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哮吼如雷 Roaring Like A Thunderclap
那大聖正是煩惱處，又遭此搶白，氣得哮吼如雷，忍不住大呼小叫，早驚動如來。那大圣正是烦恼处，又遭此抢白，气得哮吼如雷，忍不住大呼小叫，早惊动如来。
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那大聖正是煩惱處，又遭此搶白，氣得哮吼如雷，忍不住大呼小叫，早驚動如來。
那大圣正是烦恼处，又遭此抢白，气得哮吼如雷，忍不住大呼小叫，早惊动如来。
That Great Sage was in the depths of his misery already, and meeting this rebuff on top of it he grew so angry that he roared like a thunderclap, and could not hold in his shouting and bawling, so that the Tathagata was roused at once.
哮 is xiào, a roar — a character whose usual reading has to be overridden every time it appears. Inside 氣得, 得 is de, introducing the state the anger produced. 搶白 is a rebuff delivered to your face.
He gets in by making a scene, and the book is clear-eyed about it. He does not argue his way past the guardians or trick them or fight them. He stands outside and howls until the Buddha notices.
The word for his roaring is the one used of the six combatants in the chapter's opening poem, when the fight went into the clouds and all that was left was noise. Wukong has come the whole way round to that sound again, alone this time.
And it works, which is the sourest joke in the chapter. Procedure said report and wait; what actually opens the door is a tantrum at the gate.