Tripitaka, hearing this, was overjoyed: "Go then, and come back quickly."

三藏 — 藏 = zàng. 大喜 = "greatly delighted."

Pilgrim said: "It's about the third watch now; by the time I'm back it should be near daybreak.

三更 (sān gēng) = the third night-watch; 更 = gēng. Final 了 in 天明了 is the aspect particle le.

Only, this man lying here so cold and forlorn hardly looks the part.

冷淡冷淡 = "chill and cheerless." 不像個模樣 = "does not look right."

We shall need mourners to keep watch over him and weep, and then it will do."

須得 = "must manage to—"; 得 here dé. 看著: durative 著 = zhe, "watching over." 舉哀 = "to raise the wailing," ritual mourning.

Eight Rules said: "No need to spell it out — this monkey is surely going to make me do the weeping."

不消講 = "needn't be said." 猴子: suffixal 子 = zi.

Pilgrim said: "Afraid you won't weep?

怕你不哭 — a taunt: "as if you'd dare not to."

If you won't weep, I can't work the cure."

醫不成 = "cannot bring off the cure"; 不成, bù chéng.

Eight Rules said: "Brother, you go on yourself; I'll do my own weeping, and that's that."

罷了 here is the mild "and there's an end of it" — 罷 bà, 了 le.

Pilgrim said: "There are several kinds of weeping. If you bawl dry-mouthed with never a tear, that is called bellowing;

乾著口喊: 乾 = gān ("dry"), and durative 著 = zhe. 嚎 (háo) = a hollow bawling.

if you squeeze out a few tears, that is called snivelling;

扭搜 = "to wring out." 眼淚兒: suffix 兒 = er. 啕 (táo) = sobbing.

but to weep and have real tears, and to weep and have real heart in it — that alone counts as true, wracking lamentation."

Two complement 得 both de ("weep in such a way that…"). In 算著, 著 = zhe. 嚎啕痛哭 = "to wail and weep bitterly."

Eight Rules said: "Let me weep you a sample, then, and you'll see."

哭個樣子 = "weep a specimen"; suffixal 子 = zi.

From somewhere or other he tore off a paper strip, twisted it into a paper spill, ran it up his nostrils a time or two, sneezed out a few sneezes — and look: his eyes brimmed streaming, sticky and slobbering, and he broke out weeping.

那裡 here = "somewhere," indefinite: 那 = nǎ. 紙撚兒: suffix 兒 = er. 哭將起來: inceptive coverb 將 = jiāng.

From his mouth came an unbroken muttering and grumbling, reckoning the yellow and cursing the black — truly like someone at whose death a man has died.

數黃道黑 = "to reckon yellow and rehearse black," i.e. to jabber grievances; 數 = shǔ ("to recount, enumerate"). 絮絮叨叨 = "nattering on."

As his weeping reached the point of real grief, even the Tang elder let fall tears and ached at heart.

那傷情之處: deictic 那 = nà. 唐長老 — 長 = zhǎng.

Pilgrim laughed: "Just so — that is grievous mourning; now on no account let up the sound.

那樣哀痛: deictic 那 = nà. 再不許住聲 = "you must not once stop the noise."

You blockhead, once you've fooled me off, you'll stop weeping.

哄得: complement 得 = de. 獃子: suffix 子 = zi.

I'll still be listening — if you weep like this, well and good; but if you so much as slacken the sound a little, I'll give you twenty on the ankle-bones."

我還聽: 還 = hái ("still"). 聲兒: suffix 兒 = er. 便罷: particle 罷 = ba. 孤拐 = the ankle-knob.

Eight Rules laughed: "Off you go, off you go.

你去，你去 — Bajie waving him away, eager to be left in peace.

Once I get this weeping of mine going, I've two days' worth of weeping in me."

一哭動頭 = "once the weeping starts up"; 動頭, "to get going."

Sha Monk, seeing him scolded on, went off to find a few sticks of incense to burn as an offering.

數落 = "to upbraid, to tell off"; 數 = shǔ. 燒獻 = "to burn in offering."

Pilgrim laughed: "Good, good, good — the whole household has a bit of reverence in it now, and old Sun can set to work."

一家兒: suffix 兒 = er; 都 = dōu ("all"). 用功 = "to apply oneself to the task."