题目（英文）On the differences of animal idioms between English and Chinese
题目（中文）英汉动物习语的差异
Abstract
Animal idioms is an important part of idioms，it has a special connotation. Through the explanation of the social foundation, structural characteristics and connotation expression of animal idioms in Eastern and Western cultures, we can have a preliminary understanding of animal idioms. At the same time, people use the characteristics of animals, such as diligence, courage, power and hypocrisy and so on, to compare human qualities, we find that animal idioms have some similarities in the connotation of English and Chinese languages, but their connotations are not completely the same due to the differences in language and cultural environment. Therefore, the differences between Chinese and English animal idioms are summarized, to further understand the influence of different language and cultural environments, including different political, economic, religious beliefs, living environment, thinking habits, etc., the most typical cultural environment is political history, the economic life, social customs, religion ancient books and fable. By comparing the four different language environments and feeling the different national cultural characteristics of English and Chinese animal idioms, learner can deepen the understanding of the differences in the connotations of English and Chinese animal idioms and improve learners' intercultural communication ability.
Keywords：Animal Idiom; difference; Western culture; Eastern culture; connotation
Contents
Abstract I
Contents I
Introduction 1
1.Overview of Eastern and Western cultures animal Idioms 2
1.1The social foundation for the formulation of animal idioms 2
1.2The structural features of animal idioms 3
1.3Expression of animal idioms connotation……………………………………3
2. Comparison of the Differences between Animal cultures of the East and the West 3
2.1The equivalent in the connotation of the same animal idiom 4
2.2The asymmetry in the connotation of the same animal idiom……… 5
3.The effect of different influence factors of Eastern and Western culture 6
3.1Political history………………………………………………………………6
3.2Economic life…………………………………………………………………6
3.3Social custom…………………………………………………………………7
3.4Religion ancient books and fables…………………………………………7
4.Conclusion 8
References 9
