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She was breaking her fast on a bowl of cold shrimp-and-persimmon soup when Irri brought her a Qartheen gown, an airy confection of ivory samite patterned with seed pearls. “Take it away,” Dany said. “The docks are no place for lady’s finery.” If the Milk Men thought her such a savage1, she would dress the part for them. When she went to the stables, she wore faded sandsilk pants and woven grass sandals. Her small breasts moved freely beneath a painted Dothraki vest, and a curved dagger2 hung from her medallion belt. Jhiqui had braided her hair Dothraki fashion, and fastened a silver bell to the end of the braid. “I have won no victories,” she tried telling her handmaid when the bell tinkled3 softly. Jhiqui disagreed. “You burned the maegi in their house of dust and sent their souls to hell.” That was Drogon’s victory, not mine, Dany wanted to say, but she held her tongue. The Dothraki would esteem4 her all the more for a few bells in her hair. She chimed as she mounted her silver mare5, and again with every stride, but neither Ser Jorah nor her bloodriders made mention of it. To guard her people and her dragons in her absence, she chose Rakharo. Jhogo and Aggo would ride with her to the waterfront. They left the marble palaces and fragrant6 gardens behind and made their way through a poorer part of the city where modest brick houses turned blind walls to the street. There were fewer horses and camels to be seen, and a dearth7 of palanquins, but the streets teemed8 with children, beggars, and skinny dogs the color of sand. Pale men in dusty linen9 skirts stood beneath arched
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1 savage | |
adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人 | |
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2 dagger | |
n.匕首,短剑,剑号 | |
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3 tinkled | |
(使)发出丁当声,(使)发铃铃声( tinkle的过去式和过去分词 ); 叮当响着发出,铃铃响着报出 | |
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4 esteem | |
n.尊敬,尊重;vt.尊重,敬重;把…看作 | |
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5 mare | |
n.母马,母驴 | |
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6 fragrant | |
adj.芬香的,馥郁的,愉快的 | |
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7 dearth | |
n.缺乏,粮食不足,饥谨 | |
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8 teemed | |
v.充满( teem的过去式和过去分词 );到处都是;(指水、雨等)暴降;倾注 | |
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9 linen | |
n.亚麻布,亚麻线,亚麻制品;adj.亚麻布制的,亚麻的 | |
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10 doorways | |
n.门口,门道( doorway的名词复数 ) | |
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11 gathering | |
n.集会,聚会,聚集 | |
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12 phantom | |
n.幻影,虚位,幽灵;adj.错觉的,幻影的,幽灵的 | |
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13 entirely | |
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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14 reassuringly | |
ad.安心,可靠 | |
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15 jade | |
n.玉石;碧玉;翡翠 | |
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16 wed | |
v.娶,嫁,与…结婚 | |
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17 ravages | |
劫掠后的残迹,破坏的结果,毁坏后的残迹 | |
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18 warrior | |
n.勇士,武士,斗士 | |
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19 seduced | |
诱奸( seduce的过去式和过去分词 ); 勾引; 诱使堕落; 使入迷 | |
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20 collapsed | |
adj.倒塌的 | |
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21 brotherhood | |
n.兄弟般的关系,手中情谊 | |
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22 guild | |
n.行会,同业公会,协会 | |
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23 decided | |
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的 | |
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24 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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25 sobbed | |
哭泣,啜泣( sob的过去式和过去分词 ); 哭诉,呜咽地说 | |
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26 barge | |
n.平底载货船,驳船 | |
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27 trifling | |
adj.微不足道的;没什么价值的 | |
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28 irritably | |
ad.易生气地 | |
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29 consolation | |
n.安慰,慰问 | |
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30 traitor | |
n.叛徒,卖国贼 | |
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31 avenge | |
v.为...复仇,为...报仇 | |
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32 warehouses | |
仓库,货栈( warehouse的名词复数 ) | |
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33 slayer | |
n. 杀人者,凶手 | |
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