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管理学家 2010.05 A Contractive Study of English and Chinese Idioms Containing Animal Names 唐怿春/ 四川建筑职业技术学院 【 Abstract 】 Idioms are a rich treasure-house in both Chinese and English languages. Chinese and English idioms are colorful and vividly reflect their particular ethnic culture. Their cultural implication meanings are less the same than different. In this paper, from a cultural point of view and under the guidance of the theories of some scientific disciplines, such as culture of language, science of intercul- tural interaction, lexicology, it aims at analyzing Chinese and English idioms, whose major object is to compare that the words in Chinese and English idioms are the same on the surface but different in meaning, and that different Chinese and English idioms expressions show the same or similar meaning, reveal the ethnic cultural characteristic that the idioms embody, and set conflicting relevance between the language culture differences. So it can make people understand cultural connotations of Chine and English idioms more accurately and more deeply for better intercultural interaction. 【Key Words 】idioms;different;culture;comparative 一 、I n t r o d u ct i o n s Culture as defined by Nida is “the totality of beliefs and practice It is known that, in the English and Chinese languages (E/C), idioms of society, permeate every corner of the society, and in turn the different are widely used. They are passed from generation to generation without culture may conflict everywhere in the form of concept, language, and changing, even some idioms are grammatically wrong. Idioms are the behavior. When one doing translation, whether one could do a good job