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第八十四回
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Hard to Extinguish, the Sustaining Power Perfects the Great Awakening · The Dharma King Attains the True Body, Natural and Whole

大開著窗子
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大開著窗子 The Windows Wide Open

yòulóuqiándiēdiējiǎoguǎyòushàngláidào:「sūnguānrényòuyǒushénfēnfu?」xíngzhědào:「menzàishuì?」réndào:「lóushànghǎoshuìyòuméiwénziyòushìnánfēngkāizhechuāngzihǎoshuìjiào。」yòulóuqiándiēdiējiǎoguǎyòushàngláidào:「sūnguānrényòuyǒushénfēnfu?」xíngzhědào:「menzàishuì?」réndào:「lóushànghǎoshuìyòuméiwénziyòushìnánfēngkāizhechuāngzihǎoshuìjiào。」


逐句解 Line by line

yòulóuqiándiēdiējiǎoguǎyòushàngláidào:「sūnguānrényòuyǒushénfēnfu?」 yòulóuqiándiēdiējiǎoguǎyòushàngláidào:「sūnguānrényòuyǒushénfēnfu?」

He went to the stairhead and stamped again, and up came the widow: "What else do you want, Mr Sun?"

The second summons of the evening, by the same method. is shén again, the bare interrogative — what.

xíngzhědào:「menzàishuì?」 xíngzhědào:「menzàishuì?」

Pilgrim said: "Where are we to sleep?"

is , where. He is asking the landlady the question his master asked him, which is what he should have done first.

réndào:「lóushànghǎoshuìyòuméiwénziyòushìnánfēngkāizhechuāngzihǎoshuìjiào。」 réndào:「lóushànghǎoshuìyòuméiwénziyòushìnánfēngkāizhechuāngzihǎoshuìjiào。」

The woman said: "Upstairs is good for sleeping — no mosquitoes, a south wind, the windows wide open. Very good sleeping."

Two readings here that the base gets wrong. is zhe, a state held open rather than an act of opening. And is jiào in 睡覺, to sleep — not the jué of waking or perceiving, which is the reading the same character takes in this chapter's own title, where it means awakening.


總評 Commentary

Her answer is a good landlady's and it is exactly wrong. Airy, cool, well ventilated, windows open — every selling point is a way for somebody to see in.

She is describing the best room in the house to four men who need the worst. The rest of the chapter is a negotiation downwards, and it ends in a box.