听力原文

1．BRAN

第一章布兰

The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. They set forth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous with excitement. This was the first time he had been deemed old enough to go with his lord father and his brothers to see the king’s justice done. It was the ninth year of summer, and the seventh of Bran’s life.

晨色清冷，带著一丝寂寥，隐然暗示夏日将尽。为数二十人的队伍於破晓时分轻骑启程，布兰策马置身其间，满心焦虑又兴奋难耐。这次他年纪总算够大，可以与父兄同往刑场，目睹国王律法的执行。这是夏天的第九年，布兰现年七岁。

The man had been taken outside a small holdfast in the hills. Robb thought he was a wildling, his sword sworn to Mance Rayder, the King-beyond-the-Wall. It made Bran’s skin prickle to think of it. He remembered the hearth tales Old Nan told them. The wildlings were cruel men, she said, slavers and slayers and thieves. They consorted with giants and ghouls, stole girl children in the dead of night, and drank blood from polished horns. And their women lay with the Others in the Long Night to sire terrible half-human children.

死囚已被领至小丘上的平房外，罗柏认为他是个誓死效忠"境外之王"曼斯·雷德的野人。布兰回想起老奶妈在火炉边说过的故事，不禁浑身起了鸡皮疙瘩。她说野人生性凶残蛮狠，个个都是贩卖奴隶、杀人放火的偷盗之徒。他们与巨人族和食尸鬼狼狈为奸，在暗夜里诱拐童女、以磨亮的兽角茹毛饮血。他们的女人则相传在远古的"长夜"里与异鬼苟合，繁衍半人半鬼的恐怖後代。

But the man they found bound hand and foot to the holdfast wall awaiting the king’s justice was old and scrawny, not much taller than Robb. He had lost both ears and a finger to frostbite, and he dressed all in black, the same as a brother of the Night’s Watch, except that his furs were ragged and greasy.

然而眼前这个老人却削瘦枯槁，比罗柏高不了多少，手脚紧缚身後，静待国王意旨发落。他在酷寒中因冻疮失去了双耳和一根手指，全身衣著漆黑，与守夜人弟兄们的制服没有两样，只不过他的衣衫褴褛，而且脓疮四溢。

读物介绍：

《权力的游戏》是一部中世纪史诗奇幻题材的电视连续剧。该剧以美国作家乔治·R·R·马丁的奇幻巨作《冰与火之歌》七部曲为基础改编创作，由大卫·贝尼奥夫和丹尼尔·威斯编剧、HBO电视网推出。本剧第一季于2011年4月17日开播，第二季于2012年4月1日回归，第三季于2013年3月31日开始播出，第四季已获得预定，将在2014年春季回归。

妙语连珠

1. set forth 出发

eg. He set forth from the Canaries in a rubber dinghy, with all food on board locked away.

他乘坐一艘橡皮艇从西拔牙的加纳丽群岛出发，把船上携带的食品锁了起来。

2. made skin prickle 起了鸡皮疙瘩(goose bumps也是鸡皮疙瘩的意思)