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第七十一回
行xíng者zhě假jiǎ名míng降xiáng怪guài犼hǒu
觀guān音yīn現xiàn像xiàng伏fú妖yāo王wáng

Pilgrim Under a False Name Subdues the Monster Hou · Guanyin Shows Her Image and Puts Down the Fiend King

淚如雨下
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字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

淚如雨下 Neither Of Them Knows

妖yāo王wáng拿ná了le,就jiù走zǒu出chū洞dòng。娘niáng娘niang坐zuò在zài宮gōng中zhōng,淚lèi如rú雨yǔ下xià,思sī量liáng行xíng者zhě不bù知zhī可kě能néng逃táo得de性xìng命mìng?兩liǎng人rén卻què俱jù不bù知zhī是shì假jiǎ鈴líng也yě。妖yāo王wáng拿ná了le,就jiù走zǒu出chū洞dòng。娘niáng娘niang坐zuò在zài宫gōng中zhōng,泪lèi如rú雨yǔ下xià,思sī量liáng行xíng者zhě不bù知zhī可kě能néng逃táo得de性xìng命mìng?两liǎng人rén却què俱jù不bù知zhī是shì假jiǎ铃líng也yě。


逐句解 Line by line

妖yāo王wáng拿ná了le,就jiù走zǒu出chū洞dòng。 妖yāo王wáng拿ná了le,就jiù走zǒu出chū洞dòng。

The fiend king took them and walked straight out of the cave.

Eight characters. 了 is the neutral le, and 就 is straight away — he does not look at what he is carrying.

娘niáng娘niang坐zuò在zài宮gōng中zhōng,淚lèi如rú雨yǔ下xià,思sī量liáng行xíng者zhě不bù知zhī可kě能néng逃táo得de性xìng命mìng? 娘niáng娘niang坐zuò在zài宫gōng中zhōng,泪lèi如rú雨yǔ下xià,思sī量liáng行xíng者zhě不bù知zhī可kě能néng逃táo得de性xìng命mìng?

The Queen sat in the palace, tears falling like rain, wondering whether Pilgrim could possibly escape with his life.

量 is liáng in 思量, the deliberative verb — to turn a thing over in the mind. 得 is de here, the potential — whether he can manage to escape — against the dé of 只得 in the passage just before.

兩liǎng人rén卻què俱jù不bù知zhī是shì假jiǎ鈴líng也yě。 两liǎng人rén却què俱jù不bù知zhī是shì假jiǎ铃líng也yě。

Neither of them knew the bells were false.

Ten characters, and the narrator steps forward to say it outright. 俱 is the classical all, both of them; 不 keeps bù before the level tone of 知.


總評 Commentary

淚如雨下 — tears falling like rain — is a stock phrase, and putting it here does something quietly cruel. The queen has just done the one thing she was afraid of, handed over what she believes is a weapon that will kill her rescuer, and the text gives her a set piece of grief rather than a thought.

Then the narrator ends the block with ten characters of plain statement: 兩人卻俱不知是假鈴也 — neither of them knew the bells were false. It is addressed entirely to the reader. Both people in the scene are wrong about the same object, in opposite directions, and only we can see it.

One character appears in this passage and the one before it with different values. 只得 is had no choice but to, and takes one reading; 逃得性命 is could he manage to escape, and takes another. Two 得 in adjacent passages, doing two different jobs.