听力原文

2．CATELYN

第二章 凯特琳

Catelyn had never liked this godswood.

凯特琳向来不喜欢这座神木林。

She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident. The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers.

出身南境徒利家族的她，自小在红叉河畔的奔流城长大。红叉河是三叉戟河的支流，那里的神木林是座明亮清朗的花园，高大的红木树影洒进沟磷溪涧，鸟儿在栖隐巢穴里高唱，空气中弥漫百花馨香。

The gods of Winterfell kept a different sort of wood. It was a dark, primal place, three acres of old forest untouched for ten thousand years as the gloomy castle rose around it. It smelled of moist earth and decay. No redwoods grew here. This was a wood of stubborn sentinel trees armored in grey-green needles, of mighty oaks, of ironwoods as old as the realm itself. Here thick black trunks crowded close together while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshappen roots wrestled beneath the soil. This was a place of deep silence and brooding shadows, and the gods who lived here had no names.

临冬城信仰的神只则是另一番气象。这是个阴暗原始的地方，昏暝古堡巍然独立其间，万年古木样亘周边三英亩，散发出湿意和腐败的气味。此地不生红木，树林由披戴著灰绿松针的哨兵树、壮实的橡树，以及与王国同样苍老的铁树所组成。在这里粗壮厚实的黑色树干相互攘挤，扭曲的枝研在头顶织就一片浓密的参天树顶，变形的错节盘根则在地底彼此角力。这是个属於深沉寂静和窒郁暗影的地方，而蛰居其间的神只连名字也付之阙如。

But she knew she would find her husband here tonight. Whenever he took a man’s life, afterward he would seek the quiet of the godswood.

但她知道今晚可以在这里找到丈夫。每回他取人性命後，总会来此笕求神木林的宁静。

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. take one's life 取某人的命

eg In that way, one can now take responsibility for one's life and not feel condemned to continue playing out the victim scripts in the present.

这样，这个人开始为自己的生活负责，不再觉得继续演出受害剧本有何罪过。