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這等猖狂
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這等猖狂 Letting Her Rage Like This

怎zěn麼me又yòu從cóng他tā口kǒu裡lǐ出chū來lái,卻què與yǔ他tā爭zhēng戰zhàn,讓ràng他tā這zhè等děng猖chāng狂kuáng?」沙shā僧sēng道dào:「正zhèng是shì。卻què也yě虧kuī了le師shī兄xiōng深shēn洞dòng中zhōng救jiù出chū師shī父fù,返fǎn又yòu與yǔ妖yāo精jīng廝sī戰zhàn。怎zěn么me又yòu从cóng他tā口kǒu里lǐ出chū来lái,却què与yǔ他tā争zhēng战zhàn,让ràng他tā这zhè等děng猖chāng狂kuáng?」沙shā僧sēng道dào:「正zhèng是shì。却què也yě亏kuī了le师shī兄xiōng深shēn洞dòng中zhōng救jiù出chū师shī父fù,返fǎn又yòu与yǔ妖yāo精jīng厮sī战zhàn。


逐句解 Line by line

怎zěn麼me又yòu從cóng他tā口kǒu裡lǐ出chū來lái,卻què與yǔ他tā爭zhēng戰zhàn,讓ràng他tā這zhè等děng猖chāng狂kuáng?」 怎zěn么me又yòu从cóng他tā口kǒu里lǐ出chū来lái,却què与yǔ他tā争zhēng战zhàn,让ràng他tā这zhè等děng猖chāng狂kuáng?」

Why come out through her mouth instead, and stand there trading blows, and let her rage about like this?"

猖狂 is unrestrained, running wild, and it has kept that force in modern Chinese — it is what you call an enemy who is having far too good a time. Bajie is not worried; he is offended.

沙shā僧sēng道dào:「正zhèng是shì。 沙shā僧sēng道dào:「正zhèng是shì。

Sha Monk said, "Just so.

Sha Monk agreeing in two syllables is characterisation by economy. He does not contradict Bajie, and he does not join in the complaining either — he simply adds what Bajie has left out.

卻què也yě虧kuī了le師shī兄xiōng深shēn洞dòng中zhōng救jiù出chū師shī父fù,返fǎn又yòu與yǔ妖yāo精jīng廝sī戰zhàn。 却què也yě亏kuī了le师shī兄xiōng深shēn洞dòng中zhōng救jiù出chū师shī父fù,返fǎn又yòu与yǔ妖yāo精jīng厮sī战zhàn。

Still, we have our elder brother to thank for getting the master out of the deep cave, and now he is fighting the fiend on top of that.

中 is zhōng, inside — the deep cave. The other reading, zhòng, means to hit a target or to be fit for something, and the two are kept strictly apart. 虧了 is thanks to, and it still carries the faint sense of a debt owed; 廝戰 is to grapple, an old word for fighting at close quarters.


總評 Commentary

Sha Monk's function in these scenes is to be the one who keeps score honestly. He agrees with the grievance and then quietly lists what Pilgrim has actually achieved, which is more than either of them has.

The disciples spend this passage misjudging a rescue in progress. That misjudgement is about to become an action, and the action is about to cost them the master.