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.
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,但我有一个想法,我听到橘子树下流的“Shake that thing”时,Preacher 不会采摘。
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.