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幾分病兒
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幾分病兒 We Will Leave Tomorrow

三sān藏zàng道dào:「三sān日rì誤wù了le許xǔ多duō路lù程chéng。」行xíng者zhě道dào:「師shī父fù,也yě算suàn不bù得de路lù程chéng,明míng日rì去qù罷ba。」三sān藏zàng道dào:「正zhèng是shì,就jiù帶dài幾jǐ分fēn病bìng兒ér,也yě沒méi奈nài何hé。」三sān藏zàng道dào:「三sān日rì误wù了le许xǔ多duō路lù程chéng。」行xíng者zhě道dào:「师shī父fù,也yě算suàn不bù得de路lù程chéng,明míng日rì去qù罢ba。」三sān藏zàng道dào:「正zhèng是shì,就jiù带dài几jǐ分fēn病bìng儿ér,也yě没méi奈nài何hé。」


逐句解 Line by line

三sān藏zàng道dào:「三sān日rì誤wù了le許xǔ多duō路lù程chéng。」 三sān藏zàng道dào:「三sān日rì误wù了le许xǔ多duō路lù程chéng。」

Tripitaka said, "Three days have lost us a great deal of road."

Still the schedule. It is the fixed point of this man's anxiety and the novel never lets him off it.

行xíng者zhě道dào:「師shī父fù,也yě算suàn不bù得de路lù程chéng,明míng日rì去qù罷ba。」 行xíng者zhě道dào:「师shī父fù,也yě算suàn不bù得de路lù程chéng,明míng日rì去qù罢ba。」

Pilgrim said, "Master, it hardly counts as road at all. We will go tomorrow."

得 is the unstressed de in a cannot-reckon-it construction. 罷 is the unstressed ba, the softener that makes an instruction a suggestion — against the full verb bà that the same character takes for the drums finishing.

三sān藏zàng道dào:「正zhèng是shì,就jiù帶dài幾jǐ分fēn病bìng兒ér,也yě沒méi奈nài何hé。」 三sān藏zàng道dào:「正zhèng是shì,就jiù带dài几jǐ分fēn病bìng儿ér,也yě没méi奈nài何hé。」

Tripitaka said, "Just so. Even carrying a touch of the illness, there is no help for it."

兒 is ér. 沒奈何, there is nothing to be done about it, is the standard formula of resignation.


總評 Commentary

Pilgrim reassures his master by dismissing three days of travel as barely worth counting, which is generous and also true for someone who can cross the continent in a somersault.

The exchange is doing quiet work. It settles that they leave tomorrow, which sets the clock on everything that follows: whatever Pilgrim is going to do about the fiend, he has one night to do it in.

And Tripitaka agreeing to travel while still ill is the first decision he has made all chapter. He has spent it being carried, fed and argued with.