第四十五回 · 泥塑金裝 Gilded Figures of Clay — Journey to the West

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泥塑金裝 Gilded Figures of Clay

卻què說shuō孫sūn大dà聖shèng左zuǒ手shǒu把bǎ沙shā和hé尚shàng捻niǎn一yì把bǎ，右yòu手shǒu把bǎ豬zhū八bā戒jiè捻niǎn一yì把bǎ，他tā二èr人rén卻què就jiù省xǐng悟wù。坐zuò在zài高gāo處chù，倥kōng著zhe臉liǎn，不bù言yán不bù語yǔ。憑píng那nà些xiē道dào士shì點diǎn燈dēng著zháo火huǒ，前qián後hòu照zhào看kàn，他tā三sān個gè就jiù如rú泥ní塑sù金jīn裝zhuāng一yì般bān模mó樣yàng。却què说shuō孙sūn大dà圣shèng左zuǒ手shǒu把bǎ沙shā和hé尚shàng捻niǎn一yì把bǎ，右yòu手shǒu把bǎ猪zhū八bā戒jiè捻niǎn一yì把bǎ，他tā二èr人rén却què就jiù省xǐng悟wù。坐zuò在zài高gāo处chù，倥kōng着zhe脸liǎn，不bù言yán不bù语yǔ。凭píng那nà些xiē道dào士shì点diǎn灯dēng着zháo火huǒ，前qián后hòu照zhào看kàn，他tā三sān个gè就jiù如rú泥ní塑sù金jīn装zhuāng一yì般bān模mó样yàng。

逐句解 Line by line

卻què說shuō孫sūn大dà聖shèng左zuǒ手shǒu把bǎ沙shā和hé尚shàng捻niǎn一yì把bǎ，右yòu手shǒu把bǎ豬zhū八bā戒jiè捻niǎn一yì把bǎ，他tā二èr人rén卻què就jiù省xǐng悟wù。却què说shuō孙sūn大dà圣shèng左zuǒ手shǒu把bǎ沙shā和hé尚shàng捻niǎn一yì把bǎ，右yòu手shǒu把bǎ猪zhū八bā戒jiè捻niǎn一yì把bǎ，他tā二èr人rén却què就jiù省xǐng悟wù。

Now the Great Sage, giving Friar Sand a pinch with his left hand and Zhu Bajie a pinch with his right, brought the two of them at once to their senses.

The chapter opens on the storyteller's resumptive formula 卻說 (què shuō), “now, to take up the thread again” — lifting us straight from the close of Ch.44, mid-scene in the ransacked 三清 hall. 捻 (niǎn) is a covert tweak of warning; 省悟 (xǐngwù) “to catch on, come to one's senses.”

坐zuò在zài高gāo處chù，倥kōng著zhe臉liǎn，不bù言yán不bù語yǔ。坐zuò在zài高gāo处chù，倥kōng着zhe脸liǎn，不bù言yán不bù语yǔ。

Seated up on high, they kept their faces blank, uttering not a word.

高處: 處 = chù, “place, spot.” 倥著臉 — 倥 (kōng) here “to hold (the face) vacant, dazed”; durative 著 = zhe marks the held expression. 不言不語 “neither speaking nor stirring a word.”

憑píng那nà些xiē道dào士shì點diǎn燈dēng著zháo火huǒ，前qián後hòu照zhào看kàn，他tā三sān個gè就jiù如rú泥ní塑sù金jīn裝zhuāng一yì般bān模mó樣yàng。凭píng那nà些xiē道dào士shì点diǎn灯dēng着zháo火huǒ，前qián后hòu照zhào看kàn，他tā三sān个gè就jiù如rú泥ní塑sù金jīn装zhuāng一yì般bān模mó样yàng。

Let those Daoists light their lamps and kindle their fires and peer about them front and back — the three sat there for all the world like gilded figures moulded of clay.

Deictic 那些: 那 = nà, “those.” In 著火 the 著 is resultative = zháo, “to kindle, set alight.” 照看: 看 = kàn. 泥塑金裝 “clay-moulded and gold-dressed” — the painted temple idols the disciples are impersonating.

總評 Commentary

The batch resumes exactly where Ch.44 broke off: Wukong, Bajie, and Friar Sand have gorged on the Daoists' offerings in the Hall of the Three Pure Ones and now sit motionless in the idols' places. The comedy turns on impersonation — living pilgrims passing as lacquered statuary — and the phrase 泥塑金裝 names precisely the temple image whose seat each has usurped.