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第七十五回
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The Mind-Monkey Bores Through the Body of Yin and Yang · The Demon Lord Returns to the True Great Way

拿來出恭
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拿來出恭 Only Good For A Chamber Pot

那nà行xíng者zhě將jiāng身shēn一yì抖dǒu,收shōu了le剝bō去qù的de衣yī服fú,現xiàn本běn相xiàng,跳tiào出chū洞dòng外wài,回huí頭tóu罵mà道dào:「妖yāo精jīng不bú要yào無wú禮lǐ。瓶píng子zi鑽zuān破pò,裝zhuāng不bù得de人rén了le,只zhǐ好hǎo拿ná來lái出chū恭gōng。」喜xǐ喜xǐ歡huān歡huān,嚷rǎng嚷rǎng鬧nào鬧nào,踏tà著zhe雲yún頭tóu,徑jìng轉zhuǎn唐táng僧sēng處chù。那nà行xíng者zhě将jiāng身shēn一yì抖dǒu,收shōu了le剥bō去qù的de衣yī服fú,现xiàn本běn相xiàng,跳tiào出chū洞dòng外wài,回huí头tóu骂mà道dào:「妖yāo精jīng不bú要yào无wú礼lǐ。瓶píng子zi钻zuān破pò,装zhuāng不bù得de人rén了le,只zhǐ好hǎo拿ná来lái出chū恭gōng。」喜xǐ喜xǐ欢huān欢huān,嚷rǎng嚷rǎng闹nào闹nào,踏tà着zhe云yún头tóu,径jìng转zhuǎn唐táng僧sēng处chù。


逐句解 Line by line

那nà行xíng者zhě將jiāng身shēn一yì抖dǒu,收shōu了le剝bō去qù的de衣yī服fú,現xiàn本běn相xiàng,跳tiào出chū洞dòng外wài,回huí頭tóu罵mà道dào:「妖yāo精jīng不bú要yào無wú禮lǐ。 那nà行xíng者zhě将jiāng身shēn一yì抖dǒu,收shōu了le剥bō去qù的de衣yī服fú,现xiàn本běn相xiàng,跳tiào出chū洞dòng外wài,回huí头tóu骂mà道dào:「妖yāo精jīng不bú要yào无wú礼lǐ。

Wukong gave himself a shake, gathered up the clothes they had stripped off him, showed his true form, sprang out of the cave and turned back to curse them: "Demons — none of your insolence!

現本相 takes 相 at xiàng, appearance. And note the theft: he stops on the way out to collect the clothes they took off him before the bottling. The undressing that made the trap work is now an insult he can carry away.

瓶píng子zi鑽zuān破pò,裝zhuāng不bù得de人rén了le,只zhǐ好hǎo拿ná來lái出chū恭gōng。」 瓶píng子zi钻zuān破pò,装zhuāng不bù得de人rén了le,只zhǐ好hǎo拿ná来lái出chū恭gōng。」

"Your bottle is bored through. It won't hold a man any more. It's only good to squat over."

裝不得人 puts 得 in the light de, the cannot-manage-to grammar. 出恭 is a wonderfully prim euphemism for relieving oneself — it comes from the wooden tablet marked gōng that examination candidates had to carry when they left the hall for the latrine, and it became the polite word for the errand itself. He is calling the cosmos-in-a-jar a commode, in the language of the civil service examinations.

喜xǐ喜xǐ歡huān歡huān,嚷rǎng嚷rǎng鬧nào鬧nào,踏tà著zhe雲yún頭tóu,徑jìng轉zhuǎn唐táng僧sēng處chù。 喜xǐ喜xǐ欢huān欢huān,嚷rǎng嚷rǎng闹nào闹nào,踏tà着zhe云yún头tóu,径jìng转zhuǎn唐táng僧sēng处chù。

Delighted with himself, whooping and racketing, he trod the cloud-tops and went straight back to where the Tang monk was.

嚷 is rǎng, to shout — and the doubled form is a small trap, because an unguarded reading gives two different wrong tones to the two halves of the same word. 踏著雲頭 takes the light zhe.


總評 Commentary

The insult is precisely aimed. Two passages of cosmology went into that bottle — the trigrams, the solar terms, the Northern Dipper — and Wukong's review is that it now has a hole in the bottom and would do for a chamber pot. The novel spends its metaphysics and then lets the monkey price it.

出恭 is worth the note it gets. A word invented by examination bureaucracy for the most basic bodily need is the perfect register for this chapter, which has been running a demon cave as a government office since the third gate. He is not being crude. He is being crude in officialese.