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十分村魯
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十分村魯 You Coarse Boorish Monk

道dào士shì怒nù道dào:「你nǐ這zhè和hé尚shàng,十shí分fēn村cūn魯lǔ!怎zěn麼me把bǎ我wǒ鍾zhōng子zi捽zuó了le?」行xíng者zhě罵mà道dào:「你nǐ這zhè畜chù生sheng!你nǐ看kàn我wǒ那nà三sān個gè人rén是shì怎zěn麼me說shuō?道dào士shì怒nù道dào:「你nǐ这zhè和hé尚shàng,十shí分fēn村cūn鲁lǔ!怎zěn么me把bǎ我wǒ钟zhōng子zi捽zuó了le?」行xíng者zhě骂mà道dào:「你nǐ这zhè畜chù生sheng!你nǐ看kàn我wǒ那nà三sān个gè人rén是shì怎zěn么me说shuō?


逐句解 Line by line

道dào士shì怒nù道dào:「你nǐ這zhè和hé尚shàng,十shí分fēn村cūn魯lǔ! 道dào士shì怒nù道dào:「你nǐ这zhè和hé尚shàng,十shí分fēn村cūn鲁lǔ!

"You monk!" said the Daoist furiously. "What an utter boor!"

村魯 is rustic and crude — 村 here is not the noun for a village but the adjective it produced, country-bumpkin, and it is one of the commonest insults in this book. 十分 is ten parts out of ten, entirely. The register has dropped from 老師父 to this in the space of two passages.

怎zěn麼me把bǎ我wǒ鍾zhōng子zi捽zuó了le?」 怎zěn么me把bǎ我wǒ钟zhōng子zi捽zuó了le?」

"How dare you fling down my cup?"

捽 is zuó, to seize and dash down — a reading settled in the previous chapter of this project and confirmed here without help. It is a physical, violent verb, and he is using it about a teacup, which tells you how much he minds.

行xíng者zhě罵mà道dào:「你nǐ這zhè畜chù生sheng! 行xíng者zhě骂mà道dào:「你nǐ这zhè畜chù生sheng!

"You animal!" swore Pilgrim back.

畜生 reduces its second syllable to sheng, one of the corpus's small set of genuine modern neutrals alongside 尾巴 and 豆腐. Literally a domestic beast, it is the standard Chinese insult for someone who has behaved subhumanly — and it will turn out, in this case, to be a description.

你nǐ看kàn我wǒ那nà三sān個gè人rén是shì怎zěn麼me說shuō? 你nǐ看kàn我wǒ那nà三sān个gè人rén是shì怎zěn么me说shuō?

"Look at those three of mine — what do you call that?"

是怎麼說 is "what is the account of this", "how do you explain that" — an idiom demanding a justification rather than a description. He is pointing at three bodies on the floor.


總評 Commentary

Two men shouting at each other, and the chapter's whole surface has inverted. The Daoist — who has just poisoned three guests — is genuinely angry about a broken cup and calls his guest a peasant. Pilgrim calls him an animal. Neither insult is chosen at random.

村魯 is about class: you are coarse, you have no breeding, you do not know how to behave in a house. It is the complaint of a man whose entire method has been impeccable manners, and he means it. He has been offended.

And 畜生 is about species. Pilgrim is not saying the Daoist is rude; he is saying he is not a person. In a book where roughly half the cast turn out to be animals wearing human shape, that is less an insult than a diagnosis, and it is about to be confirmed.