掀翻桌席 The Table Is Overturned
飛起來，掄開玉爪，響一聲，掀翻桌席，把些素果素菜，盤碟壺爵，盡皆捽碎，撇卻唐僧，飛將出去。諕得妖精心膽皆裂，唐僧亦骨肉通酥。飞起来，抡开玉爪，响一声，掀翻桌席，把些素果素菜，盘碟壶爵，尽皆捽碎，撇却唐僧，飞将出去。諕得妖精心胆皆裂，唐僧亦骨肉通酥。
逐句解 Line by line
Up he flew, spread his jade talons, gave one screech and heaved the table over, smashing every one of the plain fruits and plain dishes and the plates and saucers and pots and cups to pieces; then he left the Tang Monk and flew out.
The whole hundred-and-seventy-three-character banquet is destroyed in one sentence, and the sentence is built out of short verbs to make it fast. 捽碎 is to dash to pieces, and 盡皆 means every last one. The catalogue that took a page to build takes nine characters to break.
It so terrified the fiend that her heart and gall both split, and the Tang Monk too went soft in bone and flesh.
諕 is read xià, to frighten, not the háo its shape might suggest — and 得 is de, the light syllable that hooks the verb to the state it produced. 心膽皆裂 is a set phrase for utter terror, heart and gall bursting together; the gall bladder was the seat of courage in Chinese physiology, so splitting it is losing your nerve, literally.
This is the chapter's best piece of pacing. A hundred and seventy-three characters went into laying that table — eighteen fruits, eight vegetables, mock quail, sugared taro — and one sentence of talons takes the lot. The rhapsody was built to be smashed.
The gall bladder is worth knowing about, because Chinese keeps using it. Traditional physiology made it the organ of decisiveness and courage, which is why a brave person is big-galled and a terrified one has a burst gall. Both idioms are still in daily use and neither has anything to do with bile.
And Tripitaka is terrified too, which is the detail that keeps the scene honest. His rescuer has just wrecked the room and he has no idea what is happening either.