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“Robert, I beg of you,” Ned pleaded, “hear what you are saying. You are talking of murdering achild.”
“The whore is pregnant!” The king’s fist slammed down on the council table loud as athunderclap. “I warned you this would happen, Ned. Back in the barrowlands, I warned you, but youdid not care to hear it. Well, you’ll hear it now. I want them dead, mother and child both, and that foolViserys as well. Is that plain enough for you? I want them dead.”
The other councillors were all doing their best to pretend that they were somewhere else. No doubtthey were wiser than he was. Eddard Stark1 had seldom felt quite so alone. “You will dishonoryourself forever if you do this.”
“Then let it be on my head, so long as it is done. I am not so blind that I cannot see the shadow ofthe axe2 when it is hanging over my own neck.”
“There is no axe,” Ned told his king. “Only the shadow of a shadow, twenty years removed … ifit exists at all.”
“If?” Varys asked softly, wringing3 powdered hands together. “My lord, you wrong me. Would Ibring lies to king and council?”
Ned looked at the eunuch coldly. “You would bring us the whisperings of a traitor4 half a worldaway, my lord. Perhaps Mormont is wrong. Perhaps he is lying.”
“Ser Jorah would not dare deceive me,” Varys said with a sly smile. “Rely on it, my lord. Theprincess is with child.”
“So you say. If you are wrong, we need not fear. If the girl miscarries, we need not fear. If shebirths a daughter in place of a son, we need not fear. If the babe dies in infancy5, we need not fear.”
“But if it is a boy?” Robert insisted. “If he lives?”
“The narrow sea would still lie between us. I shall fear the Dothraki the day they teach theirhorses to run on water.”
The king took a swallow of wine and glowered6 at Ned across the council table. “So you wouldcounsel me to do nothing until the dragonspawn has landed his army on my shores, is that it?”
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1 stark | |
adj.荒凉的;严酷的;完全的;adv.完全地 | |
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2 axe | |
n.斧子;v.用斧头砍,削减 | |
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3 wringing | |
淋湿的,湿透的 | |
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4 traitor | |
n.叛徒,卖国贼 | |
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5 infancy | |
n.婴儿期;幼年期;初期 | |
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6 glowered | |
v.怒视( glower的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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7 unctuous | |
adj.油腔滑调的,大胆的 | |
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8 contemplate | |
vt.盘算,计议;周密考虑;注视,凝视 | |
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9 vile | |
adj.卑鄙的,可耻的,邪恶的;坏透的 | |
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10 shrugged | |
vt.耸肩(shrug的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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11 loyalty | |
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12 fig | |
n.无花果(树) | |
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13 growled | |
v.(动物)发狺狺声, (雷)作隆隆声( growl的过去式和过去分词 );低声咆哮着说 | |
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14 bellowed | |
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15 wed | |
v.娶,嫁,与…结婚 | |
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16 killing | |
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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17 infinitely | |
adv.无限地,无穷地 | |
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18 stifled | |
(使)窒息, (使)窒闷( stifle的过去式和过去分词 ); 镇压,遏制; 堵 | |
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19 remains | |
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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20 craves | |
渴望,热望( crave的第三人称单数 ); 恳求,请求 | |
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21 flicked | |
(尤指用手指或手快速地)轻击( flick的过去式和过去分词 ); (用…)轻挥; (快速地)按开关; 向…笑了一下(或瞥了一眼等) | |
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22 squinted | |
斜视( squint的过去式和过去分词 ); 眯着眼睛; 瞟; 从小孔或缝隙里看 | |
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23 defiance | |
n.挑战,挑衅,蔑视,违抗 | |
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24 velvet | |
n.丝绒,天鹅绒;adj.丝绒制的,柔软的 | |
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25 pointed | |
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26 croaked | |
v.呱呱地叫( croak的过去式和过去分词 );用粗的声音说 | |
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27 spike | |
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28 chambers | |
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29 costly | |
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30 steward | |
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31 dwarf | |
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32 undone | |
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33 raven | |
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v.(尤指机敏地)避开( elude的过去式和过去分词 );逃避;躲避;使达不到 | |
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35 lurking | |
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36 treacherous | |
adj.不可靠的,有暗藏的危险的;adj.背叛的,背信弃义的 | |
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37 dagger | |
n.匕首,短剑,剑号 | |
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38 strand | |
vt.使(船)搁浅,使(某人)困于(某地) | |
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39 inquiries | |
n.调查( inquiry的名词复数 );疑问;探究;打听 | |
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40 eels | |
abbr. 电子发射器定位系统(=electronic emitter location system) | |
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41 disdain | |
n.鄙视,轻视;v.轻视,鄙视,不屑 | |
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42 insolence | |
n.傲慢;无礼;厚颜;傲慢的态度 | |
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43 ingratitude | |
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44 blithely | |
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