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CHAPTER 33
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Osha lingered behind. “Is it the wolf dreams again?” Bran nodded. “You should not fight so hard, boy. I see you talking to the heart tree. Might be the gods are trying to talk back.” “The gods?” he murmured, drowsy1 already. Osha’s face grew blurry2 and grey. Sweet, dreamless sleep, Bran thought. Yet when the darkness closed over him, he found himself in the godswood, moving silently beneath green-grey sentinels and gnarled oaks as old as time. I am walking, he thought, exulting3. Part of him knew that it was only a dream, but even the dream of walking was better than the truth of his bedchamber, walls and ceiling and door. It was dark amongst the trees, but the comet lit his way, and his feet were sure. He was moving on four good legs, strong and swift, and he could feel the ground underfoot, the soft crackling of fallen leaves, thick roots and hard stones, the deep layers of humus. It was a good feeling. The smells filled his head, alive and intoxicating4; the green muddy stink5 of the hot pools, the perfume of rich rotting earth beneath his paws, the squirrels in the oaks. The scent6 of squirrel made him remember the taste of hot blood and the way the bones would crack between his teeth. Slaver filled his mouth. He had eaten no more than half a day past, but there was no joy in dead meat, even deer. He could hear the squirrels chittering and rustling7 above him, safe among their leaves, but they knew better than to come down to where his brother and he were prowling. He could smell his brother too, a familiar scent, strong and earthy, his scent as black as his coat. His brother was loping around the walls, full of fury. Round and round he went, night after day after night, tireless, searching... for prey8, for a way out, for his mother, his littermates, his pack... searching, searching, and never finding. Behind the trees the walls rose, piles of dead man-rock that
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1 drowsy | |
adj.昏昏欲睡的,令人发困的 | |
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adj.模糊的;污脏的,污斑的 | |
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vi. 欢欣鼓舞,狂喜 | |
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a. 醉人的,使人兴奋的 | |
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vi.发出恶臭;糟透,招人厌恶;n.恶臭 | |
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n.气味,香味,香水,线索,嗅觉;v.嗅,发觉 | |
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n. 瑟瑟声,沙沙声 adj. 发沙沙声的 | |
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n.被掠食者,牺牲者,掠食;v.捕食,掠夺,折磨 | |
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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 | |
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n.微粒,小污点,小斑点 | |
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缝…的褶边( hem的过去式和过去分词 ); 包围 | |
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n.(尤指狗和狼的)长而尖的牙( fang的名词复数 );(蛇的)毒牙;罐座 | |
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n.(动物的)龇牙低吼( snarl的名词复数 );愤怒叫嚷(声);咆哮(声);疼痛叫声v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的第三人称单数 );咆哮着说,厉声地说 | |
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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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