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The man is craven, Lord Hunter declared. Stand and fight, coward! Other voices echoed the sentiment.
這家伙是個懦夫，杭特伯爵道，膽小鬼，有種就光明正大地打！其他人也同聲附和。
Catelyn looked to Ser Rodrik. Her master-at-arms gave a curt shake of his head. He wants to make Ser Vardis chase him.
凱特琳望向羅德利克爵士。她的教頭簡短地搖頭道：他故意讓瓦狄斯爵士追他。
The weight of armor and shield will tire even the strongest man.
全副武裝加上盾牌，再強壯的人也會很快疲累。
She had seen men practice at their swordplay near every day of her life, had viewed half a hundred tourneys in her time, but this was something different and deadlier:
其實，她幾乎是看著他人練劍長大，觀賞過的比武競技不只半百，然而眼前這場決斗卻與之殊異，更為致命：
a dance where the smallest misstep meant death. And as she watched, the memory of another duel in another time came back to Catelyn Stark, as vivid as if it had been yesterday.
一招棋錯，便在劫難逃。看著這番場景，凱特琳·史塔克卻憶起了在不同時間，不同地點，曾經發生過的另一場決斗，在腦海中歷歷如繪，恍如昨日。
They met in the lower bailey of Riverrun.
那是在奔流城的下層庭院。
When Brandon saw that Petyr wore only helm and breastplate and mail, he took off most of his armor.
布蘭登眼見培提爾只穿戴頭盔、護胸和鎖甲，便也脫去自己的大半護具。
Petyr had begged her for a favor he might wear, but she had turned him away.
當時培提爾懇求她以信物相贈，卻被她拒絕。
Her lord father promised her to Brandon Stark, and so it was to him that she gave her token, a pale blue handscarf she had embroidered with the leaping trout of Riverrun.
既然她被父親大人許配給布蘭登·史塔克，她的信物自然歸他所有。那是由她親手縫制的淡藍手帕，上面繡著奔流城的飛躍鱒魚。
As she pressed it into his hand, she pleaded with him.
當她把手帕塞進他手中時，她向他懇求：
He is only a foolish boy, but I have loved him like a brother.
他只是個傻孩子，但我把他當弟弟一樣疼愛。
It would grieve me to see him die.
他若是死了，我會很難過。
And her betrothed looked at her with the cool grey eyes of a Stark and promised to spare the boy who loved her.
她的未婚夫聽了，便用那雙史塔克家的冷靜灰眸看著她，并答應饒那瘋狂愛著她的小子一命。
