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1、UnderstandingEnglishandChineseIdiomsfromaCulturalPerspective1.IntroductionEverylanguageinthisworldhasagreatmanyofidioms,especiallythosehighlydevelopedtongue.Idiomsconsistofsetphrasesandshortsentences,whicharepeculiartothelanguageinquestionandsteepedinthenationalandregionalcultureandideas,thusbein
2、gcolorful,forcibleandthought-provoking.(ZhangWeiyou,2011,P181)It’sbelievedthatforeignlanguagelearnerslearnnotonlylanguage,butalsothecultureinwhichlanguageshapesanddevelops.Theprocessofreceivingalanguageisalsotheprocessofacquiringtheculturerelatedsincetheyaffecteachothersodeeplyandwidely.Englishan
3、dChinese,astwoofmosthighlydevelopedlanguagesintheworld,definitelycontainsaboundidioms.BritainandChinawhichoncehavecontributedalottoworldcivilizationandcausedatremendousimpacttothewholeworldareabsolutelyrepresentativesofWesterncultureandoriental’s.culturemeansthecustoms,institutions,objects,techni
4、ques,organizations，familypatternsandpoliticalsystemsthatcharacterizethelifeofahumancommunity，whichareexplicit(DaiLisheng,2009)．AbetterunderstandingofEnglishculturewouldhelppeoplelearnalanguagebetter.Idiomsasanimportantpartoflanguage,isintimatelyboundupwithculture.2.DefinitionofIdiomsAccordingtoOx
5、fordAdvancedLearner’sEnglish-ChineseDictionary,anidiomisagroupofwordswhosemeaningisdifferentfromthemeaningsofindividualwords.Idiomsareexpressionsthatarenotreadilyunderstandablefromtheirliteralmeaningsofindividualconstitutes,andinabroadsense,itincludescolloquialisms,catchphrases,slangexpressions,p
6、roverbs,etc..Correspondingly,Chinesehassimilartermssuchas“成语”(chengyu)whichinCurrentChineseDictionaryisdefinedasphrasesorshortsentencesthathavebeenaccustomedusedandconsistofacertainnumberofcharacters,briefandprofound,“歇后语”(atwo-partallegoricalsaying)whichreferstoariddle-likesentencecomposingoftwo
7、separateparts,and“谚语”(proverb),asimplesentence,widelyused,easilyunderstoodandprofoundtruthcontained.3.CulturaldifferencesreflectedintheEnglishandChineseidiomsIdiomsareshapedinacommunityafteralongperiod’slivingoftheloca
