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Animals in Chinese and western culture

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Abstract: animals have played an important role in human life and the cultural meaning of animals in China and the West differ from each other. Fox, sheep, bat, wild cat, fowl, peacock, phoenix, dragon, beaver, bear, bulls, doggie and so on are listed in the article, expounding their cultural connotation in China and the West. Relating idioms are also mentioned in the article to help readers deepen their understandings.


Keywords: animal,cultural connotation,idiom,dragon,cat


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Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press: American Vocabulary, Beijing 1998
Nankai University Press: Readings in Modern English Prose, Tianjin 2002
Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Beijing 1995