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1、温州大学瓯江学院本科毕业论文1.IntroductionItiswellrecognizedthatlanguageandcultureareinseparable.Ontheonehand,languageplaysaveryimportantroleinreflectingandexpressingculture.Alanguageisanessentialpartofthecultureofapeopleandthroughittheotherpartsofcultureareexpressed.Sotospeak,withoutlanguagetherewouldbeno
2、culturedescendingfromancienttimes.Ontheotherhand,sincecultureisdefinedsuccinctlyas“thetotalityofbeliefsandpracticesofasociety”EugeneA.Nida,LanguageandCulture-ContextsinTranslating(Shanghai:ShanghaiForeignLanguageEducationPress,2001),78.,languageisstronglyinfluencedandshapedbyculture.Changesin
3、cultureoftengiverisetonewcharacteristicsoflanguage.BothEnglishandChinesearethelanguagesintheworldenjoyingthelongesthistory.Duringthelong-termdevelopment,theyhaveaccumulatedalargenumberofidioms,includingtheidiomscontainingfigures,whichrefertotheidiomscontainingcardinalnumbersandordinalnumbers.
4、Asanindispensablepartofidioms,ChineseandEnglishidiomscontainingfiguresarecloselyrelatedtotheirowncultures,conveyingdifferentculturalfeaturesandmessagesoftheirownnations.Usually,idiomscontainingfiguresreflecttheirculturalbackgroundknowledgewithfigureconnotations.Asweallknow,figuresare-45-温州大学瓯
5、江学院本科毕业论文typicaloftheculturallyloadedwords.Notonlydotheybelongtothedigitalrealm,theyarealsousedinidiomsandphraseswithculturalconnotations.TheChineseandEnglishpeoplesmayhavethesameorsimilarconceptsforfigures,butbecauseoftheirculturaldiversities,theyusefiguresindifferentwayswithconnotativemeani
6、ngs.Inthe21stcentury,withtherapiddevelopmentofeconomicglobalization,culturalcommunicationandcooperationbetweennationsbecomemorefrequent,theresearchfieldofChineseandEnglishidiomscorrespondinglypresentsanewtendency.Theidiomscontainingfigures,asacrucialpartofidioms,havebecomethemainobjectforChin
7、eseandothernations’scholarstostudyearnestly.However,sincetheidiomscontainingfiguresarecharacterizedbytheirconciseexpressions,richandvividmeanings,andareoftenculturallyloaded,translatorsfinditagreatchallengetotranslatethembetweenChineseandEngl