Aberration

(偏失,偏离)

perhaps from time to time one of you is born that is an aberration


Ably

(干练地)

Lienne, riding behind Gaspard and Remache ably if carefully, explained that the great sylvan they had slain had likely kept the other spirits under its control, and with it gone, the rest would flee back to wherever they came from.


Acrid

(酸臭的)

acrid smoke


Admonishment

(警告)

there is no admonishment behind it


Afterimages

(残影)

Michel modded to Celene, and she followed Felassan, blinking now at the sudden darkness that had afterimages playing across the rainy darkness before her.


Alcove

(壁龛)

he ducked into an alcove


Ambivalence

(矛盾)

she eyed him carefully, no doubt trying to discern the reason for his ambivalence.


Antechamber

(前厅)

they reached a large antechamber


Apoplectic

(抽风似的)

the sudden apoplectic rage in those eyes sent him stumbling back


Apprehension

(顾虑)

apprehension tugged at him


Ascribing

(赋予,归咎)

he wondered if it wasn't all too easy to start ascribing human motivations to it


Askance

(怀疑地)

Duncan glanced askance at her


Austere

(简朴肃穆的)

an austere air to their studies


Baffled

(困惑)

her eyes teared up as she shook her head, baffled by him


Battered

(被反复砍击的)

"That was a noble's sword?" Melcendre asked, adding just the right touch of doubt to lure the crowd into laughing at the battered blade and drive Teagan further toward saying something that Gaspard could construe as an insult.


Behooves

(使理所应当地干)

it behooves everyone to paddle, lest the current carry us away


Belatedly

(姗姗来迟地,后知后觉地)

he shuddered, belatedly remembering that he was now mostly unclothed


Bile

(胆汁)

snorted with derision, they'd choke on the bile


Billow

(翻滚蔓延)

a great cloud of dust began to billow in


Blanch

(灼烧)

made them blanch and fidget nervously


Blotches

(斑,皮癣)

was he covered in those blotches now?


Brethren

(弟兄)

we are brethren


Broaching

(引起讨论)

he considered broaching the subject with Adrain - but what would she say?


Brooches

(胸针)

black brooches


Burlap

(粗麻布)

bound with a rough cloth that felt similar to burlap


Cacophony

(杂音)

a cacophony of sound


Cajoled

(哄骗)

while she had cajoled and charmed, Gaspard could lead by example, inspiring those who followed him.


Candelabrum

(烛台)

it was bare except for a candelabrum of wrought iron standing in the center


Capricious

(任性的)

capricious


Careening

(翻倒)

the blow send him careening back, slamming against the wall.


Cataclysmic

(暴)

as the black-scaled high dragon crashed down onto the ground amid them with cataclysmic force


Chafed

(擦破了的)

the stolen armor chafed, but after the first night, she padded the sections that did not fit with skill learned from emergency dress repair at the balls of her youth.


Chastisement

(惩戒)

though some gentle chastisement might ensure that she accepts her newfound disappointment with grace and dignity.


Chatelaine

(女管家)

Briala had seen the chatelaine prepare for countless balls before.


Cheeky

(厚脸皮)

cheeky bastard


Clandestine

(暗地的)

everything was part of the Game, even the clandestine affairs of the more important servants.


Clenched

(握紧,咬紧,收紧)

she gritted out through a clenched smile


Commotion

(骚动)

a new commotion just outside the great chamber suddenly drew their attention


Complacent

(自满的)

the idle, complacent sheep walking from one tuft of grass to the next wasn't a target the humans felt compared to master.


Connived

(纵容)

connived to attach themselves to the fastest and strongest horse


Construe

(理解为)

"That was a noble's sword?" Melcendre asked, adding just the right touch of doubt to lure the crowd into laughing at the battered blade and drive Teagan further toward saying something that Gaspard could construe as an insult.


Convulse

(抽搐)

it made no move to approach him, content merely to let him convulse


Courtiers

(朝臣)

it's the novel concept the chevaliers taught me while you were pandering to the Chantry and trading innuendos with the courtiers.


Crestfallen

(垂头丧气)

"oh", he said, crestfallen


Croak

(嘶叫)

the words came out of Bregan as a croak, and his vision swam


Curvaceous

(婀娜的)

he tried to imagine it filled with bright lamps and steamy tubs and curvaceous dwarven noble-hunters giggling behind their fans


Dejectedly

(沮丧地)

sinking dejectedly back down onto his bench


Derision

(嘲弄)

snorted with derision, they'd choke on the bile


Derisively

(嘲弄的)

snorted derisively


Desecrate

(践踏,捣毁,亵渎)

we touch the face of perfection and thus desecrate it forever


Dinginess

(灰溜溜)

everything also appeared slightly washed out, and that wasn't just the dinginess of the elven homes


Disconsolate

(悲恸的)

the blond warrior was disconsolate, tears streaming down his face as he begged his fiend to hold on


Doublet

(高领夹克)

his hose were rich golden silk and his doublet was violet suede made from beasts the dwarves raised like cattle.


