CuluralDifferencesbeweenEnglishandChineseIdioms_开题报告

Every culture have his history and social background, every country is, we are also the same. Like our ancient classics, it built under the certain historical condition, we have our soil, as our special peony, it may not take root in a foreign country, it presents its elegant, only in the local natural conditions. Western culture as well, so showing differences between east and west culture. When we learn English and put it to use, we must pay more attention to the cultural difference between the west and the east and we must show more concerns for the local customs. If we only learn the language itself, we can’ t really understand it and use it fluently .So it is necessary for us to pay more attention to the differences between English and Chinese idioms in learning English. Later, I will discuss the differences between English and Chinese idioms from the aspects of different living circumstances, different cognitions of things, different religions and beliefs, and different historical allusions and myths. But first I shall provide some background.

English idioms and Chinese idioms are gems of the two languages as well as the crystallization of the two national cultures. Most of idioms are of vivid images which are appropriately used to compare to other things, consequently, they often contain distinctive national and local colors. Some idioms have quite clear meanings, some are implicit and profound, which could cause a great deal of association, while others may include several meanings, which depend on the context to define its real indication. According to OXFORD ADVANCED LEARNERS’S English-Chinese Dictionary written by A.S.Hornby and Shi Xiaoshu(2004), an idiom is “a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words”.