第八十四回 · 頭巾架上 On a Headcloth Stand — Journey to the West

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頭巾架上 On a Headcloth Stand

行xíng者zhě性xìng急jí，展zhǎn開kāi翅chì，就jiù飛fēi入rù裡lǐ面miàn，丁dīng在zài一yí個gè頭tóu巾jīn架jià上shàng。又yòu見jiàn王wáng小xiǎo二èr去qù門mén首shǒu摘zhāi了le燈dēng籠lóng，放fàng下xià吊diào搭dā，關guān了le門mén窗chuāng，卻què才cái進jìn房fáng，脫tuō衣yī睡shuì下xià。行xíng者zhě性xìng急jí，展zhǎn开kāi翅chì，就jiù飞fēi入rù里lǐ面miàn，丁dīng在zài一yí个gè头tóu巾jīn架jià上shàng。又yòu见jiàn王wáng小xiǎo二èr去qù门mén首shǒu摘zhāi了le灯dēng笼lóng，放fàng下xià吊diào搭dā，关guān了le门mén窗chuāng，却què才cái进jìn房fáng，脱tuō衣yī睡shuì下xià。

逐句解 Line by line

行xíng者zhě性xìng急jí，展zhǎn開kāi翅chì，就jiù飛fēi入rù裡lǐ面miàn，丁dīng在zài一yí個gè頭tóu巾jīn架jià上shàng。行xíng者zhě性xìng急jí，展zhǎn开kāi翅chì，就jiù飞fēi入rù里lǐ面miàn，丁dīng在zài一yí个gè头tóu巾jīn架jià上shàng。

Pilgrim, being impatient, spread his wings, flew straight in after them, and settled on a headcloth stand.

性急 is a hot temperament, quick to act — the standing description of Wukong and, here, the reason he is inside the room before he has a plan for being inside the room. 丁 is the vernacular verb for a small creature alighting, the character doing duty for a sound rather than a meaning.

又yòu見jiàn王wáng小xiǎo二èr去qù門mén首shǒu摘zhāi了le燈dēng籠lóng，放fàng下xià吊diào搭dā，關guān了le門mén窗chuāng，卻què才cái進jìn房fáng，脫tuō衣yī睡shuì下xià。又yòu见jiàn王wáng小xiǎo二èr去qù门mén首shǒu摘zhāi了le灯dēng笼lóng，放fàng下xià吊diào搭dā，关guān了le门mén窗chuāng，却què才cái进jìn房fáng，脱tuō衣yī睡shuì下xià。

Then he saw Wang the Second go to the door, take down the lantern, let the shutter fall, close doors and windows, and only then go into his room, undress and lie down.

Another list of finished actions, and every one of them a lock. 吊搭 is a hinged shutter dropped over a shop front at closing, the Ming equivalent of pulling the roller down.

總評 Commentary

Pilgrim gets in before the doors close, which is either good timing or no timing at all — the novel says impatience, and lets the result look like foresight.

The sequence is written from inside the trap. Lantern down, shutter down, doors and windows shut, and the man goes to bed. A moth on a stand has watched a building shut itself up, and is now sitting in the only room that matters, with everything he came for and no way to carry it out as a moth.