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九曜罵戰
The Nine Luminaries' challenge
當時李天王傳了令，著眾天兵扎了營，把那花果山圍得水泄不通，上下佈了十八架天羅地網，先差九曜惡星出戰。九曜即提兵徑至洞外，只見那洞外大小群猴跳躍頑耍。星官厲聲高叫道：「那小妖，你那大聖在那裡？我等乃上界差調的天神，到此降你這造反的大聖。教他快快來歸降；若道半個不字，教汝等一概遭誅。」那小妖慌忙傳入道：「大聖，禍事了！禍事了！外面有九個兇神，口稱上界差來的天神，收降大聖。」那大聖正與七十二洞妖王並四健將分飲仙酒，一聞此報，公然不理道：「今朝有酒今朝醉，莫管門前是與非。」說不了，一起小妖又跳來道：「那九個兇神惡言潑語，在門前罵戰哩。」大聖笑道：「莫採他。詩酒且圖今日樂，功名休問幾時成。」說猶未了，又一起小妖來報：「爺爺！那九個兇神已把門打破，殺進來也。」大聖怒道：「這潑毛神，老大無禮。本待不與他計較，如何上門來欺我？」即命獨角鬼王：「領帥七十二洞妖王出陣。老孫領四健將隨後。」那鬼王疾帥妖兵出門迎敵，卻被九曜惡星一齊掩殺，抵住在鐵板橋頭，莫能得出。当时李天王传了令，著众天兵扎了营，把那花果山围得水泄不通，上下布了十八架天罗地网，先差九曜恶星出战。九曜即提兵径至洞外，只见那洞外大小群猴跳跃顽耍。星官厉声高叫道：「那小妖，你那大圣在那里？我等乃上界差调的天神，到此降你这造反的大圣。教他快快来归降；若道半个不字，教汝等一概遭诛。」那小妖慌忙传入道：「大圣，祸事了！祸事了！外面有九个凶神，口称上界差来的天神，收降大圣。」那大圣正与七十二洞妖王并四健将分饮仙酒，一闻此报，公然不理道：「今朝有酒今朝醉，莫管门前是与非。」说不了，一起小妖又跳来道：「那九个凶神恶言泼语，在门前骂战哩。」大圣笑道：「莫采他。诗酒且图今日乐，功名休问几时成。」说犹未了，又一起小妖来报：「爷爷！那九个凶神已把门打破，杀进来也。」大圣怒道：「这泼毛神，老大无礼。本待不与他计较，如何上门来欺我？」即命独角鬼王：「领帅七十二洞妖王出阵。老孙领四健将随后。」那鬼王疾帅妖兵出门迎敌，却被九曜恶星一齐掩杀，抵住在铁板桥头，莫能得出。
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當時李天王傳了令，著眾天兵扎了營，把那花果山圍得水泄不通，上下佈了十八架天羅地網，先差九曜惡星出戰。
当时李天王传了令，著众天兵扎了营，把那花果山围得水泄不通，上下布了十八架天罗地网，先差九曜恶星出战。
At that time the Heavenly King Li passed his orders, had the celestial troops pitch their camp, and ringed the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit so tight that not even water could leak through; above and below he spread the eighteen frames of sky-net and earth-snare, and first sent out the Nine Bright Fierce Stars to give battle.
九曜即提兵徑至洞外，只見那洞外大小群猴跳躍頑耍。
九曜即提兵径至洞外，只见那洞外大小群猴跳跃顽耍。
The Nine Luminaries led their troops straight to the cave-mouth, and there saw the monkeys, big and small, leaping and frolicking outside.
星官厲聲高叫道：「那小妖，你那大聖在那裡？我等乃上界差調的天神，到此降你這造反的大聖。教他快快來歸降；若道半個不字，教汝等一概遭誅。」
星官厉声高叫道：「那小妖，你那大圣在那里？我等乃上界差调的天神，到此降你这造反的大圣。教他快快来归降；若道半个不字，教汝等一概遭诛。」
A star-officer cried out in a stern voice: 'You little fiends! Where is that Great Sage of yours? We are celestial gods dispatched from the upper realm, come to subdue this rebel Great Sage. Bid him come quickly and surrender; and should he utter half a “no,” you will all be put to the sword.'
降 here is xiáng, "to subdue, to make surrender" (as in 收降, 歸降); 在那裡 = nǎ lǐ, interrogative "where."
