englishidioms词汇学论文

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1、EnglishidiomsAnidiomisaphrasewherethewordstogetherhaveameaningthatisdifferentfromthedictionarydefinitionsoftheindividualwords,whichcanmakeidiomshardforstudentsandlearnerstounderstand.Theidiomsaresetphrasesandshortsentencesmadeupoftwoormorewords;itfunc

2、tionsasaunitofmeaningwhichcannotbepredictedfromitsliteralmeaningofitscomponentwords.TheRangeofEnglishidiomsTheEnglishidiomisthebestpartoftheEnglishvocabulary.Idiomisanextremelyimportantlanguagephenomenon.Nobeautifullanguageintheworlddoesn’thaveitscolo

3、rfulandmeaningfulidioms.TherehaveagreatnumberofEnglishidioms，whichmainlyhavetheallusionsfromthreegreatresources，theBibleandRomanfablesandtheworksofShakespeare.TherearealsosomeEnglishidiomscomefromisthehistoriceventsinEurope.TheEnglishIdiomsmayincludec

4、olloquialisms，catchphrase，slangexpressions，proverbs，etc.(1)colloquialismshitbelowthebeltstabintheback暗箭伤人cutthegroundfromundersb.布某人背后搞鬼(2)slangexpressionsscrewup一塌胡涂(3)ProverbIfsnousecryingoverspiltmilk./Cryoverspiltmilk.覆水难收ThedevelopmentofidiomsWi

5、ththedevelopmentofpeople’ssocialandlivingcircumstances，idiomshavealsochangedsincethetimethatpeoplestartedtocommunicateinlanguage.Someoldidiomsout-of-datemayhavebeenabandonedormodifiedbypeople，orhavetakenonnewmeaningsastimegoesby.However，idiomsarestill

6、colorful，activeandsteadilyusedinmanyaspectsbyordinarypeopleevenbyfamouswritersintheirworks.TheCharacteristicsofidiomsAnidiomisaphrasewherethewordstogetherhaveameaningthatisdifferentfromthedictionarydefinitionsoftheindividualwords,whichcanmakeidiomshar

7、dforESLstudentsandlearnerstounderstand.Thecharacteristicsoftheidiomsmainlyincludethesemanticunityandthestructuralstability.Eachidiomisasemanticunity.Forinstance，keepinmind二remember，likeabreeze=easily.Thesemanticunitycanalsobeshownintheillogicalrelatio

8、nsbetweentheliteralmeaningsoftheconstituentwordsandthemeaningoftheidiom.Forexamples，Howdoyoudo=Inwhatwaydoyoudothing，Raincatsanddogs=rainheavily.Comparedwiththefreephrases,thestructureoftheidiomsisverystable,itcannotchangeeasily.That’sjustshow