中他計了 We Have Fallen for It
行者氣得暴跳道：「中他計了，中他計了。」沙僧道：「中他甚麼計？」行者道：「這是分瓣梅花計，把我弟兄們調開，他劈心裡撈了師父去了。天天天，卻怎麼好？」行者气得暴跳道：「中他计了，中他计了。」沙僧道：「中他甚么计？」行者道：「这是分瓣梅花计，把我弟兄们调开，他劈心里捞了师父去了。天天天，却怎么好？」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim went hopping mad and said, "We are taken in. We are taken in."
The character 中 is zhòng here, to be struck by something aimed at you — the reading behind the modern phrase for hitting a target. It is the same character as the everyday middle, but the middle sense would be nonsense: nobody is inside a plan, they have been hit by one. In 氣得, angry to the point of something, 得 is de, the hinge that hangs a consequence off a verb — here, hopping.
Sha Monk said, "Taken in by what?"
中 is zhòng once more. The novel repeats the character four times in twenty-five, which is how it makes sure a reader hears the word for being hit rather than the word for the middle. 甚麼 is the ordinary what.
Pilgrim said, "This is the Parting the Plum Blossom Petals ploy. They split us brothers apart and snatched the master clean out of the middle of us. Heaven, heaven, heaven, what are we to do?"
分瓣梅花計 names itself: prise the petals off a plum blossom one at a time and the flower is gone without anyone striking the centre. 劈心裡 is literally split-heart-inside, meaning straight through the middle of them, and 撈 is to scoop something out of water — the master was fished out of his own bodyguard. The three bare 天 that follow are not a sentence at all, just the sound a person makes.
The stratagem is named after a flower and works like a pickpocket. Send several distractions, let each guard chase one, and walk off with what everybody was guarding. It belongs to the same family of thinking as the classical stratagem lists, where a plan is memorable because it has a picture attached to it.
Wukong's three shouted heavens are the closest the novel lets him come to helplessness. He does not weep here — that comes two lines later, and the narrator reports it rather than letting him do it.