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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

又養了精神
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又養了精神 The Strength Kept Up Besides

寡guǎ婦fù道dào:「好hǎo人rén,好hǎo人rén,又yòu不bù失shī了le和hé氣qì,又yòu養yǎng了le精jīng神shén。」教jiào:「擡tái進jìn轎jiào子zi來lái,不bú要yào去qù請qǐng。」四sì眾zhòng吃chī了le酒jiǔ飯fàn,收shōu了le家jiā火huǒ,都dōu散sàn訖qì。寡guǎ妇fù道dào:「好hǎo人rén,好hǎo人rén,又yòu不bù失shī了le和hé气qì,又yòu养yǎng了le精jīng神shén。」教jiào:「抬tái进jìn轿jiào子zi来lái,不bú要yào去qù请qǐng。」四sì众zhòng吃chī了le酒jiǔ饭fàn,收shōu了le家jiā火huǒ,都dōu散sàn讫qì。


逐句解 Line by line

寡guǎ婦fù道dào:「好hǎo人rén,好hǎo人rén,又yòu不bù失shī了le和hé氣qì,又yòu養yǎng了le精jīng神shén。」 寡guǎ妇fù道dào:「好hǎo人rén,好hǎo人rén,又yòu不bù失shī了le和hé气qì,又yòu养yǎng了le精jīng神shén。」

The widow said: "Good men, good men — no harm done to good feeling, and the strength kept up besides."

和氣 is harmony, good feeling between people, and it is the thing a landlady most wants preserved. 養了精神 is to have nursed one's vigour — and it is a delicate joke, because the strength she means them to save is exactly the strength the girls would have cost them.

教jiào:「擡tái進jìn轎jiào子zi來lái,不bú要yào去qù請qǐng。」 教jiào:「抬tái进jìn轿jiào子zi来lái,不bú要yào去qù请qǐng。」

She called: "Bring the chair back in. Don't go fetching them."

The order countermands her own from a few lines before. The chair goes out and comes straight back, which is the only thing that actually happens in the whole exchange.

四sì眾zhòng吃chī了le酒jiǔ飯fàn,收shōu了le家jiā火huǒ,都dōu散sàn訖qì。 四sì众zhòng吃chī了le酒jiǔ饭fàn,收shōu了le家jiā火huǒ,都dōu散sàn讫qì。

The four of them ate and drank, the things were cleared away, and everyone went off.

散訖 is dispersed and done with, a slightly formal way of closing a scene. Thirteen characters end the longest social episode in the chapter.


總評 Commentary

She approves of them for declining the girls, which is the last piece of misreading in a whole evening of it. She thinks she has honest, temperate merchants; she has four monks in stolen clothes.

Her joke about saving their strength is the closest the chapter comes to bawdy, and it lands on Tripitaka, who has spent the evening silent at a table where prostitutes were discussed twice as an item of expenditure.