And Gastonia wielded it like a medieval mace.

加斯顿龙像挥舞古狼牙棒一样挥舞它尾巴。

No, not the special attack by Guile from Street Fighter.

别想错了，这可不是指《街头霸王》古尔特殊攻击技能。

The a vowel got changed to an ei vowel in middle English.

古英语 a 元音改为 ei 元音。

Our story begins back when other languages — French and Old Norse — began to influence Middle English.

我们故事要追溯到其他语言——法语和古诺尔斯语开始古英语时候。

His works, written in Early Middle English, include over 5,744 phrasal verbs.

他作品是用早期古英语写成，其包 5744 个短语动词。

English became what language experts call Middle English.

英语成为语言专家所说古英语。

Middle English. The language of Chaucer. You'll be able to pick out some odd phrases, some words.

古英语。乔叟语言。你可以在其找出一些奇怪短语，一些单词。

And you see it popping up in early Middle English — not in prose, but in names.

你会看到它出现在早期古英语——不是散文，而是名字。

The Tales are written in Middle English, which often looks entirely different from the language spoken today.

这些故事是用古英语写成，这通常看起来与今天所说语言完全不同。

So, while modern English speakers can read Chaucer's Middle English (with some difficulty admittedly), Chaucer's pronunciation would have been almost completely unintelligible to the modern ear.

因此，虽然说现代英语人可以读懂乔叟古英语（诚然有些困难），但乔叟发音对现代人来说几乎完全听不懂。

Middle English romance generally concerns the knight——a new kind of hero who is the more sympathetic if less admirable man in contrast to the epic hero of Old English.

古英语浪漫故事通常与骑士有关——一种新型英雄，与古英语史诗英雄相比，他更富有同情心，但不那么令人钦佩。

In comparison with Old English literature, Middle English literature deals with a wider range of subjects, is uttered by more voices and is presented in a greater diversity of styles, tones and genres.

与古英语文学相比，古英语文学涉及主题范围更广，由更多声音表达，并以更多样化风格、语气和体裁呈现。

When the word avoirdupois first appeared in English in the 15th century, it referred to " goods sold by weight" , which is also the meaning of its Middle French predecessor, avoir de pois.

当avoirdupois这个词在15世纪首次出现在英语时，它指是“按重量出售商品”，这也是它古法语前身avoir de pois含义。

In the same way, Middle English perfet and verdit became perfect and verdict (the added " c" at least being pronounced in these cases), faute and assaut became fault and assault, and aventure became adventure.

同样，古英语 perfet 和 verdit 变成了 perfect 和 verdict（加“c” 至少在这些情况下发音）， faute 和 assaut 变成了 fault 和 assault， 而 aventure 变成了 adventure。

In grammar, Old English was much more highly inflected than Middle English because there were case endings for nouns, more person and number endings of words and a more complicated pronoun systems as well as various endings for adjectives.

在语法上，古英语比古英语屈折变化要大得多，因为名词有大小写结尾，单词有更多人称和数字结尾，代词系统更复杂，形容词也有各种各样结尾。

By the time the Normans were done tinkering with it, the Middle English spelling system was already a jumble of Germanic, Latin, and French conventions, but two big events in linguistic history were about to make things much, much worse.

当诺曼人完成修补时，古英语拼写系统已经是日耳曼语、拉丁语和法语约定俗成大杂烩，但语言史上两件大事将使事情变得更糟，更糟。