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下回分解 To Be Continued
這一去，畢竟不知好歹如何，且聽下回分解。这一去，毕竟不知好歹如何，且听下回分解。
逐句解 Line by line
這一去，畢竟不知好歹如何，且聽下回分解。
这一去，毕竟不知好歹如何，且听下回分解。
As for how this venture turned out, whether for good or ill, listen to the explanation in the next chapter.
The storyteller's closing formula, which ends every chapter of this novel. 分解 is to divide and explain — to take the matter apart and lay it out — and it is a performer's promise to an audience that will have to come back tomorrow.
The chapter closes on the formula it has been heading for since the first line, and the formula is a reminder of what this book was before it was a book. Somebody said these words aloud, to people sitting on benches, and then stopped for the night.
It is a good place to stop. Tripitaka is in a cave with no bottom being served a vegetarian wedding feast; Pilgrim has been outplayed for the first time in the chapter and is quietly frightened; and Bajie is walking down a mountain with nothing in his hands.