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1. Introduction Language is a kind of tool for people to communicate with each other and is also a very important part of the culture. Different languages are restricted by various national cultures, reflecting their own cultural content. Color is closely related to our daily life with abundant culture connotation, which is a crucial object for language, culture and translation. “Color word” indicates the word which is used to stand for a kind of color. This definition is well known throughout the word, but “color words do not necessarily mean the same thing as colorful terms. Colorful English may appear as idioms or in figurative expressions, while color words are words which simply show different colors. Like the onomatopoeic word, a color word has little merit in itself. Only when it suggests the image of the original, or fortifies the sense in the version, it has value in translation.” (Xiao Junshi, P173, 1982) Obviously, as a part of words, color terms are used in writing to transmit information. In physics, it stands for the color reflected by objects. Color words are used frequently in the translation of English and Chinese. We use some basic words to convey the meaning of the color words. Because of the differences of customs, culture, history, geography, etc, the personality” becomes obvious. 2 Literature Review 2.1Research Background A language not only expresses facts, ideas, or events which represent similar world knowledge by its people, but also reflects the people’s attitudes, beliefs, and world outlooks etc. People of different cultures structure the world around them differently, at least in the language they use to describe that world. Languages differ enormously from one another, and these differences are related to important differences in the customs and behaviors and other aspects of the cultures in which those language reside. In a word, language is a mirror of culture.　　 When we learn a new word we tend to look for its meaning in the word its