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Of Marriage and Single lifeFrancis Bacon Chen You (M12050211003) School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University of Technology \ Essay Features 1. The essay won popularity for his clearness, brevity and force of expression． 2. The language is very neat, pretty and weighty. 3. The sentences are very short. Bacon also likes to use more co-ordinate conjunctions than the subordinated ones, such as “as, since, because”. 4. Parallelism, metaphor, simile and epigrams(警句). Essay Style The choice of words is compactness and exactness. The 9th Sentence: Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition. (29 words) (译文：独身的人是最好的朋友, 最好的评价, 最好的个人, 但是并非最好的臣民; 因为他们很容易逃跑, 差不多所有的逃人都是独身的。) Essay Style The sentence patterns are structured well and powerful. The 1st Sentence: He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue of mischief. (译文:有妻与子的人已经向命运之神交了抵押品了; 因为妻与子是大事底阻挠物, 无论是大善举或大恶行。) The 19th Sentence: It is often seen that bad husbands have very good wives; whether it be that it raiseth the price of their husbands kindness when it comes, or that the wives take a pride in their patience. (译文:常见不良的丈夫多有很好的妻子; 其原因也许是因为这种丈夫底好处在偶尔出现的时候更显得可贵, 也许是因为做妻子的以自己底耐心自豪。) Essay Style The main rhetoric is parallelism. The 17th Sentence: Wives are young men’s mistress, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurse, so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will. (译文:妻子是青年人底情人, 中年人底伴侣, 老年人底看护。所以一个人只要他愿意, 任何时候都有娶妻底的理由。) The 4th 6th Sentences: Some there are who, though they lead a single life, yet their thoughts do end with themselves, and account future times impertinences. Nay, there are some other that account wife and children but as bills of charges. Nay more, there are some foolish rich covetous men that take a pride in having no children, because they may be thought so much the richer