Idiom, namely the idiomatic phrases, is a unique fixed expression in the course of the formation of a language and is the fixed phrases, phrases, or short sentences used and refined out of a language over a long period of time....

Idioms are the stable forms of expression formed in the process of language use. They are the essence of intelligence. Different idioms have different characteristics; we should treat them differently when using different idioms. Idioms in d...

Like the above mentioned scholars, many other scholars have done researching on English idioms. However, the translation of the English idioms is a history problem, how to translate it well not only need know translation skills, ...

　　　 Language is a component of culture and plays an important role in it, and language is influenced and reflected by culture. Idioms, which belong to vocabulary, are part of language. Animal idioms which are full of animal images cons...

In this paper, the author tries to study idioms and the content schema together, and attempts to find the relations between them. The author hopes that this study can enrich and facilitate idiom translation and its further study. ...

Cultural contrast should be incorporated into the foreign language teaching curriculum. During cross-cultural communication one should seek common ground while acknowledging the differences, and keep flexible. This thesis is aimed to give ad...

This paper discusses the relationship between language and culture to reveal that the language in culture plays an important role and help to develop the language of culture. We can learn the cultural differences between English and Chinese ...

　This paper attempts to grammatically classify those idioms from the Greek and Roman myths and discuss how Greek and Roman myths were applied in the English language, especially English idioms. English idioms also convey the cultural value...

this paper will take idioms of Hong Lou Meng for example to explain how can translator infer the communicative intention of the original writer from the source text and convey it correctly to the target language readers and achieve optimal r...

As the development of science and technology, the world is coming smaller and smaller. The communication between different countries gets more frequent. And then translation is regarded to be the very important tool for communication natural...

Human beings and animals coexist in the world, and closely connected with each other. Therefore, people use the idioms with animals frequently. Idioms with animals are important components of idioms. The Chinese Zodiac is a typical represent...

Because of the same brain structure(which is the organ of thought) and external environments, people with various cultural backgrounds may share common understanding of most concepts, i.e. metaphors in different nations may have similar cult...

This thesis, very tentatively, proposes to apply functional equivalence theory to E-C idiom translation, because a good translaton consists in reproducing the closest natural equivalent of the source idioms in the target language, firstly in...

This essay will discuss about the cultural functional equivalence from the following aspects, the definition of the English idiom, cultural orientation and mistranslation, techniques of idioms translation and English idioms and customs....

　In this study, we firstly summarize correlative literatures, and make them as a theoretical frame for this study to comprehend formal English idiom. We take [the X-er, the Y-er] for example and find out that it is feasible to comprehend f...

In addition, this dissertation will be carried out System Analysis Approach and Exploratory Research to analyze the DOG idioms which are selected as the analysis examples. It is hoped that the findings of this dissertation will provide insig...

Along with the development and maturity of theories on translation, a growing interest among translators has emerged to explore the untranslatability in translation. Translators gradually begin to explore the translation limitations from the...