Pycelle had spoken truly; it made for ponderous reading. Yet Jon Arryn had asked for it, and Ned felt certain he had reasons. There was something here, some truth buried in these brittle yellow pages, if only he could see it. But what? The tome was over a century old. Scarcely a man now alive had yet been born when Malleon had compiled his dusty lists of weddings, births, and deaths.
派席爾說得沒錯(cuò)，這東西還真是枯燥乏味。但瓊恩·艾林既然找來讀了，奈德相信必有其原因。在這些泛黃的脆弱書頁(yè)間，肯定埋藏著重要的線索，問題只在于他是否能鉆研出其中深意。那究竟是什么呢？這本書冊(cè)的歷史已經(jīng)超過百年。當(dāng)梅利恩收集這份蒙塵的婚喪喜慶清單時(shí)，目前活在世上的人幾乎都還沒出生呢。
He opened to the section on House Lannister once more, and turned the pages slowly, hoping against hope that something would leap out at him. The Lannisters were an old family, tracing their descent back to Lann the Clever, a trickster from the Age of Heroes who was no doubt as legendary as Bran the Builder, though far more beloved of singers and taletellers. In the songs, Lann was the fellow who winkled the Casterlys out of Casterly Rock with no weapon but his wits, and stole gold from the sun to brighten his curly hair. Ned wished he were here now, to winkle the truth out of this damnable book.
他再度翻到蘭尼斯特家族的部分，刻意慢慢翻頁(yè)，雖然明知不可能，卻仍希望藉此靈光乍現(xiàn)。蘭尼斯特家族歷史悠久，向上可以追溯到英雄紀(jì)元時(shí)的騙術(shù)高手機(jī)靈的蘭尼。他和筑城者布蘭登一樣同富傳奇色彩，卻更受歌手和說書人的愛戴。歌謠中的蘭尼不靠刀劍，光憑他的機(jī)智就把凱斯德利家族趕出凱巖城，又從太陽(yáng)那里偷來黃金為他的卷發(fā)增光。奈德真希望他此刻就在自己身邊，幫他把書中那該死的秘密趕出來。
A sharp rap on the door heralded Jory Cassel. Ned closed Malleon's tome and bid him enter. I've promised the City Watch twenty of my guard until the tourney is done, he told him. I rely on you to make the choice. Give Alyn the command, and make certain the men understand that they are needed to stop fights, not start them. Rising, Ned opened a cedar chest and removed a light linen undertunic. Did you find the stableboy?
一陣急促的敲門聲宣告了喬里·凱索的到來。奈德闔上梅利恩的巨著，傳他進(jìn)來。我答應(yīng)從我的衛(wèi)隊(duì)里抽二十個(gè)人給都城守衛(wèi)隊(duì)，直到比武大會(huì)結(jié)束。他告訴他，挑人的事就交給你。讓埃林領(lǐng)隊(duì)，但務(wù)必讓他們明白，首要任務(wù)是平息紛爭(zhēng)，而非制造沖突。奈德起身，打開雪松木箱，拿出一件輕制亞麻布上衣。找到那個(gè)馬僮了嗎？
背景介紹:
《權(quán)力的游戲》是一部中世紀(jì)史詩(shī)奇幻題材的電視連續(xù)劇。該劇以美國(guó)作家喬治·R·R·馬丁的奇幻巨作《冰與火之歌》七部曲為基礎(chǔ)改編創(chuàng)作，由大衛(wèi)·貝尼奧夫和丹尼爾·威斯編劇、HBO電視網(wǎng)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(guān)注點(diǎn)，描寫細(xì)膩豐富，突破了幻想文學(xué)界固有的創(chuàng)作模式，多次引領(lǐng)閱讀潮流。由于馬丁的輝煌成就，他被譽(yù)為美國(guó)的托爾金和新世紀(jì)的海明威。從1989年開始，馬丁淡出文學(xué)界，轉(zhuǎn)而投身演藝界發(fā)展，1996年他才重返文壇而開始奇幻文學(xué)的創(chuàng)作，處女作便是《權(quán)力的游戲》，即為《冰與火之歌》的首部曲。《權(quán)力的游戲》甫出便拿下了British Fantasy Society、 世界奇幻獎(jiǎng)和星云獎(jiǎng)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(jīng)可以和《魔戒》平起平坐，作者網(wǎng)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(shí)代雜志評(píng)選為2011年影響世界的一百人之一。
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