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We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.
“The wildlings are dead.”
“Do the dead frighten you?” Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile.
Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the lordlings come andgo. “Dead is dead,” he said. “We have no business with the dead.”
“Are they dead?” Royce asked softly. “What proof have we?”
“Will saw them,” Gared said. “If he says they are dead, that’s proof enough for me.”
Will had known they would drag him into the quarrel sooner or later. He wished it had been laterrather than sooner. “My mother told me that dead men sing no songs,” he put in.
“My wet nurse said the same thing, Will,” Royce replied. “Never believe anything you hear at awoman’s tit. There are things to be learned even from the dead.” His voice echoed, too loud in thetwilit forest.
“We have a long ride before us,” Gared pointed1 out. “Eight days, maybe nine. And night isfalling.”
Ser Waymar Royce glanced at the sky with disinterest. “It does that every day about this time. Areyou unmanned by the dark, Gared?”
Will could see the tightness around Gared’s mouth, the barely suppressed anger in his eyes underthe thick black hood2 of his cloak. Gared had spent forty years in the Night’s Watch, man and boy, andhe was not accustomed to being made light of. Yet it was more than that. Under the wounded pride,Will could sense something else in the older man. You could taste it; a nervous tension that cameperilous close to fear.
Will shared his unease. He had been four years on the Wall. The first time he had been sentbeyond, all the old stories had come rushing back, and his bowels3 had turned to water. He hadlaughed about it afterward4. He was a veteran of a hundred rangings by now, and the endless darkwilderness that the southron called the haunted forest had no more terrors for him.
Until tonight. Something was different tonight. There was an edge to this darkness that made hishackles rise. Nine days they had been riding, north and northwest and then north again, farther andfarther from the Wall, hard on the track of a band of Wildling raiders. Each day had been worse thanthe day that had come before it. Today was the worst of all. A cold wind was blowing out of thenorth, and it made the trees
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n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖 | |
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n.肠,内脏,内部;肠( bowel的名词复数 );内部,最深处 | |
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rustle
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knight
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woolen
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vocation
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sable
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twilight
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n.暮光,黄昏;暮年,晚期,衰落时期 | |
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bucks
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n.山脊;鼻梁;分水岭 | |
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axe
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n.斧子;v.用斧头砍,削减 | |
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shrugged
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vt.耸肩(shrug的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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casually
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adv.漠不关心地,无动于衷地,不负责任地 | |
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vi./n.喋喋不休;短促尖叫;(牙齿)打战 | |
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eloquence
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n.雄辩;口才,修辞 | |
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(被砍下的树的)树桩( stump的名词复数 ); 残肢; (板球三柱门的)柱; 残余部分 | |
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(常指因寒冷、生病或愁苦)耸肩弓身的,伏首前倾的 | |
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v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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adj.傲慢的,无理的 | |
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v. 屈尊, 惠允 ( 做某事) | |
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gracefully
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ad.大大方方地;优美地 | |
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tangle
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n.纠缠;缠结;混乱;v.(使)缠绕;变乱 | |
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acquiescence
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belly
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n.肚子,腹部;(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分,膛 | |
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v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 );鞭打;割破;削减 | |
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vi.大幅度削减;vt.猛砍,尖锐抨击,大幅减少;n.猛砍,斜线,长切口,衣衩 | |
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disapproval
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n.反对,不赞成 | |
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vaulting
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n.(天花板或屋顶的)拱形结构 | |
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n.[pl.]胆量;内脏;adj.本能的;vt.取出内脏 | |
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uncertainty
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n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物 | |
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hoot
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n.鸟叫声,汽车的喇叭声; v.使汽车鸣喇叭 | |
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gliding
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v. 滑翔 adj. 滑动的 | |
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perch
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n.栖木,高位,杆;v.栖息,就位,位于 | |
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hiss
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v.发出嘶嘶声;发嘘声表示不满 | |
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translucent
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adj.半透明的;透明的 | |
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shard
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n.(陶瓷器、瓦等的)破片,碎片 | |
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fixed
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adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的 | |
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snarling
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v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的现在分词 );咆哮着说,厉声地说 | |
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brittle
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adj.易碎的;脆弱的;冷淡的;(声音)尖利的 | |
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shards
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n.(玻璃、金属或其他硬物的)尖利的碎片( shard的名词复数 ) | |
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scattering
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n.[物]散射;散乱,分散;在媒介质中的散播adj.散乱的;分散在不同范围的;广泛扩散的;(选票)数量分散的v.散射(scatter的ing形式);散布;驱散 | |
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shrieking
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v.尖叫( shriek的现在分词 ) | |
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cramping
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图像压缩 | |
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numb
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adj.麻木的,失去感觉的;v.使麻木 | |
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warily
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tightened
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收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)变紧; (使)绷紧; 加紧 | |
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