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露出光頭 A Bare Scalp Showing
我們都辛辛苦苦的，倘或睡著，這家子一時再有人來收拾，見我們或滾了帽子，露出光頭，認得是和尚，嚷將起來，卻怎麼好？」行者道：「是啊！」我们都辛辛苦苦的，倘或睡着，这家子一时再有人来收拾，见我们或滚了帽子，露出光头，认得是和尚，嚷将起来，却怎么好？」行者道：「是啊！」
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我們都辛辛苦苦的，倘或睡著，這家子一時再有人來收拾，見我們或滾了帽子，露出光頭，認得是和尚，嚷將起來，卻怎麼好？」
我们都辛辛苦苦的，倘或睡着，这家子一时再有人来收拾，见我们或滚了帽子，露出光头，认得是和尚，嚷将起来，却怎么好？」
We are all worn out. If we fall asleep, and somebody from this household comes up again to clear things away, and sees a cap has rolled off and a bare scalp showing, and knows us for monks, and raises a shout — what then?"
One sentence, five clauses, and each one a step further into the disaster. 著 is zháo in 睡著, the reading for something that happens to you rather than a state you keep: falling asleep, not lying asleep. That is the whole of Tripitaka's fear — the losing of control, not the sleeping.
行者道：「是啊！」
行者道：「是啊！」
Pilgrim said: "True enough."
Five characters of capitulation, and no argument at all.
Tripitaka has thought it through further than Pilgrim did, and he has thought about the right thing: not being caught, but being caught asleep. A headcloth is a disguise only while its wearer is awake to keep it on.
The scene is the reverse of the usual arrangement. Ordinarily the master frets about a danger and the disciple explains it away. Here the master has spotted the hole and Pilgrim agrees on the spot.