The Connotation and Chinese Translation of English Animal Idioms

Abstract

Animal idioms have rich associative meaning and cultural connotation, and have become the focus of many scholars. It is of great significance to study animal idioms. The purpose of this paper is to explore the connotation of English Animal Idioms and their Chinese translation. Firstly, this paper studies the connotation of animal idioms from the historical and cultural background, discusses the Chinese translation methods of English Animal Idioms from two aspects of partial correspondence and complete non correspondence, and expounds the points that should be paid attention to when using the translation method, Taking English idioms in "horse" as the research object, this paper discusses the cultural differences between Chinese and English. The experimental results show that from the frequency search in coca, we can get the frequency of each idiom sample and the context of the sample use. In the total frequency part, wild horse is the first 176, dead horse is the middle 132, and high horse is the lowest 79. We can conclude that the use of high horse is less than wild horse and dead horse. Because of the great love for horses, the images of horses in Chinese and English are not exactly the same. So the impression of horses is not always positive. Chinese tend to actively use horses, while English speakers tend to use them to identify or describe human and non-human beings, regardless of their preferences.