Dany could not have said why the city needed a gate when it had no walls...and no buildings that she could see. Yet there it stood, immense and beautiful, the great horses framing the distant purple mountain beyond. The bronze stallions threw long shadows across the waving grasses as Khal Drogo led the khalasar under their hooves and down the godsway, his bloodriders beside him.
丹妮实在不了解，这座城既无围墙，何需城门？……犹有甚者，她举目所及居然没有半栋建筑。然而马门依旧矗立在此，硕大无比，美丽逼人，两匹大马为远方紫色山峦的风景加上了边框。卓戈卡奥领着卡拉萨从它们的马蹄下经过，沿着诸神大道继续前行，血盟卫们紧随左右，青铜骏马则在碧波荡漾的草原上洒下迆长的影子。
Dany followed on her silver, escorted by Ser Jorah Mormont and her brother Viserys, mounted once more. After the day in the grass when she had left him to walk back to the khalasar, the Dothraki had laughingly called him Khal Rhae Mhar, the Sorefoot King. Khal Drogo had offered him a place in a cart the next day, and Viserys had accepted. In his stubborn ignorance, he had not even known he was being mocked; the carts were for eunuchs, cripples, women giving birth, the very young and the very old. That won him yet another name: Khal Rhaggat, the Cart King. Her brother had thought it was the khal’s way of apologizing for the wrong Dany had done him. She had begged Ser Jorah not to tell him the truth, lest he be shamed. The knight had replied that the king could well do with a bit of shame...yet he had done as she bid. It had taken much pleading, and all the pillow tricks Doreah had taught her, before Dany had been able to make Drogo relent and allow Viserys to rejoin them at the head of the column.
丹妮骑着银马跟随在后，护送她的是乔拉·莫尔蒙爵士和再度上马的哥哥韦赛里斯。自那天在草原上发生事故，她让他走路回卡拉萨后，多斯拉克人便语带讥讽地给他起了个绰号叫雷马尔卡奥，意思是"酸腿国王".次日卓戈卡奥提议让他搭乘马车，韦赛里斯答应下来。倔强又无知的他，却不知这正是对他嘲弄。因为只有太监、残废、孕妇和老弱幼孺才搭马车。为此他又得了个新译名拉迦特卡奥，意思是"马车国王".哥哥竟还以为卡奥是因为丹妮犯了错，想藉此向他赔礼。她特别恳求乔拉爵士别告诉他真相，以免他受辱。骑士回说作国王就是要能忍受些许侮辱……但他还是听了她的话。如今丹妮可是再三哀求，又用尽多莉亚教的床上功夫，才让卓戈收回成命，允许韦赛里斯重新和他们一起走在队伍前端。
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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