第四十回 · 山中叫喚 A Cry from the Mountainside — Journey to the West

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山中叫喚 A Cry from the Mountainside

三sān藏zàng聞wén言yán，也yě似sì信xìn不bú信xìn的de，只zhǐ得dé攀pān鞍ān在zài馬mǎ，順shùn路lù奔bēn山shān前qián進jìn。正zhèng行xíng時shí，只zhǐ聽tīng得dé叫jiào聲shēng：「救jiù人rén！」長zhǎng老lǎo大dà驚jīng道dào：「徒tú弟dì呀ya，這zhè半bàn山shān中zhōng，是shì那nǎ裡lǐ甚shén麼me人rén叫jiào？」行xíng者zhě上shàng前qián道dào：「師shī父fù只zhǐ管guǎn走zǒu路lù，莫mò纏chán甚shén麼me人rén轎jiào、騾luó轎jiào、明míng轎jiào、睡shuì轎jiào。這zhè所suǒ在zài，就jiù有yǒu轎jiào，也yě沒méi個gè人rén擡tái你nǐ。」唐táng僧sēng道dào：「不bú是shì扛káng擡tái之zhī轎jiào，乃nǎi是shì叫jiào喚huàn之zhī叫jiào。」行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「我wǒ曉xiǎo得dé，莫mò管guǎn閑xián事shì，且qiě走zǒu路lù。」三sān藏zàng闻wén言yán，也yě似sì信xìn不bú信xìn的de，只zhǐ得dé攀pān鞍ān在zài马mǎ，顺shùn路lù奔bēn山shān前qián进jìn。正zhèng行xíng时shí，只zhǐ听tīng得dé叫jiào声shēng：「救jiù人rén！」长zhǎng老lǎo大dà惊jīng道dào：「徒tú弟dì呀ya，这zhè半bàn山shān中zhōng，是shì那nǎ里lǐ甚shén么me人rén叫jiào？」行xíng者zhě上shàng前qián道dào：「师shī父fù只zhǐ管guǎn走zǒu路lù，莫mò缠chán甚shén么me人rén轿jiào、骡luó轿jiào、明míng轿jiào、睡shuì轿jiào。这zhè所suǒ在zài，就jiù有yǒu轿jiào，也yě没méi个gè人rén擡tái你nǐ。」唐táng僧sēng道dào：「不bú是shì扛káng擡tái之zhī轿jiào，乃nǎi是shì叫jiào唤huàn之zhī叫jiào。」行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「我wǒ晓xiǎo得dé，莫mò管guǎn闲xián事shì，且qiě走zǒu路lù。」

逐句解 Line by line

三sān藏zàng聞wén言yán，也yě似sì信xìn不bú信xìn的de，只zhǐ得dé攀pān鞍ān在zài馬mǎ，順shùn路lù奔bēn山shān前qián進jìn。三sān藏zàng闻wén言yán，也yě似sì信xìn不bú信xìn的de，只zhǐ得dé攀pān鞍ān在zài马mǎ，顺shùn路lù奔bēn山shān前qián进jìn。

Tripitaka, hearing this, half-believing and half-doubting, could only take hold of his saddle, mount the horse, and press on toward the mountain along the road.

三藏: 藏 = zàng. 也似信不信的: 似 = sì ("seemingly"; GLOBAL, not the 似的 collocation). 只得: 得 = dé.

正zhèng行xíng時shí，只zhǐ聽tīng得dé叫jiào聲shēng：「救jiù人rén！」正zhèng行xíng时shí，只zhǐ听tīng得dé叫jiào声shēng：「救jiù人rén！」

Just as they were traveling on, they heard a voice calling: "Save me!"

正行時: 行 = xíng. 只聽得: 得 = dé ("came to hear").

長zhǎng老lǎo大dà驚jīng道dào：「徒tú弟dì呀ya，這zhè半bàn山shān中zhōng，是shì那nǎ裡lǐ甚shén麼me人rén叫jiào？」长zhǎng老lǎo大dà惊jīng道dào：「徒tú弟dì呀ya，这zhè半bàn山shān中zhōng，是shì那nǎ里lǐ甚shén么me人rén叫jiào？」

The elder, greatly startled, said: "Disciple, here in the middle of the mountain — what person is it that cries out?"

