Canonical Classics ← 第八十回
第八十回
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The Fair Girl, Nursing the Yang, Seeks a Mate · The Mind-Ape, Guarding His Master, Knows a Fiend

倒塌房廊
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

倒塌房廊 In Through the Third Gate

xíngzhězàihòumiànzhebàngxiázhexíngjìn穿chuānguòledǎofánglángsāncéngménshuānlexiēledànxíngzhězàihòumiànzhebàngxiázhexíngjìn穿chuānguòledǎofánglángsāncéngménshuānlexiēledàn


逐句解 Line by line

xíngzhězàihòumiànzhebàngxiázhexíngjìn xíngzhězàihòumiànzhebàngxiázhexíngjìn

and Pilgrim came behind with the rod, keeping the girl in check: and so the whole party went in.

Both are the sustained zhe again, and 一行 keeps as xíng, a party travelling together. Pilgrim is still at the back with the rod, exactly where he was when they left the willows.

穿chuānguòledǎofánglángsāncéngménshuānlexiēledàn 穿chuānguòledǎofánglángsāncéngménshuānlexiēledàn

They passed through the collapsed galleries, in through the third gate, tied up the horse and set down the load.

They walk through the ruined half to reach the sound half — past the toppled arhats and the clay Guanyin, without a word about any of it. is dàn for the last time in the chapter.


總評 Commentary

The whole party crosses from the ruin into the good monastery in a single sentence, and the narrator does not stop to look at anything. Nine lines of verse went into that wreckage and they walk straight through it.

The last detail is the one to keep. Pilgrim comes in at the back, still armed, still guarding the girl he was told to leave alone. He has obeyed every instruction and changed his mind about nothing, and the chapter ends with him in that position.