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“I’m off to break my fast. See that you return the books to the shelves. Be gentle with the Valyrian scrolls, the parchment is very dry. Ayrmidon’s Engines of War is quite rare, and yours is the only complete copy I’ve ever seen.” Chayle gaped at him, still half-asleep. Patiently, Tyrion repeated his instructions, then clapped the septon on the shoulder and left him to his tasks.
"我去吃早餐，記得幫我把書放回架上。不過動作輕點，這些瓦雷利亞卷軸的羊皮紙很脆弱。伊彌頓的《戰爭兵器》是一部很稀有的書，我這輩子只看見你這份抄本。"柴爾還沒完全清醒，朝他打了個大呵欠。提利昂耐著性子又重復了一遍，然后拍拍修士的肩膀，讓他去工作。
Outside, Tyrion swallowed a lungful of the cold morning air and began his laborious descent of the steep stone steps that corkscrewed around the exterior of the library tower. It was slow going; the steps were cut high and narrow, while his legs were short and twisted. The rising sun had not yet cleared the walls of Winterfell, but the men were already hard at it in the yard below. Sandor Clegane’s rasping voice drifted up to him. “The boy is a long time dying. I wish he would be quicker about it.”
走出門外，提利昂深吸一口清晨的冷空氣，接著費力地走下環繞藏書塔那一級級陡峭的螺旋梯。階梯高窄，他的腳卻短小畸形又扭曲。旭日還沒高過臨冬城城墻，但校場里已有不少人開始練習。桑鐸·克里岡刺耳的聲音傳了過來："那小子拖拖拉拉地還不斷氣，早點死了不挺干脆？"
Tyrion glanced down and saw the Hound standing with young Joffrey as squires swarmed around them. “At least he dies quietly,” the prince replied. “It’s the wolf that makes the noise. I could scarce sleep last night.”
提利昂往下看，看到"獵狗"站在年輕的喬佛里身旁，周圍簇擁著一群侍從。"至少他沒吭半聲，"王子說，"吵的是那只狼，吵得我昨晚快沒法睡了。"
Clegane cast a long shadow across the hard-packed earth as his squire lowered the black helm over his head. “I could silence the creature, if it please you,” he said through his open visor. His boy placed a longsword in his hand. He tested the weight of it, slicing at the cold morning air. Behind him, the yard rang to the clangor of steel on steel.
克里岡的隨從為他戴上黑甲頭盔，他高大的身軀在硬土地上拉下長長的影子。"假如您高興，我去叫那只東西閉嘴。"他透過打開的面罩說。這時他的隨從將長劍遞上，他試了試劍的重量，在清晨的冷空氣里比劃了幾下。在他身后，廣場上傳來金屬交擊的聲音。
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。
