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The Fair Girl Seeks the Yang · The Primal Spirit Guards the Way

拿將行李
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

拿將行李 Divide the Luggage and Part

dāiziwényánchōushēnpǎoshàngshānjiào:「shāshàngkuàijiāngxíngláimenfēnleba。」shāsēngdào:「èryòufēnzěnde?」dāiziwényánchōushēnpǎoshàngshānjiào:「shāshàngkuàijiāngxíngláimenfēnleba。」shāsēngdào:「èryòufēnzěnde?」


逐句解 Line by line

dāiziwényánchōushēnpǎoshàngshānjiào:「shāshàngkuàijiāngxíngláimenfēnleba。」 dāiziwényánchōushēnpǎoshàngshānjiào:「shāshàngkuàijiāngxíngláimenfēnleba。」

When the Idiot heard this he whipped round, ran back up the mountain and called, "Sha Monk! Fetch the luggage out quickly — let us divide it up."

He does not report the news. He acts on it, instantly and in the worst possible direction. The here is the light disposal word that puts an object in front of its verb, and the closing is ba, the suggestion particle — so this is a proposal rather than an order, which somehow makes it worse.

shāsēngdào:「èryòufēnzěnde?」 shāsēngdào:「èryòufēnzěnde?」

Sha Monk said, "Second brother, divide it up for what this time?"

The two words carrying the weight are for what this time. Sha Monk is the steadiest of the four and his weariness is the joke: Bajie has proposed breaking up the company before, more than once, and everyone remembers.


總評 Commentary

Bajie's instinct on hearing that the master is to be married is to divide the property, and the novel has him do it before he has even told anyone what he heard. It is the purest possible expression of his character and it takes twenty-seven characters.

Sha Monk's reply is a running joke with a long memory. This is not the first time — Bajie proposes dissolving the pilgrimage whenever the road turns difficult, and the other three have learned to treat it as weather. His question is not shocked; it is resigned.