唐僧望見 Tripitaka Spies the Woman
三藏見了,叫:「八戒、沙僧,悟空才說這裡曠野無人,你看那裡不走出一個人來了?」八戒道:「師父,你與沙僧坐著,等老豬去看看來。」三藏见了,叫:「八戒、沙僧,悟空才说这里旷野无人,你看那里不走出一个人来了?」八戒道:「师父,你与沙僧坐著,等老猪去看看来。」
逐句解 Line by line
Tripitaka, seeing her, called out: "Eight Rules! Sha Monk! Wukong said just now that this wilderness held no one — but look, there's a person coming out over there!"
A neat dramatic irony: the elder cites Wukong's own report of desolation — "no one here" — as grounds for marvelling at the woman, so that the very emptiness which should breed suspicion breeds only curiosity. Here 那裡 is deictic: Tripitaka is pointing at the woman he already sees, so the clause is an exclamatory statement ("look, there's someone coming out over there!"), not a genuine question — hence 那 (nà) (fourth tone), as against the interrogative or indefinite 那裡 (nǎ lǐ) "where / somewhere." The 了 (le) of 見了 / 來了 marks completed aspect.
Said Eight Rules, "Master, you and Sha Monk sit tight — let old Hog go and take a look."
坐著 "stay seated," 著 (zhe) (durative). 老豬 (lǎo zhū) "old Hog," Bajie's self-deprecating yet boastful way of naming himself. His eagerness to "go take a look" is the first sign of the appetite the next passages will expose.
The passage turns on a sharp irony of citation: Tripitaka repeats Wukong's plain truth — that the wilderness is empty of decent folk — and treats it not as a warning but as a wonder. The master's misreading begins here, before any illusion has even been tested; he is primed to be curious where he ought to be wary.
Bajie's quick volunteering to "take a look" sets the comic-lecherous interlude in motion. His readiness stands in pointed contrast to the absent Wukong, whose fire-eyes would have pierced the disguise at a glance — the party's true safeguard is precisely the disciple who is not there.