打得粉碎 Smashed To Pieces
他兩個領著土地、陰兵一齊上前,使釘鈀,掄鐵棒,乒乒乓乓,把一座摩雲洞的前門打得粉碎。諕得那外護頭目戰戰兢兢,闖入裡邊報道:「大王,孫悟空率眾打破前門也。」他两个领着土地、阴兵一齐上前,使钉钯,抡铁棒,乒乒乓乓,把一座摩云洞的前门打得粉碎。諕得那外护头目战战兢兢,闯入里边报道:「大王,孙悟空率众打破前门也。」
逐句解 Line by line
The two of them led the local god and the shadow-troops forward together, plying the rake and swinging the rod, clang and clatter, until they had smashed the front gate of the Cloud-Touching Cave to pieces.
The novel makes the noise audible: 乒乒乓乓, four characters of clang and clatter dropped into the middle of a sentence about rake and rod. 打得粉碎 takes the light linking de, hooking the verb to its result. 領著 takes the zhe that keeps the leading going. (一 shifts to yì in 一齊, before a rising tone, and to yí in 一座, before a falling one.)
It frightened the headmen of the outer guard into trembling, and they rushed inside to report: "Great King, Sun Wukong has led a crowd and broken the front gate!"
率 is shuài, to lead, not the lǜ of 效率, a rate. 諕 is xià and the 得 after it is the light linking one, hooking the fright to what it produced; the two corrections stand in adjacent characters. 戰戰兢兢 comes from the Book of Songs, of a man walking as if on thin ice.
The attack is on the door, and the novel makes the noise of it audible: 乒乒乓乓, four characters of clatter in the middle of a sentence about rake and rod. Nothing is fought here except a gate, and it comes down in one clause.
The report that follows is delivered by terrified functionaries, and the narrative is beginning to be told through the household's junior staff. First a gatekeeper who did not know the visitors' names, now headmen of the outer guard trembling their way inside with news. The Bull King's establishment is being dismantled from the outside in, and each stage is registered by whoever happens to be standing there.