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《学术论文写作》 课程论文 题 目： 与“羊”相关的中英文习语 专 业： 英 语 学生姓名： 学 号： 课程序号： 3245 编 号： 36 完成时间： 2011 年 6 月 成 绩： 教师签名：  Idioms Related to Sheep in English and Chinese Abstract: Language and culture are interwoven with each other, as an important part in idioms, animal idioms reflect the cultural characters distinctively in both Chinese and English, and have rich expressiveness. This paper focuses on sheep related idioms, and discuss sheep’s image, economic, religion, and history reflecting in idioms. The purpose is to better understand cultural elements and meanings of idioms and improve intercultural communicative competence. Key words: Animal Idioms; Sheep; Cultural Characters 与“羊”相关的中英文习语 摘要：语言和文化是密不可分的，作为习语中的一个重要组成部分，动物习语鲜明地体现了汉语与英语语言的文化特色，并具有丰富的表现力。本文从与羊有关的习语入手，探讨羊的形象、经济、宗教和历史在习语中的映射，更好地了解其文化因素及意义，提高跨文化交际能力。 关键词：；；Idioms Related to Sheep in English and Chinese 1. Introduction What does idiom mean? It means a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words (qtd. in Ai Suping 183). There are many animal related idioms in both English and Chinese, and sheep is a typical kind of animal. For the relationship between human life and sheep is so close that the idioms about it have become an integral part of human culture. “Without idioms our language would become dull and dry, whereas an appropriate use of them in our speech and writing will add to the strength and vividness of our language” (Yu Fumin and Guo Shanglian 1). They have the properties of profound moral, brevity, expressiveness and rich cultural connotation. Vivid image of sheep, prominent features, are often used to describe the quality and personality of something and somebody, so it’s more vivid. This paper will focus on sheep related idioms by introducing reflection of sheep’s image, economic, religion, and history in them. To learn and study animal idioms by studying the associative meaning of sheep, sheep’s image both in English and Chinese idiom