天下名山 The First Mountain Under Heaven
八戒觀之不盡,滿心歡喜道:「哥啊,好去處,果然是天下第一名山。」行者道:「賢弟,可過得日子麼?」八戒笑道:「你看師兄說的話,寶山乃洞天福地之處,怎麼說度日之言也?」八戒观之不尽,满心欢喜道:「哥啊,好去处,果然是天下第一名山。」行者道:「贤弟,可过得日子么?」八戒笑道:「你看师兄说的话,宝山乃洞天福地之处,怎么说度日之言也?」
逐句解 Line by line
Bajie, gazing his fill and more, said in high delight: "Brother, what a place! Truly the first famous mountain under Heaven."
觀之不盡, to look without exhausting the sight, takes 觀 as guān; and because the following 盡 is a falling tone, the 不 in front of it lifts to bú. 天下第一 is "first under Heaven," the standard superlative for anything.
The Pilgrim said: "Worthy brother, could one pass one's days here?"
In 過得日子, to manage to get through the days, the character 得 is de and 子 is the suffix zi. Wukong asks a deliberately small question about a place he has just been told is the finest mountain in the world.
Bajie laughed: "Listen to my brother! This treasure-mountain is a grotto-heaven, a blessed land — how can you speak of merely 'passing the days'?"
寶山 is a treasure-mountain; 洞天福地 is the Daoist paradise-term straight out of the verse a moment ago, which Bajie has evidently been listening to; 度日 is to get through the days, to eke a living out. Bajie is scandalised on Wukong's behalf that he would undersell the place.
The exchange is quietly weighted. Bajie extols Flower-Fruit Mountain as a paradise — a "grotto-heaven, a blessed land," borrowing the exact phrase of the verse just past — while Wukong, its lord, asks only whether one "could pass one's days" there. The contrast is comic on the surface and does real work underneath: this is the home the Mind-Monkey came back to and made new, and Bajie's errand is precisely to draw him out of it again.