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

别想错了，这可不是指《街头霸王》中古尔的特殊攻击技能。

And Gastonia wielded it like a medieval mace.

加斯顿龙像挥舞中古的狼牙棒样挥舞它的尾巴。

His works, written in Early Middle English, include over 5,744 phrasal verbs.

他的作品是用早期中古英语写成的，其中包括超过 5744 个短语动词。

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

中古英语中的 a 元改为 ei 元。

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。可以在其中找出奇怪的短语，词。

Our story begins back when other languages — French and Old Norse — began to influence Middle English.

我们的故事要追溯到其他语言——法语和古诺尔斯语开始影响中古英语的时候。

English became what language experts call Middle English.

英语成为语言专家所说的中古英语。

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

这故事是用中古英语写成的，这通常看起来与今天所说的语言完全不同。

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

会看到它出现在早期的中古英语中——不是散文，而是名字。

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，虽然说现代英语的人可以读懂乔叟的中古英语（诚然有困难），但乔叟的发对现代人来说几乎完全听不懂。

Middle English romance generally concerns the knight——a new kind of hero who is the more sympathetic if less admirable man in contrast to the epic hero of Old English.

中古英语的浪漫故事通常与骑士有关——种新型的英雄，与古英语的史诗英雄相比，他更富有同情心，但不那么令人钦佩。

In comparison with Old English literature, Middle English literature deals with a wider range of subjects, is uttered by more voices and is presented in a greater diversity of styles, tones and genres.

与古英语文学相比，中古英语文学涉及的主题范围更广，由更多的声表达，并以更多样化的风格、语气和体裁呈现。

When the word avoirdupois first appeared in English in the 15th century, it referred to " goods sold by weight" , which is also the meaning of its Middle French predecessor, avoir de pois.

当avoirdupois这个词在15世纪首次出现在英语中时，它指的是“按重量出售的商品”，这也是它的中古法语前身avoir de pois的含义。

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，中古英语中的 perfet 和 verdit 变成了 perfect 和 verdict（加的“c” 至少在这情况下发）， 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，古英语比中古英语的屈折变化要大得多，因为名词有大小写结尾，词有更多的人称和数字结尾，代词系统更复杂，形容词也有各种各样的结尾。

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，中古英语的拼写系统已经是日耳曼语、拉丁语和法语约定俗成的大杂烩，但语言史上的两件大事将使事情变得更糟，更糟。