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《坎特伯雷故事集》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 世纪 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《坎特伯雷故事集》。

The stories in " The Canterbury Tales" stand alone.

《坎特伯雷故事集》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，我们借了中世纪英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟和《坎特伯雷故事集》中一则故事的标题。

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

坎特伯雷故事集，完美地融合了崇高与卑微。

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

坎特伯雷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。

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

在本世纪的最后四分之一，乔叟用英语写了他的作品，包括《坎特伯雷故事集》。

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《坎特伯雷故事集》中一首非常著名的英文诗，它是《坎特伯雷故事集》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《坎特伯雷故事集》）中，他将其中一个角色命名为“安慰剂”。

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 世纪的《坎特伯雷故事集》中使用过它，并一直使用到 16 世纪。