从“吃”开头的VO式词语看思维的隐喻性与语言的经济性

On the Metaphorical Characteristic of Thinking and Economy of Language from the Perspective of V-O-Structured Expressions Beginning with " chi"

文章通过考察以“吃”开头的VO式词语,发现众多并不表示可食之物的名词成分可以以受事宾语身份出现在“吃”后,其原因可能在于人类思维的隐喻性以及语言经济性原则。

This paper deals with the V - 0 - Structured expressions beginning with ＂chi＂（eat）. There are a lot of nouns which do not stand for edible foods can appear as receive objects after ＂chi＂. The reason may be： human beings＇thinking is metaphorical and language is economical.