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遞在他手
I Put It In His Hand
我向羅剎處弄得扇子來，卻被這廝變作你的模樣，口稱迎我，我一時歡悅，轉把扇子遞在他手，他卻現了本像，與老孫在此比併，所以誤了大事也。」我向罗刹处弄得扇子来，却被这厮变作你的模样，口称迎我，我一时欢悦，转把扇子递在他手，他却现了本像，与老孙在此比并，所以误了大事也。」
逐句解 Line by line
我向羅剎處弄得扇子來，卻被這廝變作你的模樣，口稱迎我，我一時歡悅，轉把扇子遞在他手，他卻現了本像，與老孫在此比併，所以誤了大事也。」
我向罗刹处弄得扇子来，却被这厮变作你的模样，口称迎我，我一时欢悦，转把扇子递在他手，他却现了本像，与老孙在此比并，所以误了大事也。」
"I got the fan out of the Rākṣasī, and then this creature turned himself into your shape and said he had come to meet me. I was pleased for the moment and handed the fan straight into his hand; whereupon he showed his own form and is here matching himself against old Monkey. That is how the great business was spoiled."
The whole disaster in one sentence, and nothing in it shifts the blame. 弄得扇子來 takes dé, the verb of obtaining with its object actually got, against the light de of 認不得 in the line before. 稱 is chēng, to say or call oneself; 處 is chù, a place, so 羅剎處 is "from the Rākṣasī". 模樣 takes mú and 剎 takes chà.
總評 Commentary
The account is complete, accurate and damning, and the Great Sage gives it without softening a word. 我一時歡悅，轉把扇子遞在他手 — pleased for the moment, and handed it straight over. The verb 遞 is the same one the storyteller used at the end of the opening sequence, and nothing in the retelling moves the fault anywhere else.
Set it against the boast twelve passages back. There the Great Sage told the same story of the theft from the Rākṣasī to a man in a boar's shape, at length and with visible pleasure. Here he tells the sequel to the real Eight Rules, and the telling is short, flat and entirely at his own expense.
所以誤了大事也 closes the speech by accepting the very phrase he had thrown at Eight Rules three lines earlier. The great business was spoiled; he is the one who spoiled it; and he says so in the words he had used to accuse somebody else.