1·I was hoping to do my senior thesis on Chaucer.
我想做有关乔叟的毕业论文。
2·Chaucer would not have called that familiar root vegetable a "carrot", because the word comes from the French carotte.
乔叟不会把这种常见的根菜叫做“胡萝卜”，因为这个词来自法语carotte。
3·This is the height of British table manners five centuries before Mrs Beeton. And Chaucer, of course, is laughing at this over-refinement.
比顿夫人还没出现之前，英国五世纪餐桌礼仪的高度就是如此。当然，乔叟是在笑话这些礼仪过分精细。
4·But thematic seriousness and low comedy coexist in Chaucer and Shakespeare, while emotional truth and physical caricature get along just fine in Dickens.
严肃主题加上低俗喜剧风格也在乔叟和莎翁作品中有体现，而狄更斯作品中外表漫画风精神层面揭示真实反响也不错。
5·Somerset intuits that the killer is using books as the inspiration for his crimes, and studies Dante, Milton and Chaucer for hints.
Somerset直觉地认为凶手犯罪的灵感来自书本，并研究了但丁、弥尔顿和乔叟以求线索。