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《坎特伯雷故事集》中取材。

The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer used both meanings of the word in his poems.

英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟在他的诗中用到这个词的两种含义。

Chaucer used ax and so did the first English Bible, in fact.

事实上，乔叟是这么用的，第一本英文《圣经》也是这么写的。

Indeed, Chaucer might have had his pick of the ladies in the 14th century.

确实，在14世纪乔叟可能有可供挑选的对象。

Let's see, what do I know about Amy? She loves medieval literature; Chaucer's her favorite.

，解艾米什么？她热爱中世纪文学，欣赏乔叟。

English as a principal language of literature did not evolve until the 14th century (Chaucer). By the 16th century, English was in full bloom, both in literature as well as in science.

英语一到14世纪（英国大诗人乔叟）时才发展文学上的主要语言。到16世纪时，英语在文学与科学上的使用均达到颠峰。

However, the most direct descendant of our modern Valentine's Day that's associated with love and romance is from English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

然而，与现代情人接相关的与爱情和浪漫有关的传统可以追溯到英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟。

Jeffery Chaucer was a medieval British poet, considered by the British people as the father of poetry.

乔叟是中世纪英国诗人，被英国人视为诗歌之父。

His book bounces back from Jack the Ripper to Geoffrey Chaucer by way of Elizabethan theatre, taking in asides on the mishmash of contemporary architecture and the idiosyncrasies of passers-by.

他的书在各主题间反复横跳，经由伊丽莎白时代的戏剧，从开膛手杰克到杰弗里·乔叟，对当代建筑大杂烩和奇异路人进行剖析。

So, it should be no surprise that it pulls heavily from the British canon, referring to and borrowing from the likes of Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and Austen.

因此，它大量借鉴英国经典，参考并借鉴莎士比亚、 弥尔顿、乔叟和奥斯汀等人的经典也就不足为奇 。

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."

们要感谢杰弗里·乔叟（Geoffrey Chaucer）为们提供早的具有这种含义的单词实例；在《商人的故事》（选自《坎特伯雷故事集》）中，他将其中一个角色命名为“安慰剂”。

In the late 14th century, English poet Geoffrey Chaucer published " Parliament of Fowls, " a poem declaring Valentine's Day as the time where birds choose their mates.

14 世纪末，英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟发表《百鸟议会》，这首诗宣称情人是鸟类选择伴侣的日子。

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，们借中世纪英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟和《坎特伯雷故事集》中一则故事的标题。

The story of the swan's last song found a place in the works of other writers, including the early English writersChaucer and Shakespeare.

人们在其他作家的作品中也可以读到关于天鹅后之歌的故事，包括英国早期作家乔叟以及莎士比亚。

(3) Chaucer is good at the terza rima, which makes his language a high style. This is what other poets cannot reach.

（1）乔叟的语言属于中古英语，非常形象准确。他是用语言构建图画的大师。他的诗歌位列顺畅的英语中。（2）他将法国的各种押韵诗（尤其是英雄双韵体）介绍到英国。（3）乔叟善于使用三行体，这种诗体使他的语言很高雅。这是其他诗人无法匹敌的。4．Major Works (主要作品)Troilus and Criseyde《特洛伊罗斯与克瑞西达》The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)《坎特伯雷故事集》5．Selected Work (选读作品)◆The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)《坎特伯雷故事集》A。 Main Plot主要情。

Are we still going to go to that Chaucer reading Friday? You know, I think I'm just gonna go by myself.

周五的乔叟读书会们还一块去吗? 额，还是一个人去吧。

Bernadette dared me to tell a dirty story. " The Miller's Tale" by Chaucer is the dirtiest story I know.

伯纳黛特让大冒险讲个荤段子 乔叟的《磨坊主的故事》是知道的荤的。

Or with writing of Chaucer, how any of them related to the strange of words in Beowulf?

亦或是都受到乔叟作品的语言影响，它们又是如何与史诗《贝奥武夫》中奇怪的词语有联系的？

By the 13th Century, it had become an English word and was used, for example, by Chaucer.

到 13 世纪，它已经为一个英语单词，并被人们使用，比如说乔叟（英国作家）就用。

It was mentioned in a poem by Jeffrey Chaucer, maybe the most well-known writer of Medieval England.

杰弗里·乔叟的一首诗中提到这个词，他可能是中世纪英国著名的作家。