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d reflected the cultural attitudes of minds as well as the ways of thinking in different peoples”. (任奎艳,2004:1)
What’s more, just as each person has a unique characteristic signature, “each language has unique idioms under different cultural backgrounds, racial transitions, life styles and different aspects in the process of idiom formation, idiom using and the development process both in China and in English –spoken world”.(胡文仲,1994:16)
Due to the differences in geography, history, religion and living custom, English and Chinese idioms are characterized by cultural and local color. However, in most cases the translator only knows well the sense of idioms either from the target language or from the original language because of the cultural background‘s infinitude. Hence the cultural elements make the difficult point in idiom translation.
This thesis will pursue the translational principle and methods on the basis of the analysis of the characteristics and the cultural differences in Chinese idioms and English idioms

Culture is a kind of social behavior. It needs time and people to form the culture. Idioms come up with the new things and new ideas. Old idioms fade with the old things and old ideas. It can be reflected not only in English idioms but also in Chinese idioms. So the general developing and changing tendency of idioms is that the new ones are more than the disappearing ones. So the amount of idioms increases continuously with colorful and vivid expressions. In the course of foreign language learning, we are supposed to master the language and the habitual pattern of thinking as we do in our native language. We are encouraged to go further: to understand the cultural phenomenon of the foreign language better and also understands our native language better through contrast. So as an English teacher or an English learner, it is useful and helpful to understand and learn about the cultural differences between English idioms and Chinese idioms. It can help us to get rid of the big barrier to understanding the original English and Chinese literature. The analysis of origins causing different idiomatic expressions and cultural differences in this article can provide a way for us to understand idioms correctly and use them in cross-cultural communication precisely and accurately.

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