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如何處置 What Is to Be Done
三藏道：「正是呀，這件事卻虧你想，如何處置？」行者笑道：「抱他上來，和你同騎著馬走罷。」三藏道：「正是呀，这件事却亏你想，如何处置？」行者笑道：「抱他上来，和你同骑着马走罢。」
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三藏道：「正是呀，這件事卻虧你想，如何處置？」
三藏道：「正是呀，这件事却亏你想，如何处置？」
Tripitaka said, "Quite so. That is a thing you have thought of and I had not. What is to be done about it?"
He concedes at once and completely, and he concedes to the practical objection rather than to any of the moral ones. What moves him is a problem he can picture.
行者笑道：「抱他上來，和你同騎著馬走罷。」
行者笑道：「抱他上来，和你同骑着马走罢。」
Pilgrim laughed and said, "Lift her up and let her ride the horse alongside you."
The 著 in 騎著 is the sustained zhe, and the 罷 is the light ba that makes it a suggestion. The suggestion is outrageous and Pilgrim knows it.
Having lost every argument, Pilgrim switches to the tactic that will actually work: he starts proposing solutions his master cannot possibly accept.
The trap is well laid. A monk cannot share a saddle with a young woman, and saying so out loud requires Tripitaka to admit that her presence is a problem — which is the concession Pilgrim has been trying to extract for four passages.