Canonical Classics ← 第七十四回
第七十四回
長cháng庚gēng傳chuán報bào魔mó頭tóu狠hěn
行xíng者zhě施shī為wéi變biàn化huà能néng

Long Geng Brings Word of a Fierce Demon Chief · Pilgrim Works His Powers of Transformation

好生看守
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

好生看守 Guard The Master Well

八bā戒jiè道dào:「又yòu有yǒu甚shèn商shāng議yì?」行xíng者zhě道dào:「沒méi甚shèn商shāng議yì。你nǐ且qiě在zài這zhè裡lǐ用yòng心xīn保bǎo守shǒu師shī父fù,沙shā僧sēng好hǎo生shēng看kān守shǒu行xíng李lǐ、馬mǎ匹pǐ。八bā戒jiè道dào:「又yòu有yǒu甚shèn商shāng议yì?」行xíng者zhě道dào:「没méi甚shèn商shāng议yì。你nǐ且qiě在zài这zhè里lǐ用yòng心xīn保bǎo守shǒu师shī父fù,沙shā僧sēng好hǎo生shēng看kān守shǒu行xíng李lǐ、马mǎ匹pǐ。


逐句解 Line by line

八bā戒jiè道dào:「又yòu有yǒu甚shèn商shāng議yì?」 八bā戒jiè道dào:「又yòu有yǒu甚shèn商shāng议yì?」

Bajie said, "Is there something else to discuss?"

商議 is to confer, to take counsel. Bajie has noticed the change of posture before anybody else, which is what he tends to do.

行xíng者zhě道dào:「沒méi甚shèn商shāng議yì。 行xíng者zhě道dào:「没méi甚shèn商shāng议yì。

Pilgrim said, "Nothing to discuss.

Seven characters of flat denial, immediately before eighty characters of detailed plan. The novel does not comment.

你nǐ且qiě在zài這zhè裡lǐ用yòng心xīn保bǎo守shǒu師shī父fù,沙shā僧sēng好hǎo生shēng看kān守shǒu行xíng李lǐ、馬mǎ匹pǐ。 你nǐ且qiě在zài这zhè里lǐ用yòng心xīn保bǎo守shǒu师shī父fù,沙shā僧sēng好hǎo生shēng看kān守shǒu行xíng李lǐ、马mǎ匹pǐ。

You stay here and take good care of the master; Sha Monk, keep a proper watch on the luggage and the horse.

看守 takes 看 as kān, to watch over or guard — a different word from the kàn of looking that the same character carries a few lines earlier. 好生 is properly, thoroughly, with care. He is assigning duties, which is what a person does before leaving.


總評 Commentary

The denial and the orders arrive in the same breath. Nothing to discuss, and here is what each of you is to do while I am gone.

The assignments are exact and they are the ones this trio always get. Bajie guards the master, Sha Monk guards the baggage, Pilgrim goes. Nobody argues about it because nobody ever does.

What is new is the care of it. Take good care, keep a proper watch — Pilgrim does not usually bother with the adverbs. He has spoken to Venus and he is behaving accordingly, whatever he tells his master.