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心xīn主zhǔ遭zāo魔mó幸xìng破pò光guāng

Passion from an Old Grudge Breeds a Venomous Calamity · The Mind-Lord Meets a Demon and Is Saved by the Breaking Light

破得金光
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破得金光 One Who Can Break The Light

你nǐ既jì然rán有yǒu此cǐ變biàn化huà,脫tuō得dé金jīn光guāng,戰zhàn得de許xǔ久jiǔ,必bì定dìng有yǒu大dà神shén通tōng,卻què只zhǐ是shì還hái近jìn不bù得de那nà廝sī。我wǒ教jiào你nǐ去qù請qǐng一yí位wèi聖shèng賢xián,他tā能néng破pò得dé金jīn光guāng,降xiáng得dé道dào士shì。」你nǐ既jì然rán有yǒu此cǐ变biàn化huà,脱tuō得dé金jīn光guāng,战zhàn得de许xǔ久jiǔ,必bì定dìng有yǒu大dà神shén通tōng,却què只zhǐ是shì还hái近jìn不bù得de那nà厮sī。我wǒ教jiào你nǐ去qù请qǐng一yí位wèi圣shèng贤xián,他tā能néng破pò得dé金jīn光guāng,降xiáng得dé道dào士shì。」


逐句解 Line by line

你nǐ既jì然rán有yǒu此cǐ變biàn化huà,脫tuō得dé金jīn光guāng,戰zhàn得de許xǔ久jiǔ,必bì定dìng有yǒu大dà神shén通tōng,卻què只zhǐ是shì還hái近jìn不bù得de那nà廝sī。 你nǐ既jì然rán有yǒu此cǐ变biàn化huà,脱tuō得dé金jīn光guāng,战zhàn得de许xǔ久jiǔ,必bì定dìng有yǒu大dà神shén通tōng,却què只zhǐ是shì还hái近jìn不bù得de那nà厮sī。

"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.

我wǒ教jiào你nǐ去qù請qǐng一yí位wèi聖shèng賢xián,他tā能néng破pò得dé金jīn光guāng,降xiáng得dé道dào士shì。」 我wǒ教jiào你nǐ去qù请qǐng一yí位wèi圣shèng贤xián,他tā能néng破pò得dé金jīn光guāng,降xiáng得dé道dào士shì。」

"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.


總評 Commentary

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.