英语习语的特点及其翻译.docVIP

PAGE 本科毕业设计 （论文） 题　　目：The Characteristics of English Idioms ＿ and Their Translation ＿ ＿英语习语的特点及其翻译＿ Acknowledgements This thesis owes thanks to many of my teachers, classmates and friends who have given me intellectual and personal guidance and support during its production. First and foremost, I would like to express my heart-felt gratitude to my supervisor, Ms Feng Weilan, who has offered me valuable suggestions and guided me through the various stages of this study. During the preparation of the thesis, she introduced me some useful references and material resources. She has spent much time reading each draft and provided me with a lot of advice. Without her encouragement and support, this thesis would have been impossible. My special thanks also go to all the teachers in the English Department of Shanghai University of Electric Power, who have instructed and helped me a lot in the past four years. All of them have contributed to my present thesis in one way or another. Finally, I want to give thanks to my beloved parents for their endless love and continuing support, without which this thesis would have been much harder to complete. Moreover, I would like to thank my friends and classmates who have been with me for this delighted four years and gave me a lot of encouragements and confidence. Abstract Idiom is a vivid form of language, which is carried out by all human beings throughout the long-term social practice with their wisdom and sweat. It is also the crystallization of the human wisdom, gemstones in literature and art, galaxy of philosophic life. In certain sense, they could be totally considered as a small encyclopedia of a nation’s morals, experience and knowledge. Most of the English idioms are all with distinct images and are always used to compare different things. That is why a strong ethnic color and local color can often be seen in English idioms. The meaning of English Idioms varies from one to an