She took the story from the Canterbury Tales by English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

她从英国诗弗里·乔叟的《坎特伯雷事集》中取材。

William Caxton brought the printing press to England in the 1470s, and the first book he printed was Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

威廉·卡克斯顿在 14 世纪 70 年代将印刷机带到了英国，他印刷的第本书是弗里·乔叟的《坎特伯雷事集》。

The stories in " The Canterbury Tales" stand alone.

《坎特伯雷事集》中的事是独无二的。

Among many of you will know that we have borrowed the title of this story from the medieval British poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales.

大家很知道，我们借了中世纪英国诗弗里·乔叟和《坎特伯雷事集》中事的标题。

The Canterbury Tales, which seamlessly blends the lofty and the lowly.

坎特伯雷事集，完美地融合了崇高与卑微。

The Canterbury Tales, strongly reflects the influence of the continental writers, both in style and in content.

坎特伯雷事集在风格和内容上强烈反映了欧洲大陆作家的影响。

In the last quarter of the century, Chaucer wrote his works, including The Canterbury Tales, in English.

在本世纪的最后四分之，乔叟用英语写了他的作品，包括《坎特伯雷事集》。

And that comes from a really famous poem in English taken from The Canterbury Tales, and it's the first part of The Canterbury Tales called the general prologue.

这出自《坎特伯雷事集》中首非常著名的英文诗，它是《坎特伯雷事集》的第部分，称为总序言。

We have Geoffrey Chaucer to thank for the earliest known instance of the word with this meaning; in " The Merchant's Tale" (from The Canterbury Tales), he named one of the characters " Placebo."

我们要感谢弗里·乔叟（Geoffrey Chaucer）为我们提供了最早的具有这种含义的单词实例；在《商的事》（选自《坎特伯雷事集》）中，他将其中个角色命名为“安慰剂”。

Well before Shakespeare, the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, famous for his Canterbury Tales, wanted to describe the light, tremulous call an encaged bird makes as it yearns for freedom, and came up with the onomatopoeia " twitter."

早在莎士比亚之前，英国诗弗里·乔叟，他因《坎特伯雷事集》而闻名于世，他想描述那种，被关在笼子里的鸟儿渴望自由时发出的颤抖的，轻巧的叫声，于是拟声词“叽叽喳喳”便应运而生。

In the 858 lines of the Prologue to the " Canterbury Tales" , almost 500 different French loanwards occur, and by some estimates, some 20-25% of Chaucer's vocabulary is French in origin.

在《坎特伯雷事集》序言的858行中，出现了近500种不同的法语借调，据估计，乔叟大约20-25%的词汇起源于法语。

But the " Canterbury Tales" is usually considered the first great works of English literature, and the first demonstration of the artistic legitimacy of vernacular Middle English, as opposed to French or Latin.

但“坎特伯雷事集”通常被认为是英国文学的第部伟大作品，也是中古英语白话艺术合法性的第个证明，而不是法语或拉丁语。