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1、AComparativeStudyofEnglishandChineseIdioms【关键词】定义；相似点；不同点Ⅰ.IntroductionTheEnglishlanguagecontainsmanycommonquotes,saying,aphorismsandotheridiomaticexpressionsofdifferentsorts.IntheChineselanguagesuchexpressionsarereferredtoasidioms, “readyphrases”.These
2、idiomsareoftenwritteninclassicalChinesegrammarandusuallyconsistoffourcharacters.TheChineselanguageisrichinvocabulary,phases,andidioms.Asaformofsetphrases,Chineseidiomsareinwideuseandoccupyanimportantplaceinthelanguageasawhole.Conciseyetmeaningful,theygi
3、vecertainspecificfacts,carrycertainmoralteachingsorsuggestcertainparticularimages,thusconstitutinganonlycharacteristicoftheChineselanguage.ThispapergivesacomparebetweenEnglishandChineseidiomstoshowdifferencebetweeneachculture.II.TheEnglishandChineseIdio
4、ms A.TheDefinitionofIdioms1.DefinitionofIdioms Whatisanidiom?Andhowdowejudgewhetheranexpressionisanidiomornot?Firstletuslookathowtheterm “idiom”isdefinedbysomeauthorizedEnglishdictionaries:Itdefinesanidiomas “ ⑴languageofapeopleorcountry;specificcharact
5、erofthis, ⑵successionofwordswhosemeaningisnotobviousthroughknowledgeoftheindividualmeaningoftheconstituentwordsbutmustbelearntasawhole.”1.Anditdefinesanidiomas: “ ⑴thelanguageordialectofapeople,region,class,etc. ⑵theusualwayinwhichthewordsofaparticularl
6、anguagearejoinedtogethertoexpressthought, ⑶aphrase,constructionorexpressionthatisrecognizedasaunitintheusageofagivenlanguageandeitherdiffersfromtheusualsyntacticpatternsorhasameaningthatdiffersfromtheliteralmeaningofitspartstakentogether, ⑷thestyleofex
7、pressioncharacteristicofanindividual, ⑸acharacteristicstyle,asinartormusic.”2.Fromtheabovedictionaries, ⑴, ⑵and ⑶mostsuitsthepurposeofthediscussion.Theidiommeansakindofsetphrasesorsentences,whichlikeastockexpression,areoftenquotedbythecommonpeople.Inabr
8、oadsense,theyincludeidiomaticphrases,proverbialsayingsandanumberofslangexpressions.Wecanextracttwobasiccriteriabywhichtojudgewhetheranexpressionisanidiomornot.2.Definitionof 习语inChineseAccordingtotheChinesedictionaries:ModernChin
