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找尋師父 We Search At Daybreak
見沙僧苦苦哀告，便就回心道：「八戒、沙僧，你都起來。明日找尋師父。卻要用力。」见沙僧苦苦哀告，便就回心道：「八戒、沙僧，你都起来。明日找寻师父。却要用力。」
逐句解 Line by line
見沙僧苦苦哀告，便就回心道：「八戒、沙僧，你都起來。
见沙僧苦苦哀告，便就回心道：「八戒、沙僧，你都起来。
Seeing Sha Monk plead so hard, he turned his heart round and said, "Bajie, Sha Monk, get up, the pair of you.
都 is dōu. 回心, to turn the heart back, is the ordinary phrase for changing one's mind and it carries a suggestion of repentance.
明日找尋師父。
明日找寻师父。
Tomorrow we look for our master.
Six characters. The order of the day, and the first sensible thing anyone has said since the shoe.
卻要用力。」
却要用力。」
But you are to put your backs into it."
Four characters of grudging command. He has climbed down and he is not going to be gracious about it.
The climbdown, and the novel gives it to him in three shrinking lines: a sentence, then six characters, then four. He is running out of anger as he speaks.
Turning the heart round is a phrase with a faint moral weight to it, close to relenting. The narrator will not quite say he apologised, because he does not, but the word does the work.
And the last four characters are pure character. Having been argued out of murdering his brothers, he closes by telling them to try harder.