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你孫外公
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你孫外公 Your Grandpa Sun Is Here

師shī父fù定dìng在zài他tā家jiā了le,你nǐ快kuài上shàng前qián。」行xíng者zhě罵mà道dào:「潑pō孽niè畜chù,你nǐ孫sūn外wài公gōng在zài這zhè裡lǐ,送sòng我wǒ師shī父fù出chū來lái,饒ráo你nǐ命mìng罷ba。」先xiān鋒fēng道dào:「大dà王wáng,不bù好hǎo了le,孫sūn行xíng者zhě也yě尋xún將jiāng來lái了le。」师shī父fù定dìng在zài他tā家jiā了le,你nǐ快kuài上shàng前qián。」行xíng者zhě骂mà道dào:「泼pō孽niè畜chù,你nǐ孙sūn外wài公gōng在zài这zhè里lǐ,送sòng我wǒ师shī父fù出chū来lái,饶ráo你nǐ命mìng罢ba。」先xiān锋fēng道dào:「大dà王wáng,不bù好hǎo了le,孙sūn行xíng者zhě也yě寻xún将jiāng来lái了le。」


逐句解 Line by line

師shī父fù定dìng在zài他tā家jiā了le,你nǐ快kuài上shàng前qián。」 师shī父fù定dìng在zài他tā家jiā了le,你nǐ快kuài上shàng前qián。」

The master is certainly in his house. Get up there quickly."

Bajie's contribution to the assault is to point out where the danger is and invite somebody else to go first. 定在 is certainly-located-at, a flat statement of fact from a character who has no evidence for it and happens to be right.

行xíng者zhě罵mà道dào:「潑pō孽niè畜chù,你nǐ孫sūn外wài公gōng在zài這zhè裡lǐ,送sòng我wǒ師shī父fù出chū來lái,饒ráo你nǐ命mìng罷ba。」 行xíng者zhě骂mà道dào:「泼pō孽niè畜chù,你nǐ孙sūn外wài公gōng在zài这zhè里lǐ,送sòng我wǒ师shī父fù出chū来lái,饶ráo你nǐ命mìng罢ba。」

Pilgrim shouted abuse: "You depraved beast! Your Grandpa Sun is standing right here. Send my master out and I will spare your life."

孫外公 is a joke the novel never tires of: 孫 is Wukong's surname and also the word for grandson, so calling himself somebody's grandfather while carrying that name is a pun that works in both directions at once. 罷 at the end is ba, the softening word that turns a threat into an offer.

先xiān鋒fēng道dào:「大dà王wáng,不bù好hǎo了le,孫sūn行xíng者zhě也yě尋xún將jiāng來lái了le。」 先xiān锋fēng道dào:「大dà王wáng,不bù好hǎo了le,孙sūn行xíng者zhě也yě寻xún将jiāng来lái了le。」

The vanguard said, "Great King, this is bad. Sun the Pilgrim has come looking for us too."

The scout's assessment collapses in sixteen characters. 尋將來 for the third time in this chapter, the hollow 將 sitting between the verb and its direction and doing nothing but keeping the phrase in step.


總評 Commentary

The grandfather joke is one of the oldest in the book and it depends on a surname. Wukong is Sun, which in ordinary speech is the word for a grandson, so every time he announces himself as somebody's grandfather he is turning his own name inside out. It is roughly as if a man named Younger insisted on being addressed as sir.

The scene is built as a two-beat gag. The scout says there is nothing to worry about unless the hairy one turns up; the hairy one turns up. The fiends have now learned in the space of a page that their plan has attracted precisely the enemy they hoped it would not.