從裡邊罵 He Comes Out Cursing
那牛王正與玉面公主備言其事,懊恨孫行者哩。聽說打破前門,十分發怒,急披掛,拿了鐵棍,從裡邊罵出來道:「潑猢猻!你是多大個人兒,敢這等上門撒潑,打破我門扇?」那牛王正与玉面公主备言其事,懊恨孙行者哩。听说打破前门,十分发怒,急披挂,拿了铁棍,从里边骂出来道:「泼猢狲!你是多大个人儿,敢这等上门撒泼,打破我门扇?」
逐句解 Line by line
The Bull King was just then telling the Jade-Faced Princess the whole affair, and railing at Pilgrim Sun.
The comedy here is precise and entirely unremarked. 備言其事 is to relate a matter in full — and the grievance Eight Rules cut off with a rake two passages ago is at last being delivered complete, to a sympathetic audience, at the exact moment the gate comes down. 哩 holds at li.
Hearing that the front gate was broken he flew into a rage, hurriedly put on his armour, took up his iron staff and came out from within, cursing: "Wretched ape!
披掛 is to put on armour piece by piece, and the Bull King has had to do it twice in two chapters: he was left in his undershirt at the end of Chapter 60 and is only now properly equipped again. 十分 takes 分 at fēn, "wholly".
"How big a fellow are you, that you dare come to my door and make such a riot and break down my gate-leaf?"
A good insult, and it is about size. 門扇 is the leaf of a double door, 扇 taking its ordinary shàn — the very character that carries the banana-leaf fan through this whole chapter, here in its plain sense of a flat hinged panel. 人兒 takes the full ér. 撒潑 is to behave outrageously, and 潑 is the character the Bull King has been throwing at the Great Sage since the chapter opened.
The comedy of the moment is precise and unremarked. 那牛王正與玉面公主備言其事 — the Bull King is at last telling his wife the whole story, the very grievance Eight Rules cut off with a rake two passages earlier, and he gets to finish it just as the front gate is smashed in.
He has to put his armour on again. This is the second time in two chapters: he was left in his undershirt at the end of Chapter 60, having lost mount, armour and weapons in a single day, and 急披掛 is the novel keeping count.
你是多大個人兒 — how big a fellow are you? — is a good insult, and it is about size. The Bull King is enormous and the Great Sage is not, and the question of who is bigger will be picked up and thrown straight back in the next passage. The whole exchange that follows is two demons arguing about scale.