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1、AComparativeStudyofEnglishandChineseIdioms【關(guān)鍵詞】定義;相似點(diǎn);不同點(diǎn)Ⅰ.IntroductionTheEnglishlanguagecontainsmanycommonquotes,saying,aphorismsandotheridiomaticexpressionsofdifferentsorts.IntheChineselanguagesuchexpressionsarereferredtoasidioms,?“readyphrases”.These
2、idiomsareoftenwritteninclassicalChinesegrammarandusuallyconsistoffourcharacters.TheChineselanguageisrichinvocabulary,phases,andidioms.Asaformofsetphrases,Chineseidiomsareinwideuseandoccupyanimportantplaceinthelanguageasawhole.Conciseyetmeaningful,theygi
3、vecertainspecificfacts,carrycertainmoralteachingsorsuggestcertainparticularimages,thusconstitutinganonlycharacteristicoftheChineselanguage.ThispapergivesacomparebetweenEnglishandChineseidiomstoshowdifferencebetweeneachculture.II.TheEnglishandChineseIdio
4、ms?A.TheDefinitionofIdioms1.DefinitionofIdioms?Whatisanidiom?Andhowdowejudgewhetheranexpressionisanidiomornot?Firstletuslookathowtheterm?“idiom”isdefinedbysomeauthorizedEnglishdictionaries:Itdefinesanidiomas?“?⑴languageofapeopleorcountry;specificcharact
5、erofthis,?⑵successionofwordswhosemeaningisnotobviousthroughknowledgeoftheindividualmeaningoftheconstituentwordsbutmustbelearntasawhole.”1.Anditdefinesanidiomas:?“?⑴thelanguageordialectofapeople,region,class,etc.?⑵theusualwayinwhichthewordsofaparticularl
6、anguagearejoinedtogethertoexpressthought,??⑶aphrase,constructionorexpressionthatisrecognizedasaunitintheusageofagivenlanguageandeitherdiffersfromtheusualsyntacticpatternsorhasameaningthatdiffersfromtheliteralmeaningofitspartstakentogether,?⑷thestyleofex
7、pressioncharacteristicofanindividual,?⑸acharacteristicstyle,asinartormusic.”2.Fromtheabovedictionaries,?⑴,?⑵and?⑶mostsuitsthepurposeofthediscussion.Theidiommeansakindofsetphrasesorsentences,whichlikeastockexpression,areoftenquotedbythecommonpeople.Inabr
8、oadsense,theyincludeidiomaticphrases,proverbialsayingsandanumberofslangexpressions.Wecanextracttwobasiccriteriabywhichtojudgewhetheranexpressionisanidiomornot.2.Definitionof?習(xí)語inChineseAccordingtotheChinesedictionaries:ModernChin