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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

救他一場
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

救他一場 Leave Her at a Monastery

大dà家jiā一yí處chù同tóng這zhè女nǚ菩pú薩sà走zǒu下xià山shān去qù,或huò到dào庵ān觀guàn寺sì院yuàn,有yǒu人rén家jiā之zhī處chù,留liú他tā在zài那nà裡lǐ,也yě是shì我wǒ們men救jiù他tā一yì場cháng。」行xíng者zhě道dào:「師shī父fù說shuō得de有yǒu理lǐ,快kuài請qǐng前qián進jìn。」大dà家jiā一yí处chù同tóng这zhè女nǚ菩pú萨sà走zǒu下xià山shān去qù,或huò到dào庵ān观guàn寺sì院yuàn,有yǒu人rén家jiā之zhī处chù,留liú他tā在zài那nà里lǐ,也yě是shì我wǒ们men救jiù他tā一yì场cháng。」行xíng者zhě道dào:「师shī父fù说shuō得de有yǒu理lǐ,快kuài请qǐng前qián进jìn。」


逐句解 Line by line

大dà家jiā一yí處chù同tóng這zhè女nǚ菩pú薩sà走zǒu下xià山shān去qù,或huò到dào庵ān觀guàn寺sì院yuàn,有yǒu人rén家jiā之zhī處chù,留liú他tā在zài那nà裡lǐ,也yě是shì我wǒ們men救jiù他tā一yì場cháng。」 大dà家jiā一yí处chù同tóng这zhè女nǚ菩pú萨sà走zǒu下xià山shān去qù,或huò到dào庵ān观guàn寺sì院yuàn,有yǒu人rén家jiā之zhī处chù,留liú他tā在zài那nà里lǐ,也yě是shì我wǒ们men救jiù他tā一yì场cháng。」

We shall all go down the mountain together with this Lady Bodhisattva, and if we come to a hermitage or a Daoist house or a temple, anywhere with people in it, we shall leave her there — and that will have been our saving of her."

In 庵觀寺院 the 觀 is guàn, a Daoist establishment, not the guān of looking; the four characters run through the whole range of religious houses. And 一場 takes 場 as cháng, the measure word for a whole episode of something — not the chǎng of a place, which is how the same character is read in 山場 earlier in the chapter.

行xíng者zhě道dào:「師shī父fù說shuō得de有yǒu理lǐ,快kuài請qǐng前qián進jìn。」 行xíng者zhě道dào:「师shī父fù说shuō得de有yǒu理lǐ,快kuài请qǐng前qián进jìn。」

Pilgrim said, "What the master says has reason in it. Please go on ahead."

The 得 in 說得有理 is the unstressed de. It is the same four characters Tripitaka used about the demon's calling, and Pilgrim now uses them about his master.


總評 Commentary

A compromise is reached and it is a sensible one. Take her as far as the next settlement, hand her over, and the obligation is discharged. Nobody has to be right.

Pilgrim's agreement uses the exact phrase his master used to justify obeying the voice — what she says has reason in it. Whether that is deliberate on his part is left entirely open, which is the sort of thing this book does without ever pointing at it.

The plan also has the shape of every plan in this novel that goes wrong. It depends on there being a settlement ahead with people in it. What they are about to find is a temple with no one living in the front half of it at all.