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B.A. Thesis: Cultural Consideration and Translation of Animal Idioms in English and Chinese Author: ZHU Meihua PAGE  PAGE 11 Introduction 章标题字号为二号，加粗，章标题与章编号之间的空格为2。即按2下空格键即可。下段与章标题间要空一行。所有的起始段落首行空4字符，即按4下空格键即可。如下所示。 本章为引言部分，只有一个标题，再没有节标题出现。 When we see these phrases as: as cunning as a fox, as fat as a pig, as mild as a lamb and so on in English, （标点后必须空一格）we Chinese find it easy to understand. Because we also have the same sayings as “像狐狸一样狡猾，肥得像猪”and “像羔羊那样温驯”.(文中汉语例句或例词用全角状态上引号标出) But when we are confronted with such kind of phrases as: a lion in the way, a drowned rat, as stupid as a goose, etc. we will feel too strange and difficult to accept them. Why do they use “lion” when we say “tiger”, and “rat” and “goose” in English instead of “chicken” and “pig” in Chinese respectively? From these phenomena, we may put forward some meaningful research. The fact is that there are so many animal words and idioms both in Chinese and English, and the understanding of the phrases and sayings are extremely difficult for language learners. Except that a fraction of them have counterparts both in Chinese and English, many animal idioms are totally different and therefore we are justified to make an attempt to investigate this phenomenon. Animals are very close to human beings. As human society develops and progresses, some animals have become domestic fowl, some are kept in zoological gardens for people to watch, some especially lovely ones have fortunately become people’s pet animals. Animals are gaining more and more popularity among human beings. The idiom consists of metaphorical phrases, slang, colloquialism, and proverb, etc. in English. In Chinese we mean “熟语” or “习语”. Chapitre1 Similar Connotations of Animal Sayings(另起一页) Levin Rappaport(1986) holds the view that an idiom may have a similar counterpart in the target language. Let’s see some interesting examples in the two languages first. The English has the phrase “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”. Its