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A thousand ships!” The little queen’s brown hair was tousled and uncombed, and the torchlight made her cheeks look flushed, as if she had just come from some man’s embrace. “Your Grace, this must be answered fiercely!” Her last word rang off the rafters and echoed through the cavernous throne room.
Seated on her gold-and-crimson high seat beneath the Iron Throne, Cersei could feel a growing tightness in her neck. Must, she thought. She dares say “must” to me. She itched2 to slap the Tyrell girl across the face. She should be on her knees, begging for my help. Instead, she presumes to tell her rightful queen what she must do.
“A thousand ships?” Ser Harys Swyft was wheezing3. “Surely not. No lord commands a thousand ships.”
“Some frightened fool has counted double,” agreed Orton Merryweather. “That, or Lord Tyrell’s bannermen are lying to us, puffing4 up the numbers of the foe5 so we will not think them lax.”
The torches on the back wall threw the long, barbed shadow of the Iron Throne halfway6 to the doors. The far end of the hall was lost in darkness, and Cersei could not but feel that the shadows were closing around her too. My enemies are everywhere, and my friends are useless. She had only to glance at her councillors to know that; only Lord Qyburn and Aurane Waters seemed awake. The others had been roused from bed by Margaery’s messengers pounding on their doors, and stood there rumpled7 and confused. Outside the night was black and still. The castle and the city slept. Boros Blount and Meryn Trant seemed to be sleeping too, albeit8 on their feet. Even Osmund Kettleblack was yawning. Not Loras, though. Not our Knight9 of Flowers. He stood behind his little sister, a pale shadow with a longsword on his
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岛( isle的名词复数 ) | |
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gallant
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puffed
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peril
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bastard
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killer
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lusts
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贪求(lust的第三人称单数形式) | |
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worthy
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污点,瑕疵,无光泽( tarnish的名词复数 ) | |
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sag
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sagging
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下垂[沉,陷],松垂,垂度 | |
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valor
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serpentine
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knights
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