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That's not my favorite, he said. My favorites were the scary ones. He heard some sort of commotion outside and turned back to the window.
我最喜歡的才不是這個，他說，我喜歡的是那些嚇人的。他聽見外面傳來一陣騷動，轉身望向窗外。
Rickon was running across the yard toward the gatehouse, the wolves following him, but the tower faced the wrong way for Bran to see what was happening.
瑞肯正穿過廣場，朝城門樓跑去，狼群跟在后面。然而布蘭所處的高塔方向不對，看不到究竟發生了什么。
He smashed a fist on his thigh in frustration and felt nothing.
他不由得惱怒地一拳捶在大腿上，卻毫無感覺。
Oh, my sweet summer child, Old Nan said quietly, what do you know of fear?
噢，我親愛的孩子啊，你出生在夏季，老奶媽靜靜地說，你哪里懂得真正的恐懼？
Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north.
小少爺，當冬天來臨，積雪百尺，冰風狂嘯，那才是真正的恐怖。
Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods.
當長夜漫漫，終年不見天日，小孩在黑夜里誕生、在黑夜里長大、在黑夜里死亡，而冰原狼骨瘦嶙峋，白鬼穿梭林間，那才是恐懼降臨之時。
You mean the Others, Bran said querulously.
你說的是異鬼罷。布蘭暴躁地說。
The Others, Old Nan agreed. Thousands and thousands of years ago, a winter fell that was cold and hard and endless beyond all memory of man.
是啊，老奶媽同意，幾千年前，一個出奇寒冷嚴酷的漫長冬季降臨人間，只是今天的人類不復記憶。
There came a night that lasted a generation, and kings shivered and died in their castles even as the swineherds in their hovels.
在一個長達整整一代人的長夜里，城中的國王和圈里的豬倌同樣顫抖著死去。
Women smothered their children rather than see them starve, and cried, and felt their tears freeze on their cheeks.
母親們寧可悶死自己的孩子，也不愿見他們挨餓受凍。她們放聲大哭，眼淚卻凍結在臉頰上。
Her voice and her needles fell silent, and she glanced up at Bran with pale, filmy eyes and asked, So, child. This is the sort of story you like?
話音和織針同時靜止，她抬起頭，用那雙慘白，像是覆蓋了一層薄膜的眼睛看著布蘭，問道：孩子，你喜歡聽的就是這種故事？
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