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1、IntroductionEnglishidiomsareconsideredasthemostactivepartofEnglishlanguage,andtheyarewidelyusedinpeople’sdailylife,newspaper,magazine,broadcastingandTVmedia.Itisquitedifficulttogiveacleardefinitiontotheword“idiom”,foritpossessesseveralmeanings,whichmightcauseconfusion.Itmaymeanthelan
2、guageofapeopleoracountry,oradialect,oralinguisticusagethatdefiesgrammaticalanalysis.Butthemostsuitabledefinitionforthispaperisasfollows.“Idiomisanexpressionestablishedinthelongusageofalanguagethatispeculiartoitselfeitheringrammaticalconstructionorinhavingameaningthatcannotbederivedas
3、awholefromtheconjoinedmeaningsofitselements.”Englishidioms,inabroadsense,includeidiomaticphrase,proverbs,colloquialismsandslangs.Incomparison,theChineseequivalentfor“idiom”is“習(xí)語”.Itmeansakindofsetphraseorsentence,which,likeastockexpression,isoftenquotedbythecommonpeople.Chineseidioms
4、canberoughlydividedinto“setphrases”(成語),“commonsayings”(俗語),“proverbs”(諺語),“atwo-partallegoricalsaying”(歇后語),and“vulgarexpression”（粗俗語)Fromtheabovedefinitionsandclassificationswecanextractthreebasiccharacteristicsofidioms.(1)Anidiomisaspecialformoflanguage.Anidiommustbewellestablishe
5、dandacceptedthroughcommonpractice.Itstandsasawhole.Sonoelementinanidiomcanbechanged.Inmanycases,idiomsholdimpliedmeanings,andcannotbeinterpretedjustaccordingtotheirliteralmeanings.(2)Anidiomisthecrystallizationoflanguage.Languagegivesbirthtoidioms.Italsopolishesidioms.Refinedbylongus
6、ageidiomshavebeendescribedasthecoreoflanguage.(3)Anidiomistherepresentativeofalanguage.ThoughbothBritishandChinese18peopleuseidiomsandgivethealmostsamedefinitionofidioms,wecannotequalthetwoidioms,fortheirrangesaredifferent.Asanimportantmeansofspreading,retaininglanguageandculture,idi
7、omscontainrichculturalfactorsthemselves.Fromthispointofview,itistotallywrongtostudylanguagebyisolatingidiomsfromthewholeculturalbackgroundofonelanguage.WecansavemanydifficultiesbymasteringEnglishidiomsandlearnthemwell.18Chapter1TheRelationshipBetweenIdiomsandCultureIdiomaticexpressio
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