美国社会语言学家恩伯说:“一个社会的语言能反映与其相对应的文化,其方式之一则表现在词汇内容或词汇上”。此文从“吃”和 eat 的定义、搭配入手,就其在汉、英两种语言中的表义特征,浅析两种语言的语言特点及语言与各自文化的关系。饮食文化是各民族文化必不可少的重要层面。我国地域广阔,风俗习惯有别,表现在饮食品种、烹调方法等方面就各有千秋,在语言上便形成大量的相关词汇,如仅烹调方法就有数十种:煮蒸熬烹熏、炸烤烙熘烧、煨炖烩煸炒、焖涮酱 American social linguist Ember said: “A society’s language can reflect its corresponding culture, and one of its ways is reflected in the vocabulary content or vocabulary.” This article starts with the definition and collocation of “eat” and “eat”, and analyzes the linguistic features of the two languages, and analyzes the relationship between language and their own culture. Diet culture is an indispensable and important aspect of all ethnic cultures. China has a vast area and different customs. It shows that there are different varieties of food and cooking methods. There are a large number of related vocabularies in the language. For example, there are dozens of cooking methods: cooking, steaming, cooking, and baking. Steamed, fried and fried