英语谚语欣赏

英语中谚语是经过锤炼,考验,浓缩了语言的精华。从五个方面对英语谚语进行归类。首先从修辞方面来谈起,运用比喻手法的英语谚语又可分为四点。一是同一喻体,不同的比喻;二是比喻相似的谚语,意义未必一样,要具体分析;三是反义谚语;四是意义上相互联系的谚语。第二部分列举了含有动物的谚语表达;第三部分结合汉语分析了英语谚语与汉语谚语相对应的问题,第四部分专门收集了一些来自《圣经》的部分谚语,最后从文化背景入手来欣赏英语谚语中丰富的文化内涵。

Appreciation about English Proverbs

Foreign language has been a tool that the mankind drew the spiritual nutrition and culture with indispensable scientific and technological development. And the proverbs in English have absorbed the essence of the language. To answer the question of how to appreciate the surprising clever saying of foreignlanguage, this essay describes in 5 aspects. First of all, appreciate its rhetoric techniques. English proverbs which adopt the analogy can again be classified into 4 points. First, those utiling the objects indicates different meanings; Secondly, the proverbs which look similar in analogy do not necessarily show similar meaning and they should be understood in certain contexts; Thirdly: proverbs of opposite meaning; Fourth, proverbs which are associated with each other. Next, this paper lists many expressions concerning animals. The third part, is about the problems of equivalence between English proverbs and Chinese ones. Then comes the collection of the proverbs from Bible. Last, appreciate the proverbs from its culture background.