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分屍萬段
Cut Him Into Ten Thousand Pieces
又道：「近聞悟空那廝保唐僧，將近火焰山界，恐他來問你借扇子。我恨那廝害子之仇未報，但來時，可差人報我，等我拿他，分屍萬段，以雪我夫妻之恨。」又道：「近闻悟空那厮保唐僧，将近火焰山界，恐他来问你借扇子。我恨那厮害子之仇未报，但来时，可差人报我，等我拿他，分尸万段，以雪我夫妻之恨。」
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又道：「近聞悟空那廝保唐僧，將近火焰山界，恐他來問你借扇子。
又道：「近闻悟空那厮保唐僧，将近火焰山界，恐他来问你借扇子。
He went on: "I hear of late that the fellow Wukong is escorting the Tang Monk and is near the borders of the Mountain of Flames. I fear he may come to ask you for the loan of the fan."
將近 takes jiāng. 那廝 is contemptuous — that fellow, that thing — and the Great Sage is using it of himself, which is the standing joke of the passage.
我恨那廝害子之仇未報，但來時，可差人報我，等我拿他，分屍萬段，以雪我夫妻之恨。」
我恨那厮害子之仇未报，但来时，可差人报我，等我拿他，分尸万段，以雪我夫妻之恨。」
"I bear that fellow a grudge for my son that is still unavenged. When he comes, send a man to tell me; let me take him and cut his corpse into ten thousand pieces, to wipe out the hatred of us both."
差 is chāi, to depute or send someone on an errand, not the chà of something being amiss. 子 is zǐ, son. 分 is fēn.
總評 Commentary
The improvisation here is genuinely clever and slightly appalling. To make the fan seem urgent he invents a warning about himself; to make the warning convincing he supplies the one motive the real Bull King certainly has, the grievance over the Red Boy. He is quoting his enemy's true feelings back to his enemy's wife in order to rob her, and it works because the feelings are real.
The rhetoric of the second speech is worth attention. He does not merely warn; he asks to be sent for, and promises a dismemberment. 以雪我夫妻之恨 — to wipe out the hatred of us as man and wife — enlists her in the vengeance and repairs, in a single phrase, the marriage he has just admitted to neglecting. It is the most effective thing he says in the whole imposture and the least examined.