一个人的小小心意,愿能贻笑大方。
Over 2,000 years ago, a merchant-led battalion of mercenaries from a coastal trade city sought to establish a more profitable trade route with the dwarven smithies and mines in the nearby mountains. Expecting bandits and gnolls, they were ill-prepared to be caught near a great canyon between previously-unknown “spidertaurs” driving multi-platoon waves of slaves against a thousand-strong interplanar incursion of rapine xills. The besieged party were saved by allying with warbands of native aranea defending their tribal lands.
2,000多年前,一支来自沿海贸易城市的商人主导的雇佣兵大队试图与各个矮人族经营的铁匠铺和附近群山的各个矿脉间建立一条更有利可图的贸易路线。面对着如预料之中的成群结队的匪徒和豺狼人,他们因准备不足,被困在一个大峡谷之间。这些峡谷之间是先前不为人知的“半蛛人族”,他们驱策着复数排列到密不透风的一波波奴隶海,对抗着一支上千只劫掠成性的锡尔族虫人(附注:五版锡尔族黑白图片像异形)对向内位面的强势入侵。被围困的团队是通过跟捍卫部落土地的当地变形蛛战帮结盟而获救的。
The heavily-outnumbered and rapidly-winnowing alliance only survived due to cunning guerrilla tactics, desperate tenacity, and luck’s fortune. After the near month-long fighting withdrawal had ended, a few surviving merchant magi adapted their talents to emulate the abilities of the araneas’ arcane tricksters and were nicknamed honorary “spiderhawks”—after the parasitoidal wasps who hunt spiders. While this ill-fated expedition is long forgotten, the spiderhawk tradition yet survives practiced by a small number of human and aranea magi.
人数严重超员但却一败涂地如落花流水般迅速的同盟唯一的生存之道,全靠了狡计多端的游击战术零敲碎打,决死魄力下拼了命的坚韧阻敌水滴石穿和如运狗一样的福气顾全。 在长近一个月的战斗撤退结束后,一些幸存着的商佣魔战士变通别置了他们的奥能天赋,模仿了变形蛛族的诡术师能力,并被昵称为荣誉“蛛鹰”(暗示捕杀蜘蛛的寄生蜂)。尽管这一段流年不利的探险古老到被遗忘的干干净净,但蛛鹰的传统却也在一小帮人类/变形蛛魔战士间被传习中得以幸存维持。
另外:Hawk一般翻译为鹰或鵟(后者是北美地区通称)。
wiki资料
鹰是eagle;隼科是falconidae;
鹗科鹗属(唯一种)
Osprey鱼鹰fish hawk
Hawks are a group of medium-sized diurnal birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Hawks are widely distributed and vary greatly in size. The terms accipitrine hawk and buteonine hawk are used to distinguish between the types in regions where hawk applies to both. The term "true hawk" is sometimes used for the accipitrine hawks in regions where buzzard is preferred for the buteonine hawks.
hawk一词常用来称呼鹰科(Accipitridae)的其他种鸟类(如鸢、鵟和鹞),广义的hawk包括某些隼科(Falconidae)鸟类(如隼、卡拉卡拉鹰〔caracara〕)。
鹰属(真鹰true hawk)是Accipiter(有时亦称鹘)
鹰泛指小型至中型的白昼活动的隼形类鸟,尤指鹰属(Accipiter)的种类(真鹰),包括苍鹰和雀鹰。
Sharp-shinned hawk条纹鹰
northern goshawk苍鹰(中小型猛禽)
Eurasian Sparrowhawk欧亚雀鹰(鹞子,小型)
hawk和buteonine混用,即鵟kuáng科,以各种鼠类为食,农田益鸟。也吃蛙、蜥蜴、蛇、野兔、小鸟和大型昆虫等。
鵟kuáng科
Red-tailed Hawk红尾鵟
分布在北美的鵟属各种鸟中最大的成员之一,红尾鵟的名称在欧洲被叫做"buzzards",而在北美则被通称为"hawks"。