第八十回 · 喜孜孜 She Shakes Out Her Skirt — Journey to the West

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喜孜孜 She Shakes Out Her Skirt

唐táng僧sēng回huí至zhì林lín裡lǐ，教jiào八bā戒jiè解jiě了le上shàng半bàn截jié繩shéng子zi，用yòng鈀pá築zhù出chū下xià半bàn截jié身shēn子zi。那nà怪guài跌diē跌diē鞋xié，束shù束shù裙qún，喜xǐ孜zī孜zī跟gēn著zhe唐táng僧sēng出chū松sōng林lín，見jiàn了le行xíng者zhě。唐táng僧sēng回huí至zhì林lín里lǐ，教jiào八bā戒jiè解jiě了le上shàng半bàn截jié绳shéng子zi，用yòng钯pá筑zhù出chū下xià半bàn截jié身shēn子zi。那nà怪guài跌diē跌diē鞋xié，束shù束shù裙qún，喜xǐ孜zī孜zī跟gēn着zhe唐táng僧sēng出chū松sōng林lín，见jiàn了le行xíng者zhě。

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唐táng僧sēng回huí至zhì林lín裡lǐ，教jiào八bā戒jiè解jiě了le上shàng半bàn截jié繩shéng子zi，用yòng鈀pá築zhù出chū下xià半bàn截jié身shēn子zi。唐táng僧sēng回huí至zhì林lín里lǐ，教jiào八bā戒jiè解jiě了le上shàng半bàn截jié绳shéng子zi，用yòng钯pá筑zhù出chū下xià半bàn截jié身shēn子zi。

The Tang Monk went back into the wood and had Bajie untie the rope from her upper half and dig her lower half out of the ground with his rake.

教 is jiào, to have somebody do a thing, not the jiāo of teaching. The rake does the digging, which is the first practical detail anyone has offered about that strange half-buried posture.

那nà怪guài跌diē跌diē鞋xié，束shù束shù裙qún，喜xǐ孜zī孜zī跟gēn著zhe唐táng僧sēng出chū松sōng林lín，見jiàn了le行xíng者zhě。那nà怪guài跌diē跌diē鞋xié，束shù束shù裙qún，喜xǐ孜zī孜zī跟gēn着zhe唐táng僧sēng出chū松sōng林lín，见jiàn了le行xíng者zhě。

The fiend shook out her shoes and settled her skirt, and followed the Tang Monk out of the pine wood in high spirits, and saw Pilgrim.

The 著 in 跟著 is the sustained zhe: following, and going on following. 喜孜孜 is a doubled ending on a stem meaning glad, and the doubling makes it visible from outside — she is not merely pleased, she is showing pleased.

總評 Commentary

Five days tied to a tree with her legs in the earth, and she shakes out her shoes and straightens her skirt. The book gives no comment and needs none.

The detail about the rake is quietly awful. Somebody had to dig her out, and the somebody was Bajie, and nobody stopped to ask what kind of captor buries the lower half of a hostage. The party has now performed the excavation that completes her staging, and she walks out of the wood behind the man she intends to consume.