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夜喚師弟
Rousing His Brothers at Night
按落祥雲，徑至方丈中。原來八戒與沙僧通腳睡著。行者先叫悟淨，沙和尚醒來道：「哥哥，你還不曾睡哩？」行者道：「你且起來，我和你受用些來。」沙僧道：「半夜三更，口枯眼澀，有甚受用？」按落祥云，径至方丈中。原来八戒与沙僧通脚睡着。行者先叫悟净，沙和尚醒来道：「哥哥，你还不曾睡哩？」行者道：「你且起来，我和你受用些来。」沙僧道：「半夜三更，口枯眼涩，有甚受用？」
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按落祥雲，徑至方丈中。
按落祥云，径至方丈中。
He let the auspicious cloud sink and went straight into the abbot's quarters.
按落, to press the cloud down and land. 落 is luò; 中 is zhōng.
原來八戒與沙僧通腳睡著。
原来八戒与沙僧通脚睡着。
There Eight Rules and Sha Monk were sleeping foot-to-foot.
通腳, head to tail — two large men sharing a bed the practical way. 著 in 睡著 is zháo, the reading for a state achieved: asleep.
行者先叫悟淨，沙和尚醒來道：「哥哥，你還不曾睡哩？」
行者先叫悟净，沙和尚醒来道：「哥哥，你还不曾睡哩？」
Pilgrim first called Wujing, and Sha Monk woke: "Brother, haven't you slept yet?"
還 is hái, "still"; 不 is bù before 曾; 哩 is li.
行者道：「你且起來，我和你受用些來。」
行者道：「你且起来，我和你受用些来。」
Pilgrim said: "Get up — you and I will go treat ourselves to something."
受用, to enjoy, to treat oneself — deliberately vague, and the vagueness is bait.
沙僧道：「半夜三更，口枯眼澀，有甚受用？」
沙僧道：「半夜三更，口枯眼涩，有甚受用？」
Sha Monk said: "It's the dead of night, the third watch; mouth dry and eyes gritty — what's there to enjoy?"
Sha Monk is not tempted, and his grumble is the exact voice of a man woken at midnight. 口枯眼澀, mouth dry and eyes gritty. 更 is gēng, the night-watch; 甚 is shén.
總評 Commentary
The tone drops from high ceremony to farce inside a single breath. The Great Sage who was watching a midnight star-rite a moment ago is now shaking his brothers awake to go and raid the altar table.
Sha Monk's sleepy objection — mouth dry, eyes gritty, what is there to enjoy at this hour? — sets the register for everything that follows. And the two impulses are the same impulse in Wukong: having freed the monks, he intends to humiliate the gods their persecutors serve.