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且聽下回 And So the Chapter Closes
畢竟不知怎麼救得唐僧，且聽下回分解。毕竟不知怎么救得唐僧，且听下回分解。
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畢竟不知怎麼救得唐僧，且聽下回分解。
毕竟不知怎么救得唐僧，且听下回分解。
And in the end there is no knowing how the Tang Monk was to be rescued; give ear to the next chapter, and it shall be told.
救得: 得 = dé, the potential — "how he might be got out." 分解: 分 = fēn, "to divide and explain." The formula closing every chapter of the novel, preserved here in its own passage.
The storyteller's closing formula, unchanged from the hundred other chapters that carry it. Its function is to leave the audience suspended, and Chapter Forty-Eight is one of the places where it earns its keep: the protagonist is under a stone lid at the bottom of a river, and the three who might get him out are standing on the bank with their weapons, and nothing has been resolved at all.