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棺材座子
A Coffin Prop Of A Man
落下雲頭叫道：「師父。」沙僧聽見，報怨八戒道：「你是個棺材座子──專一害人。師兄不曾死，你卻說他死了，在這裡幹這個勾當，那裡不叫將來了？」落下云头叫道：「师父。」沙僧听见，报怨八戒道：「你是个棺材座子──专一害人。师兄不曾死，你却说他死了，在这里干这个勾当，那里不叫将来了？」
逐句解 Line by line
落下雲頭叫道：「師父。」
落下云头叫道：「师父。」
He came down from his cloud and called: "Master."
落 keeps luò throughout this edition.
沙僧聽見，報怨八戒道：「你是個棺材座子──專一害人。
沙僧听见，报怨八戒道：「你是个棺材座子──专一害人。
Sha Wujing heard it and rounded on Bajie: "You are a coffin prop, you are — you do nothing but harm people.
棺材座子 — the trestle a coffin rests on. As an insult it means a man whose only use is at other people's funerals. 專一 keeps yī: the character is lexical here, so it does not shift tone before the word that follows.
師兄不曾死，你卻說他死了，在這裡幹這個勾當，那裡不叫將來了？」
师兄不曾死，你却说他死了，在这里干这个勾当，那里不叫将来了？」
Our elder brother was never dead. You said he was, and you got up to this business here — how could he not have called out to us?"
那 reads nǎ, the questioning band. Sha Wujing is putting a rhetorical question, not pointing at a place.
總評 Commentary
Sha Wujing is normally the quiet one, which is what makes this outburst land. He does not usually take sides, and when he does, the reader can take it as the novel's own verdict. Bajie has behaved badly and everyone present knows it.
A coffin prop is the trestle a coffin sits on before burial. Calling a man one says he is furniture, that his only appearance in your life is at a funeral, and that he may have arranged to be there. In a culture where funerals were the most elaborate family event there was, it is a specific and unpleasant thing to call someone.
The accusation underneath is sharper than the insult. Sha Wujing is not saying Bajie was mistaken; he is saying Bajie knew. The luggage came out fast, the story was convenient, and the elder brother turns out to be alive. It is the first time in the chapter that anyone accuses a colleague of acting in bad faith, and it happens among the pilgrims rather than among the demons.