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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

全無人跡
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

全無人跡 Not A Footprint Anywhere

你nǐ看kàn他tā停tíng住zhù雲yún光guāng,徑jìng到dào了le妖yāo精jīng宅zhái外wài。見jiàn那nà門mén樓lóu門mén關guān了le,不bù分fēn好hǎo歹dǎi,掄lūn鐵tiě棒bàng一yí下xià打dǎ開kāi,闖chuǎng將jiāng進jìn去qù。那nà裡lǐ還hái靜jìng悄qiāo悄qiāo,全quán無wú人rén跡jì。東dōng廊láng下xià不bú見jiàn唐táng僧sēng。你nǐ看kàn他tā停tíng住zhù云yún光guāng,径jìng到dào了le妖yāo精jīng宅zhái外wài。见jiàn那nà门mén楼lóu门mén关guān了le,不bù分fēn好hǎo歹dǎi,抡lūn铁tiě棒bàng一yí下xià打dǎ开kāi,闯chuǎng将jiāng进jìn去qù。那nà里lǐ还hái静jìng悄qiāo悄qiāo,全quán无wú人rén迹jì。东dōng廊láng下xià不bú见jiàn唐táng僧sēng。


逐句解 Line by line

你nǐ看kàn他tā停tíng住zhù雲yún光guāng,徑jìng到dào了le妖yāo精jīng宅zhái外wài。 你nǐ看kàn他tā停tíng住zhù云yún光guāng,径jìng到dào了le妖yāo精jīng宅zhái外wài。

Look at him: he brought his cloud to a halt and went straight to the outside of the fiend's house.

你看他 is the storyteller turning to the audience — look at him — and it is a leftover from performance, when this was told aloud to a room.

見jiàn那nà門mén樓lóu門mén關guān了le,不bù分fēn好hǎo歹dǎi,掄lūn鐵tiě棒bàng一yí下xià打dǎ開kāi,闖chuǎng將jiāng進jìn去qù。 见jiàn那nà门mén楼lóu门mén关guān了le,不bù分fēn好hǎo歹dǎi,抡lūn铁tiě棒bàng一yí下xià打dǎ开kāi,闯chuǎng将jiāng进jìn去qù。

Seeing the gate of the gatehouse shut, he did not stop to sort good from bad but swung the iron rod and broke it open at a blow, and charged in.

不分好歹 is without distinguishing good from bad, that is, without pausing to consider — still a live idiom for acting first and asking later. 將 here is the jiāng that attaches to a verb of motion to push it along: charged, and charged in.

那nà裡lǐ還hái靜jìng悄qiāo悄qiāo,全quán無wú人rén跡jì。 那nà里lǐ还hái静jìng悄qiāo悄qiāo,全quán无wú人rén迹jì。

Inside it was silent as ever, without a footprint anywhere.

跡 is jì, a trace or footprint. Modern dictionaries record both jī and jì for it; the reading here and throughout is jì. 靜悄悄 is hushed, and the doubled final syllable is doing what English does with deathly.

東dōng廊láng下xià不bú見jiàn唐táng僧sēng。 东dōng廊láng下xià不bú见jiàn唐táng僧sēng。

Under the eastern gallery there was no Tang Monk.

Seven characters, and the shortest sentence in the passage. The gallery is named because that is where the master was tied up on the previous visit — Pilgrim goes to the place he remembers, and it is empty.


總評 Commentary

The third descent starts by rewarding him for knowing his way about and then punishes him for it. He smashes the right gate, crosses to the right gallery, and finds nothing, because the fiend has moved.

The silence is the threat here. Every previous entrance into this cave has been met by small demons; an empty house is worse news than a guarded one.