动物与人类的生活息息相关,长期以来,人们在生产劳动、工作学习、饲养动物和捕猎的过程中,认识并掌握了动物的形态结构、生活习性等,在语言实践中,借助于动物的这些特征及其引申意义来描述人类社会中的各种人物及现象。由动物所形成的谚语、习语和比喻极富表现力。例如,狐狸常被人视为狡猾的动物,因而有“as sly as a fox”一说。蝙蝠的视力不佳,必须靠声呐才能避免撞到墙壁.因此人们习惯把盲目的人形容为“as blind as a bat”;此外,由于蝙蝠是夜行动 Animal and human life are closely related. For a long time, people recognize and grasp the morphological structure and living habits of animals in the process of producing labor, learning to work, raising animals and hunting. In language practice, with these characteristics of animals And its extended meaning to describe the various characters and phenomena in human society. Proverbs, idioms and metaphors formed by animals are very expressive. For example, foxes are often regarded as sly animals and thus have “as sly as a fox”. Bats have poor vision and must rely on the sonar to avoid hitting the walls, so people are used to describing the blind as “as blind as a bat ”; in addition, since the bat is a night action