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搖響之計
The Ruse of the Sloshing
二魔拿入裡面道：「哥哥，拿來了。」老魔道：「拿了誰？」二魔道：「者行孫是我裝在葫蘆裡也。」老魔歡喜道：「賢弟，請坐。不要動，只等搖得響再揭帖兒。」行者聽得道：「我這般一個身子，怎麼便搖得響？只除化成稀汁，才搖得響是。等我撒泡溺罷，他若搖得響時，一定揭帖起蓋，我乘空走他娘罷。」又思道，「不好，不好。溺雖可響，只是污了這直裰。等他搖時，我但聚些唾津漱口，稀漓呼喇的，哄他揭開，老孫再走罷。」二魔拿入里面道：「哥哥，拿来了。」老魔道：「拿了谁？」二魔道：「者行孙是我装在葫芦里也。」老魔欢喜道：「贤弟，请坐。不要动，只等摇得响再揭帖儿。」行者听得道：「我这般一个身子，怎么便摇得响？只除化成稀汁，才摇得响是。等我撒泡溺罢，他若摇得响时，一定揭帖起盖，我乘空走他娘罢。」又思道，「不好，不好。溺虽可响，只是污了这直裰。等他摇时，我但聚些唾津漱口，稀漓呼喇的，哄他揭开，老孙再走罢。」
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二魔拿入裡面道：「哥哥，拿來了。」老魔道：「拿了誰？」二魔道：「者行孫是我裝在葫蘆裡也。」老魔歡喜道：「賢弟，請坐。不要動，只等搖得響再揭帖兒。」
二魔拿入里面道：「哥哥，拿来了。」老魔道：「拿了谁？」二魔道：「者行孙是我装在葫芦里也。」老魔欢喜道：「贤弟，请坐。不要动，只等摇得响再揭帖儿。」
The second fiend carried him inside and said: “Brother, I've brought him.” The old fiend said: “Whom have you brought?” The second fiend said: “Che the Pilgrim — I've bottled him in the gourd.” The old fiend said with delight: “Worthy brother, sit down. Don't move it; only wait till it sloshes when shaken, then peel off the seal.”
裝在葫蘆裡也 (zhuāng zài hú lu lǐ yě), "bottled in the gourd." 只等搖得響再揭帖兒 (zhǐ děng yáo de xiǎng zài jiē tiē er), "wait till it sloshes when shaken, then peel the seal" — complement de, diminutive er; the fiends' test for whether the captive has dissolved.
行者聽得道：「我這般一個身子，怎麼便搖得響？只除化成稀汁，才搖得響是。等我撒泡溺罷，他若搖得響時，一定揭帖起蓋，我乘空走他娘罷。」
行者听得道：「我这般一个身子，怎么便摇得响？只除化成稀汁，才摇得响是。等我撒泡溺罢，他若摇得响时，一定揭帖起盖，我乘空走他娘罢。」
Pilgrim heard this and thought: “A whole body like mine — how could it slosh when shaken? Only if I melted to a thin broth would it slosh. Let me piss out a puddle; when it sloshes for him, he'll surely lift the seal and raise the lid, and I'll take the chance and clear off — damn him.”
才搖得響是 (cái yáo de xiǎng shì), "only then would it slosh" — complement de. 撒泡溺罷 (sā pào niào ba), "piss out a puddle" — hortative ba. 我乘空走他娘罷 (wǒ chéng kōng zǒu tā niáng ba), "take the chance and clear off" — the coarse 罷, ba.
又思道，「不好，不好。溺雖可響，只是污了這直裰。等他搖時，我但聚些唾津漱口，稀漓呼喇的，哄他揭開，老孫再走罷。」
又思道，「不好，不好。溺虽可响，只是污了这直裰。等他摇时，我但聚些唾津漱口，稀漓呼喇的，哄他揭开，老孙再走罢。」
Then he thought again: “No, no. Piss might slosh, but it would only foul this cassock. When he shakes it, I'll just gather up some spittle and rinse my mouth, and with a thin sloshing gurgle trick him into lifting it — then Old Monkey clears off.”
污了這直裰 (wū le zhè zhí duō), "foul this cassock" — 直裰, a monk's long robe. 聚些唾津漱口 (jù xiē tuò jīn shù kǒu), "gather spittle and rinse the mouth." 稀漓呼喇的 (xī lí hū lā de), "with a thin sloshing gurgle," the counterfeit sound of a melted body.
總評 Commentary
The demons' test is grounded in the same folklore as the melting: the gourd's captive is judged dissolved when the shaken vessel sloshes, and the old fiend's patient instruction — don't move it, wait for the sound — sets Wukong the exact problem the passage is built to solve. He must counterfeit the very dissolution he has just assured himself he need not fear.
The comedy is scatological and self-correcting, a small window on Wukong's fastidiousness. His first scheme — to piss a puddle so the gourd will slosh — is rejected not on any grounds of danger but because it would foul his cassock, and the refined substitute is a mouthful of spittle worked into a convincing gurgle. That the indestructible Great Sage, having faced down the fear of melting, should pause over the dignity of his robe is a fine human touch, and the plan he settles on turns the demons' own test into the instrument of his escape.