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Yoren folded a sourleaf into his mouth and chewed. “Can’t say,” he admitted. “Might be one side, might be t’other. if they’re hurt that bad, likely they’d take our mounts no matter who they are. Might be they’d take more than that. I believe we’ll go wide around them.” It took them miles out of their way, and cost them two days at the least, but the old man said it was cheap at the price. “You’ll have time enough on the Wall. The rest o’ your lives, most like. Seems to me there’s no rush to get there. “ Arya saw men guarding the fields more and more when they turned north again. Often they stood silently beside the road, giving a cold eye to anyone who passed. Elsewhere they patrolled on horses, riding their fence lines with axes strapped1 to their saddles. At one place, she spotted2 a man perched up in a dead tree, with a bow in his hand and a quiver hanging from the branch beside him. The moment he spied them, he notched3 an arrow to his bowstring, and never looked away until the last wagon4 was out of sight. All the while, Yoren cursed. “Him in his tree, let’s see how well he likes it up there when the Others come to take him. He’ll scream for the Watch then, that he will.” A day later Dobber spied a red glow against the evening sky. “Either this road went and turned again, or that sun’s setting in the north.” Yoren climbed a rise to get a better look. “Fire,” he announced. He licked a thumb and held it up. “Wind should blow it away from us. Still bears watching.” And watch it they did. As the world darkened, the fire seemed to grow brighter and brighter, until it looked as though the whole north was ablaze5. From time to time, they could even smell the smoke, though the wind held steady and the flames never got any closer. By dawn the fire had burned itself out, but none of them slept very well that night. It was midday when they arrived at the place where the village had been. The fields were a charred6 desolation for miles around, the houses blackened shells. The carcasses of burnt and butchered animals dotted the ground, under living blankets of
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adj.用皮带捆住的,用皮带装饰的;身无分文的;缺钱;手头紧v.用皮带捆扎(strap的过去式和过去分词);用皮带抽打;包扎;给…打绷带 | |
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2 spotted | |
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的 | |
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3 notched | |
a.有凹口的,有缺口的 | |
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4 wagon | |
n.四轮马车,手推车,面包车;无盖运货列车 | |
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5 ablaze | |
adj.着火的,燃烧的;闪耀的,灯火辉煌的 | |
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6 charred | |
v.把…烧成炭( char的过去式);烧焦 | |
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7 carrion | |
n.腐肉 | |
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8 wagons | |
n.四轮的运货马车( wagon的名词复数 );铁路货车;小手推车 | |
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9 impaled | |
钉在尖桩上( impale的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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10 drawn | |
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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11 ravens | |
n.低质煤;渡鸦( raven的名词复数 ) | |
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12 raucous | |
adj.(声音)沙哑的,粗糙的 | |
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n.尖叫声( shriek的名词复数 )v.尖叫( shriek的第三人称单数 ) | |
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14 sling | |
vt.扔;悬挂;n.挂带;吊索,吊兜;弹弓 | |
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15 bloody | |
adj.非常的的;流血的;残忍的;adv.很;vt.血染 | |
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16 stump | |
n.残株,烟蒂,讲演台;v.砍断,蹒跚而走 | |
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17 imprisoned | |
下狱,监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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18 willow | |
n.柳树 | |
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19 brook | |
n.小河,溪;v.忍受,容让 | |
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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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21 sleepers | |
n.卧铺(通常以复数形式出现);卧车( sleeper的名词复数 );轨枕;睡觉(呈某种状态)的人;小耳环 | |
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22 huddled | |
挤在一起(huddle的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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23 sentry | |
n.哨兵,警卫 | |
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24 rattling | |
adj. 格格作响的, 活泼的, 很好的 adv. 极其, 很, 非常 动词rattle的现在分词 | |
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25 hissing | |
n. 发嘶嘶声, 蔑视 动词hiss的现在分词形式 | |
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26 rhythmic | |
adj.有节奏的,有韵律的 | |
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27 vaguely | |
adv.含糊地,暖昧地 | |
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28 cleaver | |
n.切肉刀 | |
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