那小妖慌忙傳入道：「大聖，禍事了！禍事了！外面有九個兇神，口稱上界差來的天神，收降大聖。」
那小妖慌忙传入道：「大圣，祸事了！祸事了！外面有九个凶神，口称上界差来的天神，收降大圣。」
The little fiends hurried in to report: 'Great Sage — disaster! Disaster! Outside there are nine fierce gods, calling themselves celestial gods sent from the upper realm to take the Great Sage captive.'
那大聖正與七十二洞妖王並四健將分飲仙酒，一聞此報，公然不理道：「今朝有酒今朝醉，莫管門前是與非。」
那大圣正与七十二洞妖王并四健将分饮仙酒，一闻此报，公然不理道：「今朝有酒今朝醉，莫管门前是与非。」
The Great Sage was just then sharing immortal wine with the kings of the seventy-two caves and the Four Stalwart Generals; hearing the report, he paid it no heed at all, and said: 'Today there’s wine — today get drunk; never mind the rights and wrongs at the gate.'
Monkey’s lines of careless defiance — 今朝有酒今朝醉 ("today there’s wine, today get drunk") and, below, 詩酒且圖今日樂，功名休問幾時成 — are stock couplets of reckless ease.
說不了，一起小妖又跳來道：「那九個兇神惡言潑語，在門前罵戰哩。」
说不了，一起小妖又跳来道：「那九个凶神恶言泼语，在门前骂战哩。」
Before he had finished, a band of little fiends came leaping in again: 'Those nine fierce gods, with foul words and abusive tongues, are hurling challenges at the gate.'
大聖笑道：「莫採他。詩酒且圖今日樂，功名休問幾時成。」
大圣笑道：「莫采他。诗酒且图今日乐，功名休问几时成。」
The Great Sage said with a laugh: 'Take no notice of him. With poems and wine let’s seek today’s pleasure; as for rank and fame, ask not when they’ll be won.'
說猶未了，又一起小妖來報：「爺爺！那九個兇神已把門打破，殺進來也。」
说犹未了，又一起小妖来报：「爷爷！那九个凶神已把门打破，杀进来也。」
He had hardly spoken when yet another band came to report: 'Sire! Those nine fierce gods have already broken down the gate and are fighting their way in.'
大聖怒道：「這潑毛神，老大無禮。本待不與他計較，如何上門來欺我？」
大圣怒道：「这泼毛神，老大无礼。本待不与他计较，如何上门来欺我？」
The Great Sage said in anger: 'These churlish hair-gods — what gross insolence! I had meant not to bother with them, but how dare they come to my very door to bully me?'
即命獨角鬼王：「領帥七十二洞妖王出陣。老孫領四健將隨後。」
即命独角鬼王：「领帅七十二洞妖王出阵。老孙领四健将随后。」
He gave the order at once to the One-Horned Demon King: 'Lead the kings of the seventy-two caves out to battle. Old Sun will follow with the Four Stalwart Generals.'
那鬼王疾帥妖兵出門迎敵，卻被九曜惡星一齊掩殺，抵住在鐵板橋頭，莫能得出。
那鬼王疾帅妖兵出门迎敌，却被九曜恶星一齐掩杀，抵住在铁板桥头，莫能得出。
The Demon King swiftly led the fiend-soldiers out of the gate to meet the foe, but the Nine Bright Fierce Stars fell on them all at once and pinned them at the head of the Iron-Plank Bridge, so that none could get out.
總評 Commentary
The siege passage stages the 心猿’s defiance as comic insouciance. Thrice the alarm is raised — the gate approached, the gate cursed at, the gate broken — and twice Monkey waves it off with proverbs of idle pleasure: 今朝有酒今朝醉 ("today there’s wine, today get drunk"); 詩酒且圖今日樂 ("with poems and wine, seek today’s pleasure"). The mind that disordered heaven now meets heaven’s whole army with a wine-cup and a shrug; only when the gate is actually broken does appetite give way to wrath.
The detail is characteristic of the mind’s relation to time. The very lines he quotes — seize today’s pleasure, ask not when fame is won — are the creed of a consciousness that lives wholly in the present, the same heedlessness that let him treat the thousand-year peaches as a snack. In the 丹 reading this is precisely the unrefined mind’s defect: no continuity, no foresight, no sense of the consequences ripening around it — the hundred thousand troops already encircling the mountain. The One-Horned Demon King, sent out first and at once pinned at the Iron-Plank Bridge, is the first sign that the shrug will no longer serve.