第八十九回 · 又喜又憂 Glad And Anxious Both — Journey to the West

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又喜又憂 Glad And Anxious Both

行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「那nà虎hǔ狼láng彪biāo豹bào、馬mǎ鹿lù山shān羊yáng，都dōu是shì成chéng精jīng的de妖yāo怪guài。被bèi我wǒ們men取qǔ了le兵bīng器qì，打dǎ出chū門mén來lái。那nà老lǎo妖yāo是shì個gè金jīn毛máo獅shī子zi，他tā使shǐ一yì柄bǐng四sì明míng鏟chǎn，與yǔ我wǒ等děng戰zhàn到dào天tiān晚wǎn，敗bài陣zhèn逃táo生shēng，往wǎng東dōng南nán上shàng走zǒu了le。我wǒ等děng不bù曾céng趕gǎn他tā，卻què掃sǎo除chú他tā歸guī路lù，打dǎ殺shā這zhè些xiē群qún妖yāo，搜sōu尋xún他tā這zhè些xiē物wù件jiàn，帶dài將jiāng來lái的de。」老lǎo王wáng聽tīng說shuō，又yòu喜xǐ又yòu憂yōu：喜xǐ的de是shì得dé勝shèng而ér回huí，憂yōu的de是shì那nà妖yāo日rì後hòu報bào仇chóu。行xíng者zhě道dào：「殿diàn下xià放fàng心xīn，我wǒ已yǐ慮lǜ之zhī熟shú，處chǔ之zhī當dāng矣yǐ。一yí定dìng與yǔ你nǐ掃sǎo除chú盡jìn絕jué，方fāng才cái起qǐ行xíng，決jué不bú至zhì貽yí害hài於yú後hòu。行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「那nà虎hǔ狼láng彪biāo豹bào、马mǎ鹿lù山shān羊yáng，都dōu是shì成chéng精jīng的de妖yāo怪guài。被bèi我wǒ们men取qǔ了le兵bīng器qì，打dǎ出chū门mén来lái。那nà老lǎo妖yāo是shì个gè金jīn毛máo狮shī子zi，他tā使shǐ一yì柄bǐng四sì明míng铲chǎn，与yǔ我wǒ等děng战zhàn到dào天tiān晚wǎn，败bài阵zhèn逃táo生shēng，往wǎng东dōng南nán上shàng走zǒu了le。我wǒ等děng不bù曾céng赶gǎn他tā，却què扫sǎo除chú他tā归guī路lù，打dǎ杀shā这zhè些xiē群qún妖yāo，搜sōu寻xún他tā这zhè些xiē物wù件jiàn，带dài将jiāng来lái的de。」老lǎo王wáng听tīng说shuō，又yòu喜xǐ又yòu忧yōu：喜xǐ的de是shì得dé胜shèng而ér回huí，忧yōu的de是shì那nà妖yāo日rì后hòu报bào仇chóu。行xíng者zhě道dào：「殿diàn下xià放fàng心xīn，我wǒ已yǐ虑lǜ之zhī熟shú，处chǔ之zhī当dāng矣yǐ。一yí定dìng与yǔ你nǐ扫sǎo除chú尽jìn绝jué，方fāng才cái起qǐ行xíng，决jué不bú至zhì贻yí害hài于yú后hòu。

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行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「那nà虎hǔ狼láng彪biāo豹bào、馬mǎ鹿lù山shān羊yáng，都dōu是shì成chéng精jīng的de妖yāo怪guài。行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「那nà虎hǔ狼láng彪biāo豹bào、马mǎ鹿lù山shān羊yáng，都dōu是shì成chéng精jīng的de妖yāo怪guài。

Pilgrim laughed and said, "Those tigers and wolves and panthers and leopards, the horses and deer and mountain goats — they were all fiends that had become spirits.

He answers the question with the reassuring half first. The creatures were not animals but animals turned demon, which makes the killing tidy.

被bèi我wǒ們men取qǔ了le兵bīng器qì，打dǎ出chū門mén來lái。被bèi我wǒ们men取qǔ了le兵bīng器qì，打dǎ出chū门mén来lái。

"We took our weapons from them and fought our way out of the gate.

Eleven graphs, and it leaves out the disguises, the invented accounts, the borrowed silver, and that Eight Rules broke the plan. Pilgrim's report to his hosts is accurate and not complete.

