破得金光 One Who Can Break The Light
你既然有此變化,脫得金光,戰得許久,必定有大神通,卻只是還近不得那廝。我教你去請一位聖賢,他能破得金光,降得道士。」你既然有此变化,脱得金光,战得许久,必定有大神通,却只是还近不得那厮。我教你去请一位圣贤,他能破得金光,降得道士。」
逐句解 Line by line
"Since you have such powers of transformation, and got clear of the golden light, and fought him so long, you must certainly have great magic — and still you cannot get near the fellow."
Three 得 in twenty-eight characters and two different values. 脫得金光 is a verb with its object and the 得 means attainment: managed to get free — dé. 戰得許久 has a duration after it, fought to the extent of a long while, so the 得 reduces to de. And 近不得 is the potential negative, cannot get near, which also gives de because 近 in front of 不 is a full verb. 還 stays hái, still.
"Let me tell you of a sage you may go and ask. She can break the golden light and subdue the Daoist."
Two more 得 and both are dé: 破得金光 and 降得道士 are each a verb with its object under 能, can — attainment, not degree. And 降 is xiáng, to subdue, not jiàng, to descend. Seven of the chapter's eight are this band and three of those seven fall in this one conversation.
Her assessment is exact and slightly wounding. You have great powers, you escaped, you fought a long fight — and you still cannot get near him. Every clause is a compliment and the sentence is a verdict.
It is also the chapter's structural rule stated out loud. Pilgrim cannot beat this thing and the solution is not to try harder; it is to fetch somebody who can. Half the episodes in this book resolve that way, and the novel is entirely unembarrassed about it. The Great Sage's real skill is knowing whose door to knock on.
Note the grammar of what she offers: 我教你去請, let me tell you to go and ask. She is not going to help. She is going to give him an address.