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1、TheGreekMythandEnglishVocabularyAbstract:ModernEnglishisinconstantfusionofeachnation'slanguageandcultureandexperiencedalonghistoricaldevelopmentprocessaftergraduallyevolved.SotherearemanyloanwordsinEnglishvocabulary,andmostoftheloanwords,whichcomefromGreeklanguageoriginfr
2、omGreekmyth.TheGreekmythhasagreatimpactonEnglishvocabulary,ontheonehand,theproduceofsomeEnglishwordsdirectlytransformfromGreekmyth.Ontheotherhand,themythassociateswiththebasicwordsclosely.AnditalsohasanimportantpositioninEnglishidioms.KeyWords:Greekmyth;Englishvocabulary;
3、typesI.IntroductionAmythisafolkstoryexpressingandsymbolizingcertainfundamentalaspectsofhumanexistence.[1]Greekmythswerecreatedinancienttimes,buttheystillsurvivenow,andwerepassedgenerationbygenerationbecauseofthepermanentfascination.TheyareofgreatsignificanceinEnglishvocab
4、ulary.InRenaissance,EuropeanhumanismscholarsresearchandtranslateancientGreekandRomanclassicalliterature,sothatalargenumberofGreekmythvocabularydirectlyintoEnglish.[2]Withthenation’sconflictandcommunication,theEnglishvocabularytakeinmoreandmoreGreekmyth’swordsbymanywaysand
5、types,suchas,theroot,theaffix,andtheidiom.II.TypesofwaytobeabsorbedinGreekmyth2.1PartsofwordsdirectlyintoEnglishvocabularyInRenaissance,EuropeanhumanismscholarsresearchandtranslateancientGreekandRomanclassicalliterature,sothatalargenumberofGreekmythvocabularydirectlyintoE
6、nglish.2.1.1InfluenceonbasicEnglishvocabularyTheGreekmythhassomecharacters,whoeitherhaveacertaintypicalcharacteristics,eithertheyhadspecialexperience,sotheirnamedirectlytrans-formedintoEnglishcommonnouns.Convertedintocommonnoun,retainedtheoriginalspelling,itsmeaningisthes
7、ymbolofthemythicalfiguremeaningandimpliedmeaning,thiskindoftransferorextendedandmythcharacterorexperienceincloserelations.Atthesametime,meaningoftheconnotationanddenotationofallhaveverybiggrow,andintheformisnotchanged,itsmeaningbyasingleconversionfordiversity,abstractinto
8、specificcommon.Forexample,''Siren''isaseamonster,whosebodyisahalfofmanandahalf5ofbird,sheusually