僧加罗语中的饮食隐喻

Dietary Metaphors in Sinhala Language

斯里兰卡是一个以农业为主的国家,有着悠久的饮食文化历史,其语言包含丰富多彩的食物词汇隐喻。本文试图以隐喻理论为基础研究僧伽罗语中与饮食有关的隐喻,找出日常生活中常用的饮食隐喻,并对其进行描述和分析,以帮助加深对僧伽罗语的理解和学习。

Sri Lanka is an agricultural country with a long history of food culture, and its language contains rich and colorful food vocabulary metaphors. Based on the theory of metaphor, this paper at-tempts to study the food related metaphors in Sinhala language, find out the common food meta-phors in daily life, and describe and analyze them, which is conducive to improve the understanding and learning of Sinhala language.