《西游记》汉英：第十章 金睛识老妪 悟空二打白骨精

《西游记》汉英：第十章 金睛识老妪 悟空二打白骨精


Chapter 10 The second fight against White Bone Demon


1.

却说那妖精，脱命升空。他在那云端里，咬牙切齿，暗恨行者道：“那癞猴头，几年只闻得讲他手段，今日果然话不虚传。那唐僧已此不认得我，将要吃饭。若低头闻一闻儿，我就一把捞住，却不是我的人了？不期被他走来，弄破我这勾当，又几乎被他打了一棒。若饶了这个和尚，诚然是劳而无功也，我还下去戏他一戏。”
好妖精，按落阴云，在那前山坡下，摇身一变，变作个老妇人，年满八旬，手拄着一根弯头竹杖，一步一声的哭着走来。
八戒见了，大惊。
他喊道：“师父，不好了！那妈妈儿来寻人了！”
唐僧道：“寻甚人？”
八戒道：“师兄打杀的，定是他女儿。这个定是他娘寻将来了。”
行者道：“兄弟莫要胡说！那女子十八岁，这老妇有八十岁，怎么六十多岁还生产？断乎是个假的，等老孙去看来。”


The demon escaped into the sky. Standing on a cloud, he gnashed
his teeth in hatred.
“The dirty monkey!” cursed stealthily the demon. “I was told he was
somewhat capable. It’s only today that I know he really lives up to his
reputation. Without knowing me, Tang Monk was going to eat the food. So
long as he lowered his head and had a smell, I would be able to catch him.
Who could have expected that the dirty monkey came back at that critical
moment and saw through my scheme? I was nearly stricken by his cudgel. I
cannot let the monk go unpunished. Otherwise, all my efforts will come to
naught. Let me go down and make fun of him.”
Leaving the cloud and coming down to the hillside, the demon changed his
identity suddenly. This time he turned into an old woman at the age of over
eighty. With a walking stick in hand, she walked over, one step and one
cry.
Seeing the old woman, Pig Bajie was greatly surprised.
“Master!” cried out Bajie. “What a nuisance. The old woman is coming
here to look for her daughter!”
“Looking for whom?” asked Tang Monk.
“The girl my brother killed must be her daughter,” said Bajie. “This
old one must be her mother.”
“Don’t talk rot!” Monkey King said to Bajie. “The girl is eighteen.
But the old woman is eighty. How can a woman give birth to a baby at the
age of over sixty? There must be a fraud. Let me go and have a look.”


2．


好行者，走近前观看，认得他是妖精，更不理论，举棒照头便打。那怪见棍子起时，依然抖擞，又出化了元神，脱真儿去了，把个假尸首又打死在山路之下。
唐僧一见，惊下马来，更无二话，只是把《紧箍儿咒》颠倒足足念了二十遍。可怜把个行者头，十分疼痛难忍，滚在地上。
行者哀告道：“师父莫念了！有甚话说了罢！”
唐僧道：“有甚话说！我屡次劝化你，你怎么只是行凶？把平人打死一个，又打死一个，此是何说？”

Stepping up, Monkey King recognized the demon in disguise. Without waiting
for explanation, he ruthlessly struck the old woman in her head with his
golden cudgel. Seeing Monkey King’s cudgel coming down, the demon resorted
to his old tricks immediately. He left a false dead body on the ground and
fled without any delay.
Seeing this, scared to death, Tang Monk fell off his horse. Without demur,
he set to muttering Incantation of the Golden Hoop, time and again, no less
then twenty times. Monkey King suffered from a headache which was too
terrible to bear and made him rolling on the ground.
“Don’t mutter anymore, Master!” rolling over to his master, Monkey King
asked for pardon. “Just say what you want.”
“I’ve nothing to say,” Tang Monk said. “I repeatedly advise you to
correct your mistakes. But you don’t listen to me and, worse of all, don’
t hesitate to commit manslaughter continuously. You killed innocent people
one after another. Why?”


