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All empty. The wildlings are gone. “Find Tarly and see that he gets this on its way,” he said as he handed Jon the message. When he whistled, his raven1 came flapping down to land on his horse’s head. “Corn,” the raven suggested, bobbing. The horse whickered. Jon mounted his garron, wheeled him about, and trotted2 off. Beyond the shade of the great weirwood the men of the Night’s Watch stood beneath lesser3 trees, tending their horses, chewing strips of salt beef, pissing, scratching, and talking. When the command was given to move out again, the talk died, and they climbed back into their saddles. Jarman Buckwell’s scouts4 rode out first, with the vanguard under Thoren Smallwood heading the column proper. Then came the Old Bear with the main force, Ser Mallador Locke with the baggage train and packhorses, and finally Ser Ottyn Wythers and the rear guard. Two hundred men all told, with half again as many mounts. By day they followed game trails and streambeds, the “ranger5’s roads” that led them ever deeper into the wilderness6 of leaf and root. At night they camped beneath a starry7 sky and gazed up at the comet. The black brothers had left Castle Black in good spirits, joking and trading tales, but of late the brooding silence of the wood seemed to have sombered them all. Jests had grown fewer and tempers shorter. No one would admit to being afraid-they were men of the Night’s Watch, after all-but Jon could feel the unease. Four empty villages, no wildlings anywhere, even the game seemingly fled. The haunted forest had never seemed more haunted, even veteran rangers8 agreed. As he rode, Jon peeled off his glove to air his burned fingers. Ugly things. He remembered suddenly how he used to muss Arya’s hair. His little stick of a sister. He wondered how she was faring. It made him a little sad to think that he might never muss her hair again. He began to flex his hand, opening and closing the fingers. If he let his sword hand
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1 raven | |
n.渡鸟,乌鸦;adj.乌亮的 | |
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小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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3 lesser | |
adj.次要的,较小的;adv.较小地,较少地 | |
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4 scouts | |
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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5 ranger | |
n.国家公园管理员,护林员;骑兵巡逻队员 | |
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6 wilderness | |
n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠 | |
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7 starry | |
adj.星光照耀的, 闪亮的 | |
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8 rangers | |
护林者( ranger的名词复数 ); 突击队员 | |
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9 stiffen | |
v.(使)硬,(使)变挺,(使)变僵硬 | |
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10 stewards | |
(轮船、飞机等的)乘务员( steward的名词复数 ); (俱乐部、旅馆、工会等的)管理员; (大型活动的)组织者; (私人家中的)管家 | |
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11 ravens | |
n.低质煤;渡鸦( raven的名词复数 ) | |
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12 shrieks | |
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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13 croaking | |
v.呱呱地叫( croak的现在分词 );用粗的声音说 | |
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14 wan | |
(wide area network)广域网 | |
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15 unintelligible | |
adj.无法了解的,难解的,莫明其妙的 | |
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n.狭长的切口;裂缝;vt.切开,撕裂 | |
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n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖 | |
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18 plow | |
n.犁,耕地,犁过的地;v.犁,费力地前进[英]plough | |
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19 congestion | |
n.阻塞,消化不良 | |
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20 hawthorn | |
山楂 | |
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n.灌木丛,树林 | |
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