第七十三回 · 各懷忿怒 Each With His Own Fury — Journey to the West

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各懷忿怒 Each With His Own Fury

卻què又yòu將jiāng尾wěi巴ba搖yáo了le兩liǎng搖yáo，收shōu了le毫háo毛máo，單dān身shēn掄lūn棒bàng，趕gǎn入rù裡lǐ邊biān來lái打dǎ道dào士shì。那nà道dào士shì見jiàn他tā打dǎ死sǐ了le師shī妹mèi，心xīn甚shèn不bù忍rěn，即jí發fā狠hěn舉jǔ劍jiàn來lái迎yíng。這zhè一yì場cháng各gè懷huái忿fèn怒nù，一yí個gè個gè大dà展zhǎn神shén通tōng。却què又yòu将jiāng尾wěi巴ba摇yáo了le两liǎng摇yáo，收shōu了le毫háo毛máo，单dān身shēn抡lūn棒bàng，赶gǎn入rù里lǐ边biān来lái打dǎ道dào士shì。那nà道dào士shì见jiàn他tā打dǎ死sǐ了le师shī妹mèi，心xīn甚shèn不bù忍rěn，即jí发fā狠hěn举jǔ剑jiàn来lái迎yíng。这zhè一yì场cháng各gè怀huái忿fèn怒nù，一yí个gè个gè大dà展zhǎn神shén通tōng。

逐句解 Line by line

卻què又yòu將jiāng尾wěi巴ba搖yáo了le兩liǎng搖yáo，收shōu了le毫háo毛máo，單dān身shēn掄lūn棒bàng，趕gǎn入rù裡lǐ邊biān來lái打dǎ道dào士shì。却què又yòu将jiāng尾wěi巴ba摇yáo了le两liǎng摇yáo，收shōu了le毫háo毛máo，单dān身shēn抡lūn棒bàng，赶gǎn入rù里lǐ边biān来lái打dǎ道dào士shì。

Then he gave his tail a shake or two, took back the hairs, and swinging the cudgel alone charged inside to attack the Daoist.

收了毫毛 — took back the fine hairs — is the trick reversed: the seventy copies return to his tail with a shake. 單身, single body, alone, is set deliberately against the seventy he had a moment ago. He goes in by himself.

那nà道dào士shì見jiàn他tā打dǎ死sǐ了le師shī妹mèi，心xīn甚shèn不bù忍rěn，即jí發fā狠hěn舉jǔ劍jiàn來lái迎yíng。那nà道dào士shì见jiàn他tā打dǎ死sǐ了le师shī妹mèi，心xīn甚shèn不bù忍rěn，即jí发fā狠hěn举jǔ剑jiàn来lái迎yíng。

The Daoist, seeing his fellow students beaten to death, could not bear it, and in a rage raised his sword to meet him.

⚠ 甚 is shèn here, meaning very — and this is one of only two in the whole chapter that is the adverb rather than the interrogative "what". Six of the eight are shén. 心甚不忍, his heart could very much not bear it, is the phrase the text uses for genuine grief, and it is the one moment the Daoist is allowed a feeling that is not vanity.

這zhè一yì場cháng各gè懷huái忿fèn怒nù，一yí個gè個gè大dà展zhǎn神shén通tōng。这zhè一yì场cháng各gè怀huái忿fèn怒nù，一yí个gè个gè大dà展zhǎn神shén通tōng。

In this bout each nursed his own fury, and each unfolded his full powers.

一場 takes 場 as cháng, the reading for a bout or an occasion — an event you count, not a place you stand in. The corpus has thirty-one sealed sites and they all go this way. 神通 is spiritual power in the Buddhist sense, the supernatural faculties an adept acquires.

總評 Commentary

The gears change again and the seventy vanish. He shakes the copies back into his tail and goes in 單身, alone, which is how this book always stages a duel that matters. The labour was a crowd job; the fight is not.

And the Daoist is given one honest emotion. 心甚不忍 — he could not bear it — is not a stock phrase for anger; it is the language of grief, and the text hands it to the man who has just refused to save the same women. Both things are true of him. He would not trade his prize for their lives and he cannot stand to see them dead.

That is a better piece of characterisation than the chapter has any obligation to provide. He is not a monster who happens to look like a host; he is a man with fellow students he is fond of, an expensive private hobby, and an appetite that outranks both.