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All that was left of the great stronghold of the First Men were three towers... three where there had once been twenty, if the taletellers could be believed.
先民所建筑的雄偉要塞只剩三座高塔……而說書人卻說古時曾有二十座。
The Gatehouse Tower looked sound enough, and even boasted a few feet of standing wall to either side of it. The Drunkard's Tower, off in the bog where the south and west walls had once met, leaned like a man about to spew a bellyful of wine into the gutter. And the tall, slender Children's Tower, where legend said the children of the forest had once called upon their nameless gods to send the hammer of the waters, had lost half its crown. It looked as if some great beast had taken a bite out of the crenellations along the tower top, and spit the rubble across the bog. All three towers were green with moss. A tree was growing out between the stones on the north side of the Gatehouse Tower, its gnarled limbs festooned with ropy white blankets of ghostskin.
“城門塔”看來還算完整，左右兩邊甚至還有幾尺城墻。“醉鬼塔”陷在澤地邊緣，位于過去南墻和西墻交會的地方，如今傾斜得厲害，有如一位準備吐出滿肚子酒水的醉漢。相傳，森林之子便是在高瘦尖細的“森林之子塔”頂召喚他們的無名諸神，送出巨浪的懲罰，如今塔尖少了一半，看上去像是有只大怪獸咬了一口塔樓雉堞，隨后又把它吐進沼澤。三座塔樓均爬滿青苔，有棵樹從城門塔北面石墻縫隙間長出，盤根錯節，表面覆蓋著幽靈般蒼白的壞死樹皮。
Gods have mercy, Sir Brynden exclaimed when he saw what lay before them. "This is Moat Cailin? It's no more than a..."
“諸神慈悲，”看到眼前的景象，布林登爵士不禁吃了一驚，“這就是卡林灣？這不過是個——”
...death trap, Catelyn finished. "I know how it looks, Uncle. I thought the same the first time I saw it, but Ned assured me that this ruin is more formidable than it seems.
“——死亡陷阱。”凱特琳接口道：“叔叔，我知道這里看起來很不起眼，我初次見到時也這么想，但奈德向我保證，這片‘廢墟’遠比看起來要易守難攻。
