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Toad made a face. I hope not. I'm sick of looking at those ears of yours.
陶德扮了個(gè)鬼臉。希望不會(huì)，我受夠了你那雙丑耳朵。
Ho, said Pyp. Listen to the crow call the raven black.
喲，派普說，天下烏鴉還不是一般黑。
You're certain to be a ranger, Toad.
癩蛤蟆，我看你游騎兵是當(dāng)定了，
They'll want you as far from the castle as they can.
因?yàn)樗麄儠?huì)把你派得離城堡越遠(yuǎn)越好。
If Mance Rayder attacks, lift your visor and show your face, and he'll run off screaming.
若是曼斯·雷德打來，只需掀開面罩，叫他們瞧瞧你那張臉，保管他們落荒而逃啊。
Everyone laughed but Grenn. I hope I'm a ranger.
除了葛蘭，大家哄堂而笑。我真心希望自己能當(dāng)游騎兵呢。
You and everyone else, said Matthar. Every man who wore the black walked the Wall, and every man was expected to take up steel in its defense, but the rangers were the true fighting heart of the Night's Watch.
我們不都一樣。梅沙道。黑衫軍的每一位成員都有防守長城之責(zé)，若是敵人來襲，人人都必須舉劍迎敵，然而游騎兵才是守夜人部隊(duì)中真正的戰(zhàn)斗主力。
It was they who dared ride beyond the Wall, sweeping through the haunted forest and the icy mountain heights west of the Shadow Tower, fighting wildlings and giants and monstrous snow bears.
只有他們會(huì)騎馬北出長城，掃蕩影子塔以西鬼影幢幢的森林和冰雪覆蓋的崇山峻嶺，與野人、巨人和怪物般的雪熊作戰(zhàn)。
Not everyone, said Halder. It's the builders for me.
那可不一定，霍德說，我就想當(dāng)工匠。
What use would rangers be if the Wall fell down?
若是長城垮了，游騎兵還有什么用呢？
The order of builders provided the masons and carpenters to repair keeps and towers, the miners to dig tunnels and crush stone for roads and footpaths, the woodsmen to clear away new growth wherever the forest pressed too close to the Wall.
工匠群體包括負(fù)責(zé)維修堡壘和塔樓的石匠和木匠；負(fù)責(zé)挖掘隧道，敲碎石頭鋪路的礦工；負(fù)責(zé)砍伐靠近長城的樹林的樵夫。
Once, it was said, they had quarried immense blocks of ice from frozen lakes deep in the haunted forest, dragging them south on sledges so the Wall might be raised ever higher.
據(jù)說多年以前，工匠們從鬼影森林中的冰湖運(yùn)來巨大冰塊，用雪橇南運(yùn)，以將長城砌高。
Those days were centuries gone, however; now, it was all they could do to ride the Wall from Eastwatch to the Shadow Tower, watching for cracks or signs of melt and making what repairs they could.
然而距離那樣的年代，已經(jīng)過了好幾百年，如今他們所能做的，便只是沿著城墻，從東海望走到影子塔，修補(bǔ)沿途的裂縫，注意融化的跡象。
