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【Abstract】 The geography environment is connected to the human's lives closely. From the ancient times, the human tried their best to conquer the nature, to rebuild it. At that time, the most important function was to improve the production. So in this period, the human's civilizations were influenced by the geography. China is located in the east of the Eurasia and on the west bank of the Pacific Ocean--which could not be crossed at that time. In the southwest of China, there is the Himalayas, and the southwest is a large desert, because of these, we can say that China was relatively isolated from the outside world. Meanwhile, China has a large of field for tillage and the climate suits to it. So the Chinese civilization is the geography civilization. But in England and the western countries, they lack of the inland but near the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, these were suited to develop the sea civilization. The idioms are the flowers of the Chinese and English culture. So this paper will list the idioms about the geography in Chinese and English languages. Let everyone know more the geography Chinese and English idioms 【摘要】地理环境与人类的生存密切相关，远古的人类就是在不断地征服自然，改造自然中，发展、壮大起来。可以说，古代人类最重要的活动就是征服自然，发展生产。当时的人类的文化受到地理环境的影响。中国位于欧亚大陆的东部，东边是难以逾越的太平洋，西南是有世界屋脊之称的喜马拉雅山，西北是一片大沙漠，可以说中国是相对地与外界隔离。并且中国有大片土地供耕耘，气候也适合农耕，因此中国的文化是农耕文化，其文化偏向土地。而英国，乃至整个西方，适合耕耘的土地少，而且面向地中海，大西洋，适合发展海洋文化。而西方文化的发源地古希腊，更可以被称为是典型的海洋文化，因此，英国的文化更偏向海洋。习语是中西文化中的精华，本篇将列出中西习语中受地理影响的部分。旨在弄清地理环境与文化之间的关系。 1、Introduction The environment influences the culture. Human and the nature are related closely. For one thing, human depends on the nature, and is bound by the nature. For anther, human always try to master the nature and rebuild it. [1] As we all know, the Chinese culture and the English culture have different nature environments. China has a large plain for tillage. But in the western countries, especially in the Greece, the mother of the western civilization, has small land for tillage, the land is for the stock breeding. While the Greek have less land to develop the agriculture, they live near the sea, the Mediterranean, so they can sail in the sea for commerce. Because of the differences, the Chinese culture and the English culture are different. The Chinese culture is the agriculture civilization [2] and the English culture is from the Greek civilization, so the English culture is the sea civilization.[3] 2、The similarities between English idioms and Chinese idioms about the geography The idioms are the fossils of the Chinese and English cultures. In the Chinese and English idioms, there are many idioms about the geography. Some of the Chinese and English idioms have the similar meanings, but others are in different meanings. In the group of idioms, which have similar meaning, many of them use the same images, while others use the different images to explain the same thing. 2.1The similarities between English idioms and Chinese idioms about the geography In many of the Chinese and English idioms, they have the same meanings. Coincidently, many of them use the same images. It shows that the Chinese people and English people experience the similar conceptions. Meanwhile, some of them have the same meanings, but they use the different images to explain. From that, we could know that although the Chinese and English people have the same experience, they have the different cultures. So the idioms always use the different images. 2.1.1 The Chinese-English geograph