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上前同看
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script 繁
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

上前同看 All Four Step Up

行xíng者zhě道dào:「拿ná來lái我wǒ看kàn看kàn。」眾zhòng官guān即jí將jiāng榜bǎng文wén展zhǎn開kāi,掛guà在zài簷yán下xià。行xíng者zhě四sì眾zhòng上shàng前qián同tóng看kàn。行xíng者zhě道dào:「拿ná来lái我wǒ看kàn看kàn。」众zhòng官guān即jí将jiāng榜bǎng文wén展zhǎn开kāi,挂guà在zài簷yán下xià。行xíng者zhě四sì众zhòng上shàng前qián同tóng看kàn。


逐句解 Line by line

行xíng者zhě道dào:「拿ná來lái我wǒ看kàn看kàn。」 行xíng者zhě道dào:「拿ná来lái我wǒ看kàn看kàn。」

Pilgrim said, "Bring it here and let me have a look."

看看, doubled, softens the verb into something casual — have a look rather than examine. Chinese still does this constantly, and it is the difference between an order and a suggestion.

眾zhòng官guān即jí將jiāng榜bǎng文wén展zhǎn開kāi,掛guà在zài簷yán下xià。 众zhòng官guān即jí将jiāng榜bǎng文wén展zhǎn开kāi,挂guà在zài簷yán下xià。

The officials at once unrolled the notice and hung it under the eaves.

展開 is to unroll or spread out — the notice is a scroll, and it goes up on the same swept gallery they were preparing a moment ago.

行xíng者zhě四sì眾zhòng上shàng前qián同tóng看kàn。 行xíng者zhě四sì众zhòng上shàng前qián同tóng看kàn。

Pilgrim and the other three stepped up and read it together.

同看, looking at it together, is a small piece of stagecraft. All four of them crowd in front of the scroll, which is how the novel gets the reader to the notice as well — you are about to read over their shoulders.


總評 Commentary

Three short beats: he asks, they hang it, everyone leans in. The pacing here is deliberately brisk because what comes next is long.

It is also a rare moment of the four of them doing something as a group rather than as a squabbling hierarchy. Nobody argues, nobody makes a joke. They are about to read an account of what has happened to this place, and the novel lines them up in front of it like an audience.