His sore shoulder made the work go slowly. It was late afternoon before Jon finished graveling the paths. He lingered on high to watch the sun go down, turning the western sky the color of blood. Finally, as dusk was settling over the north, Jon rolled the empty barrels back into the cage and signaled the winch men to lower him.
他的肩膀還在痛，也因此拖慢了工作進度，等鋪完走道，天已經快黑。他逗留在長城上觀看日落，看著夕陽把西邊的天染成一片血紅。直到夜幕低垂，瓊恩方才拾起空桶，走回鐵籠，拉鈴叫下面的守衛放他下去。
The evening meal was almost done by the time he and Ghost reached the common hall. A group of the black brothers were dicing over mulled wine near the fire. His friends were at the bench nearest the west wall, laughing. Pyp was in the middle of a story. The mummer's boy with the big ears was a born liar with a hundred different voices, and he did not tell his tales so much as live them, playing all the parts as needed, a king one moment and a swineherd the next. When he turned into an alehouse girl or a virgin princess, he used a high falsetto voice that reduced them all to tears of helpless laughter, and his eunuchs were always eerily accurate caricatures of Ser Alliser. Jon took as much pleasure from Pyp's antics as anyone...yet that night he turned away and went instead to the end of the bench, where Samwell Tarly sat alone, as far from the others as he could get.
他和白靈回到大廳時，晚餐已差不多結束。一群黑衣弟兄聚在火爐邊喝著燙過的酒，賭起骰子。他的朋友們坐在西墻下的長凳上，笑作一團。派普正繪聲繪色地說著故事，這個跟過戲班的大耳朵男孩是個天生的騙子，擅長模仿各種聲音，聽他講故事，如同身臨其境，一會兒模仿國王，一會兒又變成豬倌。當他學起酒店女侍或待字閨中的公主時，那高亢的假音每每讓大伙兒笑得淚流不止，而他裝起太監則像極夸張化的艾里沙爵士。瓊恩和大家一樣喜歡聽派普胡鬧但這天晚上他卻轉身走到長凳的盡頭，山姆威爾·塔利坐在那兒，離其他人遠遠的。
He was finishing the last of the pork pie the cooks had served up for supper when Jon sat down across from him. The fat boy's eyes widened at the sight of Ghost. Is that a wolf?
瓊恩在他對面坐下時，他正吃著廚子們為晚餐準備的最后一個豬肉餡餅。胖男孩看到白靈，兩眼張得老大。那是狼？
A direwolf, Jon said. His name is Ghost. The direwolf is the sigil of my father's House.
是冰原狼，瓊恩道，他叫白靈。冰原狼是我父親的家徽。
背景介紹:
《權力的游戲》是一部中世紀史詩奇幻題材的電視連續劇。該劇以美國作家喬治·R·R·馬丁的奇幻巨作《冰與火之歌》七部曲為基礎改編創作，由大衛·貝尼奧夫和丹尼爾·威斯編劇、HBO電視網推出。喬治·雷蒙德·理查德·馬丁是歐美奇幻小說大師。馬丁的作品主要以人物為關注點，描寫細膩豐富，突破了幻想文學界固有的創作模式，多次引領閱讀潮流。由于馬丁的輝煌成就，他被譽為美國的托爾金和新世紀的海明威。從1989年開始，馬丁淡出文學界，轉而投身演藝界發展，1996年他才重返文壇而開始奇幻文學的創作，處女作便是《權力的游戲》，即為《冰與火之歌》的首部曲。《權力的游戲》甫出便拿下了British Fantasy Society、 世界奇幻獎和星云獎年度最佳幻想作品提名，在非官方的不記名奇幻作品投票中，《冰與火之歌》儼然已經可以和《魔戒》平起平坐，作者網站的訪問量也是和斯蒂芬·金、J.K.羅琳等不相上下，其受歡迎的程度可見一斑。喬治馬丁被時代雜志評選為2011年影響世界的一百人之一。
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