去見玉帝 On To The Jade Emperor
道罷,那行者也似這般這般說了一遍。眾天神看夠多時,也不能辨。他兩個吆喝道:「你們既不能認,讓開路,等我們去見玉帝!」道罢,那行者也似这般这般说了一遍。众天神看够多时,也不能辨。他两个吆喝道:「你们既不能认,让开路,等我们去见玉帝!」
逐句解 Line by line
When he had done speaking, that Pilgrim likewise recited the same such and such all over again.
The narrator will not write the duplicate speech out a second time and fobs us off with a formula: 似這般這般, in this manner and that. 似 is sì throughout the project.
The host of heavenly spirits looked their fill for a good long while, and they too could not distinguish them.
看夠多時, looked their fill for a good long time — the third authority beaten, and beaten by exactly the same means as the first two.
The two of them shouted: "Since you cannot tell either, clear the road and let us go and see the Jade Emperor!"
Both of them shout it, in one voice. 吆喝 takes hè, to shout, under the chapter 52 ruling; the automatic reading gives hē, which belongs to drinking.
The narrator's shortcut is itself a piece of characterisation. 似這般這般說了一遍 refuses to write the second speech out, and the refusal is not laziness but exhaustion. The duplication has become so regular that a formula will do. The reader is being trained to expect the echo, which is what will make its eventual breaking land.
The demand that closes the passage is the first time the pair speak in genuine concert rather than one after the other. 你們既不能認 — since you cannot tell either — turns the gods' failure into a shared grievance and a claim of right. The impostor has worked out that being indistinguishable is not his problem but his protection, and he can now press for a higher court in the same breath as his original.