传统隐喻研究注重在修辞学方面的研究,现代隐喻研究已超越语言本身的范围,人们开始从符号学、心理学、语用学、语义学等多角度分析,从认知语言学的角度研究隐喻的本质更是当今隐喻学研究的重心。本文以隐喻认知理论为指导,通过分析汉英两种文化在认知和构建时间上的方式异同对其共性进行分析,进一步揭示语言、思维和文化之间的关系。 Traditional metaphor research focuses on rhetorical research. Modern metaphor research has gone beyond the scope of language itself. From the perspective of semiology, psychology, pragmatics and semantics, people began to study metaphors from the perspective of cognitive linguistics The essence of today’s metaphor is the focus of research. This paper, guided by metaphorical cognitive theory, analyzes the similarities and differences between the two cultures in cognition and construction time, and further reveals the relationship between language, thinking and culture.