William faulkner is the bard of the American South.

威廉·福克纳是美国南方的诗人。

What is it about the bard that makes his work relevant today?

是什么让这位吟游诗人的作品与现今息息相关？

This is Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, but what would the Bard make of this?

这里是伦敦的莎士比亚环球剧院，但是究竟莎士比亚会怎么看待这件事呢？

The man himself, the world renowned playwright known as the bard was born 450 years ago this month.

世界著名剧作家莎士比亚出生于450年前的这个月。

" Hmm? " She was curled up in one of the sagging armchairs with The Tales of Beedle the Bard.

“嗯？”她捧着《游吟诗人比德的故事》蜷缩在一张松垂了的扶手椅上。

Okay, if we're talking about authors creating words, we have to address the 600 lb gorilla, the Bard himself, William Shakespeare.

如果我们谈论的是作家创作的单词，我们都可以用600磅重的大猩猩来称呼这位作家，那就是吟游诗人威廉·莎士比亚本人。

The bards will sing songs of their sacrifice.

吟游诗人会歌颂他们的伟大牺牲。

It's a testament to Shakespeare's genius that, centuries later, it looks like the Bard really did know what's in a name.

这证明了莎士比亚的天才，几个世纪后，诗人似乎真的知道名字里有什么。

The bards sang of the brave deeds of their ancestors and praised the accomplishments of warrior kings — and composed biting satires about cowardly or selfish leaders.

吟游诗人会歌颂祖先们的英勇事迹，赞颂战士国王的光辉伟业——也会谱写辛辣的讽刺诗，讥诮怯懦或自私的首领。

But here's the quandary that the bard never put forth.

但这是吟游诗人从未提出的窘境。

Nobody could have told him The Tales of Beedle the Bard when he was a child, any more than Harry had heard them.

在他小时候没人能给他讲《吟游诗人比德的传说》里的故事，他不可能比哈利知道的更多。

That was the bard's early 19th century view of the winter pastoral.

” 那是诗人在 19 世纪初对冬季田园的看法。

" Bael the Bard, " said Jon, remembering the tale that Ygritte had told him in the Frostfangs, the night he'd almost killed her.

" 您就像吟游诗人贝尔，" 琼恩说，他忆起耶哥蕊特在霜雪之牙上给他讲的故事，那天晚上他差点杀了她。

The Bard's Ariel was truly gender neutral despite only called " he" only a few times, but on stage the character has been portrayed as both male and female.

吟游诗人的阿里尔是真正的性别中立，尽管所谓的“他”只出现了几次，但在舞台上的字符已被描绘成男性和女性。

------------------------------------------------------ You'd know him as the Bard of Avon, the creator of tragic heroes, and the playwright of profound sonnets.

---------------------------------------------- ------ 你会知道他是雅芳的吟游诗人、悲剧英雄的创造者和深刻十四行诗的剧作家。

" But according to Beedle the Bard, they wouldn't want to come back, would they? " said Harry, thinking about the tail they had just heard.

“但是据吟游诗人比德说，他们并不想回来，不是吗？”哈利说着，想到他们刚刚听到的那个故事的结尾。

In its announcement, Google also said it had created a way for users to verify whether information produced by the Bard tool is correct or not.

谷歌在声明中还表示，其已经为用户创造了一种方法来验证Bard工具生成的信息是否正确。

It is built of wood with a thatched roof and has no electricity, so performances can only take place in summer daylight, as in the Bard's day.

整个建筑是木架结构，屋顶铺的是茅草，而且里面没有电气设施，因此演出只能在夏季的白天进行。这和诗人莎翁在世时的情况一样。

The years that followed are shadowy ones when it comes to evaluating his  life, a common problem for the bard's life story.

在评价他的生活时， 接下来的几年是阴暗的，这是这位吟游诗人一生故事中的一个常见问题。

His commitment to his family was unwavering, the Bard an affectionate father and devoted husband when away from the clamor of the stage.

他对家庭的承诺是坚定不移的，远离喧嚣的舞台，吟游诗人是一位深情的父亲和忠诚的丈夫。