You could make a mediaeval beast if you wanted to, said Dufresne.

“如果你愿意，你可以制作一个中世纪的野兽，”杜弗雷纳说。

The Vikings were on the cutting edge of human exploration at the beginning of the mediaeval world.

在中世纪初期他们就走在人类开拓史的最前沿。

The bluff and bare contours of Start Point caught the brightest, earliest glow of all, and so also did the sides of its white lighthouse, perched upon a shelf in its precipitous front like a mediaeval saint in a niche.

起点的虚张声势和光秃秃的轮廓捕捉到了最明亮、最早的光芒，它的白色灯塔的侧面也是如此，它坐落在它陡峭的前面的架子，就像壁龛里的中世纪圣人。

There are a few houses round the railway, and many more dotted over the plain and the slopes of the hills, but of a town, mediaeval or otherwise, not the slightest sign.

铁路周围有几所房子， 更多的房子散布在平原和山， 是，无论是中世纪是其他地方， 都没有迹象。

Arthur, carrying his discarded clothes, followed him through a labyrinth of winding canals and dark narrow alleys; the mediaeval slum quarter which the people of Leghorn call " New Venice" .

Arthur提着丢弃的衣服，跟着他穿过了蜿蜒的运河和黑暗狭窄的小巷；这片中世纪的贫民区被莱戈恩人称为“新威尼斯”。

There was no modern architectural decoration in it; it looked, indeed, as if none had been attempted since the Puritans whitewashed the mediaeval saints and histories on the wall.

里面没有现代建筑装饰；确实，自从清教徒粉刷墙的中世纪圣人和历史以来，似乎从未有人尝试过。

" For a mixture of the modern and the mediaeval, of the practical and of the wildly fanciful, I think this is surely the limit, " said he.

“对于现代与中世纪、实用与疯狂幻想的混合体， 我认为这肯定是极限， ” 他说。

One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.

有时简直分不清是在读中世纪圣人的精神狂喜，是现代罪人的病态忏悔。

The quaint conditions of the test struck me first: it seemed about as conclusive as a mediaeval 'ordeal'.

测试的古怪条件首先打动了我：它似乎与中世纪的“考验” 一样具有决定性。

Soon, however, we notice something of greater importance than the gay and picturesque appearance of the mediaeval world — the solidity which plumps it out, the conviction which animates the characters.

然而，很快我们就注意到一些比中世纪世界的欢乐和风景如画的外观更重要的东西——使世界变得丰满的坚固性，使人物充满活力的信念。

The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of mediaeval schoolmen over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood.

那些充斥着他生活的事情现在看起来就像是对生活的托儿所模仿，或者就像中世纪的学者们对没有人理解的形而学术语的争论。

ARTHUR was taken to the huge mediaeval fortress at the harbour's mouth.

亚瑟被带到了港口入口处那座巨大的中世纪堡垒。

For the companion who is merely uncongenial in the mediaeval world becomes exasperating in the classical.

因为在中世纪世界中仅仅是不合意的伴侣在古典世界中变得令人恼火。

" Up yonder are some beautiful old buildings, which were built for a great college or teaching-place by one of the mediaeval kings — Edward the Sixth, I think" (I smiled to myself at his rather natural blunder).

“那边有一些美丽的古老建筑，它们是中世纪国王之一爱德华六世为一所伟大的大学或教学场所建造的，我想”（我对他相当自然的错误笑了笑）。

They may be useful also in the theoretical sphere, as were the disputations conducted at mediaeval universities.

它们在理论领域也可能有用，就像在中世纪大学进行的争论一样。