英汉动物习语比喻形象的文化差异

通过对英汉语动物习语比喻形象的对比研究 ,探讨英汉两种语言所负载的文化信息差异 ,从人类文化进化的二重性、人类赖以生存的地理环境以及不同民族的审美观等角度分析了导致这些差异的原因 ,并由此得出结论 :在进行跨文化交际时 ,不仅要准确无误地传达语言信息 ,更要重视隐含在语言里的文化信息传递。

The Cultural Dissimilarities between English and Chinese Languages from the Angle of the Figurative Images used in Animal Idioms

This article probes into the cultural differences between English and Chinese languages, by way of a comparative and contrastive study on the figurative images of animal idioms in English and Chinese languages. It analyzes the origin of the differences from the development of human cultural evolution, the geographical environment and the various tastes of different nationalities. Thus it draws a conclusion that we should pay more attention to the conveying of the implied cultural information when we transmit language information in cross cultural communication.