英语里有关动物的隐喻.pptVIP

Lion For most Westerners , the lion is the king of the beasts. The lion usually symbolizes confidence, strength and authority.But when we translate some sentences into Chinese,we always use tiger instead of it. as bold as a lion. 如老虎凶猛 a lion in the way. 拦路虎 an ass in a lions skin 狐假虎威 Cow/Heifer heifer小母牛;漂亮姑娘 She has grown into a heifer.她已出落成漂亮姑娘。 cow母牛;肥胖而不整洁的女人 The old lady is a cow． 那个老妇人是个肥胖而不整洁的人 Dinosaur Pig/Hog/Swine pigs might fly 无稽之谈,奇迹可能会发生 Mr.Chan is a road hog,he is always impolite to other road-users and speeds on the road 陈先生是一個路霸,他對其他道路使用者極不禮貌,又經常超速駕駛。 to cast pearls before swine 对牛弹琴 * * * * it seems that the lion is usually used to describe men Also therere a lot of words of animals are used to describe women,and some of them more or lsee have sexual discrimination.here i will use 2 examples to analyze it and like we always described a women who are badly ugly we said she is an drangon maybe thats why the dragon is an unlucky thing to the westerns. It seems that people really have no good impressions on pigs.Although they look pretty cute on the picture. 百兽之王 互动 * Tiger in English culture is a symbol of cruelty, cunning ape is representative of idiom have a tiger by the tail literally means to seize the tigers tail, meaning that a dangerous thing to do, and the Chinese riding a tiger very close. Tiger is very dangerous, and often metaphor indicates a potentially huge threat or have a very difficult problem to solve. * A dark horse 不一定是馬，而是指有本事而深藏不露的人(我有很多「黑馬」學生：他們具備無限潛能，只待發掘。 * 百兽之王 * Contents: Lion Cow/Heifer Dinosaur Dragon Pig/Hog/swine Tiger Horse Wolf Bear Ostrich Metaphor of big animals such as---- Cow And, as we chinese always described a woman who are ugly, we said she is a dinosaur. In english, thedragon means who,especially women, are very fierce. For example： His wife is an absolute dragon! ---他的老婆是个十足的母夜叉! Dragon Thats quiet different from Chinese in which the