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少吉多凶 Little Luck And Much Peril
三藏道：「徒弟啊，你去，我豈不掛念？想著你會變化，斷然不至傷身。那獃子生得狼犺，又不會騰那，這一去，少吉多凶。三藏道：「徒弟啊，你去，我岂不挂念？想着你会变化，断然不至伤身。那呆子生得狼犺，又不会腾那，这一去，少吉多凶。
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三藏道：「徒弟啊，你去，我豈不掛念？
三藏道：「徒弟啊，你去，我岂不挂念？
Tripitaka said: "Disciple, when you went, do you think I did not worry?
豈不 opens a rhetorical question expecting the answer no.
想著你會變化，斷然不至傷身。
想着你会变化，断然不至伤身。
But I thought how you can change your shape, and that you would surely come to no harm.
著 reads zhe, the thinking held in progress. 斷然 — decidedly, without question.
那獃子生得狼犺，又不會騰那，這一去，少吉多凶。
那呆子生得狼犺，又不会腾那，这一去，少吉多凶。
That fool is built clumsy and cannot shift himself about. In going out there he has little luck and much peril.
那 in 騰那 reads nuó: the character stands for the one meaning to shift or move aside, so the compound is about nimbleness, not about anywhere. 得 is the light de linking the verb to its description.
Tripitaka's defence turns out to be a compliment, and Wukong will have heard it as one. I did not worry because you can look after yourself. It is precisely the asymmetry Wukong just complained about, restated as trust, and it is probably sincere.
The word for what Bajie cannot do is a nimbleness term — shifting, dodging, moving aside. It is written with a character that elsewhere in this chapter means that or where, and it stands here for a different word altogether. Earlier chapters use the same compound and read it the same way; what is worth flagging is that this one character carries three separate jobs in Ch.76 alone, and forty of its eighty-six appearances so far are the plain demonstrative.
Little luck and much peril is a fortune-teller's phrase, the kind of verdict an almanac gives for a bad day. Tripitaka is not making a military assessment; he is reading his disciple's prospects the way one would read a horoscope, and the novel lets that pass without comment because it is exactly how he thinks.