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A strange chill went through him. He began to climb again. Once more the wolf howled. “Quiet,” he yelled. “Sit down. Stay. You’re worse than Mother.” The howling chased him all the way up the tree, until finally he jumped off onto the armory roof and out of sight.
布蘭覺得有股詭異的寒意流貫全身。他繼續(xù)爬，小狼又繼續(xù)嗥。"別叫啦！"他喊，"乖乖坐好別動(dòng)，你比媽還煩。"然而狼嗥卻一直跟隨著他，直到他跳上武器庫(kù)屋頂，消失了蹤影為止。
The rooftops of Winterfell were Bran’s second home. His mother often said that Bran could climb before he could walk. Bran could not remember when he first learned to walk, but he could not remember when he started to climb either, so he supposed it must be true.
臨冬城的屋頂幾乎可算是布蘭的第二個(gè)家，母親總說他連走路都還沒學(xué)會(huì)，就先學(xué)會(huì)爬墻啦。布蘭既不記得自己什么時(shí)候?qū)W會(huì)走路，也不知道自己什么時(shí)候?qū)W會(huì)爬墻，所以他猜她說得應(yīng)該沒錯(cuò)。
To a boy, Winterfell was a grey stone labyrinth of walls and towers and courtyards and tunnels spreading out in all directions. In the older parts of the castle, the halls slanted up and down so that you couldn’t even be sure what floor you were on. The place had grown over the centuries like some monstrous stone tree, Maester Luwin told him once, and its branches were gnarled and thick and twisted, its roots sunk deep into the earth.
對(duì)一個(gè)小男孩而言，臨冬城的城墻高塔、庭院甬道就像是座灰石砌成的廣袤迷宮。在城堡比較老舊的部分，無數(shù)廳堂四處傾斜，容易讓人產(chǎn)生不知置身何處之感。魯溫學(xué)士曾說，幾千年來，城堡就像一棵不斷蔓生的怪物般的石頭巨樹，枝干扭曲，盤根錯(cuò)節(jié)。
When he got out from under it and scrambled up near the sky, Bran could see all of Winterfell in a glance. He liked the way it looked, spread out beneath him, only birds wheeling over his head while all the life of the castle went on below. Bran could perch for hours among the shapeless, rain-worn gargoyles that brooded over the First Keep, watching it all: the men drilling with wood and steel in the yard, the cooks tending their vegetables in the glass garden, restless dogs running back and forth in the kennels, the silence of the godswood, the girls gossiping beside the washing well. It made him feel like he was lord of the castle, in a way even Robb would never know.
當(dāng)布蘭穿過錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的傾頹古城，爬到接近天空的地方，全城的景致終于一覽無遺。他很喜歡臨冬城在他面前展開的遼闊樣貌，城堡里的一切熙來攘往、人聲喧嘩都在他腳下，惟有天際飛鳥在頭上盤旋。布蘭往往就這樣趴在首堡之上，置身在形狀早已不復(fù)辨識(shí)、被風(fēng)霜雨雪摧殘殆盡的石像鬼間，俯瞰下方的城間百態(tài)。看著廣場(chǎng)上拖運(yùn)木材和鋼鐵的長(zhǎng)工，看著玻璃花園里采集菜蔬的廚師，看著犬舍里來回奔跑、局促不安的獵狗，看著靜默無語(yǔ)的神木林，看著深井邊交頭接耳的女侍，仿佛他才是城堡真正的主人，即使羅柏也無法體會(huì)這種境界。
背景介紹：
《權(quán)力的游戲》是一部中世紀(jì)史詩(shī)奇幻題材的電視連續(xù)劇。該劇以美國(guó)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。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(guān)注點(diǎn)，描寫細(xì)膩豐富，突破了幻想文學(xué)界固有的創(chuàng)作模式，多次引領(lǐng)閱讀潮流。由于馬丁的輝煌成就，他被譽(yù)為美國(guó)的托爾金和新世紀(jì)的海明威。從1989年開始，馬丁淡出文學(xué)界，轉(zhuǎn)而投身演藝界發(fā)展，1996年他才重返文壇而開始奇幻文學(xué)的創(chuàng)作，處女作便是《權(quán)力的游戲》，即為《冰與火之歌》的首部曲。《權(quán)力的游戲》甫出便拿下了British Fantasy Society、 世界奇幻獎(jiǎng)和星云獎(jiǎng)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(jīng)可以和《魔戒》平起平坐，作者網(wǎng)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(shí)代雜志評(píng)選為2011年影響世界的一百人之一。
