And Gastonia wielded it like a medieval mace.

加斯顿龙像挥舞中古狼牙棒一样挥舞它尾巴。

No, not the special attack by Guile from Street Fighter.

别想错了，这可不是指《街头霸王》中古尔特殊攻技能。

The a vowel got changed to an ei vowel in middle English.

中古英语中 a 元音改为 ei 元音。

English became what language experts call Middle English.

英语成为语言专家所中古英语。

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

中古英语。乔叟语言。你可以在其中找出一些奇怪短语，一些单词。

And you see it popping up in early Middle English — not in prose, but in names.

你会看到它出现在早期中古英语中——不是散文，而是名字。

The Tales are written in Middle English, which often looks entirely different from the language spoken today.

这些故事是用中古英语写成，这通常看起来与今天所语言完全不同。

So, while modern English speakers can read Chaucer's Middle English (with some difficulty admittedly), Chaucer's pronunciation would have been almost completely unintelligible to the modern ear.

因此，虽然现代英语人可以读懂乔叟中古英语（诚然有些困难），但乔叟发音对现代人来几乎完全听不懂。

In the same way, Middle English perfet and verdit became perfect and verdict (the added " c" at least being pronounced in these cases), faute and assaut became fault and assault, and aventure became adventure.

同样，中古英语中 perfet 和 verdit 变成了 perfect 和 verdict（加“c” 至少在这些情况下发音）， faute 和 assaut 变成了 fault 和 assault， 而 aventure 变成了 adventure。

In grammar, Old English was much more highly inflected than Middle English because there were case endings for nouns, more person and number endings of words and a more complicated pronoun systems as well as various endings for adjectives.

在语法上，古英语比中古英语屈折变化要大得多，因为名词有大小写结尾，单词有更多人称和数字结尾，代词系统更复杂，形容词也有各种各样结尾。

By the time the Normans were done tinkering with it, the Middle English spelling system was already a jumble of Germanic, Latin, and French conventions, but two big events in linguistic history were about to make things much, much worse.

当诺曼人完成修补时，中古英语拼写系统已经是日耳曼语、拉丁语和法语约定俗成大杂烩，但语言史上两件大事将使事情变得更糟，更糟。