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“He sent you to examine her?”
“他也讓你檢查她？”
“To be sure.
“當然。
He is … fastidious, shall we say?”
他……是個挑剔的主人，我們不妨這么說吧。”
“Does this concern the ransom?” Jaime asked.
“贖金的關系？”詹姆繼續問，
“Does her father require proof she is still maiden?”
“他父親需要她還是處女的證明？”
“You have not heard?”
“您沒聽說哪？”
Qyburn gave a shrug.
科本一聳肩，
“We had a bird from Lord Selwyn.
“有只鳥兒從塞爾溫伯爵那邊過來，
In answer to mine.
商議贖金的問題。
The Evenstar offers three hundred dragons for his daughter’s safe return.
暮之星提出用三百金龍交換他的女兒。
I had told Lord Vargo there were no sapphires on Tarth, but he will not listen.
我已告訴瓦格大人塔斯島沒藍寶石，可他就是不相信，
He is convinced the Evenstar intends to cheat him.”
反而認定暮之星在耍他。”
“Three hundred dragons is a fair ransom for a knight.
“三百金龍贖一個騎士，很公平的價碼。
The goat should take what he can get.”
山羊應該滿足。”
“The goat is Lord of Harrenhal, and the Lord of Harrenhal does not haggle.”
“山羊是赫倫堡領主，赫倫堡領主不許別人討價還價。”
The news irritated him, though he supposed he should have seen it coming.
這消息讓他煩躁，雖然他早已預料到它的到來。
The lie spared you awhile, wench.
我的謊言保得你一時，
Be grateful for that much.
保不了一世，妞兒。
“If her maidenhead’s as hard as the rest of her, the goat will break his cock off trying to get in,” he jested.
“如果她的膜像她全身其他部分那么堅強，山羊多半會被扭斷命根子。”他開個玩笑。
Brienne was tough enough to survive a few rapes, Jaime judged,
布蕾妮毫不柔弱，能承受許多強暴，詹姆判斷，
though if she resisted too vigorously Vargo Hoat might start lopping off her hands and feet.
但若反抗過于強烈，難保瓦格·赫特不將她手腳全縛，施以懲罰。
And if he does, why should I care?
就算他那樣做了，又與我何干？
I might still have a hand if she had let me have my cousin’s sword without getting stupid.
如果不是這妞兒蠢豬似的固執，不肯把表弟的劍給我，我怎會落到右手被廢的下場。
He had almost taken off her leg himself with that first stroke of his, but after that she had given him more than he wanted.
他偷襲她，打算一擊砍斷她的腿，不料卻被接住，并且連續反擊。
Hoat may not know how freakish strong she is.
山羊很快就會見識到她那份古怪的強壯，
He had best be careful, or she’ll snap that skinny neck of his, and wouldn’t that be sweet?
他得小心，別被她咬斷細脖子。呵呵，這難道不是美事一樁么？
Qyburn’s companionship was wearing on him.
陡然厭煩了科本的陪同，
Jaime trotted toward the head of the column.
詹姆獨自騎到隊伍前方。
A round little tick of a northman name of Nage went before Steelshanks with the peace banner;
一個叫納吉的圓臉瘦小北方人高舉著和平旗幟，走在鐵腿之前：
a rainbow-striped flag with seven long tails, on a staff topped by a seven-pointed star.
旗面乃是七彩條紋，連著七條長尾，舉在一個頂端有七芒星的桿子上。
“Shouldn’t you northmen have a different sort of peace banner?” he asked Walton.
“你們北方人不換一種和平旗幟？”他問沃頓，
“What are the Seven to you?”
“七神對你們而言算什么呢？”
“Southern gods,” the man said,
“它們是南方的神。”隊長道，
“but it’s a southron peace we need, to get you safe to your father.”
“而我們需要與南方人的和平，要把你平安送回你父親身邊。”
My father.
我父親，
Jaime wondered whether Lord Tywin had received the goat’s demand for ransom, with or without his rotted hand.
詹姆不知泰溫公爵是否收到過山羊的贖金要求，是否看到過他腐爛的右手。
What is a swordsman worth without his sword hand?
一個不會用劍的劍客價值幾何？
Half the gold in Casterly Rock?
全凱巖城的金子？
Three hundred dragons?
三百金龍？
Or nothing?
不名一文？
His father had never been unduly swayed by sentiment.
父親從不讓情感影響理智。
Tywin Lannister’s own father Lord Tytos had once imprisoned an unruly bannerman, Lord Tarbeck.
以前，泰溫·蘭尼斯特的父親泰陀斯公爵逮捕過手下一名桀驁不馴的領主——塔貝克伯爵，
The redoubtable Lady Tarbeck responded by capturing three Lannisters, including young Stafford,
能干的塔貝克夫人以牙還牙，擒走三位蘭尼斯特家的人，包括年輕的史戴佛·蘭尼斯特，
whose sister was betrothed to cousin Tywin.
當時他妹妹已和泰溫訂婚。
“Send back my lord and love, or these three shall answer for any harm that comes him,”
“快快送還我的夫君和摯愛，否則我要他們三人付出代價。”
she had written to Casterly Rock.
高傲的夫人送信給凱巖城。
Young Tywin suggested his father oblige by sending back Lord Tarbeck in three pieces.
少年泰溫建議父親將塔貝克伯爵砍成三截送回去，
Lord Tytos was a gentler sort of lion, however, so Lady Tarbeck won a few more years for her muttonheaded lord,
但泰陀斯公爵是只柔弱的獅子，最終放走了那蠢笨的塔貝克，
and Stafford wed and bred and blundered on till Oxcross.
迎回史戴佛——他后來結婚，生子，戰死于牛津。
But Tywin Lannister endured, eternal as Casterly Rock.
泰溫·蘭尼斯特將一切看在眼里，記在心中，忍耐、銘記，猶如凱巖城的巖石……
And now you have a cripple for a son as well as a dwarf, my lord.
如今你不僅有了一個侏儒兒子，還多出一個殘廢兒子，
How you will hate that …
該有多惱怒啊……
The road led them through a burned village.
沿著小路，他們途經一個遭焚毀的村莊，
It must have been a year or more since the place had been put to torch.
它被燒看來都是一年多前的事了。
The hovels stood blackened and roofless, but weeds were growing waist high in all the surrounding fields.
房屋統統焦黑垮塌，田地里野草瘋長，直到齊腰之高。
Steelshanks called a halt to allow them to water the horses.
鐵腿要隊伍在此停下來飲馬。
I know this place too, Jaime thought as he waited by the well.
這地方我也來過，詹姆站在井邊，默默地想。
There had been a small inn where only a few foundation stones and a chimney now stood, and he had gone in for a cup of ale.
那座小旅館如今只剩幾塊基石和幾根煙囪，而我曾在里面喝過酒。
A dark-eyed serving wench brought him cheese and apples, but the innkeep had refused his coin.
記得那黑眼睛的小妹端來奶酪和蘋果，店家滿臉堆歡地宣布由自己請客。
“It’s an honor to have a knight of the Kingsguard under my roof, ser,” the man had said.
“御林鐵衛的成員光臨寒舍乃是無上的榮譽，爵士先生，”他笑道，
“It’s a tale I’ll tell my grandchildren.”
“總有一天，我會給孫子講述這個故事。”
