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At first Sansa did not notice the third stranger.
珊莎起初沒注意到第三個陌生人。
He did not kneel with the others. He stood to one side, beside their horses, a gaunt grim man who watched the proceedings in silence.
他形容憔悴，神情冷酷，并未像其他人一樣屈膝下跪，而是獨自站在他們的坐騎旁，默默地觀望。
His face was pockmarked and beardless, with deepset eyes and hollow cheeks.
此人滿臉麻子，沒有胡須，兩眼深邃，面頰凹陷。
Though he was not an old man, only a few wisps of hair remained to him, sprouting above his ears, but those he had grown long as a woman's.
雖然并不老，頭發卻沒剩幾根，只在雙耳上面冒出幾撮，不過他把這些僅存的頭發留得跟女人家一樣長。
His armor was iron-grey chainmail over layers of boiled leather, plain and unadorned, and it spoke of age and hard use.
他硬皮衣外罩上鐵灰色的鎖子甲，雖式樣平凡，毫無裝飾，卻歷盡滄桑，看得出歲月的痕跡。
Above his right shoulder the stained leather hilt of the blade strapped to his back was visible; a two-handed greatsword, too long to be worn at his side.
在他右肩之后，可以見到一把臟污的皮革劍柄，大抵是他的雙手巨劍太長，沒法佩在腰間。
The king is gone hunting, but I know he will be pleased to see you when he returns, the queen was saying to the two knights who knelt before her,
國王外出打獵，等他回來見到你們，定會大感欣慰。王后正對眼前跪著的兩名騎士說話，
but Sansa could not take her eyes off the third man. He seemed to feel the weight of her gaze.
但珊莎的視線卻始終離不開第三個人。他似乎也察覺到她凝視的壓力，
Slowly he turned his head. Lady growled. A terror as overwhelming as anything Sansa Stark had ever felt filled her suddenly.
緩緩地轉過頭來。淑女向他咆哮，珊莎·史塔克只覺一種前所未有的恐懼排山倒海地將她淹沒。
She stepped backward and bumped into someone.
她踉蹌后退，結果撞到了別人。
Strong hands grasped her by the shoulders, and for a moment Sansa thought it was her father,
一雙強而有力的手穩住她的肩膀，珊莎起初以為是父親，
but when she turned, it was the burned face of Sandor Clegane looking down at her, his mouth twisted in a terrible mockery of a smile.
但待她回頭，朝下看著她的卻是桑鐸·克里岡那張燒爛的臉，他的嘴角似笑非笑。
You are shaking, girl, he said, his voice rasping. Do I frighten you so much?
你在發抖啊，小妹妹。他粗聲道，我有這么可怕么？
背景介紹:
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