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It ended as quickly as it began. The arakhs shivered together faster than Dany could follow, one man missed a step, the other swung his blade in a flat arc. Steel bit into flesh just above the Dothraki’s waist, and opened him from backbone to belly button, spilling his entrails into the dust. As the loser died, the winner took hold of the nearest woman, not even the one they had been quarreling over, and had her there and then. Slaves carried off the body, and the dancing resumed.
死斗驀然開始，也旋即結束。亞拉克彎刀交擊的速度快得丹妮跟不上，但其中一名戰士腳步沒站穩，他的對手立刻揮刀畫出一個圓弧。刀鋒砍進多斯拉克人腰部，將他自脊椎到腹部整個切開，內臟噴灑出來撒進塵土。敗者掙扎慘死，勝者抓住最近的女人——還不是剛才為之而戰的那個——當下做了起來。奴隸抬走尸首，舞蹈繼續進行。
Magister Illyrio had warned Dany about this too. “A Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is deemed a dull affair,” he had said. Her wedding must have been especially blessed; before the day was over, a dozen men had died.
這種情形，伊利里歐總督事前也警告過丹妮。"任何一場多斯拉克婚禮，若沒有鬧出至少三條人命，就算失敗。"如此說來，她的婚禮想必受到上蒼格外眷顧，因為在當天日落之前，一共死了十二個人。
As the hours passed, the terror grew in Dany, until it was all she could do not to scream. She was afraid of the Dothraki, whose ways seemed alien and monstrous, as if they were beasts in human skins and not true men at all. She was afraid of her brother, of what he might do if she failed him. Most of all, she was afraid of what would happen tonight under the stars, when her brother gave her up to the hulking giant who sat drinking beside her with a face as still and cruel as a bronze mask.
時間一分一秒過去，丹妮心中的恐懼卻不減反增，最后她所能做的，就只剩下竭力控制自己，不要發出尖叫。她害怕這些行徑怪異野蠻，宛如披人皮野獸的多斯拉克人；害怕自己達不到哥哥的期望，不知他會對自己做出什么事來；但最教她害怕的，還是當天晚上，哥哥將她交給此刻坐在她身邊喝酒，面無表情，殘酷得像戴著一張青銅面具的怪異巨人后，他會在星空下對她做的事。
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。
