The Original and Translation of Black Beast in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio

The Black Beast of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and its translation

Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, with a common name of Ghost Fox, is a collection of short stories created by Pu Songling, a famous novelist in China in the Qing Dynasty. The following is what I have compiled for you. The original and translation of Black Beast from a Strange Tale of a Lonely Studio are welcome to share.

Original text:

I heard a word from Li Taigong [1]: "A certain public is in Shenyang [2], and the banquet is on the top of the mountain. Overlooking the foot of the mountain, there are tigers coming, burrowing with their claws and leaving. Make people envy, get a dead deer. It is to take the deer and cover its hole. In a short time, a tiger leads a black beast, and its hair is several inches long. Tiger predecessor, if invited to honor guests. When you reach the cave, the beast crouches and waits [3]. A tiger loses its deer when it probes a hole, but it dares not move less when it is crouching [4]. The beast angered him, struck the tiger's forehead with its claws, and the tiger stood dead. The beast also goes. "

Yishi said, "I don't know the name of the beast. However, if you ask about its shape, it is no bigger than a tiger, but why should you be so afraid of its neck death? Everything has its own system [5], which is unreasonable. Such as the most afraid of prison [6]; If you see it from a distance, there will be hundreds of groups, and you will kneel down [7], and no one will dare to escape. Keep your eyes fixed, listen to the prison, and dig its fat and barren with your claws [8]; Those who are fat are topped with a piece of stone [9]. Wearing a stone and lying down, I am so scared [1] that I am afraid of falling. Prison chuai ambition, is the second time to feed by the stone, the rest began to coax scattered [11]. I tasted like a greedy official, and I was determined by the people's fat and barren, but I ate it; And people's ears listen to food [12], don't dare to breathe, and it's still embarrassing [13]. What a pity! "

Note:

[1] Li Taigong Jingyi: See the note of Dream Farewell in this volume.

[2] Shenyang: that is, Shenyang, Liaoning province. Ming is the central defender of Shenyang, under the jurisdiction of the commander of Liaodong. After the Qing soldiers entered the capital of Beijing, they were called staying in the capital.

[3] crouching (dān-dān single): crouching and waiting with fierce eyes. Look at the appearance. "Yi Yi": "I am eager to see it, and I want to chase it one by one. "

[4] crouching: trembling on the ground. [5] Everything has its own system: as the saying goes, "everything has its vanquisher". Control, restriction and restraint.

[6] The macaque is afraid of the golden monkey. , that is, "rhesus monkey", macaque. Prison, golden monkey, also known as Golden Prison, is an ape of all sizes, with the longest spine hair and a golden long tail, or it is said that it is awkward.

[7] Luo: distribution, arrangement.

[8] guess: guess; Touch measurement.

[9] To set a stone on the top of your head as a sign. Chi, as a sign.

[1] If you are stunned, you are as scared as a wooden chicken; Describe dare not move a little. Terrified, frightened. Wooden chicken, the language "Zhuangzi Dasheng".

[11] dispersed in a hubbub: dispersed in a hubbub.

[12] Ear: it is still a "sticky ear". My ears are tied behind my head. Describe fear and docility.

[13] The feeling of being jealous is still the same: the common people are afraid of greedy officials, just as they are afraid of them. Bitch, refers to the mob, the people. "Poem Wei Feng Mang": "Mang's cockroaches."

Translation:

I once heard a story told by the squire Jing Yi: "When a gentleman was in Shenyang, he once entertained guests on a mountain. Looking down at the foot of the mountain, he saw a tiger coming with something in his mouth, dug a hole with his claws, buried it and left. A man sent someone down the mountain to see what was buried. It turned out to be a dead deer. So the dead deer was taken out and the hole was still buried. After a while, the tiger came with a black beast. The black beast has several inches of hair. The tiger walked in front, like inviting a distinguished guest, and reached the cave, where the black beast squatted and waited. When the tiger found out that there were no dead deer in the cave, he was afraid to move. The black beast was furious because of being cheated and hit the tiger on the forehead with his claws. The tiger died on the spot. The black beast also went away. "

Yishi said, "I don't know the name of this black beast, but I asked about its size and said it was not bigger than the tiger. But why did the tiger hang out its neck to die, so scared? Between heaven and earth, everything has its vanquisher. Why? It's hard to explain. For example, xian, an animal, is most afraid of Luo. When it comes to Luo from a distance, even dozens or hundreds of Luo immediately kneel down, and rong dare to escape, but all dare not come out and stare at Luo. When the rafters arrive, touch the fat of the rafters one by one with your paws, and put a stone piece on your head as a mark for the fat ones. All the people knelt there with stones, stupefied, for fear that the stones would fall to the ground. After making the sign, eat it one by one according to the fat and thin. At this time, the rest of the roe also dare not escape. I often say that corrupt officials are just like fans, marking people according to their size, tearing them apart and swallowing them. And the common people listened to them eat people with their ears staring blankly, afraid to gasp. That situation is the same as Xian's fate, and it's really pitiful. " ;