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仍送還他 We Will Send It Back
我卻饒了他，拿將扇來。待過了火焰山，仍送還他。」三藏聞言，感謝不盡。我却饶了他，拿将扇来。待过了火焰山，仍送还他。」三藏闻言，感谢不尽。
逐句解 Line by line
我卻饒了他，拿將扇來。
我却饶了他，拿将扇来。
'So I let her go, and brought the fan away.'
拿將扇來 uses 將 as the colloquial filler inside a verb phrase, on the pattern of 打將來 — not the handling word, though it sounds the same.
待過了火焰山，仍送還他。」
待过了火焰山，仍送还他。」
'Once we are past the Mountain of Flames, we shall send it back to her.'
還 is the verb huán, to give back. The promise he made her at the cave door is repeated to his master, and this time nobody is being persuaded of anything — which suggests he means it.
三藏聞言，感謝不盡。
三藏闻言，感谢不尽。
Tripitaka, hearing him out, thanked him without end.
感謝不盡, thanking without end, for the second time in the chapter. Pilgrim used the same phrase of Lingji a little earlier, and both times the thanks are for a gift that has not yet been tested.
我卻饒了他 — so I let her go. Nine characters for the mercy, and the verb is the one she used when she begged for it. The promise that follows is the one he made at the cave: once past the mountain, the fan goes back.
He has no reason to say it here. There is nobody to persuade — the woman is fifty thousand lǐ behind him and his master would never have thought to ask. That he repeats it in a room where it buys him nothing is the strongest evidence in the chapter that the 志誠有餘的君子 speech at the cave door was not purely tactical.
感謝不盡 — Tripitaka thanked him without end. It is the chapter's second use of the phrase, after Pilgrim used it of Lingji. The same formula passes from monkey to Bodhisattva and from monk to monkey, and both times the thanks are for a gift that has not yet been tested.