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打五棍
Five Strokes
行者罵道：「我把你個囊糠的夯貨！這般要緊的所在，教你去巡山，你卻去睡覺。不是啄木蟲叮你醒來，你還在那裡睡哩。及叮醒，又編這樣大謊，可不誤了大事？你快伸過孤拐來，打五棍記心。」八戒慌了道：「那個哭喪棒重，擦一擦兒皮塌，挽一挽兒筋傷；若打五下，就是死了。」行者道：「你怕打，卻怎麼扯謊？」八戒道：「哥哥呀，只是這一遭兒，以後再不敢了。」行者道：「一遭便打三棍。」八戒道：「爺爺呀！半棍兒也禁不得。」行者骂道：「我把你个囊糠的夯货！这般要紧的所在，教你去巡山，你却去睡觉。不是啄木虫叮你醒来，你还在那里睡哩。及叮醒，又编这样大谎，可不误了大事？你快伸过孤拐来，打五棍记心。」八戒慌了道：「那个哭丧棒重，擦一擦儿皮塌，挽一挽儿筋伤；若打五下，就是死了。」行者道：「你怕打，却怎么扯谎？」八戒道：「哥哥呀，只是这一遭儿，以后再不敢了。」行者道：「一遭便打三棍。」八戒道：「爷爷呀！半棍儿也禁不得。」
逐句解 Line by line
行者罵道：「我把你個囊糠的夯貨！這般要緊的所在，教你去巡山，你卻去睡覺。
行者骂道：「我把你个囊糠的夯货！这般要紧的所在，教你去巡山，你却去睡觉。
Pilgrim railed: “You chaff-brained blockhead! At so critical a spot, I sent you to patrol the mountain, and off you went to sleep instead.
囊糠的夯貨 (náng kāng de hāng huò), "chaff-brained blockhead." 睡覺 — 覺 jiào.
不是啄木蟲叮你醒來，你還在那裡睡哩。
不是啄木虫叮你醒来，你还在那里睡哩。
Had a woodpecker not pecked you awake, you’d be sleeping there yet.
叮醒 (dīng xǐng), "to peck [someone] awake." 還 hái; 那裡 here deictic nà.
及叮醒，又編這樣大謊，可不誤了大事？
及叮醒，又编这样大谎，可不误了大事？
And pecked awake, you go and spin so great a lie — would that not have wrecked the whole enterprise?
誤了大事 (wù le dà shì), "to wreck the great enterprise."
你快伸過孤拐來，打五棍記心。」
你快伸过孤拐来，打五棍记心。」
Stick out your ankle-bone this instant — five strokes to fix it in your memory.”
孤拐 (gūguǎi), "ankle-bone." 記心, "to fix in memory."
八戒慌了道：「那個哭喪棒重，擦一擦兒皮塌，挽一挽兒筋傷；若打五下，就是死了。」
八戒慌了道：「那个哭丧棒重，擦一擦儿皮塌，挽一挽儿筋伤；若打五下，就是死了。」
Eight Rules panicked: “That mourning-staff is heavy — a mere graze splits the skin, a mere brush wrenches the sinew; five strokes and I’m a dead pig.”
哭喪棒 (kū sāng bàng), "mourning-staff" (a name for the cudgel). 重 zhòng; 擦兒/挽兒 — 兒 er; 那 nà.
行者道：「你怕打，卻怎麼扯謊？」
行者道：「你怕打，却怎么扯谎？」
Said Pilgrim: “If you fear a beating, then why tell lies?”
扯謊 (chě huǎng), "to tell lies."
八戒道：「哥哥呀，只是這一遭兒，以後再不敢了。」
八戒道：「哥哥呀，只是这一遭儿，以后再不敢了。」
Said Eight Rules: “Brother, just this once — I’ll never dare again.”
這一遭兒 (zhè yì zāo er), "just this once." 兒 er.
行者道：「一遭便打三棍。」
行者道：「一遭便打三棍。」
Said Pilgrim: “For this once, then, three strokes.”
一遭便打三棍 (yì zāo biàn dǎ sān gùn), "for this once, three strokes."
八戒道：「爺爺呀！半棍兒也禁不得。」
八戒道：「爷爷呀！半棍儿也禁不得。」
Said Eight Rules: “Good heavens! I couldn’t bear even half a stroke.”
禁不得 (jīn bù dé), "cannot bear" — 禁 here jīn (to endure). 棍兒 — 兒 er; 得 de.
總評 Commentary
With the lie exposed, Pilgrim moves to punishment, cataloguing the offense — sent to patrol a dangerous pass, the pig slept, was pecked awake, and then lied so grossly as to endanger everyone — and demands five strokes of the cudgel. Eight Rules’s plea is pure comic exaggeration: the “mourning-staff” is so heavy that a graze splits skin and a brush wrenches sinew, and five blows would kill him outright.
The haggling that follows reduces the reckoning to farce. Pilgrim drops the count to three; Eight Rules protests he could not survive half a stroke. The negotiation over the exact number of blows — like a merchant bargaining over price — deflates the disciplinary moment entirely, turning what might be a scene of authority into another set-piece of the pig’s cowardice and the monkey’s exasperated command.