該讓我了 “Now Yield to Me”
吩咐已畢,遂按下雲頭,把毫毛一抖,收上身來。那些人肉眼凡胎,那裡曉得。行者遂在傍邊高叫道:「先生請了。四聲令牌俱已響畢,更沒有風雲雷雨,該讓我了。」吩咐已毕,遂按下云头,把毫毛一抖,收上身来。那些人肉眼凡胎,那里晓得。行者遂在傍边高叫道:「先生请了。四声令牌俱已响毕,更没有风云雷雨,该让我了。」
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His instructions given, he then pressed down his cloud-head, gave his hair a shake, and drew it back onto his body.
吩咐已畢 “his orders finished.” 按下雲頭 “to lower the cloud.” 一抖: 一 = yì before 抖 (3rd tone). 收上身來 “to draw (the hair-double) back into himself.”
Those people, with their mortal eyes and common flesh, how could they have known any of it?
Deictic 那些: 那 = nà. Rhetorical 那裡曉得: 那 = nǎ (“how would they know?”); 得 = de. 肉眼凡胎 “mortal eyes and common flesh.”
Pilgrim then, at the side, called out loudly, “Sir, if you please.
傍邊: 傍 = bàng. 行者: 行 = xíng. 先生請了 “after you, sir.”
The four strokes of your command-tablet have all sounded and done, and still there is no wind, cloud, thunder, or rain — you ought to yield to me.”
俱已響畢 “all sounded and finished.” 更沒有: 更 = gèng; 沒 = méi. 該讓我了 “you should give way to me now.”
Wukong withdraws his hidden double and reveals none of the machinery to the watching court — whose mortal eyes see only that the Daoist's four cracks brought nothing. On this public failure he presses his claim to the altar with mock courtesy (“after you, sir”). The immortal, having exhausted his rite to no effect, has no answer but to step down, and the platform passes to the Tang Monk's party.