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1、AComparativeStudyofFoodIdiomsBetweenEnglishandChinese 【Abstract】Idiomsaretheessenceoflanguage,themostcommonlanguage,thestrongestexpression,themostabundantculturalconnotation.Inrecentyears,thestudyonthecontrastbetweenEnglishandChineseIdioms’hasattractedwideattention.Bu
2、ttheexistingresearchoncomparisonoffoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandChineseinvolvesless.Firstofall,searchingandreadingexistingrelatedliteratureaboutcontrastivestudyonfoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandChinesebyusingliteratureresourcesinlibraryandsummarizingtherelevantcontent.Secondly
3、,selectingtheEnglish-Chinesedictionarytolookup,collectingtheembodimentoffoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandChinese,andthenarranging,analyzingandcomparingsomeexamples.ThepurposeofthisthesisistoanalyzethesimilaritiesanddifferencesonfoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandChinese,andanalyzing
4、thecausesofthesimilaritiesanddifferences.Through16analyzingsomeexamples,thisthesiswouldliketomakesurethatEnglishlearnerscanunderstandandusetherelatedfoodidiomsbetter,soastohelpthemunderstandwellabouttheEnglishandChineseculture,andtoachievesuccessinlanguagecommunication
5、.【Keywords】foodidioms;similarities;differences1.IntroductionAlthoughtherearesomedifferentexplainbothinEnglishandChineseidioms,therearesomesimilarities.Thatis,idiomsregardedasanimportantpartoflanguagevocabulary.Idiomisalanguageinacertainculturalbackgroundandhasdeveloped
6、andrefinedinthelong-termuseoftheprocessandtheformationoffixedcollocation,languagestructureandspecificthemeaningofaphraseorasentence.MaGuofan(1959)pointsoutthat“idiom”canbedefinedbothbroadlyandnarrowly.Anidiomisacombinationoftwoormorewordswhichfunctionsasaunitofmeaning(
7、Cowie,1975).Sincethe1970s,althoughmanyscholarshave16carriedoutextensiveresearchonthesimilarityanddifferencebetweenEnglishandChineseidioms,andhasmadealotofresearchresults.Mostofthemstudyfromtranslation,culture,rhetoric,butresearchoncomparisonfoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandC
8、hineseinvolveisless.ThisthesisbeginsresearchontheoriginoffoodidiomsbetweenEnglishandChinese,andstudythesimilarityandd