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They ate food, said Jon, "and they lived as we live."
“他們吃的還不就是食物？”瓊恩道，“他們的生活和我們有什么兩樣？”
You'd be surprised. This vault is a treasure, Jon.
“那你可就錯啰，瓊恩，這里處處是寶藏哪。”
If you say so. Jon was doubtful. Treasure meant gold, silver, and jewels, not dust, spiders, and rotting leather.
“你說是就是吧。”瓊恩半信半疑。所謂的“寶藏”，應該是指黃金、白銀和珠寶，決非灰塵、蜘蛛和腐爛皮革吧？
I do, the fat boy blurted. He was older than Jon, a man grown by law, but it was hard to think of him as anything but a boy. "I found drawings of the faces in the trees, and a book about the tongue of the children of the forest... works that even the Citadel doesn't have, scrolls from old Valyria, counts of the seasons written by maesters dead a thousand years..."
“我是說真的耶！”胖子激動得沖口而出。他年紀比瓊恩大，依法已經成年，可他怎么看都還像個孩子。“我找到魚梁木上人面的畫像，一本關于森林之子語言的專著……還有連學城都沒有的作品，比如古瓦雷利亞流傳下來的卷軸，千年之前的學士所做的季節變化紀錄……”
The books will still be here when we return.
“書又不會跑，等我們回來再看也不遲嘛。”
If we return...
“那也要我們回得來……”
The Old Bear is taking two hundred seasoned men, three-quarters of them rangers. Qhorin Halfhand will be bringing another hundred brothers from the Shadow Tower. You'll be as safe as if you were back in your lord father's castle at Horn Hill.
“熊老這次所挑的兩百個弟兄都是經驗豐富的老手，其中更有四分之三是游騎兵，況且‘斷掌’科林還會從影子塔帶一百弟兄來跟我們會合。就算待在角陵你父親大人的城堡里，也不會比這更安全了。”
Samwell Tarly managed a sad little smile. "I was never very safe in my father's castle either."
山姆威爾·塔利勉強擠出一絲哀傷的笑容，“我在父親的城堡里本來也不怎么安全。”
The gods play cruel jests, Jon thought. Pyp and Toad, all a lather to be a part of the great ranging, were to remain at Castle Black. It was Samwell Tarly, the self-proclaimed coward, grossly fat, timid, and near as bad a rider as he was with a sword, who must face the haunted forest.
諸神對人的種種殘酷捉弄，莫不以此為甚，瓊恩不禁想。迫不及待想參加這次長征的派普和陶德必須留守黑城堡，需要面對鬼影森林的，卻是山姆威爾·塔利。他是個自承懦弱的的人，肥胖無比，膽子奇小，騎馬舞劍樣樣不行。
