第八十五回 · 繩纏索綁 Where Are You Hunting Your Demons — Journey to the West

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繩纏索綁 Where Are You Hunting Your Demons

你nǐ看kàn那nà長zhǎng老lǎo苦kǔ捱ái著zhe繩shéng纏chán索suǒ綁bǎng，緊jǐn縛fù牢láo拴shuān，止zhǐ不bú住zhù腮sāi邊biān流liú淚lèi，叫jiào道dào：「徒tú弟dì呀ya，你nǐ們men在zài那nǎ山shān中zhōng擒qín怪guài，甚shén路lù裡lǐ趕gǎn妖yāo？我wǒ被bèi潑pō魔mó捉zhuō來lái，此cǐ處chù受shòu災zāi，何hé日rì相xiāng會huì？痛tòng殺shā我wǒ也yě！」你nǐ看kàn那nà长zhǎng老lǎo苦kǔ挨ái着zhe绳shéng缠chán索suǒ绑bǎng，紧jǐn缚fù牢láo拴shuān，止zhǐ不bú住zhù腮sāi边biān流liú泪lèi，叫jiào道dào：「徒tú弟dì呀ya，你nǐ们men在zài那nǎ山shān中zhōng擒qín怪guài，甚shén路lù里lǐ赶gǎn妖yāo？我wǒ被bèi泼pō魔mó捉zhuō来lái，此cǐ处chù受shòu灾zāi，何hé日rì相xiāng会huì？痛tòng杀shā我wǒ也yě！」

逐句解 Line by line

你nǐ看kàn那nà長zhǎng老lǎo苦kǔ捱ái著zhe繩shéng纏chán索suǒ綁bǎng，緊jǐn縛fù牢láo拴shuān，止zhǐ不bú住zhù腮sāi邊biān流liú淚lèi，叫jiào道dào：「徒tú弟dì呀ya，你nǐ們men在zài那nǎ山shān中zhōng擒qín怪guài，甚shén路lù裡lǐ趕gǎn妖yāo？你nǐ看kàn那nà长zhǎng老lǎo苦kǔ挨ái着zhe绳shéng缠chán索suǒ绑bǎng，紧jǐn缚fù牢láo拴shuān，止zhǐ不bú住zhù腮sāi边biān流liú泪lèi，叫jiào道dào：「徒tú弟dì呀ya，你nǐ们men在zài那nǎ山shān中zhōng擒qín怪guài，甚shén路lù里lǐ赶gǎn妖yāo？

Look at that elder, bearing up painfully under the winding cords and the binding ropes, tied fast and fixed tight, unable to stop the tears running down his cheeks. "Disciples," he called, "on which mountain are you catching your monsters? Along what road are you chasing your fiends?

著 is zhe, enduring and going on enduring. 那 is nǎ the second time it appears here, paired with 甚 at shén — which mountain, what road. The two questions are built the same and are not really questions: he does not want an answer, he wants them to hear him.

我wǒ被bèi潑pō魔mó捉zhuō來lái，此cǐ處chù受shòu災zāi，何hé日rì相xiāng會huì？痛tòng殺shā我wǒ也yě！」我wǒ被bèi泼pō魔mó捉zhuō来lái，此cǐ处chù受shòu灾zāi，何hé日rì相xiāng会huì？痛tòng杀shā我wǒ也yě！」

I have been seized by a foul demon and suffer disaster in this place. What day will we meet again? The pain of it will be the death of me!"

潑魔 is a foul or rascally demon, an insult with more exasperation in it than fear. The last four characters close the speech and are set here as part of the line rather than standing alone, being a short tail on the end of a quotation.

總評 Commentary

He is alone, tied to a tree, and what he does is call out to three people who cannot hear him and ask where they are. It is the most human moment in the chapter.

And the question has an answer he would hate. They are chasing three imps in three directions, exactly as arranged, because none of them could tell true from false.