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“Honors?” Ned laughed bitterly.
"榮譽？"奈德苦澀地笑道。
“In his eyes, yes,” she said.
"在他眼里，沒有更高的榮譽了。"她回答。
“And in yours?”
"在你眼里呢？"
“And in mine,” she blazed, angry now. Why couldn’t he see? “He offers his own son in marriage to our daughter, what else would you call that? Sansa might someday be queen. Her sons could rule from the Wall to the mountains of Dorne. What is so wrong with that?”
"在我眼里也一樣！"她叱道，突然間生氣起來。他為什么就不懂呢？"他愿意讓自己的長子迎娶珊莎，還有什么能比這更光榮？珊莎有朝一日說不定會成為王后，她的孩子們將統治北起絕境長城，南及多恩峻嶺的遼闊土地，這難道不好么？"
“Gods, Catelyn, Sansa is only eleven,” Ned said. “And Joffrey...Joffrey is..”
"老天，凱特琳，珊莎才十一歲，"奈德說，"而喬佛里……喬佛里他……"
She finished for him. “crown prince, and heir to the Iron Throne. And I was only twelve when my father promised me to your brother Brandon.”
她忙接口："他是當今王太子，鐵王座的繼承人。我父親將我許配給你哥哥布蘭登的時候，我也不過十二歲。"
That brought a bitter twist to Ned’s mouth. “Brandon. Yes. Brandon would know what to do. He always did. It was all meant for Brandon. You, Winterfell, everything. He was born to be a King’s Hand and a father to queens. I never asked for this cup to pass to me.”
這話引起了奈德嘴角苦澀的牽動，"布蘭登，是啊，布蘭登知道怎么做，他做什么都充滿自信，成竹在胸。你和臨冬城本來都該是布蘭登的。他是個當首相和作王后父親的料。我可從沒說過要喝這杯苦酒。"
“Perhaps not,” Catelyn said, “but Brandon is dead, and the cup has passed, and you must drink from it, like it or not.”
"也許你沒有，"凱特琳說，"但布蘭登早已不在人世，酒杯也已經傳到你手中，不管喜不喜歡，你都非喝不可。"
Ned turned away from her, back to the night. He stood staring out in the darkness, watching the moon and the stars perhaps, or perhaps the sentries on the wall.
奈德再度轉身，返回暗夜之中。他站在原地望著屋外的黑暗，或許在凝視月光星辰，或許在瞭望城上哨兵。
Catelyn softened then, to see his pain. Eddard Stark had married her in Brandon’s place, as custom decreed, but the shadow of his dead brother still lay between them, as did the other, the shadow of the woman he would not name, the woman who had borne him his bastard son.
見他受了傷，凱特琳緩和下來。依照習俗，艾德·史塔克代替布蘭登娶了她，然而他過世兄長的陰影仍舊夾在兩人之間，就像另一個女人的陰影，一個他不愿說出名字，卻為他生下私生子的女人。
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。
