在英语学习过程中,人们逐渐意识到英汉语言表达往往不具有一一对应的关系,由于东西方历史文化的积累和沉淀,两种语言的词语在内涵上存在很大差异。通过追溯由词语所折射的文化,可以更透彻地了解语言本身,对比英汉不同文化,从而更有利于对英语这门外语的掌握。本文从起源、形象、意象和文化四个角度,阐述西方国家“peacock”和汉语中“孔雀”的差异,指出东西方不同的文化起源和思维方式。 In the process of learning English, people gradually realized that the English and Chinese language expressions often do not have a one-to-one correspondence. Due to the accumulation and precipitation of the history and culture of East and West, words in the two languages ​​have very different connotations. By tracing back the culture refracted by the words, one can better understand the language itself and contrast the different cultures of English and Chinese so that it is more conducive to mastery of the foreign language. This essay elaborates the differences between peacock in western countries and peacocks in Chinese from the perspectives of origin, image, image and culture and points out the different cultural origins and ways of thinking between East and West.