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CHAPTER 72
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“What shall we seek, Khaleesi?” asked Jhogo. “Whatever there is,” Dany answered. “Seek for other cities, living and dead. Seek for caravans1 and people. Seek for rivers and lakes and the great salt sea. Find how far this waste extends before us, and what lies on the other side. When I leave this place, I do not mean to strike out blind again. I will know where I am bound, and how best to get there.” And so they went, the bells in their hair ringing softly, while Dany settled down with her small band of survivors2 in the place they named Vaes Tolorro, the city of bones. Day followed night followed day. Women harvested fruit from the gardens of the dead. Men groomed3 their mounts and mended saddles, stirrups, and shoes. Children wandered the twisty alleys4 and found old bronze coins and bits of purple glass and stone flagons with handles carved like snakes. One woman was stung by a red scorpion5, but hers was the only death. The horses began to put on some flesh. Dany tended Ser Jorah’s wound herself, and it began to heal. Rakharo was the first to return. Due south the red waste stretched on and on, he reported, until it ended on a bleak6 shore beside the poison water. Between here and there lay only swirling7 sand, wind-scoured rocks, and plants bristly with sharp thorns. He had passed the bones of a dragon, he swore, so immense that he had ridden his horse through its great black jaws8. Other than that, he had seen nothing. Dany gave him charge of a dozen of her strongest men, and set them to pulling up the plaza9 to get to the earth beneath. If devilgrass could grow between the paving stones, other grasses would grow when the stones were gone. They had wells enough, no lack of water. Given seed, they could make the plaza bloom. Aggo was back next. The southwest was barren and burnt, he swore. He had found the ruins of two more cities, smaller than Vaes Tolorro but otherwise the same. One was
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1 caravans | |
(可供居住的)拖车(通常由机动车拖行)( caravan的名词复数 ); 篷车; (穿过沙漠地带的)旅行队(如商队) | |
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2 survivors | |
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 ) | |
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3 groomed | |
v.照料或梳洗(马等)( groom的过去式和过去分词 );使做好准备;训练;(给动物)擦洗 | |
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4 alleys | |
胡同,小巷( alley的名词复数 ); 小径 | |
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5 scorpion | |
n.蝎子,心黑的人,蝎子鞭 | |
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6 bleak | |
adj.(天气)阴冷的;凄凉的;暗淡的 | |
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7 swirling | |
v.旋转,打旋( swirl的现在分词 ) | |
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8 jaws | |
n.口部;嘴 | |
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9 plaza | |
n.广场,市场 | |
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10 warded | |
有锁孔的,有钥匙榫槽的 | |
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11 skulls | |
颅骨( skull的名词复数 ); 脑袋; 脑子; 脑瓜 | |
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12 rusted | |
v.(使)生锈( rust的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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13 bracelet | |
n.手镯,臂镯 | |
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14 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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15 crumbling | |
adj.摇摇欲坠的 | |
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16 garbed | |
v.(尤指某类人穿的特定)服装,衣服,制服( garb的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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17 dwarfed | |
vt.(使)显得矮小(dwarf的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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18 rein | |
n.疆绳,统治,支配;vt.以僵绳控制,统治 | |
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