动物.颜色.十二生肖.ppt

2.2 Color Terms in Chinese  and English Group Work 1.红糖 2.红茶 3.眼红 4.开门红 5.红白喜事 1. brown sugar 2. black-tea 3. green-eyed 4. to begin well, to make a good start 5. weddings and funerals 1. 清白 2.白眼 3.青天 4.背黑锅 5.黄色书刊 1.pure/clean/stainless 2.supercilious look 3.blue sky 4.be made a scapegoat/ be unjustly blamed 5.filthy books blue book a blue Monday a white lie a green wound red-letter days 蓝皮书（美）刊载知名人士的书 倒霉的星期一 善意的谎言 新伤，未痊愈的伤口 喜庆的日子 Translating the Underlined Part 1) He’s just a green recruit fresh from college 2) I tried to call her many times but she was in a brown study(出神) and didn’t hear me 3) One day, out of the blue(突然地，意外地), a girl rang up and said she was my sister 4) The new office block has unfortunately become an expensive white elephant (华而不实的东西) 5 Mary was always regarded as the black sheep（败家子） of the family 6 You’d better do something to prove you’re not yellow.(胆怯) 7 Can you see the green in her eyes? 8 The mere thought of her husband with the secretary made her see yellow. （愤怒） 9) I got some black(敌视的目光) looks from the shopkeeper when I cancelled my order. 10) When I’m feeling blue, all I have to do is take a look at you, and then I’m not so blue 11) Don’t tell me any white lie to make me feel good 12) It may cost over a week to go through all the red tape(繁文缛节) to get permission 13 His type of humor is a bit too black for my tastes.（不合口味） 14 Are you all right?– You look absolutely green.（苍白的） 15 He based his judgment on headlines and yellow journalism yellow journalism 指不择手段的夸张，渲染以招揽或影响读者的黄色新闻编辑作风。如突出社会丑闻，把普通新闻写得耸人听闻，有时甚至歪曲事实以引起轰动等。 Exercise Work together to make a tentative summary of the potential cultural implications of the following color terms. Red Yellow Green Blue Black White Sharing Knowledge: Language as an environment Color Chinese English Red lucky, revolution, progressive, successful strength, health, vigor, sexual love, passion, protection, courage, danger, warning, anger, fire Y