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The southern sky was black with smoke. It rose swirling1 off a hundred distant fires, its sooty fingers smudging out the stars. Across the Blackwater Rush, a line of flame burned nightly from horizon to horizon, while on this side the Imp2 had fired the whole riverfront: docks and warehouses3, homes and brothels, everything outside the city walls. Even in the Red Keep, the air tasted of ashes. When Sansa found Ser Dontos in the quiet of the godswood, he asked if she’d been crying. “It’s only from the smoke,” she lied. “It looks as though half the kingswood is burning.” “Lord Stannis wants to smoke out the Imp’s savages5.” Dontos swayed as he spoke6, one hand on the trunk of a chestnut7 tree. A wine stain discolored the red-and-yellow motley of his tunic8. “They kill his scouts9 and raid his baggage train. And the wildlings have been lighting10 fires too. The Imp told the queen that Stannis had better train his horses to eat ash, since he would find no blade of grass. I heard him say so. I hear all sorts of things as a fool that I never heard when I was a knight11. They talk as though I am not there, and--he leaned close, breathing his winey breath right in her face-”the Spider pays in gold for any little trifle. I think Moon Boy has been his for years.” He is drunk again. My poor Florian he names himself, and so he is. But he is all I have. “Is it true Lord Stannis burned the godswood at Storm’s End?” Dontos nodded. “He made a great pyre of the trees as an offering to his new god. The red priestess made him do it. They say she rules him now, body and soul. He’s
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v.旋转,打旋( swirl的现在分词 ) | |
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n.顽童 | |
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仓库,货栈( warehouse的名词复数 ) | |
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savage
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adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人 | |
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未开化的人,野蛮人( savage的名词复数 ) | |
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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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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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n.照明,光线的明暗,舞台灯光 | |
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起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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withdrawn
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flickering
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suffocating
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a.使人窒息的 | |
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缝…的褶边( hem的过去式和过去分词 ); 包围 | |
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filth
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百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门 | |
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v.(小孩般)天真无邪地说话( prattle的现在分词 );发出连续而无意义的声音;闲扯;东拉西扯 | |
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轻声地笑( chuckle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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hawks
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鹰( hawk的名词复数 ); 鹰派人物,主战派人物 | |
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vt.使窒息;闷死;扼杀;抑止,阻止 | |
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v.闪躲( dodge的过去式和过去分词 );回避 | |
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knights
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骑士; (中古时代的)武士( knight的名词复数 ); 骑士; 爵士; (国际象棋中)马 | |
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n.穗( spike的名词复数 );跑鞋;(防滑)鞋钉;尖状物v.加烈酒于( spike的第三人称单数 );偷偷地给某人的饮料加入(更多)酒精( 或药物);把尖状物钉入;打乱某人的计划 | |
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twitches
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piety
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n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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n.监察员,监狱长,看守人,监护人 | |
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n.口角,掌击;v.发出呼噜呼噜声 | |
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adj.雕塑像下半身包在鞘中的;覆盖的;铠装的;装鞘了的v.将(刀、剑等)插入鞘( sheathe的过去式和过去分词 );包,覆盖 | |
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