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So cold, he thought, remembering the warm halls of Winterfell, where the hot waters ran through the walls like blood through a man's body.
好冷啊，他一邊想，一邊回憶起臨冬城的廳堂，那里有溫泉終年流貫壁壘之間，仿如人體內流淌的血液。
There was scant warmth to be found in Castle Black; the walls were cold here, and the people colder.
黑城堡里沒有暖意，只有冰冷的墻壁，和更加冷漠的人。
No one had told him the Night's Watch would be like this; no one except Tyrion Lannister.
除了提利昂·蘭尼斯特，沒人對他提過守夜人部隊竟是這副光景。
The dwarf had given him the truth on the road north, but by then it had been too late.
那侏儒在他們北上途中把事情真相告訴了他，但那時已經太遲了。
Jon wondered if his father had known what the Wall would be like. He must have, he thought; that only made it hurt the worse.
瓊恩不禁懷疑父親知不知道長城守軍的真正情形。他一定知道，想到這里他更覺心痛。
Even his uncle had abandoned him in this cold place at the end of the world.
就連叔叔，竟也這么把他遺棄在這世界盡頭的冰冷寒荒。
Up here, the genial Benjen Stark he had known became a different person.
他原先所認識的那個個性溫和的班揚·史塔克，到這里完全變了個人。
He was First Ranger, and he spent his days and nights with Lord Commander Mormont and Maester Aemon and the other high officers,
他是首席游騎兵，整日與莫爾蒙總司令，伊蒙學士和其他高級官員為伍，
while Jon was given over to the less than tender charge of Ser Alliser Thorne.
而將瓊恩丟給壞脾氣的艾里沙·索恩爵士。
Three days after their arrival, Jon had heard that Benjen Stark was to lead a half-dozen men on a ranging into the haunted forest.
他們抵達長城三天后，瓊恩聽說班揚·史塔克將率領六名手下深入鬼影森林巡察。
That night he sought out his uncle in the great timbered common hall and pleaded to go with him. Benjen refused him curtly.
當天夜里，他在城堡的木造大廳中找到叔叔，央求他帶自己一道去。班揚直截了當地回絕了他。
This is not Winterfell, he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger.
這可不是臨冬城，他邊用刀叉切肉邊對他說，
On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.
在長城守軍里，想得到什么樣的待遇，就得證明自己有什么樣的本事。瓊恩，你還不是游騎兵，你只是個稚氣未脫，身上還殘留著夏天氣味的小鬼。
Stupidly, Jon argued. I'll be fifteen on my name day, he said. Almost a man grown.
瓊恩愚蠢地爭辯：到明年命名日我就滿十五歲，他說，很快就要長大成人了。
背景介紹:
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