资源描述：
《a comparative study of english and chinese idioms 英语专业毕业论文》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在学术论文-天天文库。
1、AComparativeStudyofEnglishandChineseIdioms【关键词】定义；相似点；不同点Ⅰ.IntroductionTheEnglishlanguagecontainsmanycommonquotes,saying,aphorismsandotheridiomaticexpressionsofdifferentsorts.IntheChineselanguagesuchexpressionsarereferredtoasidioms, “readyphrases”.Theseidiomsareoftenwritteni
2、nclassicalChinesegrammarandusuallyconsistoffourcharacters.TheChineselanguageisrichinvocabulary,phases,andidioms.Asaformofsetphrases,Chineseidiomsareinwideuseandoccupyanimportantplaceinthelanguageasawhole.Conciseyetmeaningful,theygivecertainspecificfacts,carrycertainmoralteac
3、hingsorsuggestcertainparticularimages,thusconstitutinganonlycharacteristicoftheChineselanguage.ThispapergivesacomparebetweenEnglishandChineseidiomstoshowdifferencebetweeneachculture.II.TheEnglishandChineseIdioms A.TheDefinitionofIdioms1.DefinitionofIdioms Whatisanidiom?Andho
4、wdowejudgewhetheranexpressionisanidiomornot?Firstletuslookathowtheterm “idiom”isdefinedbysomeauthorizedEnglishdictionaries:Itdefinesanidiomas “ ⑴languageofapeopleorcountry;specificcharacterofthis, ⑵successionofwordswhosemeaningisnotobviousthroughknowledgeoftheindividualmeani
5、ngoftheconstituentwordsbutmustbelearntasawhole.”1.Anditdefinesanidiomas: “ ⑴thelanguageordialectofapeople,region,class,etc. ⑵theusualwayinwhichthewordsofaparticularlanguagearejoinedtogethertoexpressthought, ⑶aphrase,constructionorexpressionthatisrecognizedasaunitintheusageo
6、fagivenlanguageandeitherdiffersfromtheusualsyntacticpatternsorhasameaningthatdiffersfromtheliteralmeaningofitspartstakentogether, ⑷thestyleofexpressioncharacteristicofanindividual, ⑸acharacteristicstyle,asinartormusic.”2.Fromtheabovedictionaries, ⑴, ⑵and ⑶mostsuitsthepurpose
7、ofthediscussion.Theidiommeansakindofsetphrasesorsentences,whichlikeastockexpression,areoftenquotedbythecommonpeople.Inabroadsense,theyincludeidiomaticphrases,proverbialsayingsandanumberofslangexpressions.Wecanextracttwobasiccriteriabywhichtojudgewhetheranexpressionisanidiomo
8、rnot.2.Definitionof 习语inChineseAccordingtotheChinesedictionaries:ModernChin
