The Dothraki sea, Ser Jorah Mormont said as he reined to a halt beside her on the top of the ridge.
這就是多斯拉克海。喬拉·莫爾蒙爵士說著拉住韁繩,停在她身旁,兩人一同站在山脊之巔。
Beneath them, the plain stretched out immense and empty, a vast flat expanse that reached to the distant horizon and beyond.
寬廣空曠的平原在他們下方延展開來,平坦遼闊直至極目盡頭。
It was a sea, Dany thought. Past here, there were no hills, no mountains, no trees nor cities nor roads,
這的確像一片汪洋啊,丹妮心想。從此以往,丘陵山巒不再,連樹林、城市和道路也沒了蹤影,
only the endless grasses, the tall blades rippling like waves when the winds blew.
只有一望無際的草原,風起云涌,長長的草葉擺動一如波浪。
It's so green, she said.
好綠呀。她說。
Here and now, Ser Jorah agreed. You ought to see it when it blooms, all dark red flowers from horizon to horizon, like a sea of blood.
現在正是綠的時候,喬拉爵士同意,你該瞧瞧花開時的景象,滿山遍野都是暗紅的花,活像一片血海。
Come the dry season, and the world turns the color of old bronze.
等旱季一到,整個世界又變成青銅色。
And this is only hranna, child.
這還只是赫拉納草的顏色,孩子,
There are a hundred kinds of grass out there, grasses as yellow as lemon and as dark as indigo, blue grasses and orange grasses and grasses like rainbows.
不包括其他幾百種草,有的黃得像檸檬,有的暗得如靛紫,還有藍色和橙色的,以及彩虹色斑的草。
Down in the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai, they say there are oceans of ghost grass, taller than a man on horseback with stalks as pale as milkglass.
在亞夏彼方的陰影之地,據說還有一片鬼草海,那草長得比安坐馬上的人還高,莖稈白得像白璃。
It murders all other grass and glows in the dark with the spirits of the damned.
這種草會殺死其余的草,然后在暗處藉由被詛咒的靈魂發光。
The Dothraki claim that someday ghost grass will cover the entire world, and then all life will end.
多斯拉克人認為有朝一日鬼草會占據全世界,到那時,一切的生命便將結束。
That thought gave Dany the shivers. I don't want to talk about that now, she said. It's so beautiful here, I don't want to think about everything dying.
丹妮聽了不禁顫抖。別說了,她說,這里好漂亮,我不想談跟死亡有關的事。

背景介紹:
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