"Sir, there is another noisy parade at the entrance 29." Sandra, a female secretary with gold-rimmed glasses, frowned and looked at the crowded banners on the screen accompanied by the bustling and restless people holding the signs. She turned her head and found that the boss was still busy with the experiment and didn't care what she was saying. Xiao Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, trying not to let his eyes stay on the eye-catching characters in the photo. She thinks it's time for the doctor to think about how to solve these harassers who destroy his voice in a meaningless way.
Sandra twisted her charming body and walked to her dear boss. She took the test tube with strange color from the doctor without mercy. She is used to seeing the latter pay attention to the test tube in her hand instead of her sexy figure. Her eyes are as wet as huskies, mixed with prayer and confusion. "Sir, you have repeated this experiment for more than 300 times. I think we might as well sit down and have a cup of coffee. By the way, afternoon tea can make up for your miserable empty stomach since morning. " She hung the test tube on a shelf aside, clutching her chest and staring at the thin middle-aged man in a white coat in front of her. His facial features are normal, but there is a scar like a cat beard from her mouth to her left nose, which makes the originally attractive face inexplicably happy. "Caffeine will affect the normal work of my brain cells." The man nervously saw his secretary's mouth twitching. "So ..."
"Come on, sir." Sandra pointed to the screen, and the guys on the screen who had started shouting slogans collectively made her glad that she had turned off the sound from the beginning. "How are you going to solve this problem?" The doctor rubbed his dry hand in shock and embarrassment ... again? Sandra, you said that if the government hadn't allocated such a large sum of money for this project ... ""You know this is another era. " Dark-skinned beauty, "if the government didn't allocate funds, I believe you would borrow money everywhere, doctor. Now you will continue to study this project in the poorest slum, and you may starve to death by the sewer before the results come out." There was bitter sarcasm in his thin lips, but men seemed to be used to this way of speaking for a long time. They just smiled awkwardly and then lowered their heads: "Why don't they understand that once this experiment is successful, they can save the whole country ..."
Sandra knows that "they" refer to those rude guys who shout at the door to pay us back our living expenses.
"Because we have nothing to worry about, not them." She seems to think of something, with a little bitterness in her words, and vicissitudes seem to lead to distant memories of the past. At present, it seems that the man next door is skinny, but his mouth is wide open.
The bright smile, accompanied by the lonely and monotonous crying at the small funeral, turned into a fading figure, chaotic barefoot, dirty headscarf, empty wine bottle filled with turbid water, and the incomplete yellowing teeth exposed by women with years and gullies on their faces. Really, that's enough. Sandra doesn't think she is normal today. It was the word blood-red hunger at the entrance that stimulated her retina and made her eyes inexplicably sour. She took off her glasses, took a deep breath and stopped looking at the man she admired like a child choking on food and didn't know how to speak.
The flow of people on the screen is really fucking dazzling.
"But maybe it's my selfishness, or something inexplicable is urging me." The doctor suddenly spoke, smiling shyly, and his stuttering words were mixed with some inexplicable grammatical mistakes. "In short, I really want to and have the confidence to finish this research in my lifetime and do something for this country and its people. It is true to spend a lot of money, but there is no way, it is a price that must be paid. I always feel uneasy if I don't continue, and I feel that I have given up my guilt for a leisurely life ... "He said incoherently until the tearful female assistant hugged him tightly. "Trust me, Sandra. There will be results and everything will be fine. "
"Sir, you are really smart and cute." A deep voice sounded from the head buried in the doctor's chest. "this problem can't be solved by you ... but I will be by your side, at least for now."
"Yes. However, Sandra, I seem to be a little short of breath. "
The beauty assistant loosened the stiff boss and turned on the speaker at entrance 29. "distinguished guests, or more precisely, distinguished troublemakers." She cleared her throat and gave a charming smile. "I don't think we have the conditions to invite you to sit in the lab, but we still have enough bread for everyone as a reward for your hard work." But we can't do anything about the fact that you protested, because we are preparing for our carnival with great joy, in a few years, or months, or days, or hours, or minutes. Science has never been the cause or catalyst of social imbalance, but only the solution to these problems. But the exploration of these methods takes time. "The dark-skinned beauty was satisfied to see the crowd gradually calm down, knowing that these words could not calm the anger at the root, but she had done everything she could.
"So, please be patient. Everything is for the best interests. " The gentle male voice summed up this passage, and the doctor looked at his female assistant from Sudan.
