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Where is the city? she asked as they passed beneath the bronze arch.
城區究竟在哪兒？他們從青銅拱門下穿過時，她忍不住問。
There were no buildings to be seen, no people, only the grass and the road, lined with ancient monuments from all the lands the Dothraki had sacked over the centuries.
放眼望去，四下沒有建筑物，沒有人煙，只有草原和道路，兩旁擺滿了千百年來多斯拉克人由各地搜刮來的古老掠獲。
Ahead, Ser Jorah answered. Under the mountain.
前面，喬拉爵士回答，就在山腳下。
Beyond the horse gate, plundered gods and stolen heroes loomed to either side of them.
過了馬門，搶竊而來的各方諸神和列位英雄凜然站立道路左右。
The forgotten deities of dead cities brandished their broken thunderbolts at the sky as Dany rode her silver past their feet.
丹妮騎著小銀馬經過曾被衰亡城市敬拜過的、如今早被遺忘的神祉，有的還朝天揮舞手中的閃電。
Stone kings looked down on her from their thrones, their faces chipped and stained, even their names lost in the mists of time.
眾多國王的石雕坐在王位上，冷冷地俯視她，他們的面容卻已被風雨侵蝕，連名字也失落于時間的迷霧中。
Lithe young maidens danced on marble plinths, draped only in flowers, or poured air from shattered jars.
身軀苗條的少女在大理石基座上跳舞，身上僅有花朵蔽體，她們拿著碎裂的瓶罐，倒出的也只有空氣。
Monsters stood in the grass beside the road; black iron dragons with jewels for eyes, roaring griffins, manticores with their barbed tails poised to strike, and other beasts she could not name. Some of the statues were so lovely they took her breath away, others so misshapen and terrible that Dany could scarcely bear to look at them.
站在道路兩邊的青草地上的還有各種怪物：眼鑲珠寶的黑鐵龍，猙獰咆哮的鷹頭獅身獸，舉尾欲刺的人面獅身蝎尾獸，以及其他不知名的怪獸。
Those, Ser Jorah said, had likely come from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai.
有些雕像可愛得教她透不過氣，卻也有些極度畸形可怖，令她不敢再看。照喬拉爵士說，這些雕像大半來自亞夏彼方的陰影之地。
So many, she said as her silver stepped slowly onward, and from so many lands.
好多啊，小銀馬一邊緩步向前，她一邊說，也是從好多地方來的。
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。
