掀翻在地上 Pilgrim Throws Her Down
行者道:「我的兒,真個要吃老孫哩。」卻被行者接住他手,使個小坐跌法,把那怪一轆轤掀翻在地上。那怪口裡還叫道:「心肝哥哥,你倒會跌你的娘哩。」行者道:「我的儿,真个要吃老孙哩。」却被行者接住他手,使个小坐跌法,把那怪一辘轳掀翻在地上。那怪口里还叫道:「心肝哥哥,你倒会跌你的娘哩。」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim said, "My child, you really do mean to eat old Sun."
兒 is ér. Calling her his child, flat on his back with her hand on him, is exactly the register this character keeps under attack — amused and condescending.
But Pilgrim caught hold of her hand, used a low sitting throw, and sent that monster head over heels and flat onto the ground.
那 is nà. 小坐跌法 is a named wrestling technique — dropping the hips and taking the opponent over — and 一轆轤 compares the roll to a well-windlass turning.
The monster still cried out, "Sweetheart, my darling, you certainly know how to throw your mother."
還 is hái, still, and 倒 is dào here, the contrary sense — you actually do know how. Calling herself his mother in the middle of an endearment is deliberately grotesque.
Two named wrestling throws in three lines, and the fight is being scored like a bout rather than described like a horror. She hooks his leg; he counters with a sitting throw.
Her line from the ground is the strangest thing in the chapter. Flat on her back after being thrown, she keeps the endearment going and calls herself his mother. She is still in character, still working, and it is genuinely unsettling.
Pilgrim's reply to being assaulted is to call her his child. Neither of them will drop the act, and the next passage is him deciding to end it.