汉英“颜色词”情感体现的初浅对比.docVIP

汉英“颜色词”情感体现的初浅对比 　 内容摘要: 通过对比法,结合他人已有的研究,本文初浅地探讨了汉英“颜色词” 在个人情感情绪和性格品行的表达方面的选词习惯上的异同,从而揭示中西文化内涵的差异#65377; 　　关键词: 颜色词 情感情绪 性格品行 文化内涵 　　 　　Abstract: By means of contrast, basing on those ready source of research, this thesis has a brief view on the different collections of vocabulary of color terms between Chinese and English, and makes a comparison of culture in China and English-speaking countries from the three directions: the emotion, character and quality of the human. 　　Key Words: color terms emotion character quality cultural information 　　情感情绪的表达, 我们都不陌生, 但是下面这句话里的情绪词你能全部找出来, 并正确翻译吗? Mr. White is a very white man. He was looking rather green the other day. He has been feeling blue lately. When I saw him, he was in a brown mood. I hope he’ll soon be in the pink again. 在这里, 不再是我们熟悉的那些形容词, 而是一系列的颜色词#65377;颜色对人的情绪产生很大的影响, 并产生许多联想意义#65377;所以人们常用颜色来喻指人的情绪#65380;情感#65380;性格及品质#65377;在这个十分典型的例子里, 整个句子因为 white(忠实可靠),green(脸色不好),feel blue(闷闷不乐),in a brown mood(心事重重),be in the pink again(振作起来)这几个颜色词的加入而倍添情趣, 如此一来, 在阅读当中, 不一样的情绪词汇表达给读者带来非常多的新鲜感, 颜色词又直接造成视觉上的冲击, 并引起了丰富的思维联想, 随之而来的就是理解后的会心一笑和拍案叫绝#65377; 　　在英汉语言中都有大量的用颜色来表示情绪状态#65380;情感和品行的词, 但其用词选择的习惯有异有同#65377;下面我们来具体搜索一下关于情绪心态品行的颜色词, 通过这些例子我们来初步感受一下颜色词的视觉联想所带来的情感含义和文化内涵#65377; 　　A. Red (红色) 红色的象征意义有fire and passion(火和热情), energy and strength (能量和力量)#65377;红色是比较强烈的色彩, 而它的联想意义也相对是比较激烈的情绪#65377;比如说“生气”#65380; “愤怒”, 汉语中有某人“气得脸通红”; 英语中也用red, 如Her criticisms were enough to make anyone see red. 她那些批评任谁都得火冒三丈#65377;The mere mention of his enemy’s name is like waving a red flag to him. 仅是提及敌人的名字就足以使他发火#65377;汉语中用“脸红”来指“不好意思”#65380;“难为情”#65380;“发窘”#65377;英语中也相应有:He became red faced./Her face turned red when bombarded with such an embarrassing question. 但同样表示害羞或紧张或激动情绪的“红脖子”却与 redneck完全是两码子事#65377; redneck是个形容词, 意思是“反对的 (reactionary)”#65377; 在美语中原是指美国南方农场工人(Southern farmers of U.S.A), 经常带贬义#65377; 后来由此派生“redneckery”一词, 指“持反对态度”#65377;英语中红色又和暴力血腥有关, 有骚动狂躁之感, 如red ruin火灾; red battle血战#65377;对美国印第安人来说, 红色意味着灾难; 在中国, 红色