A Contrastive Study of Chinese and English Idiom

摘要

Idioms, which reflect the longstanding and profound culture of the East and the West, are regarded as the fruit of human wisdom. This thesis makes a contrastive study of Chinese and English idioms, which is based on the Contrastive Linguistics Theory and analyzes idioms from Intercultural Communication between Chinese and the western. Through the contrastive study of Chinese and English idioms, people will understand the differences between Chinese and Western cultures better.