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要丸藥 It Is For The Pills
行者又將盞子遞與他道：「你再去把我們的馬尿等半盞來。」八戒道：「要他怎的？」行者道：「要丸藥。」行者又将盏子递与他道：「你再去把我们的马尿等半盏来。」八戒道：「要他怎的？」行者道：「要丸药。」
逐句解 Line by line
行者又將盞子遞與他道：「你再去把我們的馬尿等半盞來。」
行者又将盏子递与他道：「你再去把我们的马尿等半盏来。」
Pilgrim handed him the cup again and said, "Now go and catch half a cupful of our horse's urine."
The fourth ingredient, ordered in the same flat tone as the third. 等 here is the everyday sense of waiting to catch something as it comes down.
八戒道：「要他怎的？」
八戒道：「要他怎的？」
Eight Rules said, "What is that for?"
The identical question he asked about the soot.
行者道：「要丸藥。」
行者道：「要丸药。」
Pilgrim said, "To make the pills."
And the identical shape of answer. It is also entirely true: a pill needs something to bind it, and this is the binder.
The fourth ingredient is ordered in the same flat tone as the third, and the exchange runs to the same three beats: an order, a question, an answer that explains nothing. Pilgrim has now asked for soot and horse urine in consecutive sentences without once raising his voice.
"To make the pills" is true, incidentally. A pill needs something to bind it and this is the binder. The answer is exact and gives nothing away, which has been the method all night.