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偷酒大醉
Sleep-insects and a drunken feast
這大聖點看不盡，忽聞得一陣酒香撲鼻。忽轉頭，見右壁廂長廊之下，有幾個造酒的仙官、盤糟的力士，領幾個運水的道人、燒火的童子，在那裡洗缸刷甕，已造成了玉液瓊漿，香醪佳釀。大聖止不住口角流涎，就要去吃，奈何那些人都在這裡。他就弄個神通，把毫毛拔下幾根，丟入口中嚼碎，噴將出去，念聲咒語，叫：「變！」即變做幾個瞌睡蟲，奔在眾人臉上。你看那夥人，手軟頭低，閉眉合眼，丟了執事，都去盹睡。大聖卻拿了些百味八珍，佳殽異品，走入長廊裡面，就著缸，挨著甕，放開量，痛飲一番。吃勾了多時，酕醄醉了。自揣自摸道：「不好，不好！再過會，請的客來，卻不怪我？一時拿住，怎生是好？不如早回府中睡去也。」这大圣点看不尽，忽闻得一阵酒香扑鼻。忽转头，见右壁厢长廊之下，有几个造酒的仙官、盘糟的力士，领几个运水的道人、烧火的童子，在那里洗缸刷瓮，已造成了玉液琼浆，香醪佳酿。大圣止不住口角流涎，就要去吃，奈何那些人都在这里。他就弄个神通，把毫毛拔下几根，丢入口中嚼碎，喷将出去，念声咒语，叫：「变！」即变做几个瞌睡虫，奔在众人脸上。你看那伙人，手软头低，闭眉合眼，丢了执事，都去盹睡。大圣却拿了些百味八珍，佳殽异品，走入长廊里面，就著缸，挨著瓮，放开量，痛饮一番。吃勾了多时，酕醄醉了。自揣自摸道：「不好，不好！再过会，请的客来，却不怪我？一时拿住，怎生是好？不如早回府中睡去也。」
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這大聖點看不盡，忽聞得一陣酒香撲鼻。
这大圣点看不尽，忽闻得一阵酒香扑鼻。
The Great Sage, gazing about endlessly, suddenly caught a gust of wine-fragrance at his nose.
忽轉頭，見右壁廂長廊之下，有幾個造酒的仙官、盤糟的力士，領幾個運水的道人、燒火的童子，在那裡洗缸刷甕，已造成了玉液瓊漿，香醪佳釀。
忽转头，见右壁厢长廊之下，有几个造酒的仙官、盘糟的力士，领几个运水的道人、烧火的童子，在那里洗缸刷瓮，已造成了玉液琼浆，香醪佳酿。
He turned his head and saw, beneath the long gallery on the right wall, several wine-brewing immortal officers and lees-working strongmen, leading a few water-carrying Daoists and fire-tending boys, washing vats and scrubbing jars; and they had already made jade-fluid and jasper-broth, fragrant ale and fine vintage.
大聖止不住口角流涎，就要去吃，奈何那些人都在這裡。
大圣止不住口角流涎，就要去吃，奈何那些人都在这里。
The Great Sage could not stop the drool at the corners of his mouth and longed to go and drink — but those people were all right there.
他就弄個神通，把毫毛拔下幾根，丟入口中嚼碎，噴將出去，念聲咒語，叫：「變！」
他就弄个神通，把毫毛拔下几根，丢入口中嚼碎，喷将出去，念声咒语，叫：「变！」
So he worked a magic: he plucked out a few hairs, threw them into his mouth, chewed them to bits, spat them out, recited a spell, and called: 'Change!'
即變做幾個瞌睡蟲，奔在眾人臉上。
即变做几个瞌睡虫，奔在众人脸上。
They turned at once into several sleep-insects, which flew onto the faces of the company.
你看那夥人，手軟頭低，閉眉合眼，丟了執事，都去盹睡。
你看那伙人，手软头低，闭眉合眼，丢了执事，都去盹睡。
Look at that crowd — hands slack, heads drooping, brows shut and eyes closed, they dropped their tasks and all went off to doze.
大聖卻拿了些百味八珍，佳殽異品，走入長廊裡面，就著缸，挨著甕，放開量，痛飲一番。
大圣却拿了些百味八珍，佳殽异品，走入长廊里面，就著缸，挨著瓮，放开量，痛饮一番。
Then the Great Sage took some of the hundred-flavoured delicacies and fine dishes, walked into the long gallery, and right at the vats, up against the jars, let loose his capacity and drank deep.
就著 / 挨著 read with zhe: right up against the vats and jars. 甕 = wèng, a wine-jar.
吃勾了多時，酕醄醉了。
吃勾了多时，酕醄醉了。
Having drunk his fill a good while, he was dead drunk.
自揣自摸道：「不好，不好！再過會，請的客來，卻不怪我？一時拿住，怎生是好？不如早回府中睡去也。」
自揣自摸道：「不好，不好！再过会，请的客来，却不怪我？一时拿住，怎生是好？不如早回府中睡去也。」
He took stock of himself and said: 'No good, no good! In a little while the invited guests will come — won't they blame me? If I'm seized on the spot, how will that be? Better get back to my residence early and sleep it off.'
總評 Commentary
Having taken the feast by fraud, the 心猿 now takes the wine by sorcery — the 瞌睡蟲, the sleep-insects, that drop the whole brewing-staff into a doze. The very power that froze the fairies (定身法) returns here as a soporific: again the mind’s gift is to suspend other consciousnesses so that it may act unwatched. Drink, in the 丹 reading, is the loosening of the self-command that cultivation exists to build; the mind that should be refining itself instead "lets loose its capacity" (放開量) at the vats.
The drunken soliloquy is the chapter’s comic hinge. Even sodden, the 心猿 reckons consequences — 再過會，請的客來，卻不怪我？ — yet draws exactly the wrong lesson: not "I should not have done this," but "I should get away before I am caught." Conscience has collapsed into mere prudence about discovery. It is in this state, blundering and self-excusing, that he will stumble into the elixir-chamber — the deepest theft of all, reached not by design but by a drunkard’s wrong turn.