灑下甘露 Sweet Dew On The Fire
只聞得半空中厲聲高叫：「孫悟空，我來也。」行者急回頭上望，原來是觀音菩薩，左手托著淨瓶，右手拿著楊柳，灑下甘露救火哩。慌得行者把鈴兒藏在腰間，即合掌倒身下拜。只闻得半空中厉声高叫：「孙悟空，我来也。」行者急回头上望，原来是观音菩萨，左手托着净瓶，右手拿着杨柳，洒下甘露救火哩。慌得行者把铃儿藏在腰间，即合掌倒身下拜。
逐句解 Line by line
He heard only a stern voice calling from mid-air: "Sun Wukong, I am here."
得 is dé, the fixed ending on a verb of hearing. Six characters of speech, and the speaker gives no name — the reader is expected to work it out from the tone.
Pilgrim turned his head quickly and looked up, and there was the Bodhisattva Guanyin,
原來 is the word of recognition — so it was. It has been used for a sleep bug and for a monster's identity earlier in this chapter, and here for the arrival that ends the fight.
holding the pure vase in her left hand and the willow spray in her right, sprinkling down sweet dew to quench the fire.
Two 著 in one line, both zhe, the durative — she holds the vase and the willow while she pours. 淨瓶 and 楊柳 are her two standard attributes; anybody looking at the picture would know her by them.
In his fluster Pilgrim hid the bells at his waist, then pressed his palms together and prostrated himself.
得 is de here, the light link between the fluster and what it made him do — a different value from the dé three lines back. 倒 is dǎo, to fall or go down, the same reading as when the drugged maid flung herself onto her bed.
The rescue arrives for the monster. Wukong has just set the mountain on fire with the bells he stole and called up a wind to drive it, and the voice from mid-air is not congratulating him.
The two objects in her hands are her identifying marks — the pure vase and the willow spray, which is how she appears in every image of her. The novel does not say Guanyin looked a certain way; it lists what she is holding, and the reader supplies the picture.
慌得 is the tell. Wukong's first act on seeing her is to hide the bells at his waist, and only then to bow. He has been caught with stolen property by an authority he cannot argue with, and the sequence of his movements gives him away completely.