第八十三回 · 那裡敢去 How Would He Dare Go — Journey to the West

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那裡敢去 How Would He Dare Go

天tiān王wáng那nǎ裡lǐ敢gǎn去qù，怕pà他tā沒méi的de說shuō做zuò有yǒu的de，放fàng起qǐ刁diāo來lái，口kǒu裡lǐ胡hú說shuō亂luàn道dào，怎zěn生shēng與yǔ他tā折zhé辨biàn？沒méi奈nài何hé，又yòu央yāng金jīn星xīng，教jiào說shuō方fāng便biàn。金jīn星xīng道dào：「我wǒ有yǒu一yí句jù話huà兒ér，你nǐ可kě依yī我wǒ？」天tiān王wáng那nǎ里lǐ敢gǎn去qù，怕pà他tā没méi的de说shuō做zuò有yǒu的de，放fàng起qǐ刁diāo来lái，口kǒu里lǐ胡hú说shuō乱luàn道dào，怎zěn生shēng与yǔ他tā折zhé辨biàn？没méi奈nài何hé，又yòu央yāng金jīn星xīng，教jiào说shuō方fāng便biàn。金jīn星xīng道dào：「我wǒ有yǒu一yí句jù话huà儿ér，你nǐ可kě依yī我wǒ？」

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天tiān王wáng那nǎ裡lǐ敢gǎn去qù，怕pà他tā沒méi的de說shuō做zuò有yǒu的de，放fàng起qǐ刁diāo來lái，口kǒu裡lǐ胡hú說shuō亂luàn道dào，怎zěn生shēng與yǔ他tā折zhé辨biàn？天tiān王wáng那nǎ里lǐ敢gǎn去qù，怕pà他tā没méi的de说shuō做zuò有yǒu的de，放fàng起qǐ刁diāo来lái，口kǒu里lǐ胡hú说shuō乱luàn道dào，怎zěn生shēng与yǔ他tā折zhé辨biàn？

The Heavenly King would not go for anything. He was afraid the other would make things up that were not so, start playing the rogue, talk wild nonsense in open court — how was he to argue it out with him?

那 is nǎ, the rhetorical one — how would he dare, which already means he did not. 沒的說做有的 is to say a thing that is not into a thing that is: to invent evidence. The Heavenly King's fear is not of losing on the facts; it is of an opponent who will not stay on them.

沒méi奈nài何hé，又yòu央yāng金jīn星xīng，教jiào說shuō方fāng便biàn。没méi奈nài何hé，又yòu央yāng金jīn星xīng，教jiào说shuō方fāng便biàn。

There was nothing else for it. He begged the Gold Star again, and asked him to find a form of words.

沒奈何 is having no help for it, and it is the third time in this chapter somebody has reached that phrase just before doing what they did not want to. 教 is jiào, to have somebody do a thing.

金jīn星xīng道dào：「我wǒ有yǒu一yí句jù話huà兒ér，你nǐ可kě依yī我wǒ？」金jīn星xīng道dào：「我wǒ有yǒu一yí句jù话huà儿ér，你nǐ可kě依yī我wǒ？」

The Gold Star said, "I have a word to say. Will you take it from me?"

一句話兒 is one small remark, with a little tag on the end making it smaller still. Venus has done this once already today, and it worked.

總評 Commentary

The Heavenly King has won on the facts and knows it will not save him. What he fears is a courtroom where the other side invents freely and never tires, and he is right to fear it.

So the case never reaches the throne at all. The whole machinery of plaint, summons and evidence is about to be settled privately by an old man with a form of words, which is how most cases have always ended.