娱乐美联英语 乔治马丁与电视剧《权力的游戏》.doc

小编给你一个美联英语官方免费试听课申请链接： /test/waijiao.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 美联英语提供：娱乐英语 乔治马丁与电视剧《权力的游戏》 Halfway through lunch at the Delaunay, a fashionable European-style brasserie in London, George RR Martin compares the giant slab of breaded chicken on my plate to a map of a fantasy kingdom. The fact that he is one of the world抯 biggest-selling fantasy writers, and creator of the books on which the hit television series Game of Thrones is based, makes this a little less surprising than it might otherwise be. But not much. Pointing at my irregularly shaped food with his knife, he elaborates: 揟here are various little inlets where cities could be,?he says jovially, as if he were making the most obvious comparison in the world. 我们在伦敦的时尚欧式餐厅Delaunay的午餐吃到一半时，乔治?R?R?马丁(George RR Martin)把我盘中一大块裹着面包屑的炸鸡比作一张梦幻王国的地图。他是世界上作品最畅销的奇幻作家之一，他创作的小说被改编成了热播电视剧《权力的游戏》(Game of Thrones)，因此，他作出这样的比喻并不奇怪。他用餐刀指着我盘中形状不规则的炸鸡块，解释道：“上面有各种各样的小海湾，城市就可能在这里，”他开心地说，仿佛自己作出了世界上最一目了然的比喻。 It’s an entertaining moment and Martin, 63, does seem to be enjoying life. As well he might - 9m copies of his books were sold last year. The five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, his dizzying saga of medieval kingdoms locked in internecine warfare, total more than 5,000 pages and there are two more (very long) books to come before the cycle is complete. 这是非常愉快的一刻，67岁的马丁的确似乎在享受生活。他也应该享受生活——截至2015年4月，他的书已卖出逾6000万册。《冰与火之歌》(A Song of Ice and Fire)是一部令人眼花缭乱、描绘中世纪王国间血腥混战的奇幻巨作，已完成的五部共有5000多页，再有（很长的）两部之后，该系列才会完结。 The first, called A Game of Thrones, took Martin five years to write, and was published in 1996. By 2005, when the fourth volume, A Feast for Crows, came out, he was a successful genre author, nudging the mainstream bestseller lists. Then, in April 2011, things changed utterly for Martin. Overnight, he became globally famous when HBO, the American pay-TV channel renowned for making high-quality drama, put out the first episode of its new series Game of Thrones. This lavish, faithful, and very expensive (a reported $60m per serie