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搭個橋兒
Have Him Make A Bridge
行者在妖精肚裡支著鐵棒道：「八戒莫愁，我叫他搭個橋兒你看。」那怪物躬起腰來，就似一道路東虹。八戒道：「雖是像橋，只是沒人敢走。」行者道：「我再叫他變做個船兒你看。」行者在妖精肚里支着铁棒道：「八戒莫愁，我叫他搭个桥儿你看。」那怪物躬起腰来，就似一道路东虹。八戒道：「虽是像桥，只是没人敢走。」行者道：「我再叫他变做个船儿你看。」
逐句解 Line by line
行者在妖精肚裡支著鐵棒道：「八戒莫愁，我叫他搭個橋兒你看。」
行者在妖精肚里支着铁棒道：「八戒莫愁，我叫他搭个桥儿你看。」
From inside the demon's belly Pilgrim braced his iron rod and said, "Don't grieve, Eight Rules. I'll have him put up a bridge for you to look at."
著 is the marker zhe. 肚 keeps its fixed dù. The offer is phrased as a performance — something for Eight Rules to watch.
那怪物躬起腰來，就似一道路東虹。
那怪物躬起腰来，就似一道路东虹。
The creature arched its back, and it was for all the world like a rainbow standing east of the road.
似 is fixed at sì. 虹 is hóng, the rainbow.
八戒道：「雖是像橋，只是沒人敢走。」
八戒道：「虽是像桥，只是没人敢走。」
Eight Rules said, "It may look like a bridge, but nobody would dare walk on it."
沒 is méi. The objection is practical and entirely beside the point, which is the shape of every response he makes in this scene.
行者道：「我再叫他變做個船兒你看。」
行者道：「我再叫他变做个船儿你看。」
Pilgrim said, "Then I'll have him turn into a boat for you to look at."
再 — "again," "next" — treats the objection as a request for a different item.
總評 Commentary
Pilgrim's answer to grief is a demonstration. He is inside a body that has just swallowed him whole, and his first move is to make that body perform a trick — announced beforehand, and staged for an audience of one.
Eight Rules criticises the bridge on grounds of safety. It is a good objection to a bridge and no objection at all to what is actually being shown him, and Pilgrim does not argue. He simply offers the next item.
The exchange has the rhythm of a shop rather than a rescue. Something is produced, found wanting, replaced with something else — and each offer closes on the same phrase, 你看, "have a look."