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“I can’t,” she wept. “Gods forgive me, Robb, I can’t, what if he dies while I’m asleep, what if he dies, what if he dies?” The wolves were still howling. She screamed and held her ears again. “Oh, gods, close the window!”
"我怎么能休息？"她啜泣，"諸神開眼，羅柏，我不能休息，萬一他在我熟睡時過去了，萬一……萬一……"窗外狼嚎依舊。她高聲尖叫，再度捂緊耳朵。"噢，天哪，天哪，關上窗子罷！"
“If you swear to me you’ll sleep.” Robb went to the window, but as he reached for the shutters another sound was added to the mournful howling of the direwolves. “Dogs,” he said, listening. “All the dogs are barking. They’ve never done that before?” Catelyn heard his breath catch in his throat. When she looked up, his face was pale in the lamplight. “Fire,” he whispered.
"如果你答應我先睡一會兒，我就關。"羅柏走到窗邊，就在他伸手去拉的時候，冰原狼的悲鳴中又添加了一種新的聲音。"是狗叫，"他專心傾聽，"全城的狗都跟著叫起來了，它們以前不會這樣的……"凱特琳聽見他的呼吸哽在喉嚨，便抬起頭，只見燈光下他面容慘白。"失火了。"他喃喃道。
Fire, she thought, and then, Bran! “Help me,” she said urgently, sitting up. “Help me with Bran.”
失火了，她的第一反應是，救救布蘭！"快幫幫我，"她催促，"快幫我把布蘭抱起來。"
Robb did not seem to hear her. “The library tower’s on fire,” he said.
可羅柏好像根本沒聽見。"藏書塔失火了。"他說。
Catelyn could see the flickering reddish light through the open window now. She sagged with relief. Bran was safe. The library was across the bailey, there was no way the fire would reach them here. “Thank the gods,” she whispered.
透過敞開的窗戶，凱特琳看見閃曳的紅色亮光。她如釋重負，布蘭安全了，藏書塔位于城廓之外，火勢無論如何沒有蔓延到這里的可能。"感謝老天。"她低聲輕語。
Robb looked at her as if she’d gone mad. “Mother, stay here. I’ll come back as soon as the fire’s out.” He ran then. She heard him shout to the guards outside the room, heard them descending together in a wild rush, taking the stairs two and three at a time.
羅柏看她的眼神仿佛將她當成了瘋子，"母親，請您留在這里，火勢撲滅之后我就回來。"說完他便跑了出去。她聽見他朝門外守衛發號施令，隨后他們三步并作兩步急奔下樓。
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。
