第八十一回 · 一隻花鞋 Only An Embroidered Shoe — Journey to the West

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一隻花鞋 Only An Embroidered Shoe

卻què說shuō行xíng者zhě鬥dòu得de心xīn焦jiāo性xìng燥zào，閃shǎn一yí個gè空kōng，一yí棍gùn把bǎ那nà妖yāo精jīng打dǎ落luò下xià來lái，乃nǎi是shì一yì隻zhī花huā鞋xié。行xíng者zhě曉xiǎo得dé中zhòng了le他tā計jì，連lián忙máng轉zhuǎn身shēn來lái看kàn師shī父fù，那nǎ有yǒu個gè師shī父fù。却què说shuō行xíng者zhě斗dòu得de心xīn焦jiāo性xìng燥zào，闪shǎn一yí个gè空kōng，一yí棍gùn把bǎ那nà妖yāo精jīng打dǎ落luò下xià来lái，乃nǎi是shì一yì只zhī花huā鞋xié。行xíng者zhě晓xiǎo得dé中zhòng了le他tā计jì，连lián忙máng转zhuǎn身shēn来lái看kàn师shī父fù，那nǎ有yǒu个gè师shī父fù。

逐句解 Line by line

卻què說shuō行xíng者zhě鬥dòu得de心xīn焦jiāo性xìng燥zào，閃shǎn一yí個gè空kōng，一yí棍gùn把bǎ那nà妖yāo精jīng打dǎ落luò下xià來lái，乃nǎi是shì一yì隻zhī花huā鞋xié。却què说shuō行xíng者zhě斗dòu得de心xīn焦jiāo性xìng燥zào，闪shǎn一yí个gè空kōng，一yí棍gùn把bǎ那nà妖yāo精jīng打dǎ落luò下xià来lái，乃nǎi是shì一yì只zhī花huā鞋xié。

Now Pilgrim had fought himself into a fret and a fury; he found an opening, and with one blow of the cudgel he knocked that fiend down — and it was a single embroidered shoe.

得 is the unstressed de, joining the fighting to the state it worked him into. 那 is nà, pointing at what he thought he was hitting.

行xíng者zhě曉xiǎo得dé中zhòng了le他tā計jì，連lián忙máng轉zhuǎn身shēn來lái看kàn師shī父fù，那nǎ有yǒu個gè師shī父fù。行xíng者zhě晓xiǎo得dé中zhòng了le他tā计jì，连lián忙máng转zhuǎn身shēn来lái看kàn师shī父fù，那nǎ有yǒu个gè师shī父fù。

Pilgrim knew he had been caught by her trick, and turned back at once to look for his master — and where was any master?

中 is zhòng here, to be struck by or fall into, not the zhōng of within — the same character, and the reading turns entirely on the sense. 那 is nǎ, the question word.

總評 Commentary

The single most deflating image in the chapter. He lands the winning blow at last and looks down at a shoe.

The prose gives him no dignity at all in the recovery. He understands instantly, turns, runs back, and the sentence ends on a question with no answer in it.

One character carries two quite different jobs across these two lines — struck by a trick, and where. Neither is the reading it usually takes, and only the sense separates them.