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第八十二回
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The Fair Girl Seeks the Yang · The Primal Spirit Guards the Way

定要讓他
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定要讓他 Make Sure She Takes It

rányàozhāihóngdedìngyàoràngruòkǒuchīlequèzàiděngdǎodedàichěduàndegānchángnòngjiùtuōshēnle。」rányàozhāihóngdedìngyàoràngruòkǒuchīlequèzàiděngdǎodedàichěduàndegānchángnòngjiùtuōshēnle。」


逐句解 Line by line

rányàozhāihóngdedìngyàoràng rányàozhāihóngdedìngyàoràng

"She will certainly want to pick one too — you must be sure to let her have the red one."

The whole plan rests on this sentence and it is a piece of etiquette. is to yield or offer politely, the ordinary courtesy of giving the better thing to your companion, and Pilgrim is weaponising good manners.

ruòkǒuchīlequèzàiděngdǎodedàichěduàndegānchángnòngjiùtuōshēnle。」 ruòkǒuchīlequèzàiděngdǎodedàichěduàndegānchángnòngjiùtuōshēnle。」

"If she swallows it at a mouthful, then I shall be inside her belly, and I will pound her leather bag open, tear her liver and bowels apart and kill her, and you will be free."

The stomach attack again, described in the same butcher's verbs as before. 皮袋 — the leather bag — is a dismissive word for a body, and the novel uses it of anything with a hide. is to pound as with a pestle.


總評 Commentary

The trap is baited with politeness. Tripitaka picks the red peach, then offers it to his hostess because that is what a guest does, and she takes it because refusing would be rude. Nothing in the plan requires her to be fooled — only to be well brought up.

It is the second time in this chapter that manners have been used as a tool. Pilgrim sent Bajie down the hill with a lecture on courtesy and got the whole plot out of two strangers; now he is using the same lever on the fiend herself.