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第七十六回
心xīn神shén居jū舍shè魔mó歸guī性xìng
木mù母mǔ同tóng降xiáng怪guài體tǐ真zhēn

The Spirit Settles in Its Dwelling and the Demon Returns to Its Nature · The Wood Mother Joins to Subdue the Monster's True Form

此間有戰場
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

此間有戰場 Here Is Ground For Fighting

那nà二èr怪guài攙chān著zhe老lǎo魔mó,徑jìng至zhì門mén外wài,叫jiào道dào:「孫sūn行xíng者zhě,好hǎo漢hàn出chū來lái,此cǐ間jiān有yǒu戰zhàn場chǎng,好hǎo鬥dòu。」那nà二èr怪guài搀chān着zhe老lǎo魔mó,径jìng至zhì门mén外wài,叫jiào道dào:「孙sūn行xíng者zhě,好hǎo汉hàn出chū来lái,此cǐ间jiān有yǒu战zhàn场chǎng,好hǎo斗dòu。」


逐句解 Line by line

那nà二èr怪guài攙chān著zhe老lǎo魔mó,徑jìng至zhì門mén外wài,叫jiào道dào:「孫sūn行xíng者zhě,好hǎo漢hàn出chū來lái,此cǐ間jiān有yǒu戰zhàn場chǎng,好hǎo鬥dòu。」 那nà二èr怪guài搀chān着zhe老lǎo魔mó,径jìng至zhì门mén外wài,叫jiào道dào:「孙sūn行xíng者zhě,好hǎo汉hàn出chū来lái,此cǐ间jiān有yǒu战zhàn场chǎng,好hǎo斗dòu。」

The second fiend supported the old one out to the gate, and they called: "Sun Wukong! Come out if you are a man. Here is ground for fighting, and good fighting it will be."

著 is again zhe, an action under way — holding him up as they walk. 場 reads chǎng here, since 戰場 is a real place, a field, and not a count of events.


總評 Commentary

One detail undercuts the whole challenge: the old demon has to be held upright by his brother to issue it. His teeth are broken, he has been dragged about by his own insides for a chapter and a half, and he is being walked to the gate like a man being helped out of a pub. The invitation to come out and fight is being delivered by someone who can barely stand.

The word for the ground they are offering is the ordinary one for a battlefield, a place rather than an occasion, and the choice is worth marking because earlier chapters read the same character differently. When it counts bouts — one round of good fighting — it takes another sound entirely. Here it is simply a field, and the demons want Wukong standing in the middle of it.