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打棍當茶
A Club-Blow for Tea
行者道：「且不必講此閑話。只說老孫今日到你家裡，你好怠慢了遠客。雖無酒饌款待，頭卻是有的。快快將頭伸過來，等老孫打一棍兒當茶。」那怪聞得說打，呵呵大笑道：「孫行者，你差了計較了，你既說要打，不該跟我進來。我這裡大小群妖還有百十，饒你滿身是手，也打不出我的門去。」行者道：「不要胡說，莫說百十個，就有幾千幾萬，只要一個個查明白了好打，棍棍無空，教你斷根絕跡。」行者道：「且不必讲此闲话。只说老孙今日到你家里，你好怠慢了远客。虽无酒馔款待，头却是有的。快快将头伸过来，等老孙打一棍儿当茶。」那怪闻得说打，呵呵大笑道：「孙行者，你差了计较了，你既说要打，不该跟我进来。我这里大小群妖还有百十，饶你满身是手，也打不出我的门去。」行者道：「不要胡说，莫说百十个，就有几千几万，只要一个个查明白了好打，棍棍无空，教你断根绝迹。」
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行者道：「且不必講此閑話。
行者道：「且不必讲此闲话。
Pilgrim said, “Enough of this idle talk.
閑話 (xiánhuà), idle talk, digression.
只說老孫今日到你家裡，你好怠慢了遠客。
只说老孙今日到你家里，你好怠慢了远客。
Say only that old Sun has come to your house today, and you have shown a guest from afar but poor courtesy.
怠慢 (dàimàn), to slight, to treat with scant courtesy. 遠客 (yuǎn kè), a guest from afar.
雖無酒饌款待，頭卻是有的。
虽无酒馔款待，头却是有的。
Though you have no wine and viands to entertain me, a head at least you have.
酒饌 (jiǔ zhuàn), wine and food. 款待 (kuǎndài), to entertain, to receive hospitably.
快快將頭伸過來，等老孫打一棍兒當茶。」
快快将头伸过来，等老孙打一棍儿当茶。」
Come, stretch out that head of yours quickly, and let old Sun give it a blow of the staff by way of tea.”
打一棍兒 (dǎ yì gùn’r), to deal a blow of the staff; 兒 the retroflex suffix, read er. 當茶 (dàng chá), to serve as, in place of, tea; 當 read dàng. 將 read jiāng.
那怪聞得說打，呵呵大笑道：「孫行者，你差了計較了，你既說要打，不該跟我進來。
那怪闻得说打，呵呵大笑道：「孙行者，你差了计较了，你既说要打，不该跟我进来。
The fiend, hearing talk of blows, laughed aloud, “Sun the Pilgrim, you have miscalculated: if you meant to fight, you should not have come in after me.
差了計較 (chà le jìjiào), to have miscalculated, reckoned wrong; 差 read chà. 呵呵大笑 (hēhē dà xiào), to laugh aloud. 聞得 with 得 as de; 那 read nà.
我這裡大小群妖還有百十，饒你滿身是手，也打不出我的門去。」
我这里大小群妖还有百十，饶你满身是手，也打不出我的门去。」
Here I have a good hundred of my host, great and small; though you were hands all over, you could not fight your way out of my door.”
大小群妖 (dàxiǎo qún yāo), the whole host of fiends, great and small. 滿身是手 (mǎn shēn shì shǒu), “hands all over the body,” never so many-handed. 還 read hái.
行者道：「不要胡說，莫說百十個，就有幾千幾萬，只要一個個查明白了好打，棍棍無空，教你斷根絕跡。」
行者道：「不要胡说，莫说百十个，就有几千几万，只要一个个查明白了好打，棍棍无空，教你断根绝迹。」
Pilgrim said, “Talk no nonsense. Never mind a hundred — were there thousands upon thousands, I need only pick them off one by one, and my staff shall not miss a stroke; I will leave you neither root nor trace.”
查明白 (chá míngbai), to make out clearly, to reckon up one by one. 棍棍無空 (gùn gùn wú kōng), not a blow of the staff falling idle. 斷根絕跡 (duàn gēn jué jì), to root out utterly, leave neither root nor trace.
總評 Commentary
Wukong’s challenge is delivered in the sardonic idiom of hospitality turned upside down: cast as an ill-used guest offered no wine, he demands instead the demon’s head, and a blow of the staff “by way of tea.” The grim playfulness — courtesy’s forms bent to the language of slaughter — is characteristic of the novel’s battle-banter, and re-establishes the Great Sage’s swagger after the long masquerade.
The demon’s boast of his hundredfold host and Wukong’s answering vow to club them all, “neither root nor trace,” complete the ritual exchange of taunts that precedes every combat in the novel, and turn the chapter at last from words to war. The passage closes the twentieth block on the threshold of battle, and hands the narrative to the fight and its accompanying verse in the block that follows.