She must have crept after them for miles. Finally they were gone, but there was no place to go but forward. She found the wall again and followed, blind and lost, pretending that Nymeria was padding along beside her in the darkness. At the end she was knee-deep in foul-smelling water, wishing she could dance upon it as Syrio might have, and wondering if she'd ever see light again. It was full dark when finally Arya emerged into the night air.
她一定爬了好幾里。到最后，他們倆都不見了，而這里除了往上，無處可去。她重新摸索，找到墻壁，在完全迷失方向的情況下，盲目地往前走，一邊假裝黑暗中娜梅莉亞正跟在自己身邊。走到盡頭，她發現自己身陷及膝深、散發出惡臭的水里，她一邊希望自己能像西利歐一樣在水面輕舞，一邊心想不知何時才能重見天日。等艾莉亞走入夜空之下時，天已經全黑。
She found herself standing at the mouth of a sewer where it emptied into the river. She stank so badly that she stripped right there, dropping her soiled clothing on the riverbank as she dove into the deep black waters. She swam until she felt clean, and crawled out shivering. Some riders went past along the river road as Arya was washing her clothes, but if they saw the scrawny naked girl scrubbing her rags in the moonlight, they took no notice.
她發現自己正站在下水道與河流相連的出水口。一身臭得要命，她干脆當場脫光，把臟衣服丟在河岸，潛入深深的黑水里，游啊游，直到她覺得舒適干凈，這才顫抖著爬上岸。艾莉亞洗衣服時，有幾個人騎馬經過河濱道路，但就算他們看到了干巴巴的小女孩赤裸著身子，就著月光搓洗破爛不堪的衣服，也沒特別在意。
She was miles from the castle, but from anywhere in King's Landing you needed only to look up to see the Red Keep high on Aegon's Hill, so there was no danger of losing her way. Her clothes were almost dry by the time she reached the gatehouse. The portcullis was down and the gates barred, so she turned aside to a postern door. The gold cloaks who had the watch sneered when she told them to let her in. “Off with you,” one said. “The kitchen scraps are gone, and we'll have no begging after dark.”
她離城堡有好幾里之遙，但不管身在君臨的何地，只需一抬頭便可看見那高高端坐于伊耿丘陵上的紅堡，所以她不怕迷路。等她抵達城門，身上的衣服已干得差不多。鐵閘早已降下，大門也上了閂，她不得不轉向邊門。當她吩咐他們讓她進去時，守門的金袍衛士冷笑一聲。"快滾罷，"其中一人說，"廚房的剩菜已經沒了，天黑后不準乞討。"
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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