analysis of the english language in different plants figurative meaning of words（分析英语语言在不同植物比喻词的意义）.doc

Analysis of the English language in different plants figurative meaning of words Paper Keywords: English language figurative meaning of plant Abstract: In the English language, to plants and trees such as the metaphor of statement by the body language is a common phenomenon. In this paper, the words in the English plant contains different figurative meaning to explore, analyze plant in terms of Western cultural differences. English language has many flowers and trees as a metaphor to the body through the phenomenon of statement. Different ethnic groups with different plants to the sustenance of their emotions, the same plant in different ethnic groups may have different terms of associative meaning. Chinese and English have a long history, belong to different language, although the literal meaning of some words are similar, but their culture has different connotations such as ‘Willow’ and ‘willow’ (willow literally the same in both English and Chinese language the ‘sad’ means, but their culture is different. ‘Willow’ in Chinese symbol of grief caused by the parting, for example, Liu Yong’s ‘willow shore, Xiaofeng moon’, lt;lt;The Book of Songs Pluckinggt;gt; in the ‘past me to the men, Yang Liu Yiyi, today I Come, rain and snow started falling,’ it is this parting thoughts to express feelings, while in English the ‘willow’ hidden ‘death’ means, ‘wear the willow ‘means’ mourning, mourning, ‘or’ mourning the death of love ‘in Chinese, no such meaning. Others, such as chrysanthemum, Meng’s lt;lt;over the enemy villagegt;gt; wrote:’ Until the Double Ninth Day, but also to the Chrysanthemum, ‘Tao praise it as’ Chen Huai show this posture, Zhuo Jie frost ‘, so called chrysanthemum as’ cream-kit ‘, the ancient myths and legends of chrysanthemum has been given a meaning auspicious longevity, while in Western countries, daisy on behalf of sadness, only at the funeral before they take chrysanthemum, so the Western people are completely different from Chines