二次索戰 The Second Challenge
行者跳過澗，到了門首，叫聲：「開門！」那些小妖又去報道：「孫行者又來了。」紅孩仰面笑道：「那猴子想是火中不曾燒了他，故此又來。這一來切莫饒他，斷然燒個皮焦肉爛才罷。」急縱身，挺著長槍，教：「小的們，推出火車子來。」他出門前，對行者道：「你又來怎的？」行者道：「還我師父來。」那怪道：「你這猴頭，忒不通變。那唐僧與你做得師父，也與我做得按酒，你還思量要他哩，莫想，莫想。」行者聞言，十分惱怒，掣金箍棒，劈頭就打；那妖精使火尖槍，急架相迎。這一場賭鬥，比前不同。行者跳过涧，到了门首，叫声：「开门！」那些小妖又去报道：「孙行者又来了。」红孩仰面笑道：「那猴子想是火中不曾烧了他，故此又来。这一来切莫饶他，断然烧个皮焦肉烂才罢。」急纵身，挺着长枪，教：「小的们，推出火车子来。」他出门前，对行者道：「你又来怎的？」行者道：「还我师父来。」那怪道：「你这猴头，忒不通变。那唐僧与你做得师父，也与我做得按酒，你还思量要他哩，莫想，莫想。」行者闻言，十分恼怒，掣金箍棒，劈头就打；那妖精使火尖枪，急架相迎。这一场赌斗，比前不同。
逐句解 Line by line
The Pilgrim leapt across the torrent, came to the gate, and called: ‘Open up!’
行者 xíng. 跳過澗 ‘leapt the torrent’. 到了 le. 叫聲 jiào. Wukong returns to renew the challenge.
Those little imps went again to report: ‘Sun the Pilgrim has come again.’
那些小妖 nà (deictic). 行者 xíng. 又來了 le. The imps' repeated alarm underlines the demon's false confidence.
Red Boy laughed, tilting up his face: ‘That monkey must not have been burnt up in the fire, and so has come back.
那猴子 nà (deictic; 子 suffix). 火中不曾燒了他 ‘was not burnt up in the fire’: 中 zhōng; 不 before 曾 t2 → bù; 了 le. The demon's contempt sets up his overreach.
This time on no account spare him — burn him till skin is charred and flesh is melted, and only then have done.’
切莫饒他 ‘on no account spare him’. 燒個皮焦肉爛才罷 ‘burn [him] till skin's seared and flesh melts, then be done’: 罷 bà (‘to cease, be done’, not the hortative ba). 這一來 (一 before 來 t2 → yì).
Hastily he sprang up, levelled his long spear, and ordered: ‘Little ones, roll out the fire-carts.’
挺著長槍 ‘levelled the long spear’: 著 zhe (durative); 長 cháng (長槍 ‘long spear’). 教 jiào (causative ‘ordered’). 火車子 ‘fire-carts (子 suffix)’. The demon readies the fire again.
He came out before the gate and said to the Pilgrim: ‘What have you come back for?’
他出門前 ‘came out before the gate’. 對行者道 xíng. 你又來怎的 ‘what have you come for?’ The demon's challenge. No NT graphs.
The Pilgrim said: ‘Give me back my master.’
行者 xíng. 還我師父來 ‘give me back my master’: 還 huán (return/give-back). Wukong's single, unwavering demand.
The demon said: ‘You ape-head, you're monstrously slow to take a hint.
那怪 nà (deictic). 猴頭 ‘ape-head’. 忒不通變 ‘utterly inflexible (忒, ‘excessively’)’ (不 before 通 t1 → bù). The demon's jeer.
That Tang Monk can serve as a master to you, and can serve as an appetiser to me; and you still think to have him back? — dream on, dream on.’
那唐僧 nà (deictic). 做得師父／做得按酒 ‘can be a master / can be a drinking-snack’: 得 de ×2 (the ‘can serve as’ potential-complement). 你還思量要他 ‘you still think to want him’: 還 hái (still); 思量 liáng (‘ponder’). 按酒 ‘a snack to go with wine’. The demon's grisly refusal.
The Pilgrim, hearing this, was greatly enraged, whipped out his gold-banded cudgel, and struck straight at his head;
行者 xíng. 十分惱怒 ‘extremely enraged’: 分 fēn (十分 ‘very’). 掣金箍棒 ‘whipped out the cudgel’ (掣 chè). 劈頭就打 ‘struck straight at his head’. The words give way to blows.
and the monster, wielding his fire-tipped spear, hastily parried and met him.
那妖精 nà (deictic). 急架相迎 ‘hastily parried and met [him]’: 相 xiāng (相迎 ‘meet each other’). The second duel is joined.
This bout of fighting was not as the one before.
這一場賭鬥，比前不同 ‘this bout was unlike the last’ (一 before 場 t3 → yì; 不 before 同 t2 → bù). A one-line hinge that leads into the second combat 賦.
Wukong returns to renew the challenge, and the demon — mistaking his survival of the fire for mere luck — vows to burn him utterly this time and readies the fire-carts again. The exchange is pure defiance on both sides: the demon's grisly jeer that the Tang Monk will serve him as an ‘appetiser,’ Wukong's unwavering ‘give me back my master.’ The duel is joined, and the narrator's flat note that ‘this bout was not as the one before’ turns the reader toward the combat rhapsody that opens the next stretch — and toward the rain that waits on Wukong's call.