Cultural Connotations of Metaphorical Animal Phrases and Their Translation

Communication cross cultures is becoming more and more frequent and extensive.In our case,cross-cultural communication refers to that between English and Chinese-both in culture and language.Due to different traditions,cultures,social mentality,there exist vast differences between English and Chinese.This paper,based on a large number of convincing examples and from the angle of cultural analysis,explores the differences and similarities of the metaphorical meaning of animal words between the English and Chinese languages in order to account for the cultural connotation and its interaction with translation.

Communication cross cultures is becoming more and more frequent and extensive. In our case, cross-eultural communication refers to that between English and Chinese-both in culture and language. Due to different traditions, cultures, social mentality, there exist vast differences between English and Chinese. This paper, based on a large number of convincing examples and from the angle of eultural analysis, explores the differnces and similarities of the metaphorical meaning of animal words between the English and Chinese languages in order 1o account lot the cultural connolation and ils interaction with translation.