Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with emotion.

而且心理上也肮脏的地方。物质上是兔子洞，是粪堆，好多人紧紧挤在起，摩擦生热，动着感情，发着臭气。

" The midden heap you call King's Landing" ?

" 看什么？看叫君临的粪堆？"

Archaeologists use heaps of trash to study people and culture and even have a special, nice-sounding name for garbage piles: middens.

考古家利用垃圾去研究人类和文明，甚至给垃圾堆起独特的、好听的称呼：肥堆。

" A midden heap with a roof and a firepit" . Jon told Sam what he had seen and heard in Craster's Keep.

" 座有屋顶、有火盆的垃圾场。" 琼恩把自己在卡斯特堡垒中的所见所闻告诉山姆。

Digging through more recent history, a midden outside of George Washington's home revealed the belt buckles he wore, the china he used, and the meat he and his guests ate off of that china.

深入近代史，人们在乔治·华盛顿家外面的肥堆中发现他用过的腰带饰扣，瓷器以及瓷器里他和客人吃剩的肉。

In one midden near Rome, archeologists uncovered 25 million containers for carrying olive oil, telling us that Romans used a lot of olive oil but almost none of it came from Rome — most was from Spain and Egypt.

在靠近罗马的肥堆中，考古家发现 2500 万装着橄榄油的容器，表明罗马人曾经使用过大量的橄榄油，但是没有橄榄来自罗马，它们大部分来自西班牙和埃及。