英汉两种语言中存在着大量表示颜色的词汇,如黑、白、红、黄、绿、蓝等。颜色是一种客观存在的、特殊的物质形态,人们无论在情感上还是视觉上都会在一定程度上对颜色做出反应。不同的民族对颜色的看法和认识趋于一致,人们对颜色和颜色词所产生的联想意义方面也有许多共同之处。但由于民族风俗、思维方式、地理位置、民族心理、宗教信仰等文化背景的差异,英汉两个民族对各种颜色在视觉上和心理上所产生的联想、象征的意义、蕴含的寓意不尽相同,同中有异,异中有同。这就使得中西方民族在颜色词的具体使用和理解上存在差异。 A large number of English and Chinese languages ​​exist to express the color of the words, such as black, white, red, yellow, green, blue and so on. Color is an objective existence, a special material form, people, whether emotionally or visually, will to a certain extent, respond to the color. People of different ethnic groups tend to agree on color perception and recognition, and people have much in common with associations of color and color words. However, due to the differences in cultural customs such as ethnic customs, ways of thinking, geographical location, ethnic psychology and religious beliefs, the significance and implications of the visual and psychological association between English and Chinese peoples in various colors Same, different in the same, different in the same. This makes the Chinese and Western peoples in the specific use of color words and understanding there are differences.