[简答题]
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then translate
each underlined part into Chinese.
71. It was not until modern scholarship uncovered the
secret of reading Middle English that we could understand that Chaucer, far from
being a rude versifier, was a perfectly accomplished technician, and that his
verse is rich in music and elegant to the highest degree. 72. Chaucer’s
own urbane personality is a delight to encounter in his books. He is avowedly a
bookworm, yet few poets observe nature with more freshness and delight. He is a
master of genial satire but can sympathize with true piety and goodness with as
much pleasure as he attacks the hypocritical.
73. It is
not an uncommon estimate of Chaucer that he must be counted among the few
greatest of English poets. In range of interest he is surpassed only by
Shakespeare. He was recognized already in the Renaissance, when it came to
England, as the Father of En