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Maybe you could write an account of our ranging, Sam.
“山姆，或許你也可以把我們這次巡邏的經過寫下來?！?/div>
He'd meant to sound encouraging, but it was the wrong thing to say. The last thing Sam needed was to be reminded of what faced them on the morrow. He shuffled the scrolls about aimlessly. "There's more maps. If I had time to search... everything's a jumble. I could set it all to order, though; I know I could, but it would take time... well, years, in truth."
他本意是鼓勵，卻說錯了話，山姆此刻最不需要別人提醒的就是從明天起他們將面對的命運。他隨手翻動一些卷軸，“地圖還很多，如果給我時間……這里亂成一團，不過我有辦法把一切都整理妥當，我知道我能行，但那得花上好多時間……唉，說真的，起碼要好些年才行。”
Mormont wanted those maps a little sooner than that. Jon plucked a scroll from a bin, blew off the worst of the dust. A corner flaked off between his fingers as he unrolled it. "Look, this one is crumbling," he said, frowning over the faded script.
“恐怕莫爾蒙沒法等那么久，”瓊恩從箱子里抽出一束卷軸，吹掉上面厚厚的灰塵，不料展開的時候，卷軸竟有一小角從他指間剝落?！澳憧矗@張快碎了?！彼粗噬淖舟E皺眉。
Be gentle. Sam came around the table and took the scroll from his hand, holding it as if it were a wounded animal. "The important books used to be copied over when they needed them. Some of the oldest have been copied half a hundred times, probably."
“輕一點?！鄙侥防@過桌子，從他手中接過卷軸，像是對待受傷動物似地捧著?！爸匾臅涗浽谛枰獣r常被謄抄。這里最老的書說不定被抄過五六十次呢。”
Well, don't bother copying that one. Twenty-three barrels of pickled cod, eighteen jars of fish oil, a cask of salt...
“哎，可這張沒什么好抄的。二十三桶鹽漬鱈魚，十八罐魚油，一桶腌……”
An inventory, Sam said, "or perhaps a bill of sale."
“這是張貨物清單，”山姆說，“或是買賣的收據?！?/div>
Who cares how much pickled cod they ate six hundred years ago? Jon wondered.
“誰管六百年前的人吃多少鱈魚啊？”瓊恩不禁納悶。
I would. Sam carefully replaced the scroll in the bin from which Jon had plucked it. "You can learn so much from ledgers like that, truly you can. It can tell you how many men were in the Night's Watch then, how they lived, what they ate..."
“我就會，”山姆小心翼翼地把卷軸放回原本的箱子，“從帳目里，你可以學到很多，真的，我不騙你。比方說，你可以從中得知當時守夜人軍團有多少人，過著什么樣的生活，吃些什么東西……”
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| bin | [bin] |
想一想再看 n. 箱柜，[計] DOS文件名， 二進制目標文件 |
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| inventory | ['invəntri] |
想一想再看 n. 詳細目錄，存貨(清單) |
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| bother | ['bɔðə] |
想一想再看 v. 使惱怒，使不安，煩擾，費心 |
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| scroll | [skrəul] |
想一想再看 n. 卷軸，目錄 v. 卷動 |
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| jumble | ['dʒʌmbl] |
想一想再看 vi. 摻雜，混雜 |
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| crumbling |
想一想再看 v. 破碎；崩潰（crumble的ing形式） adj. |
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| gentle | ['dʒentl] |
想一想再看 adj. 溫和的，輕柔的，文雅的，溫順的，出身名門的 |
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| script | [skript] |
想一想再看 n. 手稿，腳本，手跡 |
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