第八十回
姹女育陽求配偶
心猿護主識妖邪
The Fair Girl, Nursing the Yang, Seeks a Mate · The Mind-Ape, Guarding His Master, Knows a Fiend
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一派黑松
A Stand of Black Pine
師徒正自閑敘,又見一派黑松大林。唐僧害怕,又叫道:「悟空,我們才過了那崎嶇山路,怎麼又遇這個深黑松林?是必在意。」师徒正自闲叙,又见一派黑松大林。唐僧害怕,又叫道:「悟空,我们才过了那崎岖山路,怎么又遇这个深黑松林?是必在意。」
逐句解 Line by line
師徒正自閑敘,又見一派黑松大林。
师徒正自闲叙,又见一派黑松大林。
Master and disciples were chatting idly along when they saw before them a great stand of black pine.
一派 is a measure word for something that spreads — a sweep of it, a whole tract.
唐僧害怕,又叫道:「悟空,我們才過了那崎嶇山路,怎麼又遇這個深黑松林?
唐僧害怕,又叫道:「悟空,我们才过了那崎岖山路,怎么又遇这个深黑松林?
The Tang Monk took fright and called out again, "Wukong, we have only just come through that rough mountain road. How is it we now meet this deep black pine wood?
He switches to 悟空, the religious name, which is what he uses when he wants his disciple to take him seriously.
是必在意。」
是必在意。」
You must mind yourself."
The same four-character warning he gave at the mountain, word for word in shape if not in character. Tripitaka has one alarm and he keeps pulling it.
總評 Commentary
The chapter is building a sequence of enclosures, each tighter than the last: open road, then mountain, now wood. The Tang Monk's alarm rises accordingly, and so does the reader's, because the narrator is spending real time on the approach.
Note that Tripitaka is right this time. There is something in the wood. His problem has never been that his fears are groundless; it is that he cannot tell which of them to act on, and in a few pages he will overrule the one disciple who can.