第八十四回 · 睡不著 He Could Not Get to Sleep — Journey to the West

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睡不著 He Could Not Get to Sleep

惟wéi行xíng者zhě有yǒu心xīn闖chuǎng禍huò，偏piān他tā睡shuì不bù著zháo，伸shēn過guò手shǒu，將jiāng八bā戒jiè腿tuǐ上shàng一yì捻niǎn。那nà獃dāi子zi縮suō了le腳jiǎo，口kǒu裡lǐ哼hēng哼hēng的de道dào：「睡shuì了le罷ba，辛xīn辛xīn苦kǔ苦kǔ的de，有yǒu甚shén麼me心xīn腸cháng還hái捻niǎn手shǒu捻niǎn腳jiǎo的de耍shuǎ子zi？」惟wéi行xíng者zhě有yǒu心xīn闯chuǎng祸huò，偏piān他tā睡shuì不bù着zháo，伸shēn过guò手shǒu，将jiāng八bā戒jiè腿tuǐ上shàng一yì捻niǎn。那nà呆dāi子zi缩suō了le脚jiǎo，口kǒu里lǐ哼hēng哼hēng的de道dào：「睡shuì了le罢ba，辛xīn辛xīn苦kǔ苦kǔ的de，有yǒu甚shén么me心xīn肠cháng还hái捻niǎn手shǒu捻niǎn脚jiǎo的de耍shuǎ子zi？」

逐句解 Line by line

惟wéi行xíng者zhě有yǒu心xīn闖chuǎng禍huò，偏piān他tā睡shuì不bù著zháo，伸shēn過guò手shǒu，將jiāng八bā戒jiè腿tuǐ上shàng一yì捻niǎn。惟wéi行xíng者zhě有yǒu心xīn闯chuǎng祸huò，偏piān他tā睡shuì不bù着zháo，伸shēn过guò手shǒu，将jiāng八bā戒jiè腿tuǐ上shàng一yì捻niǎn。

Only Pilgrim, with mischief on his mind, could not get to sleep; he reached over and gave Bajie's leg a pinch.

A small piece of machinery worth watching. 著 is zháo, falling asleep — and because that reading rises where the character's ordinary one falls, the 不 in front of it takes bù rather than the bú it would take before a falling tone. Two characters, and each decides the other. 有心闖禍 is having a mind to make trouble, deliberately courting it.

那nà獃dāi子zi縮suō了le腳jiǎo，口kǒu裡lǐ哼hēng哼hēng的de道dào：「睡shuì了le罷ba，辛xīn辛xīn苦kǔ苦kǔ的de，有yǒu甚shén麼me心xīn腸cháng還hái捻niǎn手shǒu捻niǎn腳jiǎo的de耍shuǎ子zi？」那nà呆dāi子zi缩suō了le脚jiǎo，口kǒu里lǐ哼hēng哼hēng的de道dào：「睡shuì了le罢ba，辛xīn辛xīn苦kǔ苦kǔ的de，有yǒu甚shén么me心xīn肠cháng还hái捻niǎn手shǒu捻niǎn脚jiǎo的de耍shuǎ子zi？」

The Idiot pulled his leg back and grumbled: "Go to sleep. We are worn out — what sort of heart have you got, still pinching and poking about for fun?"

捻手捻腳 doubles the verb across hand and foot, so it is fiddling and prodding rather than one pinch. 耍子 is playing about, larking, and its last character takes the everyday zi. 罷 is ba, the suggesting word: go on and sleep.

總評 Commentary

Three of them are asleep and the fourth is bored. Every disaster in the rest of this chapter follows from that, and the novel says so outright — mischief on his mind, courting trouble.

Bajie's complaint is the reasonable one and it will be ignored. He has spent the chapter being wrong about strategy and right about what is needed at the time, and this is the last and most costly instance.