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第八十六回
木mù母mǔ助zhù威wēi征zhēng怪guài物wù
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The Wood Mother Lends His Strength to Fight the Monster · The Metal Lord Works His Art to Destroy the Fiend

快救我一救
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快救我一救 Wukong You Have Come

那nà長zhǎng老lǎo認rèn得dé,滴dī淚lèi道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ來lái了le?快kuài救jiù我wǒ一yí救jiù。悟wù空kōng,悟wù空kōng。」行xíng者zhě道dào:「師shī父fù莫mò只zhǐ管guǎn叫jiào名míng字zì:面miàn前qián有yǒu人rén,怕pà走zǒu了le風fēng汛xùn。你nǐ既jì有yǒu命mìng,我wǒ可kě救jiù得de你nǐ。那nà长zhǎng老lǎo认rèn得dé,滴dī泪lèi道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ来lái了le?快kuài救jiù我wǒ一yí救jiù。悟wù空kōng,悟wù空kōng。」行xíng者zhě道dào:「师shī父fù莫mò只zhǐ管guǎn叫jiào名míng字zì:面miàn前qián有yǒu人rén,怕pà走zǒu了le风fēng汛xùn。你nǐ既jì有yǒu命mìng,我wǒ可kě救jiù得de你nǐ。


逐句解 Line by line

那nà長zhǎng老lǎo認rèn得dé,滴dī淚lèi道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ來lái了le? 那nà长zhǎng老lǎo认rèn得dé,滴dī泪lèi道dào:「悟wù空kōng,你nǐ来lái了le?

The elder knew him, and said through his tears, "Wukong, you have come?

In 認得, 得 is dé. Thirteen characters, and the master's first words are a question with no doubt in it — he is not asking, he is registering.

快kuài救jiù我wǒ一yí救jiù。悟wù空kōng,悟wù空kōng。」 快kuài救jiù我wǒ一yí救jiù。悟wù空kōng,悟wù空kōng。」

Come and save me, save me. Wukong, Wukong."

救我一救 doubles the verb around a numeral, which makes it urgent and informal — give me a bit of saving. Then the name twice, which is all he can manage. Nine characters of a man who has been tied to a tree for a day and a night.

行xíng者zhě道dào:「師shī父fù莫mò只zhǐ管guǎn叫jiào名míng字zì:面miàn前qián有yǒu人rén,怕pà走zǒu了le風fēng汛xùn。 行xíng者zhě道dào:「师shī父fù莫mò只zhǐ管guǎn叫jiào名míng字zì:面miàn前qián有yǒu人rén,怕pà走zǒu了le风fēng汛xùn。

Pilgrim said, "Master, do not keep calling out my name. There are people about and I am afraid of letting the news blow away.

走了風汛 is to let word get out, literally to let the wind-tidings escape — the ancestor of the modern phrase for a leak. Wukong has been in the cave four passages and has not been seen once, and his teacher is shouting his name in the garden.

你nǐ既jì有yǒu命mìng,我wǒ可kě救jiù得de你nǐ。 你nǐ既jì有yǒu命mìng,我wǒ可kě救jiù得de你nǐ。

Since you are alive, I can save you.

救得你 takes 得 as de, the hinge marking whether the saving can be managed with the object inside it. Nine characters, and the condition is stated first: being alive is what makes rescue possible, and it is the fact Wukong has spent half a chapter failing to establish.


總評 Commentary

Tripitaka's contribution to his own rescue is to shout his rescuer's name repeatedly in an enemy garden. He does it out of relief, and it is the sort of thing that gets people killed, and the novel is fond enough of him to let it stand without comment.

The exchange has a real asymmetry in it. The master weeps and calls; the disciple gives operational instructions. That has been the shape of their relationship for sixty chapters, and the chapter title's alchemical names for the disciples — Wood Mother, Metal Lord — are one way the book has of insisting they are more than servants.