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Septa Mordane called after her. “Arya, come back here! Don’t you take another step! Your lady mother will hear of this. In front of our royal princess too! You’ll shame us all!”
茉丹修女在她背后叫道："艾莉亞，你給我回來，你再走一步試試看！我會把這件事告訴你母親大人。竟然在我們公主面前做出這種事，你可把我們的臉全丟光了！"
Arya stopped at the door and turned back, biting her lip. The tears were running down her cheeks now. She managed a stiff little bow to Myrcella. “By your leave, my lady.”
于是艾莉亞在門邊停下腳步，咬著嘴唇轉過身，眼淚卻已經流下臉頰。她勉強對彌賽 微一鞠躬："公主小姐，請恕我先告退。"
Myrcella blinked at her and looked to her ladies for guidance. But if she was uncertain, Septa Mordane was not. “Just where do you think you are going, Arya?” the septa demanded.
彌賽菈朝她眨了眨眼，轉向身旁的仕女們尋求協助。但她雖然猶疑不決，茉丹修女可是斬釘截鐵："艾莉亞，你要上哪兒去呀？"
Arya glared at her. “I have to go shoe a horse,” she said sweetly, taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa’s face. Then she whirled and made her exit, running down the steps as fast as her feet would take her.
艾莉亞瞪著她，"我去幫馬兒裝蹄鐵。"她甜甜地說，并從修女臉上的驚訝表情中得到一絲滿足。語畢她旋身離開房間，以最快的速度飛奔下樓。
It wasn’t fair. Sansa had everything. Sansa was two years older; maybe by the time Arya had been born, there had been nothing left. Often it felt that way. Sansa could sew and dance and sing. She wrote poetry. She knew how to dress. She played the high harp and the bells. Worse, she was beautiful. Sansa had gotten their mother’s fine high cheekbones and the thick auburn hair of the Tullys. Arya took after their lord father. Her hair was a lusterless brown, and her face was long and solemn. Jeyne used to call her Arya Horseface, and neigh whenever she came near. It hurt that the one thing Arya could do better than her sister was ride a horse. Well, that and manage a household. Sansa had never had much of a head for figures. If she did marry Prince Joff, Arya hoped for his sake that he had a good steward.
上天真是太不公平，憑什么珊莎就擁有一切？有時候艾莉亞會這么覺得。自己出生的時候，珊莎已經兩歲多了，早已沒有任何東西剩下來。珊莎精于縫紉刺繡，又能歌善舞，她會吟詩作詞，又懂得如何打扮；她奏起豎琴撥弦宛轉，搖起鐘鈴悅耳輕靈。更糟糕的是，她還是大美人一個。珊莎自母親那兒繼承了徒利家族的玲瓏頰骨和濃密的棗紅秀發，艾莉亞則活像她父親，發色深褐，黯淡無光；臉形細長，陰霾不開。珍妮老愛叫她"馬臉艾莉亞"，每次遇上她就學起馬兒嘶叫。想到自己惟一做得比姐姐好的事情就是騎馬，她越發難過起來。不過珊莎不擅長管理家務，對數字也向來一竅不通，倘若哪天她真嫁給喬佛里王子，艾莉亞希望他最好有個好管家，否則后果不堪設想。
背景介紹：
《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。喬治·雷蒙德·理查德·馬丁是歐美奇幻小說大師。馬丁的作品主要以人物為關注點，描寫細膩豐富，突破了幻想文學界固有的創作模式，多次引領閱讀潮流。由于馬丁的輝煌成就，他被譽為美國的托爾金和新世紀的海明威。從1989年開始，馬丁淡出文學界，轉而投身演藝界發展，1996年他才重返文壇而開始奇幻文學的創作，處女作便是《權力的游戲》，即為《冰與火之歌》的首部曲。《權力的游戲》甫出便拿下了British Fantasy Society、 世界奇幻獎和星云獎年度最佳幻想作品提名，在非官方的不記名奇幻作品投票中，《冰與火之歌》儼然已經可以和《魔戒》平起平坐，作者網站的訪問量也是和斯蒂芬·金、J.K.羅琳等不相上下，其受歡迎的程度可見一斑。喬治馬丁被時代雜志評選為2011年影響世界的一百人之一。
