DerivaionandTranslaionofEnglishPhrasalLieraryQuoaions_开题报告

Journals reviewed 

Background and significance: 

idioms are an important part of the social language and culture, is a part of the unchangeable phrase or phrases in the language vocabulary. It has the fixed structure style and parlance, indicate a certain meaning. A large part of the idioms follow down from ancient times, often devote particular care in wording, it represents a story or literary quotations. However, compared with Chinese, English has its own idioms and forming characteristics, and have their origin and derivation, with more allusions of idioms in general. Idioms appear more vivid, concise and bright in the language expression. Western culture has a long history with rich content. Most allusions of idioms originated from historical stories, fables, myths, legends, folk customs, ancient famous works, animals, names, place names, the Bible and the Greek mythology. After a long period of spread, in the process of precipitation, profound meaning, simple structure, easy application, all reflect a nation's cultural characteristics. Because of the disunity of the local language and different context, idioms change by the difference of territorial environment, but change ten thousand miles without departing from the original meaning, so the translation of idioms become more important. How to put these idioms into proper Chinese for discussing? Through understanding and learning the derivation and translation of English idioms, can we  learn the degree of English affected the world culture soon, and also learn English culture well, and use the idioms flexibly. Then we will get along very well with our article style of conversation and become an independent school!

Research status and development trend at home and abroad:

The English idiom is a key and difficult point in English language learning. And it is also an important and indispensable part of the modern English vocabulary. The difficulty for the learning of English is there's a large amount of idioms in the language. Foreign researches mainly focus on the classification and definition of idioms. For example, Chomsky, Numberg and Cruse focuses on the semantic and syntactic idioms, but the Fernando study the use function of idioms in the language environment, he pays attention to the idioms in language communication. But domestic research on English idioms mainly focus on the cultural connotation and translation of English idioms.

Nowadays, with the development of the world, people's thinking is more open, and have the courage to accept anything, learning English is not a difficult desire to achieve. It is easy to be surrounded by the upsurge of English to learn all aspects of English knowledge, it makes our minds open up. But for learners, English idioms is a complicated aspect in English learning, which involves the cultural connotation and translation and derivation. In order to make people more convenient to learn idioms knowledge, to better understand and master English idioms, learners should have a clear understanding of derivation and translation of English idioms, so as to use them better.

Thesis proposal

1. Introduction 

2. General Knowledge of English Phrasal Literary Quotations 

  2.1 Definition of English Phrasal Literary Quotations 

3. The Source of English Phrasal Literary Quotations 

  3.1 From the Historical Stories 

  3.2 From the Fables 

  3.3 From the Myths 

  3.4 From the Folk Custom 

  3.5 From the Ancient Masterpieces 

  3.6 From the Animals 

  3.7 From the Bible and Greek Mythology 

4. Translation of English Phrasal Literary Quotations 

  4.1 Literal Translation 

  4.2 liberal translation 

  4.3. Usage of synonymous idioms 

  4.4 Interpretation method 

  4.5 Addition 

5. Conclusion

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