英汉数字习语与文化关系

On the Relationship between the Chinese and English Numerical Idioms and Their Respective Cultures

语言是文化传承的载体,英汉数字习语在英汉两种语言的发展过程中起着重要的作用,它们承载着英汉两个民族鲜明的民族特点和独特的思维方式。英汉数字习语与各自文化相连,存在于宗教信仰、美学观念、神话、社会风俗和地理环境等各个社会领域,深刻折射出了英汉民族文化的传统和特色。

Language is the carrier of cultural heritage,especially the Chinese numerical idioms and English numerical idioms play a very significant role in the development of the two languages,which bear distinct national characteristics and unique thinking patterns in their respective cultures.These two kinds of numerical idioms are associated with their own cultural connotations,exist in religious beliefs,aesthetic perceptions,mythologies,and social customs and living conditions and deeply reflect the tradition and features of both Chinese and Western culture.