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Baelor the Blessed tried to replace all the ravens with doves, did you know?" The maester turned his white eyes on Jon, smiling. "The Night's Watch prefers ravens."
你可知道，‘受神祝福的’貝勒曾試圖用鴿子全面取代渡鴉？當(dāng)然，他沒有成功。”老師傅面露微笑，將那雙白色盲眼轉(zhuǎn)向瓊恩。“只有守夜人比較喜歡渡鴉。”
Jon's fingers were in the bucket, blood up to the wrist. "Dywen says the wildlings call us crows," he said uncertainty.
瓊恩的手指浸在桶子里，血淹及腕。“我聽戴文說，野人也把我們叫做烏鴉。”
The crow is the raven's poor cousin. They are both beggars in black, hated and misunderstood.
“烏鴉是渡鴉的可憐遠(yuǎn)親。它們是一身黑羽的乞食者，向來受到誤解，遭人怨恨。”
Jon wished he understood what they were talking about, and why. What did he care about ravens and doves? If the old man had something to say to him, why couldn't he just say it?
瓊恩真希望自己能清楚他到底在講些什么，以及其中緣由。渡鴉和鴿子與他何干？如果老人家有話要說，為何不肯直截了當(dāng)？
Jon, did you ever wonder why the men of the Night's Watch take no wives and father no children? Maester Aemon asked.
“瓊恩，你可曾想過，為何守夜人不娶妻也不生子？”伊蒙學(xué)士問。
Jon shrugged. "No." He scattered more meat. The fingers of his left hand were slimy with blood, and his right throbbed from the weight of the bucket.
瓊恩聳聳肩。“我沒想過。”他又丟了些碎肉。此時他的左手已經(jīng)沾滿黏滑血漬，右手則因木桶的重量而隱隱作痛。
So they will not love, the old man answered, "for love is the bane of honor, the death of duty."
“只因如此一來，他們才不會為情愛所困擾，”老師傅自問自答，“情愛是榮譽(yù)的大敵，更是責(zé)任的大忌。”
That did not sound right to Jon, yet he said nothing. The maester was a hundred years old, and a high officer of the Night's Watch; it was not his place to contradict him.
瓊恩覺得不太對勁，但他沒說什么。老學(xué)士年逾百歲，在守夜人軍團(tuán)里德高望重，他沒資格去反駁他。
