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詐換金繩
The Cord Swapped by Guile
行者仍站在跟前，要偷他寶貝。真個甚有見識：走上廳，對那怪扯個腿子道：「大王，你看那孫行者拴在柱上，左右爬蹉，磨壞那根金繩，得一根粗壯些的繩子換將下來才好。」老魔道：「說得是。」即將腰間的獅蠻帶解下，遞與行者。行者接了帶，把假妝的行者拴住。換下那條繩子，一窩兒窩兒籠在袖內。又拔一根毫毛，吹口仙氣，變作一根假幌金繩，雙手送與那怪。那怪只因貪酒，那曾細看，就便收下。這個是大聖騰那弄本事，毫毛又換幌金繩。行者仍站在跟前，要偷他宝贝。真个甚有见识：走上厅，对那怪扯个腿子道：「大王，你看那孙行者拴在柱上，左右爬蹉，磨坏那根金绳，得一根粗壮些的绳子换将下来才好。」老魔道：「说得是。」即将腰间的狮蛮带解下，递与行者。行者接了带，把假妆的行者拴住。换下那条绳子，一窝儿窝儿笼在袖内。又拔一根毫毛，吹口仙气，变作一根假幌金绳，双手送与那怪。那怪只因贪酒，那曾细看，就便收下。这个是大圣腾那弄本事，毫毛又换幌金绳。
逐句解 Line by line
行者仍站在跟前，要偷他寶貝。真個甚有見識：走上廳，對那怪扯個腿子道：「大王，你看那孫行者拴在柱上，左右爬蹉，磨壞那根金繩，得一根粗壯些的繩子換將下來才好。」
行者仍站在跟前，要偷他宝贝。真个甚有见识：走上厅，对那怪扯个腿子道：「大王，你看那孙行者拴在柱上，左右爬蹉，磨坏那根金绳，得一根粗壮些的绳子换将下来才好。」
Pilgrim, still standing by, meant to steal the fiend's treasure. Truly he was quite resourceful: he went up into the hall, made a leg to the fiend, and said: “Great King, look — that Sun the Pilgrim, tied to the pillar, has been scrabbling left and right and worn through the gold cord; you'd best get a stouter rope to swap in for it.”
真個甚有見識 (zhēn gè shèn yǒu jiàn shí), "truly quite resourceful" — 甚 the intensifier shèn, "very." 那孫行者拴在柱上 (nà sūn xíng zhě shuān zài zhù shàng), "that Sun the Pilgrim tied to the pillar," deictic nà. 得一根粗壯些的繩子 (dé yì gēn cū zhuàng xiē de shéng zi), "get a stouter rope" — 得 read dé, to obtain.
老魔道：「說得是。」即將腰間的獅蠻帶解下，遞與行者。行者接了帶，把假妝的行者拴住。
老魔道：「说得是。」即将腰间的狮蛮带解下，递与行者。行者接了带，把假妆的行者拴住。
The old fiend said: “Well said.” and at once untied the lion-and-barbarian belt from his waist and handed it to Pilgrim. Pilgrim took the belt and tied up the false Pilgrim with it; then, unfastening that cord, he coiled it loop upon loop and stowed it in his sleeve.
說得是 (shuō de shì), "well said" — complement de. 即將腰間的獅蠻帶解下 (jí jiāng yāo jiān de shī mán dài jiě xià), "untied the lion-and-barbarian belt" — disposal 將, 解 read jiě. 獅蠻帶 (shī mán dài), a warrior's ornamented belt.
換下那條繩子，一窩兒窩兒籠在袖內。又拔一根毫毛，吹口仙氣，變作一根假幌金繩，雙手送與那怪。那怪只因貪酒，那曾細看，就便收下。
换下那条绳子，一窝儿窝儿笼在袖内。又拔一根毫毛，吹口仙气，变作一根假幌金绳，双手送与那怪。那怪只因贪酒，那曾细看，就便收下。
He plucked out another hair, blew on it a breath of immortal air, and made it into a false gold-glinting cord, which he presented with both hands to the fiend. The fiend, being wholly bent on his wine, when did he look closely? — he just took it and put it by.
一窩兒窩兒 (yì wō er wō er), "loop upon loop," diminutive er. 那曾細看 (nǎ céng xì kàn), "when did he look closely?" — rhetorical nǎ; but 送與那怪 (sòng yǔ nà guài), "presented to the fiend," deictic nà. 就便收下 (jiù biàn shōu xià), "just took it and put it by.”
這個是大聖騰那弄本事，毫毛又換幌金繩。
这个是大圣腾那弄本事，毫毛又换幌金绳。
This was the Great Sage plying his shifting arts and turning a hair, once more, for the gold-glinting cord.
A paired storyteller's tag. 大聖騰那弄本事 (dà shèng téng nuó nòng běn shì), "the Great Sage plying his shifting arts" — 騰那 (téng nuó), the chapter title's compound; here 那 read nuó, a variant of 挪, "to move.”
總評 Commentary
Undeterred by the loss of his plunder, Wukong at once contrives to recover it, and his method is the chapter's signature: not theft by stealth but a swindle worked in the open, gulling the demon into handing over a treasure by feigning solicitude for the very captive he is. The pretext — the cord is fraying, fetch a stouter rope — is impeccable, and the demon, obliging, gives up his belt and receives a counterfeit cord in exchange.
The success turns, as the whole chapter does, on the enemy's inattention: 那曾細看，就便收下 — deep in his cups, the fiend never looks, and takes the fake. The closing couplet names the method once more as 騰那, the art of shifting and maneuvering that is the title's own word, and the phrase 毫毛又換幌金繩 — a hair, again, for the gold cord — marks this as a repetition of the earlier swindle, the trickster running the same play twice on a distracted foe. The stolen treasure is Sun's again; but the reader, remembering how the last recovery ended, waits to see whether this one holds.