Unless you「re at a Chaucer convention, speaking middle English is not going to impress a potential romantic partner in 2013.
在2013年说中世纪的英语,除非是在乔叟的粉丝群里,否则你不会再让潜在的恋爱对象印象深刻了。
Chaucer was a great English poet, the Canterbury Tales was his most popular work for their power of observation, piercing irony, sense of humour and warm humanity.
乔叟被称为「英国诗歌之父」《坎特伯雷故事集》因其深邃的洞察力、尖锐的讽刺、很强的幽默感合暖暖的人情味深受世界各国人民的广泛欢迎。
C1388 Chaucer starts writing The Canterbury Tales.
c1388乔叟开始写《坎特·波里故事集》。
The story of the swan」s last song found a place in the works of other writers, including the early English writers Chaucer and Shakespeare.
在其他作家的作品中也可以找到天鹅之歌的身影,包括英国早期作家乔叟和莎士比亚。
In the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer USES the Wheel of Fortune to describe the tragic fall of several historical figures in his Monk「s Tale.
在《坎特伯雷故事集》中,杰弗里·乔叟ge of freyChaucer使用命运之轮来描述他僧侣故事中的几个历史人物的悲剧陷落。
Chaucer was the father of English poetry.
乔叟是英国的诗歌之父。
And Chaucer (1340-1400) complained 「the lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.」
乔叟(Chaucer , 1340-1400)抱怨道「thelyfsoshort,thecraftsolongtolerne.」 (生之有限,学也无涯)。
The story of the swan」s last song found a place in the works of other writers, including the early English writers Chaucer and Shakespeare.
在其他作家的作品中也可以找到天鹅最后之歌的蹤迹,包括早期英国作家乔叟和莎士比亚。
But even during its height, critics such as Chaucer characterized alchemists as charlatans, and it was banned by Pope John XXII and King Henry IV.
但即使在它盛极一时之时,乔叟类型的炼金术师被评论为江湖骗子,而炼金术被教皇二十二世和国王亨利四世宣布禁止。
Chaucer was a splitter, and even Shakespeare had a go.
乔叟凡遇到不定式必分离,甚至莎士比亚也有尝试过。
Chaucer would not have called that familiar root vegetable a 「carrot」, because the word comes from the French carotte and is not recorded until 1533.
同样的,英国作家乔叟也不会用「carrot」来表示常见的根茎类蔬菜胡萝卜,因为该词源于法语carotte,最早记录于1533年。
Chaucer adopts dream vision as the frame of most of his early poems, and in his other works he also makes use of dreams to develop his narrative.
乔叟的早期诗作多数采用了梦幻框架结构,并且在另外几部作品的叙事过程中也时常借用梦境以推动故事情节或深化主题。
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - (Download PDF).
坎特伯雷故事集(杰弗里·乔叟)-下载。
But thematic seriousness and low comedy coexist in Chaucer and Shakespeare, while emotional truth and physical caricature get along just fine in Dickens.
严肃主题加上低俗喜剧风格也在乔叟和莎翁作品中有体现,而狄更斯作品中外表漫画风精神层面揭示真实反响也不错。
The Canterbury Tales was written by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1387.
《坎特伯雷故事集》是杰弗雷·乔叟于1387年写的。
Somerset intuits that the killer is using books as the inspiration for his crimes, and studies Dante, Milton and Chaucer for hints.
Somerset直觉地认为兇手犯罪的灵感来自书本,并研究了但丁、弥尔顿和乔叟以求线索。
Chaucer is the father of English poetry.
乔叟是英诗的鼻祖。
Chaucer is a storyteller of genius.
乔叟是一位天才的故事家。