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》取材。

Well before Shakespeare, the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, famous for his Canterbury Tales, wanted to describe the light, tremulous call an encaged bird makes as it yearns for freedom, and came up with the onomatopoeia " twitter."

早莎士比亚之前，英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟，他因《坎特伯雷故事集》闻名于，他想描述那种，被关笼子里的鸟儿渴望自由时发出的颤抖的，轻巧的叫声，于是拟声词“叽叽喳喳”便应运。

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."

我们要感谢杰弗里·乔叟（Geoffrey Chaucer）我们提供了最早的具有这种含义的单词实例；《商人的故事》（选自《坎特伯雷故事集》），他将其一个角色命名“安慰剂”。

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，我们借了英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟和《坎特伯雷故事集》一则故事的标题。

William Caxton brought the printing press to England in the 1470s, and the first book he printed was Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

威廉·卡克斯顿 14 70 年代将印刷机带到了英国，他印刷的第一本书是杰弗里·乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》。

The stories in " The Canterbury Tales" stand alone.

《坎特伯雷故事集》的故事是独一无二的。

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

到乔叟写《坎特伯雷故事集》时，其 32 个故事已经成常态。

I say largely responsible because Chaucer had used an early version of the phrase in the Canterbury Tales, but it didn't really become common in the language until this play became so popular.

我之所以说莎士比亚对此负有主要责任， 是因乔叟《坎特伯雷故事集》已经使用了这个短语的早期版本，但直到这部戏剧如此流行之后， 它才真正语言变得普遍起来。

In the 858 lines of the Prologue to the " Canterbury Tales" , almost 500 different French loanwards occur, and by some estimates, some 20-25% of Chaucer's vocabulary is French in origin.

《坎特伯雷故事集》序言的858行，出现了近500种不同的法语借调，据估计，乔叟大约20-25%的词汇起源于法语。

Even in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales the monk, the friar, the pardoner, and the prioress are definitely seen as symbols of wealth, and greed rather than humility and piety.

甚至乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》，修士、修道士、赦罪人和女修道院院长都被视财富和贪婪的象征，不是谦卑和虔诚的象征。

And that comes from a really famous poem in English taken from The Canterbury Tales, and it's the first part of The Canterbury Tales called the general prologue.

这来自于英语的一首非常着名的诗，出自《坎特伯雷故事集》，是《坎特伯雷故事集》的第一部分，称总序。

Despite the uncertainties surrounding its structure and plot, The Canterbury Tales is recognised as a masterpiece and one of the most important literary works in the English language.

尽管其结构和情节存不确定性，《坎特伯雷故事集》仍被公认一部杰作， 是英语文学最重要作品之一。

Sistren was also  once an option - it was used by Chaucer in the 1300s in the Canterbury Tales and stayed in use  until the 16th century.

Sistren也曾是一个选项——它被乔叟14的《坎特伯雷故事集》使用，并一直使用到16。

Works like Hyperion are firmly grounded in that tradition, borrowing structure from Canterbury Tales and the Decameron, even taking its name from a Keats poem.

诸如《海伯利安》这样的作品， 深深植根于这一传统之，从《坎特伯雷故事集》和《十日谈》汲取结构灵感，甚至其名称也源自济慈的诗篇。

We might think of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as a great example of the kind of literature that a society where religious man was the ideal.

我们可以将乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》视一个以宗教人理想的社会所产的文学典范。

Now, at this point in literary history, you can read Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales without a modernization of the English.

现， 文学历史的这个阶段，你可以不用现代化的英语来阅读乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》。

Like, I think one appears in the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the wife of Bath, I believe.

比如， 《坎特伯雷故事集》，乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》里，我相信有一个巴斯的妻子的角色。

The Canterbury Tales, strongly reflects the influence of the continental writers, both in style and in content.

坎特伯雷故事集风格和内容上都强烈反映了欧洲大陆作家的影响。

There is some prose in the Canterbury Tales, but it's mostly versified.

《坎特伯雷故事集》有一些散文，但主要是韵文。

But the " Canterbury Tales" is usually considered the first great works of English literature, and the first demonstration of the artistic legitimacy of vernacular Middle English, as opposed to French or Latin.

但“坎特伯雷故事集”通常被认是英国文学的第一部伟大作品，也是古英语白话艺术合法性的第一个证明，不是法语或拉丁语。