杰弗里·乔叟(Geoffery Chaucer),十四世纪英国著名诗人,杰出的现实主义者,生于1340至1345年间,卒于1400年10月25日。乔叟一生做过宫廷随从、政府官员,历经了三朝英王,数度出使欧洲大陆,目睹了英国乃至欧洲十四世纪后半期的社会状况,并将所闻所感付诸笔端。公务之余, Geoffery Chaucer, a famous British poet of the fourteenth century, a distinguished realist, was born between 1340 and 1345 and died on October 25, 1400. After a lifetime of court attendance, Qiao Yong, a government official, has gone through several dynasties, traveling to the European continent on several occasions and witnessing the social conditions in the latter half of the 14th century in Britain and Europe. Apart from business,