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第四十一回
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The Mind-Ape Suffers Defeat by Fire · The Wood-Mother Is Seized by the Demon

賺入洞中
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賺入洞中 Carried Inside

yāowángxiàodào:「bāoshénmezhíqiánzhīzuǒyòushìshàngdebiǎnshānjiùmàozibēijìnláichāizuòchèn。」xiǎoyāoguǒjiāngbāobēijìnzhīshìxíngzhěbiàndexíngzhědào:「hǎolezhèxiāojīnbāobēizhele。」yāojīngwéishìdiūzàiménnèiyāowángxiàodào:「bāoshénmezhíqiánzhīzuǒyòushìshàngdebiǎnshānjiùmàozibēijìnláichāizuòchèn。」xiǎoyāoguǒjiāngbāobēijìnzhīshìxíngzhěbiàndexíngzhědào:「hǎolezhèxiāojīnbāobēizhele。」yāojīngwéishìdiūzàiménnèi


逐句解 Line by line

yāowángxiàodào:「bāoshénmezhíqiánzhīzuǒyòushìshàngdebiǎnshānjiùmàozibēijìnláichāizuòchèn。」 yāowángxiàodào:「bāoshénmezhíqiánzhīzuǒyòushìshàngdebiǎnshānjiùmàozibēijìnláichāizuòchèn。」

The demon king laughed: ‘That bundle has nothing of value in it — no doubt it's some monk's tattered robe and old cap; carry it in, and unpick and wash it for patching-cloth.’

那包袱 nà (deictic). 無甚麼值錢之物 ‘nothing of value’: 甚 shén (甚麼 ‘what/any’). 破褊衫 ‘tattered robe (褊 biǎn)’, 舊帽子 (子 suffix). 背進來 ‘carry in on the back’: 背 read bēi (‘to carry on the back’, verb, not the bèi ‘back/recite’ default). 拆洗做補襯 ‘unpick, wash, make patching-cloth (襯 chèn)’. The demon's contempt seals the ruse.

xiǎoyāoguǒjiāngbāobēijìnzhīshìxíngzhěbiànde xiǎoyāoguǒjiāngbāobēijìnzhīshìxíngzhěbiànde

One little imp did carry the bundle in on his back, not knowing it was the Pilgrim transformed.

一個小妖 (一 before 個 t4 → yí). 果將包袱背進 ‘did carry the bundle in’: 將 jiāng (disposal); 背 bēi (carry on back). 不知是行者變的 ‘not knowing it was the Pilgrim (行 xíng)’ (不 before 知 t1 → bù). The trap now works in reverse — the demon's own imp carries Wukong in.

xíngzhědào:「hǎolezhèxiāojīnbāobēizhele。」 xíngzhědào:「hǎolezhèxiāojīnbāobēizhele。」

The Pilgrim said to himself: ‘Good — this gold-embroidered bundle has been carried in.’

行 xíng. 好了 le. 這個銷金包袱背著了 ‘this bundle has been carried in’: 背 bēi (carry); 著 zhe (durative); 了 le. Wukong's private satisfaction.

yāojīngwéishìdiūzàiménnèi yāojīngwéishìdiūzàiménnèi

The demon, thinking nothing of it, tossed it down inside the gate.

那妖精 nà (deictic). 不以為事 ‘thought nothing of it’: 為 wéi (以為 ‘consider’); 不 before 以 t3 → bù. 丟在門內 ‘tossed it inside the gate’. Wukong is now within — beside the bagged Bajie.


總評 Commentary

The ruse succeeds completely. The demon, mistaking the bundle for a fleeing monk's worthless rags, orders it carried in for patching-cloth — and so his own imp bears the Great Sage across the threshold and tosses him down inside the gate. Wukong's quiet ‘good — this bundle has been carried in’ marks the turn: where the whole apparatus of fire and smoke drove him off, a shape-change and the demon's own carelessness have put him exactly where he needs to be.