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chapter 29 BRAN
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Bran preferred the hard stone of the window seat to the comforts of his featherbed and blankets. Abed, the walls pressed close and the ceiling hung heavy above him; abed, the room was his cell, and Winterfell his prison. Yet outside his window, the wide world still called. He could not walk, nor climb nor hunt nor fight with a wooden sword as once he had, but he could still look. He liked to watch the windows begin to glow all over Winterfell as candles and hearth1 fires were lit behind the diamond-shaped panes2 of tower and hall, and he loved to listen to the direwolves sing to the stars. Of late, he often dreamed of wolves. They are talking to me, brother to brother, he told himself when the direwolves howled. He could almost understand them... not quite, not truly, but almost... as if they were singing in a language he had once known and somehow forgotten. The Walders might be scared of them, but the Starks had wolf blood. Old Nan told him so. “Though it is stronger in some than in others,” she warned. Summer’s howls were long and sad, full of grief and longing3. Shaggydog’s were more savage4. Their voices echoed through the yards and halls until the castle rang and it seemed as though some great pack of direwolves haunted Winterfell, instead of only two... two where there had once been six. Do they miss their brothers and sisters too? Bran wondered. Are they calling to Grey Wind and Ghost, to Nymeria and Lady’s Shade? Do they want them to come home and be a pack together? “Who can know the mind of a wolf?” Ser Rodrik Cassel said when Bran asked him why they howled. Bran’s lady mother had named him castellan of Winterfell in her absence, and his duties left him little time for idle questions. “It’s freedom they’re calling for,” declared Farlen, who was kennelmaster and had no more love for the direwolves than his hounds did. “They don’t like being walled up, and who’s to blame them? Wild things belong in the wild, not in a castle.” “They want to hunt,” agreed Gage5 the cook as he tossed cubes of suet in a great kettle of stew
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1 hearth | |
n.壁炉炉床,壁炉地面 | |
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窗玻璃( pane的名词复数 ) | |
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3 longing | |
n.(for)渴望 | |
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4 savage | |
adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人 | |
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5 gage | |
n.标准尺寸,规格;量规,量表 [=gauge] | |
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6 stew | |
n.炖汤,焖,烦恼;v.炖汤,焖,忧虑 | |
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7 scent | |
n.气味,香味,香水,线索,嗅觉;v.嗅,发觉 | |
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8 prey | |
n.被掠食者,牺牲者,掠食;v.捕食,掠夺,折磨 | |
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9 scrolls | |
n.(常用于录写正式文件的)纸卷( scroll的名词复数 );卷轴;涡卷形(装饰);卷形花纹v.(电脑屏幕上)从上到下移动(资料等),卷页( scroll的第三人称单数 );(似卷轴般)卷起;(像展开卷轴般地)将文字显示于屏幕 | |
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10 slays | |
杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的第三人称单数 ) | |
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11 raven | |
n.渡鸟,乌鸦;adj.乌亮的 | |
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12 sniffing | |
n.探查法v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的现在分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说 | |
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13 kennels | |
n.主人外出时的小动物寄养处,养狗场;狗窝( kennel的名词复数 );养狗场 | |
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14 sleepless | |
adj.不睡眠的,睡不著的,不休息的 | |
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15 sentries | |
哨兵,步兵( sentry的名词复数 ) | |
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16 squat | |
v.蹲坐,蹲下;n.蹲下;adj.矮胖的,粗矮的 | |
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17 gargoyles | |
n.怪兽状滴水嘴( gargoyle的名词复数 ) | |
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18 bruised | |
[医]青肿的,瘀紫的 | |
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19 scampering | |
v.蹦蹦跳跳地跑,惊惶奔跑( scamper的现在分词 ) | |
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20 belly | |
n.肚子,腹部;(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分,膛 | |
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