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Three hundred years ago, Catelyn knew, those heights had been covered with forest,
凱特琳知道三百年前這片高地完全被森林覆蓋，
and only a handful of fisherfolk had lived on the north shore of the Blackwater Rush where that deep, swift river flowed into the sea.
只有零星的漁夫在水流湍急、深涌入海的黑水河北岸定居。
Then Aegon the Conqueror had sailed from Dragonstone.
后來征服者伊耿自龍石島渡海而來，
It was here that his army had put ashore, and there on the highest hill that he built his first crude redoubt of wood and earth.
他的軍隊便是在此處登陸，隨后他在最高的丘陵頂端用木材和泥土筑起了他第一座粗糙的防御堡壘。
Now the city covered the shore as far as Catelyn could see; manses and arbors and granaries,
而今凱特琳視線所及，皆已成為繁華城區，
brick storehouses and timbered inns and merchant's stalls, taverns and graveyards and brothels, all piled one on another.
豪宅、涼亭、谷倉、磚砌倉庫、木屋旅店和市集攤位，酒館、墓園和妓院，一座接著一座。
She could hear the clamor of the fish market even at this distance.
即使距離尚遠，她仍可聽見漁市里的喧鬧。
Between the buildings were broad roads lined with trees, wandering crookback streets, and alleys so narrow that two men could not walk abreast.
寬闊的林蔭大道，蜿蜒的曲折小街，還有窄得無法容納兩人并肩通行的巷弄穿梭在建筑物之間。
Visenya's hill was crowned by the Great Sept of Baelor with its seven crystal towers.
圣貝勒大教堂的大理石墻環繞著維桑尼亞丘陵頂，七座水晶塔樓聳立其中。
Across the city on the hill of Rhaenys stood the blackened walls of the Dragonpit, its huge dome collapsing into ruin, its bronze doors closed now for a century.
彼端的雷妮絲丘陵上，坐落著龍穴焦黑的殘垣斷壁，倒塌的巨大圓頂廢墟，緊閉一世紀之久的青銅大門。
The Street of the Sisters ran between them, straight as an arrow. The city walls rose in the distance, high and strong.
兩丘之間，靜默姐妹街筆直如箭，堅實的圍城高墻則環繞在外。
A hundred quays lined the waterfront, and the harbor was crowded with ships.
百余座碼頭羅列水濱，港口里停泊著無數船只。
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。
