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1、TheInfluenceofCultureonIdiomsinEnglishLanguageIntroductionEnglishidiomsareconsideredasthemostactivepartofEnglishlanguage,andtheyarewidelyusedinpeople’sdailylife,newspaper,magazine,broadcastingandTVmedia.Itisquitedifficulttogiveacleardefinitiontotheword“idiom”,foritpossessesseveralm
2、eanings,whichmightcauseconfusion.Itmaymeanthelanguageofapeopleoracountry,oradialect,oralinguisticusagethatdefiesgrammaticalanalysis.Butthemostsuitabledefinitionforthispaperisasfollows.“Idiomisanexpressionestablishedinthelongusageofalanguagethatispeculiartoitselfeitheringrammaticalc
3、onstructionorinhavingameaningthatcannotbederivedasawholefromtheconjoinedmeaningsofitselements.”Englishidioms,inabroadsense,includeidiomaticphrase,proverbs,colloquialismsandslangs.Incomparison,theChineseequivalentfor“idiom”is“习语”.Itmeansakindofsetphraseorsentence,which,likeastockexp
4、ression,isoftenquotedbythecommonpeople.Chineseidiomscanberoughlydividedinto“setphrases”(成语),“commonsayings”(俗语),“proverbs”(谚语),“atwo-partallegoricalsaying”(歇后语),and“vulgarexpression”(粗俗语)Fromtheabovedefinitionsandclassificationswecanextractthreebasiccharacteristicsofidioms.(1)Anidi
5、omisaspecialformoflanguage.Anidiommustbewellestablishedandacceptedthroughcommonpractice.Itstandsasawhole.Sonoelementinanidiomcanbechanged.Inmanycases,idiomsholdimpliedmeanings,andcannotbeinterpretedjustaccordingtotheirliteralmeanings.(2)Anidiomisthecrystallizationoflanguage.Languag
6、egivesbirthtoidioms.Italso18polishesidioms.Refinedbylongusageidiomshavebeendescribedasthecoreoflanguage.(3)Anidiomistherepresentativeofalanguage.ThoughbothBritishandChinesepeopleuseidiomsandgivethealmostsamedefinitionofidioms,wecannotequalthetwoidioms,fortheirrangesaredifferent.Asa
7、nimportantmeansofspreading,retaininglanguageandculture,idiomscontainrichculturalfactorsthemselves.Fromthispointofview,itistotallywrongtostudylanguagebyisolatingidiomsfromthewholeculturalbackgroundofonelanguage.WecansavemanydifficultiesbymasteringEnglishidiomsandlearnthemwell.18Chap
8、ter1TheRelationshipBetween