A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Idioms_英语专业毕业论文.docVIP

A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Idioms 【关键词】定义；相似点；不同点 Ⅰ.IntroductionThe English language contains many common quotes, saying, aphorisms and other idiomatic expressions of different sorts. In the Chinese language such expressions are referred to as idioms,?“ready phrases”. These idioms are often written in classical Chinese grammar and usually consist of four characters. The Chinese language is rich in vocabulary, phases, and idioms. As a form of set phrases, Chinese idioms are in wide use and occupy an important place in the language as a whole. Concise yet meaningful, they give certain specific facts, carry certain moral teachings or suggest certain particular images, thus constituting an only characteristic of the Chinese language. This paper gives a compare between English and Chinese idioms to show difference between each culture.II. The English and Chinese Idioms?A. The Definition of Idioms1. Definition of Idioms?What is an idiom? And how do we judge whether an expression is an idiom or not?First let us look at how the term?“idiom” is defined by some authorized English dictionaries:It defines an idiom as?“?⑴ language of a people or country; specific character of this,?⑵ succession of words whose meaning is not obvious through knowledge of the individual meaning of the constituent words but must be learnt as a whole.” 1.And it defines an idiom as:?“?⑴ the language or dialect of a people, region, class, etc.?⑵ the usual way in which the words of a particular language are joined together to express thought,??⑶ a phrase, construction or expression that is recognized as a unit in the usage of a given language and either differs from the usual syntactic patterns or has a meaning that differs from the literal meaning of its parts taken together,?⑷ the style of expression characteristic of an individual,?⑸ a characteristic style, as in art or music.” 2.From the above dictionaries,?⑴,?⑵and?⑶most suits the purpose of the discussion. The idio