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Eastern and Western culture are two different types of culture. East and West in the living environment, customs, religion and people's value system, and so there is a considerable difference, thus forming their own unique culture. Many scholars compare Eastern and Western cultures have done a lot of research work, their research findings on our study of English and translation work is reflected in English and revealing cultural differences. Generally speaking, Chinese culture is a people-oriented human relations culture, Western culture is the light weight people, materialistic culture. Comparison and study English and could help us understand the two cultures are different.
1, living environment, the impact of idioms
Many idioms are related to people's production work and daily lives, and in Britain the location and living environment very different people, which is generated by the respective reflected in idioms. Britain is a coastal island, the maritime industry since ancient times is the lifeblood of its economy, so many from the navigation or the formation of ocean-related idioms, such as all at sea (a loss), to keep one's? Head above water ( struggling for existence) and so on. China is a landlocked country dominated by agriculture, people thrive on the land for generations, it generated a lot of Chinese and farming-related idioms, such as the bumper grain harvest, good and bad, Yamiaozhuchang, deep, gloomy, 依葫芦画瓢 and so on. Chinese, who described the lavish, with the "big spenders", while English is used to "spend money like water", we can see the different living environment, a great influence on the formation of idioms.
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