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粗中有細 Rough Outside And Fine Within
二人嘆服道：「好好好，真是粗中有細。去來，去來。」二人叹服道：「好好好，真是粗中有细。去来，去来。」
逐句解 Line by line
二人嘆服道：「好好好，真是粗中有細。
二人叹服道：「好好好，真是粗中有细。
The two of them said in admiration, "Good, good, good — truly there is a fineness inside the roughness."
中 is plain zhōng, within. 粗中有細 is still ordinary Chinese for someone whose coarse manner hides a careful mind, and it is exactly the right thing to say about this character.
去來，去來。」
去来，去来。」
"Let us go, let us go."
Four characters, doubled, and the company is moving again for the first time in four days.
The four-character phrase they land on is the best summary of Pilgrim anyone offers in the chapter, and it comes from the two brothers he threatened to beat to death a few hours ago.
There is a fineness inside the roughness. He has spent the chapter boasting, sulking, insulting monks and quoting proverbs about striking first — and he also identified the killer on sight, reconstructed the method from one telling, and has now worked out where to pick up the trail.
That his brothers say it in admiration rather than resentment is the most generous moment in the chapter.