When he was gone, Dany went to her window and looked out wistfully on the waters of the bay. The square brick towers of Pentos were black silhouettes outlined against the setting sun. Dany could hear the singing of the red priests as they lit their night fires and the shouts of ragged children playing games beyond the walls of the estate. For a moment she wished she could be out there with them, barefoot and breathless and dressed in tatters, with no past and no future and no feast to attend at Khal Drogo’s manse.
他離開後,丹妮走到窗邊,思慕地望著海灣。潘托斯的方磚高塔是斜陽殘照里的黑色翦影,丹妮可以聽見紅袍僧點燃夜火時的誦唱祝禱,以及高墻外孩童玩耍時的笑鬧喧嘩。就在那一剎那,她好希望自己能在外面和他們一起赤足嬉戲,穿著破爛衣裳喘著氣,沒有過去,沒有未來,也不用參加卓戈卡奧的宅邸晚宴。
Somewhere beyond the sunset, across the narrow sea, lay a land of green hills and flowered plains and great rushing rivers, where towers of dark stone rose amidst magnificent blue-grey mountains, and armored knights rode to battle beneath the banners of their lords. The Dothraki called that land Rhaesh Andahli, the land of the Andals. In the Free Cities, they talked of Westeros and the Sunset Kingdoms. Her brother had a simpler name. “Our land,” he called it. The words were like a prayer with him. If he said them enough, the gods were sure to hear. “Ours by blood right, taken from us by treachery, but ours still, ours forever. You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.”
在夕陽狹海的彼岸,有個青陵縱橫,花開平野,深河奔涌的地方,那里有高聳於壯麗灰藍峰巒間的黑石巨塔,有高舉鮮明旗幟趕赴沙場的鐵甲武土。多斯拉克人稱呼那個地方為「雷敘·安達里」,意思是「安達爾人之地」。在自由城邦里,人們則稱之為「維斯特洛」和「日落國度」,哥哥有個更簡單的說法,他稱之為「我們的土地」。這個名字就像句禱詞,彷佛只要他說得次數夠多,就定能上達天聽。「那是我們龍族血脈所繼承的土地,雖然遭人以陰謀詭計所奪,但仍然屬於我們,永遠屬於我們。沒有人能從真龍手中偷走東西,門都沒有,因為真龍凡事都永遠記得。」
讀物介紹:
《權力的游戲》是一部中世紀史詩奇幻題材的電視連續劇。該劇以美國作家喬治·R·R·馬丁的奇幻巨作《冰與火之歌》七部曲為基礎改編創作,由大衛·貝尼奧夫和丹尼爾·威斯編劇、HBO電視網推出。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。