青臉獠牙 A Green Face and Tusks
小和尚道：「一個雷公嘴，一個碓挺嘴，一個青臉獠牙。傍有一個女子，倒是個油頭粉面。」小和尚道：「一个雷公嘴，一个碓挺嘴，一个青脸獠牙。傍有一个女子，倒是个油头粉面。」
逐句解 Line by line
The little monk said, "One with a thunder-god's beak, one with a snout like a rice-pounder, and one with a green face and jutting tusks.
A 雷公, the thunder god, is always drawn with a sharp beaked face — it is the standard description of Pilgrim throughout the book. A 碓 is the foot-operated pestle for husking rice, which is exactly the shape of Bajie's snout.
And beside them there is a girl, who is quite the picture, all oiled hair and powdered face."
Two readings. 傍 is páng, the nominal side — off to one side there was — not the bàng of leaning against. And 倒 is dào, the adverb "on the contrary," not the dǎo of falling that this chapter has used seven times. 油頭粉面 is not entirely a compliment; it is the phrase for someone got up to be looked at.
The whole chapter is in this pair of sentences and the book has arranged them carefully. Three monstrous faces described in twenty characters, and then, beside them, a pretty girl — mentioned last, as a contrast, as the reassuring detail.
The novice's little word of surprise is the sting. Among all these monsters there is, on the contrary, a girl with oiled hair and a powdered face. He has looked straight at the only monster in the group and reported her as the exception.
And he is a child of nine or ten who has never left this monastery, which makes him the last in a long line of characters to make exactly the same mistake. Only one person in eighty passages has got it right.