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

她从英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟的《坎特伯故事集》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 年代将带到了英国，他的第一本书杰弗里·乔叟的《坎特伯故事集》。

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.

大家很多人都知道，我们借了中世纪英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟和《坎特伯故事集》中一则故事的标题。

What's really interesting about Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is the development of character.

乔叟的《坎特伯故事集》真正有趣的地方在于人物的发展。

The stories in " The Canterbury Tales" stand alone.

《坎特伯故事集》中的故事独一无二的。

By the time Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales, 32 of these had become regular.

到乔叟写《坎特伯故事集》时，其中 32 个故事已经成为常态。

There is some prose in the Canterbury Tales, but it's mostly versified.

《坎特伯故事集》中有一些散文，但韵文。

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

坎特伯故事集在风格和内容上都强烈反映了欧洲大陆作家的影响。

Well, even in the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer says the young squire spends his days singing and whistling.

在《坎特伯故事集》中，乔叟提到年轻侍从的日子在歌唱和吹口哨中度过的。

Like, I think one appears in the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the wife of Bath, I believe.

比如， 《坎特伯故事集》中，乔叟的《坎特伯故事集》里，我相信有一个巴斯的妻子的角色。

The two terms were somewhat interchangeable, and in the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer talked about the decline of such beliefs.

这两个术语在一定程度上可以互换，而在《坎特伯故事集》中， 乔叟则谈到了这种信仰的衰落。

The Canterbury Tales marks his ultimate achievement.

《坎特伯故事集》标志着他的最终成就。

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."

我们感谢杰弗里·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《商人的故事》（选自《坎特伯故事集》）中，他将其中一个角色命名为“安慰剂”。

Now, at this point in literary history, you can read Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales without a modernization of the English.

现在， 在文学历史的这个阶段，你可以不用现代化的英语来阅读乔叟的《坎特伯故事集》。

2 The Canterbury Tales Begun in 1386, it represents Chaucer's final poetic achievements.

4.2 坎特伯故事集 它始于 1386 年，代表了乔叟最后的诗歌成就。

There is immense variety in the Canterbury Tales, and yet, persisting underneath, one consistent type.

《坎特伯故事集》的内容多种多样，但其背后却始终存在着一种一致的类型。

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一，乔叟用英语写了他的作品，包括《坎特伯故事集》。

John Dryden, who modernized several of the Canterbury tales, called Chaucer the father of English poetry.

约翰·德莱顿 （John Dryden） 对坎特伯的几个故事进行了现代化改造，他称乔叟为英国诗歌之父。

But there is another and more important reason for the surprising brightness, the still effective merriment of the Canterbury Tales.

但令人惊讶的明亮还有另一个更重的原因，即《坎特伯故事集》仍然有效的欢乐。

In The Canterbury Tales, he developed his art of poetry still further towards drama and the art of the novel.

在《坎特伯故事集》中，他的诗歌艺术进一步发展到戏剧和小说艺术。