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1、EnglishidiomsAnidiomisaphrasewherethewordstogetherhaveameaningthatisdifferentfromthedictionarydefinitionsoftheindividualwords,whichcanmakeidiomshardforstudentsandlearnerstounderstand.Theidiomsaresetphrasesandshortsentencesmadeupoftwoormorewords;itfunctionsasaunit
2、ofmeaningwhichcannotbepredictedfromitsliteralmeaningofitscomponentwords.TheRangeofEnglishidiomsTheEnglishidiomisthebestpartoftheEnglishvocabulary.Idiomisanextremelyimportantlanguagephenomenon.Nobeautifullanguageintheworlddoesn’thaveitscolorfulandmeaningfulidioms.
3、TherehaveagreatnumberofEnglishidioms,whichmainlyhavetheallusionsfromthreegreatresources,theBibleandRomanfablesandtheworksofShakespeare.TherearealsosomeEnglishidiomscomefromisthehistoriceventsinEurope.TheEnglishIdiomsmayincludecolloquialisms,catchphrase,slangexpre
4、ssions,proverbs,etc.(1)colloquialismshitbelowthebeltstabintheback暗箭伤人cutthegroundfromundersb.在某人背后搞鬼(2)slangexpressionsscrewup一塌胡涂(3)ProverbIt'snousecryingoverspiltmilk./Cryoverspiltmilk.覆水难收ThedevelopmentofidiomsWiththedevelopmentofpeople’ssocialandlivingcircum
5、stances,idiomshavealsochangedsincethetimethatpeoplestartedtocommunicateinlanguage.Someoldidiomsout-of-datemayhavebeenabandonedormodifiedbypeople,orhavetakenonnewmeaningsastimegoesby.However,idiomsarestillcolorful,activeandsteadilyusedinmanyaspectsbyordinarypeople
6、evenbyfamouswritersintheirworks.TheCharacteristicsofidiomsAnidiomisaphrasewherethewordstogetherhaveameaningthatisdifferentfromthedictionarydefinitionsoftheindividualwords,whichcanmakeidiomshardforESLstudentsandlearnerstounderstand.Thecharacteristicsoftheidiomsmai
7、nlyincludethesemanticunityandthestructuralstability.Eachidiomisasemanticunity.Forinstance,keepinmind=remember,likeabreeze=easily.Thesemanticunitycanalsobeshownintheillogicalrelationsbetweentheliteralmeaningsoftheconstituentwordsandthemeaningoftheidiom.Forexamples
8、,Howdoyoudo=Inwhatwaydoyoudothing,Raincatsanddogs=rainheavily.Comparedwiththefreephrases,thestructureoftheidiomsisverystable,itcannotchangeeasily.That’sjustsho
