选择字号:【大】【中】【小】 | 关灯
护眼
|
BRAN
关注小说网官方公众号(noveltingroom),原版名著免费领。
The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. They setforth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous withexcitement. This was the first time he had been deemed old enough to go with his lord father and hisbrothers to see the king’s justice done. It was the ninth year of summer, and the seventh of Bran’s life.
The man had been taken outside a small holdfast in the hills. Robb thought he was a wildling, hissword sworn to Mance Rayder, the King-beyond-the-Wall. It made Bran’s skin prickle to think of it.
He remembered the hearth2 tales Old Nan told them. The wildlings were cruel men, she said, slaversand slayers and thieves. They consorted3 with giants and ghouls, stole girl children in the dead ofnight, and drank blood from polished horns. And their women lay with the Others in the Long Nightto sire terrible half-human children.
But the man they found bound hand and foot to the holdfast wall awaiting the king’s justice wasold and scrawny, not much taller than Robb. He had lost both ears and a finger to frostbite, and hedressed all in black, the same as a brother of the Night’s Watch, except that his furs were ragged4 andgreasy.
The breath of man and horse mingled5, steaming, in the cold morning air as his lord father had theman cut down from the wall and dragged before them. Robb and Jon sat tall and still on their horses,with Bran between them on his pony6, trying to seem older than seven, trying to pretend that he’d seenall this before. A faint wind blew through the holdfast gate. Over their heads flapped the banner of theStarks of Winterfell: a grey direwolf racing8 across an ice-white field.
Bran’s father sat solemnly on his horse, long brown hair stirring in the wind. His closely trimmedbeard was shot with white, making him look older than his thirty-five years. He had a grim cast to hisgrey eyes this day, and he seemed not at all the man who would sit before the fire in the evening andtalk softly of the age of heroes and the children of the forest. He had taken off Father’s face, Branthought, and donned the face of Lord
点击收听单词发音
1 forth | |
adv.向前;向外,往外 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2 hearth | |
n.壁炉炉床,壁炉地面 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3 consorted | |
v.结伴( consort的过去式和过去分词 );交往;相称;调和 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4 ragged | |
adj.衣衫褴褛的,粗糙的,刺耳的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5 mingled | |
混合,混入( mingle的过去式和过去分词 ); 混进,与…交往[联系] | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6 pony | |
adj.小型的;n.小马 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
7 stark | |
adj.荒凉的;严酷的;完全的;adv.完全地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
8 racing | |
n.竞赛,赛马;adj.竞赛用的,赛马用的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
9 afterward | |
adv.后来;以后 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
10 ward | |
n.守卫,监护,病房,行政区,由监护人或法院保护的人(尤指儿童);vt.守护,躲开 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
11 stump | |
n.残株,烟蒂,讲演台;v.砍断,蹒跚而走 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
12 warden | |
n.监察员,监狱长,看守人,监护人 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
13 bastard | |
n.坏蛋,混蛋;私生子 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
14 graceful | |
adj.优美的,优雅的;得体的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
15 galloped | |
(使马)飞奔,奔驰( gallop的过去式和过去分词 ); 快速做[说]某事 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
16 hooting | |
(使)作汽笛声响,作汽车喇叭声( hoot的现在分词 ); 倒好儿; 倒彩 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
17 receded | |
v.逐渐远离( recede的过去式和过去分词 );向后倾斜;自原处后退或避开别人的注视;尤指问题 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
18 loomed | |
v.隐约出现,阴森地逼近( loom的过去式和过去分词 );隐约出现,阴森地逼近 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
19 forfeit | |
vt.丧失;n.罚金,罚款,没收物 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
20 flinch | |
v.畏缩,退缩 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
21 vile | |
adj.卑鄙的,可耻的,邪恶的;坏透的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
22 veins | |
n.纹理;矿脉( vein的名词复数 );静脉;叶脉;纹理 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
23 crest | |
n.顶点;饰章;羽冠;vt.达到顶点;vi.形成浪尖 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
24 mischief | |
n.损害,伤害,危害;恶作剧,捣蛋,胡闹 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
25 trot | |
n.疾走,慢跑;n.老太婆;现成译本;(复数)trots:腹泻(与the 连用);v.小跑,快步走,赶紧 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
26 hood | |
n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
27 thumping | |
adj.重大的,巨大的;重击的;尺码大的;极好的adv.极端地;非常地v.重击(thump的现在分词);狠打;怦怦地跳;全力支持 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
28 slumped | |
大幅度下降,暴跌( slump的过去式和过去分词 ); 沉重或突然地落下[倒下] | |
参考例句: |
|
|
29 corruption | |
n.腐败,堕落,贪污 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
30 gasp | |
n.喘息,气喘;v.喘息;气吁吁他说 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
31 kennel | |
n.狗舍,狗窝 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
32 jaw | |
n.颚,颌,说教,流言蜚语;v.喋喋不休,教训 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
33 descended | |
a.为...后裔的,出身于...的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
34 cleansed | |
弄干净,清洗( cleanse的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
35 furrowed | |
v.犁田,开沟( furrow的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
36 pointed | |
adj.尖的,直截了当的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
37 halfway | |
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
38 clatter | |
v./n.(使)发出连续而清脆的撞击声 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
39 planks | |
(厚)木板( plank的名词复数 ); 政纲条目,政策要点 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
40 wry | |
adj.讽刺的;扭曲的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
上一章:
PROLOGUE
下一章:
CATELYN
©英文小说网 2005-2010