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Her son looked at her, startled, as if he could not credit what he was hearing. "As you say, Mother."
兒子看著她，顯得有些吃驚，仿佛不能完全相信剛才聽到的話。“母親，您說的對。”
"I'll ask you again. What do you mean to do?"
“我再問你一次：你有什么打算？”
Robb drew a map across the table, a ragged piece of old leather covered with lines of faded paint. One end curled up from being rolled; he weighed it down with his dagger. "Both plans have virtues, but... look, if we try to swing around Lord Tywin's host, we take the risk of being caught between him and the Kingslayer, and if we attack him... by all reports, he has more men than I do, and a lot more armored horse. The Greatjon says that won't matter if we catch him with his breeches down, but it seems to me that a man who has fought as many battles as Tywin Lannister won't be so easily surprised."
羅柏抽出一張繪滿褪色線條的老舊皮質地圖，攤平在桌，其中一角因為長期卷動而翹了起來，他用匕首固定住。“兩個計劃備有優點，可是……你看，假如我們試圖繞開泰溫大人主力，就得冒被他和弒君者兩面夾擊的風險，如果我們與他正面交戰……根據各種情報顯示，他不但總兵力比我多，騎兵的數量更是遠遠超過我們。雖然大瓊恩說只要趁對方脫下褲子的時候攻其不備，人再多都不怕，可在我看來，像泰溫·蘭尼斯特這樣身經百戰的人，恐怕不容易被逮到啊。”
"Good," she said. She could hear echoes of Ned in his voice, as he sat there, puzzling over the map. "Tell me more."
“很好。”她說。看他坐在那里，為地圖傷腦筋，從他的話中，她可以聽見奈德的聲音。“繼續說。”
"I'd leave a small force here to hold Moat Cailin, archers mostly, and march the rest down the causeway," he said, "but once we're below the Neck, I'd split our host in two. The foot can continue down the kingsroad, while our horsemen cross the Green Fork at the Twins."
“我打算分配少量兵力留下來防守卡林灣，以弓箭手為核心，然后全軍沿堤道南下。”他說，“渡過頸澤之后，我將兵分兩路，步兵繼續走國王大道，騎兵則從孿河城渡過綠叉河。”