Eaves

(屋檐)

the only sound the wind through the eaves overhead


Ecstatically

(狂喜地)

it would undulate ecstatically


Eerily

(诡异地)

it was eerily quiet except for the rhythmic lapping of water against the boat


Encrusted

(缀满)

encrusted with blood and filth


Engrossed

(全神贯注)

engrossed in the First Enchanter's speech


Entrails

(下水)

bloody entrails spilled out onto ground


Exasperation

(恼怒)

sighing with exasperation


Expectant

(翘首以盼的)

"And with what wit has my cousin silenced so sweet a voice?" Celene asked into the expectant silence.


Exultant

(眉飞色舞)

to Celenes's surprise, Felassan himself looked more worried than exultant.


Facsimile

(复制)

it wasn't supposed to be possible, and yet here Evangeline was: not a spirit, not some facsimile of the woman he know.


Faux pas

(失礼)

what was more, a few stray locks of the chatelaine's hair had been caught under her mask, a faux pas that was completely unacceptable for any servant in the imperial palace.


Fetid

(恶臭的)

the smell of damp and fetid oil was almost overwhelming


Fidget

(焦躁不安)

made them blanch and fidget nervously


Filigree

(掐丝)

for all the beautiful filigree lining the breastplate that was now crushed and forgotten behind them.


Flabbergasted

(吓坏了)

Bregan was flabbergasted. For a moment he could almost ignore the incessant humming that threaten to crack open his head and crawl inside


Furtively

(偷偷摸摸地)

furtively began nibbling on it


Gait

(步态)

he tried his best to keep pace, Cole and he falling into a strange gait: step-shuffle-hop, step-shuffle-hop... it was agonizingly slow, but Rhys gritted his teeth and kept going.


Gaol

(监狱)

threw me in the gaol for the night


Gash

(深长的豁口)

he crouched down, wincing as the gash in his stomach protested, and waited.


Gauntlet

(机关走廊(也有长手套之意))

in real tests, it was said, the blades were sharpened, and the soldier ran the gauntlet unarmored.


Gawk

(呆望)

straining their necks to gawk at the group of them


Gelding

(被阉割过的马)

she kicked her mount's flanks without waiting for a response, and the gelding, after a moment's confusion, broke into a gallop.


Genteel

(温雅的)

his grey hair pulled into a genteel ponytail


Glistering

(放光)

the sweat glistering on his forehead


Glowered

(怒目而视)

he glowered at her


Glumly

(闷闷不乐)

the prow hung over the water, and there he sat with his feet dangling over the edge, staring glumly out into the distance


Gnash

(咬牙切齿)

it tried to gnash its teeth


Goaded

(被怂恿)

Bann Teagan would be goaded until he said something in anger.


Gritted

(咬牙)

she gritted out through a clenched smile


Gritty

(沙粒状的)

it left a pale, gritty residue on her fingers as well


Groaned

(哼哼,呻吟)

Duncan groaned. "You drank that?"


Groggy

(迷糊)

he felt dizzy groggy


Grotesquely

(怪怖的)

bodies strewn about grotesquely


Gruffly

(生硬地)

announced gruffly


Gurgling

(淙淙的, 潺潺的)

issuing a gurgling scream


Guttural

(喉音)

shouted in guttural war cry


Halberd

(戟)

they'd built a barricade that any chevalier would vault over and wore badly tanned leather armor that an axe or halberd would cut through like it was satin.


Handbreadth

(手掌一划)

a handbreadth from the elven mage's throat, Celene's daggers glanced harmlessly off a shimming barrier of arcane energy.


Hapless

(倒霉的)

in the song, the hapless noble was comically frustrated at every turn by rough Fereldan culture, including a slobbering mabari hound that ate his mask.


Heaved

(嘿咻)

as it was he heaved painfully a few times and fought to gain control over his revulsion


Hemp

(麻)

Bregan noticed the number of pouches and odd devices hanging from the loose hemp rope tied around its waist


Hovel

(茅屋)

she'd fled screaming back to her father's hovel


Husky

(沙哑的)

his void became husky


Incessant

(不间断的)

Bregan was flabbergasted. For a moment he could almost ignore the incessant humming that threaten to crack open his head and crawl inside


Inconspicuously

(不明显地)

inconspicuously followed


Indignantly

(愤怒地)

Fiona snorted indignantly


Inexorably

(严酷不可抵挡的)

slowly but inexorably, she gained her feet and pressed her blade forward until her arms were well past the dragon's great teeth


Infatuation

(激痴情)

one must make allowances for mistakes brought on by infatuation.


