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暫息雷霆 “Stay Your Wrath”
孫大聖合掌開言，厲聲高叫道：「陛下暫息雷霆之怒，容僧等啟奏。」國王道：「你衝撞了國師，國師之言，豈有差謬？」孙大圣合掌开言，厉声高叫道：「陛下暂息雷霆之怒，容僧等启奏。」国王道：「你冲撞了国师，国师之言，岂有差谬？」
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孫大聖合掌開言，厲聲高叫道：「陛下暫息雷霆之怒，容僧等啟奏。」
孙大圣合掌开言，厉声高叫道：「陛下暂息雷霆之怒，容僧等启奏。」
The Great Sage pressed his palms together, spoke up, and cried out in a stern, loud voice, “Your Majesty, calm for a moment your thunderous wrath, and allow us monks to make our plea.”
合掌 "palms pressed together," the Buddhist gesture of respect. 厲聲 "in a stern voice." 雷霆之怒 "thunderbolt fury" -- and worth marking, because within a few passages the chapter will have real thunder in it, under Wukong's command. 容僧等啟奏 "allow us monks to state our case."
國王道：「你衝撞了國師，國師之言，豈有差謬？」
国王道：「你冲撞了国师，国师之言，岂有差谬？」
The king said, “You have affronted the Preceptors; and could there be any error in what the Preceptors say?”
衝撞 "to offend, to affront." 豈有差謬: 差 = chà in 差謬, error or discrepancy.
Wukong answers the death sentence with the oldest move in any courtroom: ask leave to reply. Palms together, voice raised, entirely within the forms of the room.
The king's response frames the difficulty exactly. To doubt the charge is to doubt the Preceptors, and doubting the Preceptors is not something this king does. So the defence cannot simply deny; it has to find a way of leaving their honesty intact while destroying their case.
The phrase 雷霆之怒, thunderbolt fury, is a stock one for royal anger -- and a small piece of foreshadowing, since the person calming it will shortly be giving orders to the thunder gods in person.