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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

不打緊
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

不打緊 Nothing To Worry About

行xíng者zhě見jiàn他tā不bù言yán,即jí抽chōu身shēn回huí坡pō。長zhǎng老lǎo道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ來lái了le?所suǒ問wèn如rú何hé?」行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào:「不bù打dǎ緊jǐn,不bù打dǎ緊jǐn。西xī天tiān有yǒu便biàn有yǒu個gè把bǎ妖yāo精jīng兒ér,只zhǐ是shì這zhè裡lǐ人rén膽dǎn小xiǎo,把bǎ他tā放fàng在zài心xīn上shàng。沒méi事shì,沒méi事shì,有yǒu我wǒ哩li。」行xíng者zhě见jiàn他tā不bù言yán,即jí抽chōu身shēn回huí坡pō。长zhǎng老lǎo道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ来lái了le?所suǒ问wèn如rú何hé?」行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào:「不bù打dǎ紧jǐn,不bù打dǎ紧jǐn。西xī天tiān有yǒu便biàn有yǒu个gè把bǎ妖yāo精jīng儿ér,只zhǐ是shì这zhè里lǐ人rén胆dǎn小xiǎo,把bǎ他tā放fàng在zài心xīn上shàng。没méi事shì,没méi事shì,有yǒu我wǒ哩li。」


逐句解 Line by line

行xíng者zhě見jiàn他tā不bù言yán,即jí抽chōu身shēn回huí坡pō。 行xíng者zhě见jiàn他tā不bù言yán,即jí抽chōu身shēn回huí坡pō。

Seeing that he would not speak, Pilgrim turned on his heel and went back down the slope.

抽身 is to pull oneself away, the verb for leaving a situation rather than a place. He has got nothing and he knows it.

長zhǎng老lǎo道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ來lái了le?所suǒ問wèn如rú何hé?」 长zhǎng老lǎo道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ来lái了le?所suǒ问wèn如rú何hé?」

The elder said, "Wukong, you are back? What came of your asking?"

所問如何 is four characters of formal Chinese in the middle of ordinary speech — Tripitaka asking after the outcome of an enquiry the way he would phrase it in writing. He is anxious and it makes him stiff.

行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào:「不bù打dǎ緊jǐn,不bù打dǎ緊jǐn。 行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào:「不bù打dǎ紧jǐn,不bù打dǎ紧jǐn。

Pilgrim laughed. "Nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about.

不打緊 is it does not matter, no great thing, and doubling it is the same move as the doubled 莫怕 a moment ago. Pilgrim is about to give his master a report with no information in it.

西xī天tiān有yǒu便biàn有yǒu個gè把bǎ妖yāo精jīng兒ér,只zhǐ是shì這zhè裡lǐ人rén膽dǎn小xiǎo,把bǎ他tā放fàng在zài心xīn上shàng。沒méi事shì,沒méi事shì,有yǒu我wǒ哩li。」 西xī天tiān有yǒu便biàn有yǒu个gè把bǎ妖yāo精jīng儿ér,只zhǐ是shì这zhè里lǐ人rén胆dǎn小xiǎo,把bǎ他tā放fàng在zài心xīn上shàng。没méi事shì,没méi事shì,有yǒu我wǒ哩li。」

There may well be the odd little demon in the west, only the people here are timid and take them to heart. It is nothing, nothing. You have me."

妖精兒 shrinks the demons with a suffix — the odd little demon, demonlings. 把他放在心上 is to take a thing to heart, still the ordinary phrase. And the report closes on 有我哩, the same three characters he used when he picked his master up out of the grass.


總評 Commentary

Pilgrim comes back with nothing and says so in a way designed to sound like something. There may be the odd demon; the locals are nervous; it is nothing. Every clause is true and the whole is a dodge.

The closing three characters are the point. He has not answered the question, so he reaches for the one thing that has worked on his master before — you have me — and hopes it will do the job again.

It will not, and the chapter knows it. Tripitaka asked four specific questions before sending him and is about to ask them again, in order, which is the least gullible thing he does in the whole episode.