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沒甚風霧
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沒甚風霧 There Is No Wind or Fog

即jí時shí落luò下xià雲yún頭tóu,到dào三sān藏zàng前qián。三sān藏zàng問wèn道dào:「悟wù空kōng,風fēng霧wù處chù吉jí凶xiōng何hé如rú?」行xíng者zhě道dào:「這zhè會huì子zi明míng淨jìng了le,沒méi甚shén風fēng霧wù。」即jí时shí落luò下xià云yún头tóu,到dào三sān藏zàng前qián。三sān藏zàng问wèn道dào:「悟wù空kōng,风fēng雾wù处chù吉jí凶xiōng何hé如rú?」行xíng者zhě道dào:「这zhè会huì子zi明míng净jìng了le,没méi甚shén风fēng雾wù。」


逐句解 Line by line

即jí時shí落luò下xià雲yún頭tóu,到dào三sān藏zàng前qián。 即jí时shí落luò下xià云yún头tóu,到dào三sān藏zàng前qián。

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

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

三sān藏zàng問wèn道dào:「悟wù空kōng,風fēng霧wù處chù吉jí凶xiōng何hé如rú?」 三sān藏zàng问wèn道dào:「悟wù空kōng,风fēng雾wù处chù吉jí凶xiōng何hé如rú?」

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.

行xíng者zhě道dào:「這zhè會huì子zi明míng淨jìng了le,沒méi甚shén風fēng霧wù。」 行xíng者zhě道dào:「这zhè会huì子zi明míng净jìng了le,没méi甚shén风fēng雾wù。」

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

The lie, in nine characters. 甚 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.