Ser Waymar met him bravely. “Dance with me then.” He lifted his sword high over his head, defiant. His handstrembled from the weight of it, or perhaps from the cold. Yet in that moment, Will thought, he was a boy no longer, but a man of the Night’s Watch.
威玛爵士勇敢地迎上前去。“既然如此,我们就来较量较量罢。”他举剑过头,语带挑衅。虽然他的手不知因为重量或是酷寒而颤抖,威尔却觉得在那一刻,他已经不再是个软弱怯懦的少年,而成了真正的守夜人男子汉。

Dance with me then. dance这里不是指舞蹈,而是指两人的身体移动的匹配,速率节奏和移动方式等。这里是一种引申的说法,不能从字面上来解释。就如同汉语里说,来我们玩玩吧(比试比试)。

defiant,违抗反叛,不屈服, refuse to obey.

trembled, tremble, 指轻微的颤抖或摇晃。

The Other halted. Will saw its eyes; blue, deeper and bluer than any human eyes, a blue that burned like ice. They fixed on the longsword trembling on high, watched the moonlight running cold along the metal. For a heartbeat he dared to hope.
异鬼停住脚步。威尔看到了它的眼睛,那是一种比任何人眼都要湛蓝深邃的颜色,如玄冰一般冷冷燃烧。它把视线停留在对方高举的颤抖着的剑上,凝视着冷冷月光在金属剑缘流动。那一刹那,威尔觉得事情还有转机。

halted, 原形halt,和stop等义。新闻报道时常用这个词,表示阻止状态持续,The government has failed to halt economic decline.

dared to,原形dare to,它们是一组,是情态动词,后接动词原形。不过现在也常倾向于直接使用dare而不使用to 的用法, dare (to) do sth.

They emerged silently from the shadows, twins to the first. Three of them? four? five? Ser Waymar may have felt the cold that came with them, but he never saw them, never heard them. Will had to call out. It was his duty. And his death, if he did. He shivered, and hugged the tree, and kept the silence.
此时它们静悄悄地从阴影里冒出来,与第一个异鬼长得一模一样,三个……四个……五个……,威玛爵士或许能感觉伴随他们而来的寒意,但他既没看到它们、也没听见它们的声音。威尔应该警告他,毕竟那是他职责所在。然而一旦出声,他便必死无疑。于是他颤抖着紧抱树干,不敢作声。

emerged,emerge 显现,暴露,浮现出。真相大白, Eventually the truth emerged.

文章中这个词用得非常好,指异鬼们从黑暗的地方由不明显慢慢到明显的过程,有动态画面的感觉。

The pale sword came shivering through the air.
惨白的长剑厉声破空。

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