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So deep in thought was he that he never heard the rest of the party until his father moved up to ride beside him. Are you well, Bran? he asked, not unkindly.
太過專注於沉思的他，絲毫沒注意到其他隊伍趕上自己，百到父親騎到他身邊，語帶關(guān)切地問道："布蘭，你還好吧？"
Yes, Father, Bran told him. He looked up. Wrapped in his furs and leathers, mounted on his great warhorse, his lord father loomed over him like a giant. Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.
"父親大人，我很好。"布蘭應(yīng)答，他抬頭仰望父親，父親穿著毛皮大衣和皮革護甲，騎在雄駿戰(zhàn)馬上如同巨人般籠罩住他。"羅柏說剛才那個人死得很勇敢，瓊恩卻說他死的時候很害怕。"
What do you think? his father asked.
"你自己怎麼想呢？"他的父親問道。
Bran thought about it. Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?
布蘭尋思片刻後反問："一個人害怕的時候還能夠勇敢麼?
That is the only time a man can be brave, his father told him. Do you understand why I did it?
"一個人唯有在害怕的時候才能夠勇敢。"父親告訴他："你知道為什麼我要殺他麼？"
He was a wildling, Bran said. They carry off women and sell them to the Others.
"因為他是野人，"布蘭回答，"他們綁架女人，然後把她們賣給異鬼。"
His lord father smiled. Old Nan has been telling you stories again. In truth, the man was an oathbreaker, a deserter from the Night’s Watch. No man is more dangerous. The deserter knows his life is forfeit if he is taken, so he will not flinch from any crime, no matter how vile. But you mistake me. The question was not why the man had to die, but why I must do it.
父親微笑道："老奶媽又跟你說那些故事了。那人其實是個逃兵，背棄了守夜人的誓言。世間最危險的人莫過於此，因為他們知道自己一旦被捕，只有死路一條，於是惡向膽邊生，再怎麼傷天害理的事也干得出來。不過你誤解我的意思了，我不是問你他為什麼要死，而是我為何要親自行刑。"
Bran had no answer for that. King Robert has a headsman, he said, uncertainly.
布蘭想不出答案。"我只知道勞勃國王有個劊子手。"他不太確定地說。
He does, his father admitted. As did the Targaryen kings before him. Yet our way is the older way. The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
他確實是有劊子手代勞，"他父親承認，"在他之前的坦格利安王朝也是如此。但我們遵循古老的傳統(tǒng)，史塔克家的人體內(nèi)仍流有先民的血液，而我們相信判決死刑的人必須親自動手。如果你要取人性命，你至少應(yīng)該注視他的雙眼，聆聽他的臨終遺言。假如做不到這點，那麼或許他罪不致死。"
讀物介紹：
《權(quán)力的游戲》是一部中世紀史詩奇幻題材的電視連續(xù)劇。該劇以美國作家喬治·R·R·馬丁的奇幻巨作《冰與火之歌》七部曲為基礎(chǔ)改編創(chuàng)作，由大衛(wèi)·貝尼奧夫和丹尼爾·威斯編劇、HBO電視網(wǎng)推出。本劇第一季于2011年4月17日開播，第二季于2012年4月1日回歸，第三季于2013年3月31日開始播出，第四季已獲得預定，將在2014年春季回歸。
