a comparative study of food idioms between english and chinese

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1、AComparativeStudyofFoodIdiomsBetweenEnglishandChinese　　【Abstract】Idiomsaretheessenceoflanguage，themostcommonlanguage，thestrongestexpression，themostabundantculturalconnotation.Inrecentyears，thestudyonthecontrastbetweenEnglishandChineseIdioms’hasattractedwideattention.Bu

2、ttheexistingresearchoncomparisonoffoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandChineseinvolvesless.Firstofall，searchingandreadingexistingrelatedliteratureaboutcontrastivestudyonfoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandChinesebyusingliteratureresourcesinlibraryandsummarizingtherelevantcontent.Secondly

3、，selectingtheEnglish-Chinesedictionarytolookup，collectingtheembodimentoffoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandChinese，andthenarranging，analyzingandcomparingsomeexamples.ThepurposeofthisthesisistoanalyzethesimilaritiesanddifferencesonfoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandChinese，andanalyzing

4、thecausesofthesimilaritiesanddifferences.Through16analyzingsomeexamples，thisthesiswouldliketomakesurethatEnglishlearnerscanunderstandandusetherelatedfoodidiomsbetter，soastohelpthemunderstandwellabouttheEnglishandChineseculture，andtoachievesuccessinlanguagecommunication

5、.【Keywords】foodidioms；similarities；differences1.IntroductionAlthoughtherearesomedifferentexplainbothinEnglishandChineseidioms，therearesomesimilarities.Thatis，idiomsregardedasanimportantpartoflanguagevocabulary.Idiomisalanguageinacertainculturalbackgroundandhasdeveloped

6、andrefinedinthelong-termuseoftheprocessandtheformationoffixedcollocation，languagestructureandspecificthemeaningofaphraseorasentence.MaGuofan（1959）pointsoutthat“idiom”canbedefinedbothbroadlyandnarrowly.Anidiomisacombinationoftwoormorewordswhichfunctionsasaunitofmeaning（

7、Cowie，1975）.Sincethe1970s，althoughmanyscholarshave16carriedoutextensiveresearchonthesimilarityanddifferencebetweenEnglishandChineseidioms，andhasmadealotofresearchresults.Mostofthemstudyfromtranslation，culture，rhetoric，butresearchoncomparisonfoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandC

8、hineseinvolveisless.ThisthesisbeginsresearchontheoriginoffoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandChinese，andstudythesimilarityandd