隐喻在英语教学中的应用与分析

The Application and Analysis of Metaphors in English Teaching

隐喻已不再是一种单纯的语言现象,从人的根本思维来说,隐喻是人类认识世界和对世界表达的一种手段。隐喻的使用已经遍及到我们日常生活的各个领域,当然也存在于英语教学中。文章从隐喻的本质入手,对隐喻在英语教学中的词汇教学、阅读教学及文化教学等方面的应用进行了分析。

Metaphorisnotsimplyaphenomenonoflanguage .Fromthebasicthinkingofhumanbeings ,itisakindofmeans by which we recognize and express the world .Metaphors have been widely used in every field of our life ,including the field of English teaching .From the perspective of the nature of metaphors ,the essay mainly introduced the application of metaphors in English vocabulary teaching ,the reading teaching and the cultural teaching ,and it also discussed the enlightenment of the use of metaphor in English teaching .