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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

女兒在下界
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女兒在下界 There Is A Daughter Below

卻què即jí回huí手shǒu,向xiàng塔tǎ座zuò上shàng取qǔ了le黃huáng金jīn寶bǎo塔tǎ,托tuō在zài手shǒu間jiān,問wèn哪né吒zhā道dào:「孩hái兒ér,你nǐ以yǐ劍jiàn架jià住zhù我wǒ刀dāo,有yǒu何hé話huà說shuō?」哪né吒zhā棄qì劍jiàn叩kòu頭tóu道dào:「父fù王wáng,是shì有yǒu女nǚ兒ér在zài下xià界jiè哩li。」却què即jí回huí手shǒu,向xiàng塔tǎ座zuò上shàng取qǔ了le黄huáng金jīn宝bǎo塔tǎ,托tuō在zài手shǒu间jiān,问wèn哪né咤zhā道dào:「孩hái儿ér,你nǐ以yǐ剑jiàn架jià住zhù我wǒ刀dāo,有yǒu何hé话huà说shuō?」哪né咤zhā弃qì剑jiàn叩kòu头tóu道dào:「父fù王wáng,是shì有yǒu女nǚ儿ér在zài下xià界jiè哩li。」


逐句解 Line by line

卻què即jí回huí手shǒu,向xiàng塔tǎ座zuò上shàng取qǔ了le黃huáng金jīn寶bǎo塔tǎ,托tuō在zài手shǒu間jiān,問wèn哪né吒zhā道dào:「孩hái兒ér,你nǐ以yǐ劍jiàn架jià住zhù我wǒ刀dāo,有yǒu何hé話huà說shuō?」 却què即jí回huí手shǒu,向xiàng塔tǎ座zuò上shàng取qǔ了le黄huáng金jīn宝bǎo塔tǎ,托tuō在zài手shǒu间jiān,问wèn哪né咤zhā道dào:「孩hái儿ér,你nǐ以yǐ剑jiàn架jià住zhù我wǒ刀dāo,有yǒu何hé话huà说shuō?」

So he turned his hand at once, took the yellow-gold pagoda from its stand, held it in his hand, and asked Nezha, "Child, you have blocked my blade with your sword. What have you to say?"

He picks up the pagoda before he asks the question, and the order of operations is the characterisation. 孩兒 is child, and it is the affectionate form — he arms himself against his son and addresses him fondly in the same breath.

哪né吒zhā棄qì劍jiàn叩kòu頭tóu道dào:「父fù王wáng,是shì有yǒu女nǚ兒ér在zài下xià界jiè哩li。」 哪né咤zhā弃qì剑jiàn叩kòu头tóu道dào:「父fù王wáng,是shì有yǒu女nǚ儿ér在zài下xià界jiè哩li。」

Nezha threw down his sword, knocked his head on the ground, and said, "Father, there is a daughter of ours in the world below."

棄劍叩頭 — drops the weapon, then kowtows. Nezha disarms before he speaks, which answers his father's fear without a word of reassurance in it. And then, having been silent through the whole quarrel, he says the one sentence that decides the case.


總評 Commentary

The confrontation ends the instant the pagoda is in hand. Nezha never wanted a fight; he wanted the blade stopped long enough to say something.

What he says is the last thing his father expects and the exact thing Pilgrim needs. The accusation everybody in heaven has spent this chapter calling false turns out to be very nearly true.