试论英语习语的文化价值

On the Cultural Value of English Idioms

习语是英语宝库中璀璨明珠。习语源于社会生活的方方面面,经千锤百炼成为形式简练、语义精辟的语言形式,具有很高的文化价值。掌握英语习语,有助于了解英语民族的文化,有助于提高英语交际水平。

English idioms are precious jewels in treasure house of English, which originated from all aspects of social life and have come to take shape after thousands of years of repeated use. English idioms are brief in form, highly expressive and culturally suggestive. Therefore, a good command of such idioms will help deepen our understanding of English history, geography, customs and the people's modes of thinking, and improve our intercultural qualities and communicative capabilities.