bachelor

A bachelor is a man who is not and has never been married.

A bachelor is first attested [show/prove as true] as the 12th-century bacheler: a knight bachelor, a knight too young or poor to gather vassals under his own banner. In feudal society [封建社会], a vassal was a man who gave military service to a lord, in return for which he was protected by the lord and received land to live on. banner: 旗帜/横幅. squire: 骑士的扈从。

From the 14th century, the term was also used for a junior member of a guild (otherwise known as "yeomen") or university and then for low-level ecclesiastics, as young monks and recently appointed canons. 从14世纪开始，这个词也被用于帮会（也被称为“yeomen”）或大学的初级成员，然后用于低级教会，如年轻的僧侣和最近任命的教士。

In the Victorian era, the term eligible bachelor was used in the context of upper class matchmaking, denoting a young man who was not only unmarried and eligible for marriage, but also considered "eligible" in financial and social terms for the prospective bride under discussion. Also in the Victorian era, the term "confirmed bachelor" denoted a man who was resolute to remain unmarried.

在维多利亚时代，符合条件的单身汉一词被用于上层阶级的婚介，指的是一个年轻人，他不仅未婚且符合结婚条件，而且在经济和社会方面也被认为符合所讨论的准新娘的条件。同样是在维多利亚时代，“坚定的单身汉”一词指的是决心保持未婚的男人。

By the later 19th century, the term "bachelor" had acquired the general sense of "unmarried man". The expression bachelor party is recorded 1882. In 1895, a feminine equivalent "bachelor-girl" was coined, replaced in US English by "bachelorette" by the mid-1930s. This terminology is now generally seen as antiquated, and has been largely replaced by the gender-neutral term "single" (first recorded 1964). In England and Wales, the term "bachelor" remained the official term used for the purpose of marriage registration until 2005, when it was abolished in favor of "single."

In certain Gulf Arab countries, "bachelor" can refer to men who are single as well as immigrant men married to a spouse residing in their country of origin (due to the high added cost of sponsoring a spouse onsite), and a colloquial term "executive bachelor" is also used in rental and sharing accommodation advertisements to indicate availability to white-collar bachelors in particular.

在某些海湾阿拉伯国家，“单身汉”可以指单身男性，也可以指与居住在原籍国的配偶结婚的移民男性（由于在当地供养配偶的额外成本很高），在出租和共享住宿的广告中，还使用了一个通俗的术语“高管学士”，以特别表明白领单身汉。sponsor有个support someone by paying for their training, education, living costs etc.

Arab states of the Persian Gulf: Bahrain [巴林], Kuwait, Oman [阿曼], Qatar [卡塔尔], Saudi Arabia [沙特阿拉伯], and the United Arab Emirates [阿联酋, 阿拉伯联合酋长国] - except for Iraq. An emirate is a country that is ruled by an emir [埃米尔]. Oman is a country in the Middle East, east of Saudi Arabia and northeast of Yemen [也门].