長老埋怨 The Master Complains
那長老淚眼雙垂,怨他三個徒弟道:「你等闖出禍來,卻帶累我在此受罪,這是怎的起?」行者道:「且休報怨,打便先打我,你又不曾吃打,倒轉嗟呀怎的?」唐僧道:「雖然不曾打,卻也綁得身上疼哩。」沙僧道:「師父,還有陪綁的在這裡哩。」行者道:「都不要嚷,再停會兒走路。」那长老泪眼双垂,怨他三个徒弟道:「你等闯出祸来,却带累我在此受罪,这是怎的起?」行者道:「且休报怨,打便先打我,你又不曾吃打,倒转嗟呀怎的?」唐僧道:「虽然不曾打,却也绑得身上疼哩。」沙僧道:「师父,还有陪绑的在这里哩。」行者道:「都不要嚷,再停会儿走路。」
逐句解 Line by line
That elder, tears streaming from both eyes, reproached his three disciples: "You have stirred up this calamity, and dragged me into suffering punishment here—how has it come to this?"
The master weeps and blames his disciples, which is what he does. 淚眼雙垂, tears from both eyes. 闖出禍來, chuǎng chū huò lái, is blundering into trouble — 闖 is barging in where you should not. 帶累, dragging somebody else into it.
The Pilgrim said, "Now, no reproaches—if there was a beating, it was I who was beaten first; you were not beaten at all, so what is there to sigh and moan about?"
And Wukong's reply is a masterpiece of missing the point on purpose. 你又不曾吃打 — you didn't actually get hit — is unanswerable and entirely beside the question. 倒轉嗟呀 takes 倒 as dào, "on the contrary," with 嗟, jiē, to sigh. 報怨 here is grumbling, reproaching.
The Tang Monk said, "Though I was not beaten, still my body aches with the binding."
Sanzang concedes the point and then produces a smaller, better one: he is still tied up. 綁得身上疼 takes the linking 得, de, marking degree — bound so tight it hurts.
Wujing said, "Master, there are those bound along with you here too."
Wujing's single line, and it is the driest thing anyone says in the chapter. 陪綁, péi bǎng, is being tied up alongside somebody — the word for a person brought out to the execution ground to watch. 還 is hái, "besides, as well."
The Pilgrim said, "All of you, stop your clamour—rest a while longer, and then we'll be on our way."
And Wukong, who has been planning since the ropes went on, tells everyone to be quiet and wait a bit. 都 is dōu, "all of you"; 會兒 takes the diminutive suffix 兒, ér.
Four people tied to pillars in the dark, bickering. Sanzang cries and blames everyone; Wukong points out that nobody actually hit him; Sanzang says the ropes hurt; Wujing observes that some of us are tied up too. It is a family in a broken-down car, and the novel knows it.
Wujing's line is the one to notice. 師父,還有陪綁的在這裡哩 — Master, there are people being tied up alongside you over here. He opens his mouth exactly twice in this chapter, and both times it is something like this: the quiet member of the party pointing out, without complaint, that he is also present.
Underneath the comedy the scene is doing its job. Wukong's last line — stop the noise, wait a little, then we walk — tells the reader that the ropes were never the problem, and turns the whole captivity into a delay.