第八十六回 · 又驚又恨 Grinding His Teeth With Rage — Journey to the West

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又驚又恨 Grinding His Teeth With Rage

那nà怪guài聞wén言yán，又yòu驚jīng又yòu恨hèn，咬yǎo著zhe牙yá，跳tiào近jìn前qián來lái，使shǐ鐵tiě杵chǔ望wàng行xíng者zhě就jiù打dǎ。行xíng者zhě輕qīng輕qīng的de用yòng棒bàng架jià住zhù，還hái要yào與yǔ他tā講jiǎng話huà，那nà八bā戒jiè忍rěn不bú住zhù，掣chè鈀pá亂luàn築zhù那nà怪guài的de先xiān鋒fēng。那nà怪guài闻wén言yán，又yòu惊jīng又yòu恨hèn，咬yǎo着zhe牙yá，跳tiào近jìn前qián来lái，使shǐ铁tiě杵chǔ望wàng行xíng者zhě就jiù打dǎ。行xíng者zhě轻qīng轻qīng的de用yòng棒bàng架jià住zhù，还hái要yào与yǔ他tā讲jiǎng话huà，那nà八bā戒jiè忍rěn不bú住zhù，掣chè钯pá乱luàn筑zhù那nà怪guài的de先xiān锋fēng。

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那nà怪guài聞wén言yán，又yòu驚jīng又yòu恨hèn，咬yǎo著zhe牙yá，跳tiào近jìn前qián來lái，使shǐ鐵tiě杵chǔ望wàng行xíng者zhě就jiù打dǎ。那nà怪guài闻wén言yán，又yòu惊jīng又yòu恨hèn，咬yǎo着zhe牙yá，跳tiào近jìn前qián来lái，使shǐ铁tiě杵chǔ望wàng行xíng者zhě就jiù打dǎ。

The fiend heard him out, and was both alarmed and full of hate. Grinding his teeth, he sprang up close and swung his iron cudgel at Pilgrim.

又驚又恨 pairs two feelings in a frame that means both at once — and the order matters, alarm first. The recital worked: the fiend now knows who he is fighting, which is precisely what he asked to know. 咬著牙 takes 著 as zhe for teeth kept clenched through the movement.

行xíng者zhě輕qīng輕qīng的de用yòng棒bàng架jià住zhù，還hái要yào與yǔ他tā講jiǎng話huà，那nà八bā戒jiè忍rěn不bú住zhù，掣chè鈀pá亂luàn築zhù那nà怪guài的de先xiān鋒fēng。行xíng者zhě轻qīng轻qīng的de用yòng棒bàng架jià住zhù，还hái要yào与yǔ他tā讲jiǎng话huà，那nà八bā戒jiè忍rěn不bú住zhù，掣chè钯pá乱luàn筑zhù那nà怪guài的de先xiān锋fēng。

Pilgrim blocked it lightly with his rod and still wanted to go on talking, but Bajie could not hold himself back and lashed out with his rake at the fiend's vanguard.

The comedy of the whole battle is in this line. Wukong is enjoying the conversation, blocks a cudgel without effort, and would like to keep chatting. 輕輕的, lightly, is doing an enormous amount of work — it tells you the outcome of the fight before it starts.

總評 Commentary

Wukong blocking a killing blow lightly and then trying to resume the discussion is the novel's flattest possible statement of the power difference. He is not fighting yet. He is being interrupted.

Bajie, meanwhile, goes straight for the vanguard rather than the king — the officer who designed the trick that got them all here. It is the first thing anyone in this chapter does out of personal grudge rather than strategy, and it is entirely in character.