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

猴兒模樣
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

猴兒模樣 You Have the Look of a Monkey

yāojīngshēnshǎnguò使shǐchǔzhùtiěbàngzhēngyuányǎnwèndào:「zhèzuǐliǎnxiànghóuéryànggǎnjiāngduōyányǒushénmeshǒuduànzàiménxiàchāngkuáng?」xíngzhěxiàodào:「míngdenièchùshìzhīlǎosūnyāojīngshēnshǎnguò使shǐchǔzhùtiěbàngzhēngyuányǎnwèndào:「zhèzuǐliǎnxiànghóuéryànggǎnjiāngduōyányǒushénmeshǒuduànzàiménxiàchāngkuáng?」xíngzhěxiàodào:「míngdenièchùshìzhīlǎosūn


逐句解 Line by line

yāojīngshēnshǎnguò使shǐchǔzhùtiěbàngzhēngyuányǎnwèndào:「zhèzuǐliǎnxiànghóuéryànggǎnjiāngduōyán yāojīngshēnshǎnguò使shǐchǔzhùtiěbàngzhēngyuányǎnwèndào:「zhèzuǐliǎnxiànghóuéryànggǎnjiāngduōyán

The fiend twisted aside and dodged, brought his cudgel up to block the iron rod, and glaring round-eyed demanded, "That face of yours has the look of a monkey about it. How dare you crush me with all this talk?

模樣, a look or likeness, takes as in the compound. here is the ordinary jiāng that fronts an object — with all this talk — and the fiend's complaint is telling: he does not say the argument is wrong, only that he is being crushed with words.

yǒushénmeshǒuduànzàiménxiàchāngkuáng?」 yǒushénmeshǒuduànzàiménxiàchāngkuáng?」

What skills have you, to run wild here at my gate?"

甚麼手段 asks what tricks he has in hand. The fiend has just asked the one question guaranteed to produce a twelve-line answer, which is the novel's favourite way of getting a set-piece started.

xíngzhěxiàodào:「míngdenièchù xíngzhěxiàodào:「míngdenièchù

Pilgrim laughed and said, "You nameless beast!

無名, nameless, closes the loop on the whole argument about titles. Wukong has demoted him from Great King of the Southern Mountain to a creature with no name at all.

shìzhīlǎosūn shìzhīlǎosūn

So you really do not know Old Sun.

Six characters, and they are the hinge of the passage. 老孫, Old Sun, is what Wukong calls himself when he is about to enjoy something.


總評 Commentary

The fiend asks what skills the stranger has, and in this novel that question is never rhetorical. It is a prompt, and the answer runs to twelve lines of verse.

The exchange has quietly reversed. The fiend opened by demanding whether Wukong knew him; Wukong now closes by observing that the fiend does not know Wukong. Everything since has been about who has the standing to be recognised.