Innards

(内脏)

he removed the leather gloves he wore, now coated a dark and ugly red from the dragon's innards


Innuendos

(讽刺影射)

it's the novel concept the chevaliers taught me while you were pandering to the Chantry and trading innuendos with the courtiers.


Insinuated

(含沙射影,潜伏渗透)

it had insinuated itself into his consciousness


Iridescent

(虹彩的)

there were iridescent colors that slowly flowed just beneath the surface like a liquid


Jerkin

(短上衣)

he shouldered his bow and then gestured toward his leather jerkin


Jubilation

(欢腾)

a resounding cry of jubilation


Jutting

(冒出头)

i might ignore those flaps of filth jutting out from your head.


Languidly

(懒散地,疲软地)

the emissary gestured languidly toward him


Manacles

(镣铐)

here, let me try to get those manacles off you


Matronly

(妇女有威严的)

a matronly woman with a sloppily bandaged arm.


Mesmerized

(看呆了)

he wanted to look away, but he felt almost mesmerized by her alien appearance


Mishmash

(混杂)

it wore a mishmash of metal armor


Mounds

(冢)

great mounds of charred ash and sticky tendrils clung to everything


Muck

(烂泥)

she pulled herself slowly up, feeling the heels of her boots sink into the muck


Murky

(模糊的)

murky lake


Nonchalant

(满不在乎)

Duncan shrugged and cleared his throat, seemly nonchalant


Normalcy

(正常)

"ah, normalcy", Felassan said, and raised his staff.


Onus

(责任)

even if Bregan had never wanted that onus originally, it was all he truly had left now


Oppressive

(压抑的)

oppressive


Outcropping

(岩石露出土外的那部分)

seated not five feet away from him on a rocky outcropping next to the wall


Pageantry

(华丽排场)

they'd bring the dead here with all the pageantry you'd expect.


Pallets

(托盘)

great metal tubs, lined with the same runes as the wall, were set into the ground, near stone pallets that were each large enough to be an altar.


Pallor

(苍白)

Celene watched the Keeper go white, the tattoos on his face suddenly livid against the pallor.


Pandering

(献媚迎合)

it's the novel concept the chevaliers taught me while you were pandering to the Chantry and trading innuendos with the courtiers.


Parapet

(栏杆)

she retreated, startled, until she hit the parapet and could back up no farther.


Pensive

(忧沉的)

with a final pensive glance at the entrance, he turned and nodded


Perfunctory

(敷衍的)

the combat training had become rote, perfunctory.


Pewter

(锡)

pewter goblet


Phosphorescent

(磷光的)

he remembered here bing phosphorescent lichen to offer light in some places


Piqued

(激起了)

the man rubbed his chin and fretted for a moment and her curiosity was piqued


Piteously

(可怜地)

whinnied piteously nearby


Placid

(波澜不惊的)

it was small and placid, fed by a river that came down from the Frostbacks to the east.


Plush

(长毛绒)

plush carpet


Poultice

(糊药)

some sort of poultice


Precarious

(危险的)

precarious edge by the water


Precipice

(悬崖)

as if they stood on a precipice


Profusely

(大量地)

sweat profusely


Promenade

(小径)

the entire promenade was all but filled with bones


Prow

(船头)

the prow hung over the water, and there he sat with his feet dangling over the edge, staring glumly out into the distance


Puckered

(褶皱的)

it reached up with a scarred, puckered hand and ran a finger thoughtfully along its chin


Pulsated

(脉动)

an awful yearning that pulsated within the sound


Putrid

(腐烂的)

as if the odor was wonderful and not putrid in the slightest


Rabid

(狂躁的)

Cole made a growling sound like a rabid animal and leapt on him.


Rancid

(馊)

smell grew increasingly more potent, more rancid


Raspy

(刺耳的)

her void raspy


Rejoinder

(反驳)

his rejoinder lacked heat


Repercussion

(余波)

repercussion


Reproachfully

(责备的)

looked at two of them reproachfully


Resplendent

(灿烂的)

resplendent yellow robes


Retching

(干呕)

she gasped and began convulsing and making retching noises


Reverberating

(回荡)

he heard a reverberating hiss nearby


Reverence

(崇敬)

hung their heads in reverence


Revulsion

(厌恶)

as it was he heaved painfully a few times and fought to gain control over his revulsion


Rote

(死记硬背的)

the combat training had become rote, perfunctory.


