Canonical Classics ← 第八十回
第八十回
姹chà女nǚ育yù陽yáng求qiú配pèi偶ǒu
心xīn猿yuán護hù主zhǔ識shí妖yāo邪xié

The Fair Girl, Nursing the Yang, Seeks a Mate · The Mind-Ape, Guarding His Master, Knows a Fiend

黑氣濃厚
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黑氣濃厚 Black Vapour Smothers the Light

卻què說shuō那nà大dà聖shèng在zài半bàn空kōng中zhōng,又yòu見jiàn那nà黑hēi氣qì濃nóng厚hòu,把bǎ祥xiáng光guāng盡jìn情qíng蓋gài了le,道dào聲shēng:「不bù好hǎo,不bù好hǎo!黑hēi氣qì罩zhào暗àn祥xiáng光guāng,怕pà不bú是shì妖yāo邪xié害hài俺ǎn師shī父fù?却què说shuō那nà大dà圣shèng在zài半bàn空kōng中zhōng,又yòu见jiàn那nà黑hēi气qì浓nóng厚hòu,把bǎ祥xiáng光guāng尽jìn情qíng盖gài了le,道dào声shēng:「不bù好hǎo,不bù好hǎo!黑hēi气qì罩zhào暗àn祥xiáng光guāng,怕pà不bú是shì妖yāo邪xié害hài俺ǎn师shī父fù?


逐句解 Line by line

卻què說shuō那nà大dà聖shèng在zài半bàn空kōng中zhōng,又yòu見jiàn那nà黑hēi氣qì濃nóng厚hòu,把bǎ祥xiáng光guāng盡jìn情qíng蓋gài了le,道dào聲shēng:「不bù好hǎo,不bù好hǎo! 却què说shuō那nà大dà圣shèng在zài半bàn空kōng中zhōng,又yòu见jiàn那nà黑hēi气qì浓nóng厚hòu,把bǎ祥xiáng光guāng尽jìn情qíng盖gài了le,道dào声shēng:「不bù好hǎo,不bù好hǎo!

Now the Great Sage, up in mid-air, saw that the black vapour had grown thick and had covered over the auspicious light entirely, and he said aloud, "This is bad, this is bad!

盡情 is "to the full, without holding anything back" — the black has not merely spread over the gold, it has taken all of it.

黑hēi氣qì罩zhào暗àn祥xiáng光guāng,怕pà不bú是shì妖yāo邪xié害hài俺ǎn師shī父fù? 黑hēi气qì罩zhào暗àn祥xiáng光guāng,怕pà不bú是shì妖yāo邪xié害hài俺ǎn师shī父fù?

Black vapour darkening the lucky light — is that not some fiend harming my master?

He phrases it as a question and the question is rhetorical. Pilgrim has watched the colour over his master change, and colour is evidence he trusts.


總評 Commentary

The two vapours have now met and one has won. This is the whole plot of the chapter compressed into a single visual: gold merit overlaid by black intent, seen from above by the one person who can see it.

It is worth noticing how little Pilgrim actually knows. He does not know what the black thing is, where it came from, or what it wants. He knows only that his master's light has gone out. Everything he does for the rest of the chapter follows from that one observation, and nobody on the ground will accept it as grounds for anything.