呼名裝魔 He Calls the Name and Bottles the Fiend
那怪甚喜,急縱身跳將起去,到空中,執著葫蘆,叫一聲:「行者孫。」大聖聽得,卻就不歇氣,連應了八九聲,只是不能裝去。那魔墜將下來,跌腳搥胸道:「天那!只說世情不改變哩,這樣個寶貝,也怕老公,雌見了雄,就不敢裝了。」行者笑道:「你且收起,輪到老孫該叫你哩。」急縱觔斗,跳起去,將葫蘆底兒朝天,口兒朝地,照定妖魔,叫聲:「銀角大王。」那怪不敢閉口,只得應了一聲。倏的裝在裡面,被行者貼上「太上老君急急如律令奉敕」的帖子。心中暗喜道:「我的兒,你今日也來試試新了。」那怪甚喜,急纵身跳将起去,到空中,执著葫芦,叫一声:「行者孙。」大圣听得,却就不歇气,连应了八九声,只是不能装去。那魔坠将下来,跌脚搥胸道:「天那!只说世情不改变哩,这样个宝贝,也怕老公,雌见了雄,就不敢装了。」行者笑道:「你且收起,轮到老孙该叫你哩。」急纵觔斗,跳起去,将葫芦底儿朝天,口儿朝地,照定妖魔,叫声:「银角大王。」那怪不敢闭口,只得应了一声。倏的装在里面,被行者贴上「太上老君急急如律令奉敕」的帖子。心中暗喜道:「我的儿,你今日也来试试新了。」
逐句解 Line by line
Delighted, the fiend sprang up in a bound to mid-air, gripped the gourd, and called out once: “Xingzhe Sun!”
甚喜 (shèn xǐ) — "greatly pleased," 甚 the intensifier. 執著 (zhí-zhe), "holding fast," durative. The demon takes the first turn Wukong has offered.
The Great Sage heard, and without pausing for breath answered eight or nine times running — yet still he could not be drawn in.
連應了八九聲 — "answered eight or nine times over"; 應 (yìng), "to answer to a call." The gourd’s rule fails on Wukong, who is no true mortal — the joke’s payoff.
The fiend dropped back down, stamping and beating his breast: “Oh, Heavens!”
墜將下來 — "came falling down." 天那 (tiān na) is an exclamation of dismay, "Oh Heaven!"; here 那 is the interjectional particle (= 哪), read na, not the deictic nà of 那魔 just before it.
“And I’d thought the ways of the world never changed! A treasure like this, and it fears its own husband — the female, seeing the male, dares not bottle him!”
世情不改變 — "the way of things is unaltered." Taking Wukong’s male/female fiction in dead earnest, the demon explains his gourd’s failure by wifely deference — comic self-deception at its richest.
Pilgrim laughed: “Put it away now — it’s Old Sun’s turn to call you.”
輪到 (lún dào) — "the turn comes round to." Wukong claims his half of the wager.
With a quick somersault he leapt up, turned the gourd bottom to the sky and mouth to the ground, took aim at the fiend, and cried: “Silver-Horn King!”
觔斗 (jīn-dǒu) — a somersault, with 斗 read dǒu. 底兒 / 口兒 ("bottom" and "mouth") take the diminutive suffix 兒 (-r). Naming 銀角大王, the Silver-Horn King, is the whole of the attack.
The fiend dared not keep his mouth shut, and could only answer once.
只得 (zhǐ dé) — "had no choice but to"; 應 (yìng), to answer. To stay silent is to lose face; to answer is to be lost.
In a flash he was drawn inside, and Pilgrim pasted on the seal: “Most High Lord Lao — quick, quick, as by statute and decree!”
倏的 (shū de) — "in a trice." The talisman’s formula 急急如律令 ("with all speed, as the law commands") is standard Daoist charm-language; 奉敕 = "by decree." The label seals the fiend within.
In his heart he chuckled: “My child — today it’s your turn to try something new.”
我的兒 (wǒ de ér) — "my boy," a mocking endearment; here 兒 is the standalone noun ér (offspring), not the diminutive suffix. Wukong crows over the bottled demon.
The wager pays off exactly as arranged. The fiend calls, and Wukong answers "eight or nine times" with impunity — the gourd cannot take him, for he is no true mortal — while the demon, having swallowed the male/female fiction whole, blames the failure on his gourd’s wifely timidity. It is comic self-deception of a high order.
Then the reversal: one somersault, the gourd inverted, the name 銀角大王 called, and the fiend — who dares not stay silent — answers himself into the vessel, sealed by the Daoist talismanic formula. The mocking 我的兒 caps the scene. The second of the two brothers is taken, like the first, by his own device.