舍死忘生 Careless Of Life And Death
他三個舍死忘生，又鬥有百十餘合。八戒發起獃性，仗著行者神通，舉鈀亂築。他三个舍死忘生，又斗有百十余合。八戒发起呆性，仗着行者神通，举钯乱筑。
逐句解 Line by line
The three of them, careless of death and forgetful of life, fought above a hundred bouts more.
舍死忘生 is a set phrase for fighting without regard for survival, and it is a small scholarly event in this chapter. 舍 is shě here, to cast away. 康熙 carries two bands: 始夜切, 音赦 for the dwelling, which is the sense at 神常守舍 in the alchemical poem, and 始野切, 音捨, glossed 廢也 and 置也 and cited from 論語: 不舍晝夜. This phrase is the second band. Every earlier occurrence in this edition is the first, and remains correct.
Eight Rules' idiot streak came up; relying on Pilgrim's divine power he raised his rake and pounded wildly.
What actually breaks the Bull King is given in six characters and is not a compliment. 發起獃性 — his idiot streak came up. 仗著 takes the zhe that keeps the relying going, the third reading of this character in these lines after the zhuó of 著棍擂 and the zháo of 擦著些兒.
舍死忘生 is a set phrase for fighting with no thought for survival, and in this chapter it is also a small scholarly event: the character has to be read against the classification this edition had given it, because the dictionaries carry two distinct readings and only one of them had been recorded.
What actually breaks the Bull King is given in six characters and is not a compliment. 八戒發起獃性 — Eight Rules' idiot streak came up. He stops calculating, leans on his brother's power, and pounds. Three chapters of commentary from the sidelines end in a man swinging a rake without a plan, and it works where two poems of evenly matched skill did not.