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There was no safe anchorage at Pyke, but Theon Greyjoy wished to look on his father’s castle from the sea, to see it as he had seen it last, ten years before, when Robert Baratheon’s war galley1 had borne him away to be a ward2 of Eddard Stark3. On that day he had stood beside the rail, listening to the stroke of the oars4 and the pounding of the master’s drum while he watched Pyke dwindle5 in the distance. Now he wanted to see it grow larger, to rise from the sea before him. Obedient to his wishes, the Myraham beat her way past the point with her sails snapping and her captain cursing the wind and his crew and the follies6 of highborn lordlings. Theon drew the hood7 of his cloak up against the spray, and looked for home. The shore was all sharp rocks and glowering8 cliffs, and the castle seemed one with the rest, its towers and walls and bridges quarried9 from the same grey-black stone, wet by the same salt waves, festooned with the same spreading patches of dark green lichen10, speckled by the droppings of the same seabirds. The point of land on which the Greyjoys had raised their fortress11 had once thrust like a sword into the bowels12 of the ocean, but the waves had hammered at it day and night until the land broke and shattered, thousands of years past. All that remained were three bare and barren islands and a dozen towering stacks of rock that rose from the water like the pillars of some sea god’s temple, while the angry waves
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1 galley | |
n.(飞机或船上的)厨房单层甲板大帆船;军舰舰长用的大划艇; | |
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2 ward | |
n.守卫,监护,病房,行政区,由监护人或法院保护的人(尤指儿童);vt.守护,躲开 | |
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3 stark | |
adj.荒凉的;严酷的;完全的;adv.完全地 | |
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4 oars | |
n.桨,橹( oar的名词复数 );划手v.划(行)( oar的第三人称单数 ) | |
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5 dwindle | |
v.逐渐变小(或减少) | |
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6 follies | |
罪恶,时事讽刺剧; 愚蠢,蠢笨,愚蠢的行为、思想或做法( folly的名词复数 ) | |
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7 hood | |
n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖 | |
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8 glowering | |
v.怒视( glower的现在分词 ) | |
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9 quarried | |
v.从采石场采得( quarry的过去式和过去分词 );从(书本等中)努力发掘(资料等);在采石场采石 | |
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10 lichen | |
n.地衣, 青苔 | |
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11 fortress | |
n.堡垒,防御工事 | |
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12 bowels | |
n.肠,内脏,内部;肠( bowel的名词复数 );内部,最深处 | |
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13 foamed | |
泡沫的 | |
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14 bloody | |
adj.非常的的;流血的;残忍的;adv.很;vt.血染 | |
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15 battering | |
n.用坏,损坏v.连续猛击( batter的现在分词 ) | |
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16 soot | |
n.煤烟,烟尘;vt.熏以煤烟 | |
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17 writhing | |
(因极度痛苦而)扭动或翻滚( writhe的现在分词 ) | |
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18 gusted | |
n. 突然一阵 n. 风味 vi. 猛吹 | |
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19 scuttling | |
n.船底穿孔,打开通海阀(沉船用)v.使船沉没( scuttle的现在分词 );快跑,急走 | |
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20 pouch | |
n.小袋,小包,囊状袋;vt.装...入袋中,用袋运输;vi.用袋送信件 | |
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21 snug | |
adj.温暖舒适的,合身的,安全的;v.使整洁干净,舒适地依靠,紧贴;n.(英)酒吧里的私房 | |
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22 stony | |
adj.石头的,多石头的,冷酷的,无情的 | |
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23 mightily | |
ad.强烈地;非常地 | |
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24 miserable | |
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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25 awe | |
n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧 | |
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26 sullen | |
adj.愠怒的,闷闷不乐的,(天气等)阴沉的 | |
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27 maiden | |
n.少女,处女;adj.未婚的,纯洁的,无经验的 | |
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28 outrage | |
n.暴行,侮辱,愤怒;vt.凌辱,激怒 | |
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