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习语是经过人民长期实践和认识凝练而成的思想结晶,反映着人民群众的智慧,是语言中的精华,它简明,通俗,隽永,生动,习语的适当使用使语言形象生动,丰富其表达能力。习语反映着一个民族不同时期的社会文化。英语习语则与英美民族的特定历史、神话传说、寓言、宗教信仰、文化传统、价值观等密切相关。本文拟从以上几个方面对英语习语作出探讨,旨在更加深刻地了解英语习语中的文化内涵,并更加了解英语习语在西方文化中的作用。
Idioms are crystallized through long-term practice and understanding of the people. They reflect the wisdom of the people and are the essence of the language. Its concise, popular, meaningful and vivid idioms make the image vivid and rich expression ability. Idioms reflect the social culture of different periods of a nation. English idioms are closely related to the specific history, myths, legends, religious beliefs, cultural traditions and values of the Anglo-American peoples. This article intends to explore English idioms from the above aspects in order to gain a deeper understanding of the cultural connotation of English idioms and to understand more about the role of English idioms in Western culture.