一、引言杰弗雷·乔叟(Geoffrey Chaucer)生活于14世纪中后期英国一个富有的酒商家庭,其名字Chaucer源于其祖先的职业“Chaussier”(制鞋匠),但是乔叟却是生性与这个职业无缘,他的一生都是生活于官场之中,与皇室、贵族、众多的社会上流人士等达官显贵打交道,由于富有才华,受到赏识,官运亨通,虽然晚年受过挫折,但是其一生总的来说较为顺利。 I. INTRODUCTION Geoffrey Chaucer lived in a wealthy wine merchant family in the late 14th century in the United Kingdom. Its name, Chaucer, originated from her ancestral occupation “Chaussier” (shoemaker), but Chaucer Is born with no occupation career, his life is living in the officialdom, with the royal family, aristocracy, many social figures and other officials dignitaries deal with, because of talented, appreciated, official prosperous, despite the setbacks in his later years, but its Life is generally more smooth.