Dany could not have said why the city needed a gate when it had no walls...and no buildings that she could see. Yet there it stood, immense and beautiful, the great horses framing the distant purple mountain beyond. The bronze stallions threw long shadows across the waving grasses as Khal Drogo led the khalasar under their hooves and down the godsway, his bloodriders beside him.
丹妮實(shí)在不了解，這座城既無圍墻，何需城門？……猶有甚者，她舉目所及居然沒有半棟建筑。然而馬門依舊矗立在此，碩大無比，美麗逼人，兩匹大馬為遠(yuǎn)方紫色山巒的風(fēng)景加上了邊框。卓戈卡奧領(lǐng)著卡拉薩從它們的馬蹄下經(jīng)過，沿著諸神大道繼續(xù)前行，血盟衛(wèi)們緊隨左右，青銅駿馬則在碧波蕩漾的草原上灑下迆長的影子。
Dany followed on her silver, escorted by Ser Jorah Mormont and her brother Viserys, mounted once more. After the day in the grass when she had left him to walk back to the khalasar, the Dothraki had laughingly called him Khal Rhae Mhar, the Sorefoot King. Khal Drogo had offered him a place in a cart the next day, and Viserys had accepted. In his stubborn ignorance, he had not even known he was being mocked; the carts were for eunuchs, cripples, women giving birth, the very young and the very old. That won him yet another name: Khal Rhaggat, the Cart King. Her brother had thought it was the khal’s way of apologizing for the wrong Dany had done him. She had begged Ser Jorah not to tell him the truth, lest he be shamed. The knight had replied that the king could well do with a bit of shame...yet he had done as she bid. It had taken much pleading, and all the pillow tricks Doreah had taught her, before Dany had been able to make Drogo relent and allow Viserys to rejoin them at the head of the column.
丹妮騎著銀馬跟隨在后，護(hù)送她的是喬拉·莫爾蒙爵士和再度上馬的哥哥韋賽里斯。自那天在草原上發(fā)生事故，她讓他走路回卡拉薩后，多斯拉克人便語帶譏諷地給他起了個(gè)綽號叫雷馬爾卡奧，意思是"酸腿國王".次日卓戈卡奧提議讓他搭乘馬車，韋賽里斯答應(yīng)下來。倔強(qiáng)又無知的他，卻不知這正是對他嘲弄。因?yàn)橹挥刑O(jiān)、殘廢、孕婦和老弱幼孺才搭馬車。為此他又得了個(gè)新譯名拉迦特卡奧，意思是"馬車國王".哥哥竟還以為卡奧是因?yàn)榈つ莘噶隋e(cuò)，想藉此向他賠禮。她特別懇求喬拉爵士別告訴他真相，以免他受辱。騎士回說作國王就是要能忍受些許侮辱……但他還是聽了她的話。如今丹妮可是再三哀求，又用盡多莉亞教的床上功夫，才讓卓戈收回成命，允許韋賽里斯重新和他們一起走在隊(duì)伍前端。
背景介紹:
《權(quán)力的游戲》是一部中世紀(jì)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(chǔ)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(guān)注點(diǎn)，描寫細(xì)膩豐富，突破了幻想文學(xué)界固有的創(chuàng)作模式，多次引領(lǐng)閱讀潮流。由于馬丁的輝煌成就，他被譽(yù)為美國的托爾金和新世紀(jì)的海明威。從1989年開始，馬丁淡出文學(xué)界，轉(zhuǎn)而投身演藝界發(fā)展，1996年他才重返文壇而開始奇幻文學(xué)的創(chuàng)作，處女作便是《權(quán)力的游戲》，即為《冰與火之歌》的首部曲?！稒?quán)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(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(shí)代雜志評選為2011年影響世界的一百人之一。
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