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《坎故事集》中取材。

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·卡克斯顿在 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《坎故事集》。

The stories in " The Canterbury Tales" stand alone.

《坎故事集》中的故事是独一无二的。

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，我们借了中英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟和《坎故事集》中一则故事的标题。

The Canterbury Tales, which seamlessly blends the lofty and the lowly.

坎故事集，完美地融合了高与卑微。

The Canterbury Tales marks his ultimate achievement.

《坎故事集》标志着他的最终成就。

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

坎故事集在风格和内容上都强烈反映了欧洲大陆作家的影响。

There is immense variety in the Canterbury Tales, and yet, persisting underneath, one consistent type.

《坎故事集》的内容多种多样，但其背后却始终存在着一种一致的类型。

In the last quarter of the century, Chaucer wrote his works, including The Canterbury Tales, in English.

在本的最后四分之一，乔叟用英语写了他的作品，包括《坎故事集》。

John Dryden, who modernized several of the Canterbury tales, called Chaucer the father of English poetry.

约翰·德莱顿 （John Dryden） 对坎的几个故事进行了现代化改造，他称乔叟为英国诗歌之父。

2 The Canterbury Tales Begun in 1386, it represents Chaucer's final poetic achievements.

4.2 坎故事集 它始于 1386 年，代表了乔叟最后的诗歌成就。

But there is another and more important reason for the surprising brightness, the still effective merriment of the Canterbury Tales.

但令人惊讶的明亮还有另一个更重要的原因，即《坎故事集》仍然有效的欢乐。

In The Canterbury Tales, he developed his art of poetry still further towards drama and the art of the novel.

在《坎故事集》中，他的诗歌艺术进一步发展到戏剧和小说艺术。

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.

这出自《坎故事集》中一首非常著名的英文诗，它是《坎故事集》的第一部分，称为总序言。

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）为我们提供了最早的具有这种含义的单词实例；在《商人的故事》（选自《坎故事集》）中，他将其中一个角色命名为“安慰剂”。

In short, it is easy to see, from the Paston letters, why Chaucer wrote not Lear or Romeo and Juliet, but the Canterbury Tales.

简而言之，从帕斯顿的信中很容易看出乔叟写的不是《李尔王》或《罗密欧与朱丽叶》，而是《坎故事集》。

And in The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature.

在《坎故事集》中，乔叟在英国文学史上第一次以真正的轻松和魅力使用了这副英雄对联。

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 也曾是一种选择——乔叟在 14 的《坎故事集》中使用过它，并一直使用到 16 。

Do some research into Chaucer's use of irony in The Canterbury Tales and discuss how he makes ironic portraiture of the pilgrims, especially the Prioress 4.

对乔叟在《坎故事集》中对反讽的运用进行一些研究，并讨论他如何对朝圣者进行讽刺性的描绘，尤其是 Prioress 4。

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."

早在莎士比亚之前，英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟，他因《坎故事集》而闻名于，他想描述那种，被关在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”便应运而生。