第四十一回 · 賢姪莫弄虛頭 Worthy Nephew, No Tricks — Journey to the West

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賢姪莫弄虛頭 Worthy Nephew, No Tricks

那nà紅hóng孩hái兒ér怪guài出chū得de門mén來lái，高gāo叫jiào道dào：「是shì甚shén麼me人rén在zài我wǒ這zhè裡lǐ吆yāo喝hè！」行xíng者zhě近jìn前qián笑xiào道dào：「我wǒ賢xián姪zhí莫mò弄nòng虛xū頭tóu。你nǐ今jīn早zǎo在zài山shān路lù傍páng高gāo吊diào在zài松sōng樹shù梢shāo頭tóu，是shì那nà般bān一yí個gè瘦shòu怯qiè怯qiè的de黃huáng病bìng孩hái兒ér，哄hǒng了le我wǒ師shī父fù。我wǒ倒dào好hǎo意yì馱tuó著zhe你nǐ，你nǐ就jiù弄nòng風fēng兒er把bǎ我wǒ師shī父fù攝shè將jiāng來lái。你nǐ如rú今jīn又yòu弄nòng這zhè個gè樣yàng子zi，我wǒ豈qǐ不bú認rèn得dé你nǐ？趁chèn早zǎo送sòng出chū我wǒ師shī父fù，不bú要yào白bái了le面miàn皮pí，失shī了le親qīn情qíng，恐kǒng你nǐ令lìng尊zūn知zhī道dào，怪guài我wǒ老lǎo孫sūn以yǐ長zhǎng欺qī幼yòu，不bú象xiàng模mú樣yàng。」那nà红hóng孩hái儿ér怪guài出chū得de门mén来lái，高gāo叫jiào道dào：「是shì甚shén么me人rén在zài我wǒ这zhè里lǐ吆yāo喝hè！」行xíng者zhě近jìn前qián笑xiào道dào：「我wǒ贤xián姪zhí莫mò弄nòng虚xū头tóu。你nǐ今jīn早zǎo在zài山shān路lù傍páng高gāo吊diào在zài松sōng树shù梢shāo头tóu，是shì那nà般bān一yí个gè瘦shòu怯qiè怯qiè的de黄huáng病bìng孩hái儿ér，哄hǒng了le我wǒ师shī父fù。我wǒ倒dào好hǎo意yì驮tuó着zhe你nǐ，你nǐ就jiù弄nòng风fēng儿er把bǎ我wǒ师shī父fù摄shè将jiāng来lái。你nǐ如rú今jīn又yòu弄nòng这zhè个gè样yàng子zi，我wǒ岂qǐ不bú认rèn得dé你nǐ？趁chèn早zǎo送sòng出chū我wǒ师shī父fù，不bú要yào白bái了le面miàn皮pí，失shī了le亲qīn情qíng，恐kǒng你nǐ令lìng尊zūn知zhī道dào，怪guài我wǒ老lǎo孙sūn以yǐ长zhǎng欺qī幼yòu，不bú象xiàng模mú样yàng。」

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那nà紅hóng孩hái兒ér怪guài出chū得de門mén來lái，高gāo叫jiào道dào：「是shì甚shén麼me人rén在zài我wǒ這zhè裡lǐ吆yāo喝hè！」那nà红hóng孩hái儿ér怪guài出chū得de门mén来lái，高gāo叫jiào道dào：「是shì甚shén么me人rén在zài我wǒ这zhè里lǐ吆yāo喝hè！」

The Red Boy demon came out at the gate and cried aloud: ‘Who is it bawling here at my door?’

那 nà (那紅孩兒怪). 紅孩兒: 兒 ér, the standalone morpheme of 孩兒 ‘child’ (not the diminutive suffix er). 出得門來: 得 de, resultative complement. 甚麼 shén.

行xíng者zhě近jìn前qián笑xiào道dào：「我wǒ賢xián姪zhí莫mò弄nòng虛xū頭tóu。行xíng者zhě近jìn前qián笑xiào道dào：「我wǒ贤xián姪zhí莫mò弄nòng虚xū头tóu。

The Pilgrim stepped up and said with a smile: ‘Worthy nephew, play me no tricks.

行者 xíng. 賢姪 ‘worthy nephew’ (姪 zhí) — Wukong's needling claim of kinship, on which the whole scene turns. 弄虛頭 ‘to play tricks, put on a false front’.

