动物词语（Animal words）.doc

动物词语（Animal words） I. about animal words Because of the close relationship between human beings and animals, people gradually understand the related habits of animals in the process of long-term taming and rearing of animals, thus increasing the number of words and idioms about animals. With the deepening of exchanges between countries, the transformation between different languages is particularly important, but due to gas location, customs, religious beliefs, people treat the same kind of animals views and attitudes are not the same, the same animal represented in different cultural connotations in the meaning of may big difference, this requires us in the translation of words and idioms and animal related, must adopt different translation methods, namely, domestication and foreignization, the only way to appropriately convey the original meaning, so that readers can identify and understand the translation, so as to achieve better purpose of cultural exchange. Two, the cultural connotations of animal words (1) humanism in the cultural connotations of animal words; The language of each nation is not only a symbol or a communication tool, but the national understanding, elaborated the world a system of meaning and value system, so the language of humanity -- neither language is viewed as an objective, static, isolated, cold and self-sufficient in the form of the object, and the language as a person involved in the care, and humanistic environment is dynamic, the content process and the expression of the self. (Shen Xiaolong, 1995) animal words and phrases are important materials in English and Chinese languages, and their cultural connotations have distinctive humanity. Such as: Ass donkey, fool, fool! Bear bear; a rude person; a clumsy person Bee - bees; busy people Bird - a bird; (slang), girl guy. Dog - dogs; (slang) prostitutes Dragon - the dragon; a person; a hard man Duck - a duck; (a mouth) dear; (Mei Li) a fellow Ferret - ferrets; searchers; Scouts Fox - Fox