第八十五回 · 不認真假 He Cannot Tell True From False — Journey to the West

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不認真假 He Cannot Tell True From False

孫sūn行xíng者zhě叫jiào道dào：「八bā戒jiè，妖yāo精jīng來lái了le，何hé不bú動dòng手shǒu？」那nà獃dāi子zi不bú認rèn真zhēn假jiǎ，掣chè釘dīng鈀pá趕gǎn上shàng亂luàn築zhù。那nà妖yāo精jīng使shǐ鐵tiě杵chǔ就jiù架jià相xiāng迎yíng。孙sūn行xíng者zhě叫jiào道dào：「八bā戒jiè，妖yāo精jīng来lái了le，何hé不bú动dòng手shǒu？」那nà呆dāi子zi不bú认rèn真zhēn假jiǎ，掣chè钉dīng钯pá赶gǎn上shàng乱luàn筑zhù。那nà妖yāo精jīng使shǐ铁tiě杵chǔ就jiù架jià相xiāng迎yíng。

逐句解 Line by line

孫sūn行xíng者zhě叫jiào道dào：「八bā戒jiè，妖yāo精jīng來lái了le，何hé不bú動dòng手shǒu？」孙sūn行xíng者zhě叫jiào道dào：「八bā戒jiè，妖yāo精jīng来lái了le，何hé不bú动dòng手shǒu？」

Sun Wukong called out, "Bajie, the fiend is here. Why not go at him?"

The vanguard is given his cue by the brother who invented the post. 何不動手, why not start, is a challenge rather than an order — the same register Pilgrim used to get him to volunteer in the first place.

那nà獃dāi子zi不bú認rèn真zhēn假jiǎ，掣chè釘dīng鈀pá趕gǎn上shàng亂luàn築zhù。那nà呆dāi子zi不bú认rèn真zhēn假jiǎ，掣chè钉dīng钯pá赶gǎn上shàng乱luàn筑zhù。

That blockhead could not tell the true from the false. He whipped out his muckrake, ran up and pounded away.

不認真假 is the sentence the whole trap depends on. He cannot distinguish a copy from the original — and neither, in a moment, will either of his brothers, which is the plan's real claim.

那nà妖yāo精jīng使shǐ鐵tiě杵chǔ就jiù架jià相xiāng迎yíng。那nà妖yāo精jīng使shǐ铁tiě杵chǔ就jiù架jià相xiāng迎yíng。

The fiend used his iron pestle to parry and meet him.

相 is xiāng, mutually — meeting each other, not the xiàng of an appearance. The decoy is doing exactly what a decoy should: fighting well enough to be worth fighting.

總評 Commentary

Bajie fails the test and the novel says so plainly, in four characters, without malice. He cannot tell true from false. Neither can anyone else here.

The pestle parries. That detail is the plan working — the copy carries the commander's own weapon and uses it properly, so nothing about the encounter feels wrong.