第八十六回 · 來顯魂哩 The Master Come Back as a Ghost — Journey to the West

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來顯魂哩 The Master Come Back as a Ghost

行xíng者zhě道dào：「他tā兩liǎng個gè都dōu在zài那nà裡lǐ哭kū你nǐ哩li。你nǐ可kě叫jiào他tā一yì聲shēng。」長zhǎng老lǎo果guǒ厲lì聲shēng高gāo叫jiào道dào：「八bā戒jiè，八bā戒jiè。」那nà獃dāi子zi哭kū得de昏hūn頭tóu昏hūn腦nǎo的de，揩kāi揩kāi鼻bí涕tì眼yǎn淚lèi道dào：「沙shā和hé尚shàng，師shī父fù回huí家jiā來lái顯xiǎn魂hún哩li，在zài那nà裡lǐ叫jiào我wǒ們men不bú是shì？」行xíng者zhě道dào：「他tā两liǎng个gè都dōu在zài那nà里lǐ哭kū你nǐ哩li。你nǐ可kě叫jiào他tā一yì声shēng。」长zhǎng老lǎo果guǒ厉lì声shēng高gāo叫jiào道dào：「八bā戒jiè，八bā戒jiè。」那nà呆dāi子zi哭kū得de昏hūn头tóu昏hūn脑nǎo的de，揩kāi揩kāi鼻bí涕tì眼yǎn泪lèi道dào：「沙shā和hé尚shàng，师shī父fù回huí家jiā来lái显xiǎn魂hún哩li，在zài那nà里lǐ叫jiào我wǒ们men不bú是shì？」

逐句解 Line by line

行xíng者zhě道dào：「他tā兩liǎng個gè都dōu在zài那nà裡lǐ哭kū你nǐ哩li。你nǐ可kě叫jiào他tā一yì聲shēng。」行xíng者zhě道dào：「他tā两liǎng个gè都dōu在zài那nà里lǐ哭kū你nǐ哩li。你nǐ可kě叫jiào他tā一yì声shēng。」

Pilgrim said, "Those two are over there weeping for you. Give them a call."

Nineteen characters, and Wukong declines to explain. He could say that they think you are dead, that they buried a stranger's head, that Bajie laid out pebbles. He says none of it, and lets the master walk into the scene cold. 那裡 is nà, over there — the pointing reading, not the questioning one.

長zhǎng老lǎo果guǒ厲lì聲shēng高gāo叫jiào道dào：「八bā戒jiè，八bā戒jiè。」长zhǎng老lǎo果guǒ厉lì声shēng高gāo叫jiào道dào：「八bā戒jiè，八bā戒jiè。」

The elder duly raised his voice and called loudly, "Bajie! Bajie!"

厲聲 is a sharp, carrying voice. The master is shouting across a hillside to a pig who has spent two days at his graveside.

那nà獃dāi子zi哭kū得de昏hūn頭tóu昏hūn腦nǎo的de，揩kāi揩kāi鼻bí涕tì眼yǎn淚lèi道dào：「沙shā和hé尚shàng，師shī父fù回huí家jiā來lái顯xiǎn魂hún哩li，在zài那nà裡lǐ叫jiào我wǒ們men不bú是shì？」那nà呆dāi子zi哭kū得de昏hūn头tóu昏hūn脑nǎo的de，揩kāi揩kāi鼻bí涕tì眼yǎn泪lèi道dào：「沙shā和hé尚shàng，师shī父fù回huí家jiā来lái显xiǎn魂hún哩li，在zài那nà里lǐ叫jiào我wǒ们men不bú是shì？」

The Idiot, weeping till his head was dazed and his brain befuddled, wiped his snot and tears and said, "Sha Monk — the master has come home to show his ghost, and is that not him calling us over there?"

This is the funniest line in the chapter and it is built on real belief. 顯魂 is for a soul to manifest, and the newly dead were held to return to the house — so Bajie's conclusion is not stupid, it is orthodox. In 哭得, 得 is de, hanging the daze off the weeping, and 昏頭昏腦 doubles a frame to mean thoroughly muddled in the head.

總評 Commentary

Bajie hears his master's voice and concludes, reasonably, that he is being haunted. The soul of the newly dead was expected to come back to the house, and he has spent two days making sure the funeral was done properly. Of course it worked.

The joke has a real tenderness under it. The ghost does not frighten Bajie at all. Believing his dead master is calling him, he turns to Sha Monk and points it out, as though the two of them had a guest.