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第七十五回
心xīn猿yuán鑽zuān透tòu陰yīn陽yáng體tǐ
魔mó主zhǔ還huán歸guī大dà道dào真zhēn

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

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同證西方 The Lament To Xuanzang

道dào:「師shī父fù啊a!當dāng年nián皈guī正zhèng,蒙méng觀guān音yīn菩pú薩sà勸quàn善shàn,脫tuō離lí天tiān災zāi。我wǒ與yǔ你nǐ苦kǔ歷lì諸zhū山shān,收shōu殄tiǎn多duō怪guài,降xiáng八bā戒jiè,得dé沙shā僧sēng,千qiān辛xīn萬wàn苦kǔ,指zhǐ望wàng同tóng證zhèng西xī方fāng,共gòng成chéng正zhèng果guǒ。道dào:「师shī父fù啊a!当dāng年nián皈guī正zhèng,蒙méng观guān音yīn菩pú萨sà劝quàn善shàn,脱tuō离lí天tiān灾zāi。我wǒ与yǔ你nǐ苦kǔ历lì诸zhū山shān,收shōu殄tiǎn多duō怪guài,降xiáng八bā戒jiè,得dé沙shā僧sēng,千qiān辛xīn万wàn苦kǔ,指zhǐ望wàng同tóng证zhèng西xī方fāng,共gòng成chéng正zhèng果guǒ。


逐句解 Line by line

道dào:「師shī父fù啊a! 道dào:「师shī父fù啊a!

He said, "Master! Ah, Master —

The speech has no attribution beyond the bare verb, because the verse before it has already told us who is speaking and in what state.

當dāng年nián皈guī正zhèng,蒙méng觀guān音yīn菩pú薩sà勸quàn善shàn,脫tuō離lí天tiān災zāi。 当dāng年nián皈guī正zhèng,蒙méng观guān音yīn菩pú萨sà劝quàn善shàn,脱tuō离lí天tiān灾zāi。

"In that year I came back to the right road, and by the grace of the Bodhisattva Guanyin, who urged me to good, I escaped the calamity of heaven.

皈正 is the technical term for taking refuge and turning to the correct path, and 天災, the heavenly calamity, is the five hundred years under the mountain. He is starting his account of himself from the beginning, which is what people do when they think they are at the end of it.

我wǒ與yǔ你nǐ苦kǔ歷lì諸zhū山shān,收shōu殄tiǎn多duō怪guài,降xiáng八bā戒jiè,得dé沙shā僧sēng,千qiān辛xīn萬wàn苦kǔ,指zhǐ望wàng同tóng證zhèng西xī方fāng,共gòng成chéng正zhèng果guǒ。 我wǒ与yǔ你nǐ苦kǔ历lì诸zhū山shān,收shōu殄tiǎn多duō怪guài,降xiáng八bā戒jiè,得dé沙shā僧sēng,千qiān辛xīn万wàn苦kǔ,指zhǐ望wàng同tóng证zhèng西xī方fāng,共gòng成chéng正zhèng果guǒ。

"You and I have toiled over every mountain, put down a great many monsters, subdued Bajie and gained Sha Monk, through a thousand hardships and ten thousand pains, hoping to attain the West together and complete the true fruit as one."

降 is xiáng, to subdue — not the jiàng of coming down. 千辛萬苦 is still everyday Chinese for going through the mill. 正果, the true fruit, is the Buddhist term for the end of the road: the result that ripens when the practice is finished.


總評 Commentary

This is a curriculum vitae delivered to nobody. Wukong is alone inside a sealed bottle several kilometres inside a mountain, and he is reciting the whole pilgrimage from the day he was let out from under the rock. Nothing in the scene requires it. Everything in his character does.

The verbs are worth reading as a list: subdued Bajie, gained Sha Monk. He counts the party as things he acquired, which is the monkey talking — and then the sentence ends on 同 and 共, together and as one, which is the pilgrim talking. Both are in there.