It was those rooms, low, dusty garrets at the top of a cramped narrow staircase. “Leave your boots down here,” Masha told them after she'd taken their coin. “The boy will clean them. I won't have you tracking mud up my stairs. Mind the bell. Those who come late to meals don't eat.” There were no smiles, and no mention of sweet cakes.
他們當然要。房間在低矮積塵的閣樓內，要經過狹窄老舊的樓梯爬上去。"把鞋子留在這兒，"瑪莎收了錢后告訴他們，"伙計待會兒來清理。我可不想看你們踩著爛泥上樓。注意鐘聲，來晚了就沒得吃了。"她臉上沒有笑容，也只字未提香甜的蛋糕。
When the supper bell rang, the sound was deafening. Catelyn had changed into dry clothes. She sat by the window, watching rain run down the pane. The glass was milky and full of bubbles, and a wet dusk was falling outside. Catelyn could just make out the muddy crossing where the two great roads met.
當晚餐的鐘聲真的敲響時，簡直震耳欲聾。凱特琳換了干衣服，正坐在窗邊，凝視雨滴溜下窗欞。玻璃模糊不清，水珠密布，雨夜正要降臨。凱特琳勉強分辨得出兩條大路交會處的泥濘渡口。
The crossroads gave her pause. If they turned west from here, it was an easy ride down to Riverrun. Her father had always given her wise counsel when she needed it most, and she yearned to talk to him, to warn him of the gathering storm. If Winterfell needed to brace for war, how much more so Riverrun, so much closer to King's Landing, with the power of Casterly Rock looming to the west like a shadow. If only her father had been stronger, she might have chanced it, but Hoster Tully had been bedridden these past two years, and Catelyn was loath to tax him now.
看到岔路，她飄忽的視線不禁停了下來。假如他們由此向西，便可輕松愉快地抵達奔流城。父親總會在她需要的時候給予睿智的建議，她也渴望和他談談，警告他即將來臨的風暴。倘若臨冬城當真不免一戰，奔流城更是首當其沖，因為它既靠近君臨，西面又有如陰影般的凱巖城勢力。若是父親身體健康一點，她或許還會考慮，然而霍斯特·徒利臥病在床已有兩年之久，凱特琳不愿再加重他的負擔。
The eastern road was wilder and more dangerous, climbing through rocky foothills and thick forests into the Mountains of the Moon, past high passes and deep chasms to the Vale of Arryn and the stony Fingers beyond.
東邊的路比較崎嶇，也更險惡，攀越巖石山丘和濃密樹林，進入明月山脈，再穿過陡峭隘口和深淵絕壁，則會到達艾林谷，以及更遠處崎嶇多石的五指半島。
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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