The monsters had drawn up in battle-array, and there at their head was Ah-Seven, the Great King.

當頭的 (dāngtóu de) — "the one at the head, in the van," 當 read dāng. Ah-Seven leads the newly mustered host.

He was made with a jade face and a long beard, steel brows and blade-like ears;

長髯 (cháng rán) — "a long beard," 長 read cháng ("long," not zhǎng). The portrait gives the fox-uncle a fierce martial mien.

on his head a helmet of wrought gold, on his body a coat of chain-mail, in his hand a square-heaven halberd.

鎖子甲 — "chain-mail," 子 the suffix (zi); 方天戟, the "square-heaven halberd," a famous heavy weapon.

He railed aloud: “You great insolent, vile monkey!

大膽的潑猴 — "you brazen, vile ape"; Ah-Seven opens the pre-combat exchange of insults.

How dare you bully folk so?

怎敢這等欺人 — "how dare [you] bully people thus"; the challenger’s indignation.

You stole the treasures, hurt the kinsfolk, killed the demon-soldiers, and now dare hold the cave-dwelling so long besides.

久占洞府 — "long occupy the cave-manor," 占 read zhàn ("occupy"). The catalogue of grievances, now in the mouth of the avenging uncle.

Get on with it, the lot of you — stretch out your necks and take your deaths, that the wrong to my sister’s house be wiped clean!”

趕早兒 (gǎn zǎo r) — "quick, get on with it," 兒 the suffix (er); 引頸受死, "stretch the neck and take death."

Pilgrim railed back: “You pack of death-courting fur-balls — you don’t know Grandpa Sun’s measures!

毛團 — "fur-ball," a jeering epithet for the beast-spirits; 孫外公, "Grandpa Sun," Wukong’s mock self-elevation over his foe.

Don’t run — take a taste of my cudgel!”

領吾一棒 — "receive one blow of mine"; the insults give way to the first stroke.