Ruddy

(红润)

ruddy faces


Ruefully

(无可奈何地怜悯的)

chuckled ruefully


Saucy

(轻浮的,俏皮的)

gave them a saucy grin


Searing

(灼热的)

searing pain in his leg


Seneschal

(管家)

i lied to the seneschal at Fortalan to get him to accept me into one of the outlier units


Shuddered

(打了个寒颤)

then she shuddered and the moment ended


Sibilant

(嘶嘶的)

there was a sibilant quality to it, a faint hiss that accompanied her words


Silhouettes

(剪影)

she gestured up ahead, where the elves were distant silhouettes in the twisting purple light.


Sinewy

(肌肉发达的)

the dragon turned its sinewy neck to glare directly at Genvieve


Skittish

(易受惊的)

Celene's gelding was still skittish, and his coat wasn't in good condition.


Slobbering

(流口水的)

in the song, the hapless noble was comically frustrated at every turn by rough Fereldan culture, including a slobbering mabari hound that ate his mask.


Sloshing

(波动的)

the sound of sloshing water


Sludge

(污泥)

she knelt down next to Duncan, careful not to sit in the sludge as he was


Sluice

(水闸)

if the sluice gate is open


Smattering

(一知半解)

smattering of applause


Smidgen

(一点点)

maybe a smidgen


Spittle

(唾沫)

Genevieve glanced at the pool of spittle before her feet


Spluttered

(上气不接下气地说)

he's spluttered in protest, but the dwarf had simply ignored him


Squinting

(眯眼)

squinting to see everything else in the room


Squirmed

(扭捏)

the lad squirmed, looking uncomfortable


Stalactite

(钟乳石)

then something else passed right over him and he recognized the tip of a stalactite


Straining

(使劲)

straining their necks to gawk at the group of them


Strenuous

(费力的)

strenuous


Strewn

(散落的)

bodies strewn about grotesquely


Strident

(刺耳)

strident noise


Stucco

(灰泥粉刷)

the walls lined with classical paintings and curls of swirling stucco.


Suede

(绒面)

his hose were rich golden silk and his doublet was violet suede made from beasts the dwarves raised like cattle.


Surreptitiously

(偷偷摸摸的)

then the moment was over, and she was moving toward the bard who had been surreptitiously added to the guest list at the command of a guard captain loyal to Gaspard.


Susurrus

(嘀嘀咕咕)

a susurrus of whispers fluttered through the chamber, but quickly died down.


Swarthy

(黑黝黝的)

swarthy skinned


Swig

(痛饮)

he brought the flask to his lips and took a long swig


Taciturn

(无言的)

for all his taciturn manner, Kistoff had been his only real friend within the order


Taut

(绷紧的)

"Your Imperial Majesty." Bann Teagan stood ready, the veins in his neck taut.


Tendrils

(卷须)

great mounds of charred ash and sticky tendrils clung to everything


Throbbing

(跳动的,悸动的)

it's throbbing a bit


Thrumming

(有节奏且不间断地)

they backed off, making angry thrumming noises from deep in their throats


Tittered

(暗笑)

the assembled nobles tittered, scandalously amused.


Trance

(被催眠的状态)

first, you go into a trance to enter the world of dreams.


Trepidation

(不安)

trepidation


Trotted

(小跑)

Duncan trotted after her


Trudged

(跋涉)

they trudged through the soot and bones


Tugged

(拽,扯)

apprehension tugged at him


Undulate

(摇动)

it would undulate ecstatically


Unfazed

(未受影响)

appeared unfazed by the question


Unison

(齐奏)

they hummed in unison


Vagrant

(流浪汉)

her fervent whispers drew the attention of a nearby vagrant


Vambrace

(臂甲)

she stepped, turned the blow on a vambrace that, though ornamental, was still made from silverite, and put her dagger through her attacker's eye.


Verandas

(凉台)

the balconies offered a view of the great hall, as well as an escape to fresh air outside, where verandas overlooked a hedge maze dotted with sparkling marble fountains.


Verdant

(葱茏)

they passed through an open courtyard filled with verdant bushes and a marble statue of Andraste atop a burbling fountain


Whimsical

(怪诞的)

Felassan was often whimsical, sometimes philosophical, but very rarely frightening to Briala.


Wriggle

(蠢动)

either way, with one final wriggle Duncan's legs finally disappeared


Writhed

(蠕动)

as if a mass of black maggots writhed in some festering carcass


Wrought

(锻)

it was bare except for a candelabrum of wrought iron standing in the center


Yearning

(渴求)

an awful yearning that pulsated within the sound