【自译】星战小说《达斯·普雷格斯》第一章（1）(3)
普雷格斯接受住了这温和的批评。他已经做普雷格斯的徒弟很多年了——甚至长过常人所能活的年月，而只要泰尼布勒斯愿意，他总能挑出普雷格斯的不足。
"What more appropriate way for us to close the circle than by mimicking the Sith'ari's seminal efforts," Tenebrous continued. "We weave ourselves into the warp and weft of the tapestry he created."
“对我们来说，关闭这个圈环比效仿西斯先祖影响深远的成就更深远，”泰尼布勒斯说，“我们已将自己织进了他所创的绣帷的经纱与纬纱之中。”
Plagueis kept his thoughts to himself. The aptly named Darth Bane, who had redefined the Sith by limiting their number and operating from concealment, had mined cortosis as a youth on Apatros long before embracing the tenets of the dark side. In the thousand years since his death, Bane had become deified; the powers attributed to him, legendary. And indeed what more appropriate place for his disciples to complete the circle, Plagueis told himself, than in profound obscurity, deep within an escarpment that walled an azure expanse of Bal'demnic's Northern Sea.
普雷格斯把自己的想法藏匿起来。达斯·贝恩这个名字很贴切，他通过限制西斯的数量和禁止他们躲藏来重新定义西斯。早在接受黑暗面的信条之前，他于青年时期就开始在阿帕特罗斯挖掘科托西斯金属。在他死后的数千年里，贝恩被奉若神明，赋予他的传奇以力量。而且有很多合适的地方可以让他的信徒完成圈环，普雷格斯告诉自己，好过在这无比昏暗的、被峭壁深深包围的巴尔登尼克的浩瀚的天蓝色北海。
The two Sith were outfitted in environment suits that protected them from scorching heat and noxious atmosphere. The cave was cross-hatched by scores of enormous crystals that resembled glowing lances thrust every which way into a trick chest by a stage magician. A recent seismic event had tipped the landmass, emptying the labyrinthine cave system of mineral-rich waters, but the magma chamber that had kept the waters simmering for millions of years still heated the humid air to temperatures in excess of what even Tenebrous and Plagueis could endure unaided. Close at hand sat a stubby treddroid tasked with monitoring the progress of a mining probe that was sampling a rich vein of cortosis ore at the bottom of a deep shaft. A fabled ore, some called it-owing to its scarcity, but even more for its intrinsic ability to diminish the effectiveness of the Jedi lightsaber. For that reason, the Jedi Order had gone to great lengths to restrict mining and refinement of the ore. If not the bane of the Order's existence, cortosis was a kind of irritant, a challenge to their weapon's reputation for fearsome invincibility.
"What more appropriate way for us to close the circle than by mimicking the Sith'ari's seminal efforts," Tenebrous continued. "We weave ourselves into the warp and weft of the tapestry he created."
“对我们来说，关闭这个圈环比效仿西斯先祖影响深远的成就更深远，”泰尼布勒斯说，“我们已将自己织进了他所创的绣帷的经纱与纬纱之中。”
Plagueis kept his thoughts to himself. The aptly named Darth Bane, who had redefined the Sith by limiting their number and operating from concealment, had mined cortosis as a youth on Apatros long before embracing the tenets of the dark side. In the thousand years since his death, Bane had become deified; the powers attributed to him, legendary. And indeed what more appropriate place for his disciples to complete the circle, Plagueis told himself, than in profound obscurity, deep within an escarpment that walled an azure expanse of Bal'demnic's Northern Sea.
普雷格斯把自己的想法藏匿起来。达斯·贝恩这个名字很贴切，他通过限制西斯的数量和禁止他们躲藏来重新定义西斯。早在接受黑暗面的信条之前，他于青年时期就开始在阿帕特罗斯挖掘科托西斯金属。在他死后的数千年里，贝恩被奉若神明，赋予他的传奇以力量。而且有很多合适的地方可以让他的信徒完成圈环，普雷格斯告诉自己，好过在这无比昏暗的、被峭壁深深包围的巴尔登尼克的浩瀚的天蓝色北海。
The two Sith were outfitted in environment suits that protected them from scorching heat and noxious atmosphere. The cave was cross-hatched by scores of enormous crystals that resembled glowing lances thrust every which way into a trick chest by a stage magician. A recent seismic event had tipped the landmass, emptying the labyrinthine cave system of mineral-rich waters, but the magma chamber that had kept the waters simmering for millions of years still heated the humid air to temperatures in excess of what even Tenebrous and Plagueis could endure unaided. Close at hand sat a stubby treddroid tasked with monitoring the progress of a mining probe that was sampling a rich vein of cortosis ore at the bottom of a deep shaft. A fabled ore, some called it-owing to its scarcity, but even more for its intrinsic ability to diminish the effectiveness of the Jedi lightsaber. For that reason, the Jedi Order had gone to great lengths to restrict mining and refinement of the ore. If not the bane of the Order's existence, cortosis was a kind of irritant, a challenge to their weapon's reputation for fearsome invincibility.
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