CULTURAL OVERLAPS AS SEEN FROM ENGLISH AND CHINESE PROVERBS

摘要

This paper attempts to survey some cultural overlapsthrough the analysis of some English and Chinese proverbs.Thewriter classifies the overlaps into three kinds:complete overlaps,concept-shared overlaps and image-shared overlaps.He pointsout that English and Chinese proverbs have much in common,which is of great help to English-Chinese culturalcommunication.