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第八十五回
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The Mind-Ape Envies the Wood Mother · The Fiend Lord Plots to Swallow the Chan

沒甚風霧
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沒甚風霧 There Is No Wind or Fog

shíluòxiàyúntóudàosānzàngqiánsānzàngwèndào:「kōngfēngchùxiōng?」xíngzhědào:「zhèhuìzimíngjìngleméishénfēng。」shíluòxiàyúntóudàosānzàngqiánsānzàngwèndào:「kōngfēngchùxiōng?」xíngzhědào:「zhèhuìzimíngjìngleméishénfēng。」


逐句解 Line by line

shíluòxiàyúntóudàosānzàngqián shíluòxiàyúntóudàosānzàngqián

He came down off his cloud at once and stood before Tripitaka.

is luò, coming down — not the of leaving a thing behind. 雲頭, the head of the cloud, is the standard way this novel says a flier landed.

sānzàngwèndào:「kōngfēngchùxiōng?」 sānzàngwèndào:「kōngfēngchùxiōng?」

Tripitaka asked, "Wukong, how does it stand up there in the wind and fog, lucky or unlucky?"

He asks the question he sent Pilgrim to answer, in the same words he used to send him. 吉凶, lucky-or-unlucky, is again a pair of opposites doing the work of a single question.

xíngzhědào:「zhèhuìzimíngjìngleméishénfēng。」 xíngzhědào:「zhèhuìzimíngjìngleméishénfēng。」

Pilgrim said, "It has cleared up by now. There is no wind or fog to speak of."

The lie, in nine characters. is shén here, the indefinite any rather than the intensifier very — no wind or fog at all. 這會子 is thoroughly colloquial for just now, which helps the answer sound offhand.


總評 Commentary

He was up there thirty seconds ago looking at a striped fiend and forty imps in ranks. He comes down and reports clear weather.

The novel gives the lie no fanfare at all. No hesitation, no aside, no narrator comment — just a colloquial phrase and a flat denial, dropped into the middle of an ordinary exchange.