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Stories wait, my little lord, and when you come back to them, why, there they are, Old Nan said. Visitors are not so patient, and ofttimes they bring stories of their own.
小少爺，故事可以等下再聽，待會兒您回來的時候，呵，它們都好端端地等著你呢。老奶媽說，客人可沒這么有耐心喲，而且啊，他們常會帶來自己的故事呢。
Who is it? Bran asked Maester Luwin.
是誰啊？布蘭問魯溫師傅。
Tyrion Lannister, and some men of the Night's Watch, with word from your brother Jon. Robb is meeting with them now. Hodor, will you help Bran down to the hall?
提利昂·蘭尼斯特，還有幾位守夜人弟兄，說是有你哥哥瓊恩的口信。羅柏正在會見他們。阿多，請你幫忙把布蘭帶到大廳去吧？
Hodor! Hodor agreed happily. He ducked to get his great shaggy head under the door. Hodor was nearly seven feet tall.
阿多！阿多開心地同意。他彎身讓他那顆毛茸茸的大頭穿過門。
It was hard to believe that he was the same blood as Old Nan.
阿多高近七尺，很難相信他竟是老奶媽的后代。
Bran wondered if he would shrivel up as small as his great-grandmother when he was old. It did not seem likely, even if Hodor lived to be a thousand.
布蘭暗自猜想，不知他年老時，會不會跟他曾祖母一樣縮成那么一團。只怕阿多就算活個一千年，這也不大可能。
Hodor lifted Bran as easy as if he were a bale of hay, and cradled him against his massive chest.
阿多像舉稻草一樣輕易地舉起布蘭，抱在胸前。
He always smelled faintly of horses, but it was not a bad smell. His arms were thick with muscle and matted with brown hair.
他身上總有股淡淡的馬臊味，好在還可以忍受。他的雙臂肌肉虬張，長滿褐色體毛。
Hodor, he said again. Theon Greyjoy had once commented that Hodor did not know much, but no one could doubt that he knew his name.
阿多。他又說了一次。席恩·葛雷喬伊曾評論說阿多雖然所知有限，但誰也不能懷疑他知道自己的名字。
Old Nan had cackled like a hen when Bran told her that, and confessed that Hodor's real name was Walder.
布蘭把這件事告訴老奶媽，她像只母雞般咯咯直笑，并偷偷告訴他阿多的本名是瓦德。
No one knew where Hodor had come from, she said, but when he started saying it, they started calling him by it. It was the only word he had.
沒人知道阿多這名字是打哪兒來的，她說，但當他開始說這個詞的時候，大家就如此稱呼他了。這是他惟一會說的詞。
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