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五行撥亂
The Five Phases Thrown Awry
這一場好殺：这一场好杀：
惱壞潑妖王，怒發沖冠志。恼坏泼妖王，怒发冲冠志。
恨不過撾來囫圇吞，難解心頭氣。恨不过挝来囫囵吞，难解心头气。
惡口罵猢猻：「你老大將人戲，傷我若干生，還來偷寶貝。恶口骂猢狲：「你老大将人戏，伤我若干生，还来偷宝贝。
這場決不容，定見存亡計。」这场决不容，定见存亡计。」
大聖喝妖魔：「你好不知趣，徒弟要與老孫爭，累卵焉能擊石碎？」大圣喝妖魔：「你好不知趣，徒弟要与老孙争，累卵焉能击石碎？」
寶劍來，鐵棒去，兩家更不留仁義。宝剑来，铁棒去，两家更不留仁义。
一翻二復賭輸贏，三轉四回施武藝。一翻二复赌输赢，三转四回施武艺。
蓋為取經僧，靈山參佛位。盖为取经僧，灵山参佛位。
致令金火不相投，五行撥亂傷和氣；致令金火不相投，五行拨乱伤和气；
揚威耀武顯神通，走石飛沙弄本事。扬威耀武显神通，走石飞沙弄本事。
交鋒漸漸日將晡，魔頭力怯先迴避。交锋渐渐日将晡，魔头力怯先回避。
逐句解 Line by line
這一場好殺：
这一场好杀：
It was a fine fight:
這一場好殺 — "this was a fine fight," the formulaic lead-in to the battle-賦.
惱壞潑妖王，怒發沖冠志。
恼坏泼妖王，怒发冲冠志。
Maddened, the vile fiend-king; his wrath rose bristling to his cap.
怒發沖冠 — "hair bristling against the cap," the classic image of towering rage; 冠 read guān ("cap").
恨不過撾來囫圇吞，難解心頭氣。
恨不过挝来囫囵吞，难解心头气。
So galled he could scarce forbear to seize the ape and gulp him down whole, he could not dispel the fury at his heart.
撾 (zhuā) — "to seize, snatch." 囫圇 (húlún), "whole, entire"; 難解, "hard to dispel," 難 nán, 解 jiě.
惡口罵猢猻：「你老大將人戲，傷我若干生，還來偷寶貝。
恶口骂猢狲：「你老大将人戏，伤我若干生，还来偷宝贝。
In foul words he cursed the monkey: “You make a great sport of folk, have cost me so many lives, and still come stealing my treasures!
將人戲 — "make sport of people," 將 the disposal marker (jiāng); 還來偷, "and still come stealing," 還 read hái.
這場決不容，定見存亡計。」
这场决不容，定见存亡计。」
This bout I’ll by no means allow — it must come to a reckoning of life and death!”
存亡計 — "a reckoning of survival or ruin"; the fiend swears the fight will be to the death.
大聖喝妖魔：「你好不知趣，徒弟要與老孫爭，累卵焉能擊石碎？」
大圣喝妖魔：「你好不知趣，徒弟要与老孙争，累卵焉能击石碎？」
The Great Sage shouted at the fiend: “You’ve no sense of the fitness of things! A disciple means to strive with Old Sun — how can piled eggs strike a stone and break it?”
喝 (hè) — to shout. 累卵焰能擊石碎, "how can heaped eggs smash a stone?", a proverb of hopeless mismatch — the fiend the eggs, Wukong the stone.
寶劍來，鐵棒去，兩家更不留仁義。
宝剑来，铁棒去，两家更不留仁义。
The treasure-sword came, the iron cudgel went; the two sides kept back no whit of mercy.
更不留仁義 — "kept back no more benevolence," 更 read gèng. The couplet marks the combat as without quarter.
一翻二復賭輸贏，三轉四回施武藝。
一翻二复赌输赢，三转四回施武艺。
Once over and twice again they gambled win and loss; three turns and four rounds they plied their martial arts.
一翻二復 / 三轉四回 — the numeral parallelism (one-two, three-four) renders the back-and-forth of the exchange.
蓋為取經僧，靈山參佛位。
盖为取经僧，灵山参佛位。
All was for the scripture-seeking monk, bound for the Buddha-seat on Spirit Mountain;
蓋為 (gài wèi) — "all for the sake of," 為 the preposition wèi; 靈山參佛位, "at Spirit Mountain to attend the Buddha-throne," 參 read cān.
致令金火不相投，五行撥亂傷和氣；
致令金火不相投，五行拨乱伤和气；
and so metal and fire would not consort, the Five Phases were thrown into disorder, and the concord was breached;
金火不相投 — "metal and fire will not mix," 相 read xiāng; 五行撥亂, "the Five Phases thrown awry," 行 xíng; 傷和氣, "harmed the concord," 和 read hé. The duel is cast as a derangement of cosmic balance.
揚威耀武顯神通，走石飛沙弄本事。
扬威耀武显神通，走石飞沙弄本事。
flaunting might and parading valor, they showed their divine powers; sending stones rolling and sand flying, they plied their arts.
走石飛沙 — "stones roll, sand flies," the stock hyperbole for a battle of magical champions.
交鋒漸漸日將晡，魔頭力怯先迴避。
交锋渐渐日将晡，魔头力怯先回避。
As the clash wore on, little by little the day drew toward dusk, and the fiend-chief, his strength failing, was the first to flinch away.
日將普 (rì jiāng bū) — "the sun nearing the 普 hour [late afternoon]," 將 here adverbial jiāng ("about to"). The fiend weakens as evening comes.
總評 Commentary
The second duel-賦 raises the single combat to a cosmic register. The fiend, "hair bristling to his cap," curses and swears a fight to the death; Wukong answers with the proverb of heaped eggs against a stone — the mismatch stated as a law of nature. The exchange is rendered in numeral parallelism, one-two, three-four, the very rhythm of blows.
The verse’s conceptual heart is the Five-Phases imagery: "metal and fire will not consort," the elements "thrown into disorder," the cosmic "concord breached." The fight is not merely two champions but a derangement of the ordered universe, fought "all for the scripture-seeking monk." It ends, as such duels do, with dusk and the villain’s failing strength — the fiend the first to flinch, and flight the next movement’s business.