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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

颼者走也
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拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

颼者走也 Whoosh Means Run Off

大dà聖shèng在zài他tā頭tóu上shàng,也yě忍rěn不bú住zhù道dào一yì聲shēng「我wǒ的de兒ér啊a,颼sōu者zhě走zǒu也yě。」眾zhòng怪guài聽tīng見jiàn道dào:「走zǒu了le,走zǒu了le。」即jí傳chuán令lìng:「關guān門mén,關guān門mén。」大dà圣shèng在zài他tā头tóu上shàng,也yě忍rěn不bú住zhù道dào一yì声shēng「我wǒ的de儿ér啊a,飕sōu者zhě走zǒu也yě。」众zhòng怪guài听tīng见jiàn道dào:「走zǒu了le,走zǒu了le。」即jí传chuán令lìng:「关guān门mén,关guān门mén。」


逐句解 Line by line

大dà聖shèng在zài他tā頭tóu上shàng,也yě忍rěn不bú住zhù道dào一yì聲shēng「我wǒ的de兒ér啊a,颼sōu者zhě走zǒu也yě。」 大dà圣shèng在zài他tā头tóu上shàng,也yě忍rěn不bú住zhù道dào一yì声shēng「我wǒ的de儿ér啊a,飕sōu者zhě走zǒu也yě。」

The Great Sage, up on his head, could not help saying, "My boy — sōu means run off!"

He answers the formula with the same formula. 颼 is the whirring noise the drill made four passages back, and he has turned it into a word and glossed it in the demon's own scholarly register. 我的兒, my boy, is Wukong's standing insult — he calls almost every monster in the book his son.

眾zhòng怪guài聽tīng見jiàn道dào:「走zǒu了le,走zǒu了le。」 众zhòng怪guài听tīng见jiàn道dào:「走zǒu了le,走zǒu了le。」

The demons heard it and said, "He's gone! He's gone!"

They repeat it, as this cave repeats everything.

即jí傳chuán令lìng:「關guān門mén,關guān門mén。」 即jí传chuán令lìng:「关guān门mén,关guān门mén。」

And at once the order went out: "Shut the doors! Shut the doors!"

The same order, in the same doubled shape, as the one the old fiend gave at the start of all this. The cave has one response to everything and it has now used it twice on a monkey who is inside with them.


總評 Commentary

This is the chapter's best exchange and it works because both parties are showing off. The demon glosses 空; Wukong, sitting on his head, glosses 颼 — turning the sound of his own escape into a lexical entry. It is a joke about pedantry made by two creatures who cannot stop performing.

忍不住 twice in two sentences, once for each of them, and this is its fourth appearance in the chapter. It gave away Wukong's disguise, it produced his tears in the bottle, and here it produces a wisecrack from inside the enemy's hall when silence would serve better. The book is not tracking a flaw; it is tracking a temperament.