Game of Thrones · 第 1 季
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rot
/rɒt/B2
腐爛 / 荒廢度日 (v.)
原意是食物或木頭腐爛。這裡指人「在長城自生自滅、混吃等死、虛度光陰」，非常生動地表達了瓊恩·雪諾當時的絕望感。
Everybody knew what this place was and no one told me. No one but you.
My father knew… and he left me to rot at the Wall all the same.
Grenn's father left him, too.