第八十五回 · 忽失聲冷笑 A Laugh Behind the Master — Journey to the West

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忽失聲冷笑 A Laugh Behind the Master

卻què說shuō行xíng者zhě在zài唐táng僧sēng背bèi後hòu，忽hū失shī聲shēng冷lěng笑xiào。沙shā僧sēng道dào：「哥gē哥ge冷lěng笑xiào，何hé也yě？」行xíng者zhě道dào：「豬zhū八bā戒jiè真zhēn個gè獃dāi呀ya，聽tīng見jiàn說shuō齋zhāi僧sēng，就jiù被bèi我wǒ哄hǒng去qù了le。却què说shuō行xíng者zhě在zài唐táng僧sēng背bèi后hòu，忽hū失shī声shēng冷lěng笑xiào。沙shā僧sēng道dào：「哥gē哥ge冷lěng笑xiào，何hé也yě？」行xíng者zhě道dào：「猪zhū八bā戒jiè真zhēn个gè呆dāi呀ya，听tīng见jiàn说shuō斋zhāi僧sēng，就jiù被bèi我wǒ哄hǒng去qù了le。

逐句解 Line by line

卻què說shuō行xíng者zhě在zài唐táng僧sēng背bèi後hòu，忽hū失shī聲shēng冷lěng笑xiào。却què说shuō行xíng者zhě在zài唐táng僧sēng背bèi后hòu，忽hū失shī声shēng冷lěng笑xiào。

Now Pilgrim, standing behind the Tang Monk, suddenly let a cold laugh escape him.

失聲 is to let a sound out before you can stop it — the laugh gets away from him. 冷笑 is the cold laugh, the one with no warmth in it, and standing behind his master while he does it is the detail that matters.

沙shā僧sēng道dào：「哥gē哥ge冷lěng笑xiào，何hé也yě？」沙shā僧sēng道dào：「哥gē哥ge冷lěng笑xiào，何hé也yě？」

Sha Monk said, "Brother, why the cold laugh?"

Sha Monk asks the question again, as he did about the barbers. He is the one who notices things and says so, and the novel gives him roughly one line a scene to do it in.

行xíng者zhě道dào：「豬zhū八bā戒jiè真zhēn個gè獃dāi呀ya，聽tīng見jiàn說shuō齋zhāi僧sēng，就jiù被bèi我wǒ哄hǒng去qù了le。行xíng者zhě道dào：「猪zhū八bā戒jiè真zhēn个gè呆dāi呀ya，听tīng见jiàn说shuō斋zhāi僧sēng，就jiù被bèi我wǒ哄hǒng去qù了le。

Pilgrim said, "Zhu Bajie really is a blockhead. He heard monks were being fed and let me fool him straight off.

He says it out loud, to a witness, while his brother is surrounded. 聽見 and 哄 in one breath: the hearing and the fooling, cause and method, admitted without a flicker.

總評 Commentary

The laugh comes out before he means it to, which is the only involuntary thing Pilgrim does in this chapter. Everything else has been arranged.

And he confesses immediately, because Sha Monk asked. There is no attempt to cover it — the deception was never meant to be secret from his brothers, only from the brother it was aimed at.