哼哼的哭哩 Hanging There And Sobbing
三兄弟方才闖過橋去,徑入洞裡,只見老師父吊在那裡哼哼的哭哩。八戒近前道:「師父,你是要來這裡吊了耍子,不知作成我跌了多少跟頭哩。」沙僧道:「且解下師父再說。」三兄弟方才闯过桥去,径入洞里,只见老师父吊在那里哼哼的哭哩。八戒近前道:「师父,你是要来这里吊了耍子,不知作成我跌了多少跟头哩。」沙僧道:「且解下师父再说。」
逐句解 Line by line
The three brothers had only just charged over the bridge and gone straight into the cave when they saw their old master hanging up there and snivelling.
哼哼 doubles a groan — the small noise of somebody crying who has been crying for hours. He has been on that beam since roughly noon, and the chapter has not looked at him once in eighty passages.
Eight Rules came up and said, "Master — so you came here to get yourself hung up for fun, and never thought what you were letting me in for. Do you know how many times I went down?"
耍子 takes the light zi — a bit of fun. 作成 means to land somebody in something. It is a joke, it is a complaint, and it is entirely about him.
Sha Monk said, "Cut the master down first and talk afterwards."
解 is jiě, to loose. Ten characters, and it is the only sensible thing anybody says in the passage. Sha Monk has done this repeatedly in the chapter: waited, let the other two talk, then named the obvious next step.
They find him where they left him, hanging face down over a beam, crying. Nobody has looked at him since the middle of the chapter.
Eight Rules greets his rescued master with a complaint. You came here to hang about for fun and look what it cost me — and the number of falls is the part he wants acknowledged. He is not wrong that he suffered; he is only wrong about whose afternoon it was.
Sha Monk, as usual, ends it in ten characters. Cut him down first, talk afterwards. He has spent this chapter saying almost nothing and being right almost every time.