行者道：“他是妖精。”
唐僧道：“这个猴子胡说！就有这许多妖怪！你是个无心向善之辈，有意作恶之人，你去罢！”
行者道：“师父又教我去，回去便也回去了，只有一件事不相应。”
唐僧道：“有什么不相应处？”
八戒道：“师父，他要和你分行李哩。跟着你做了这几年和尚，不成空着手回去？你把那包袱里的什么旧褊衫，破帽子，分两件与他罢。”

“She is a demon,” said Monkey King.
“You wild monkey. What are you driveling about?” Tang Monk scolded. “
How can it be that there’re so many demons here? You’re really a bad guy.
You just want to do evil instead of good works.
Go back!”
“Master,” said Monkey King. “You ask me to go back once again. I’m
willing to go but there’s only thing which is quite improper.”
“What’s improper?” ask the master.
“Master,” Bajie cut in. “He wants to share the luggage with you. As a
monk, he lives with you in these several years, he doesn’t want to go back
empty-handed. Unwrap your bundle and pick out some old clothes and give
them to him, such as a shirt or a hat.”




3．

行者闻言，气得暴跳。
他说道：“我把你这个尖嘴的夯货！老孙一向秉教沙门，更无一毫嫉妒之意，贪恋之心，怎么要分什么行李？”
唐僧道：“你既不嫉妒贪恋，如何不去？”
行者道：“实不瞒师父说，老孙五百年前，居花果山水帘洞，凭着绝技和金箍棒，收降妖魔无数。人称美猴王，我想做什么就做什么。可自从削发秉正沙门，跟你做了徒弟，就再不能想干什么就干什么。都是因为你把这个金箍儿勒在我的头上，若回去，却也难见故乡人。师父果若不要我，把那个《松箍儿咒》念一念，退下这个箍子，交付与你，套在别人头上，我就快活相应了。好歹也是跟你一场。莫不成这些人意儿也没有了？”
唐僧大惊道：“悟空，我当时只是菩萨暗受一卷《紧箍儿咒》，却没有什么松箍儿咒。”
行者道：“若无《松箍儿咒》，你还带我去走走罢。”
长老又没奈何道：“你且起来，我再饶你这一次，却不可再行凶了。”
行者道：“再不敢了，再不敢了。”
言罢，行者又伏侍师父上马，剖路继续前进。

Hearing this, Monkey King exploded with rage.
“Shut up your dirty mouth!” Monkey King cried to Bajie. “I always act
in accordance with the Buddhist disciplines. I’m neither greedy nor
jealous. How can I have the desire to share luggage with our master?”
“Now that you’re neither greedy nor jealous, why don’t you go?” asked
Tang Monk.
“To tell the truth,” said Monkey King. “When I lived in Water-curtain
Cave in Mt. Flower-fruit
five hundred years ago, I once defeated countless monsters with my magic
skills and especially my golden cudgel. I was therefore named Monkey King.
I can do what I want. But ever since becoming a monk and your disciple, I’
ve been unable to do anything freely. It is all because you had my head
firmly banded with a hoop. If my head is still banded by the hoop, how can
I have the face to go back? If you really don’t want me anymore, please
take back the hoop. You can use it to band anyone’s head. If so, I’ll be
happy. In view of our mutual relationship between master and disciple, I don
’t think you have the heart to refuse my last request.”
Greatly surprised, Tang Monk said, “Wu Kong, Goddess of Mercy only taught
me the Incantation of Hoop to band your head. She never told me how to
remove the hoop.”
“If there is no incantation to remove the hoop, you’d better take me,”
said Monkey King.
“All right, stand up.” said Tang Monk. “In view of this case, let me
forgive you one more time. You should never again do violence to anyone.”
“Dare not again! Dare not again!” said Monkey King.
After making the promise, Monkey King supported his master onto his horse
and went forward continuously.