and then as we skip on to the introduction
接下来我们跳到引言部分
They tell us that this whole idea of about the Romance is a new genre
传奇文学的概念是一个全新的体裁
It's a new literary form that's introduced at this time that Chrétien does gets credit for
是引入的全新文学形式 这次克雷蒂安受到好评了
The topic of his material is Arthurian
他的书的主题就是 亚瑟王传奇
and well he might not be the inventor of this material
他可能不是这本书的作者
He certainly is a popularizer thereof
不过这种情况下他必然是普及者
They talk about when the different tales were written
书上谈到这些不同的故事是何时记载的
One of the things that's often made a point of is as you read some of this it's like "okay can we finish this now?"
我一直强调的一点就是 你们阅读的时候 感觉就像是"好吧 我们现在能结束这个吗 "
There now just seems to be dragging at the end
到最后似乎就拖拖拉拉的
Most of these things were commissioned work, works
大部分内容都是我们布置的任务
And evidently, generally speaking, if we're looking at a verse for some reason, it appears we're suppose to write things that are about 7700 lines long
显然 总的来说 如果我们出于某种原因读一首诗 那种感觉像是要我们写7700行那么长的东西一样
It's like you were told that you have to write a twelve page paper
就像是你被要求必须写一篇12页的论文一样
And you seem to get nine pages every time
你们每次好像都只写9页
The other, of this semester you get 12 you just have a lot trouble
有些人这个学期要写12页都有很大的困难
Let's go back I want to put in a half sentence here
让我们回去 在这儿我想插半句话
You know how about some adjectives here?
你们懂的 在这儿放些形容词怎么样
What if I shrink the margin a little bit?
如果我把页边距缩小一些呢
And so he comes back and he just thrown in some more adventure
这样他就回来了 还带来了更多的冒险
It's like this is stupid, we've already seen those
这好像很傻 我们已经看过了
And so it has to get so
不过必须得这样
He just has some troubles in making his words as long as they are supposed to be
克雷蒂安就是不能将他的文字写到本应达到的长度