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She must not flinch or look afraid. I am the blood of the dragon, she told herself as she took the stallion's heart in both hands, lifted it to her mouth, and plunged her teeth into the tough, stringy flesh.
她不能退縮，不能畏懼。“我是真龍傳人，”她一邊雙手捧起馬心，一邊這么告訴自己。隨后她把馬心舉到嘴邊，用盡力氣，朝堅韌的生肉咬去。
Warm blood filled her mouth and ran down over her chin. The taste threatened to gag her, but she made herself chew and swallow. The heart of a stallion would make her son strong and swift and fearless, or so the Dothrakibelieved, but only if the mother could eat it all. If she choked on the blood or retched up the flesh, the omens were less favorable; the child might be stillborn, or come forth weak, deformed, or female.
溫熱的鮮血溢滿口中，自她下巴流下。味道幾乎令她作嘔，但她強忍著繼續咀嚼，繼續吞咽。多斯拉克人相信，馬心能使兒子體魄強健、身手敏捷、無所畏懼，但作母親的必須吃下整顆心。假如她被血嗆到，或者把肉吐出，便是不祥預兆：胎兒可能流產，或先天多病，畸形，甚至是生女兒。
Her handmaids had helped her ready herself for the ceremony. Despite the tender mother's stomach that had afflicted her these past two moons, Dany had dined on bowls of half-clotted blood to accustom herself to the taste, and Irri made her chew strips of dried horseflesh until her jaws were aching. She had starved herself for a day and a night before the ceremony in the hopes that hunger would help her keep down the raw meat.
為了這次儀式，她的女仆們已幫她做過精心準備。過去這兩個月，丹妮雖因害喜身體不適，卻還是以一碗碗半凝固的血塊為食，讓自己習慣血腥味。伊麗把一片片的馬肉拿給她嚼，直到她雙頰發痛。儀式舉行之前，她還特別一整天不進食，希望饑餓能幫助她吞咽生肉。
The wild stallion's heart was all muscle, and Dany had to worry it with her teeth and chew each mouthful a long time. No steel was permitted within the sacred confines of Vaes Dothrak, beneath the shadow of the Mother ofMountains; she had to rip the heart apart with teeth and nails.
野生駿馬的心全是結實的肌肉，丹妮得用牙齒竭力撕咬，細嚼慢咽才能吞下。圣母山籠罩下的圣城維斯·多斯拉克嚴禁刀械，所以她只能用牙齒和指甲撕開馬心。
