冰与火之歌系列之《权力的游戏》第1166期:第五十六章 丹妮莉丝(1)

 　　Daenerys. The land was red and dead and parched¹, and good wood was hard to come by. 丹妮莉丝。此地遍野红沙，四下死寂，干枯焦裂，木柴难寻。

　　Her foragers returned with gnarled cottonwoods, purple brush, sheaves of brown grass. 她手下的人带回纠结的绵木、紫灌木以及束束褐草。

　　They took the two straightest trees, hacked² the limbs and branches from them, skinned off their bark, and split them, laying the logs in a square. 他们还找来两棵生得最直的树，砍下树枝，剥去树皮，然后将之劈开，把所得木柴堆成方形，

　　Its center they filled with straw, brush, bark shavings, and bundles of dry grass. 中间放满稻草、灌木、树皮屑和干草。

　　Rakharo chose a stallion from the small herd³ that remained to them; he was not the equal of Khal Drogo's red, but few horses were. 拉卡洛从剩下的小马群里挑了一头骏马，虽然比不上卓戈卡奥的赤红坐骑，但世间原本就少有与之匹敌的畜生。

　　In the center of the square, Aggo fed him a withered⁴ apple and dropped him in an instant with an axe⁵ blow between the eyes. 阿戈把它牵到木柴堆成的方形中间，喂它吃了一颗干瘪的苹果，然后照它面门一斧砍去，利落地把它放倒。

　　Bound hand and foot, Mirri Maz Duur watched from the dust with disquiet⁶ in her black eyes. 弥丽·马兹·笃尔手脚被缚，站在漫漫烟尘中，睁大那双黑眼，不安地看着这一切。

　　"It is not enough to kill a horse," she told Dany. “杀马是不够的，”她告诉丹妮，

　　"By itself, the blood is nothing. You do not have the words to make a spell, nor the wisdom to find them. “血液本身没有力量，你既不懂魔咒的语言，更没有寻求这种语言的智慧。

　　Do you think bloodmagic is a game for children? 你以为血魔法是小孩子玩的把戏？

　　You call me maegi as if it were a curse, but all it means is wise. 你称呼我为‘巫魔女’，仿佛那是个诅咒，但它真正的意思其实是‘智慧’。

　　You are a child, with a child's ignorance. 你只是个年幼无知的孩子，

　　Whatever you mean to do, it will not work. 无论你打算做什么，都注定不会成功。

　　Loose me from these bonds and I will help you." 为我松绑，我会帮你。”

1 parched   

adj.焦干的；极渴的；v.（使）焦干

参考例句：

• Hot winds parched the crops.热风使庄稼干透了。
• The land in this region is rather dry and parched.这片土地十分干燥。

2 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

3 herd   

n.兽群，牧群；vt.使集中，把…赶在一起

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见，只是人云亦云。

4 withered   

adj. 枯萎的，干瘪的，（人身体的部分器官）因病萎缩的或未发育良好的 动词wither的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• The grass had withered in the warm sun. 这些草在温暖的阳光下枯死了。
• The leaves of this tree have become dry and withered. 这棵树下的叶子干枯了。

5 axe   

n.斧子；v.用斧头砍，削减

参考例句：

• Be careful with that sharp axe.那把斧子很锋利，你要当心。
• The edge of this axe has turned.这把斧子卷了刃了。

6 disquiet   

n.担心，焦虑

参考例句：

• The disquiet will boil over in the long run.这种不安情绪终有一天会爆发的。
• Her disquiet made us uneasy too.她的忧虑使我们也很不安。