蘭麝香熏 Musk And Orchid On The Wind
那風才然過處，猛聞得蘭麝香熏，環珮聲響。即欠身擡頭觀看，呀！卻是一個美貌佳人，徑上佛殿。那风才然过处，猛闻得兰麝香熏，环珮声响。即欠身抬头观看，呀！却是一个美貌佳人，径上佛殿。
逐句解 Line by line
No sooner had that wind passed by than he caught the sudden scent of orchid and musk, and the sound of girdle-pendants.
In the word for caught the scent, 得 is dé, the band that follows a verb of perceiving. 環珮 are the jade pendants worn at the waist, which chime as the wearer walks — a sound that in Chinese literature always announces a woman of quality.
At once he sat up and raised his head to look — and ah!
呀 is a bare exclamation, and it is the narrator borrowing the character's surprise. Pilgrim, of course, is not surprised at all.
It was a beautiful woman, going straight up onto the Buddha hall.
Twelve characters, flat and unhurried. After nine lines of cosmic wind the arrival itself is reported like a line in a ledger.
The scent and the chiming pendants are the conventional signals of a beautiful woman's approach, and the novel deploys them exactly as a reader would expect.
The exclamation is the interesting part. The narrator gives us a gasp of surprise that belongs to nobody in the scene — Pilgrim identified this creature in the pine wood on the first morning and has been waiting all evening precisely for her to walk in.
And the arrival is deliberately anticlimactic after all that wind. Nine lines to blow the rocks off Kunlun, and what comes through the door is a woman climbing some steps.