你nǐ今jīn早zǎo在zài山shān路lù傍páng高gāo吊diào在zài松sōng樹shù梢shāo頭tóu，是shì那nà般bān一yí個gè瘦shòu怯qiè怯qiè的de黃huáng病bìng孩hái兒ér，哄hǒng了le我wǒ師shī父fù。你nǐ今jīn早zǎo在zài山shān路lù傍páng高gāo吊diào在zài松sōng树shù梢shāo头tóu，是shì那nà般bān一yí个gè瘦shòu怯qiè怯qiè的de黄huáng病bìng孩hái儿ér，哄hǒng了le我wǒ师shī父fù。

This morning, beside the mountain path, you hung high in the top of a pine — just such a scrawny, sickly, jaundiced-looking child — and so you gulled my master.

山路傍 ‘beside the mountain path’: 傍 páng ‘beside’. 那般 ‘that sort of’ → 那 nà. 黃病孩兒: 孩兒兒 ér (‘child’). Recalls Red Boy's disguise in Ch.40 (the ‘hanging child’ that deceived Tripitaka). 一個 (一 before 個 t4 → yí); 了 le.

我wǒ倒dào好hǎo意yì馱tuó著zhe你nǐ，你nǐ就jiù弄nòng風fēng兒er把bǎ我wǒ師shī父fù攝shè將jiāng來lái。我wǒ倒dào好hǎo意yì驮tuó着zhe你nǐ，你nǐ就jiù弄nòng风fēng儿er把bǎ我wǒ师shī父fù摄shè将jiāng来lái。

I, out of pure goodwill, carried you on my back; and you straightway raised a wind and snatched my master clean away.

我倒好意 ‘I, on the contrary, out of goodwill’: 倒 dào, the adversative ‘yet/contrariwise’ (not the dǎo ‘topple’ reading). 馱著 ‘carried on the back’: 馱 tuó + 著 zhe (durative). 弄風兒: 風兒兒 er, diminutive suffix (‘a gust’). 攝將來 ‘snatched here’: 將 jiāng, directional coverb.

你nǐ如rú今jīn又yòu弄nòng這zhè個gè樣yàng子zi，我wǒ豈qǐ不bú認rèn得dé你nǐ？你nǐ如rú今jīn又yòu弄nòng这zhè个gè样yàng子zi，我wǒ岂qǐ不bú认rèn得dé你nǐ？

Now here you are got up in this guise again — do you suppose I would not know you?

認得 ‘to recognise, know’: 得 dé (the attainment reading, per the corpus 認得/記得 group). 樣子子 suffix. 豈不 (不 before 認 t4 → bú).

趁chèn早zǎo送sòng出chū我wǒ師shī父fù，不bú要yào白bái了le面miàn皮pí，失shī了le親qīn情qíng，恐kǒng你nǐ令lìng尊zūn知zhī道dào，怪guài我wǒ老lǎo孫sūn以yǐ長zhǎng欺qī幼yòu，不bú象xiàng模mú樣yàng。」趁chèn早zǎo送sòng出chū我wǒ师shī父fù，不bú要yào白bái了le面miàn皮pí，失shī了le亲qīn情qíng，恐kǒng你nǐ令lìng尊zūn知zhī道dào，怪guài我wǒ老lǎo孙sūn以yǐ长zhǎng欺qī幼yòu，不bú象xiàng模mú样yàng。」

Send out my master at once; do not lose face and forfeit the family bond, lest your honoured father hear of it and blame old Sun for bullying the young from seniority — an unseemly business.’

以長欺幼 ‘bullying the young from seniority’: 長 zhǎng (elder/senior). 令尊 ‘your honoured father’ (i.e. 牛魔王). 不象模樣 ‘unseemly, not the proper look (象=像)’. 不要/不象 (不 before t4 → bú).

總評 Commentary

Wukong's whole tactic here is the claim of kinship: he addresses the child-demon as 賢姪 (‘worthy nephew’) on the strength of his old sworn brotherhood with 牛魔王, the Bull Demon King, Red Boy's father. The claim is half genuine, half a bid to shame the demon into releasing Tripitaka (‘lest your father blame me for bullying the young’). It also folds in a recap of Ch.40 — the disguised ‘hanging child’ whose trick Wukong now throws back at him.