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Raventree Hall was old. Moss2 grew thick between its ancient stones, spiderwebbing up its walls like the veins3 in a crone’s legs. Two huge towers flanked the castle’s main gate, and smaller ones defended every angle of its walls. All were square. Drum towers and half-moons held up better against catapults, since thrown stones were more apt to deflect4 off a curved wall, but Raventree predated that particular bit of builder’s wisdom.
The castle dominated the broad fertile valley that maps and men alike called Blackwood Vale. A vale it was, beyond a doubt, but no wood had grown here for several thousand years, be it black or brown or green. Once, yes, but axes had long since cleared the trees away. Homes and mills and holdfasts had risen where once the oaks stood tall. The ground was bare and muddy, and dotted here and there with drifts of melting snow.
Inside the castle walls, however, a bit of the forest still remained. House Blackwood kept the old gods, and worshiped as the First Men had in the days before the Andals came to Westeros. Some of the trees in their godswood were said to be as old as Raventree’s square towers, especially the heart tree, a weirwood of colossal5 size whose upper branches could be seen from leagues away, like bony fingers scratching at the sky.
As Jaime Lannister and his escort wound through the rolling hills into the vale, little remained of the fields and farms and orchards6 that had once surrounded Raventree—only mud and ashes, and here and there the blackened shells of homes and mills. Weeds and thorns and nettles7 grew in that wasteland, but nothing that could be called a crop. Everywhere Jaime looked he saw his father’s hand, even in the bones they sometimes glimpsed beside the road. Most were sheep bones, but there were horses too, and cattle, and now and again a human skull9, or a headless skeleton with weeds poking
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1 raven | |
n.渡鸟,乌鸦;adj.乌亮的 | |
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2 moss | |
n.苔,藓,地衣 | |
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3 veins | |
n.纹理;矿脉( vein的名词复数 );静脉;叶脉;纹理 | |
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4 deflect | |
v.(使)偏斜,(使)偏离,(使)转向 | |
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5 colossal | |
adj.异常的,庞大的 | |
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6 orchards | |
(通常指围起来的)果园( orchard的名词复数 ) | |
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7 nettles | |
n.荨麻( nettle的名词复数 ) | |
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8 imp | |
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9 skull | |
n.头骨;颅骨 | |
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10 poking | |
n. 刺,戳,袋 vt. 拨开,刺,戳 vi. 戳,刺,捅,搜索,伸出,行动散慢 | |
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11 rib | |
n.肋骨,肋状物 | |
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12 battering | |
n.用坏,损坏v.连续猛击( batter的现在分词 ) | |
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13 rams | |
n.公羊( ram的名词复数 );(R-)白羊(星)座;夯;攻城槌v.夯实(土等)( ram的第三人称单数 );猛撞;猛压;反复灌输 | |
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14 prospect | |
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15 forth | |
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16 boredom | |
n.厌烦,厌倦,乏味,无聊 | |
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17 trotting | |
小跑,急走( trot的现在分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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18 sentries | |
哨兵,步兵( sentry的名词复数 ) | |
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19 mingle | |
vt.使混合,使相混;vi.混合起来;相交往 | |
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20 vaulted | |
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21 rattling | |
adj. 格格作响的, 活泼的, 很好的 adv. 极其, 很, 非常 动词rattle的现在分词 | |
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22 gasped | |
v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要 | |
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23 hips | |
abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯,耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 );[建筑学]屋脊;臀围(尺寸);臀部…的 | |
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24 shriek | |
v./n.尖叫,叫喊 | |
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25 bloody | |
adj.非常的的;流血的;残忍的;adv.很;vt.血染 | |
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26 sheathed | |
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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27 envious | |
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28 mound | |
n.土墩,堤,小山;v.筑堤,用土堆防卫 | |
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29 followers | |
追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件 | |
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30 turnips | |
芜青( turnip的名词复数 ); 芜菁块根; 芜菁甘蓝块根; 怀表 | |
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31 shrug | |
v.耸肩(表示怀疑、冷漠、不知等) | |
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32 retrieved | |
v.取回( retrieve的过去式和过去分词 );恢复;寻回;检索(储存的信息) | |
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33 backwards | |
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34 ward | |
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35 scattered | |
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36 nervously | |
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37 cleft | |
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38 bent | |
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39 conceal | |
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40 provocative | |
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41 vex | |
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42 brazen | |
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43 betrothed | |
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44 tangles | |
(使)缠结, (使)乱作一团( tangle的第三人称单数 ) | |
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45 saucily | |
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46 darted | |
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47 mused | |
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48 decided | |
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49 pointed | |
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50 shrugged | |
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51 woolen | |
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52 tunic | |
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53 embroidered | |
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54 spoke | |
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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55 abjure | |
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56 stark | |
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57 vassal | |
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58 ridge | |
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59 buckle | |
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60 domains | |
n.范围( domain的名词复数 );领域;版图;地产 | |
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61 gilded | |
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62 knuckle | |
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63 subdue | |
vt.制服,使顺从,征服;抑制,克制 | |
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64 subdued | |
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65 subduing | |
征服( subdue的现在分词 ); 克制; 制服; 色变暗 | |
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66 raped | |
v.以暴力夺取,强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 );强奸 | |
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67 spat | |
n.口角,掌击;v.发出呼噜呼噜声 | |
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68 prudent | |
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69 vassals | |
n.奴仆( vassal的名词复数 );(封建时代)诸侯;从属者;下属 | |
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70 usurped | |
篡夺,霸占( usurp的过去式和过去分词 ); 盗用; 篡夺,篡权 | |
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71 trench | |
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72 descend | |
vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降 | |
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73 ragged | |
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74 wed | |
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75 burnished | |
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76 scarlet | |
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77 ravens | |
n.低质煤;渡鸦( raven的名词复数 ) | |
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78 valiantly | |
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79 chivalrous | |
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80 hearth | |
n.壁炉炉床,壁炉地面 | |
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81 tapestries | |
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82 panes | |
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83 confession | |
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84 fealty | |
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85 chuckled | |
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86 displease | |
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87 squire | |
n.护卫, 侍从, 乡绅 | |
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88 squires | |
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89 bowels | |
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90 eldest | |
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91 bastard | |
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92 harry | |
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93 thornier | |
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94 comely | |
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95 dissuade | |
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96 slung | |
抛( sling的过去式和过去分词 ); 吊挂; 遣送; 押往 | |
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97 scrolls | |
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98 gangling | |
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99 lark | |
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100 outlaws | |
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101 dealing | |
n.经商方法,待人态度 | |
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102 crest | |
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103 twig | |
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104 trotted | |
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105 lure | |
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106 Ford | |
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115 crimson | |
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116 knight | |
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117 scorched | |
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118 gathering | |
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120 copper | |
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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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