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鹿力暗害
Deer-Power's Hidden Sting
卻說那鹿力大仙在繡墩上坐看多時，他兩個在高臺上不分勝負，這道士就助他師兄一功：將腦後短髮拔了一根，捻著一團，彈將上去，徑至唐僧頭上，變作一個大臭蟲，咬住長老。那長老先前覺癢，然後覺疼。原來坐禪的不許動手，動手算輸。一時間疼痛難禁，他縮著頭，就著衣襟擦癢。八戒道：「不好了，師父羊兒風發了。」沙僧道：「不是，是頭風發了。」行者聽見道：「我師父乃志誠君子，他說會坐禪，斷然會坐；說不會，只是不會。君子家，豈有謬乎？你兩個休言，等我上去看看。」却说那鹿力大仙在绣墩上坐看多时，他两个在高台上不分胜负，这道士就助他师兄一功：将脑后短发拔了一根，捻着一团，弹将上去，径至唐僧头上，变作一个大臭虫，咬住长老。那长老先前觉痒，然后觉疼。原来坐禅的不许动手，动手算输。一时间疼痛难禁，他缩着头，就着衣襟擦痒。八戒道：「不好了，师父羊儿风发了。」沙僧道：「不是，是头风发了。」行者听见道：「我师父乃志诚君子，他说会坐禅，断然会坐；说不会，只是不会。君子家，岂有谬乎？你两个休言，等我上去看看。」
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卻說那鹿力大仙在繡墩上坐看多時，他兩個在高臺上不分勝負，這道士就助他師兄一功：將腦後短髮拔了一根，捻著一團，彈將上去，徑至唐僧頭上，變作一個大臭蟲，咬住長老。
却说那鹿力大仙在绣墩上坐看多时，他两个在高台上不分胜负，这道士就助他师兄一功：将脑后短发拔了一根，捻着一团，弹将上去，径至唐僧头上，变作一个大臭虫，咬住长老。
Now the Deer-Power Immortal, seated on an embroidered stool and watching a good while, saw that the two upon the high terraces were neither winning nor losing; so this Daoist lent his elder brother a hand: from the short hairs at the back of his head he plucked one, rolled it into a pellet, and flicked it up, straight to the top of the Tang Monk's head, where it turned into a great bedbug and bit the elder fast.
繡墩 = "an embroidered stool." 不分勝負: 分 = fēn ("undivided in victory or defeat"). Two 將: 將腦後短髮 disposal coverb, and 彈將上去 directional coverb — both jiāng. 捻著一團: durative 著 = zhe. 咬住長老: 長 = zhǎng.
那長老先前覺癢，然後覺疼。
那长老先前觉痒，然后觉疼。
The elder first felt an itch, and afterwards felt pain.
先前覺癢，然後覺疼: both 覺 = jué ("to feel, to sense"), not the jiào of sleep.
原來坐禪的不許動手，動手算輸。
原来坐禅的不许动手，动手算输。
Now one who sits in meditation may not stir his hands; to stir the hands counts as forfeit.
不許動手 = "no leave to move the hands." 動手算輸 = "to stir the hands is reckoned a loss."
一時間疼痛難禁，他縮著頭，就著衣襟擦癢。
一时间疼痛难禁，他缩着头，就着衣襟擦痒。
For a moment the aching grew past enduring, and he drew in his head and rubbed the itch against the front of his robe.
一時間: 間 = jiān ("for a spell"). 疼痛難禁: 禁 = jīn ("hard to withstand"), not the jìn of prohibition. 縮著頭 / 就著衣襟: both durative 著 = zhe.
八戒道：「不好了，師父羊兒風發了。」
八戒道：「不好了，师父羊儿风发了。」
Eight Rules said: "That's bad — the Master's fallen into a fit of the falling-sickness."
羊兒風: a folk name for epilepsy ("goat-wind"); 兒 read er as the diminutive within the fixed compound. 發了 = "has come on."
沙僧道：「不是，是頭風發了。」
沙僧道：「不是，是头风发了。」
Sha the Monk said: "No — it's a head-wind that's come on."
頭風 = "a wind in the head," a splitting headache. 發了 = "has started up."
行者聽見道：「我師父乃志誠君子，他說會坐禪，斷然會坐；
行者听见道：「我师父乃志诚君子，他说会坐禅，断然会坐；
The Pilgrim, hearing them, said: "My master is a man of true sincerity, a gentleman; if he says he can sit in meditation, then most certainly he can sit;
志誠君子: 君子, 子 = zǐ ("a gentleman"). 斷然會坐 = "assuredly he can sit."
說不會，只是不會。
说不会，只是不会。
if he said he could not, then simply he could not.
說不會，只是不會 = "were he to say he could not, he simply could not."
君子家，豈有謬乎？
君子家，岂有谬乎？
A gentleman — how could there be any falsehood in him?"
君子家: 子 = zǐ. 豈有謬乎 = "how should there be error?"
你兩個休言，等我上去看看。」
你两个休言，等我上去看看。」
You two hold your peace; wait while I go up and take a look."
休言 = "say no more." 等我上去看看 = "let me go up and see."
總評 Commentary
The contest turns dishonest at once. Unable to break the deadlock fairly, Deer-Power resorts to sabotage — a plucked hair transformed into a bedbug and flicked onto Tripitaka's scalp — and the scene's tension comes from the meditation-rule the narrator pauses to spell out: 坐禪的不許動手，動手算輸, a sitter may not move his hands on pain of forfeit. The master's helpless writhing under the bite, mistaken by his disciples for epilepsy or a headache, is both farce and genuine jeopardy.
The passage sharpens the chapter's moral geometry. The 外道, the "heterodox," cannot win by their own art and so cheat; Wukong's answer, promised in his closing 等我上去看看, will be to meet the trick with a counter-trick rather than with force. Bajie and Sha Monk's comic misdiagnoses — 羊兒風 against 頭風 — keep the tone light even as the sabotage lands, in the novel's habitual braiding of slapstick with real danger.