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》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了这个词的两种含义。

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

事实，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.

实，在14世纪乔叟可能有可供挑选的对象。

We went to Harvard, we like Chaucer, we're both hardcore into quilting.

们都在哈佛过学，都喜欢乔叟(英国作家)，们都是缝被子超级发烧友。

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

，了解艾米什么？她热爱中世纪文学，最欣赏乔叟。

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。

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

亦或是都受到了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，它已经成为一个英语单词，并被人们使用，比如说乔叟（英国作家）就用了。

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了这个词，他可能是中世纪英国最著名的作家。

Middle English. The language of Chaucer. You'll be able to pick out some odd phrases, some words.

中古英语。乔叟的语言。你可以在其中找出一些奇怪的短语，一些单词。

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》是知道的最荤的。

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。

Chaucer had no constraints in how he wrote, really.

乔叟对他的写作方式没有任何限制，真的。

Chaucer wasn't coining words from his familiarity with continental French or Italian.

乔叟并不是根据他对欧洲大陆法语或意大利语的熟悉来造词。

First up, some historians reckon it's to do with the English poet and playwright Chaucer.

首先，一些历史学家认为这与英国诗人和剧作家乔叟有关。

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

乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事》真正有趣的地方在于人物的发展。

Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims never made it to their shrine.

杰弗里·乔叟的朝圣者从未到达过他们的圣地。

He was reading Chaucer and liking it.

他在读乔叟的作品，并且很喜欢。

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

到乔叟写《坎特伯雷故事》时，其中 32 个故事已经成为常态。