長老: 長 = zhǎng. 這半山中: 中 = zhōng. 是那裡甚麼人: interrogative 那裡 = nǎ lǐ; 甚麼甚 = shén.

行xíng者zhě上shàng前qián道dào：「師shī父fù只zhǐ管guǎn走zǒu路lù，莫mò纏chán甚shén麼me人rén轎jiào、騾luó轎jiào、明míng轎jiào、睡shuì轎jiào。行xíng者zhě上shàng前qián道dào：「师shī父fù只zhǐ管guǎn走zǒu路lù，莫mò缠chán甚shén么me人rén轿jiào、骡luó轿jiào、明míng轿jiào、睡shuì轿jiào。

Pilgrim came forward and said: "Master, just keep to the road, and don't trouble yourself over any sedan-chairs — man-chairs, mule-chairs, bright-chairs, or sleeping-chairs.

莫纏甚麼: 甚 = shén. Wukong's deliberately absurd riff on 轎 ("chair/palanquin") mishears the Master's 叫 ("cry") as 轎, playing dumb.

這zhè所suǒ在zài，就jiù有yǒu轎jiào，也yě沒méi個gè人rén擡tái你nǐ。」这zhè所suǒ在zài，就jiù有yǒu轿jiào，也yě没méi个gè人rén擡tái你nǐ。」

In a place like this, even were there a chair, there'd be no one to carry you."

也沒個人擡你: 沒 = méi ("there is no—").

唐táng僧sēng道dào：「不bú是shì扛káng擡tái之zhī轎jiào，乃nǎi是shì叫jiào喚huàn之zhī叫jiào。」唐táng僧sēng道dào：「不bú是shì扛káng擡tái之zhī轿jiào，乃nǎi是shì叫jiào唤huàn之zhī叫jiào。」

The Tang Monk said: "It's not a chair to be shouldered and carried — it's a cry of calling out."

不是扛擡之轎: mechanical sandhi raises 不 to bú before 是 (4th tone). 乃是叫喚之叫: the Master patiently distinguishing 叫 ("cry") from Wukong's willful 轎.

行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「我wǒ曉xiǎo得dé，莫mò管guǎn閑xián事shì，且qiě走zǒu路lù。」行xíng者zhě笑xiào道dào：「我wǒ晓xiǎo得dé，莫mò管guǎn闲xián事shì，且qiě走zǒu路lù。」

Pilgrim laughed and said: "I understand — pay no heed to idle matters, and let's just get on down the road."

我曉得: 得 = dé ("I know"). 莫管閑事 = "mind no idle affairs."

總評 Commentary

The war of nerves becomes a comic double act. The demon, hung in his pine, begins to cry 救人 ("save me"); Tripitaka, all compassion, at once wants to know who is calling; and Wukong, determined to keep the Master moving past the danger, resorts to willful misunderstanding — pretending to hear 叫 ("a cry") as 轎 ("a sedan-chair"), and spinning out a nonsense catalogue of chair-types (man-chairs, mule-chairs, bright-chairs, sleeping-chairs) to bury the question in absurdity. The pun is untranslatable in the strict sense, resting on the near-homophony of the two words, but its function is plain: Wukong is stalling, and doing it by playing the fool.

Beneath the wordplay the passage stages the collision that will drive the rest of the chapter. Tripitaka's 信不信 ("half-believing, half-doubting") captures his position exactly — he cannot see what Wukong sees, and Wukong cannot make him see it without more time than the situation allows. Each of the Master's virtues (his trust in his disciple, his pity for the crying voice) is being pulled in an opposite direction, and the demon's strategy depends precisely on that tension: the longer Wukong evades, the more the Master's compassion strains against his obedience, until at last the crying child will be too much to pass by. The comedy is genuine, but it is comedy laid over a trap slowly closing.