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獅駝洞
I Came From Lion Camel Cave
小妖道:「我當初在獅駝嶺獅駝洞與那大王居住,那大王不知好歹,要吃唐僧,被孫行者使一條金箍棒,打進門來,可憐就打得犯了骨牌名,都『斷么絕六』。小妖道:「我当初在狮驼岭狮驼洞与那大王居住,那大王不知好歹,要吃唐僧,被孙行者使一条金箍棒,打进门来,可怜就打得犯了骨牌名,都『断么绝六』。
逐句解 Line by line
小妖道:「我當初在獅駝嶺獅駝洞與那大王居住,那大王不知好歹,要吃唐僧,被孫行者使一條金箍棒,打進門來,可憐就打得犯了骨牌名,都『斷么絕六』。
小妖道:「我当初在狮驼岭狮驼洞与那大王居住,那大王不知好歹,要吃唐僧,被孙行者使一条金箍棒,打进门来,可怜就打得犯了骨牌名,都『断么绝六』。
The imp said, "I lived once at Lion Camel Cave on Lion Camel Ridge with the great king there. That king could not tell good from bad and wanted to eat the Tang Monk, and Sun Wukong took his gold-hooped rod and came beating in at the door — and the poor souls got beaten into a domino name, every one of them: broken ones and cut sixes.
么 is yāo, the one-pip on a domino — the gaming reading, and the line names it as a 骨牌名, a domino term, which is the clue. 斷么絕六 is a combination in the game, borrowed as a grim joke: the ones broken off and the sixes cut away, meaning wiped out entire. 得 is de, hanging the result on the verb.
總評 Commentary
The imp is a refugee, and where he is a refugee from is the point. Lion Camel Ridge is one of the worst places in the book, and he is the survivor of what happened there.
The joke he makes about it is a gaming term. His entire household was killed and he describes it with a domino hand, which is either a hard man's humour or the only way he can say it at all.