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雙掭燈
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雙掭燈 Give Him a Double Wick

只zhǐ有yǒu那nà個gè老lǎo妖yāo睡shuì不bù穩wěn,他tā兩liǎng隻zhī手shǒu揉róu頭tóu搓cuō臉liǎn,不bú住zhù的de打dǎ涕tì噴pēn,捏niē鼻bí子zi。行xíng者zhě道dào:「莫mò是shì他tā曉xiǎo得dé了le?與yǔ他tā個gè雙shuāng掭tiàn燈dēng。」又yòu拔bá一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo,依yī母mǔ兒ér做zuò了le,拋pāo在zài他tā臉liǎn上shàng,鑽zuān於yú鼻bí孔kǒng內nèi。只zhǐ有yǒu那nà个gè老lǎo妖yāo睡shuì不bù稳wěn,他tā两liǎng只zhī手shǒu揉róu头tóu搓cuō脸liǎn,不bú住zhù的de打dǎ涕tì喷pēn,捏niē鼻bí子zi。行xíng者zhě道dào:「莫mò是shì他tā晓xiǎo得dé了le?与yǔ他tā个gè双shuāng掭tiàn灯dēng。」又yòu拔bá一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo,依yī母mǔ儿ér做zuò了le,抛pāo在zài他tā脸liǎn上shàng,钻zuān于yú鼻bí孔kǒng内nèi。


逐句解 Line by line

只zhǐ有yǒu那nà個gè老lǎo妖yāo睡shuì不bù穩wěn,他tā兩liǎng隻zhī手shǒu揉róu頭tóu搓cuō臉liǎn,不bú住zhù的de打dǎ涕tì噴pēn,捏niē鼻bí子zi。 只zhǐ有yǒu那nà个gè老lǎo妖yāo睡shuì不bù稳wěn,他tā两liǎng只zhī手shǒu揉róu头tóu搓cuō脸liǎn,不bú住zhù的de打dǎ涕tì喷pēn,捏niē鼻bí子zi。

Only that old fiend could not sleep sound. He rubbed his head and scrubbed his face with both hands, sneezing without a stop and pinching his nose.

The novel is precise about the symptoms, and they are the symptoms of something up your nose. 打涕噴 is to sneeze, and the whole picture is of a man fighting off a sleeping draught without knowing what it is.

行xíng者zhě道dào:「莫mò是shì他tā曉xiǎo得dé了le?與yǔ他tā個gè雙shuāng掭tiàn燈dēng。」 行xíng者zhě道dào:「莫mò是shì他tā晓xiǎo得dé了le?与yǔ他tā个gè双shuāng掭tiàn灯dēng。」

Pilgrim said, "Can it be that he has got wind of it? Let us give him a double-trimmed lamp."

雙掭燈 is a lamp with two wicks drawn up, and the second character is a trade word — trimming a wick forward to make it burn brighter. Wukong means one insect up each nostril, and he says it as a lamplighter's joke. In 曉得, to get wind of, 得 is dé after a verb of knowing.

又yòu拔bá一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo,依yī母mǔ兒ér做zuò了le,拋pāo在zài他tā臉liǎn上shàng,鑽zuān於yú鼻bí孔kǒng內nèi。 又yòu拔bá一yì根gēn毫háo毛máo,依yī母mǔ儿ér做zuò了le,抛pāo在zài他tā脸liǎn上shàng,钻zuān于yú鼻bí孔kǒng内nèi。

So he pulled another hair, made it up on the pattern of the first, threw it at his face and it bored into his nostril.

依母兒 is on the pattern of the mother — the original as a mould for the copy. It is a workshop word, and Wukong uses it the way a craftsman would talk about a second casting.


總評 Commentary

The double-wick joke is the sort of thing that dates a book precisely. Everyone reading this in the Ming knew what trimming a lamp wick looked like, and knew that two wicks meant twice the light, and would have heard the pun on doubling a dose immediately.

Wukong is enjoying himself. He has found his teacher alive, put a room to sleep, and is now making lamp jokes while dosing a leopard. The chapter has been grim for a very long stretch, and this is where it lets go.