Startled, Arya dropped the cat and whirled toward the voice. The tom bounded off in the blink of an eye. At the end of the alley stood a girl with a mass of golden curls, dressed as pretty as a doll in blue satin. Beside her was a plump little blond boy with a prancing stag sewn in pearls across the front of his doublet and a miniature sword at his belt. Princess Myrcella and Prince Tommen, Arya thought. A septa as large as a draft horse hovered over them, and behind her two big men in crimson cloaks, Lannister house guards.
艾莉亞嚇了一跳，松開貓，旋身面對聲音的來源。公貓轉瞬間便一溜煙逃走。小巷的另一端站著一個滿頭金卷發、穿著藍錦緞衣服、漂亮得像個洋娃娃似的女孩。她身邊有個胖嘟嘟的金發小男孩，外衣胸前用珍珠繡了一只昂首騰躍的公鹿，腰際配了把微型劍。是彌賽菈公主和托曼王子，艾莉亞心想。他們身邊跟了一個塊頭大得像犁馬的修女，她背后還有兩個蘭尼斯特家的貼身護衛，都是牛高馬大的漢子。
What were you doing to that cat, boy? Myrcella asked again, sternly. To her brother she said, He's a ragged boy, isn't he? Look at him. She giggled.
小弟弟，你在跟那只貓做什么啊？彌賽菈口氣嚴厲地再度發問，然后對弟弟說，你瞧，他還真是個臟兮兮的小弟弟，對不對？
A ragged dirty smelly boy, Tommen agreed.
對，衣服破爛，又臟又臭的小弟弟。托曼同意。
They don't know me, Arya realized. They don't even know I'm a girl. Small wonder; she was barefoot and dirty, her hair tangled from the long run through the castle, clad in a jerkin ripped by cat claws and brown roughspun pants hacked off above her scabby knees. You don't wear skirts and silks when you're catching cats. Quickly she lowered her head and dropped to one knee. Maybe they wouldn't recognize her. If they did, she would never hear the end of it. Septa Mordane would be mortified, and Sansa would never speak to her again from the shame.
他們沒認出我，艾莉亞這才明白，他們甚至不知道我是女孩。這也難怪，她光著腳丫，全身骯臟，在城堡里跑過一圈以后，頭發亂成一團，身上的皮背心布滿了貓的爪痕，粗布縫制的棕色褲子膝蓋以下都被割掉，露出傷疤遍布的雙腳—抓貓總不能穿裙子或絲衣吧。她連忙低頭，單膝跪下。他們要是認不出她來，就太好了。若是被認出來，她會吃不了兜著走的。因為這不但會丟光茉丹修女的臉，連珊莎也將覺得可恥，從此再不跟她說話。
The old fat septa moved forward. Boy, how did you come here? You have no business in this part of the castle.
肥胖的老修女往前挪了挪。小弟弟，你怎么跑到這里來的？你不該在城堡里到處亂跑喔。
You can't keep this sort out, one of the red cloaks said. Like trying to keep out rats.
沒辦法，這種人趕也趕不完，一個紅袍衛士道，跟趕老鼠一樣的道理。
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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