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Deepwater fishing boats and river runners came and went, ferrymen poled back and forth across the Blackwater Rush,
深水漁船和河流渡筏絡繹不絕，船夫撐篙往來于黑水灣，
trading galleys unloaded goods from Braavos and Pentos and Lys. Catelyn spied the queen's ornate barge,
商船則源源不斷卸下來自布拉佛斯、潘托斯和里斯的貨物。
tied up beside a fat-bellied whaler from the Port of Ibben, its hull black with tar,
凱特琳瞥見王后裝飾華麗的游艇，停泊在一艘吃水頗深、船身涂滿黑色焦油、
while upriver a dozen lean golden warships rested in their cribs, sails furled and cruel iron rams lapping at the water.
從伊班港來的捕鯨船旁邊。上游處有十來艘狹長的黃金戰船，船帆卷起，鐵制撞錘輕輕拍打水面。
And above it all, frowning down from Aegon's high hill, was the Red Keep; seven huge drum-towers crowned with iron ramparts,
睥睨這一切的是伊耿丘陵上的紅堡。它包括七棟加固鋼鐵工事的巨大鼓塔，一座碩大無比而冷酷的堡樓，
an immense grim barbican, vaulted halls and covered bridges, barracks and dungeons and granaries,
圓頂大廳與密閉橋梁、軍營、地牢和谷倉，
massive curtain walls studded with archers' nests, all fashioned of pale red stone.
以及開滿箭口的厚重護墻，全是淺紅色石頭砌成。
Aegon the Conqueror had commanded it built. His son Maegor the Cruel had seen it completed.
征服者伊耿當年下令建造這座城堡，他的兒子殘酷梅葛將之完成。
Afterward he had taken the heads of every stonemason, woodworker, and builder who had labored on it.
竣工以后，他將每位參與筑城的石匠、木工和建筑師全部斬首，
Only the blood of the dragon would ever know the secrets of the fortress the Dragonlords had built, he vowed.
誓言惟有真龍傳人方能掌握龍王堡壘的秘密。
Yet now the banners that flew from its battlements were golden, not black,
不想如今，飄揚在城墻上的旗幟卻是金黃而非墨黑，
and where the three-headed dragon had once breathed fire, now pranced the crowned stag of House Baratheon.
三頭龍曾經怒吐烈焰的地方，成了拜拉席恩家族的寶冠雄鹿奔馳昂揚的疆域。
背景介紹:
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