I forget what my answer was, but I know it was ribald.

我忘了当时我是怎么回答他的，但是我的话肯俗。

Chaucer uses the quirks of the characters’ language – the ribald humor of the Cook, the solemn prose of the Parson, and the lofty notions of the Squire – to satirize their worldviews.

乔叟使用人物语言的怪癖——厨师的俗幽默、牧师的庄严散文和乡绅的崇观念——来讽刺他们的世界观。

Sometimes they sing the songs of the jook-joints, the Saturday night songs, but I have an idea that the day I hear " Shake that thing" ribald from the orange trees, Preacher is not picking that day.

有时他们会唱 jook-joints 的歌曲，周六晚上的歌曲，但我有想法，当我听到橘子树下流的“Shake that thing”时，Preacher 不会在那天采摘。

I had never seen the bishop but at a dinner or luncheon party, and a very good trencherman he was, who enjoyed his food and a glass of good wine, telling funny and sometimes ribald stories with verve.

除了在晚宴或午餐会上，我从未见过主教，他是非常好的食客，喜欢他的食物和杯好酒，充满活力地讲述有趣的，有时甚至是俗的故事。