人类通过人体隐喻来认知和理解客观世界,把自己熟悉的人体本身作为衡量事物的标准去了解世界上的事物。基于这样一种认知角度,本文简介了现代认知隐喻观和人体隐喻理论。英汉人体隐喻存在共性和差异,本文着重探讨导致英汉人体隐喻存在差异的地理环境和体貌特征上的原因。 Human beings through the human metaphor to understand and understand the objective world, the familiar body itself as a measure of things to understand the world’s things. Based on such a cognitive perspective, this article introduces modern cognitive metaphor and human metaphor theory. The commonness and difference between the English and Chinese human metaphors exist. This article focuses on the reasons that cause the difference of the geographical metaphors between English and Chinese.