Canonical Classics ← 第八十四回
第八十四回
難nán滅miè伽gā持chí圓yuán大dà覺jué
法fǎ王wáng成chéng正zhèng體tǐ天tiān然rán

Hard to Extinguish, the Sustaining Power Perfects the Great Awakening · The Dharma King Attains the True Body, Natural and Whole

安排停當
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

安排停當 Everything Arranged and Set Out

咦yí!那nà些xiē當dāng廚chú的de庖páo丁dīng都dōu是shì每měi日rì家jiā做zuò慣guàn的de手shǒu段duàn,霎shà時shí間jiān就jiù安ān排pái停tíng當dàng,擺bǎi在zài樓lóu上shàng,又yòu有yǒu現xiàn成chéng的de獅shī仙xiān糖táng果guǒ,四sì眾zhòng任rèn情qíng受shòu用yòng。咦yí!那nà些xiē当dāng厨chú的de庖páo丁dīng都dōu是shì每měi日rì家jiā做zuò惯guàn的de手shǒu段duàn,霎shà时shí间jiān就jiù安ān排pái停tíng当dàng,摆bǎi在zài楼lóu上shàng,又yòu有yǒu现xiàn成chéng的de狮shī仙xiān糖táng果guǒ,四sì众zhòng任rèn情qíng受shòu用yòng。


逐句解 Line by line

咦yí! 咦yí!

Ah!

The storyteller's interjection again, one character and its own exclamation mark. Last time it warned of trouble; this time it is admiration.

那nà些xiē當dāng廚chú的de庖páo丁dīng都dōu是shì每měi日rì家jiā做zuò慣guàn的de手shǒu段duàn,霎shà時shí間jiān就jiù安ān排pái停tíng當dàng,擺bǎi在zài樓lóu上shàng,又yòu有yǒu現xiàn成chéng的de獅shī仙xiān糖táng果guǒ,四sì眾zhòng任rèn情qíng受shòu用yòng。 那nà些xiē当dāng厨chú的de庖páo丁dīng都dōu是shì每měi日rì家jiā做zuò惯guàn的de手shǒu段duàn,霎shà时shí间jiān就jiù安ān排pái停tíng当dàng,摆bǎi在zài楼lóu上shàng,又yòu有yǒu现xiàn成chéng的de狮shī仙xiān糖táng果guǒ,四sì众zhòng任rèn情qíng受shòu用yòng。

The cooks on duty had the trick of it from doing it every day, and in a moment everything was arranged and set out upstairs, with the sugar lions and immortals ready made besides, and the four of them fell to as they pleased.

The same character does two jobs eleven characters apart. In 當廚 it is dāng, on duty, in charge of; in 停當 it is dàng, settled and in order. 庖丁 is a cook — and the phrase carries the memory of the butcher in Zhuangzi whose blade never dulled because he cut along the grain, which is the ancestor of every Chinese line about effortless skill.


總評 Commentary

The speed is the joke. Pilgrim's manoeuvre bought them a delay and the kitchen cancelled it by being extremely good at its job.

And the sugar lions arrive anyway — the one item from the upper-grade menu that never needed killing. They are getting the banquet after all, minus the part that would have damned them.