Who wrote the novel Don Quixote, about a 50-year old man travelling Spain in search of knightly adventures in rusty armour and a cardboard helmet?

《唐吉诃德》是一部关于一个身披生锈盔甲，戴着纸糊头盔五十多岁老人幻想自己是骑士到西班牙去探险小说。它作者是谁？

By the time Miguel de Cervantes published the first part of " Don Quixote" in 1605, the language was arguably more similar to modern Spanish than plays of one of his contemporaries, William Shakespeare, were to modern English.

米格尔·德·塞万在 1605 年出版《堂吉诃德》第一部分，其语言与现代西班牙语相似程度超过了其同代威廉·莎士比亚戏剧与现代英语相似程度。

That former prisoner was Cervantes, and the book was Don Quixote.

这位曾经罪犯就是塞万，这本书是《唐吉坷德》。

Cervantes, when he wasn't writing both parts of Don Quixote, wrote some great plays.

塞万 在没有写部《唐·吉诃德》候 却写了一些伟大戏剧。

And you were right! Well done! Don Quixote was written by Miguel de Cervantes and published in 1605.

你答对了！恭喜！《唐吉诃德》是米格尔·德·塞万所作，在1605年出版。

The author of Don Quixote was buried in 1616, but his body was lost after it was moved into a new church.

日前，们宣布在马德里一座小修道院内找到了墓穴。

He told the BBC that he gets a lot of his writing inspiration from novels like Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe.

告诉 BBC，从《堂吉诃德》和《鲁滨逊漂流记》等小说中获得了很多写作灵感。

But it was a musical based on Miguel de Cervantes' epic novel Don Quixote, which gave Mr. Leigh immortality.

根据米格尔·德·塞万史诗小说《堂吉诃德》改编音乐剧使雷流芳百世。

So, Don Quixote had his head in the clouds.

所以，堂吉诃德不切实际。

There's, here, he's riding on a donkey, kind of like Don Quixote.

这里，骑着一头驴， 有点像唐吉诃德。

Then we get back to Don Quixote.

然后我们回到唐吉诃德。

I used to think Don Quixote was the coolest thing ever.

我以前觉得唐吉诃德是史上最酷东西。

He votes for these things almost sort of a Don Quixote move.

投票行为几乎像是堂吉诃德式举动。

Come, once more before I die I will read Don Quixote.

来吧，在我死之前，我要再读一遍堂吉诃德。

You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote.

你是做梦约瑟夫亲爱裘德， 还有一个悲剧性堂吉诃德。

Don Quixote, however, determined that they must ford just here, and immediately began a sort of siege by cutting down slender pines on the bank and building a corral barely large enough to hold the flock when well pressed together.

然而，堂吉诃德决定们必须就此涉水，并立即开始围攻，砍掉了岸边细松，并建造了一个畜栏，畜栏大到勉强能容纳住羊群。

Now published alongside the first volume as a completed text, this second volume picks up where the original left off, only now Don Quixote and Sancho have become folk heroes.

现在与第一卷一起出版完整文本中，第二卷承接了原作情节，只是如今堂吉诃德和桑丘已成为了民间英雄。

Ms Vallejo's father once found, in a secondhand bookshop, a copy of " Don Quixote" that also contained, clandestinely, writings by Karl Marx that were forbidden in Spain under Franco's dictatorship.

瓦列霍女士父亲曾在一家二手书店发现一本《堂吉诃德》，其中还偷偷收录了佛朗哥独裁统治下西班牙禁止出版卡尔·马克思著作。

And I think one of the things that makes Don Quixote and that kind of comedy or character so compelling to me is that the character fully believes it.

我认为，《堂吉诃德》以及这类喜剧或角色之所以让我感到如此引人入胜，是因为这个角色完全相信自己所做事情。

So when I was learning Spanish, I had Don Quixote write in Spanish, the famous author, that book, and I tried to read it and I struggled.

所以当我学习西班牙语， 我试着读《堂吉诃德》，那是着名作者用西班牙语写书， 但我读得很吃力。