Among them were many skilled craftsmen, artists, and great poets called bards.

他们之中还有许多出色工匠、艺术家，和伟大吟游人。

Nicholas Sammond writes in Birth of An Industry that early animated characters like Felix the Cat, Bimbo, Bosko, and Mickey Mouse " weren't just like Minstrels, they were Minstrels."

Nicholas Sammond 在《一个行业诞生》中写到，早期动画角色象是菲利克斯猫、Bimbo、博斯库、和米老鼠“不只是像吟游人，他们其实就是吟游人”。

Neither Louis nor Henry had very high opinions of the troubadours, but Eleanor held them in high esteem, and after her separation from Henry, she set up her own court at Poitiers and surrounded herself again with artists.

路易和亨利对吟游人评价都不高，但埃莉诺却很尊重他们，在与亨利分居后，她在普瓦捷建立了自己宫廷，身边又聚集了一群艺术家。

The bards sang of the brave deeds of their ancestors and praised the accomplishments of warrior kings — and composed biting satires about cowardly or selfish leaders.

吟游人会歌颂祖先们英勇事迹，赞颂战士国王光辉伟业——也会谱写辛，讥诮怯懦或自私首领。

O'Farrell has built her story on two facts we know to be true about " The Bard" : his son Hamnet died at the age of 11, and a couple years later, Shakespeare wrote a tragedy called Hamlet.

奥法雷尔把她故事建立在我们知道关于“吟游人”（此处指莎士比亚）两个事实之上：他儿子哈姆内特在 11 岁时去世，几年后，莎士比亚写了一部名为《哈姆雷特》悲剧。

In 1582, Shakespeare was married to Anne Hathaway — not that one — the daughter of a local landowner who was eight years senior to the 18-year-old bard.

1582 年，莎士比亚与安妮·海瑟薇——不是那个明星——结婚，她是当地一位地主女儿，比莎士比亚这个 18 岁吟游人大 8 岁。

" But according to Beedle the Bard, they wouldn't want to come back, would they? " said Harry, thinking about the tail they had just heard.

“但是据吟游人比德说，他们并不想回来，不是吗？”哈利说着，想到他们刚刚听到那个故事结尾。

The Bard's Ariel was truly gender neutral despite only called " he" only a few times, but on stage the character has been portrayed as both male and female.

吟游人阿里尔是真正性别中立，尽管所谓“他”只出现了几次，但在舞台上字符已被描绘成男性和女性。

She has music. And I think, in times of crisis, we look for our folk musicians to guide us. That's their role. They're bards.

她有音乐相伴。在危难期间，我们通过民间许多音乐人引领着我们。这是他们扮演角色，他们如同吟游人一般。

But hundreds of years before this poem was written, minstrels in Denmark and Sweden told and sang the story of the great hero.

但在几百年前这首被写出来之前，丹麦和瑞典吟游人就开始讲述和歌唱这位伟大英雄故事。

One of my favourite places to hang out when I was little was in the Minstrel's Gallery in the Great Hall.

大厅里吟游人画廊是我小时候最喜欢去地方之一。

Okay, if we're talking about authors creating words, we have to address the 600 lb gorilla, the Bard himself, William Shakespeare.

如果我们谈论是作家创作单词，我们都可以用600磅重大猩猩来称呼这位作家，那就是吟游人威廉·莎士比亚本人。

Stephen Foster wrote almost thirty songs for minstrel shows. Minstrel shows became popular in the United States in the eighteen forties.

斯蒂芬·福斯特为吟游表演创作了将近30首歌。在19世纪40年代，吟游人表演在美国变得流行起来。

And now, ladies and gentlemen, The Troubadour's very own Rochelle Errathcu is right here to do the honors.

女士们，先生们，我们颁奖嘉宾是吟游人罗谢尔·埃拉特库。

In the 1930s vaudeville and blackface minstrelsy declined.

在 1930 年代杂耍和吟游人逐渐没落。

The Atlantic even called him the bow tied bard of populism.

《大西洋月刊》甚至称他为“系着领结民粹主义吟游人”。

There the voice was male, bardic, authoritative, grown sweet and self-confident on the flattery of princes.

爱尔兰歌中全是男性、吟游人、权威声音，在王子们奉承下变得和谐而自信。

What is it about the bard that makes his work relevant today?

是什么让这位吟游人作品与现今息息相关？

The emergence of courtly love in southern France in the 12th century is all thanks to the troubadours, or poet-minstrels, who would either travel from town to town or be retained by a local court to provide their entertainment.

12 世纪法国南部宫廷爱情兴起都要归功于吟游人，或吟游人，他们要么从一个城镇旅行到另一个城镇，要么被当地宫廷聘请来提供娱乐。

The story of his brave deeds was sung by minstrels nearly a thousand years ago.

他英勇事迹早在一千年前就被吟游人歌颂。