Her fingers brushed against rough unfinished stone to her left. She followed the wall, her hand skimming along the surface, taking small gliding steps through the darkness. All halls lead somewhere. Where there is a way in, there is a way out. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Arya would not be afraid. It seemed as if she had been walking a long ways when the wall ended abruptly and a draft of cold air blew past her cheek. Loose hairs stirred faintly against her skin.
左手邊，她的指頭拂過未完工的粗石表面。她便沿著墻走，手在石面游移，踏著小碎步慢慢穿越黑暗。每個房間總有出路，有進必有出嘛。而且，恐懼比利劍更傷人。艾莉亞不能害怕。她仿佛走了好長一段，墻壁突然到了盡頭，一團冷氣吹過她的臉頰。松開的頭發(fā)輕輕拍打著她的皮膚。
From somewhere far below her, she heard noises. The scrape of boots, the distant sound of voices. A flickering light brushed the wall ever so faintly, and she saw that she stood at the top of a great black well, a shaft twenty feet across plunging deep into the earth. Huge stones had been set into the curving walls as steps, circling down and down, dark as the steps to hell that Old Nan used to tell them of. And something was coming up out of the darkness, out of the bowels of the earth.
她聽見有聲音從下方很遠的地方傳來。靴子的磨地聲，遙遠的交談聲。搖曳的火光朦朧地掃過墻壁，她這才發(fā)現(xiàn)自己正站在一口大黑井邊，井足足有二十尺寬，開口直向地心。彎曲的墻上嵌了大石頭作為樓梯，向下回旋回旋，漆黑得就像老奶媽以前常跟他們說的，通往地獄的階梯。有東西正從黑暗中爬出來，從地心深處爬出來…
Arya peered over the edge and felt the cold black breath on her face. Far below, she saw the light of a single torch, small as the flame of a candle. Two men, she made out. Their shadows writhed against the sides of the well, tall as giants. She could hear their voices, echoing up the shaft.
艾莉亞趴在井邊偷偷往下看，一股冰冷的黑氣迎面襲來。下方極遠處，她看到一根火把的亮光，微小有如燭火。她分辨出是兩個人，他們的影子交錯投射在墻上，高大有如巨人。她聽見他們的聲音，回蕩著傳向井邊。
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(xù)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(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注點，描寫細膩豐富，突破了幻想文學界固有的創(chuàng)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(fā)展，1996年他才重返文壇而開始奇幻文學的創(chuàng)作，處女作便是《權力的游戲》，即為《冰與火之歌》的首部曲?！稒嗔Φ挠螒颉犯Τ霰隳孟铝薆ritish 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(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。喬治馬丁被時代雜志評選為2011年影響世界的一百人之一。
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