Bajie, hearing this, grew flustered at heart and whispered aside to Pilgrim, “This is our own doing: we ate the things and, instead of hitting the road, sat waiting for just such a prayer as this.

心中: 中 = zhōng. 行者: 行 = xíng. 我們的不是 “our fault, our wrong” (nominal 不是). 禱祝 “to pray, invoke.”

How are we to answer them?”

答應: 應 = yìng, “to answer, respond”; pypinyin mis-defaults yīng.

Pilgrim gave him another pinch, then suddenly opened his mouth and called out, “You juniors of the immortal ranks, cease your prostrations for a moment.

行者 行 = xíng. 捻一把: 一 = yì before 把 (3rd tone). 晚輩小仙 “you junior immortals” — Wukong impersonating a Heavenly Venerable addressing lesser gods.

We have come straight from the Feast of the Peaches and did not bring golden elixir or holy water along; wait another day and we shall come again to bestow it.”

蟠桃會 the Feast of Immortal Peaches (in the Jade Emperor's heaven). 不曾帶得: 得 = dé (“to have brought, obtained”); 不 = bù before 曾 (2nd tone).

The Daoists, great and small, hearing a voice speak out, each shook in his robes and cried out, trembling, “Venerable Fathers!

Deictic 那些: 那 = nà. 一個個: 一 = yí before 個 (4th tone). 抖衣而戰 “to quake in one's clothes” — to tremble with awe.

A living Venerable has come down among mortals — we must by no means let him go; come what may, let us beg some means of everlasting life!”

臨凡 “to descend to the mortal world.” 好歹 “come what may, by hook or crook.” 長生: 長 = cháng. 法兒: suffixal 兒 = er, “a method, a means.”