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A round scarred face and a stubble of dark beard showed under his steel cap, and he wore mail over boiled leather, and a dirk and shortsword at his belt. It seemed to Arya there was something oddly familiar about him.
在他的鋼頭盔下，是張帶傷疤的圓臉，還有撮短須。他穿著硬皮衣，外罩盔甲，腰間則系了一把匕首和一柄短劍。艾莉亞覺得他有種古怪的熟悉感。
“If one Hand can die, why not a second?” replied the man with the accent and the forked yellow beard. “You have danced the dance before, my friend.” He was no one Arya had ever seen before, she was certain of it. Grossly fat, yet he seemed to walk lightly, carrying his weight on the balls of his feet as a water dancer might. His rings glimmered in the torchlight, red-gold and pale silver, crusted with rubies, sapphires, slitted yellow tiger eyes. Every finger wore a ring; some had two.
"既然死了一個首相，為什么不能死第二個？"說話帶著口音，長著一撮黃色八字胡的人回答。"我的好友啊，你從前不就跳過這種舞？"艾莉亞以前沒見過他，這點她很確定。他雖然臃腫不堪，卻步履輕盈，重心放在腳跟，走起路來像個水舞者該有的樣子。他的戒指在火光下熠熠發光，有紅金、白銀、鑲了紅寶石、藍寶石，其中更有黃紋的老虎眼。每根指頭都戴有戒指，有些還戴了兩顆。
“Before is not now, and this Hand is not the other,” the scarred man said as they stepped out into the hall. Still as stone, Arya told herself, quiet as a shadow. Blinded by the blaze of their own torch, they did not see her pressed flat against the stone, only a few feet away.
"從前不比現在，如今的首相也不一樣。"臉上有疤的人邊說邊和同伴一起走進房間。不動如石，艾莉亞告訴自己，靜如影。眩目于自己帶來的火光，他們沒看到她平平地貼緊石頭，離他們僅數尺之遙。
“Perhaps so,” the forked beard replied, pausing to catch his breath after the long climb. “Nonetheless, we must have time. The princess is with child. The khal will not bestir himself until his son is born. You know how they are, these savages.”
"或許吧，"八字胡男子回答，剛爬了這大段路，這時他停下來喘口氣。"但無論如何，我們需要更多時間。公主已有了身孕，在兒子誕生之前，卡奧是不會出兵的。你也清楚這些野蠻人，知道他們什么德行。"
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?！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。
