原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
含詞賦 With rhapsody
混戰天兵
The great mêlée (battle rhapsody)
李天王即調四大天王與二十八宿，一路出師來鬥。大聖也公然不懼，調出獨角鬼王、七十二洞妖王與四個健將，就於洞門外列成陣勢。你看這場混戰，好驚人也：寒風颯颯，怪霧陰陰。那壁廂旌旗飛彩，這壁廂戈戟生輝。滾滾盔明，層層甲亮。滾滾盔明映太陽，如撞天的銀磬；層層甲亮砌岩崖，似壓地的冰山。大桿刀，飛雲掣電；楮白槍，度霧穿雲。方天戟，虎眼鞭，麻林擺列；青銅劍，四明鏟，密樹排陣。彎弓硬弩雕翎箭，短棍蛇矛挾了魂。大聖一條如意棒，翻來覆去戰天神。殺得那空中無鳥過，山內虎狼奔；揚砂走石乾坤黑，播土飛塵宇宙昏。只聽兵兵撲撲驚天地，煞煞威威振鬼神。李天王即调四大天王与二十八宿，一路出师来斗。大圣也公然不惧，调出独角鬼王、七十二洞妖王与四个健将，就于洞门外列成阵势。你看这场混战，好惊人也：寒风飒飒，怪雾阴阴。那壁厢旌旗飞彩，这壁厢戈戟生辉。滚滚盔明，层层甲亮。滚滚盔明映太阳，如撞天的银磬；层层甲亮砌岩崖，似压地的冰山。大杆刀，飞云掣电；楮白枪，度雾穿云。方天戟，虎眼鞭，麻林摆列；青铜剑，四明铲，密树排阵。弯弓硬弩雕翎箭，短棍蛇矛挟了魂。大圣一条如意棒，翻来覆去战天神。杀得那空中无鸟过，山内虎狼奔；扬砂走石乾坤黑，播土飞尘宇宙昏。只听兵兵扑扑惊天地，煞煞威威振鬼神。
逐句解 Line by line
李天王即調四大天王與二十八宿，一路出師來鬥。
李天王即调四大天王与二十八宿，一路出师来斗。
The Heavenly King Li then deployed the Four Great Heavenly Kings with the Twenty-Eight Mansions, and they marched out as one to do battle.
大聖也公然不懼，調出獨角鬼王、七十二洞妖王與四個健將，就於洞門外列成陣勢。
大圣也公然不惧，调出独角鬼王、七十二洞妖王与四个健将，就于洞门外列成阵势。
The Great Sage, for his part, feared them not at all: he called out the One-Horned Demon King, the kings of the seventy-two caves, and the four Stalwart Generals, and drew them up in battle array outside the cave-mouth.
你看這場混戰，好驚人也：
你看这场混战，好惊人也：
Look at this great mêlée — a fearsome sight indeed:
寒風颯颯，
寒风飒飒，
Cold wind soughing,
怪霧陰陰。
怪雾阴阴。
weird fog brooding.
那壁廂旌旗飛彩，
那壁厢旌旗飞彩，
On that side, banners flying their colours;
這壁廂戈戟生輝。
这壁厢戈戟生辉。
on this side, dagger-axes and halberds agleam.
滾滾盔明，
滚滚盔明，
Rank on rank of bright helmets,
層層甲亮。
层层甲亮。
layer on layer of shining mail.
滾滾盔明映太陽，
滚滚盔明映太阳，
The bright helmets, rank on rank, mirror the sun,
如撞天的銀磬；
如撞天的银磬；
like silver chimes ringing against the sky;
層層甲亮砌岩崖，
层层甲亮砌岩崖，
the shining mail, layer on layer, builds up like a cliff-face,
似壓地的冰山。
似压地的冰山。
like an ice-mountain bearing down on the earth.
大桿刀，
大杆刀，
Long-shafted sabres,
飛雲掣電；
飞云掣电；
flying cloud and flashing lightning;
楮白槍，
楮白枪，
white mulberry spears,
度霧穿雲。
度雾穿云。
crossing mist and piercing cloud.
方天戟，
方天戟，
Square-sky halberds,
虎眼鞭，
虎眼鞭，
tiger-eye maces,
麻林擺列；
麻林摆列；
arrayed thick as a hemp-grove;
青銅劍，
青铜剑，
bronze swords,
四明鏟，
四明铲，
four-bright spades,
密樹排陣。
密树排阵。
ranked dense as a forest.
彎弓硬弩雕翎箭，
弯弓硬弩雕翎箭，
Curved bows, stiff crossbows, eagle-feathered shafts,
短棍蛇矛挾了魂。
短棍蛇矛挟了魂。
short cudgels and serpent-lances that snatch the soul away.
大聖一條如意棒，
大圣一条如意棒，
The Great Sage, with his one As-You-Will cudgel,
翻來覆去戰天神。
翻来覆去战天神。
turning and wheeling, battles the gods of heaven.
殺得那空中無鳥過，
杀得那空中无鸟过，
He fights till no bird crosses the empty air,
山內虎狼奔；
山内虎狼奔；
and the tigers and wolves flee within the hills;
揚砂走石乾坤黑，
扬砂走石乾坤黑，
flung sand and rolling stones — heaven and earth go black,
乾坤 here is qián kūn, "heaven and earth" — 乾 keeps its qián reading and is retained, not converted, in the simplified text.
播土飛塵宇宙昏。
播土飞尘宇宙昏。
scattered earth and flying dust — the universe grows dim.
只聽兵兵撲撲驚天地，
只听兵兵扑扑惊天地，
One hears only clang upon clatter, startling heaven and earth,
煞煞威威振鬼神。
煞煞威威振鬼神。
fierce and terrible, shaking the very gods and ghosts.
總評 Commentary
The battle 賦 is the chapter’s set-piece of pure chaos, and its craft is catalogue: helmets like silver chimes and mail like an ice-cliff, then a long inventory of weapons — sabres, spears, halberds, maces, swords, spades, bows, lances — massed "thick as a hemp-grove" and "dense as a forest." Against this whole armoury the 心猿 sets a single implement: 大聖一條如意棒 ("the Great Sage, with his one As-You-Will cudgel"). The entire apparatus of celestial war against one staff is the visual form of the chapter’s recurring disproportion.
The closing couplets dissolve the scene into cosmic disorder — 揚砂走石乾坤黑，播土飛塵宇宙昏 ("flung sand and rolling stones, heaven and earth go black; scattered earth and flying dust, the universe grows dim"). The very words 乾坤 and 宇宙 are darkened by the fray. In the inner-alchemical reading this darkening is the condition of the unstilled mind at full pitch: the 心猿’s energies, unrefined and at war, blot out the clear order they were meant to harmonize. The staff’s name says it exactly — 如意, "according to the mind’s wish": a will that bends the world to its own motion, here filling the whole sky with dust.