You could make a mediaeval beast if you wanted to, said Dufresne.

“如果你愿意，你可以制作一个中世纪的野兽，”杜弗雷纳说。

The Vikings were on the cutting edge of human exploration at the beginning of the mediaeval world.

在中世纪初期他们就走在人类开拓史的最前沿。

ARTHUR was taken to the huge mediaeval fortress at the harbour's mouth.

亚瑟被带到海港口的巨大中世纪堡垒。

For the companion who is merely uncongenial in the mediaeval world becomes exasperating in the classical.

因为在中世纪世界中仅仅是不合意的伴侣在古典世界中变得令人恼火。

Among these occasionally appeared rough delineations of mediaeval subjects for carving or illumination—heads of Virgins, Saints, and Prophets.

其中偶尔会出现用于雕刻或照明的中世纪主题的粗略描绘——圣母、圣徒和先知的头像。

The quaint conditions of the test struck me first: it seemed about as conclusive as a mediaeval 'ordeal'.

测试的古怪条件首先打动了我：它似乎与中世纪的“考验” 一样具有决定性。

From classical and mediaeval thought we have borrowed that concept of the rule of law which marks out a civilised society from barbarism.

我们从古典时代和中世纪的思想中借鉴了法治概念，它将文明社会与野蛮社会区分开来。

One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.

有时人们几乎不知道自己是在阅读某个中世纪圣人的精神狂喜，还是在阅读现代罪人病态的忏悔。

He has, to a high degree, the sort of mind which one associates with the mediaeval Italian nature rather than with the modern Briton.

在很大程度上， 他具有与中世纪意大利本性相关的那种头脑而不是现代英国人。

Cecil, who had his full share of mediaeval mischievousness, replied that the physique of the lower middle classes was improving at a most appalling rate.

充满中世纪恶作剧气质的塞西尔回答说， 下层中产阶级的体质正在以惊人的速度改善。

" For a mixture of the modern and the mediaeval, of the practical and of the wildly fanciful, I think this is surely the limit, " said he.

“对于现代与中世纪、实用与疯狂幻想的混合体， 我认为这肯定是极限， ” 他说。

There was no modern architectural decoration in it; it looked, indeed, as if none had been attempted since the Puritans whitewashed the mediaeval saints and histories on the wall.

里面没有现代建筑装饰；确实，自从清教徒粉刷墙上的中世纪圣人和历史以来，似乎从未有人尝试过。

The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of mediaeval schoolmen over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood.

那些充斥着他生活的事情现在看起来就像是对生活的托儿所模仿，或者就像中世纪的学者们对没有人理解的形而上学术语的争论。

Arthur, carrying his discarded clothes, followed him through a labyrinth of winding canals and dark narrow alleys; the mediaeval slum quarter which the people of Leghorn call " New Venice" .

亚瑟背着他丢弃的衣服，跟着他穿过蜿蜒曲折的运河和黑暗狭窄的小巷。里窝那人称之为“新威尼斯”的中世纪贫民区。

From her pocket he tugged a huge bunch of rusted keys on an iron ring like a mediaeval jailer's and ran back up the hall with the two women behind him.

他从她的口袋里掏出一大串生锈的钥匙， 铁环上有一个中世纪狱卒的钥匙， 然后带着两个女人跑回大厅。

There are a few houses round the railway, and many more dotted over the plain and the slopes of the hills, but of a town, mediaeval or otherwise, not the slightest sign.

铁路周围有几所房子， 更多的房子散布在平原和山坡上， 但是，无论是中世纪还是其他地方， 都没有丝毫迹象。

'Well, I have had some opportunities of studying mediaeval art and manners in the library and private museum at Endelstow House, and I thought I should like to try my hand upon a fiction.

“嗯，我有机会在恩德尔斯托庄园的图书馆和私人博物馆学习中世纪的艺术和礼仪，我想我应该尝试一下小说。

" Up yonder are some beautiful old buildings, which were built for a great college or teaching-place by one of the mediaeval kings — Edward the Sixth, I think" (I smiled to myself at his rather natural blunder).

“那边有一些美丽的古老建筑，它们是中世纪国王之一爱德华六世为一所伟大的大学或教学场所建造的，我想”（我对他相当自然的错误笑了笑）。

The bluff and bare contours of Start Point caught the brightest, earliest glow of all, and so also did the sides of its white lighthouse, perched upon a shelf in its precipitous front like a mediaeval saint in a niche.

起点的虚张声势和光秃秃的轮廓捕捉到了最明亮、最早的光芒，它的白色灯塔的侧面也是如此，它坐落在它陡峭的前面的架子上，就像壁龛里的中世纪圣人。