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“No,” he told her. “There will be one final joust, between the Hound and the Knight of Flowers.”
不是，他告訴她，獵狗和百花騎士還得再比一場。
But Sansa had the right of it after all. A few moments later Ser Loras Tyrell walked back onto the field in a simple linen doublet and said to Sandor Clegane, “I owe you my life. The day is yours, ser.”
但珊莎說對了。幾分鐘后，洛拉斯·提利爾爵士穿著一件樸素的亞麻外衣走回場內，對桑鐸·克里岡說：我欠您一條命，勝利是您的了，爵士閣下。
“I am no ser,” the Hound replied, but he took the victory, and the champion's purse, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, the love of the commons. They cheered him as he left the lists to return to his pavilion.
我不是什么'爵士閣下'.獵狗回答，但他還是接受了勝利、獎金，以及或許是他這輩子頭一遭的群眾愛戴。當他離開場子返回營帳的時候，眾人歡聲雷動，為他喝彩。
As Ned walked with Sansa to the archery field, Littlefinger and Lord Renly and some of the others fell in with them. “Tyrell had to know the mare was in heat,” Littlefinger was saying. “I swear the boy planned the whole thing. Gregor has always favored huge, ill-tempered stallions with more spirit than sense.” The notion seemed to amuse him.
奈德和珊莎正走在前往射箭場的路上，小指頭、藍禮公爵和其他幾位人物跟了過來。提利爾一定知道那母馬正在發情，小指頭說，我敢對天發誓那小子是事先計劃好的。格雷果向來偏好個頭大、脾氣壞、野性有余而紀律不足的馬。他饒富興味地推論。
It did not amuse Ser Barristan Selmy. “There is small honor in tricks,” the old man said stiffly.
巴利斯坦·賽爾彌爵士不以為然。耍這種伎倆毫無榮譽可言。老人固執地說。
“Small honor and twenty thousand golds.” Lord Renly smiled.
沒有榮譽，但足以贏得兩萬金龍。藍禮公爵微笑道。
That afternoon a boy named Anguy, an unheralded commoner from the Dornish Marches, won the archery competition, outshooting Ser Balon Swann and Jalabhar Xho at a hundred paces after all the other bowmen had been eliminated at the shorter distances. Ned sent Alyn to seek him out and offer him a position with the Hand's guard, but the boy was flush with wine and victory and riches undreamed of, and he refused.
當天下午，有個來自多恩邊疆，名叫安蓋的升斗小民在淘汰其他射程較短的對手后，在百步射擊的決賽中擊敗巴隆·史文爵士和賈拉巴·梭爾，摘下箭術冠軍。奈德派埃林去問他有沒有興趣在首相的侍衛隊里謀個職位，但那男孩正沉浸在美酒、勝利以及作夢都想像不到的財富中，因此拒絕了這份差事。
背景介紹:
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