Cultural Differences on Chinese and English Idioms of Diet and the Translation

Chunli Yang

English Language Teaching, 2010, vol. 3, issue 1, 148

Abstract: Idioms is a special culture which is shaped in the daily lives of the local people, particularly the idioms of diet has a close relation with various elements, such as the eating custom , history, fairy tales, geographic situations. Also, different ways of translation on different diet idioms in English and Chinese will be analyzed in this article. As a result, it will be very important to know the great culture contents in the idioms of diet in order to do a better job in the research of cross-culture communication and the translation.Â

Date: 2010
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