Canonical Classics ← 第八十六回
第八十六回
木mù母mǔ助zhù威wēi征zhēng怪guài物wù
金jīn公gōng施shī法fǎ滅miè妖yāo邪xié

The Wood Mother Lends His Strength to Fight the Monster · The Metal Lord Works His Art to Destroy the Fiend

莫費氣力
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莫費氣力 Do Not Waste Your Strength

這zhè行xíng者zhě引yǐn八bā戒jiè,趕gǎn至zhì門mén首shǒu吆yāo喝hè,內nèi無wú人rén答dá應yìng。八bā戒jiè使shǐ鈀pá築zhù時shí,莫mò想xiǎng得de動dòng。行xíng者zhě知zhī之zhī,道dào:「八bā戒jiè,莫mò費fèi氣qì力lì,他tā把bǎ門mén已yǐ堵dǔ了le。」八bā戒jiè道dào:「堵dǔ了le門mén,師shī仇chóu怎zěn報bào?」行xíng者zhě道dào:「且qiě回huí上shàng墓mù前qián,看kàn看kàn沙shā僧sēng去qù。」这zhè行xíng者zhě引yǐn八bā戒jiè,赶gǎn至zhì门mén首shǒu吆yāo喝hè,内nèi无wú人rén答dá应yìng。八bā戒jiè使shǐ钯pá筑zhù时shí,莫mò想xiǎng得de动dòng。行xíng者zhě知zhī之zhī,道dào:「八bā戒jiè,莫mò费fèi气qì力lì,他tā把bǎ门mén已yǐ堵dǔ了le。」八bā戒jiè道dào:「堵dǔ了le门mén,师shī仇chóu怎zěn报bào?」行xíng者zhě道dào:「且qiě回huí上shàng墓mù前qián,看kàn看kàn沙shā僧sēng去qù。」


逐句解 Line by line

這zhè行xíng者zhě引yǐn八bā戒jiè,趕gǎn至zhì門mén首shǒu吆yāo喝hè,內nèi無wú人rén答dá應yìng。 这zhè行xíng者zhě引yǐn八bā戒jiè,赶gǎn至zhì门mén首shǒu吆yāo喝hè,内nèi无wú人rén答dá应yìng。

Pilgrim brought Bajie up to the gate and hollered at it, and there was no answer from within.

吆喝, to holler, takes 喝 as hè, the shouting reading. 答應, to answer, takes 應 as yìng. Seventeen characters, and the whole war has stopped because nobody will come to the door.

八bā戒jiè使shǐ鈀pá築zhù時shí,莫mò想xiǎng得de動dòng。 八bā戒jiè使shǐ钯pá筑zhù时shí,莫mò想xiǎng得de动dòng。

Bajie put his rake to it, and there was no hope of shifting it.

莫想得動 is a fine tight phrase — do not even imagine getting it to move. The parse cuts after the first two characters, so 得 is de, the light hinge marking whether a thing can be managed at all; a sealed chapter earlier in the novel carries the identical phrase and reads it the same way. The rake that punched a hole through this door an hour ago now does nothing.

行xíng者zhě知zhī之zhī,道dào:「八bā戒jiè,莫mò費fèi氣qì力lì,他tā把bǎ門mén已yǐ堵dǔ了le。」 行xíng者zhě知zhī之zhī,道dào:「八bā戒jiè,莫mò费fèi气qì力lì,他tā把bǎ门mén已yǐ堵dǔ了le。」

Pilgrim understood, and said, "Bajie, do not waste your strength. He has blocked the gate already."

知之, understood it, is a compact literary turn dropped into ordinary speech — Wukong works out what has happened without needing to be told. He is the first to accept that force has stopped being useful.

八bā戒jiè道dào:「堵dǔ了le門mén,師shī仇chóu怎zěn報bào?」 八bā戒jiè道dào:「堵dǔ了le门mén,师shī仇chóu怎zěn报bào?」

Bajie said, "With the gate blocked, how is the master to be avenged?"

師仇怎報, how is the master's wrong to be repaid, is the question the whole second half of the chapter answers — and it answers it in a way neither of them expects, because the wrong they are trying to avenge has not actually happened.

行xíng者zhě道dào:「且qiě回huí上shàng墓mù前qián,看kàn看kàn沙shā僧sēng去qù。」 行xíng者zhě道dào:「且qiě回huí上shàng墓mù前qián,看kàn看kàn沙shā僧sēng去qù。」

Pilgrim said, "Let us go back up to the grave first and look in on Sha Monk."

Thirteen characters, and the fight is over for now. 看看 doubled makes it casual, look in on him — after a battle, a rout and a blocked door, the next move is to go and check on the brother left sitting by a mound of earth.


總評 Commentary

The chapter has spent thirteen passages building to a battle and then makes the battle irrelevant with a pile of rocks. Wukong can fight anything that will fight him, and the fiend has simply declined.

Bajie's question about avenging the master is the hinge of the whole chapter. He asks how the wrong is to be repaid, and the honest answer — which nobody in the scene can give — is that there is no wrong yet. Tripitaka is tied to a tree behind the cave, and the next stretch of the story begins when Wukong stops trying to break in through the front.