第八十五回 · 師兄捉弄我 My Brother Played a Trick — Journey to the West

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師兄捉弄我 My Brother Played a Trick

八bā戒jiè道dào：「師shī兄xiōng捉zhuō弄nòng我wǒ。他tā先xiān頭tóu說shuō風fēng霧wù裡lǐ不bú是shì妖yāo精jīng，沒méi甚shén兇xiōng兆zhào，是shì一yì莊zhuāng村cūn人rén家jiā好hǎo善shàn，蒸zhēng白bái米mǐ乾gān飯fàn、白bái麵miàn饝mó饝mó齋zhāi僧sēng的de。八bā戒jiè道dào：「师shī兄xiōng捉zhuō弄nòng我wǒ。他tā先xiān头tóu说shuō风fēng雾wù里lǐ不bú是shì妖yāo精jīng，没méi甚shén凶xiōng兆zhào，是shì一yì庄zhuāng村cūn人rén家jiā好hǎo善shàn，蒸zhēng白bái米mǐ干gān饭fàn、白bái面miàn饝mó饝mó斋zhāi僧sēng的de。

逐句解 Line by line

八bā戒jiè道dào：「師shī兄xiōng捉zhuō弄nòng我wǒ。八bā戒jiè道dào：「师shī兄xiōng捉zhuō弄nòng我wǒ。

Bajie said, "My elder brother played a trick on me.

捉弄 is exactly to play a trick on somebody, to make sport of them. Eight characters, and every one of them is accurate.

他tā先xiān頭tóu說shuō風fēng霧wù裡lǐ不bú是shì妖yāo精jīng，沒méi甚shén兇xiōng兆zhào，是shì一yì莊zhuāng村cūn人rén家jiā好hǎo善shàn，蒸zhēng白bái米mǐ乾gān飯fàn、白bái麵miàn饝mó饝mó齋zhāi僧sēng的de。他tā先xiān头tóu说shuō风fēng雾wù里lǐ不bú是shì妖yāo精jīng，没méi甚shén凶xiōng兆zhào，是shì一yì庄zhuāng村cūn人rén家jiā好hǎo善shàn，蒸zhēng白bái米mǐ干gān饭fàn、白bái面miàn饝mó饝mó斋zhāi僧sēng的de。

He said earlier there were no fiends in the wind and fog and no bad omens, that there was a village of good-hearted households steaming white rice and white-flour buns to feed monks.

甚 is shén, the indefinite any — no omens at all. 乾 is gān in the dry-cooked rice. He repeats the lie back almost word for word, including the buns, which is the mark of a man who has been over it in his head all the way home.

總評 Commentary

The accusation is exact. Not the general complaint of a man who feels hard done by — a verbatim recitation, down to the flour.

He is also, without knowing it, telling his master that the wind and fog were discussed and dismissed. Tripitaka raised both himself and was talked out of both, and does not connect it.