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暫息雷霆 “Stay Your Wrath”
孫大聖合掌開言，厲聲高叫道：「陛下暫息雷霆之怒，容僧等啟奏。」國王道：「你衝撞了國師，國師之言，豈有差謬？」孙大圣合掌开言，厉声高叫道：「陛下暂息雷霆之怒，容僧等启奏。」国王道：「你冲撞了国师，国师之言，岂有差谬？」
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孫大聖合掌開言，厲聲高叫道：「陛下暫息雷霆之怒，容僧等啟奏。」
孙大圣合掌开言，厉声高叫道：「陛下暂息雷霆之怒，容僧等启奏。」
The Great Sage pressed his palms together, spoke up, and cried out in a stern, loud voice, “Your Majesty, calm for a moment your thunderous wrath, and allow us monks to make our plea.”
合掌 “to press the palms together” (añjali). 厲聲 “in a stern voice.” 雷霆之怒 “thunderbolt-fury.” 容僧等啟奏 “allow us monks to state our case.”
國王道：「你衝撞了國師，國師之言，豈有差謬？」
国王道：「你冲撞了国师，国师之言，岂有差谬？」
The king said, “You have affronted the Preceptors; and could there be any error in what the Preceptors say?”
衝撞 “to offend, affront.” 豈有差謬: 差 = chà (差謬 “error, discrepancy”).
Wukong seizes the initiative with the courtroom's oldest move — asking leave to answer the charge — and the king's reply frames the difficulty squarely: to doubt the accusation is to doubt the Preceptors themselves. What follows is Wukong's point-by-point demolition of the indictment, conducted entirely within the forms of a legal defence.