三個鈴鐺 Those Three Bells Of Yours
或者就有些寶貝,你因外我,也不教我看見,也不與我收著。且如聞得你有三個鈴鐺,想就是件寶貝,你怎麼走也帶著,坐也帶著?你就拿與我收著,待你用時取出,未為不可。或者就有些宝贝,你因外我,也不教我看见,也不与我收着。且如闻得你有三个铃铛,想就是件宝贝,你怎么走也带着,坐也带着?你就拿与我收着,待你用时取出,未为不可。
逐句解 Line by line
"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.
"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.
"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.
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.