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The Mind-Ape Knows the Elixir Head · The Fair Girl Returns to Her Original Nature

災殃鑄就
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災殃鑄就 Cast Out Of Pure Calamity

nǎodezhèxíngzhědiējiǎochuíxiōngfàngshēnggāojiàodào:「shīashìhuìzhuǎnchéngdetángsānzàngzāiyāngzhùjiùdejīngsēngzhètiáoqiěshìzǒushúlezàiquèjiàolǎosūnxúnzhǎo?」nǎodezhèxíngzhědiējiǎochuíxiōngfàngshēnggāojiàodào:「shīashìhuìzhuǎnchéngdetángsānzàngzāiyāngzhùjiùdejīngsēngzhètiáoqiěshìzǒushúlezàiquèjiàolǎosūnxúnzhǎo?」


逐句解 Line by line

nǎodezhèxíngzhědiējiǎochuíxiōngfàngshēnggāojiàodào:「shīashìhuìzhuǎnchéngdetángsānzàngzāiyāngzhùjiùdejīngsēng nǎodezhèxíngzhědiējiǎochuíxiōngfàngshēnggāojiàodào:「shīashìhuìzhuǎnchéngdetángsānzàngzāiyāngzhùjiùdejīngsēng

It so exasperated Pilgrim that he stamped and beat his breast, and cried out at the top of his voice, "Master! You are a Tang Tripitaka turned out of sheer bad luck, a scripture-seeking monk cast out of pure calamity.

is de, the toneless join between a feeling and how far it went — vexed, and vexed to the point of stamping. Then the two matched insults: 晦氣轉成, spun out of ill fortune, and 災殃鑄就, cast out of calamity as metal is cast in a mould. is a foundry word, and using it of a person is the sort of extravagance Pilgrim reaches for when he is upset rather than angry.

Ai!

is a sigh of dismay, and it stands alone as a whole sentence. The novel spells its interjections carefully and this is the mournful one.

zhètiáoqiěshìzǒushúlezài zhètiáoqiěshìzǒushúlezài

I know this road well enough by now — how is it you are not here?

走熟 is to have walked something until it is familiar. He is complaining that his expertise has stopped working, which is the real injury.

quèjiàolǎosūnxúnzhǎo?」 quèjiàolǎosūnxúnzhǎo?」

Where does that leave old Monkey to go looking?"

is , the questioning one — where. is jiào, to make somebody do a thing, so the line reads literally where does it make old Sun search. 老孫 is his standing way of referring to himself, and the old is a familiar boast rather than a statement of age.


總評 Commentary

The outburst is aimed at the master and is really aimed at the cave. Pilgrim cannot shout at a hundred and seventy kilometres of tunnel, so he shouts at the man who is lost in it.

The two insults are built as a matched pair and both make Tripitaka a manufactured object — spun out of ill luck, cast out of disaster. It is abuse, and it is also, in the novel's own theology, very nearly a statement of fact.