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第七十一回
行xíng者zhě假jiǎ名míng降xiáng怪guài犼hǒu
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Pilgrim Under a False Name Subdues the Monster Hou · Guanyin Shows Her Image and Puts Down the Fiend King

吹口仙氣
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

吹口仙氣 A Breath Of Immortal Air

那nà春chūn嬌jiāo即jí轉zhuǎn前qián面miàn,叫jiào了le七qī八bā個gè怪guài鹿lù妖yāo狐hú,打dǎ著zhe兩liǎng對duì燈dēng籠lóng、一yí對duì提tí爐lú,擺bǎi列liè左zuǒ右yòu。娘niáng娘niang欠qiàn身shēn叉chā手shǒu,那nà大dà聖shèng早zǎo已yǐ飛fēi去qù。好hǎo行xíng者zhě,展zhǎn開kāi翅chì,徑jìng飛fēi到dào那nà玉yù面miàn狐hú狸li頭tóu上shàng,拔bá下xià一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo,吹chuī口kǒu仙xiān氣qì,叫jiào:「變biàn!」那nà春chūn娇jiāo即jí转zhuǎn前qián面miàn,叫jiào了le七qī八bā个gè怪guài鹿lù妖yāo狐hú,打dǎ着zhe两liǎng对duì灯dēng笼lóng、一yí对duì提tí炉lú,摆bǎi列liè左zuǒ右yòu。娘niáng娘niang欠qiàn身shēn叉chā手shǒu,那nà大dà圣shèng早zǎo已yǐ飞fēi去qù。好hǎo行xíng者zhě,展zhǎn开kāi翅chì,径jìng飞fēi到dào那nà玉yù面miàn狐hú狸li头tóu上shàng,拔bá下xià一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo,吹chuī口kǒu仙xiān气qì,叫jiào:「变biàn!」


逐句解 Line by line

那nà春chūn嬌jiāo即jí轉zhuǎn前qián面miàn,叫jiào了le七qī八bā個gè怪guài鹿lù妖yāo狐hú, 那nà春chūn娇jiāo即jí转zhuǎn前qián面miàn,叫jiào了le七qī八bā个gè怪guài鹿lù妖yāo狐hú,

Chunjiao went round to the front at once and called seven or eight monstrous deer and fiendish foxes,

The staff, in a phrase: deer and foxes, all of them spirits. 了 is the neutral le. Seven or eight is not a count so much as the storyteller shrugging.

打dǎ著zhe兩liǎng對duì燈dēng籠lóng、一yí對duì提tí爐lú,擺bǎi列liè左zuǒ右yòu。 打dǎ着zhe两liǎng对duì灯dēng笼lóng、一yí对duì提tí炉lú,摆bǎi列liè左zuǒ右yòu。

carrying two pairs of lanterns and a pair of hand censers, and drew them up on either side.

著 is zhe, the little word that keeps an action going while something else happens — they are carrying the lanterns as they form up. 提爐 is a censer on a handle, carried in procession rather than set on a table.

娘niáng娘niang欠qiàn身shēn叉chā手shǒu,那nà大dà聖shèng早zǎo已yǐ飛fēi去qù。 娘niáng娘niang欠qiàn身shēn叉chā手shǒu,那nà大dà圣shèng早zǎo已yǐ飞fēi去qù。

The Queen rose a little and clasped her hands, and the Great Sage had already flown off.

Two things at once, and the second is a joke at the first's expense. 欠身叉手 is the formal salute — half rising, hands folded — and while she is performing it he has gone. 那 is nà.

好hǎo行xíng者zhě,展zhǎn開kāi翅chì,徑jìng飛fēi到dào那nà玉yù面miàn狐hú狸li頭tóu上shàng, 好hǎo行xíng者zhě,展zhǎn开kāi翅chì,径jìng飞fēi到dào那nà玉yù面miàn狐hú狸li头tóu上shàng,

Fine Pilgrim! He spread his wings and flew straight to the jade-faced fox's head,

好行者 is the storyteller cheering his own hero, one of the novel's stock exclamations. It is followed by a comma rather than a full stop, which keeps it inside the sentence instead of standing on its own. 徑 is jìng, straight there without stopping.

拔bá下xià一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo,吹chuī口kǒu仙xiān氣qì,叫jiào:「變biàn!」 拔bá下xià一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo,吹chuī口kǒu仙xiān气qì,叫jiào:「变biàn!」

plucked out a hair, blew a breath of immortal air on it, and cried, "Change!"

The trick everybody knows. 毫毛 is the fine body hair, not head hair, and it turns up five times in this chapter, every one of them a transformation. 一 takes yì by ordinary tone change before the level tone of 根.


總評 Commentary

Nothing in this passage is hurried and everything in it is fast. The maid fetches the staff, the lanterns and censers are distributed, the queen begins her formal salute — and in the middle of that sentence, 那大聖早已飛去, the Great Sage has already gone. The narration keeps the ceremony and the theft running in the same clause.

好行者 is the storyteller putting his head round the curtain to cheer. It is one of the novel's stock exclamations and it always marks the same thing: our man is about to do something clever. Here it is worth noticing that it is followed by a comma, not a full stop, which keeps the cheer tucked inside the sentence rather than standing outside it.

The hair trick needs no explanation to anyone who has met Wukong before, and the text gives none. He pulls one strand, breathes on it, says the word. What he makes with it is the subject of the next passage, and it is not a weapon.