浅析英汉谚语的相同点与不同点.DOCVIP

A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Proverbs Acknowledgements In writing this paper, I have benefited from the presence of my dear classmates. They generously helped me collect materials I needed and gave me the invaluable suggestions. I hereby extend my grateful thanka to them for their kind help, without which the paper would not have been what it is. Particularly, I am deeply indebted to teacher ***, my supervisor, who guided me throughtout my writing of this thesis. He carefully read the whole draft and offered painstaking and precious criticism. His standards of academic excellence have made my revision an exciting and gratifying experience. I also wish to sincerely thank my cassmates and friends Zhang Yang and Zhang Weibing, whose brilliant ideas and perceptive have proved immensely constructive. My parents took good care of my life and gave me a lot of encouragement when I was working at this thesis. They always share my weal and woe. I feel much grateful and heartily owe achievement to them. Lastly, I aslo thank to my school ***** Abstract Proverbs are the cream of a language. They reflect the relationship between language and culture. Human beings’ common social activities are in many aspects similar, so English and Chinese proverbs have similarities. Because of the cultural differences, English and Chinese proverbs have differences in their detailed contents. The author compares their similarities and differences and also proposes that English and Chinese proverbs will break the boundary and accomplish interfusion. English and Chinese proverbs have similar origin and similar linguistic characters. They both originate from folk life, mythology, literary works and from other languages. Differences between English and Chinese proverbs also exist. That is different geography; different history customs; different religions and different value concepts. So it is not a easy job for translation between Chinese and English proverb