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你得命足矣 You Have Your Life
被壽星劈頭撲了一掌道：「孽畜！你得命足矣，又聞他怎的？」被寿星劈头扑了一掌道：「孽畜！你得命足矣，又闻他怎的？」
逐句解 Line by line
被壽星劈頭撲了一掌道：「孽畜！
被寿星劈头扑了一掌道：「孽畜！
The Longevity Star fetched it a slap across the head and said, "Cursed beast!
劈頭撲了一掌 — a flat-handed blow straight down on the head. The hand that was stroking the deer two passages ago.
你得命足矣，又聞他怎的？」
你得命足矣，又闻他怎的？」
It is enough that you have your life. What are you sniffing at her for?"
得命足矣 is compressed and cold: you got your life, that is sufficient. 又聞他怎的 — and what is the sniffing for? The question has no answer the deer could give even if it could speak.
The god's reaction is the point of the whole episode. Presented with his animal grieving, he hits it and tells it to be grateful. He is not being cruel by his own lights — the deer is alive when it should be dead, and any further feeling is an extravagance.
The novel puts this immediately after the sniffing and says nothing. Two passages, one showing an attachment and one dismissing it, and the reader is left holding both.