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1、OntheInfulenceofHistoricalDevelopmentandGeographyEnvironmentontheFormationofEnglishIdiomsIntrocductionWhenopeningOxfordAdvancedLearner’sDictionaryofCurrentEnglish,onecanseesuchanentry:“Idiom(n.)Phraseorsentencewhosemeaningisnotclearfromthemeaningofitsindividualwordsandwhichmustbelearntasa
2、wholeunit.”Englishisalanguageparticularlyrichinidioms.Lotsofculturalinformationisembodiedinidioms.Insomesenses,idiomsarethereflectionoftheenvironment,life,historicalculture,etc.Theyarecommonlyusedinalltypesoflanguage,informalandformal,spokenandwritten.Inbrief,idiomsarefixedphrases.Theygot
3、hroughthetestofhistoryandcannotbeseparated.Theyareanimportantpartofthegeneralvocabularyofeverylanguage.Englishidiomsareusuallywidelyandcommonlyusedallovertheworld.Theycontainbriefstructuresandprofoundmeanings,andarealsoagroupofwordswiththemeaningdifferentfromtheliteralone.AsanEnglishlearn
4、er,westudyEnglisheveryday;learningitsliteraryworks,grammaticalfunctions,usethemandsoon.Sometimes,wecomecrosssomesentencesthatwecan’tunderstand,suchas,“Thereisablacksheep”or“Don’tbeabadapple”,“goovermyhead”,“Don’tputyourproblemsatmydoorstep”,“justbearwithme”,“heapcoaloffireonone’shead”etc.
5、Ofcoursewecancomprehendthemeaningofeverysingleword.Whydowehavedifficultyinunderstandingthem?Becauseofalowleveloflinguisticcompetenceinthetargetlanguage,peoplewholearnEnglishasasecondlanguageareatadistinctdisadvantageinunderstandingEnglishidioms.WemustknowtheoriginsofEnglishidiomssothatwec
6、anlearnEnglishwell.TheresearchtoEnglishidiomshasalonghistory.Scholars’studyfocusesonthefollowingaspects:theoringinsoftheidioms,comparisonbetweenEnglishidiomsandChineseidioms,and15thetranslationofEnglishidioms.What’smore,theytalkabouttheidiomsthroughitsnotionofculture.Othersschoolarspayatt
7、entiontothestructural,semanticfunctionandrhetoricofidioms.TheformationofEnglishidiomsisinfluencedbysuchculturalfactorsasgeographicalconditions,historicaldevelopments,customs,religiousbeliefs,literatureandartsoftheBritishnation.SoIdecidedtofocuseontheinfluenceofhisto
