這裡窄狹 No Room to Stretch His Arms
行者走近前，輕輕的把棒拿將起來道：「這裡窄狹，不好展手。等我跳在空中，耍一路兒，你們看看。」行者走近前，轻轻的把棒拿将起来道：「这里窄狭，不好展手。等我跳在空中，耍一路儿，你们看看。」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim stepped up, lifted the rod lightly, and said, "It is cramped here. There is no room to stretch my arms.
The word doing the work is 輕輕的, lightly, easily — placed against a prince hauling at the same object with both hands a moment ago. Pilgrim picks it up the way you pick up a walking stick. 展手, to open out the arms, is what you cannot do in a small courtyard with a four-metre pole.
Wait while I jump up into the air and play a round through, and you can watch."
耍 is to play or to fool about with something, and it is a deliberately casual word for what is coming — he is not going to give a display, he is going to have some fun. 一路 is one complete sequence of a martial form, the same measure word a modern instructor still uses. The novel is about to give this three full pages.
The single most eloquent moment in the chapter is Pilgrim lifting lightly the thing that three boys could not shift, and then complaining that the yard is too small.
His stated reason for going up is space. It is entirely true and entirely a performance, and both he and the reader know it.