乔叟

The global monitors would have the worldbelieve that their lines are drawn scientifically: take the bulk ofthe best-known dictionaries, chuck in all the words in Shakespeare,Chaucer and the Bible, and then apply their proprietary algorithm,which trawls through the press, the internet and every other mediumfor new words.

全球语言监测公司会让世人相信他们的划线是科学的：取大部分著名的词典，挑出所有出现在莎士比亚、乔叟和圣经中的单词，然后采用它们的专有算法，从报刊、互联网以及其它各种媒体搜索新词。

Most people already find it difficult to read Chaucer and a proliferation of new idiolects may soon make Shakespeare equally inaccessible.

多数人已经觉得乔叟很难懂，新的个人化语言可能很快使莎士比亚变得同样难懂。

Then there are large tracts of Shakespeare, Bacon, Spen ser, nearly all Chaucer, Congreve, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Sterne, Johnson, Scott, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Edgeworth, Ferrier, Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Swinbume, and Brontes, George Eliot, W. Morris, George Mered ith, Thomas Hardy, Savage Landor, Thackeray, Carlyle—in fact every classical au thor and most good modern authors, which I have never even overlooked. A list of the masterpieces I have not read would fill a volume.

莎士比亚、培根、斯宾塞的大部分作品我也不曾读过，乔叟的书几乎没读过；康格里夫、德莱顿、蒲柏、斯威夫特、斯特恩、约翰逊、斯科特、科勒律治、雪莱、拜伦、埃奇沃斯、兰姆、利·亨特、华兹华斯、丁尼生、史文朋、勃朗特姐妹、乔治·艾略特、N·毛里斯、乔治·梅瑞迪斯、托马斯，哈代、萨维奇·兰道、萨克雷、卡莱尔——事实上每一位古典作家和大多数现代大家的作品我都不曾拜读过，我未读过的名著的名字也可以写一卷书了。

His narrators are all love poets who are devoted to reading but lack experience in love.

乔叟的梦幻诗不以摹仿&生活经验&为目的，而仿佛是他阅读成果的再现。

Widely considered the father of English literature, Chaucer was born around 1343 to a wealthy wine merchant.

他是许多人公认的英国文学之父，乔叟於1343年左右，出生於一个富有的酒商家庭。

In prosody, Chaucer mostly used the ten-syllable line in rhymed couplets (later developed into the most fashionable "heroic couplet " of the 18th century).

从体裁上说，乔叟多用每行十音节、双行一尾韵的诗体(后来演化为18世纪风行的英雄双韵体)。

However , it is Chaucer alone who ,for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life in his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales.

然而，只有乔叟自己，第一次在英国文学中展现给我们一幅关于他所在的时代的英国社会的广阔现实画面，并且建立了一整座包括来自所有行业的生动人物的美术馆，在他的代表作《坎特伯雷故事集》里。

In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer created a comprehensive realisticpicture of the English society and a whole gallery of vivid characters.

在《坎特伯雷故事集》中，作者乔叟塑造了当时英国社会的一幅全面的、栩叙如生的画面。

In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer created a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society and a whole gallery of vivid characters.

在《坎特伯雷故事集》中，作者乔叟塑造了当时英国社会的一幅全面的、栩叙如生的画面。

Here Warren Scheer reads the very beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer's great poem,"The Canterbury Tales" as it was written in Middle English.

在这里沃伦scheer读取开始杰弗里乔叟的伟大的诗，&坎特伯雷故事&，因为这是在中东的书面英语。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失