yǒu三sān個gè鈴líng鐺dāng,想xiǎng就jiù是shì件jiàn寶bǎo貝bèi,你nǐ怎zěn麼me走zǒu也yě帶dài著zhe,坐zuò也yě帶dài著zhe?你nǐ就jiù拿ná與yǔ我wǒ收shōu著zhe,待dài你nǐ用yòng時shí取qǔ出chū,未wèi為wéi不bù可kě。或huò者zhě就jiù有yǒu些xiē宝bǎo贝bèi,你nǐ因yīn外wài我wǒ,也yě不bú教jiào我wǒ看kàn见jiàn,也yě不bù与yǔ我wǒ收shōu着zhe。且qiě如rú闻wén得dé你nǐ有yǒu三sān个gè铃líng铛dāng,想xiǎng就jiù是shì件jiàn宝bǎo贝bèi,你nǐ怎zěn么me走zǒu也yě带dài着zhe,坐zuò也yě带dài着zhe?你nǐ就jiù拿ná与yǔ我wǒ收shōu着zhe,待dài你nǐ用yòng时shí取qǔ出chū,未wèi为wéi不bù可kě。


逐句解 Line by line

或huò者zhě就jiù有yǒu些xiē寶bǎo貝bèi,你nǐ因yīn外wài我wǒ,也yě不bú教jiào我wǒ看kàn見jiàn,也yě不bù與yǔ我wǒ收shōu著zhe。 或huò者zhě就jiù有yǒu些xiē宝bǎo贝bèi,你nǐ因yīn外wài我wǒ,也yě不bú教jiào我wǒ看kàn见jiàn,也yě不bù与yǔ我wǒ收shōu着zhe。

"Or perhaps you do have some treasure, and because you keep me outside you neither let me see it nor give it me to keep.

教 is jiào, to let or make somebody do something. The sentence is framed as a concession — perhaps you do have something — and it is the first place in the whole speech where she asks for anything at all.

且qiě如rú聞wén得dé你nǐ有yǒu三sān個gè鈴líng鐺dāng,想xiǎng就jiù是shì件jiàn寶bǎo貝bèi,你nǐ怎zěn麼me走zǒu也yě帶dài著zhe,坐zuò也yě帶dài著zhe? 且qiě如rú闻wén得dé你nǐ有yǒu三sān个gè铃líng铛dāng,想xiǎng就jiù是shì件jiàn宝bǎo贝bèi,你nǐ怎zěn么me走zǒu也yě带dài着zhe,坐zuò也yě带dài着zhe?

"Take this: I hear you have three bells, and I take it they are some sort of treasure. How is it you have them on you walking and have them on you sitting?

聞得 takes dé, the perceiving-verb reading. She picks two of the four postures she gave Pilgrim two scenes ago — walking and sitting, out of walking, standing, sitting and lying — though she writes the first with a different character from the one he used. The question is built out of the answer she supplied him.

你nǐ就jiù拿ná與yǔ我wǒ收shōu著zhe,待dài你nǐ用yòng時shí取qǔ出chū,未wèi為wéi不bù可kě。 你nǐ就jiù拿ná与yǔ我wǒ收shōu着zhe,待dài你nǐ用yòng时shí取qǔ出chū,未wèi为wéi不bù可kě。

"You might well hand them to me to keep, and take them out when you have need of them. There would be nothing wrong in that."

為 is wéi again, the copular reading, inside 未為不可 — it would not be an improper thing. The request arrives dressed as a permission she is granting him.


總評 Commentary

The ask is made in three moves and not one of them is a request. First a hypothesis: perhaps you do have something. Then an observation: I hear it is three bells, and you wear them constantly. Then a suggestion phrased as a permission — you might hand them over, and there would be nothing wrong in it.

The observation is where the operation shows. She tells him she has heard of the bells and that he never takes them off, and both facts came from Pilgrim two scenes ago in answer to a question she asked. The intelligence has gone into the cave, round through the queen, and is now being quoted back to the man it came from.