Is chivalry dead?

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término definición
chivalry
Is chivalry dead?
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rycerskość
armour
Neil and Alice discuss knights in shining armour and teach some related vocabulary.
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zbroja
chivalry
A man opening his date's car door for her to get out is an example of chivalry.
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rycerskość
Chivalrous
A man who opens the door for a woman and provides any help she needs is an example of a man who is chivalrous.
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Rycerski
attentive
A child who always carefully listens to his mother's directions is an example of someone who is attentive.
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uważny/ zainteresowany (np. słuchacz)
courteous
The waitress was courteous, so we gave her a generous tip.
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uprzejmy
attentive and courteous
The definition of chivalrous is a man who is attentive and courteous to women, like a knight in shining armor.
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słuchajacy uwaznie i uprzejmy
knightly
Who wrote the novel Don Quixote, about a 50-year old man travelling Spain in search of knightly adventures in rusty armour and a cardboard helmet?
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rycerski
chivalry
chivalry = polite behaviour usually by men towards women
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rycerskość
chivalry
the sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight, including courtesy, generosity
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rycerskość
alive and kicking
alive and kicking = very active
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dobrego zdrowia, mający się świetnie
enactment
A law that is passed: enactments covering food safety
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wprowadzenie w życie prawa
re-enactment
re-enactment = where you perform the actions of a past event
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ponownego uchwalenie / odtworzenie
re-enactment
The repetition of an earlier (usually historic) event, as a performance or social event. They're going to the Civil War battle reenactment this weekend.
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odtworzenie
jousting
jousting = two people fight on horseback using a long pole or a lance to try to knock the other person off their horse
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walka konna na kopie
fetching
fetching = attractive
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ujmujący
distress
in distress = in need of help
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niedola
prowess
prowess great skill or ability
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sprawność
courtly love
courtly love an aristocratic code concerning the faithful love of a knight for his lady
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miłość dworska
intertwined
intertwined = hard to separate
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splecione
intertwined
Intertwined is defined as twisted together, or closely connected in a way that cannot easily be separated.
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splecione
archery
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łucznictwo
crossbow
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kusza
fetching
You might make a very fetching – or attractive – knight, Neil. But you should get used to actually helping the ladies
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ujmujący
prowess
But at some point in the history of chivalry – prowess – or skill – on the battlefield became combined with a set of conventions – or rules – governing other aspects of behaviour.
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sprawność
conduct
This included a knight's moral and religious duties and how to conduct their love affairs.
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przeprowadzać, prowadzić
warrior
What has being a great footballer or a great warrior got to do with love?
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wojownik
warrior
He became a warrior at the late age of 29.
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wojownik
On został wojownikiem późno, w wieku 29 lat.
muddled
It's a comic novel which describes what happens to an elderly knight who, his head muddled by reading too many romances, sets out on his old horse with his companion Sancho Panza, to seek adventure.
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zagmatwane
muddle
I hate all this muddle - I'll have to tidy it up. I don't know who is responsible for all that muddle
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zamieszanie, bałagan

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