美国HBO奇幻大剧《权力的游戏》第七季已落下帷幕，收视创下新高。今天为大家奉上的词汇表汇集了维斯特洛大陆的自然世界中各种亦真亦幻的动植物。所有词汇均取自原著小说《冰与火之歌》系列。让我们一边回味一边学习，一边学习一边期待吧！
World-building in
Game of Thrones: a glossary of the natural world
B
Basilisk: a legendary creature in our world; really exists in Westeros, where it is a reptile with venom that can drive warm-blooded animals to madness. Traditionally, a basilisk results from a serpent brooding on a hen’s egg.
巴吉里斯克毒蜥。我们世界中一种传说的生物；在维斯特洛，这是一种真实存在的爬行动物。它的毒液可以让温血动物发疯。传统上讲，巴吉里斯克是巨蛇在鸡蛋上孵化而出的。
Bloodfly: an insect that combines the worst attributes of the stinging horsefly and the blowfly: “large as bees, gross, purplish, glistening… [they live] in stagnant pools, [drink] blood from man and horse alike, and [lay] their eggs in the dead and dying.”
血蝇。一种昆虫，结合了叮人的马蝇（horsefly）和绿头苍蝇（blowfly）最坏的特性。“大小如蜜蜂，被毛，略带紫，体表反光……[它们生活在]死水塘里，[饮]人类和马类的血，在腐尸和将死动物体内产卵。”
Broadleaf: in Westeros, a type of deciduous tree that turns red and gold in the autumn. The term can refer to one of a few species of tree in our world.
阔叶树。维斯特洛的一种落叶树，秋季树叶会变成红和金。这个词汇也可以指我们世界的一些阔叶树种。
C
Courser: as in Oxford Dictionaries, “a large, powerful horse ridden in battle or tournament.” Like many English words referring to genteel
life, courser comes from French (coursier), a consequence of the Norman Invasion. First use in English c1300.
在牛津词典中，该词定义为“用于作战或比赛骑行的大型而有力的马匹”。像很多指代上流社会生活的英语词汇一样，courser源自法语（coursier），随诺曼征服而来。英语中首次使用在约14世纪。
D
Destrier: a war horse; the name comes from the practice of having one’s squire lead the horse, for which he naturally uses his right h and. From French (see courser): Middle English destrer,
Anglo-Norman destrer, Old French destrier. First use in English c1300. 一种战马。由于过去都由骑士的扈从引领马匹，自然而然，扈从会用右手牵马，由此形成该词。源自法语（参见courser）：从中世纪英语destrer，经由盎格鲁-诺曼语destrer，到古法语destrier。英语中首次使用在约14世纪。
Direwolf: an enormous species of wolf that lives north of the Wall. In our world, dire wolves lived some 11,000 years ago in the Americas; they were about the same size as the largest wolves today.
女巨人冰原狼。一种大型狼种，生活在北境长城以北。在我们的世界，冰原狼生活在约1.1万年前的美洲地区，体型大小与现在最大的狼近似。
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