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燒作火池坑
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燒作火池坑 Burnt Into A Fire Pit

行xíng者zhě叫jiào:「八bā戒jiè,不bú必bì築zhù樹shù,但dàn得de此cǐ物wù填tián塞sè洞dòng裡lǐ,放fàng起qǐ火huǒ來lái,燒shāo得dé個gè乾gān淨jìng。」火huǒ一yì起qǐ,果guǒ然rán把bǎ一yí座zuò清qīng華huá妖yāo怪guài宅zhái,燒shāo作zuò火huǒ池chí坑kēng。行xíng者zhě叫jiào:「八bā戒jiè,不bú必bì筑zhù树shù,但dàn得de此cǐ物wù填tián塞sè洞dòng里lǐ,放fàng起qǐ火huǒ来lái,烧shāo得dé个gè干gān净jìng。」火huǒ一yì起qǐ,果guǒ然rán把bǎ一yí座zuò清qīng华huá妖yāo怪guài宅zhái,烧shāo作zuò火huǒ池chí坑kēng。


逐句解 Line by line

行xíng者zhě叫jiào:「八bā戒jiè,不bú必bì築zhù樹shù,但dàn得de此cǐ物wù填tián塞sè洞dòng裡lǐ,放fàng起qǐ火huǒ來lái,燒shāo得dé個gè乾gān淨jìng。」 行xíng者zhě叫jiào:「八bā戒jiè,不bú必bì筑zhù树shù,但dàn得de此cǐ物wù填tián塞sè洞dòng里lǐ,放fàng起qǐ火huǒ来lái,烧shāo得dé个gè干gān净jìng。」

Pilgrim called, "Bajie, there is no need to dig at the trees. Just get this stuff stuffed into the cave, and start the fire, and it will burn the place clean."

燒得個乾淨 takes de, the connector that hangs a result on a verb: burn it clean. 乾淨 is gān jìng. 不必築樹: Bajie has been at the willows for two passages and is told to stop. The trees were never the problem.

火huǒ一yì起qǐ,果guǒ然rán把bǎ一yí座zuò清qīng華huá妖yāo怪guài宅zhái,燒shāo作zuò火huǒ池chí坑kēng。 火huǒ一yì起qǐ,果guǒ然rán把bǎ一yí座zuò清qīng华huá妖yāo怪guài宅zhái,烧shāo作zuò火huǒ池chí坑kēng。

The fire went up, and sure enough it turned that whole Clear Splendour fiend-house into a burning pit.

火池坑, a fire-pool-pit, is three words for a hole full of fire piled on top of each other, and the effect is of something hastily and thoroughly ruined. The name 清華, Clear Splendour, appears one last time, attached now to 妖怪宅, a fiend-house. The chapter has called this place a manor, a cave, an immortal residence, and now this.


總評 Commentary

The garden the poem spent six lines praising — the jade grasses, the rare flowers, the paradise that was no worse than Penglai — is filled with year-old brushwood and set alight. The novel does not mention any of that while it burns.

Wukong's phrase for the operation was sweeping the place clean, and the word he used, 乾淨, is the ordinary domestic one — what you do to a floor. The whole cave is a mess to be tidied.