Canonical Classics ← 第八十四回
第八十四回
nánmièchíyuánjué
wángchéngzhèngtiānrán

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

待天將明
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待天將明 When Day Is About to Break

jiāngzhètóujīnliándōushōujìndàitiānjiāngmíngjiāomenshēn。」wángxiǎoèrzhēnxiēzhīlèijìnqíngdōubānjìnlejiāngzhètóujīnliándōushōujìndàitiānjiāngmíngjiāomenshēn。」wángxiǎoèrzhēnxiēzhīlèijìnqíngdōubānjìnle


逐句解 Line by line

jiāngzhètóujīnliándōushōujìndàitiānjiāngmíngjiāomenshēn。」 jiāngzhètóujīnliándōushōujìndàitiānjiāngmíngjiāomenshēn。」

Take these clothes and headcloths and saddlebags of ours inside, and when day is about to break, hand them back so we can set out."

is jiāng in both its jobs in this line: first the one that puts an object before the verb, take these clothes, and then the one that means about to, as in day about to break. 搭聯 is a long double pouch slung over a shoulder or a saddle, the traveller's standard luggage.

wángxiǎoèrzhēnxiēzhīlèijìnqíngdōubānjìnle wángxiǎoèrzhēnxiēzhīlèijìnqíngdōubānjìnle

And Wang the Second did indeed carry the whole lot of clothes and the rest into his own room.

盡情 here means the whole lot, every last thing — not the modern sense of doing something to the full. 真個 is really, sure enough, and it carries a faint note of the teller shaking his head.


總評 Commentary

This is the innkeeper being scrupulous and it could not be worse for Pilgrim. The clothes are now behind a door, in the room of a man who has just proved he takes security seriously.

Note that nobody in this chapter is doing anything wrong except the pilgrims. The merchants are careful, the innkeeper is honest, the arrangement is sensible. The obstacles from here to the end of the night are made entirely of other people behaving well.