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第四十三回
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A Black-River Fiend Carries the Monk Off · A Western-Ocean Dragon-Prince Catches the Alligator and Returns

妖攝師父 淬入水中
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妖攝師父 淬入水中 The Fiend Seizes the Master; Sunk Beneath the Flood

zhèzhènfēngyuánláijiùshìzhàochuánrénnòngdeběnshìhēishuǐzhōngguàiyǎnkànzhetángsēngzhūjièliánchuánercuìzàishuǐyǐngxíngzhīshèlefāngzhèzhènfēngyuánláijiùshìzhàochuánrénnòngdeběnshìhēishuǐzhōngguàiyǎnkànzhetángsēngzhūjièliánchuánercuìzàishuǐyǐngxíngzhīshèlefāng


逐句解 Line by line

zhèzhènfēngyuánláijiùshìzhàochuánrénnòngde zhèzhènfēngyuánláijiùshìzhàochuánrénnòngde

This gust of wind, it turned out, was the doing of the very man who poled the boat.

běnshìhēishuǐzhōngguài běnshìhēishuǐzhōngguài

He was in truth a monster of the Black-Water River.

yǎnkànzhetángsēngzhūjièliánchuánercuìzàishuǐyǐngxíngzhīshèlefāng yǎnkànzhetángsēngzhūjièliánchuánercuìzàishuǐyǐngxíngzhīshèlefāng

Before their eyes he plunged the Tang Monk and Zhu Eight Rules, boat and all, beneath the water — vanished without shadow or trace, carried off none knew whither.


總評 Commentary

The ferryman is unmasked as the river-monster, and in a stroke he drags Tripitaka and Pigsy under, boat and all — the abduction that launches the chapter's rescue. Sha Monk and Pilgrim, left ashore, must now recover them.