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Ser Jorah snorted. Viserys could not sweep a stable with ten thousand brooms.
喬拉爵士哼了一聲。給韋賽里斯一萬把掃把，他也沒法把一座馬廄打掃干凈。
Dany could not pretend to surprise at the disdain in his tone. What...what if it were not Viserys? she asked.
對他的輕蔑口吻，丹妮實在是不能佯作吃驚。那……那如果不是韋賽里斯呢？
If it were someone else who led them? Someone stronger? Could the Dothraki truly conquer the Seven Kingdoms?
她問，如果換個人？換個更強的人領軍呢？多斯拉克人果真能征服七國嗎？
Ser Jorah's face grew thoughtful as their horses trod together down the godsway.
他們繼續沿著諸神大道走下去，喬拉爵士則陷入沉思。
When I first went into exile, I looked at the Dothraki and saw half-naked barbarians, as wild as their horses.
當初剛遭放逐，我也是把多斯拉克人視為衣不蔽體、跟他們的馬同樣野性難馴的化外蠻子。
If you had asked me then, Princess, I should have told you that a thousand good knights would have no trouble putting to flight a hundred times as many Dothraki.
公主殿下，若那時候您問起我這個問題，我會毫不猶豫地告訴您只需一千名訓練有素的騎士，便足以使上百倍的多斯拉克人抱頭鼠竄。
But if I asked you now?
現在呢？
Now, the knight said, I am less certain. They are better riders than any knight, utterly fearless, and their bows outrange ours.
現在的話，騎士道，我就不敢確定。他們的馬術勝過任何騎士，天不怕地不怕，弓箭的射程也遠超過我們。
In the Seven Kingdoms, most archers fight on foot, from behind a shieldwall or a barricade of sharpened stakes.
七國的弓箭手多半徒步，躲在盾牌圍成的墻壁或是削尖的木樁做成的工事后面。
The Dothraki fire from horseback, charging or retreating, it makes no matter, they are full as deadly...and there are so many of them, my lady.
多斯拉克人卻是騎馬射箭，無論沖鋒撤退都行動自如。
Your lord husband alone counts forty thousand mounted warriors in his khalasar.
公主殿下，他們非常危險…而他們的數量也同樣驚人。您夫君大人的卡拉薩足足擁有四萬騎馬戰士。
Is that truly so many?
四萬人真的很多？
Your brother Rhaegar brought as many men to the Trident, Ser Jorah admitted, but of that number, no more than a tenth were knights.
當年您哥哥雷加，便是帶著這么多人到三叉戟河作戰，喬拉爵士說，但其中只有不到十分之一是騎士，
The rest were archers, freeriders, and foot soldiers armed with spears and pikes.
其余都是流浪騎手、弓箭手，以及拿槍矛的步兵。
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