又來借扇 Open The Door Again
行者辭了靈吉,駕觔斗雲,徑返翠雲山,頃刻而至。使鐵棒打著洞門叫道:「開門,開門!老孫來借扇子使使哩。」慌得那門裡女童即忙來報:「奶奶,借扇子的又來了。」行者辞了灵吉,驾觔斗云,径返翠云山,顷刻而至。使铁棒打着洞门叫道:「开门,开门!老孙来借扇子使使哩。」慌得那门里女童即忙来报:「奶奶,借扇子的又来了。」
逐句解 Line by line
Pilgrim took his leave of Lingji, mounted his cloud-somersault, and went straight back to Mount Cuiyun, arriving in an instant.
觔斗雲 is the cloud-somersault, and 斗 is dǒu in that compound; pypinyin gives dòu, the reading for fighting. Fifty thousand li, covered in 頃刻 — the distance that took the fan a night takes him a moment, which is the joke the arithmetic has been building toward.
He beat on the cave door with his iron cudgel and shouted, 'Open up, open up!'
打著 takes the durative zhe. The manner has changed entirely: on his first visit he tidied his robes and called out 'Brother Bull', then bowed to a servant. Now he hammers on the door with a weapon.
'Old Sun has come to borrow that fan of yours!'
使使 'to use, to make use of', the verb doubled in the vernacular manner. 哩 is the toneless sentence-final particle — the eighth of the chapter's ten, against the two that belong to the transcribed place name.
The maid inside the door was thrown into a fluster and went at once to report: 'Mistress, the one who wants to borrow the fan is here again.'
慌得 takes 得 as the dé of a resultative. 借扇子的 'the fan-borrowing one' — the household has stopped using his name and reduced him to his errand, which is funnier than an insult would be.
頃刻而至 — he arrived in an instant. The fifty thousand li that took the fan a whole night of tumbling take the cloud-somersault a moment, and the novel sets the two journeys side by side without comment. The arithmetic of the previous passage exists partly so that this line can land.
The manner of his second arrival is the reverse of his first. Then he composed himself into a genteel bearing, called out to a sworn brother, put his palms together for a servant girl and asked her to take word in. Now he beats on the door with the cudgel and shouts that he has come to borrow the fan.
The maid's report is the passage's best line. Not 'Sun Wukong is here' but 借扇子的又來了 — the fan-borrowing one is back again. In two visits he has been reduced from a name to an errand, and the household's exasperation is entirely audible.