The second feeling of BASF people after reading it
Reflections on Canterbury Tales
Seeing this, I am a little confused. It is really hard to accept that knights are translated into "samurai" and chivalry is translated into "Bushido spirit". Just like a friend brought back a beautiful handicraft from a foreign country and gave it to him. He couldn't put it down for a long time, only to find that the bottom of the seat was printed with the words "Made in China". Compared with "knight", "samurai" may be more easily accepted by China people, and knight really means "samurai". However, in this article, will such domestication go too far? If you don't know the original text and know little about western European culture, won't such translation give people the feeling that "this pilgrim is Japanese" After all, in my opinion, "Bushido Spirit" has been deeply rooted in Japanese culture. Another point is that the word "debut" gives me a strange feeling. Although in the online dictionary of China, "debut" has the dialect meaning that young people can go out and work independently in society, it is not widely used in reality, so I think this translation is a bit inappropriate.
But some places don't go deep into it, which doesn't affect correct understanding and smooth reading. Therefore, on the whole, this translation is still very valuable, and it conveys the author's original intention more truly and smoothly. This also provides a more scientific basis for my next writing and analysis.
After reading the complete book, the biggest feeling is that Chaucer is too rape-flowered (rape-flowered = talented)! Whether he wrote a 10-syllable iambic poem (later developed into a famous' heroic couplet') or two essays, it is enough to look at the vivid characters he created. From noble knights to poor farmers, from respectable abbots to outspoken Mrs. Bath, all walks of life are the same. Their language, behavior and appearance all reflect the social situation of Britain in the14th century. They are not fictional characters living between the lines of ancient times, but ordinary people living around us then and even now.
The innkeeper and Chaucer himself are special beings in the whole story. It is because of the advice of the enthusiastic and generous innkeeper and the records of the writer Chaucer that the stories of these pilgrims have been circulated. The owner of the inn is a man in charge of the overall situation. He is humorous, clever and rigorous, and knows how to say the most environmentally friendly words at the most appropriate time. Chaucer was silent for a long time and was once ignored or even forgotten, but in the end, the story of him and Melibie and his wife Shenzi really left a deep impression on me.
The story of the knight reflects the typical chivalry and chivalrous love view of that period. Two fallen princes fell in love with the sister of the enemy queen, and finally turned against each other, which led to tragedy (although in some ways it was a happy ending). A young and beautiful aristocratic woman, a "Platonic" romance without any physical contact, a duel for the beloved woman, the battle between Mars and Venus … a typical knight legend. The final outcome also reveals that love can only be exchanged by love, not by force.
Housekeeper (real estate agent? ) satirizes the miller, because the miller tells a story that satirizes the carpenter (just speculation, because Chaucer didn't write this story), and the housekeeper used to be a carpenter. The same thing happened to court messengers and beggars and monks. The two men satirized each other with stories. But readers can see from it that they are all liars, and they cheat people of their money by various means. At the end of their story, the court messenger became the slave of the devil, and the beggar and monk suffered the greatest humiliation in their lives.
The lawyer told the tortuous story of the confident Princess constance in prose. The beauty of this princess is directly proportional to her self-confidence. She was justified before Jesus Christ and won God's mercy. Although both marriages were forced by her mother-in-law and attacked by the devil, the angel of God always guarded this holy woman, and the final outcome was a happy ending.
The character of BASF is not a big challenge to tradition, and the preface she said before the story begins is particularly wonderful. Her five husbands, her concept of chastity, her concept of marriage ... every word is a challenge and provocation to this patriarchal society. As she said, "If history books are compiled by women and there are as many priests in the church, I'm afraid all Adam's children can't repay men's sins." Her attitude towards men is contemptuous, and she thinks that only women can control everything in marriage. Her story also fully illustrates all this. When the knight finally decided to hand over all sovereignty to his wife and let her have the right to choose, the marriage entered the most beautiful state, and this wife became a young, beautiful, loyal and gentle wife.
The Scholars has beautiful language and clear logic. Gracie da, though of humble origin, has unparalleled virtue. She is beautiful, gentle, obedient, humble, filial, intelligent and loyal ... all the qualities that a virtuous woman should have. She has been tried many times, but she has been silently enduring pain, looking up and believing in God. Therefore, she got the happiness she deserved. However, Chaucer's poem at the end puzzled me. He called on women not to seal their tongues with humility, but to firmly control the power of running a family, protect their own interests, subdue men with tongue swords and jealousy, and try their best to make men angry, heartbroken and sobbing! Maybe Chaucer is being sarcastic, or maybe this is his declaration of advocating women's liberation?
The merchant's story reflects the merchant's own marital misfortune. It is unreasonable for the old man in Dongyue and the beautiful lady in Chunyue (personal opinion), and it is no wonder that Chunyue has an affair. Women always cheat and torture men. Businessmen probably want to express such feelings, but what readers can read is that different people have different opinions.
The waiter's story seems to be unfinished. Genghis Khan Tatar, let me cross it a little. Looking at the creation time, maybe this story is really a legend of the Yuan Dynasty ~ The personification of animals is also very good, which makes me really regard that eagle as an ungrateful playboy brother.
