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* * Unit 13 Marriage Robert Lynd Unit 13 Marriage * * I doubt, in deed, whether common opinion in any age has ever looked on marriage as an untroubled Paradise. I consulted a dictionary quotations on the subject and discovered that few of the opinions quoted were rose-coloured. These opinions, it may be objected, are the opinions of the unconventional people, but it is also true that they are opinions (treasured and kept alive by conventional people). We have the reputed saying of the henpecked Socrates, for example, when asked whether it was better to marry or not:“ whichever you do, you will repent.” Object clause attribute clause parenthesis 省略Socrates was—adverbial clause of time Unit 13 Marriage * * married people We have Montaigne writing:“ It happens as one sees in cages. The birds outside despair of ever getting in; those inside are equally desirous of getting out.” Bacon is no more prenuptial with his caustic quotation:“ He was reputed one of the wise men(that made answer to the question when a man should marry:‘A young man not yet; an elder man not at all.’”) Burton is far from encouraging!“One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.”Pepys scribbled in his diary:“Strange to say(what delight(we married people have))to see these poor folk decoyed into our condition.” 年轻人不必急于结婚，年老的人则根本不该结婚 * * Unit 13 Marriage Look on sth./ sb. as … 把…看作是…，认为…是… Synonym: regard … as… treat … as … consider … as… e.g. We all look on him as a very promising young man. 我们都认为他是一个很有前途的男人。 Deep down, I look on reading as saint thing. 深入地说，我把读书看作是神圣的事。 * * Unit 13 Marriage rose – coloured (adj.) : ①used in reference to naively optimistic or idealistic viewpoint.乐观的；理想化的 ②pink in colour.粉红色的；玫瑰色的 e.g. a rose – coloured talk / plan a rose – coloured vision of t