喘呵呵 Where Is Wukong
卻說三藏在那山坡下正與沙僧盼望，只見八戒喘呵呵的跑來。三藏大驚道：「八戒，你怎麼這等狼狽？悟空如何不見？」獃子哭哭啼啼道：「師兄被妖精一口吞下肚去了。」却说三藏在那山坡下正与沙僧盼望，只见八戒喘呵呵的跑来。三藏大惊道：「八戒，你怎么这等狼狈？悟空如何不见？」呆子哭哭啼啼道：「师兄被妖精一口吞下肚去了。」
逐句解 Line by line
Now Xuanzang was down at the foot of the slope with Sha Monk, watching and hoping, when they saw Bajie come running up, panting and gasping.
盼望 is to watch for something with hope in it, which is exactly what the two of them have been doing since Wukong left. 喘呵呵 is one of the doubled-tail shapes, all breath and no dignity.
Xuanzang was aghast: "Bajie! Why are you in such a state? Where is Wukong?"
In the source the closing question stands as its own scrap of text, six characters and a bracket, carrying no attribution of its own — so it folds back onto the sentence it belongs to. 狼狽, wolf-and-bei, is a pair of legendary animals said to depend on each other to walk; separated, neither can stand. It has meant dishevelled and in a mess for centuries.
The Idiot said through his blubbering, "Elder brother was swallowed down into the demon's belly at a mouthful."
哭哭啼啼, weeping and wailing, doubled twice over. Whatever he was muttering under the bush, this is what he does when he has to say it out loud.
The scene changes and the register changes with it. Everything in the cave has been performance — poems, contracts, glosses, boasts — and down here two people have been standing on a hillside watching an empty sky.
Xuanzang's two questions are in the right order for a person and the wrong order for a master. He asks after the disciple in front of him first, and only then after the one who is missing.