Loot a Burning House 趁火打劫

 

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英文：In the story of Journey to the West, Xuan Zang and his disciples² embarked³ on a pilgrimage to India to obtain Buddhist⁴ scriptures⁵. They passed through a temple on the way to their destination. The abbot hospitably⁶ received them. He requested to borrow Xuan Zang's beautiful cassock to get a better look and Xuan Zang agreed. In the dead of night, the abbot bolted the door when Xuan Zang and his disciples fell asleep, and then set the bedroom on fire. Meanwhile, the Monkey King had stayed awake due to his suspicions of the evil intentions of the abbot. To spoil the abbot's scheme, he transformed himself into a honeybee and lingered outside. The Monkey King blew a strong puff⁷ of wind. The enormous fire spread to the entire temple and all of the Buddhist monks⁸ joined the task of extinguishing the flames. However, a black bear monster came out unexpectedly. He concealed¹⁰ the cassock under the shield of the fire. Although the Monkey King had severely¹¹ penalized¹² the black-hearted abbot, he lost the master's cassock once again. With no idea of its current possessor or how to reclaim¹³ it, he turned to the Bodhisattva Guanyin for assistance. She helped him defeat the black monster and finally acquired the cassock.

 

中文：话说《西游记》中唐玄奘和他的徒弟去西天取经，途中路过一座寺庙。庙里的方丈热情地接待了他们，并请求借玄奘美丽的袈裟好好看一看，玄奘同意了。深夜，方丈趁师徒四人睡着时将他们的房门锁上，然后放火烧他们的卧房。但此时孙悟空并没有睡着，他早就洞察到方丈的阴谋。为了不让方丈的阴谋得逞，他变成只蜜蜂飞出屋外。孙悟空吹了一阵风，大火一下子蔓延到整个寺庙，庙里所有的和尚都忙着救火。可谁知这时来了只黑熊怪，他趁火劫走了袈裟。孙悟空虽然惩罚了黑心的方丈，却再次弄丢了师傅的袈裟。万般无奈之际，他请求观音菩萨帮忙。在菩萨的帮助下，孙悟空制服了黑熊怪，并最终要回了袈裟。（引用自《您好漫画-三十六计》）

 

 

disciple¹: 信徒，门徒；注意，耶酥的十二门徒应翻译为：twelve apostles，apostles是指受主差遣的人，而disciple是跟随主的人，所以可以这么理解，apostle一定是disciple，但disciple不一定是apostle

 

ravage¹⁴: 摧毁，蹂躏；表示摧毁的常用词还有devastate，它们的区别是：devastate表示完全的大范围的一种破坏，如:war devastate¹⁵ a country（战争摧毁了一个国家），ravage强调的是一种严重的暴力行为，常是累积的造成破坏，如：a hurricane which ravaged¹⁶ the Gulf¹⁷ coast（飓风蹂躏了整个海湾地区）

 

conceal⁹: 隐蔽，隐藏；该词常与hide通用，多指有意将某事物隐藏起来或不予以泄漏，它只作及物动词，hide还可以作不及物动词，指有意或无意地将某物（或人）藏（躲）在人们不易看到或发现的地方，如：He concealed his motives¹⁸.（他隐藏了他的动机。） The moon was hidden by the clouds.（月亮被云彩遮住了。）

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