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Acknowledgements First and foremost, my heart-felt gratitude goes to my respectable supervisor Professor Zhou Fangzhu, whose academic achievements and great personality impress me deeply. To ensure the smoothness of this thesis, he spent a large amount of time reading it again and again and infused it with sparkling ideas at the same time. Without his guidance and encouragement, my thesis could never have taken the present shape. Likewise, I‟d like to thank all the teachers of the School of Foreign Studies, Anhui University, especially those professors who have given lectures to me. They are Professor Zhu Yue, Professor Hu Jian and Professor Yang Ling and so on. Their matchless proficiency in their respective professional field and scientific methods on doing research benefited me a great deal. They together helped me lay a solid foundation of my major. Memories of their teamwork and patience will be engraved on my mind. Last but not least, I ‟d like to attribute all the achievements to my parents. Without their painstaking efforts and tremendous sacrifice, I couldn‟t have had the opportunity to receive such an education and have the ease to finish this thesis. The indebtedness to them would stimulate me to further efforts in the future. i Abstract In the West, with the in-depth study of the classic poetry, rhetoric and oratory ever since Aristotle, the unique characteristics of metaphor has become more and more apparent, which has resulted in large-scale research in theory and finally developed into a “mania” of some sort in recent decades. This phenomenon attracts m