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會家不忙 The Old Hand Never Hurries
大聖聽得，即應聲站下。那怪物不容講，使槍便刺；行者正是會家不忙，掣鐵棒，劈面相迎。大圣听得，即应声站下。那怪物不容讲，使枪便刺；行者正是会家不忙，掣铁棒，劈面相迎。
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大聖聽得，即應聲站下。
大圣听得，即应声站下。
The Great Sage heard him, and answered and halted where he stood.
得 keeps dé in 聽得, after a verb of perceiving. 應 reads yìng — to answer — not the yīng that means ought to.
那怪物不容講，使槍便刺；
那怪物不容讲，使枪便刺；
The creature allowed no talking, but used his spear and thrust at once.
不容講 — gives no room for speech.
行者正是會家不忙，掣鐵棒，劈面相迎。
行者正是会家不忙，掣铁棒，劈面相迎。
Wukong was exactly the old hand who never hurries: he drew the iron cudgel and met the point full in the face.
會家不忙 — one who knows the trade is never flustered. 相 reads xiāng, marking the meeting as head-on.
Wukong stops because he is called. He is halfway out of an enemy stronghold with a wounded brother behind him and a clear run ahead, and he turns round because someone shouted at him. The novel has just spent a chapter establishing that this is how he can be reached, and here it is again, working in three characters.
The proverb the narrator supplies is a workman's one: a man who knows the trade does not fluster. It is offered as praise and it is also the explanation for what has just happened. Wukong is not standing his ground out of courage; he is standing it because he is not worried, which is a different thing and occasionally a worse one.