咬斷韁繩 She Bit Through The Bridle Rope
也是三藏災星未退，他到洞門前牌樓下，卻見唐僧在那裡獨坐，他就近前一把抱住，搶了行李，咬斷韁繩，連人和馬，復又攝將進去不題。也是三藏灾星未退，他到洞门前牌楼下，却见唐僧在那里独坐，他就近前一把抱住，抢了行李，咬断缰绳，连人和马，复又摄将进去不题。
逐句解 Line by line
It was also that Tripitaka's unlucky star had not yet set. When she reached the archway in front of the cave mouth she found the Tang Monk sitting there all alone. She went straight up, threw her arms round him, snatched the baggage, bit through the bridle rope, and carried man and horse together back inside — of which no more for now.
災星未退 — the star of calamity has not yet withdrawn — is the novel's standing explanation for a run of bad luck, and it is astrology used as narrative bookkeeping: the master's troubles are not over because his allotted count of them is not finished. 不題 is the storyteller's own bookmark, of which no more for now, dropped in whenever one thread is set down to pick up another. 將 is jiāng again, the disposal marker, doing its ordinary work of shoving the object forward.
Everything the fiend needs is achieved in one sentence with no fight in it: seize, snatch, bite, carry off. Four verbs, and the chapter's whole problem is back where it started.
The biting is the detail that lasts. She does not untie the horse, she bites through the rope — and the severed half of that rope is what Pilgrim will find in the road and weep over a few passages from now.