(单词翻译:单击)
Yet even as they were bundling him outside, saddling the horses in the rain, and tying his hands with a length of coarse rope, Tyrion Lannister was not truly afraid. They would never get him to Winterfell, he would have given odds on that. Riders would be after them within the day, birds would take wing, and surely one of the river lords would want to curry favor with his father enough to take a hand. Tyrion was congratulating himself on his subtlety when someone pulled a hood down over his eyes and lifted him up onto a saddle.
他们立刻来到屋外,冒着雨给马备鞍。他们用粗绳绑住提利昂的手,他却不怎么害怕。他敢打赌,他们绝对无法把他押回临冬城,不出一天,定会有人骑马追来,这有什么好奇怪呢?鸟儿会送出讯息,届时必有河间地区的领主插手,借机讨好他老爸。提利昂正对自己的精打细算感到得意,就被人盖上兜帽,遮住眼睛,放上马鞍。
They set out through the rain at a hard gallop, and before long Tyrion's thighs were cramped and aching and his butt throbbed with pain.
他们快马加鞭地冒雨出发,没过多久提利昂便已两腿酸疼,屁股也磨得难受。
Even when they were safely away from the inn, and Catelyn Stark slowed them to a trot, it was a miserable pounding journey over rough ground, made worse by his blindness.
虽然安然远离旅店之后,凯特琳·史塔克便放慢速度,但这仍旧是一趟崎岖难行的艰苦旅程,蒙住眼睛更是雪上加霜。
Every twist and turn put him in danger of falling off his horse.
每次转弯他都有坠马的危险。
The hood muffled sound, so he could not make out what was being said around him, and the rain soaked through the cloth and made it cling to his face, until even breathing was a struggle.
透过头套听见的声音很模糊,所以他不清楚身边的人在说什么。细雨浸湿布料,头套紧贴脸庞,后来连呼吸都有困难。
The rope chafed his wrists raw and seemed to grow tighter as the night wore on.
粗绳磨破他的手腕,随着夜色渐深,似乎越来越紧。
I was about to settle down to a warm fire and a roast fowl, and that wretched singer had to open his mouth, he thought mournfully. The wretched singer had come along with them.
他本来是要好好坐下,在火炉边取暖,享用刚烤出来的鸟肉的,只怪那该死的歌手偏偏要张开他的乌鸦嘴,他可怜兮兮地想。这该死的歌手竟然也在队伍里。
背景介绍:
《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。乔治·雷蒙德·理查德·马丁是欧美奇幻小说大师。马丁的作品主要以人物为关注点,描写细腻丰富,突破了幻想文学界固有的创作模式,多次引领阅读潮流。由于马丁的辉煌成就,他被誉为美国的托尔金和新世纪的海明威。从1989年开始,马丁淡出文学界,转而投身演艺界发展,1996年他才重返文坛而开始奇幻文学的创作,处女作便是《权力的游戏》,即为《冰与火之歌》的首部曲。《权力的游戏》甫出便拿下了British Fantasy Society、 世界奇幻奖和星云奖年度最佳幻想作品提名,在非官方的不记名奇幻作品投票中,《冰与火之歌》俨然已经可以和《魔戒》平起平坐,作者网站的访问量也是和斯蒂芬·金、J.K.罗琳等不相上下,其受欢迎的程度可见一斑。乔治马丁被时代杂志评选为2011年影响世界的一百人之一。