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Robb stood. “I will not grudge1 him that. If I’m King in the North, let him be King of the Iron Islands, if that’s his desire. I’ll give him a crown gladly, so long as he helps us bring down the Lannisters.” “Robb-” “I’m sending Theon. Good day, Mother. Grey Wind, come.” Robb walked off briskly, the direwolf padding beside him. Catelyn could only watch him go. Her son and now her king. How queer that felt. Command, she had told him back in Moat Cailin. And so he did. “I am going to visit Father,” she announced abruptly2. “Come with me, Edmure.” “I need to have a word with those new bowmen Ser Desmond is training. I’ll visit him later.” If he still lives, Catelyn thought, but she said nothing. Her brother would sooner face battle than that sickroom. The shortest way to the central keep where her father lay dying was through the godswood, with its grass and wildflowers and thick stands of elm and redwood. A wealth of rustling3 leaves still clung to the branches of the trees, all ignorant of the word the white raven4 had brought to Riverrun a fortnight past. Autumn had come, the Conclave5 had declared, but the gods had not seen fit to tell the winds and woods as yet. For that Catelyn was duly grateful. Autumn was always a fearful time, with the specter of winter looming6 ahead. Even the wisest man never knew whether his next harvest would be the last. Hoster Tully, Lord of Riverrun, lay abed in his solar, with its commanding view to the east where the rivers Tumblestone and Red Fork met beyond the walls of his castle. He was sleeping when Catelyn entered, his hair and beard as white as his featherbed, his once portly frame turned small and frail7 by the death that grew within him. Beside the bed, still dressed in mail hauberk and travel-stained cloak, sat her father’s brother, the Blackfish. His boots were dusty and spattered with dried mud. “Does Robb know you are returned, Uncle?” Ser Brynden Tully was Robb’s eyes and ears, the commander of his
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n.不满,怨恨,妒嫉;vt.勉强给,不情愿做 | |
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n.渡鸟,乌鸦;adj.乌亮的 | |
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n.秘密会议,红衣主教团 | |
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n.上现蜃景(光通过低层大气发生异常折射形成的一种海市蜃楼)v.隐约出现,阴森地逼近( loom的现在分词 );隐约出现,阴森地逼近 | |
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adj.身体虚弱的;易损坏的 | |
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侦察员[机,舰]( scout的名词复数 ); 童子军; 搜索; 童子军成员 | |
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vt.使(船)搁浅,使(某人)困于(某地) | |
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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14 vengeance | |
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15 omen | |
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弄脏; 玷污; 涂抹; 擦上 | |
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v.搜寻(食物),尤指动物觅(食)( forage的现在分词 );(尤指用手)搜寻(东西) | |
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杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词) | |
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adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的 | |
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n.鹌鹑;vi.畏惧,颤抖 | |
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