Dropping to the floor in front of a startled scrubwoman, she hopped up, brushed the rushes off her clothes, and was off again, out the door and along a long hall, down a stair, across a hidden courtyard, around a corner and over a wall and through a low narrow window into a pitch-dark cellar. The sounds grew more and more distant behind her.
待她跳下窗口，正落在一名吃惊的洗衣妇面前，她立刻翻身，拍拍尘土，继续逃跑。她穿门而出，奔过长厅，跑下楼梯，穿越一座隐蔽的庭院，绕过转角，翻过墙，挤进一扇低矮窄窗后，来到一个伸手不见五指的漆黑地窖。身后追赶的声音渐渐变小。
Arya was out of breath and quite thoroughly lost. She was in for it now if they had recognized her, but she didn't think they had. She'd moved too fast. Swift as a deer.
艾莉亚几乎喘不过气，完全迷失了方向。现在就算他们认出她，她也认栽了，但她觉得他们应该做不到，因为她动作太快了。疾如鹿。
She hunkered down in the dark against a damp stone wall and listened for the pursuit, but the only sound was the beating of her own heart and a distant drip of water. Quiet as a shadow, she told herself. She wondered where she was. When they had first come to King's Landing, she used to have bad dreams about getting lost in the castle. Father said the Red Keep was smaller than Winterfell, but in her dreams it had been immense, an endless stone maze with walls that seemed to shift and change behind her. She would find herself wandering down gloomy halls past faded tapestries, descending endless circular stairs, darting through courtyards or over bridges, her shouts echoing unanswered. In some of the rooms the red stone walls would seem to drip blood, and nowhere could she find a window. Sometimes she would hear her father's voice, but always from a long way off, and no matter how hard she ran after it, it would grow fainter and fainter, until it faded to nothing and Arya was alone in the dark.
她摸黑靠着一堵潮湿的石墙蹲下，静听追兵的响动，却只听见自己的心跳和远处的滴水声。静如影，她告诉自己。她纳闷自己究竟置身何处。初来君临时，她常做恶梦，梦见自己迷失在城堡里。父亲说红堡比临冬城要小，但在梦中它却硕大无比，活像一座无边无际的石造迷宫，而墙壁仿佛会在她身后变换形体。她发现自己常漫游在阴森的厅堂里，经过褪色的壁毡，走下无止尽的螺旋楼梯，在庭院间和吊桥上穿梭，尖声叫喊却无人回应。有些房间里，红墙似乎在滴血，而她一扇窗户也找不到。有的时候，她能听见父亲的声音，但总是从遥远的地方传来，而不论她如何努力地朝声音来源飞奔，那声音却依旧越来越微弱，直至完全消失。黑暗之中，只剩艾莉亚独自一人。
背景介绍:
《权力的游戏》是一部中世纪史诗奇幻题材的电视连续剧。该剧以美国作家乔治·R·R·马丁的奇幻巨作《冰与火之歌》七部曲为基础改编创作，由大卫·贝尼奥夫和丹尼尔·威斯编剧、HBO电视网推出。乔治·雷蒙德·理查德·马丁是欧美奇幻小说大师。马丁的作品主要以人物为关注点，描写细腻丰富，突破了幻想文学界固有的创作模式，多次引领阅读潮流。由于马丁的辉煌成就，他被誉为美国的托尔金和新世纪的海明威。从1989年开始，马丁淡出文学界，转而投身演艺界发展，1996年他才重返文坛而开始奇幻文学的创作，处女作便是《权力的游戏》，即为《冰与火之歌》的首部曲。《权力的游戏》甫出便拿下了British Fantasy Society、 世界奇幻奖和星云奖年度最佳幻想作品提名，在非官方的不记名奇幻作品投票中，《冰与火之歌》俨然已经可以和《魔戒》平起平坐，作者网站的访问量也是和斯蒂芬·金、J.K.罗琳等不相上下，其受欢迎的程度可见一斑。乔治马丁被时代杂志评选为2011年影响世界的一百人之一。
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