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1、AComparativeStudyonEnglishandChineseNumericalIdiomsAbstractIdiomsplayanimportantroleinlearningEnglish.Itisconsideredastheeliteofthelanguageandthemostcultureaccumulatedpartofalanguage.Numberisanorganicpartoflanguagewhichisembodiedwithdifferentculturalbackground.Numbersplayanvital
2、roleinthedevelopmentofhumansociety.Therefore,numerousidiomsrelatedtonumbershaveemerged.BoththeChineselanguageandEnglishlanguagearerichinnumericalidioms.Becauseofdifferenthistoricalandculturalsettings,thetwonationsmayevokethesameordifferentfeelingstowardssamenumber.Basedonthetwon
3、ations’likesanddislikestowardnumbers,thispaperdiscussesEnglishandChinesenumericalidiomstowardsauspiciousandtaboonumberandthereasonwhytwocountrieshavedifferentfeelingtowardsdifferentnumbers.Keywords:numericalidiomculturedifferentsame摘要习语在英语学习中扮演着重要角色,习语是语言的精华且是语言中文化积淀最深厚的部分。数字是语言
4、的一个有机组成部分,在不同的文化背景下,数字被赋予以不同的文化内涵,数字在人类社会发展进程中起着重要作用,因此语言中大量存在与数字相关的习语。汉语和英语都有很多数字习语。由于英汉民族的历史和风俗习惯等方面存在差异,导致人们对同一数字赋予不同的情感和联想,而不同的数字可能产生相同或相似的联想。本文根据英汉民族对数字的不同喜好,探析了英汉两个国家吉祥和禁忌的数字,然后讨论了英汉数字习语差异溯源。关键词:数字习语文化不同相同13I.IntroductionIdiomshavebeenstudiedbymanypeoplefrommanyaspects.Ini
5、nternationalculturalcommunication,learningandteachingidiomsistheimportantanddifficultpointinlanguagelearningandteaching.Asisknown,numeralidiomsareformedonthebasisofanations’history, economy, culture, tradition and custom. InEnglishandChineseidioms,theapplicationofnumbersisveryco
6、mmon.Weuseitinourdailylife,ourcommunicationwithotherpeople,andinourswrittenbooks.Duringthelonghistoricalprocessofhuman,theuseofnumbersisnotonlyrestrictedtocalculation,butrather,bearstheweightofmuchcultureinformation,whichhasformedaspecialnumericalculturephenomenon.However,theidi
7、omsarethemostsensitivepartofalanguage,whichreflectsdifferenttraditionalcultures.So,acomparativestudyonEnglishandChinesenumericalidiomsisnotonlygoodforEnglishandChineselearnerstoknowthewesternandeasternculture,butalsocanstimulateforeignlanguagestudy,sothatpeoplefromtwocountiescan
8、understandandcommunicatewellandmakefulluseofthe