Compared with China, the literary life of Britain is short, but British literature has it brilliance from the special geographically and historically point of view. So lets talk about the history of British literature briefly.
与中国相比，英国的文学史是短暂的，但是英国却因为它独特的地理位置与历史所造就的文学在世界文学上占有一席之地。所以，今天我来简单讲讲英国文学的历史。
The British literature can be divided into different period. In the middle age, during the Anglo-Saxon period, British nourished epic The song of Beowulf.
我们可以把英国文学可以分成不同时期。在中世纪，安格鲁–萨克森时期，英国孕育出了一本史诗，叫做《贝奥武夫》。
Maybe someone would ask why did not China produce epic. I thought that China had formed its written language long time ago and the epic like Beowulf was passed down in it oral form.
也许可能有人会问为什么中国不产史诗。我认为原因可能是中国在很早之前就已经形成了文字，而史诗这种形式是口头流传的。
Besides,many ethic minorities in China had their own epics. The Anglo-Norman period had started after Norman conquer, which formed a new literature-romance that seeped into England from France.
除次以外，中国有许多少数民族，他们有他们自己民族的史诗。在法国对英国的诺曼征服后，开启了安格鲁–诺曼时期，在这个时期法国的文学形式罗曼史慢慢渗入英国，影响力英国文学的发展。
The romance mainly talk about the adventure and love affairs of knights and the stories mainly covered three countries: England, France and ancient Greek or Roman.
罗曼史主要讲的是骑士间的冒险经历和风流韵事，这些故事主要发生在4个国家:英国，法国，古希腊和古罗马。
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a good example. The middle age was regarded as dark age,but during this age, the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer came into the historical stage and was famous for its masterpiece The Canterbury Tales.
《高文爵士与绿衣骑士》就是一个很好的例子。中世纪被人们称做黑暗的世纪，但是在这个时期，英国诗歌之父杰弗雷.乔叟登上了历史舞台，以他的作品《坎特伯雷故事集》而闻名。
Among the many tales, what impressed me most was a woman who tried her best to dominate her husband, which seemed to me the first feminist who seeks her own power during the patriarchal societies.
在这本故事集中，最令我印象深刻的是一个妇女的故事。她结了好多次婚，每次她都想在家庭生活中占据主导地位。在我看来她是第一位在男权社会里积极追寻自己权利的女性主义者。
In the Renaissance, Shakespeare always took all stage light of that age and eclipsed others. His drama represented the best literature of the Renaissance.
在文艺复兴时期，莎士比亚代表了他那个时代的戏剧的全部荣耀，他在戏剧上的成就把其他人掩盖了。他的戏剧代表了文艺复兴时期最好的文学作品。
The appearance of bourgeois was engaged in fighting with the feudalism,but bourgeois were too weak to shatter the feudalism and they appealed classical books of ancient Greek and Roman classic books to free people’s mind,so the humanism became the useful weapon of bourgeois and the light of civilization appeared during the dark night.
刚刚崭露头角资产阶级想要与封建势力对抗，但是在这个时期资产阶级的力量不足以打败封建势力，所以他们向古希腊，古罗马的经典书籍求助，以解放人们的思想，将人文主义变成资产阶级的利器。自此，茫茫黑夜开始有了文明的曙光。
Expect William Shakespeare,the Francis beacon also was famous for its essays. For example, Of Study expressed his viewpoints towards the benefit of the books, and how to read different books according to their value.
除了威廉.莎士比亚，弗兰克斯.培根也以他的散文文明于英国的文坛上。举个例子，《论读书》这篇散文表达了他对书的好处的观点以及怎样根据不同书的价值来进行选择阅读。
The use of rhetoric devices were also appealing and made the whole passage more persuasive and convincing and we can see its beauty lies in the following sentences:”Studies serve for delight,for ornament and for ability”, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested” and “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,and writing an exact man”.
这篇散文对于修辞手法的使用也同样令人惊奇，使得全篇文章更有说服力和可信度。我们可以从下面的选句发现英国句子的美感。“读书足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以长才”， “书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化”和“读书使人充实，讨论使人机智，笔记使人准确”。
(原创，先用英文写，再翻译回中文)
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