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第八十一回
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At the Sea-Calming Monastery the Mind-Ape Knows the Fiend · In the Black Pine Wood the Three Seek Their Master

掀翻在地上
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掀翻在地上 Pilgrim Throws Her Down

xíngzhědào:「deérzhēnyàochīlǎosūnli。」quèbèixíngzhějiēzhùshǒu使shǐxiǎozuòdiēguàixiānfānzàishàngguàikǒuháijiàodào:「xīngāngedàohuìdiēdeniángli。」xíngzhědào:「deérzhēnyàochīlǎosūnli。」quèbèixíngzhějiēzhùshǒu使shǐxiǎozuòdiēguàixiānfānzàishàngguàikǒuháijiàodào:「xīngāngedàohuìdiēdeniángli。」


逐句解 Line by line

xíngzhědào:「deérzhēnyàochīlǎosūnli。」 xíngzhědào:「deérzhēnyàochīlǎosūnli。」

Pilgrim said, "My child, you really do mean to eat old Sun."

is ér. Calling her his child, flat on his back with her hand on him, is exactly the register this character keeps under attack — amused and condescending.

quèbèixíngzhějiēzhùshǒu使shǐxiǎozuòdiēguàixiānfānzàishàng quèbèixíngzhějiēzhùshǒu使shǐxiǎozuòdiēguàixiānfānzàishàng

But Pilgrim caught hold of her hand, used a low sitting throw, and sent that monster head over heels and flat onto the ground.

is . 小坐跌法 is a named wrestling technique — dropping the hips and taking the opponent over — and 一轆轤 compares the roll to a well-windlass turning.

guàikǒuháijiàodào:「xīngāngedàohuìdiēdeniángli。」 guàikǒuháijiàodào:「xīngāngedàohuìdiēdeniángli。」

The monster still cried out, "Sweetheart, my darling, you certainly know how to throw your mother."

is hái, still, and is dào here, the contrary sense — you actually do know how. Calling herself his mother in the middle of an endearment is deliberately grotesque.


總評 Commentary

Two named wrestling throws in three lines, and the fight is being scored like a bout rather than described like a horror. She hooks his leg; he counters with a sitting throw.

Her line from the ground is the strangest thing in the chapter. Flat on her back after being thrown, she keeps the endearment going and calls herself his mother. She is still in character, still working, and it is genuinely unsettling.

Pilgrim's reply to being assaulted is to call her his child. Neither of them will drop the act, and the next passage is him deciding to end it.