該讓我了 “Now Yield to Me”
吩咐已畢,遂按下雲頭,把毫毛一抖,收上身來。那些人肉眼凡胎,那裡曉得。行者遂在傍邊高叫道:「先生請了。四聲令牌俱已響畢,更沒有風雲雷雨,該讓我了。」吩咐已毕,遂按下云头,把毫毛一抖,收上身来。那些人肉眼凡胎,那里晓得。行者遂在傍边高叫道:「先生请了。四声令牌俱已响毕,更没有风云雷雨,该让我了。」
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His instructions given, he then pressed down his cloud-head, gave his hair a shake, and drew it back onto his body.
吩咐已畢 "his orders finished." 按下雲頭 "pressed the cloud down," the standard way of landing. 一抖: the third tone of 抖 keeps 一 at yì. 收上身來 "drew it back into himself" -- the hair-double reabsorbed.
Those people, with their mortal eyes and common flesh, how could they have known any of it?
那些: 那 = nà. 那裡曉得: 那 = nǎ, the questioning reading used rhetorically -- "how were they to know?"; 得 = de. 肉眼凡胎 "eyes of flesh and a common womb," the fixed phrase for ordinary mortals who cannot see what is really going on. It is used here almost kindly.
Pilgrim then, at the side, called out loudly, “Sir, if you please.
傍邊: 傍 = páng, at the side. 行者: 行 = xíng. 先生請了 "after you, sir" -- the same courtesy he used to usher the immortal onto the altar, now used to usher him off it.
The four strokes of your command-tablet have all sounded and done, and still there is no wind, cloud, thunder, or rain — you ought to yield to me.”
俱已響畢 "all sounded and done with." 更沒有: 更 = gèng; 沒 = méi. 該讓我了 "you ought to give way to me now."
Wukong lands, reabsorbs his double, and none of it has been visible from the tower. What the court has seen is a man crack a tablet four times to no effect at all.
The narrator's aside about 肉眼凡胎 -- mortal eyes, common flesh -- is the novel telling us plainly that the audience in this story is watching the wrong thing. Everyone is looking at the platform. The contest was decided in the air.
And then, with the same "after you, sir" he used to send the immortal up, he asks him to come down. The courtesy is identical and the meaning has reversed completely.