帮忙手工一段中翻英关键意思和语法要对,禁忌语（taboo）因为“鸡”与“吉”同音,所以“鸡”就用来作为吉祥的动物用于各种

帮忙手工一段中翻英
关键意思和语法要对,
禁忌语（taboo）
因为“鸡”与“吉”同音,所以“鸡”就用来作为吉祥的动物用于各种喜事上,在英语中有不少关于“鸡”的俗语,象“chicken” 是胆小的意思;“Count one’s chickens before they are hatched.”是过分自信的意思,含有贬义.Chicken out 、play chicken、chicken-feed 等都是贬义.比如我们如果送给外国人一只“鸡”或者有“鸡”有关的东西,并且说与“鸡”同音的“吉”等祝福的话,外国人在脑海里,可能会误会成我们在说他是“chicken”,好象我们在向他们传达他们是“胆小”的意思.所以,在某种情况下,就是一种禁忌语.我们尽量不要在外国人面前用“鸡”来表达我们的祝福.另外由于‘蝠—福’同音,蝙蝠这种丑陋的动物成为老寿星画幅上不可缺少的组成部分.要是对于中国的习俗不熟悉的外国人,他们很难理解中国人把蝙蝠作为吉祥物,也不理解为什么中国人那么崇拜凶猛的“龙”一样.由于文化背景的不同,他们对动物的看法都不一样.实际上这是语用方面的差异.

In Chinese,the words "chicken" is sound the same as "Lucky",in that reason,Chinese people always use chicken in variety celebrates,but in English,there are many common saying about chicken and most of them have negative meaning.For example,the word "chicken" means cowardly and lack of courage,"Count one’s chickens before they are hatched" means assertive.Others like "Chicken out " "play chicken" "chicken-feed" are all negative.If we give an oversea people a chicken or something related to a chicken,and say something as "good luck" according to our pronunciation,they may misunderstand our meaning as if we thought them "cowardly".For that reason,in some circumstances,it seems like a taboo.Another example is that,in Chinese,the word "blessing" is sound the same as the word of "bat".We Chinese use many this ugly animal on our "The God of Longevity" painting.It is really confusing fir those foreigner who know little about Chinese cultural to understand the reason why Chinese people regard the bat as their lucky animal as well as the reason Chinese people like those ferocious dragon.because of the different cultural background,people have different attitude about different animals.In fact,that is the different between the use of language.
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