第七十五回 · 單直裰 Warm And Out Of The Wind — Journey to the West

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單直裰 Warm And Out Of The Wind

老lǎo魔mó道dào：「你nǐ怎zěn麼me不bù出chū？」行xíng者zhě道dào：「你nǐ這zhè妖yāo精jīng甚shèn不bù通tōng變biàn。我wǒ自zì做zuò和hé尚shàng，十shí分fēn淡dàn薄bó，如rú今jīn秋qiū涼liáng，我wǒ還hái穿chuān個gè單dān直zhí裰duō。這zhè肚dù裡lǐ倒dào暖nuǎn，又yòu不bú透tòu風fēng，等děng我wǒ住zhù過guò冬dōng才cái好hǎo出chū來lái。」老lǎo魔mó道dào：「你nǐ怎zěn么me不bù出chū？」行xíng者zhě道dào：「你nǐ这zhè妖yāo精jīng甚shèn不bù通tōng变biàn。我wǒ自zì做zuò和hé尚shàng，十shí分fēn淡dàn薄bó，如rú今jīn秋qiū凉liáng，我wǒ还hái穿chuān个gè单dān直zhí裰duō。这zhè肚dù里lǐ倒dào暖nuǎn，又yòu不bú透tòu风fēng，等děng我wǒ住zhù过guò冬dōng才cái好hǎo出chū来lái。」

逐句解 Line by line

老lǎo魔mó道dào：「你nǐ怎zěn麼me不bù出chū？」老lǎo魔mó道dào：「你nǐ怎zěn么me不bù出chū？」

The old fiend said, "Why will you not come out?"

Six characters, and the demon is now conducting an interview with his own digestion.

行xíng者zhě道dào：「你nǐ這zhè妖yāo精jīng甚shèn不bù通tōng變biàn。行xíng者zhě道dào：「你nǐ这zhè妖yāo精jīng甚shèn不bù通tōng变biàn。

Wukong said, "You are a very inflexible demon."

甚 is shèn here, very — against the shén of what that turns up later in the same scene. And 不通變 is the identical complaint Wukong made about Xuanzang a few thousand characters ago, when the master would not see the sense of sending Bajie along.

我wǒ自zì做zuò和hé尚shàng，十shí分fēn淡dàn薄bó，如rú今jīn秋qiū涼liáng，我wǒ還hái穿chuān個gè單dān直zhí裰duō。我wǒ自zì做zuò和hé尚shàng，十shí分fēn淡dàn薄bó，如rú今jīn秋qiū凉liáng，我wǒ还hái穿chuān个gè单dān直zhí裰duō。

"Ever since I became a monk I have lived very thin. Now the autumn has turned cold and I am still wearing a single-layer robe."

直裰 is the straight-cut monk's robe, and 單 means unlined — one layer, no wadding. 還 is hái, still. The complaint is domestic and completely reasonable, and the chapter did open on the turn of the season.

這zhè肚dù裡lǐ倒dào暖nuǎn，又yòu不bú透tòu風fēng，等děng我wǒ住zhù過guò冬dōng才cái好hǎo出chū來lái。」这zhè肚dù里lǐ倒dào暖nuǎn，又yòu不bú透tòu风fēng，等děng我wǒ住zhù过guò冬dōng才cái好hǎo出chū来lái。」

"In here it is actually warm and there is no draught. Let me stay the winter out and then I will come."

倒 is dào here — the adverbial band, on the contrary, actually — against the dǎo of falling that the chapter uses for people going to the ground. Two readings, one character, a few hundred apart.

總評 Commentary

Wukong's argument is a tenancy claim. He is not defying the demon, he is explaining that the accommodation suits him: warm, no draught, and he is short of a winter robe. It is the same joke as the bottle, where his first complaint was about the temperature, and it is funnier here because this time he is right.

The detail about the unlined robe is doing quiet work. Monks in this book are genuinely poor, and Wukong has been walking west in one layer since the season turned in the opening lines of the chapter. The whole complaint is a joke, and it is also true.