委婉语既是人类社会普遍存在的一种语言现象,也是一种文化现象。它的使用具有重要的社会功能,反映一个社会、一个民族的历史、宗教和文化等。本文在分析委婉语的社会功能的同时,又从语言与文化关系的角度透视了不同民族委婉语背后所反映的文化差异。 Euphemism is both a linguistic phenomenon and a cultural phenomenon ubiquitous in human society. Its use has important social functions, reflecting the history of a society, a nation, religion and culture. While analyzing the social functions of euphemism, this paper also analyzes the cultural differences reflected by different national euphemisms from the perspective of the relationship between language and culture.