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1、TheGreekMythandEnglishVocabularyAbstract:ModernEnglishisinconstantfusionofeachnation'slanguageandcultureandexperiencedalonghistoricaldevelopmentprocessaftergraduallyevolved.SotherearemanyloanwordsinEnglishvocabulary,andmostoftheloanwords,whichcomefromGreeklanguageoriginfromG
2、reekmyth.TheGreekmythhasagreatimpactonEnglishvocabulary,ontheonehand,theproduceofsomeEnglishwordsdirectlytransformfromGreekmyth.Ontheotherhand,themythassociateswiththebasicwordsclosely.AnditalsohasanimportantpositioninEnglishidioms.KeyWords:Greekmyth;Englishvocabulary;typesI
3、.IntroductionAmythisafolkstoryexpressingandsymbolizingcertainfundamentalaspectsofhumanexistence.[1]Greekmythswerecreatedinancienttimes,buttheystillsurvivenow,andwerepassedgenerationbygenerationbecauseofthepermanentfascination.TheyareofgreatsignificanceinEnglishvocabulary.InR
4、enaissance,EuropeanhumanismscholarsresearchandtranslateancientGreekandRomanclassicalliterature,sothatalargenumberofGreekmythvocabularydirectlyintoEnglish.[2]Withthenation’sconflictandcommunication,theEnglishvocabularytakeinmoreandmoreGreekmyth’swordsbymanywaysandtypes,suchas
5、,theroot,theaffix,andtheidiom.II.TypesofwaytobeabsorbedinGreekmyth2.1PartsofwordsdirectlyintoEnglishvocabularyInRenaissance,EuropeanhumanismscholarsresearchandtranslateancientGreekandRomanclassicalliterature,sothatalargenumberofGreekmythvocabularydirectlyintoEnglish.2.1.1Inf
6、luenceonbasicEnglishvocabularyTheGreekmythhassomecharacters,whoeitherhaveacertaintypicalcharacteristics,eithertheyhadspecialexperience,sotheirnamedirectlytrans-formedintoEnglishcommonnouns.Convertedintocommonnoun,retainedtheoriginalspelling,itsmeaningisthesymbolofthemythical
7、figuremeaningandimpliedmeaning,thiskindoftransferorextendedandmythcharacterorexperienceincloserelations.Atthesametime,meaningoftheconnotationanddenotationofallhaveverybiggrow,andintheformisnotchanged,itsmeaningbyasingleconversionfordiversity,abstractintospecificcommon.Forexa
8、mple,''Siren''isaseamonster,whosebodyisahalfofmanandahalf5ofbird,sheusually
