沒福消受 His Hands Burn At A Touch
那國王見了,急下龍床,就來扯娘娘玉手,欲訴離情,猛然跌倒在地,只叫:「手疼,手疼。」八戒哈哈大笑道:「嘴臉,沒福消受。一見面就蜇殺了也。」那国王见了,急下龙床,就来扯娘娘玉手,欲诉离情,猛然跌倒在地,只叫:「手疼,手疼。」八戒哈哈大笑道:「嘴脸,没福消受。一见面就蜇杀了也。」
逐句解 Line by line
The king saw her, came down from the dragon couch in haste, reached to take the queen's jade hand and pour out the grief of their parting,
欲訴離情 is the language of a reunion scene, and the sentence is built to run straight into one — four clauses accelerating towards a touch.
and suddenly fell flat on the ground, crying only, "My hand! My hand!"
倒 is dǎo, to fall — and the automatic reading gets it right here, having needed correcting at two other sites in this chapter. The doubled 手疼 is a man who cannot say anything else.
Bajie roared with laughter and said, "What a face on him — no luck to enjoy her.
沒 is méi, the everyday negative. 沒福消受 is the fourth 沒福 of the chapter: the narrator used it of the fiend, the fiend used it twice of himself, and now Bajie uses it of the king.
"One look at her and he is stung half to death."
Eight characters, and it closes Bajie's speech — but the house threshold for folding a quote-tail back is under eight, not eight, so it stands as its own segment. 蜇 is to sting, of a wasp or a nettle.
The reunion the chapter has been driving towards lasts one clause. He comes down from the throne, reaches for her hand, means to tell her everything — and hits the floor shouting about his fingers. The build-up is four accelerating clauses and the payoff is 手疼,手疼.
沒福 arrives for the fourth time. The narrator used it of the fiend when the cat-and-bladder joke landed, the fiend said it twice about himself when he declined the queen's bed, and now Bajie says it of the king. Three different people fail to touch the same woman and the same two characters cover all of it.
Bajie's line is cruel and it is also the reader's line. Everybody in the hall is horrified; the pig is laughing. It is the function he serves throughout the novel — saying the thing the scene has set up and nobody else will say.