There were no heralds, no banners, no horns nor drums, only the twang of bowstrings as Morrec and Lharys let fly, and suddenly the clansmen came thundering out of the dawn, lean dark men in boiled leather and mismatched armor, faces hidden behind barred halfhelms. In gloved hands were clutched all manner of weapons: longswords and lances and sharpened scythes, spiked clubs and daggers and heavy iron mauls. At their head rode a big man in a striped shadowskin cloak, armed with a two-handed greatsword.
這場戰斗沒有傳令官，沒有旗幟，沒有號角吹響，也沒有鼓聲隆隆，只聽見莫里斯和拉利斯放箭時的弓弦砰然聲，轉眼間原住民的鐵蹄便踏破黎明，轟然而至。他們個個皮膚黝黑，身形精瘦，穿著硬皮革和搶來的不合身的護甲，面容隱藏在半罩頭盔里。他們戴著手套，手里拿著形形色色的武器，有老朽的長劍、長槍，磨利的鐮刀，還有狼牙棒、匕首和重鐵錘。騎在最前面的人穿了一件花斑影子山貓皮做成的披風，握著一把雙手巨劍。
Ser Rodrik shouted Winterfell! and rode to meet him, with Bronn and Chiggen beside him, screaming some wordless battle cry. Ser Willis Wode followed, swinging a spiked morningstar around his head. Harrenhal! Harrenhal! he sang. Tyrion felt a sudden urge to leap up, brandish his axe, and boom out, Casterly Rock!but the insanity passed quickly and he crouched down lower.
羅德利克爵士大喊一聲：臨冬城萬歲！然后迎上前去，波隆和契根也一左一右沖殺出去，嘴里喊著含混不清的口號。維里爵士跟在后面，頭上揮舞著一把釘刺流星錘。赫倫堡萬歲！赫倫堡萬歲！他叫道。提利昂突然間也有股沖動，想跳起來揮動斧頭，然后大叫：凱巖城萬歲！但他很快打消了這瘋狂的念頭，反而蹲得更低。
He heard the screams of frightened horses and the crash of metal on metal. Chiggen's sword raked across the naked face of a mailed rider, and Bronn plunged through the clansmen like a whirlwind, cutting down foes right and left. Ser Rodrik hammered at the big man in the shadowskin cloak, their horses dancing round each other as they traded blow for blow. Jyck vaulted onto a horse and galloped bareback into the fray. Tyrion saw an arrow sprout from the throat of the man in the shadowskin cloak. When he opened his mouth to scream, only blood came out. By the time he fell, Ser Rodrik was fighting someone else.
他聽見馬兒受驚的尖叫，以及金屬碰撞的聲音。契根的劍削開一個人的臉，那人穿了鎧甲，但沒戴頭盔。波隆則像一陣龍卷風般沖入敵陣，左劈右砍，切菜似地掀倒對手。羅德利克爵士則徑自朝那個披影子山貓皮披風的大漢攻去，兩匹馬相互繞圈，兩人你來我往。杰克跳上一匹馬，連馬鞍都沒用就飛奔進亂軍之中。提利昂看見一枝利箭自那披山貓披風的人喉頭刺出，他張嘴欲喊，卻只有鮮血涌出。等他倒地，羅德利克爵士已找到了新對手。
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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