Canonical Classics ← 第八十三回
第八十三回
心xīn猿yuán識shí得dé丹dān頭tóu
姹chà女nǚ還hái歸guī本běn性xìng

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

一並無蹤
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

一並無蹤 Master Horse And Baggage Gone

你nǐ們men走zǒu了le,不bù知zhī師shī父fù如rú何hé,我wǒ們men快kuài去qù看kàn看kàn。」三sān人rén急jí回huí來lái,果guǒ然rán沒méi了le師shī父fù,連lián行xíng李li、白bái馬mǎ一yí並bìng無wú蹤zōng。慌huāng得de個gè八bā戒jiè兩liǎng頭tóu亂luàn跑pǎo,沙shā僧sēng前qián後hòu跟gēn尋xún,孫sūn大dà聖shèng亦yì心xīn焦jiāo性xìng燥zào。你nǐ们men走zǒu了le,不bù知zhī师shī父fù如rú何hé,我wǒ们men快kuài去qù看kàn看kàn。」三sān人rén急jí回huí来lái,果guǒ然rán没méi了le师shī父fù,连lián行xíng李li、白bái马mǎ一yí并bìng无wú踪zōng。慌huāng得de个gè八bā戒jiè两liǎng头tóu乱luàn跑pǎo,沙shā僧sēng前qián后hòu跟gēn寻xún,孙sūn大dà圣shèng亦yì心xīn焦jiāo性xìng燥zào。


逐句解 Line by line

你nǐ們men走zǒu了le,不bù知zhī師shī父fù如rú何hé,我wǒ們men快kuài去qù看kàn看kàn。」 你nǐ们men走zǒu了le,不bù知zhī师shī父fù如rú何hé,我wǒ们men快kuài去qù看kàn看kàn。」

You two ran off, and heaven knows what has become of the master. Let us get back there quickly and look."

Pilgrim stops arguing the instant the real problem occurs to him. The change of subject is the characterisation.

三sān人rén急jí回huí來lái,果guǒ然rán沒méi了le師shī父fù,連lián行xíng李li、白bái馬mǎ一yí並bìng無wú蹤zōng。 三sān人rén急jí回huí来lái,果guǒ然rán没méi了le师shī父fù,连lián行xíng李li、白bái马mǎ一yí并bìng无wú踪zōng。

The three of them hurried back, and sure enough the master was gone — baggage and white horse with him, not a trace of any of them.

果然 is sure enough, and the novel uses it here with real cruelty: the reader has already watched the abduction, so the word confirms a dread rather than reporting news. 一並 is all together, the lot of them at once.

慌huāng得de個gè八bā戒jiè兩liǎng頭tóu亂luàn跑pǎo,沙shā僧sēng前qián後hòu跟gēn尋xún,孫sūn大dà聖shèng亦yì心xīn焦jiāo性xìng燥zào。 慌huāng得de个gè八bā戒jiè两liǎng头tóu乱luàn跑pǎo,沙shā僧sēng前qián后hòu跟gēn寻xún,孙sūn大dà圣shèng亦yì心xīn焦jiāo性xìng燥zào。

Bajie in his panic went dashing about in both directions at once; Sha Monk hunted front and back; and even the Great Sage Sun was frantic and hot-tempered with it.

慌得 puts 得 at de, the toneless join between a state and how far it went — panicked, and panicked to the point of running about. 兩頭亂跑 is running wildly at both ends, which is less a description of Bajie's route than of his mind. 心焦性燥 is anxious and short-tempered, and the point of the line is the word 亦: even Pilgrim, this time.


總評 Commentary

The novel gives each of the three a different panic. Bajie runs in two directions, Sha Monk searches methodically, and Pilgrim — who is never rattled — is rattled.

That last detail is the one that tells the reader how bad this is. The measure of a crisis in this book has never been the size of the demon; it is whether the monkey loses his temper.