The story of free peasants is simple but not simple. Love, loyalty, generosity, tolerance ... these elements are intertwined among these people, and people see the virtues that people should achieve. We should be brave enough to give everything to pursue free love, but we should also respect the loyalty of our wives and the justice of our husbands and encourage tolerance. These are the new trends of thought that free farmers want to show.
Both doctors and nuns mentioned that the spread of evil led to the death and destruction of beautiful things. But what they want to express is that good is rewarded with good, evil with evil, and good with good. The heads of obedient women and the songs of godly children are all in memory of those persecuted for no reason.
As for the monk who forgives sins, compared with the two dead children mentioned just now, he is really a sinful liar! What is even more frightening is that he frankly admitted and betrayed his hypocrisy. He was not ashamed, but proud. Although he told an exhortation fable about death arrival on greedy people, he loves money more than anyone else. He looks sacred, but in fact he is doing all kinds of shady activities! Chaucer successfully portrayed such a hypocritical monk image, and showed his dissatisfaction and satire with the church at that time to the fullest. The same irony is reflected in the story of shipman, where a monk named John took advantage of the weakness of the human mind to deceive the businessman and his wife.
Here's the highlights. Chaucer personally told a verse poem about Mr. Tobas. After being interrupted, he went on to tell an essay about how Mr. Melibi took the advice of his virtuous wife Shenzi and made up with his enemies under the mediation of his wife. This composition is quite long. I have read it several times, but it can be said that it has benefited a lot. The theme of this story can be said to be very similar to proverbs, both of which teach people to be wise and cultivate their moral quality. Mr. Melibi's wife and daughter were persecuted by his old enemy, and her daughter was seriously injured, and she could hardly live. At this time, with anger, greed and impatience, Mr. Melibi gathered many people to give him advice. The result was self-evident, and they decided to retaliate in the same way as soon as possible. Mrs. Shenzi was sad, but she didn't lose her mind. She tried her best to persuade her husband to analyze the causal relationship of things clearly. She is a submissive woman, but she is not blind. She won the respect of herself and her husband with wisdom, piety, tolerance and rationality, and also solved the incident in the most peaceful and win-win way. Although the title of the story is "The Story of Melibi", Mrs. Shenzi has become the only protagonist in my mind! There is no description of her appearance in the book, but her personality charm has infected the readers and made her the most beautiful woman in the book.
What follows is a collection of tragic short stories by monks, all of which seem to be rhyming six-tone poems. From the fall of Lucifer to the death of Crixus, those who are in high positions but are hit by fate because of crime or negligence will be mourned. Unfortunately, it's just a retelling of the story, and the monks didn't find any new knowledge to teach people.
The priest of the abbot told an animal fable about a sly fox and a vain cock. This is Chaucer's masterpiece. Although it is a story of new wine in old bottles, Chaucer perfectly combines reality with fable and staged a lively comedy, which can be described as appealing to both refined and popular tastes. Aside from the topic, when I saw this story, I couldn't help but think of the comparison between roosters and people in Mark Twain's short story "Damn Man": "The rooster has many wives, but these hens have already made an appointment, and they are very happy, so the rooster has done nothing wrong. However, human beings have married more than one wife by coercion, and women can do nothing about this legal privilege. In this way, the status of human beings is far lower than that of roosters. " Mark Twain is worthy of being a master of satirical literature.
The second nun is also a pious martyrdom story, and the spirit of saint martyrdom is touching. The only thing I regret is that the development and turning point of the story is a bit weird and confusing.
To tell you the truth, I really don't know who this monk is, because he doesn't seem to be mentioned in the introduction, and I don't know which word corresponds to it by comparing with the English catalogue. In a word, the villager turned against his boss and monk, exposing all the cheating things his boss did, and letting people see an ugly face that seems sacred and decent, but in fact it is mean and dirty.
The story of crow, a food manager (food buyer), teaches people to keep their mouths shut. Sometimes you don't even have to tell the whole truth. A reckless tongue will cut off everything, even a person's life. This is the lesson in the Bible that life and death are under the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit (Pro 18: 2 1).
Finally, the story of the priest. This is a lowly rural priest. Only he is a true devout believer and sets an example in everything. The story he told was not a story, but a long prose teaching word. According to the translator, the original edition has 93 pages. Therefore, the translator did not translate the full text, but made an overview of the whole content. Generally speaking, it is explaining the perfect state of human sin, God's redemption and repentance.
Throughout the book, I admire Chaucer's superb writing ability. It can be said that he is familiar with all types of European medieval literature and can skillfully use the skills of each type of literature to write excellent stories. Canterbury Tales, as Chaucer's work in the last 15 years of his life, has reached the peak of his creation in both content and skill. Chaucer's contribution to English poetry also made him known as "the father of English poetry".