例题1.
P:
Chanson poems
S: Well, there's a hero, and a knight, who goes to battle, and he is inspired for his courage, bravery and loyalty, loyalty to
face the most extreme dangers, sacrificial, willing that sacrifice anything and everything to protect his king and country.
P:
meant to provoke?
S: I guess they must been really appealing to those knights
patriotic,
P:
Romance Poetry Chanson poetry.
solitary in a way, not like the Chanson poet who was always
He does it for the sake of adventure, to improve himself,
worthy of respect and love for his lady. He's very conscious
proving upright moral,
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例题2.
P: So why this medieval fascination with spices? We can boil it down to general ideas
rarity, exotic
mythical status. Now for cost and rarity, spice aren’t native to Europe and they had to be imported. （Q1）
astronomical.
incredibly
Gothic General
By the Middle Ages, spices were regarded as so important and expensive they were used in diplomacy, as gifts by head of state and ambassadors.（Q2）
bland,
Especially the aristocracy who tended to eat a lot of meat, they
Now this is a good point to mention one of the biggest myths about spices. It’s commonly said that medieval Europeans wanted to spices to cover up the taste of spoiled meat. But this isn’t really true.（Q3）
We also have evidence that various medieval markets employed a kind of police to make sure that people did not sell spoiled food, and if you were caught doing it, you were subject various fined, humiliating public punishments. （Q5）
was this: in order to have meat for the winter, people would preserve
effective preservative. And throughout winter, they would eat salted meat, but the taste of the stuff could grow really boring and depressing after a
Now the ancient Romans had a thriving spice trade and they sent
hands-on
geography. Spice now came by way of the trade routes with lots of intermediaries between the producer and the consumer. So these an air of mystery. shrouded exotic travels. They had the allure of the unknown, of wild places.
fantasy faraway
world where legends about spices were abundant. Spices inspire the medieval imagination. They were used as medicines to ward off diseases, and mixed into perfumes, incents（Q4）
religious rituals for thousands of years.。