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含詞賦 With rhapsody
雷電賦
The Rhapsody of Thunder and Lightning
孫行者又把金箍棒鑽一鑽，望空又一指。慌得那：孙行者又把金箍棒钻一钻，望空又一指。慌得那：
雷公奮怒，電母生嗔。雷公奋怒，电母生嗔。
雷公奮怒，倒騎火獸下天關；雷公奋怒，倒骑火兽下天关；
電母生嗔，亂掣金蛇離斗府。电母生嗔，乱掣金蛇离斗府。
唿喇喇施霹靂，振碎了鐵叉山；唿喇喇施霹雳，振碎了铁叉山；
淅瀝瀝閃紅綃，飛出了東洋海。淅沥沥闪红绡，飞出了东洋海。
呼呼隱隱滾車聲，燁燁煌煌飄稻米。呼呼隐隐滚车声，烨烨煌煌飘稻米。
萬萌萬物精神改，多少昆蟲蟄已開。万萌万物精神改，多少昆虫蛰已开。
君臣樓上心驚駭，商賈聞聲膽怯忙。君臣楼上心惊骇，商贾闻声胆怯忙。
那沉雷護閃，乒乒乓乓，一似那地裂山崩之勢。諕得那滿城人，戶戶焚香，家家化紙。孫行者高呼：「老鄧，仔細替我看那貪贓壞法之官、忤逆不孝之子，多打死幾個示眾。」那雷越發振響起來。那沉雷护闪，乒乒乓乓，一似那地裂山崩之势。諕得那满城人，户户焚香，家家化纸。孙行者高呼：「老邓，仔细替我看那贪赃坏法之官、忤逆不孝之子，多打死几个示众。」那雷越发振响起来。
逐句解 Line by line
孫行者又把金箍棒鑽一鑽，望空又一指。
孙行者又把金箍棒钻一钻，望空又一指。
Sun the Pilgrim gave the gold-banded cudgel another twist and pointed once more toward the sky.
孫行者: 行 = xíng. 鑽一鑽 / 又一指: 一 = yì.
慌得那：
慌得那：
In alarm, these came:
慌得那: 得 = de; 那 = nà — the verse-tag.
雷公奮怒，電母生嗔。
雷公奋怒，电母生嗔。
The Thunder Lord rouses his wrath; the Lightning Mother kindles her anger.
奮怒 “to rouse to fury.” 生嗔 “to give rise to anger.”
雷公奮怒，倒騎火獸下天關；
雷公奋怒，倒骑火兽下天关；
The Thunder Lord rouses his wrath, riding backwards on his fire-beast down the gate of heaven;
倒騎火獸: 倒 = dào (“inverted, backwards”). 下天關 “down the pass of heaven.”
電母生嗔，亂掣金蛇離斗府。
电母生嗔，乱掣金蛇离斗府。
the Lightning Mother kindles her anger, wildly flashing her golden serpents out of the Dipper-palace.
亂掣金蛇 “wildly brandishing the golden snakes” — the lightning. 離斗府: 斗 = dǒu (the 斗 Dipper-office).
唿喇喇施霹靂，振碎了鐵叉山；
唿喇喇施霹雳，振碎了铁叉山；
Crash upon crash, she looses the thunderbolts, shattering the Iron-Fork Mountain;
唿喇喇 a crashing sound. 施霹靂 “to let loose the thunderclaps.” 振碎了: 了 = le.
淅瀝瀝閃紅綃，飛出了東洋海。
淅沥沥闪红绡，飞出了东洋海。
flicker upon flicker, she flashes the red silk, flying out from the Eastern Ocean.
淅瀝瀝 a pattering, flickering sound. 閃紅綃 “flashes of red gauze” — the lightning. 飛出了: 了 = le.
呼呼隱隱滾車聲，燁燁煌煌飄稻米。
呼呼隐隐滚车声，烨烨煌煌飘稻米。
Rumbling and muffled, the sound of trundling carts; blazing and dazzling, it scatters like grains of rice.
滾車聲 “the sound of rolling carts” — of the thunder. 燁燁煌煌 “flashing, brilliant.” 飄稻米 “scattering like rice-grains” — of the hail.
萬萌萬物精神改，多少昆蟲蟄已開。
万萌万物精神改，多少昆虫蛰已开。
All the myriad sprouting things are quickened anew; how many hibernating insects are roused from their sleep.
萬萌萬物 “all things budding and growing.” 精神改 “renewed in spirit.” 蟄已開 “the (insects') hibernation is broken.”
君臣樓上心驚駭，商賈聞聲膽怯忙。
君臣楼上心惊骇，商贾闻声胆怯忙。
Ruler and ministers in the tower were struck with terror; the merchants, hearing the sound, grew timorous and afraid.
君臣 ruler and officials. 心驚駭 “hearts aghast.” 商賈 (shānggǔ) merchants. 膽怯忙 “timid and flustered.”
那沉雷護閃，乒乒乓乓，一似那地裂山崩之勢。
那沉雷护闪，乒乒乓乓，一似那地裂山崩之势。
That deep thunder guarding the lightning, crash and clatter, was just like the force of the earth splitting and the mountains crumbling.
Deictic 那沉雷 / 那地裂: 那 = nà (×2). 一似: 似 = sì (GLOBAL); 一 = yí before 4th tone. 乒乒乓乓 a crashing clatter.
諕得那滿城人，戶戶焚香，家家化紙。
諕得那满城人，户户焚香，家家化纸。
It so frightened the whole city's people that house by house they burned incense, and family by family burned paper offerings.
諕得: 諕 = xià (“to frighten” = 嚇; settled corpus-wide this chapter, correcting the earlier háo). 那滿城人: 那 = nà. 化紙 “to burn paper money.”
孫行者高呼：「老鄧，仔細替我看那貪贓壞法之官、忤逆不孝之子，多打死幾個示眾。」
孙行者高呼：「老邓，仔细替我看那贪赃坏法之官、忤逆不孝之子，多打死几个示众。」
Sun the Pilgrim called out loudly, “Old Deng, watch carefully on my behalf: the officials who take bribes and pervert the law, and the sons who are disobedient and unfilial — strike a good few of them dead as a warning to all.”
仔細: 仔 = zǐ (careful; pypinyin mis-defaults zǎi). 替我看: 看 = kàn. Deictic 那貪贓: 那 = nà. 不孝之子: 子 = zǐ (a son); 不 = bú before 孝 (4th tone).
那雷越發振響起來。
那雷越发振响起来。
At that the thunder pealed all the louder.
Deictic 那雷: 那 = nà. 越發振響 “pealed all the more.”
總評 Commentary
The third rhapsody is the fiercest, its imagery drawn from the martial mythology of the thunder-court: the Thunder Lord riding his fire-beast, the Lightning Mother flinging her “golden serpents,” the din likened to splitting earth and crumbling mountains. Its prose coda opens the moral dimension the rain-contest has kept implicit — Wukong's charge to Marshal Deng to strike dead corrupt officials and unfilial sons “as a warning to all” frames the thunder as an instrument of Heaven's justice, not mere spectacle. The coda also carries the graph 諕 in its “frighten” sense (= 嚇), read xià and settled so corpus-wide in this chapter.