那nà老lǎo妖yāo是shì個gè金jīn毛máo獅shī子zi，他tā使shǐ一yì柄bǐng四sì明míng鏟chǎn，與yǔ我wǒ等děng戰zhàn到dào天tiān晚wǎn，敗bài陣zhèn逃táo生shēng，往wǎng東dōng南nán上shàng走zǒu了le。那nà老lǎo妖yāo是shì个gè金jīn毛máo狮shī子zi，他tā使shǐ一yì柄bǐng四sì明míng铲chǎn，与yǔ我wǒ等děng战zhàn到dào天tiān晚wǎn，败bài阵zhèn逃táo生shēng，往wǎng东dōng南nán上shàng走zǒu了le。

"The old fiend is a golden-haired lion. He wielded a four-bright spade and fought us until nightfall, then lost the field and fled for his life, going off toward the south-east.

He names the creature and the weapon and the direction, all correctly. Pilgrim hands the prince exactly the information he needs in order to be frightened, and knows he is doing it.

我wǒ等děng不bù曾céng趕gǎn他tā，卻què掃sǎo除chú他tā歸guī路lù，打dǎ殺shā這zhè些xiē群qún妖yāo，搜sōu尋xún他tā這zhè些xiē物wù件jiàn，帶dài將jiāng來lái的de。」我wǒ等děng不bù曾céng赶gǎn他tā，却què扫sǎo除chú他tā归guī路lù，打dǎ杀shā这zhè些xiē群qún妖yāo，搜sōu寻xún他tā这zhè些xiē物wù件jiàn，带dài将jiāng来lái的de。」

"We did not go after him, but swept his road home instead, killed off that crowd of fiends, hunted out these goods of his, and brought them away."

The verb for what they did to the cave is the same one used for sweeping a floor. It is a comfortable word for what the previous passage described, and Pilgrim uses it twice more before the chapter is out.

老lǎo王wáng聽tīng說shuō，又yòu喜xǐ又yòu憂yōu：喜xǐ的de是shì得dé勝shèng而ér回huí，憂yōu的de是shì那nà妖yāo日rì後hòu報bào仇chóu。老lǎo王wáng听tīng说shuō，又yòu喜xǐ又yòu忧yōu：喜xǐ的de是shì得dé胜shèng而ér回huí，忧yōu的de是shì那nà妖yāo日rì后hòu报bào仇chóu。

The old prince, hearing this, was both glad and anxious: glad that they had won and come back, anxious that the fiend would take his revenge afterwards.

The chapter's most human sentence, and it belongs to the same man who vouched for his smiths. He is the only person present who thinks past this evening.

行xíng者zhě道dào：「殿diàn下xià放fàng心xīn，我wǒ已yǐ慮lǜ之zhī熟shú，處chǔ之zhī當dāng矣yǐ。行xíng者zhě道dào：「殿diàn下xià放fàng心xīn，我wǒ已yǐ虑lǜ之zhī熟shú，处chǔ之zhī当dāng矣yǐ。

Pilgrim said, "Set your mind at rest, Your Highness. I have thought it through and dealt with it rightly.

處 is chǔ here, the verb meaning to handle or manage a matter — not the noun meaning a place, which is what this graph is doing at every one of its other ten appearances in the chapter. The two clauses are built to match: thought through, dealt with.

一yí定dìng與yǔ你nǐ掃sǎo除chú盡jìn絕jué，方fāng才cái起qǐ行xíng，決jué不bú至zhì貽yí害hài於yú後hòu。一yí定dìng与yǔ你nǐ扫sǎo除chú尽jìn绝jué，方fāng才cái起qǐ行xíng，决jué不bú至zhì贻yí害hài于yú后hòu。

"I will certainly sweep them away root and branch for you before we take the road again, and not leave you harm to come."

A promise he cannot yet keep, made to a worried old man. Everything from here to the end of the next chapter is the novel making him keep it.

總評 Commentary

The old prince's mixed feeling is the emotional centre of the chapter's close. Everyone else in the courtyard is celebrating; he alone works out that a monster who has lost his home, his household and his treasure has been sent away alive and knows exactly where to find him.

He is right, and the chapter ends by proving it. Pilgrim's answer is confident and, on the evidence, unfounded — he has thought it through, he says, and dealt with it rightly, having just burnt down a house and let its owner escape toward his powerful relations.

It is worth noticing what Pilgrim leaves out of his report. No disguises, no forged accounts, no borrowed silver, no mention that his brother wrecked the plan the moment he saw his rake. What the prince gets is true in every particular and gives him no idea at all of what the afternoon was actually like.